Weekly Gratitude (19)

Weekly Gratitude

*Gorgeous 80 degree days

*friends who visit me unexpectedly

*3 weeks left till summer!!!!  I am so excited for long, hot days like today!

*my wonderful camera

*living in a town filled with a bunch of shops and restaurants

*you readers who give me the reason to keep writing here every day

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How about you, lovelies?  What are you thankful for this week?

<3 Kiersten

Happy Saturday (18)

This morning, my roommate and I went into town for breakfast since it's a tour day and the dining hall is most likely flooded with people.  On the way back, we stopped in a wonderful little Italian market, and I just had to buy one of these.

Kiersten, you don't need a canoli...you know it's not necessary that you spend $2.50 on that.

But it's only $2.50....and it probably tastes so good....

Well...I caved and bought the canoli after a good 3 minutes of internal dialogue.  And let me tell you, it is well worth the $2.50 - so so so good!

Later today, I'll be seeing a couple of friends from high-school who are on campus today - I'm pretty excited for that! :)

What are you loves up to this weekend?  Anything fun and exciting?  I'd love to hear about it!!

<3 Kiersten

Tye-Dye!! (17)

Today was the tye-dye social on my floor (something which I was doing for the first time), and I'm a total mess with arts-and-crafts type deals.   My feet were the worst of what I did, but you can't see the bottoms in this photo - they were covered in red tye-dye paint!!  I made a total of 5 shirts - 3 tye-dye, 2 splatter paint. :)

I believe this was the first shirt I tye-dyed - I ended up adding much more color!

How did you all spend your Friday?  I hope you had a wonderful one!!

Happy weekend everyone!!!

<3 Kiersten

Innovation! (16)

Now I know what you're probably thinking - Who eats their pears with a spoon???  Well readers, somehow we have no knives in our room, aside from plastic ones, which aren't going to actually cut a pear.  So I chose the next best thing - a spoon.  (it works pretty well in my opinion)  I know that the reasonable thing to do in this case would be to eat the pear whole, but I have some sort of issue with eating fruits whole - my apples and pears and such have to be cut, or I won't eat them.  

In other news, today is Thursday.  I've been thinking recently that I should have a specific thing for each day, like how I do Thankful Mondays.  Any suggestions?

<3 Kiersten

Happy Hump Day (15)

This is my teddy bear that I've had since I was born, and the pillow behind him (the small pillow, that is) is the first one I made - I made it in my Fashion Design class my senior year of high-school.  (Okay, first doesn't make it so special, considering it's only one of about four or five...)

I know this is a pretty lousy photo, and what's worse - it was taken on my cell phone!!  I'm sorry :(  I think I want to make a point of not only using my Canon for this 365 project, so that means crappy point-and-shoot and cell-phone pictures as well :)

Happy Mid-Week everyone!!  Are you ready for the weekend?  I know I am...

<3 Kiersten

What Are You Thankful For? (14)

It went up to a high of 76 today, and I'm loving it!  I really hope it stays like this for a while.  :)

For the past hour or so, some friends and I have been sitting out on the front lawn of our dorm building, and this is a picture I took of one of the trees in front of our dorm.  I was home all weekend, and when I came back last night, the trees had sprouted these buds. It makes me smile. :)

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Monday Thankful List:

- April

-spring weather

-a front lawn to sit on for hours

-close proximity to Walgreens

-construction paper

-jelly beans and cheez-its

-blueberries, clementines, pears, and Greek yogurt

What are you thankful for this week, loves?

<3 Kiersten

Take a Walk (13)

(Just as a warning before you start - this is a somewhat lengthy post.  But there are photos, and that helps, right?)




                                                
By some miracle, it was in the high 50's today, and it didn't rain at all; so my brother and I went for a walk on a nearby trail, and took a bunch of photos.

Okay, these first two were taken in my backyard...

I love flats :)

This is my brother on what used to be a railroad, and is now just a dilapidated bridge at the back of the trail.

My rain boots - as uncomfortable as they are, they're a wonderful thing to have!!

 My brother - Corey - took this photo of me on top of the bridge.

(I've always been afraid of heights, and for that reason every time I go to the trail, I make myself climb on top of the bridge.  I'm always afraid to be climbing up there, and once I'm up there and I look down from an area where the bars have fallen, I'm even more terrified - as irrational as it is since I know I won't fall.  I love the view, but I'm so scared the entire time I'm looking down.  All I need to do is think about how high I am off the ground, see how tiny the people on the ground appear, or glance down and it's enough to leave me freaking out.  "What if I fall?  What if I trip and slip off the edge?"  And then I'll kick a rock off the side of the ledge, just to see quite how high off the ground I am, which is enough to freak me out more.
But somehow, I still love being up there, and I love roller coasters and the idea of being able to fly.  I'm crazy.)

 ...And this one

And this one of me coming back down... (equally as terrifying, once I begin to realize how high I was)

And finally, here's Day 13

Another photo of Corey on the bridge, this time in black & white.  

I've been walking on this trail for years now, and today when we got there, we were greeted by CAT trucks and barriers.  They'd knocked down the trees that used to block the entrance, and I'm not sure what they plan on doing next, but I really hope they don't destroy the trail.  It's not the nicest place, but I love walking back there when it gets nice out like it was today.
I really hope it stays like this now that it's finally started - I love this time of year - the warm weather and the trees/flowers growing.  I can finally smell spring in the air!

How were your weekends, loves?  Did you do anything exciting with your sunny Sunday?  I'd love to hear all about it!

<3 Kiersten