(Butternut squash) soup.Wearing winter things, but without gloves.Halloween.Pastels.Boots.ALL THE SEASON PREMIERES!Foggy mornings.Crunchy leaf piles.The beginning of cat snuggle season.Scary movie marathons.Leaf-spotting.Long drives along colorful roads.Fun costumes (that aren’t appropriating any culture).Apple cider.Seasonal decor.🎶 ‘Cause this is THRILLERRRRR 🎶 Hot chocolate.Cleaning out closets.Socks.Oktoberfest.Sweaters and cardigans.Candles and bubble baths.Putting out fairy lights.🎶 Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS! 🎶 Blankets and throws.Jack-o’-lanterns.Lipsticks in berry shades.Supernatural reruns.Extra chai just because. …
Year: 2018
Why doesn’t anyone ever write about the break-up of a friendship, even though it feels so much more screwed up than a break-up of a romantic relationship?! This is full of horrible achy feels, so you can skip out on this if you’ve never been in this position – I just need to get it out of my system, because I just blocked someone out of everywhere and I don’t ever do that. I am …
“What’s so special about Princeton anyway?” you asked on the first sunny day this past summer, in your 9274th attempt to get me to move to New York City. My answers over the last eleven months at that point had varied from a mock-scandalized “..uh? Michelle Obama???” to the dramatically whined “nothing. absolutely nothing.” You manage to ask me every single time you see me. I give you a new answer every time you ask. …
*gasp* …. this has got to be the first time I have written a travelogue within the same month as the trip! What?! I took half a year to write about roadtripping in Iceland, and then again about hiking to Machu Picchu, so let’s just say that this is an indication of just how amazing Banff National Park was! 😀 Unlike my other travelogues, I will not be listing what I did every single day. …
After three years of planning to be in Washington, DC, at the right time and the right place to witness the peak bloom of cherry blossoms, we finally got there. Despite all the crowds (it felt like everyone and their grandmother was there, going to town with selfies with the blossoms!) and the chilly weather that made moving around really cumbersome, it. was. spectacular. Love and light, Annie. …