Sunday, November 4, 2012

liebster award


My friend/Cambodia comrade, Aria from So, today... nominated my blog for the Liebster Award. 

Cool huh?
I'm stoked!

The Liebster Award is given to bloggers who have less than 200 followers (yeah, I'm getting there ;}).

Here are the rules:
1. Post 11 things about yourself 

2. answer the questions the nominator made for you
3. create 11 more questions for the blogs you nominate
3. choose 11 people and link them to your post 
4. go to their page and tell them too 
5. oh, and of course, no tag backs.

I think it'll be fun, so here goes nothing. =)

11 things about me:
1. I love music, at this very moment I am listening to the Catch My Breath cover by Alex Goot and Against the Current... AMAZING!
2. I go to school at Brigham Young University- Hawaii and I love it. But I graduate in April and I couldn't be happier (and slightly terrified) to figure out what life has in store for me. 
3. My favorite ice cream is Almond Praline, if you haven't tried it... don't you'll become instantly addicted.
4. I have a few all time favorite movies. #1 Something Borrowed #2 Just Friends #3 SHES THE MAN#4 Fast and Furious(all 5 of them)
5. I love cats. Like I want to own at least 5 of them. 
6. My friends are great! Love them.
7. I want to travel the world and serve
8. I want a brown baby, a black baby, and a red-headed baby, oh and blonde-haired blue-eyed baby... either I need to get married lots or adopt lots.... we'll figure that one out later. 
9. Ever since I watched Chris Brown's Kiss Kiss music video I've desperately wanted to dance on a bus.
10. I kind of am addicted to self-help books lately. I am currently reading The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
11. I'm somewhat afraid of the dark and fall sleep to Owl City, Animal Documentaries, or my recent favorite, my Christmas playlist on youtube.

11 questions from Aria to me:

1.  Do you like your hair up or down (may be substituted for long vs short)? When I want to look like I actually dressed up I always wear my hair down, but lately since its at that awkward growing out phase it is up... constantly.

2.  If you knew you could not fail, what would you do? Ah great question! EVERYTHING. I would write an amazing song that could be played on every instrument at once. I would write a novel, the good kind that fits every audience. I would become a dancer. I would make up my own harmonies to songs that actually sound like they fit. I would help save the world.

3.  What actor would you like to play the lead romantic role in the story of your life? Ryan Gosling... can't get over Noah in The Notebook.

4.  Do you ever get lost? Like literally? Actually not really, I've found I'm pretty good with realizing where I am. 

5.  What is your favorite kind of toothpaste? Minty

6.  Right.....*now*......are you happy with where you're going? At this very moment. I'm happy that I have about the next maybe 8 months planned, then pretty worried about what's gunna happen after that.

7.  If you could live in a foreign country...... I couldn't choose just one if I tried. My heart was left in the beautiful landscapes of Italy when I was 16, I would love more than anything to live in France and REALLY learn the language, but I also would love to go back to Cambodia someday. So I could never choose just one.

8.  Did you watch the Presidential debates? No mam, I know I know I'm a horrible citizen. Actually I started watching them with Aria (the one who wrote this question) but I made her turn it off cuz it was making both of us angry. 

9.  What is the one thing that you are best at? Compassion, I hope that doesn't sound conceited, because I really am not trying to be. I just know that my heart aches every time I see someone hurt, or be hurt. 

10.  If you could re-live a day in your life, which would it be and why? The day I visited the temple Angkor Wat. I love love love being surrounded by marvelous things, and Angkor Wat and the temples around it are just that... marvelous. That day I was also surrounded by marvelous people. And what made that day most special, wasn't that I got to see actual monkeys like a foot away from me, but that that was that day I realized that all my dreams really can come true (dont judge me, but I'm kind of crying just thinking about it). That day was sure special. 

11.  What song would you like sung at your funeral and who would sing it? Thats a hard one. Maybe, Dont Wake Me Up by Chris Brown himself.

11 blogs I nominate:
1.Jaki (my mom) at I Can So Do That
2.Taylor at like water
4.McKenzie at the good vibes
7.Lauren at Cove & Grey
10.Paul at My Bitchin' Life (excuse the profanity)
11.Clark at Modest Conquest

...and here are the 11 questions going out to them:
1. If you were reincarnated as any animal what would it be?
2. (I'm going to have to steal Aria's question) If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?
3. My number one dream in the entire world would be...
4. Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall?
5. What is the one quality you love most about yourself?
6. If you could write 5 words to a 16 year old you, what would they be?
7. One thing I would change about the world would be...
8. How do you feel when the "Happy Birthday" song is being sung to you?
9. If you could listen to one song on repeat for the next month, what would it be?
10. How do you feel about twitter?
11. If you could have lunch with one celebrity who would it be?

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

art in circulation...

Hey bloggers! 
My friend Sarah and I started a art blog and we'd LOVE for ya'll to check it out. We have art tips, pinterest projects, inspiration, daily doodles, and local artist spotlights. 


You can find us here on blogger (click the link or use the "artwork" tab above), facebook, twitter, pinterest, instagram and etsy as well. 

Thanks so much, Love you all!

Monday, October 29, 2012

home lovely sweet happy home...

I've been home for about a week now...
and I'm LOVING it!

My tummy is doing pretty well, which is a miracle. 
For those of you who don't know... I was on a in internship/ humanitarian project in Cambodia for a month but had to come home because I got super sick. :( 

But I'm doing good and simply reveling in the family time!!!
and maybe, just maybe, enjoying the cold.
Tender mercies.

Taken 2 with Dad & Lil Sis
 Lil Sis Shaunessy                                                 Coat Weather
 Painting Pumpkins with Ma & Lil Sis

up to you...


"God determines who walks into your life. It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go."
-Ruth Beltran

Saturday, October 27, 2012

how about you?...

Now I'm not usually a "oldies" music fan, 
but I had the Michael Bublé station playing on Pandora 
and this song came on. 

I love it, makes me feel all happy and tingly. 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

videos of cambodia...

I just spent the last month in Phnom Penh, Cambodia helping to start a project called ICHope at the CICFO Orphanage, where we taught English and Computer skills to the kids there in order to help prepare them for college when the time comes. 

While there, I made weekly videos to help document what an amazing experience we had. I thought I would share them with you today. If you want to learn more just click on the Travel Writing tab above to check out my other blog Word Meets World. 


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

music = life...

I love music!!!

Here are a few of my faves at the moment...


...and a few all time faves I can't get enough of

Monday, October 8, 2012

insta-smiles

Need a little pick-me-up???

These videos have to be the best things ever invented!



and this picture...


Friday, October 5, 2012

hot foot forest...

Ok this one tops the Twilight one like no other
I cry laughing every time!


blogging about cambodia...

Hey, I haven't written on here much because I've been focusing a lot on keeping up my Cambodian blog. Check it out!

You can access it through the Travel Writing tab above. 

Feel free to follow it as well =)