thank you notes and stationery

Since I just graduated college many friends and family have been so kind to send me presents and cards. And since they have been sending me things I have been so kind to write thank you notes back. Ha, ok, that was a joke! Writing thank you notes used to be such a chore but now it's kind of enjoyable. It is even more enjoyable when I love my stationery. When I use cards from my favorite stationery company, Rifle Paper Company, then it is an activity I very much look forward to.

I am obsessed with anything and everything made by RPCo. Here are some of my favorites:

It's Nefertiti! Those eyebrows!

I saw the equestrian set at a home decor store near a movie theatre I go to occasionally and fell in love. I also fell in love with the thank you note above so I got it for a note I wrote to my boyfriend's mom. I am in love with all of it. I got this social stationery set from Anthropologie last year and have been writing my thank you notes on those for my graduation gifts. I'm going to be really sad when they're all gone.

Just so dang cute.

I don't think stationery could get any better. 

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

things I don't like to admit

A long time ago a lot of things didn't bug me that do now. I don't like to admit it but it's true. I'm bugged by so many things. Yesterday my mom and I were talking about "text-iquette" and that turned into me ranting about things that I didn't like people texting me. After my rant my mom said to me, "wow, you are really sensitive." The worst thing is I think she's right and I really don't like to admit that. Who wants to be really sensitive?? No one! I want to be someone who doesn't let things get to them and who doesn't care about things but unfortunately I cannot just switch off my über sensitivity.

It is a little embarrassing to me that I am saying that I am but if I said I wasn't like that then I'd be lying.

Here are some other things I also don't like to admit: I'm very lazy, I procrastinate just about every single thing you could possibly procrastinate, I hate and avoid confrontation like it's my job, I am the master of passive aggression (don't those two go hand-in-hand?), and it is very hard for me to put how I'm feeling into words.

Writing all of that out was sort of cathartic in a weird way. Not so much embarrassing anymore. I feel a lot better.

I have posts lined up for this week so it won't be as sad as it was the last past week.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline  

p.s. I wish I was still at Firefly.

things I learned from Firefly

Guess what everyone! I finally went to Firefly. I had an amazing weekend watching bands I knew, bands I didn't know very well, and bands I didn't know at all! I also had an amazing time with the group I went with. Everyone got along so great and was up for anything. I didn't want the weekend to end. I thought since I've been to music festivals before I had a pretty good idea of what Firefly was going to be like but it definitely exceeded my expectations. I even learned a few things!! I compiled a list of things that I learned that all definitely apply to music festivals but somethings also apply for life. Here's what I got:

1. Portable phone chargers are a great idea but make sure you know how to work them first: I went to Target the night before I left for Delaware to buy a few last minute things and one of the things on my list was a portable charger. On the box it said that the charger was already fully charged so I thought, "great, now I don't have to charge it tonight!" Strangely enough, when I got home I plugged it in to see if it worked. It did but I guess after I used it I forgot that I had to press a button to turn it off and when I went to charge my phone on Saturday my charger only had about 1/4 of its power left. Nice going.

2. Don't worry about who is going: Ok, this sounds weird but I seriously need to be more like this. A girl who went with our group only really knew three people out of our group of 9 and decided to come along with us anyway. Apparently what had happened was that she wanted to hang out with those three and they had decided to just ask if she wanted to come along to the festival and without hesitation she said yes. She didn't ask who was going or wasn't weirded out that she didn't know 2/3rd's of the group. This girl was the freaking definition of pleasant. Can we all be more like that?? We could make so many new friends so easily!

3. No one cares what you look like: This lesson is especially for things like Firefly. People wore some weird stuff but really no one cares. I think in just about every other situation no one really cares. If I go out in the world with no makeup on people might think for a second, "ew, gross" but then move on. Realistically, no one really cares about what anyone looks like except for themselves. Present company included.

4. Crowds can be very annoying but also very fun: There were a few times when I really liked being in a crowd seeing a show and then there were times when I wanted to get out as soon as possible. You gotta take the good with the bad. It's just a fact of life. Also, crowd surfing is the worst. I didn't learn that at Firefly but I did have lots of people fall on me and I did not like that very much.

5. Tents are very hot in the morning: I don't really have to go into this much further. I never camped in an open field before so I lived and I learned.

6. Silent raves are the best: I went to my first silent disco/rave/dance party. It was maybe my favorite memory of the festival.

I got home the other night and was so exhausted but so happy. It was truly a fantastic weekend.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

I believe!

Believe it or not I was going to post this on Tuesday but then Tuesday rolled around and I was so tired and wanted to watch about 5 episodes of Game of Thrones instead of writing blog posts. Oops. That's how life has kind of been for me right now. I'm not quite adjusted to waking up at 6:30 every morning and then standing on my feet until 3:30. I will as times goes on though, hopefully, maybe. 

Then last night I had been getting ready for Firefly, which is today, and when I finally sat down to write something it started to thunderstorm really badly and the power went out. A huge tree fell in front of my neighborhood taking out a few power lines so lots of my neighborhood lost power. The thunderstorm was so scary. The lighting was so bright. The thunder was sort of loud, I don't really remember the thunder being that bad. So there are my excuses for no posts. 

In a few hours I will be getting in a car to go to Firefly and not shower for a few days. So now, I will write what I was going to write on Tuesday. 

So Monday night I went out to a bar called Cafe Citron in DC with my mom, dad, older sister, and some of my parents' friends. My mom and I got there early, ordered two mojitos, and watched as the bar got more and more crowded. It was amazing how early people got there to get good spots to watch the USA v. Ghana game. We ordered probably the tastiest thing I have ever eaten. It was called a Bolivian potato cake and is described on the menu as "2 mashed potato patties fried with beef marinated in spices and fried." That sounds pretty lackluster I guess but it was the most delicious thing I have ever beheld. Nomz city. 

Not too long after everyone else got there and the game started. It was an exciting game but USA was a little lacking in the offense category. Thankfully we struck hard and fast and won 2-1. Pretty much during the whole game the crowd of people that formed over time cheered and chanted. Probably my favorite was, "I believe that we will win!" We chanted that all night long afterwards. I really love the Wold Cup. I'm not really a huge soccer fan, I mean, I have my teams that I like but I don't really follow them too much but I still love the World Cup. All these people bring brought together from all over the world to play this game. It's funny after living in America my whole life how football (American) is so insignificant in the world and probably the most popular sport in America. Although, in my ages 5-7 art camp this week I'm sure they are all on soccer teams. I don't think any of them were aware the World Cup was on.

I'm gonna try to whip something up to be posted tomorrow and for the other days I will be gone. I guess you'll have to find out tomorrow!

Until then,

Caroline  

First day jitters + USA soccer

Today is my first day at my internship. I'm nervous because it's the first day but I am very happy that it's the first day. Getting back into a routine will be awesome. I will update all of you lovely people about my internship on Wednesday. I think I'll make Wednesdays my internship update days and what I'm working on future-wise. That'll be fun.

Tonight is the USA v. Ghana game and I am pretty pumped. I don't know too many of the players but I am meeting my parents (I'm super lame) at a bar in DC to watch the game so I'm mostly pumped for that. I also love my country so that's another reason why I'm pumped!

There's not much more to say today. I'll probably get home around 8-9 and I'll probably be exhausted and probably will just want to watch Game of Thrones. It's gonna be a long and exciting day.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

Happy Father's Day

Today we have a cool day planned around things my dad likes. We're going to go to the batting cages, eat lunch, watch the Nats hopefully win a game, goof around, then go see the movie Million Dollar Arm. My dad is a big Jon Hamm fan and loves baseball so we must see it! Also, I think it got alright reviews.

I don't know if this is sad or lame but my dad is probably one of my best friends and I'm so happy he's my dad. He is the best! Wow, I got a little teary eyed writing that. It might be because I'm also listening to M83's Wait in the background. I already thought it was a pretty emotional song but then I saw The Fault in Our Stars and I'll probably tear up every time I hear it now. That was a good movie.

My sister, my dad, and me!!! We were on a mountain.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

eyebrow game

Yesterday my mom said that my eyebrows looked great. That was probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. If you remember a long time ago I wrote that eyebrows were kind of a big deal to me and that it bugged me that people didn't take care of them. Well, I'm sorry if I offended anyone in any way. You are beautiful, no matter what they (I) say.

There are a few people who have clearly been blessed with amazing eyebrows and I wanted to dedicate a post to them because it must be tough to have perfect eyebrows. They are probably under a lot of pressure to keep them nice. Here are a few people who have eyebrows that I wish mine were more like.

Yes, that last one is Queen Nefertiti's bust. She had eyebrows for the ages. 

I'm gonna go fill in my eyebrows more. 

Until tomorrow,

Caroline