On giving a compliment where a compliment is due.

This blog post blew my mind, and therefore I'm linking it. My girl Jilli is well versed; rap-wise & the like.

I'd also like to leave you with this: I WANT A GOAT SO BADLY.

what's up pussycat..

How could I resist?

xo

My friends are prettier than yours! #tequila

I appreciate you:

Ma belle fille qui j'ai rencontre au Quebec. Literally the best thing that could've happened in that small town in the Chicoutimi! The best story to the start of a friendship. 'So you guys kept in touch..?' I love your laugh, your singing everywhere, your makeup skills, and your ability to connect with anyone in whatever situation you're in. The fact that you can get down and dirty in Kelowna and jump off roofs when I ask you to. Or ride a bike for the first time in 10 years in 35 degree heat of the afternoon sun. Also your ability to give your honest opinion, and not to mention your memory and care for everything that's important in my life.

This chica, my PIC, my forever partner in all life events and sports! I'm infinitely proud to still call you one of my closest friends and I love you so deeply. I appreciate your world traveller attitude, you're ability to have fun in any situation you're in and your positivity and lust for life. Your drive for excellence in your life is so contagious and you have a beautiful aura to be around. You carefree hippy! I'll always remember G&H runs with you, Bear, and Diego. Not to mention our ski racing careers? No taco time for you.

Pull the car around. Your cupcake loving ass is my sister-a$$-soulmate and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love your ability to pour all of your heart and soul into other people and dedicate yourself to them. It is such a beautiful quality and I'm so appreciative everyday that I am a recipient of some of that.  You light up my everyday life around 11am and I hope it continues for a very long time. You have the most fun-loving way of loving life and I love living it with you. I appreciate the real and honest relationship we have, and I value you so very much. I'll see you at the food table?

Mi hermana chica! Did we do our hair the same today? Same shirt? Look like twinz? I live my dream life when I'm told that and now we get it almost everyday! I love mean mugging the shit out of anything and everything with you. I love your need to plan, your desire for success, our similar career interests, and how our hair is never clean. I love that your bike lives outside my patio. You pull the best out of me in a lot of ways and I love every second of it. University without you simply wouldn't have cut it.

Somebody get this girl a pen, and paper - STAT. She's drunk, she needs to write her thoughts down immediately! That, or get some yoga in there. I appreciate your iconic hair, the fact that we are so vastly different in many ways, but similar in many areas too. I love that you tolerate my verbal princess-ness, my need to yell a lot when I get excited, and the fact that I'm not super into dub step. I'm thrilled that in the future I'll be able to say I'm friends with that super successful lawyer bitch.

When I visit San Fran in the future, first thing I'll do is head straight for your bakery. I appreciate every single thing you create in the kitchen, I can't wait until it all comes together for you! I love our past matching short hair cuts, I think you have the most beautiful eyes, and I appreciate every single Carmelli's trip with you. I will forever remember those sunflower cupcakes, the coconut sugar cookies, and your birthday trip to Nelson. (But we won't tell anyone about the ice cream cake.. whoops!)

I love every single one of you more and more everyday!

rules 1-9 (+1)

One of my main chica's, Jilli, made a list of rules to follow. I've been thinking about mine for awhile ( 5 minutes) and this is what I've come up with:

1. Practice going out of my comfort zone consistently.
2. Say yes more often. Not sure, not okay, not alright, but yes.
3. Sing all da time.
4. Don't mold myself for other people. I am not a hipster and that is a-okay.
5. Practice safe sex.
6. Smile.
7. No attachment.
8. If I want to do it, I will do it. Stop thinking twice!
9. Love everyone for something.
10. You don't need to be anybody's +1.

Verbal Princess

So my normal voice is still missing. It's been TWO WEEKS. Sasquatch being the main perpetrator, followed by five 12 hour work days and excessive partying leading to next to zero sleep and major hangovers = no voice! It's so annoying. One of my favorite activities is singing. Singing all the time. I sing in the car, in my room, in the shower.. and I can't ! It makes me anxious. 

So between this and my lack of sleep my brain is mush. And no, this does not mean I'm going to stop doing what I'm doing. Here are some images I'm obsessing over recently, and paralleling the way my brain is working right now, they have no theme or order. 

Out + over. Or is it over + out?

Good Vibrations

Girl put in work, girl, girl, put in work. 

xo

Suburban of Secrets: The Lovenest

Sasquatch Numero Tres is numero uno in my heart! Five sweet bitches, 5 beauty days, and one oversized suburban complete with pantry shelves and a walk-in closet.

Some of my favorite moments + highlights, which have already been mentioned by my fellow bloggers and main chica's:

1. The lovenest! 

2. Rolling up to the group meeting spot of 40 of our friends + strangers blasting TLC and parking horizontally across five stalls. We bring the party, obvs.

3. Having five different inputs on the curiously fucked up group of friends we have, regarding the hookups, breakups and secretive lip-locking among them.

4. Dustin's valiant + successful efforts that allowed all of our EIGHT car convoy to camp beside one another! He was a champion.

5. Bedroom oasis in our tent.

6. Annie from Portland and her endless supply of facepaint! She was the cutest.

7. Robyn's heartfelt proposal to me at the back of the suburbs. (I said yes, duh)

8. VODKA SOAKED GUMMIES

9. The endless supply of edibles I was handed on a daily basis.

10. The morning that Nathan showed up to our tent with a small and very effective gift. 

11. Opening the door of our tent and just sitting there, taking whore's baths, and taking in the surroundings while really not participating in the group dynamic for the first hour.

12. Waiting THREE HOURS in a lineup and not giving a flying fuck because it was the best goddamn time ever.

13. The most bizarre ability of sasquatch: the fact that you run into everyone you know from Kelowna despite the 20,000 other people on the enormous grounds.

14. Motor boating Jim to get sparkles. And also the fact that I had 2 sparkles on my eyelids for the next FIVE DAYS. I'm sooo hygienic.

15. Completing our challenge of getting on a strangers shoulders on the first day!

16. Staying up til sunrise on two of the 5 nights!

17. Jackson's 'pinata'.

18. That time that Rob was bleeding from her armpit so we held pressure there while still managing to eat tortilla chips + salsa..

19. That other time that Rob was bleeding, and we wiped it up with beef jerky wrappers. Just call me doctor.

20. That time we got all of our alcohol poured out on the grounds..

21. When I was given an entire container of glowsticks at the Girl Talk concert!

22. Sitting in garbage. Literally.

23. SISTANKLETS.

24. 5L of Sangria in a box. Gotta love Amurricah!

25. The Redbull Tent Yearbook photos. And the Honda Civic dress up photos.

26. S-A-S-Q-U-A-T-H, I'm having a blast with my friends!

27. "Now we are going to get on top the suburban to watch the sunrise, and you are going to propose to me so we can live happily ever after"

28. "I just ate a candy watermelon from a stranger.."

29. "Hey do you know where we can get some molly?" "WHO?!"

30. THE VITAMIN WATER BOUNCY CASTLE. And then being shot at with water guns because there were too many people on it.

31. Tanner trying to metamorph into Tannerfly.

32. Trevor's wig(s). Or that time that he wore 8 articles of clothing on his torso for who knows how long.

33. Jessica being recognized as from Kelowna by several different people. She's a magnet.

34. Our little pitstop in Ephrata to get our friend out of jail. Casual. 

35. Seeing my new roommates every day, randomly.

36. Getting to wear whatever I want and having it be acceptable to not wash my face. Or shower at all for that matter. 

37. Getting Jessi to brush my hair because I actually don't know how.

Having to live in reality for 5 days was the best thing of my life thus far. If this is any indication as to what the Girl Army ( I'm serious about labelling ourselves the Lushies..) Summer of 2012 will be like.. Kelowna is in for a reallll treat.

See you all on the flipside! And by flipside I mean in my new blue duplex, bitches.

I love each and every one of you who reads this and understands these.