Alone Time Activities

1. Shopping (but only if I have the extra money)
2. Painting. pictures, jars, vases, anything you can get your hands on
3. Listen to Journey Radio on Pandora, IHeart, etc.
4. Tumblr, Tumblr, Tumblr
5. Finish reading all the books I’ve bought..
6. Talk to friends, catch up, see how they’re doing
7. Design your dorm room, make a checklist of everything you’ll want/need
8. Write down your thoughts, or just write down something
9. Paint your nails
10. Catch up on sleeep
11. PINTEREST
12. Visit 7cupsoftea.com and connect with a stranger
13. SMASH Book
14. Online window shop
15. Play with the kitties
16. Catch up on TV shows
17. Cook a new recipe
18. BAKE
19. Try on clothes from your closet and create adorable outfits
20. Take a walk
21. Go swimming
22. TAN ^
23. Call your brother, mother, sister, father, friend, etc.
24. SnapChat
25. Go outside
26. Take pictures of anything and everything

I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy.
Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow.

I’m tired of people saying that I’m growing up too fast and I’m not living life to the fullest and blah blah blah. Truth is, that’s exactly what I’m doing: growing up AND living life to the fullest. Nobody really understands the journey that I’ve been going through. To be honest, I love where I am in life now and I don’t care what people may think about it.
This is my life, no one else’s and I’m living it for me.

“I hate the way you talk to me
And the way you cut your hair
I hate the way you drive my car
I hate it when you stare

I hate your big dumb combat boots
And the way you read my mind
I hate you so much that it makes me sick
It even makes me ryhme

I hate the way you’re always right
I hate it when you lie
I hate it when you make me laugh
Even worse when you make me cry

I hate the way you’re not around
And the fact that you didn’t call
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all”

– 10 Things I Hate About You

I wish

I wish I could be young again,
have no worries and no cares.
I wish I could have
naptimes and play dates.
I wish I could have
my childhood back.
I wish I didn’t grow up so fast.
I wish you didn’t force me to grow.
I wish you would’ve taught me to know,
the difference between
now and then.
I wish I could’ve had a better friend.

Skinny Thoughts

So lately, I’ve been thinking about picking up with my workout plan again, since I have nothing better to do. But, I also realized that I’m not totally out of shape, in fact I am very very healthy. I’m healthier than most people my age, I’m just not super skinny. But ya know what? I’m totally okay with that! I love my body, I love that I’m tall and I have crazy long legs, and a circular face and a great smile, and super soft, nice skin. I love myself and I don’t want to trick myself into thinking that I need to be really thin to love myself. I love my life, I go to a great college, I’m in the best relationship with the most amazing man, I’m getting really good grades, I’m healthy and doing well physically, I’m getting killer grades, and I have an awesome support system. I’m blessed and I’m very proud of myself for finally realizing all of this, I’m ready to be “happy lacey” again, xoxo

“I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bed thinking, that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

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John Green, Looking For Alaska

Things

There are things you do
because they feel right
& they may make no sense
& they may make no money
& it may be the real reason we are here:

to love each other
& to eat each other’s cooking
& to say it was good.

Musings…

He was trying his hardest not to smile, trying so hard to scrunch his mouth back into one thin line. But when he finally failed, I knew that from that moment on I would stop at nothing to make him glow like that again.

Alive

I sat down and wrote a list of things that make me happy. After writing number 54, I realized that I hadn’t done many of these things in a while and maybe that’s why I felt so empty. So I left, bought some ice cream, and ran up the stairs so I could feel my heart beat in my chest and I thought it was a good place to start. And I smiled because I remembered that I am alive.

Complexity

She loved simple things, like pancakes on Sunday morning and polka dots on her nails. But she knew there was a complexity within her that simple things couldn’t reach, and she didn’t blame him for not knowing what to do with her sometimes.