Life According to Virginia: summer

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Friday, September 6, 2013

A Fantastic End to a Fantastic Summer

So, technically I've started school already, but I never got around to posting about my last couple days of summer due to the fact that I'm now away from home for almost 12 hours every day, and then spend most of the time I am actually at home doing homework or catching up on sleep (already) So here I am, Friday night after my first week of school, posting about a day almost a week ago. But it was a really good day, so I'm posting about it anyway.

First Finn, Josie, and I ventured out to Goodwill for the labor day sale, which was huge and amazing and as if Goodwill isn't already cheap enough pretty much everything was half price and it just made me happy beyond describable words and such. I only had 20 dollars, but I ended up getting so much stuff I absolutely love and adore and have already worn most of. (I'll post a Outfit Idea post later!!!) Josie and I unfortunately did not buy these Christmas sweaters, because we did not have enough money, but we still tried them on for a picture :)

Also Josie tried on this ridiculous size 30 rainbow polka dot dress, which deserved photographic evidence of existence.

I also desperately wanted to find overalls, but unfortunately the only pair I could find were size 26... Maybe I'll have to try some other Goodwill... (also, sorry for ratchet mirror selfies, there was really no other way to get these ridiculous outfits in their full glory...)

After Goodwill, my mom and I went to Chipotle, and then to the pool for the last hour or so it was open. I don't have any pictures from that now but I will soon I promise! The pool closed at 6, so my friends Faith, Kelsey, and I decided to visit Gelato Celesti after closing, where I kind of overindulged myself with the "chocolate decadence" flavor, and took way too many photos of my ice cream cause I'm dumb like that sorry.

We may have all gotten chocolate decadence...

Man of Steel was playing at the 2$ theater that night, so my family all went to see it as our final act of summer! Honestly, I have this secret love for action movies, so I really enjoyed it... my mom and my sister though... maybe not so much...

My dad definitely did though. He cried and he STILL won't stop talking about it...

I hope everyone had a great summer! I know I did!!!! Good luck with a new school year/new work year/or really whatever you are doing!

I'll try as hard as I can to continue posting throughout the school year. Even though it may be more kind of last minute posts like this, I'm really happy I started blogging, so even though these posts are cheesy and my pictures are pretty crappy, I can still one day look back at this and remember how I spent my time, who my friends were, and how I felt from time to time.

You have a chance to do something really amazing this year. So do I. And I'm determined to find it.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

This Is Us

Ok, so sorry about the really bad title, and yes, if you were wondering, the One Direction movie is mentioned in this blog post, hence the somewhat catchy but rather unfortunate title. I'll think of something better later, I'm just too lazy right now...

ANYWAY,

Last Saturday, with it being the last weekend before school started for me and a lot of my friends (some of my friends had to go back a week early, see, despite what some people think, there are SOME perks of going to public school!) we decided to make the best of the end of our summer! First, I hung out with my two best friends from middle school, Emma and Courtney, who I felt like I hadn't seen in FOREVER, and we went to see the One Direction movie.

Ok, so before I continue, let me just give you my quick spiel on One Direction, because I think you need to hear it from me.

I am NOT a "Directioner" as they so call it, but I honestly don't have some grudge against these guys or anything. I actually sort of enjoy a couple of their songs, they're catchy and kind of funny, and lets just be honest, no matter how much you try and deny it, THEY ARE SO HOT and then their British accents just add on top of that and yup I'm willing to sit through an hour and a half of their story and daily lives and such no problem. They're fine, I'm just not crazy obsessed or anything.

But my friends are, so we went to go see it, and I can't lie, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

Courtney and her GIANT coke

After the movie, I went to my friend Matt's birthday party, where I was reunited with some of the friends I hadn't seen all summer (including the love of my life, Cece) and we drank fancy lemonade and watched Zombieland and Jack Miller and played Cornhole and Jack Miller and I had a deep conversation about Miley Cyrus and crazy socks and anything else we could think of all while trying not to break Matt's million year old swing-set. So, it was a pretty fabulous night if I do say so myself...

But the best part was being reunited with Cece. Can't lie.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

This Foreign Thing Called Football

So tonight, despite having worked 8 strait hours at the pool, I decided I still had enough energy to go to the Godwin football game tonight with Riona and Cameron. Going to Maggie Walker, who is more popular for our chess club than our nonexistent football team, I'd never actually been to a high school football game before, so being the crazy football fan he is, Cameron decided he needed to change that. Riona came too of course, because the three of us have known each other for 5 years now, and are kind of the original people in our group of camp friends. I got to the game about halfway through, but I was already pretty obvious Godwin was going to win, I mean, even though I don't even have the slightest idea about how anything works in football I could definitely tell that! We didn't actually watch the game that much, just hung around with Cameron's friends from school and watched the pep band and wandered around and took crazy pictures as usual, and talked to my bestie AVERY! He told me all about MW orientation and such, and since we're both Maggie Walker nerds we had a very in depth conversation about our teachers this year and all our nerdy courses and such.

Ugh, school starts on Tuesday and I don't know how I'm going to function without seeing these two while we're all busy with school and homework and life. At least I'll have Avery :)

Hi wow something's wrong with my eye but I think Avery loves me...

Love her <3

Typical

Flash forward 5 years...

I love you both! Hopefully it won't be long before we all see each other again!

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Midnight Ravioli

Ok so it had been six weeks since I'd last seen Lucy.
You heard that right, SIX WEEKS!
Which is way to long in my opinion.
So we decided we couldn't wait any longer than we already had, and I slept over at her house Thursday night.
I mean, I guess we didn't do anything too out of the ordinary.
That is, if anything we do at all is ordinary...
We went to the playground in the dark and swung on the swings as usual.
We walked to our friend Katie's house afterwards and serenaded her from outside her window so her parents wouldn't see us.
We made ginger, lemon, lime, mint, banana, and pineapple popsicles,
which honestly tasted like some bad sure for a hangover or something,
but were also strangely addicting.
We made midnight pumpkin ravioli with lots of butter.
We looked at Tumblr for at least an hour.
We talked about life and summer vacation and tried to pretend we aren't going back to school in a week.

Sometimes, I feel like Lucy and I are the same person.
Or at least we just have the same brain.
I'm glad I've found someone who understands my craving to eat at night, my love for cheesy old movies, and how I always want to walk around barefoot in the dark.
I love Lucy.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Photo Shoots and Rainbow Jumpsuits

So my best friend Finn is all cute and foreign and such, so she goes to Ireland and England every summer while I sit at home on the computer.

It is quite fortunate though, because when she gets back, she brings me Irish chocolate and we share it together while she tells me stories of her adventures across the pond.

Also, this year, she came back with this fabulous rainbow jumpsuit thing, so we had to take some pictures. LOTS of pictures. On her porch on a 100 degree day.