everybody pants now. pants, pants, pants, pants, pants.

i have a real and serious love for parks and rec. i want to be in a committed relationship with it, make it dinner, and one day get a loft apartment together.

thus why i was overwhelmed with happy feelings when i found hipster parks and rec.
it's a combination of my favorite things (irony and knope & co.) and you should definitely make it a regular part of your web browsings.

all images via hipster parks and rec.



so close.

solid effort roommates.

delightful.

i don't feel like i'm particularly needy (wait. did you hear that? all of my ex-boyfriends just laughed) or hard up for compliments, but getting called delightful by the paper delivery man pretty much made my whole day.

back.

sometimes ashley and i skip work to have a back to school day at our favorite campus.


and sometimes i make ashley take back to school pictures in the style my mother drilled into my brain.





sometimes we find lars on campus...





and make her take pictures of us.








and eat two snocones.











sometimes we park on campus without a pass (and magically avoid getting a ticket), and get free aggie ice-cream, and accidentally take a humanities test.


i always love skipping work. but especially when there are snocones involved. 

...

"ok, but i need you to stop talking so i can tell you something funny my cat did"

me. all the time. to everyone.

hip.hop.opotamus.

i'm usually not big into the rap or hip hop or grinding music or whatever the kids are calling it these days. but i do have few select songs i've always enjoyed that have a bit of that flava (too much?). since i know you were all dying to know what those tracks were, i have compiled a short list of my favorites.

 


this song capitalizes on my desire to make out in a photo booth and features sufjan stevens. soooo basically...perfection.





what can i say. i have a thing for chipmunk-y voices.





i actually really like this whole album, but i liked this song first. i tried to see lupe at twilight, but due to a crappy crowd and other unforseeable factors it wasn't a super fun experience and i missed this song. oh snap.





summer jaaaaaaaam. also, i'm rather fond of ratatat. so there's that.

year-iversary.

tuesday may have seemed ordinary to you, but it marked my official year-iversary of living in salt lake. guys. i've lived here a YEAR. i've been graduated from college for OVER A YEAR. i've had a grown up job for NINE MONTHS. i learned how to type in all caps TODAY.

i know i've already documented the past year on this blog o' mine, but i would like to go back. back a year ago....

(cue swirly music)

i moved to salt lake after a three week stint in my parent's basement. i was maybe a bit eager to get here, and wasn't even deterred when my new room was still full of the previous occupant's furniture. i slept on the mattress she abandoned. (on the floor, as shown in the above facebook status. it's still a mystery to me what became of the boxspring..) also included in my new space were free condoms in the dresser! thusly, i went out that very night to buy a mattress cover and a lunchable. dinner!

things actually got a bit worse before they got better.

within the first month of moving, i hated my waitressing job and...stopped going. i wrecked my car. i got super broke. my boyfriend dumped me. i missed pretty much everyone in logan. even the angry old couple i used to have to wait on all the time.

everything went wrong. everything. i remember my mom asking me why i was staying. because! because i'm stubborn. because i had felt like this was the right decision and i was going to prove it. because i wuss out of so many other things, and i didn't want to this time.

and then! and then things started working out. i got a new car (with air conditioning!) that i didn't even have to take out a loan for. i got a job. and then i got a better job where they like, pay me on holidays. what! i realized how insanely great my roommates were. i met people and learned things that restored my faith in love and relationships and happiness. (i reserve the right to be cheesy for my year-iversary. suck it)

and it's like...things are good. things are great actually. i've had illegal amounts of fun this year. i've made great friends, and cemented bonds with old ones. i've grown up (in ways..) and learned so much and i feel like i'm the most myself that i've ever been.

so salt lake, i'm looking forward to our next year together. what do you have for me? cause i can totally take it.