Feel it start to Permeate

Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate
We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it's too late

I love this song. It's sad but I love it. It was the song playing when Lexie was confessing that she was still in love with Mark in the season finale last year. It's so sad and reminds me of something sad, but right now, it's all I want to listen to. 

Now you can too :)

 

 

Keeping my word

"I will try to be better about posting photos and posts over the next month. Even if it is to count down until I go home for Christmas."

Famous last words. I was terrible at posting in December. But since it is a new year I plan to do better. My resolutions are as follows:
1- Not let med school ruin my life
              In block one all I did was study, and missed out on getting honors because of a peer review grade I had no control over. I had not been going to the gym and was unhappy with how I looked. So basically, I sacrificed with no benefit - in the end my grade had been out of my control. I made a change starting in block 2 that I would get back to my routine of a 2 hour gym session every day and so far I have done a decent job maintaining it. I want to be better about getting enough sleep and managing my time so that I can do the things I want to do and stay on top of my school work.

2 - Stay in better touch with friends and family
           Which includes posting on this blog.

3 - Be less forgetful
           This one is hard because I am even forgetful in close relationships. Like when we talk and they tell me something, but I forget it, then when they have to repeat themselves they get frustrated and think I don't care, which is just not true.

4 - Love more
            Self explanatory I think

5 - Explore more
           At Christmas, my aunt suggested that I get a book about Philadelphia because I would learn all sorts of cool facts and history about Philly. I am going to take her advice because even though I have lived in Philadelphia for six months, I do not know a ton about it. I am still learning things, like the Flyers' nickname is the Broad Street Bullies, all the time and I like that but I can do more.

So I hope you enjoyed my resolutions. They aren't serious until you write them in some form. I hope that everyone reading this will help me keep my resolutions, and if you write yours I will return the favor. 

Lastly, I would not have survived the last few months without the people featured below.
So thank you

My Favorite Goofball Part 1

My Favorite Goofball Part 2 (but notice I am still able to keep posing - pure talent)

Thanksgiving weekend - with captions

I spent my Thanksgiving in Arlington, VA with family. Here are the photos I stole from Erica's blog from the weekend.

After Thanksgiving Dinner

Watching the Lions disappoint me and simultaneously teaching Alex to cheer for the Lions - Gotta start young :) Every time I said, "Go Lions! Yay Lions!" she giggles, smiles, and claps her hands!

Apparently very exhausted after bouncing on my knees while Mom and Dad did tree stuff - I loved being an extra set of hands to watch this adorable girl

Playing Superwoman at the Tree Lot - notice the baby uggs that match her Momma's

Teaching Alex to put the gel clings on the door - every time she stuck one on she clapped and got so excited

She then discovered they stretched. And proceeded to take them all off the door and play with them

Please have some peppermint chocolate I just had in my mouth, Aunt Lisa (Notice the tight lips on my face? She was shoving them in my mouth haha)

ALEX LOVES CAFE RIO TOO! YAY!

Weeks

It has been weeks since my last post. But, to be honest, not much has happened! Halloween was fun and I have my costume pics on here, Erica and Ben came up and I put those pics on here... other than that I have just been going to the gym, going to class, and trying to maintain a social life haha.
 I just got back from Arlington yesterday, where I spent Thanksgiving with Erica, Ben, and their daughter Alexandra who gets cuter every day. It was rough being on Alex's schedule - I do not know how Erica does it every day! The best part of my trip (other than spending time with my cute family of course) was that Erica took me to CAFE RIO and CARIBOU COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!! (I think I am too easily excited about food.) At Cafe Rio, I was positively giddy in line when I ordered and the lady who made my salad ended up being a manager who had to do a ton of training in Salt Lake, Logan, and Provo. She asked if I was from Utah and was also happy that I was getting my pork salad after 5 months. Getting to and from DC was quite the adventure: I rode a Greyhound Bus for the first time in my life! On the way back, we left an hour late because our bus' battery died. Turns out they do not keep jumper cables on the bus (because people will steal them) and the terminal in DC does not allow idling. Recipe for a dead bus battery. But after an hour, we got rolling and I got home in one piece. Yay.
What else is new? I got instagram. You can find a link to my account on the side of my blog. I am not ready for Christmas. Not even close. It is hard to get in the spirit when it doesn't snow and it was 60+ degrees last week. Hopefully the decorations and weather will melt my grinchiness. I guess I am kind of boring right now. School rules my life. Basically. But I love it, so it's ok.  

"Oooh A camera... I want to touch it."

Alex and Ben at Independence Hall

Apparently, We wanted a butt picture. Mine wins.

I will try to be better about posting photos and posts over the next month. Even if it is to count down until I go home for Christmas.
L