sweet disposition

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<3 i wish everything came with bows. they're perfect.

<3 i love peonies.

<3 i belong in paris.

<3 capital letters aren't my thing.

<3 my philosophy on life consists of a multitude of quotes without which... i would be lost.

<3 music is my therapy, as well as a good book.

<3 i don't focus on the past and i'd be lying if i said i didn't think about the future... but i don't worry about it. i just try to be the happiest and nicest person i can be everyday.

<3 if you make me laugh, i love you.

xo.

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3 months.

today i’ve known my wonderful new friends for 3 months. we “celebrate” (go out and get shitty) every monday, the day on which we met… so it’s easy to remember. i feel terribly fortunate to have acquired these incredible people as friends. they aren’t even friends, they’re like a family. maybe that’s why i’m so drawn to them. whatever the reason may be… i truly feel like they were fated to be in my life. and i’m gonna keep ‘em no matter what.

but this 3 months also means i’ve known tom for just as long. for the life of me i can’t find the words to describe the feelings i have for him. he is an exemplary human being. really. i thought i was a good person and then he came along… he’s so genuinely kind to everyone. it’s surreal… my friends immediately took a liking to him. just yesterday, we bumped into a couple people tom knows and they were SO excited to see him. i think that speaks volumes about a person. 

and just the other day… i let him take my car so i didn’t have to drive him home. he brought it back with almost a full tank of gas (i should state that i was on “e”)! and today! today he purchased super glue and put my plate sticker on. i guess i just love the little things he does. like when we’re laying in bed all intertwined and i go to move… he tries to trap me. or when he kisses my forehead, and lingers for a minute. i smile just thinking about it. 

honestly, i’ve never felt so myself. and so comfortable. he likes the me that i like and that blows my mind. i feel like the luckiest girl in the world… because i know he’s going to be mine and because it’s effortless. i’ve been excited for other boys before and i suppose tried to convince myself they were the one (yaaa.) but deep down, i always knew it wasn’t right with any of them. i was never going to settle down with john, too young and knew that. i stayed with aaron for reasons i’m embarrassed about, but knew from day one that we would never be forever. and petey, i loved him but we were always such different people. i remember complaining from the beginning about what a “grandpa” he was. and i knew i couldn’t have that but i convinced myself because everything else was great, i should stay. ultimately, he did me the biggest of favors by breaking up with me. and now, now i have this remarkable man who i just know about. i’ve neeeeeeeeever felt this before. ever. i just want to see him and hug him and kiss him and be good to him. and live my life with him.

so we’ll see what happens. as of right now we’re nothing, so we’ll see how the future treats us. i can’t imagine anything but a happy ending. :)

xo. 

wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away

and so today begins my triumphant return to tumblr…

so since it’s been a while, i’ll summarize all that’s been happening…

I MOVED! :D i’m currently residing in milwaukee and couldn’t be happier about it. 

-started working here 09.01.11.

-started dating someone 2 weeks after that…

-started staying with him 1 day after that.

-moved here 11.01.11. <3 :D

-broke up with boy early november. he was a jerk and a rebound. no harm, no foul.

and noooow it’s december! i love december. last month of the year. time to tie up loose ends and start 2012 fresh!

that being said. petey and i are over, permanently. nothing will ever come of him and i. i proved that to myself over the weekend and i feel ok to move forward with someone else.

and that someone else, oh dear. he could be everything i’ve ever wanted or just like every other guy. i’ve known him for 3 weeks and things have been progressing very slowly, which i find refreshing and do appreciate. 

after sleeping at my house 4 times and not. even. kissing. :) it happened today. we were just snuggled up in my bed and i had given him a kiss on the cheek and as i went back to rest my head on his shoulder… he tilted my chin towards him and kissed me. i swear i’ve never been so excited and nervous all at one time. i meeean i had literally been waiting for this moment. and it was nothing short of perfect. it was sweet and my heart was racing and wild horses by the stones was playing in the background. i swear it felt like my life was a movie.

and then a couple minutes later it happened again… to green eyes by coldplay. which he has by the way. yummm.

he should be over here any minute. so i’m going to stop being such a nerd now. will return to the nerdiness in the morning.

xoooo

it was not your fault but mine… and it was your heart on the line… i really fucked it up this time, didn’t i my dear?
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Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

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istiko nothing like it :)

istiko

nothing like it :)

love. forever.

i sent him pizza at work on friday because he had a tough week. he doesn’t understand why i do these things for him but it’s because i LOVE him. and then he tells me his boss said that his wife has never sent him or even made him lunch. if he didn’t know before, he knows now how lucky he is. but really, i would do this for him everyday just for that big hug i got from him when i got off work… and to hear him say i’m going to be his girlfriend forever. (don’t like the girlfriend part… but i love the forever part) seeing and knowing that he’s happy, makes me happy. i’ve never met anyone as wonderful as him and i feel like the luckiest girl in the world. i will do whatever it takes to keep him forever.

modelle: best. feeling. ever. no joke. &lt;3

modelle:

best. feeling. ever.

no joke. <3

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wow wow wow wow wow! 

wow wow wow wow wow! 

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geekhideout: Complete point to point arched rainbow… now bring me that horizon!

geekhideout:

Complete point to point arched rainbow… now bring me that horizon!

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