waterproof

i ordered some waterproof gear from the internet for my study abroad and some of it came today.
SO EXCITED.
less than 6 weeks :)
also, don't you enjoy the inspirational notes that my roommate writes on our mirror?

it's time to say thank you...

gotta be grateful that this exists...
i do have to admit that i a little bit love this. obvious parody? win.

Fly Me Away

I'm going on a study abroad to England this spring. In six weeks and two days, I will be in Scotland. We'll be hiking all over the place and I really just want to go now.
Who needs school, right?
I am so excited...until I looked at the packing list. Hiking clothes? What? This was all new to me. I mean, give me a pair of jeans and some tennis shoes and I'm good to go.
But no. I have to buy pants like these. Or even these.
Why, oh why. I guess I should forget my vanity. But who wants to ever feel like they're a nine year old boy with ZIP OFF PANTS. Not me, thank you very much.
I just keep telling myself, "Jane, you'll be in England. Who cares if you look like a socially awkward nine year old boy...and smell like one, too?"
I am so ready to go, tho. Despite the pants. Despite the smell and the blisters that are headed my way. When do you get a chance to hike across Great Britain with some pretty amazing people and see where Jane Austen and William Wordsworth and Charlotte Bronte lived and wrote?
So, please, just take me away right now.

relaxing before bed on pinterest?

and now I will never sleep again

love and loath.

love:
-being done with taxes. thank you, father.
-stake conference today. the member of the 70 that visited was hilarious.
-sunday naps.
-shakespeare. the more i read of him, the more i absolutely adore him.
-discussing which man from little house on the prairie is most attractive with my mom. (decision, none of them. to quote her: "I would poke myself in the eye before I would pick Charles.")

loath:
-meetings that go over time. i have issues with attention.
-people telling me what to do. it's probably my biggest pet peeve.
-forgetting homework until 10 pm the night before it's due.
-eating too much junk food. (gym tomorrow say what?)
-people telling my i'm doing my job wrong. especially when i'm not. (i guess that plays into people telling me what to do. i really hate that. maybe i shouldn't be so stubborn.)

I Want That.

how i feel scrolling through my pinterest food board.

Unibrows

So. At every school, I feel like you get your variety of weirdos. There's the kids who don't shower, the kids who are over confident, the a little too hipster kids...the list goes on.
My apartment has the blessing of associating with a few of these. Namely, the over confident, socially awkward type. You know what I mean. Don't get me wrong. They're nice. Just sometimes make for good stories.
Example:
A few Sundays ago, we were all home and one of those boys was visiting. I was washing the dishes, my back to a conversation, when I hear him read our quote wall out loud.
"'Unibrows are sexy. You can stroke them when you make out.'" A pause. "Wow, Jane. Guess I'd better start looking into a unibrow."
I turn around and he's looking at me in that way that makes me want to shower. With boiling water.
Yes, I indeed said that quote. Yes, it was a joke. Yes, he thought it was serious, and no, he wasn't joking. At least about the making out part.
My friend once told me she believes I have a creep magnet imbedded in my soul.
This just serves to prove her right.
That is all.
Hope your day is as awkward as mine!
-Jane