Bad news first: we didn't get that apartment either.

Wah wah so sad. Ugh. Pity party.

Okay, now that we've moved on.

We saw the Avett Brothers this weekend. WHAT.

It was pretty stinkin' legit. Brandi Carlile opened and she was legit and then my heart exploded because I love the Avett Brothers.

Hey hey hey it's fat Monday.

I don't know. The weather is wacky here and I think I'm allergic to spring time. I'm not complaining, but my brain feels fuzzy. Name that movie (answer below).

Hey, everyone.

Art, man.

How are you feeling today? Hopefully you are living the dream and maybe soaking in some sun.

Mondays are hard. Welp, this one is almost done but here are some pick me ups for Mondays.

God bless, March. Mostly because it isn't January and it isn't February and that means that time is actually progressing and I don't live in a grey haze of a snow globe, aka, Pittsburgh.

But don't mind me as I wax poetically about the never ending headache that is this polar vortex...it's March!

Guess who downloaded Overgram? Moi

I'm numbering this because I'm assuming I will write many more posts with this title.

Planning ahead.

I saw Swan Lake on St. Valentine's day! The whole night was crazy and stressful and I felt like such a mom. Our group was 13 (!!) strong and we all had to get on the city bus and ride into downtown Pittsburgh and then find the theater. Also, one of the students, Alex, was talking to another student about her birthday and she said, "Date, Month, 1995".

1995.

I don't even remember what the date and the month were because I was shocked at how recent that sounded. 1995? I mean, I was born in '90 so I'm not that much older than her, but 5 whole years seems like a lot.

Essentially there were a lot of freshman in the group and, God bless freshman, but they were all just flirting the whole time. Like, poking and hair pulling. For real. So by the end of the night they were all calling me "Mom" but whatever I just care about their hearts and their souls and no one died.

But the ballet was beautiful and it was great to hang out with more students and get face time with some of the more elusive ones.

My only issue with the ballet was that the bad guy, Von Rothbart looked like Greg from the Old Gregg youtube video. He's like swamp monster...the video is inapprops so don't watch it.

Old Gregg:




Von Rothbart (this is from the NY performance, the PA one didn't have horns, he had a ginger mane):

To Do Updates
A little while back I posted a To Do post and now I'm going to update you all because I need some accountability in my life.

1. Stop being afraid of St. Therese
This one is hard. The good news is that she is everywhere. And a student (Alex, born in 1995) will occasionally text me St. T quotes, which is nice and thoughtful and makes me cry because I'm a big fat sap.

2. CHARTING
So, I'm doing this! I've only missed one day of taking my temperature. Also, to clarify, you don't have to take your temperature vaginally which, for some reason, I thought you had to! So once I read that orally is fine then I jumped all over this charting train. I'm sure you all already knew that, but, whatever I didn't.

3. Planking
Booo. So I haven't been doing a good job with this. I blame it on my own lack of self control and maybe the worst cramps I've ever had. But, I'm through that so now it's back to planking.

4. Cook things
I baked bread! I'm also going to be more adventurous in the future so get excited.

Have a great Monday!

All day yesterday I was like, remember to take a picture of what you're wearing because that's a bloggy thing to do!

I obviously forgot. I'd like to blame the Super Bowl but I barely watched it, and what I did watch was not that exciting. I have decided that Bruno Mars would be beautiful woman. That bone structure? Unreal.



I also realized that some of my font gets weird on this blog when I put in a photo...I think the blog design thinks it's a caption so I apologize for the teeny tiny font that comes after photos.

Anyway, here is a g-l-a-m-o-r-ous photo of what I am wearing today.

artistic filter via vscocam

Sweater: T.J. Maxx
Scarf: a gift
Shirt: threadbare, but my favorite, from Target
Jeans: Uh...jeans store
Topknot: Lazy
Glamour: that radiator and a radiant 8am glow.

That weird face? I haven't quite mastered photo booth and that is a look I like to call, "Unprepared". The ones where I am "prepared" are even worse...so you're welcome.

To further up the level of glamour in my life I want to point out that there was left over pizza in the Newman Center fridge today and I definitely ate some even though I'm lactose intolerant. WHAT is wrong with me?

ALSO Nickel Creek released a new song?? I can barely even comprehend it. I love love love Nickel Creek. Check it

Also happy feast day of St. Blaise! I love getting my throat blessed and the priest who did it here today put my neck in a long-candle-vice-grip so I know it extra counted.

That's probably not true.
I'm a Catholic missionary, #Lordhavemercy