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Happy hour sangria time :) (Taken with Instagram at Lazy Dog...

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:30:42 -0700

Happy hour sangria time :) (Taken with Instagram at Lazy Dog Cafe)

Mission accomplished. (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:49:04 -0700

Mission accomplished. (Taken with instagram)

i-will-make-you-fit: I give you the material, you only pay me...

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:12:06 -0700

i-will-make-you-fit:

I give you the material, you only pay me with your drive to succeed!

I recently started writing a 10 day challange, i completed the challenge and lost 12 pounds! (Eeep! i know, freeeaking out!)

Now, i would like to give it away to you guys as a beta before it goes live in July!

(i only ask you take a before and after and submit them to me for my blog!)

So here’s the deal, all you have to do is reblog this post and mbf me http://i-will-make-you-fit.tumblr.com/ to be considered!

Then ill pick 50 people using random.org so every person gets a fair chance!

That means the more you reblog, the better your chances are! (ON AN ACTIVE BLOG) Meaning blogs used just for the giveaway are ineligible!

I would absolutely love to see how well this works for you guys!

ANNOUNCING WINNERS JUNE 5TH!

"We compare the behind-the-scenes of our lives to everyone else’s opening night glamour."

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:09:06 -0700

“We compare the behind-the-scenes of our lives to everyone else’s opening night glamour.”

damn.

Thu, 31 May 2012 02:14:33 -0700

i really hope this isn’t the summer of stupid.

but if you add up the facts… it just. might. be.

frickkkkkk

a collection of college: part 2.

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:51:36 -0700

“So what do you have planned for tomorrow?” the RA was saying. “Um…” I glanced at my orientation packet, “we’re meeting our SOS groups.” Her face lit up. “Oh great! That’s where I met my best friend!”

Immediate panic to follow that statement. As the RA pranced out of the room it suddenly occurred to me that I might not actually form any friendships here. There was no guarantee of meaningful relationships. What if I was that random girl with no actual friends? I looked across the hall into my neighbor’s room. No one was there but the name on the door said Bethany. The name of my best friend back home.

I wanted to be back home.

Of course, as it turned out I did meet my best friend the very next day. Although we don’t talk anymore, she was my truest of true friends for the next two and a half years of school. From freshman clubbing adventures to late-night food runs (to everywhere from Del Taco to Wendy’s to Denny’s at 4 a.m.), from drunken phone calls to confessions and regret, to tears shed over boys and laughs over mishaps, from Midnight Madness to Singspo, from struggles with God and encouragement from the Holy Spirit, we were friends in the best way possible.

It is a friendship that, although gone now, I don’t regret investing time in. Sure the last semester was a little rough without that bff there but it is how it is supposed to be. And that’s ok.

It was a big part of developing who I was and am from college. And the same goes for the rest of my friendships, whether they were one of the fleeting ones in the first few months of school to the long lasting ones, friendship is important. Conflict is important. Growth should arise.

I learned the power of prayer and the necessity for a supportive spiritual community. I learned the value of honesty and truth spoken in love. I found friends I was able to open up to, to share Scriptures and the things Jesus taught me without fear of being mocked or of misunderstanding. I was able to pursue a relationship with God and be pushed towards Him and not away.

Friends are so much a part of college. More than boyfriends, classes or almost anything else I would say.

Asian way of life. (Taken with Instagram at Bethanys Room)

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:36:55 -0700

Asian way of life. (Taken with Instagram at Bethanys Room)

This is what an unpacked post-grad bedroom looks like after 3...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:08:37 -0700

This is what an unpacked post-grad bedroom looks like after 3 days of crazy. Time to get to work! (Taken with instagram)

wistfulmind: lmao hahahaha

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:52:58 -0700

wistfulmind:

lmao

hahahaha

it’s a little past midnight. i have my alarm set for 6:30 a.m. so I can get up and run and...

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:08:30 -0700

it’s a little past midnight. i have my alarm set for 6:30 a.m. so I can get up and run and hopefully shed some of the fat I’ve accumulated over the past few months. Some people, okay most people would think I’m crazy for spending my first week of summer waking up and running up a sweat. But honestly, this is my way of fighting off the inevitable feelings of worthlessness and loser-dom that unemployment post-graduation brings. I hope that, because I have the discipline to wake up early and run a few miles I can make something of myself. Which is more or less illogical. But it helps somehow.

I was chatting with a dear friend today and came to the conclusion:

2012 is the hangover of 2011.

I am not allowed to have a perfect year and get away with it. 2011 was great. Wonderful. Everything I had hoped it would be. And 2012 has sucked. More or less. Despite the cool things that have happened: I met one of my favorite singers/was in his music video, went skydiving, GRADUATED … but this year has not been great. I have suffered repercussions from last year. Careless mistakes or maybe just taking things for granted. Whatever the reason, if 2012 really was the end of the world, I would sigh in relief.

Anyway. Its late,

Saw Drive for the first time tonight and it was grand.

Okay. Enough ramblings.

Ga;lkdjf

Uh oa! A Disney cocktail confection (Taken with Instagram at...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:32:16 -0700

Uh oa! A Disney cocktail confection (Taken with Instagram at Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar)

:) (Taken with Instagram at Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:05:26 -0700

:) (Taken with Instagram at Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar)

This just got real. #GRADUATED #classof2012 (Taken with...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:38:31 -0700

This just got real. #GRADUATED #classof2012 (Taken with Instagram at Metzger Lawn)

Just got leid ;) (Taken with Instagram at Fluor Fountain)

Sat, 26 May 2012 08:35:30 -0700

Just got leid ;) (Taken with Instagram at Fluor Fountain)

First grad present! Thanks Auntie :) 🎉 (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:13:16 -0700

First grad present! Thanks Auntie :) 🎉 (Taken with instagram)

a collection of college: part 1.

Fri, 25 May 2012 01:09:22 -0700

I came to this school broken but unsure of how to be fixed. Starting a computer screen until 4 in the morning and then haphazardly tossing all personal belongings into bins and boxes was not the smartest way to prepare for my first day of college but there you have it. I didn’t care. I had no heart. I was a shell and the shell was cracking. Or so my melodramatic 18-year-old self believed.

I was just sad. And insecure.

So the next day, bright and early I walked into Horton. We The Kings was blasting from the speakers. A good sign. The next thing I noticed was how I was so NOT cute compared to every other girl. I was decked out in a v-neck shirt, a ratty scarf and skinny jeans. Hair not brushed. Make-up barely there. The rest of the girls in their dresses and curls and long eyelashes made me feel frumpy. Which, let’s be honest, I was. After I received my dorm key and other information from my RA I walked into Jedidiah. Saw a bunch of people chatting in the elbow lounge.

And it occurred to me that I might not fit in here.

Walk some more. Find my room: 115. The first thing I noticed was that I had no phone service in my room. At all. T-mobile coming through once again. The second thing I noticed was the extreme and inspiring organization and color coordination of my roommate, although I hadn’t met her yet. I could tell we would get along.

Mom, Dad and the siblings trailed in with some of my boxes and things. I snapped into action, unpacking, moving furniture, the usual freshman dorm moving chaos. And yet it was a blur because I felt numb. Apathetic. Didn’t care. The worst possible way to start my first day.

But even through all my stupid emotions I was slightly hopeful, slightly excited about what was to happen. Would the next three years be amazing? Would it be everything the RA was babbling on about? Or would it suck and would I just be over it by the time I graduated?

It was somewhere in between the two.

Continuing the fatty train :) 🍦 (Taken with Instagram at...

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:55:09 -0700

Continuing the fatty train :) 🍦 (Taken with Instagram at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour)

Bruxie!!! (Taken with Instagram at Bruxië)

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:18:11 -0700

Bruxie!!! (Taken with Instagram at Bruxië)

music-is-my-life8: sooooo truee

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:20 -0700

music-is-my-life8:

sooooo truee

simpledisneythings: Disney villains do it best - They makes...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:08:12 -0700

simpledisneythings:

Disney villains do it best - They makes others bald, exchange bad parenting tips, toast to being horrible, jump through fire, and make potions under water.