What’s an album that has got you through some tumulus times? For me it is Stars’ Set Yourself on Fire. Songs like “Calendar Girl” are the reason that I’m alive today.
Last night, the band celebrated the 10th anniversary of the album and I screamed all the lyrics along with the packed audience who probably shared some similar connections to the album.
I believe that all music that connects with someone is important. What is an album that has got you through some tough times?
Christmas is around the corner! A lot of people are already off work already (not me though) so it’s all jolly times. Currently recovering from a party, running some errands, off to a concert so I will keep it short tonight! Enjoy this above photo taken in Yorkville.
I wrote about my Yankee Swap prize yesterday and a bunch of people wrote to me to ask what that was. Yankee Swap is a game you play with a super cool group of friends and family. Here are the rules:
If you have a group of cool friends, this is so much more fun than Secret Santa!
November had me stuck in a rut. I wasn’t feeling myself. December is a little bit better. I don’t know if it just took me a bit of time to adjust to shorter days or something.
Sometimes, you just have to take time re-evaluate everything in your life and decide what’s important and ways to make change. For instance, I decided to see if I could cure my SADS with a mood lamp that emulates the sun. It’s on it’s way from Amazon world, so I’ll let you know how that goes. End of year is also a good time to look at all goals and decide on how to upgrade them next year. You’ll just have to wait to see what I come with!
This weekend I finished all my Christmas shopping. I did a combination of online/offline shopping. Amazon’s free shipping on orders over $25 has been something I have found super useful this year, saving time by allowing you to pick up multiple items at one location- the postoffice.
I love shopping for thoughtful gifts. I don’t care so much about the price of things as much as their use value and how much each item would mean to each person. If something is not going to be used or excite someone than it doesn’t matter if it was worth $1000.
This December has been so packed with events holiday related and not. It’s making the blogging challenge almost hard to meet at times but I’m at the home stretch and I’m not giving up now!
So you wear all the outfits in one go. Is this too many patterns?
I’ve had a super busy week! Time to kick back and relax and spend my time with people that matter.
Around the holidays, they always have gift packs of holiday scratch cards. I don’t really buy scratch cards during the year, but these packs are fun because they have a bunch of different ones. Nash and I picked up our own packs. We won nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I think we have terrible luck or maybe they put losing cards in these things. Sometimes they like to play on your hope that you’ll get that one letter/symbol/whatever that will make all the difference but you get something unexpected.
My apartment building hallway has been a treasure trove of goods. People tend to leave things that they no longer want or need.
So far I have food things like a new game of Cranium, a relatively new rice cooker and my new bedside lamp!
I like to wonder where some of the things I have thrown away end up. I wonder if they have found new homes too.
The other week I was in the Distillery District and realized the Christmas market was already set up. Had another year passed by so fast already? I can’t believe I’ve almost blogged 365 days in a row. It was a feat that in previous year couldn’t even get through to the first month, but I’m almost there guys! Super proud of my best friend and I!
Tiana Feng 