Ten on Ten :: February 2014

Here's a little day-in-the-life during a music week at work (:

9:00 :: like most Mondays (my day off!), this one started kind of late after a long weekend. breakfast while going through pictures from the night before.

10:00 :: lesson planning for Sunday

11:00 :: listening to some music while reading blogs and doing some writing

12:00 :: Max is hungry. again.

1:00 :: went outside to check the mail. it was really cold.

2:00 :: making lots of phone calls.

3:00 :: got to the motel to find a little rehearsal and an upright bass in the diner.

4:00 :: songwriting necessities.

5:00 :: waiting for more dishes.

6:00 :: dinner prep.

xoxo.

Thoughts on Happiness

I don't often talk about my faith here, because I believe that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions. Today, though, I feel as though this is necessary.

I grew up a Catholic, going to Mass every Sunday with my parents and sister, and I went to a Catholic school from kindergarten through seventh grade. I served Mass for six years, and I believe I have been teaching Children's Liturgy of the Word (Sunday school) for the past five years.

Yesterday, the lesson I was planning for this coming Sunday really hit home. I have been having a tough time dealing with some stuff in my life, and Sunday really hurt. I hope to someday be able to share these struggles here so that I can in turn help someone else through their own pain, but today is not the time for that.

This Sunday's Gospel really helped me put some things into perspective. Happiness comes from the inside and how you treat others; you should not be relying on other people and things to make you happy.

Matthew 5:1-12

One day, when Jesus was being followed by a large crowd, he climbed a hillside, sat down, and began to speak:
    Happy are gentle people, for they shall be treated with gentleness.
    Happy are people who forgive others, for they shall be forgiven.
    Happy are the poor, for they shall see heaven.
    Happy are people who do what is right and care about others.
    Happy are people who make peace and bring friendship.
    Be happy even if people are unkind and say nasty things to you because you believe in me, for you will have great rewards in heaven.

xoxo.

All The Money's Gone!

If you've been around here for awhile, you've read about my friend Geri X. {her website here // posts mentioning her here}

Geri recently put out a music video for her new song "All the Money's Gone," which will be on her upcoming album entitled "White Light." A few of my other friends helped with the album {drums & recording, bass & artwork}, and I can tell you that it is going to be an amazing album! I am pretty excited about it!

Not only is the song catchy and great, but the actual video itself is pretty cool. It's stop motion {I think that's what it's called?}, and the photographs were taken by Thomas Anomolous. He's taken some beautiful pictures of Geri, and this video is amazing. It must have taken so long to shoot all of those pictures!


{click through to the video for all credits}

xoxo.

The Month by iPhone: November 2013

I have been totally slacking on posting on Instagram lately!

Luna got cleaned and waxed and looked so pretty and shiny!

vintage shelf liner love.

running errands downtown. I just love those apartment windows in the background.

doing a little Christmas shopping! {that's my friend Erin on the screensaver. haha}

xoxo.

alive & crazy.

I bought these mugs at Target yesterday. I want the New York and London ones too. (They also have San Francisco.) I swear I only went there to buy a sweater, since they were on sale for forty percent off. I ended up getting two super soft sweaters - a purple v-neck pullover and a brown heather v-neck cardigan.

I'm currently sitting in my resume-writing class, laughing at all of the things that these people say. Yesterday in psychology class, I ordered my cap and gown, and I looked around to find a dress to wear for graduation as well. I really like this one from A&F. I can't believe I'm graduating in less than a month! I still feel like I have so much to get done. I have to finish my internship, and my last three classes.

In one of my classes, we are putting together the annual talent show for our school. I really have no idea what's going on because I have only been there for the second half of the class.

Thanksgiving is in two days! I can't believe that it's already the end of the year!

I ordered a leather jacket from Boden, and it came in the mail a few days ago, but I ordered the wrong size, so I had to send it back. It is so soft and so beautiful; I hope that the size I exchanged for fits like a glove, because I really want to wear it!

Last night, I ordered some spiral-bound mini books from Printstagram. I've ordered some before, and they are really great quality. I would love to order some actually prints from them one day, because they look to be really great quality.

So that's where I am this morning.

xoxo.

I believe in pretty band-aids.

why would I want to hide something ugly with something else that's ugly?

on Sunday afternoon, I was washing some dishes at work, like usual. I was washing a polka-dotted glass that I had washed many times before, in fact, the dish that I had just washed was an identical one! my hand was inside the glass, and I turned my hand and must have put some weird pressure on the glass, because the next thing I knew, a triangular chunk of the glass broke off and my hand was bleeding in two places. I grabbed a clean rag out of the drawer next to me, and applied pressure to my hand while I walked into the other room and stared at the first aid supplies. I thought it would be a smart idea to clean the wounds with an alcohol wipe, but it really wasn't. it stung so much! I wasn't too impressed by all of the ugly band-aids on the shelf, so I went to my purse, where I have some pretty ones stashed. those were the ones I used, of course! these are Cynthia Rowley band-aids that I picked up at Target, but I'm sure they sell them anywhere you can buy Band-Aid brand bandages.

for the record, I previously had Candy Land band-aids {Target dollar spot}, but I used them all.

here's another similar story. when I was a junior in high school, I somehow managed to close my finger into a car door. I still don't even know how that is possible. after a few weeks and a doctor's appointment where a hole was burned into my fingernail to release pressure, my nail fell off. this happened about two weeks before my junior prom, so I made my dad buy pretty band-aids for me. they didn't have any Disney Princess ones, so I settled for a box of Barbie band-aids. and guess what? I just looked through pictures from junior prom, and there wasn't a band-aid on my finger. oops.

blood and fingers lacking fingernails. hopefully that is not a story that will be told again over here.

xoxo.

October snaps

some miscellaneous shots from October. I wanted to call them random pictures, but then I remembered how my high school prob & stats teacher always said that humans are not capable of random.

I love my Vera Bradley Fringe Scarf in Heather! {Target Mossimo Supply Co. v-neck pocket tee}

let's ignore my neighbor's satellite, and admire their pretty tree.

front porch detail, 3rd Avenue.

White Mountain boots {TJ Maxx} // American Eagle jeggings // Old Navy belt // Mossimo Supply Co. long-sleeve v-neck tee {Target} // Mossimo Supply Co. boyfriend cardigan {Target}

John A. Hutter Memorial Park {as abandoned as Chateau Hutter}

Mossimo Supply Co. boyfriend cardigan {Target} // Old Navy infinity scarf

first snow of the season happened on Wednesday the twenty-third. I tried to take a couple pictures, but it melted so fast! those little white balls (center and lower left of center) are the little snowflakes, I guess.

melted snow & proof that Luna is not white.

so, I brought my camera to work with me in the middle of the month. that's not something that I typically do, because it doesn't exactly fit in my purse, and I don't like to carry around my camera bag, but I wanted to take some pictures in some of the rooms {which I wish I could share! I got an incredibly gorgeous one of one of the rooms! but I don't really feel comfortable sharing too many pictures of the motel at this time.}, so I brought it with me. anyway, we have a tinsel Christmas tree in our lobby year-round, and my hairstylist {everyone here is interconnected, long story.} gave me this ornament for the tree a few months ago. my sister and I actually each have one of these for our tree at home. so that's the long story about this picture.

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and those are all of the fun ones for now. tomorrow I'll be recapping on this past weekend!

October Instagrams
October Nature Box
Influenster Varsity VoxBox
October Ten on Ten

xoxo.

NatureBox October 2013

as soon as I got a FedEx tracking number for this month's Nature Box, I was stalking it to find out when it would arrive! I mentioned on my post about last month's box that I had picked the snacks that I would be receiving in my next box. my package arrived two days earlier than FedEx said it would, so that was pretty exciting!

first look. they added a sixth snack! (:

Santa Fe Corn Stix - I gave these to my dad, since I didn't think that I would enjoy them. he enjoyed them though!

Salted Caramel Pretzel Pops - I wasn't too impressed with these. I wish they were a little more caramel-y and a little less salty.

Apple Orchards Granola - I have never had moist granola before! It's really good though, and it smells like pumpkin pie! Some of the cashews had a smoky taste, which I didn't like with the granola.

Granny Smith Apples - these just might be my favorite thing in the box. if I had a dehydrator, I would make dried fruit all of the time, yum!

Toasted Cheddar Stix - I didn't realize that these were sesame sticks; I thought that they were more like crackers. I'm not really a big fan of sesame, so I don't really like these very much. These were also pretty salty.

Mighty Mix - oh my gosh, yum! I love these dried fruits, nuts, and seeds.

I would give this month's box a 3/6. Maybe next month, I will let them choose all of my snacks for me, since they did a pretty good job the last time.

xoxo.