Lesson Learned

Sometimes I lose faith in everyone. Some places I have gotten myself into scare me. Somedays I don't know where to look for hope, and yet someone can come along and change all of it.

I honestly don't want to say what's been going on with me except the bottom line, that one person came into my life a long time ago and when they left, they also left their wake. Then they decided to come back and remind me how painful it was. All i can do is thank my best friend to the ends of the earth, she was there for me. She really came through for me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. She restored me as a person, without her I'd be sleeping under my covers surrounded by bowls of ice cream. I never thought I'd ever say this about anyone but she understands me as a person, when most of the times I don't understand myself.

This quote could not explain it better:

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.”

     - Alex Tan

My Brother & His Dares

Me and my brother Ian when we were little

Having a brother, I always get into things that I wouldn't if I let say had a sister. If I had a sister we'd get our nails done, go shopping, and basically do girl things. Having a younger brother is a whole new territory and if you have one you know exactly what I'm talking about. I don't know anybody who has the relationship with their brother that I do with mine. We fight but at the end of the day, we both know we'll be there for each other.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled out today, and have been rolling around in my own misery for the past, I dont know, 7 hours. My brother, who is younger than me by about 2 years, walks in all triumphant and says, "I'll give you $25 if you eat this!" with these eyes that basically said you couldn't do it even if you wanted to. I'm a person who never turns down a challenge so of course I take him up on it. Then he tells me that our big macho man neighbor cried eating one. I was still determined. I ate about 1/2 of the pepper and he says "I kinda want to keep my money... but I'll still give it to you." At this point it felt like my tongue was being attacked by a million killer bees but I knew that I could eat it if I put my mind to it. I realized that was his hard earned money and I convinced him to just give me $5 for what I had already eaten. I had to hold a bit of tiramisu on my tongue so that it would stop burning, and I'm a girl who can hold her spice.

If I didn't have a brother I wouldn't be the person I am today. He's definitely made me a stronger, wittier, and generally better person. I have a lot more fight in me because of him, and I am definitely eternally grateful. He has grown up to be such a great person, I love him to death, and would do anything for him... even if he does annoying brotherly things like spill a whole cup of ice cream in my car, but to be fair he tried to help clean it up.

My Opinion: Valentine's Day

I think Valentines day should be a day that's appreciated not hated. When people say "SINGLES AWARENESS DAY" I feel like you don't need a boyfriend to be a "couple" you can have a couple of friends and so many other things. Why torture yourself when you could just ask a friend "will you be my valentine?" then exchange chocolates.

That's my opinion... What's yours? :)

Weekend Adventures (2/6)

This weekend was full of fun adventures. A friend (I haven't told her about this blog, so I won't mention her name) and I went to the mall. There's so much to do at Fashion (what my town/city/thing calls it).

1st on the list of adventures:



We went to see when in Rome. It was a cute movie (I promise no spoilers). It was very predictable, but had that corny charm to it. Like freaky Friday, it wasn't realistic but it was still fun to watch.

2nd: Anthropologie


That store makes me want to go get married to the first rich guy i see, then remember to not be so shallow. He has to look good too. I'm only joking, but on my 'salary' (which is non existant) the clothes from there are in reach, but just not attainable... If that makes any sense. My friend said it's her 'warm up' store and after she goes in it she is in the mood to shop haha. It cracked me up.

3rd (more like 2 1/2):
H&M -- found a cute shirt, super comfy, perfect for a lazy summer day when you still want to look pretty. Let's just see if I shell out the cash for it haha:)

3rd: Container store!!

2 words: Bungee chairs!

They were the coolest things bungee chairs all made from bungee. It was bungee-licious.



And full of old cameras (they were supposed to be decoration)



Now I get why the store manager was giving us weird looks the whole time, haha.

4th and final- the bar
Okay, first "the bar" makes it sound so much better then it was. It was the bar at PF Changs so not THAT special. We people watched and ended up calling this one girl "the girl who looks like she belongs on the bachelor" it's actually shorter when you say it out loud. But we eventually just said "bachelor chick." We found a million dollar bill, and this old man started talking to us and used a really big word. When older people talk to me I just nod and agree, usually it works like a charm but he gave me this wow you're stupid look. Well anyway, that was our night. How's yours?

Lots of Love,

Andrea R

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My Commitment

Hey Peeps,

I'm sorry to have left this blog high and dry. I love writing especially when I'm not graded on it, but I have been writing my Junior Paper. It's an insane 11 pages, and in 2 pages anyone would be bored to tears. With that in mind if anyone wants me to post it up I'd love too haha:)

Now to the commitment chunk. I am promising to post at least once a week. If I don't... well i really have no clue but I will feel like a failure. How does that sound?


-Andy-

Photos

So for the next while I'm going to be posting pictures that I've taken with the camera I borrow from my photo class. Things that kind of speak to me. Every picture has a story and every time I look at them I think of that moment in time.

Please don't 'steal' my photos, just give me some credit. I worked hard driving all around San Diego for these shots.

(None are photoshopped unless I make a note of it. Mainly because me and photoshop have a hate-hate relationship:)

OOTD: 12/6/2009

I love this outfit, kind of elegant but casual enough to go get a cup of coffee with. The top has an empire waist, thats why it looks like I have a humongo tummy, I really dont hahah its the poof it makes, i promise :P . The heels are bcbg, and will be put up as one of my "shoe:" posts :)

I have the worst tan lines because of water polo, its ridiculous. I need a quick fix because I have a huge party to go to on the 19th, and I'm thinking of just putting bronzer on the tan lines... That could either be fine or a horrible mistake.

And again sorry about the mess :(

Hope y'all are having a great holiday season! :) I'll be posting some little tid bits of my 'Holidayness' from my phone, like my tree (that I did all by myself! haha I'm so proud of it).

Purses, Purses, and More Purses

Is it only me that thinks 'purse' is kind of an ugly word? Anyway since I was so motivated to organize my shoes (pictures on that a little later:) thanks by the way!) I decided to post a photo on the mess of my purses. I did organize them but I can't find a good system for them. Right now they're in one of those plastic drawer things from walmart. Honestly they don't fit, they're to heavy for the drawers so it just looks like clutter in my room.


(this was taken in the process of organization oh and that box was for my shoe rack)

I just don't like where they are right now. I thought about hooks(on the wall), but honestly I have too many that it would be 10x more clutter. I also looked at putting them on the shelf in my closet but I know if I took them down I wouldn't put them back.

Can you help me? Like any good ideas? :)

Thanks for reading my mundane-ness!

Winter Cleaning?

This has become the sad state of my closet recently. What happens is I'm so busy trying to run out the door I don't care how everything that I take out goes back in. This weekend I'm going to try my hand in 'winter cleaning' haha oh dear. These aren't all of my shoes some are under my bed others in odd places, half on the other side of the room. I would love to see them all organized and pretty maybe with some shoe racks too!

I will definitly be posting the results, if it's any better. :P

OOTD: 11/12/2009

I got new glasses because well a. I needed them and there is no b. My eyes have been treating my contacts like "foreign objects" according to my ophthalmologists, so I'm stuck with these for about 2 weeks or maybe 3.

I actually kind of think they are sort of adorable, and sexy at the same time.... 2 words I'd never say about glasses. So anyway I'm "making them work" but really they're working for me ;), oh if your curious there Lucky Brand, with a fuchsia lining... who knew they made glasses?


So on to the Outfit. I decided to use one of my new tops from charlotte russe, I'm liking this store less and less but found 3 things I liked. This plaid shirt was one of them. It has cotton ribbing going up the sides so it definitely has the slimming effect.

I just pared it with a lace tank top and teal v-neck, since sometimes flannel can look a little manly.

My Feet are so awkward in this one, but I was like "how do I show I'm wearing a heel without putting my foot in front of the camera?" and somehow came up with the worst idea on how to. Oh well we live and we learn:). This is just the full outfit but I like the pic above a lot better!