• 6/9/13
  • everyone was in a good mood at work today
  • ate healthy
  • planted beet seeds in my backyard
• 6/10/13
  • work went by fast
  • went longboarding by the lake - didn't fall at all!
  • delicious dinner - faux BLT with avocado
• 6/11/13
  • i'm off tomorrow, which is making me feel extra carefree today
  • lovely conversations at work with my coworker about ethnic food, beet salad recipes, and the band beach house
  • pumpkin spice latte for dessert

• playing dress-up in a closet of funky clothes
• doing crazy makeup just for fun (cat makeup, war paint)
• riding a vintage bicycle around the city
• a walk in the woods
• photoshoots
• singing songs around a campfire
• old record shops
• eating pancakes on a boat at 5 AM and watching the sun rise
• driving around town to look at all the christmas lights
• making dada poems
• singing obnoxiously in the car
• fun antique stores
• deep conversation
• falling asleep next to your puppy
• skinny dipping late at night
• scanning through photographs for hours
• roller-skating

• fabulous
• vintage
• ablaze
• insinuate
• Victorian
• melancholy
• elegant
• reckless
• revolution
• crass
• intricate
• glamour
• chai
• crisp
• sleazy
• demure
• bucolic
• quaint

• fruits
  • raspberries
  • strawberries
  • grapes
  • blackberries
  • bananas
  • mangos
  • coconut
• veggies
  • avocado
  • eggplant
  • mushrooms
  • squash
  • zucchini
• snack/meal
  • smoothies
  • vegan coconut milk yogurt
  • sautéed veggies

• well aren't you just a big fucking ray of sunshine today
• miss you heaps
• love you heaps
• prits! (pretty)
• lovely jovely
• it's about as fun as waiting for photoshop to load
• we're tight as a button

• almost famous
• dirty dancing
• hachiko: a dog's story
• valerie and her week of wonders
• the entire box set of "american youth"
• flashdance
• on the road

• everyday/as often as possible:
  • longboard
  • yoga
  • write
  • read
  • draw
  • photography
• good food:
  • paradise burger (sriracha remoulade, avocado, salsa)
  • arugula & quinoa salad with orange balsamic vinaigrette & other veggies
  • green monster smoothie (almond milk, peanut butter, kale, strawberries, banana)
  • coconut milk yogurt w/ banana, quaker oatmeal squares, & cinnamon
  • black bean tacos in corn tortilla w/ sriracha and avocado
  • cold beet salad

• working at a hardware store. making money and meeting new people!
• starbucks. drink of choice: grande americano with extra soy.
• reading. currently: "ask the dust" by john fante. next up: "office girl" by joe meno.
• skyping with the boy & looking forward to the next time i get to see him.
• longboarding in the forest preserve and along the lakeshore in the city.
• evolving from vegetarian to vegan. lots of shopping at whole foods. doing some cooking based on recipes from my "food" board on pintrest. first thing i made: cajun quinoa cakes with lemon-dill sriracha remoulade.
• healthy eating. not only vegan, but HEALTHY vegan. more organic & natural foods, less processed foods.
• avocados. enough said.

here i am only including more well-known bands. obviously i have heard many local bands and cover/tribute bands, but i'm not counting those here, even though some of them were spectacular.

• fall out boy
• william beckett (frontman of the academy is)
• a kidnap in color
• taking back sunday
• buckcherry
• kiss
• a lot of famous country artists at the grand ole opry (jimmy c. newman, connie smith, jack greene, etc.)
• black eyed peas
• lmfao (opened for black eyed peas - terrible)
• ludacris (opened for black eyed peas - terrible)
• slash