letters: a series, part iv

dear ice cream,

i hate you. i love you, but i hate what you do to me. yes, josh warned me you would make me sick. but after this awful week of being quarantined, i wanted you. badly. so i ate you. then i woke up at 5:30am and had a 3 hour stomach ache. tmi? oh well.

rudely yours,
upset stomach


dear neighbors,

hopefully you dont read my blog. please stop vacuuming or sanding or WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING!!!! it's like that one time when you vacuumed 3 days straight. no joke. thats not consididate...not consididate at ALL! shoot!

sincerely,
my inner tracy


dear juji,

thanks for cleaning the whole apartment yesterday so our friends could come over last night without the risk of getting sick. also, thanks for just telling me, "umm...you havent done your hair all week." appreciate that reminder...

love ya,
your hott bed-headed wifey


dear sickness,

its been a fun week getting to know eachother. just lovely. hope you liked all that gatorade and cough drops and dayquil. i got it on sale. you're welcome.

i'll be kicking you to the curb soon enough.

peace,
my aching body

this is what quarantine looks like

now, if anyone knows my husband, you will know that he has OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). so this week, being the sickling that i am, he has been going crazy. his two most common lines this week have been, "stop breathing," and "cover your cough with more layers! it's escaping!"

i have to wear a scarf around my face, which who knows if that even works. right now it's in the wash, so im tormenting josh by not wearing anything, and just coughing into my shirt [cue "cover your cough with more layers!!"]

i look like a bandit. but really, im just sick, and this is my punishment. the bottle of lysol is getting more use than any item in our apt currently. every day josh opens the window in our room and sprays the entire thing down. today he has gone on a rampage and has lysoled/cloroxed our whole apartment. so everyone is allowed to come over and you wont get sick. so come bring me food, thanks :]

thank you, sickness...

for giving me enough down time to be crafty. my friend sarah asked me to make her a laptop case a while back, and ive been slowly chipping away at it. she designed it and then sent it my way, and here is the finished product:

front (dont mind the zipper from my hoodie)

back (again, sorry about the zipper on the bottom)

detailing of the birds

i just now finished it. sorry for the shotty pictures, i just laid it out in my lap and took pics with my camera phone. im high-tech. it was really fun making this. i hand stitched everything seen on the outside. i did a ribbon tie on the top, and she wanted a polka-dot handle. she picked out all the fabric, and on the inside is a blue polka-dot pattern.

i think it turned out rather well. thanks to sarah for the design, it is so cute. i love the birds (duh, i ♥ birds). it was the most involved laptop case i have ever made, but i think it was a good challenge for me. it helped me to expand my creativity, and has given me some new ideas for the future :] thanks sarah!!!

new additions!!

made 4 new necklaces and put them up in the shop. they are so cute i want to just keep them haha. hopefully that's a good thing, and will make people want to buy them, right? take a looksie and let me know what you think ♥

what i can't live without

[besides joshua being first, everything else is in no particular order!]

-joshua. the love of my life, literally. not to make anyone gag or anything, but seriously. i honestly dont know what i would do without him.

-candy. im sort of addicted. at least i didnt write meth or something here, right? yikes...

-moisturizer. specifically, clinique's moisture surge. greatest invention ever. im sort of obsessed.

-tv. especially good tv. like project runway, antm, judge judy, family guy, parks & recreation, etc

-fashion. i may not look like it every day, but i love fashion. love love love it. good clothes, good shoes, good bags, good accessories, good makeup. ♥

[kate towers]

-blogs. i love blogs. everytime my computer is open josh looks over and goes, "what are you looking at?" and before i answer, he answers for me in a paris-hilton-type-voice "looking at blogs..."

-family and friends. they make life worth living for♥


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home sick

ive been coughing so hard my upper body aches. i probably have swine flu, but who knows. when i was at that concert friday night i was like oh shoot i need to lysol everyone in here! thats probably where i got sick... bah!

so now im at home sick. i need to do stuff though, like study plants. this thursday is the state meeting. that means we will be competing with everyone from utah. nationals is in february, so i still have a lot of time to prepare for that!

there is this annoying guy on plant team who i really want to beat. the only thing is he is a freaking genius, which just makes him that more annoying. if i study really hard though, i may have a chance. wish me luck!

now i just need to get better by thursday so i can kick plant butt♥

NaBloPoMo and this weekend

hi. it's november. yikes. this semester has flown by.

there's this thing called NaBloPoMo, which means National Blog Posting Month. you post every day for a month. and im gonna do it. so here goes :]

this weekend i went and saw the sounds in concert with my friend sarah. they were awesome. i love them. ive seen them before in concert and they were good then too, so i knew it would be worth going. and...i have to admit i have a girl crush on maja, the lead singer. she is hot, that's all there is to it.

[girl crush: you admire a girl super bad and basically want to be her. i also have one on zooey deschanel]

*pictures from sarah. except for the one that looks like it was taken farther away, since it was taken on my camera phone. shotty, i know.

oh, and i met chet. you know, the mormon from the real world? i look absolutely disgusting in this picture, because i was just dancing my booty off and being squished by hot sweaty teenagers from all sides. it was worth it though.


anyways, that was my friday night. we had so much fun. by the end i was completely drenched in sweat. (which made it kind of embarassing to have chet put his arm around me in this picture, but whatever). i went home and immediately took a shower (setting a record for myself by showering twice in the same day. weird, i know).

last night we had friends over for a halloween party. we went to pirate island, which was just ok. we had fun with our friends though. i think it would be more fun to go to with little kids. sunny and jackson, you ready to go? :]

karma

karma is fo rizzle. right after josh pulled liv's name out of a hat(she won my giveaway), i went to her blog so i could link her site on her name, and then i discover i've won her little giveaway of sorts! so, now i am getting a sweet necklace from livia's shop for 50% off. hollaaa. now i just have to decide which one i want.

this one

or this one....

i think im gonna go with the heart one. what do you think? cute, right? ♥