"who knows where this path will take us...

...but let's go forth hand in hand and promise not to let go because it may lead us somewhere vast & amazing" ~freya

things have been more on the not so enjoyable side lately and i am happy to say that i am fine now. i have not posted any currently cravings these last two weeks because i honestly have not been craving anything. all i have wanted is for things to be normal and healthy. handsome came into town to be with me (and work, but that's not as important) and everything was as perfect as ever. i loved every moment! we ate delicious fried goat cheese balls drizzled in honey, enjoyed swirls at the mont and even went on the most amazing picnic yet! he is the most supportive person in the world and i am so thankful that he is such a big part of my life. i will post more about everything later, but in the meantime, here are some pictures of the enjoyable week!

love. and happy weekly lovelies!

some new additions

my dad came up this weekend and got me some beautiful flowers to plant in my two lonely pots! i love them and loved the beautiful day when i planted them.

and a bit unrelated but not completely, here is my new orchid capri. beautiful! i will take a regular photo of her sometime later this week.

love.

the air is crisp again!

i have been welcoming my favorite season and month of the year by sprucing up my place with lovely autumn details. i love them all so very much and i love coming home in the evening and seeing them. it's absolutely perfect!

beautiful flowers and pumpkins!

an amazingly scented candle! (autumn festival by yankee candle) i seriously love autumn scents more than anything. i probably should have bought multiple.

 pretty table decorations! and candy of course. why would anyone not have candy?!?!

my amazing spider candelabra!

and now for a few lovely things from the past few weeks.

after nearly killing my basil plant due to lack of light it has come back flourishing and i have been able to pluck off leaves multiple times to make dishes a bit more delicious!

i would love to have a pale pink vespa. and it looks beautiful in front of those worn down garage doors.

i finally actually ate at cool greens! for some reason i didnt get the hummus pizza i had been dying for for the past month or so, but this wrap was delicious and a very good decision.

nothing is better than having a beautiful plant to admire while putting a presentation together.

brad and i ventured to indulge in one of my favorite foods that i had been neglecting for far too long, pho! pho ga to be exact.

 a great weekend away in dallas for ou/tx (boomer sooner!). i feel like i really needed it. and it was lovely!

i know this picture is weird, but it brings back hilarious images to my mind of dancing and other adventures. mainly hearing people scream "oh no! its the weirdo!" at the sight of brad haha!

 love.

craving adventure

my life recently has been filled with irritations, but i can feel them going away as each day passes. thank goodness for that! twelve more work days are left in the clinic which means i am almost twelve days closer to having another rotation down. this will make four completed months out of the six that i have before i finally get a much needed break.

"For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration."

~Anais Nin

thank you anais for helping me modify my views on adventure. soon i will be able to have what i would consider to be a real one. 2 months 16 days!

i love being able to see people i have not been able to see very often. i loved every minute i got to spend with them and we got to pretend we were german! woo hoo!!!

there is nothing i love more than being hungry and having free food handed to me like halloween candy. perfect way to satisfy my stomach and purse all in one try!

i am posting this picture not only because i love alisha, but because i realized it had been months since i posted a picture of people. crazy of me! i guess my main focus has been choosing what wonderful thing i can eat in order to drown out the exhaustion i have due to rotations. i wore my tulip skirt to the first game and it was perfect! i just wish you could see it in the picture. and also wish that i would remember to take pictures with people instead of only food. oh well, we all have things we need to work on!

it feels like football season was forever ago. i am so happy to be welcoming it back! the only thing i could ask for that would make it better is espn. or have a tv. the tv part is the first step.

this was one of the greatest dinners ever! laying in bed watching a movie while eating bread with brie and hummus. i then continued to bring brie for lunch until my wee brie wheel was all gone (it only took one day haha). i will soon be purchasing more!

love.

"for the rest of my life...

whenever the sky is gray,

i'll remember that the blue's still there above the clouds,

and the sun's still shining.

~pauline fisk

i had a week filled with studying, being scared out of my mind and all around roughness all last week and pretty much the half week before. i did my best to appease the situation by helping myself mentally focus by having some sort of food or drink in hand at nearly all times. basically, i filled my week with delicious things. very delicious things!

cupcake from cuppies and jo. probably some of the most amazing topping on a cupcake ever! 

very delicious tea. i also fail to remember what kind it was but will not forget the package

blackberry maple cupcake from sara sara cupcakes. the actual cake part was superior to the one from cuppies and jo, but i must say that i did miss the sugar surge from the first ones frosting.

i have tried very hard to not become a coffee addict, but it seems to be happening. thanks alisha. and thanks to myself for not having much self control. at least bought some splenda for if i continue this trend. i guess that makes it better....

on an exciting note, at least that i find exciting, i finally saw eat pray love last night and loved it! my main complaint is that she did not cry on the floor properly. other than that, my desire to spend a significant amount of time in an indian ashram has significantly grown. and i think i need a home in bali or somewhere equally as exotic and beautiful!

love.

two weeks of lovelies

the clinic has been kicking my butt for some reason and i have had much difficulty finding free time. i am hoping that things will settle down next week and i will be better at keeping up with things like reading blogs and actually keeping up with my own.

the number pi while waiting for deliciousness.

a lovely cup of tea in my grandmother's wedding china! love. it.

a night on top of the art museum while enjoying music and watching older couples dance. lovely!

a silly mirror outside of a bathroom. accompanied by the most professional karaoke i have ever heard!

lots of enjoyment was found in my pitcher of ice tea that i was able to enjoy over and over again in my grandmother's china. i found this pitcher a few months ago at the salvation army with 6 matching cups! one of my favorite finds. but really, all of my finds are favorites!

 super cute frog curtains.

a sweetly delicious study snack.

and of course, we got our goggles and started our "swim team" practice! i cant wait until this week is over so that i can get in the water again!

 

love.

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."

~Jack Handey

since gaining my poundage back in june, i had a goal that i would work out frequently in july. that did not happen because i began working ten hour shifts and at many moments my feet almost broke off. i then said i would begin the first week of august since i get off at five. i once again did not achieve that goal, but also only pushed it back one week. soon, my friend and i will be beginning our swim team, consisting only of ourselves at the moment. our supplies shipped monday night and im super excited! we will follow through. especially if we go with the custom made swim caps. good luck to us!

one of the happiest things of these next two months, although it may be hot, i get to wear open toe shoes!!! so far i have felt the freedom nearly every day!

this is the loveliest thing i may have ever seen. at least that i can remember at the moment. brunch at a wonderful place with hundreds of origami animals hanging from the ceiling!!!! it was perfect. the ceiling was beautiful even without the birds. which means, i loved it!

until next week...

love!

“he said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things,...

...then all things prove to be extraordinary.”

~ dean koontz

blueberries may not be as amazing as blackberries, but i love eating bowls of them at lunch.

it was nice to have a change of scenery and hang out with alisha and angie while playing trivia. if only i didnt suck at the trivia part! the only answer i knew was the name of the indian girl in peter pan: tiger lily. alisha was a great asset though!

i got a new oil burner that im super excited about. its electric! now i dont have to constantly make sure the candle is still burning!

and here is the happiest image of the week. (i had to save it for last). the lovely mark my dads glass left on the table at picasso cafe. such a great sign of good things to come! that or the table loved the food as much as we did. you cant not smile back at it!

i may be stressed, but lovely things can still be found everywhere!

love.

weekly lovelies

my weekend involved lots of frozen yogurt. delicious! i love berries.

maybe it doesnt look all that appetizing, but it was amazing! the store was out of asparagus so baby broccoli was the replacement for it in my goat cheese pasta. i made it essentially half noodles half broccoli and it was perfect! it also made for lovely lunches throughout the week.

 

maybe this next week will involve something besides food. probably not though. i just love it too much! haha

love.

it's my own garden now. my own secret garden.

~the secret garden

i have decided to begin a weekly post about things i enjoyed during the week that was inspired by many other blogs i read. part of me wishes that i could have finished my 365, but it became something i didnt enjoy doing once school became absolutely horrible. so instead, each week i will post a few pictures of things i loved/enjoyed. i am not stressing myself out by having to meet a specific quota so some weeks may have one picture while others may have ten. i hope you enjoy it!

even though i am really frugal about purchasing unnecessary things, i chose to buy the cheapest bouquet of flowers at target. (i did try to find wildflowers, but i never found any!) i must say, i may begin to put flowers on the necessity list. i find myself looking at them constantly and they give a lovely feel to the apartment. so far they have lasted an entire week with no wilting! and one bouquet filled three vases! they are perfect. perfectly beautiful.

apparently i have never tried blackberries before. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?! they may have surpassed blueberries as being the best fruit ever. and they tasted awesome on my chocolate soy milk french toast. yum yumm!!!

lets just say that i ate waaayyy too many cookies this week. but they were so delicious!

the weekend was filled with a great amount of time by the pool with people i love. it was so enjoyable and relaxing that i even forgot that i dont have a summer! these chairs were super comfortable and so bright and cheery. all my time was spent floating in the water though because it was so hot that i could hardly breathe!

love.