Day 8...Your Sky

The sky is grayer today than it has been recently. I was a bit pouty about it when I woke up this morning. A tiny part of me is still used to my Sicilian summers and the idea that the sky could be gray in June is practically unfathomable. I guess I really should just get used to Washington already...gray skies all the time.

Day 7...Favourite

My favourite what?
Since I don't know which favourite I'm supposed to focus on, let's just have a list...

• Favourite song for the minute: "Let's Have a KiKi" by the Scissor Sisters. It's a bit scandalous but really fun to dance to
• Favourite movie (historically): Princess Bride
• Favourite book (though not for it literary merit): North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
• Favourite city (Europe): Berlin, Germany
• Favourite city (America): I gotta admit it, I love Seattle
• Favourite candy: chocolate and peanut butter
• Favourite thing to do with friends: laugh
• Favourite time to do the dishes: to procrastinate on homework
• *Favourite sandwich condiments: bell peppers (red ones) and avocado (FRATELLO! YOU'VE RUINED ME!!)
• Favourite animal: cow
• *Favourite styles of facial hair on men with excellent jaw lines: stubble
• Favourite time to go on a walk: nighttime  
• Favourite berry: blueberries 
• Favourite reference to make: "Both. Both is good." -Miguel and Tulio, Mighty and Powerful Gods (The Road to El Dorado)
• Favourite time to read: whenever I can do it out in the sun
• Favourite time to dance: always
• Favourite time to watch Netflix (based on how often I do this): past one am
• Favourite wardrobe color: blue (I have so many blue clothes)
• Favourite type of craft: crocheting
• Favourite flower: all of them
• Favourite time to get flowers: always
• Favourite sport: soccer 
• Favourite angle at which to wear jaunty hats: Flapper worthy angles

*Thanks to Sherlock for helping me spice up my favourites list a bit

Day 6... Makes You Smile

I don't know how this slipped my mind yesterday!
My answer to this one is probably one that a lot of people share. Hanging out with my friends makes me smile. This weekend was pretty full of social friend time and it was really nice to spend that much with people that I have great affection for--especially since summer starts in a week and it'll be a couple of months before I see some of these cats again.

Day 5...Something You Wore

I wore my favorite jeans today :) I guess that, truthfully, my favorite pair of jeans is always the ones that I happen to be wearing. I only have two pairs so it's kind of a toss up depending on whether I'm feeling skinny jeans or flared ones.

It's actually kind of hard to take a
good picture of a pair of pants.

My mom bought me these jeans for Christmas this past year. I like having a nice pair of jeans on hand and my previous pair had gone beyond repair. These ones are super comfy and I feel attractive in them. I put the hole in the knee over Spring Break when I was taking my brother's dog for a walk and he (the dog, not my brother) pulled on the leash harder than I expected. Since a hole automatically decreases the "nice-ness" of a pair of jeans, I decided to make them a craft project. I'm a huge fan of craft projects.

The flower is on my left thigh

 Eventually, I plan to have these jeans practically covered with embroidery but it's a slow going process for now. Partly because I have other things like school to be doing, and partly because I have to stick to simple-ish designs to sew. I'm not super awesome at the whole process yet. My next idea to put something on the back pockets. Ooh, or something on my calf. But it feels nice to have something to do with my hands that does qualify as semi-productive when I feel like crashing and binge watching some Netflix.

Some sun and moon action on my right side

Crocheting falls into that category as well but, for some reason, I sometimes find it hard for me to make crochet projects for myself just because. Whenever I crochet something, it feels like I should be giving it for a gift. I like to add things to these jeans as a "me project" because I'm just adding and improving.
I think my favorite piece so far is the sun. I used lots of different yellows in an attempt to make it look a little more dimensional, and it comes across pretty well if I do say so myself.   

Day 4...Letterbox

Let me tell you a secret: Today, I typed "letterbox" into Google. It just felt like one of those words whose definition I was pretty sure I knew but I thought I'd just do a quick check to make sure. Suffice it to say that I was surprised at how many things are referred to as "letterbox"! Seriously, look it up ( <-- go on, click it). There's the film consideration, the stamp hobby, the synonym for mailbox... Too many things to think about! Whew, geez. But I suppose I should do them all their deserved justice so in order we have:

1. Letterbox (filming): I like being able to see a lot more of the surrounding background when watching movies/TV so the wider/shorter combination actually sounds nice to me.
2. Letterbox (the stamp hobby): Even after researching it for a bit, I'm confused. Is it making stamps? Is it putting cool stamps in cool books? Puzzle solving plays into it how? Please, someone explain. It sounds the tiniest bit like geocaching? Is it geocaching's stamp-fanatic cousin?
3. Letterbox (synonym for mailbox): Mine is empty today. I thought about taking a picture of it for this but then work got crazy and I couldn't. :( I got a letter from my Grandma and a gift card from my mom the other day, both of which were wonderful. I sometimes have mail from my penpals but they've all been busy recently. Speaking of, I need to give all of them an address they can send things to over the summer. 
• Super exciting side note: in a week, I will be off campus and out for the summer! Can't believe I'm that close to being done with sophomore year :)

Day 3...Something You Adore

I am torn between doing this post all warm and fuzzy, or a something serious that I like to see. Dictionary.com defines adore as: "to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor". Urbandictionary has the much less scholarly definition of: "To think about somebody and realize that, no matter what their strengths and weaknesses are, the only thing that REALLY matters is that overwhelming feeling of happiness they bring to your life" (see definition #2).
We could go with little animals...

How cute are they?

or with Disney movies...

Childhood love right here

or with attractive humans... (there are lots of them)

The Amazing Rupert Grint

The Stunning Kat Dennings

The Smoldering Jake Gyllenhaal

 

The Lovely Emma Watson

or with chocolate...

Because who doesn't need
chocolate every once in a while?

But I think we're going to split the difference between silly and serious, and say that I adore flowers.

Tulips are my favorite right now

There is just something about how they make people stop and pause that astounds me. The few times I have received flowers I've been a happy happy camper. I guess maybe it's a little weird, "Here, let me give you a bundle of dead plants" but it always feels thoughtful to me. I love that something as beautiful and fragrant as flowers manage to exist in our world and it always makes me smile when I have time to stop and smell the metaphorical roses. Though, have you ever actually smelled roses? They're nice but don't smell like much. Something about flowers always makes me hope and I adore that feeling.
Culmination of Day 3 is that I adore a lot of things but flowers are the highlight of today. 

Day 2...Breakfast

Breakfast today was nothing special, just a bowl of cereal. The glamorous life of a college kid, ya know.
My idea of an ideal breakfast time is getting up late in the morning, making waffles, bacon and fruit in my pajamas with some cool friend type people, and just enjoying both making and eating breakfast. I've grown this inspiration from spending time at my brother's old house. Food was almost always a social event, something to be done with people and something that is supposed to take time. I like the concept of not rushed meals. I hear they're healthier for you anyways.
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Now I want waffles.