Neither Here, Nor There

Yay another year has gone by without a blog post! 

Heavy sarcasm. MOVING ON!

In the last year or so a lot has changed. 

And even more has stayed the same.

Tonight, I had leftover gumbo from my mom with my cousin Katie. She's a freshman here at Ole Miss this year. We watched Harry Potter and made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Pretty ballin night if you ask me. A lot of friends went out but I just wasn't feelin it. I'd rather stay in and chill than get wasty pants on frigid nights like this. Oh mind you it's only October 24th. It's going to be a collldddd winter.

I moved into a new place in August and I'm obsessed. Actually that's an understatement. My mom and I worked our butts off making things for the new crib. I'll def post pictures when I get it exactly the way I want it. Which will probably be in 6 months because I'm just like my mom and nothing is ever finished when it comes to interior design because how can it be finished if you don't have all of the things that you want and you can never have everything you want because there are always new awesome and beautiful things coming out. Ugh. Why do I love this stuff so much?
Well obviously my bedroom isn't finished. My bedding is complete (what??) and I have most of the big things I wanted furniture wise but I'm still looking for a few pieces. I would love a crushed velvet tufted bench for the foot of my bed. I want a couple (hundred) prints from etsy to add to my "gallery wall." I only have one thing hanging on my big empty wall and I'm okay with that for now even if it isn't anywhere near the center that makes it look like it's finished. I need two matching lamps on my dresser... which is a beautiful antique my Nana left my mom. It has these amazing teeny tiny lined drawers on the top for jewelry which solved that storage problem. I'm still looked for other things to add to the top to make it more personalized and more me. I'd love a black and white lattice/geometric rug. It'd be beautiful in my fun bright colored space. It's so hard living in a small town looking for affordable items for the home.

Like seriously when I'm on pinterest my heart skips a beat and I get butterflies when I see beautiful rooms. I think I need to rethink my major..... obviously ^^ that makes me excited. More on that later. 

xoxo Laney

Thoughts of the Moment

1. Everyone is leaving me for Thanksgiving break :(
2. I want to start feeling better and not so crummy. What gives?
3. Excited for a night out with the few people in town!
4. I need a haircut desperately. My longest layer is to my belly button whaaaat!?
5. I'm obsessed with The Lumineers. I regret not going to their concert at The Lyric.
6. I'm excited for my business to be taking off!!!
7. I do still need a logo and website designer though for Etcetera Lane.
8. Super super excited to be going to Jacksonville this Christmas break for the 3rd year in a row to visit my long lost sister Kaley :)
9. So happy I've gotten closer to a few people recently. Makes my heart smile!
10. Pretty much planning on getting schmammered with my little sister (who's a college freshman) at Thankgiving dinner this year hahahah

Have a happy break!

xo Laney

What I'm Listening to

Happy Pills - Norah Jones

Between the Raindrops - Lifehouse ft Natasha Beddingfield

Home - Phillip Phillips

Brokenhearted - Karmin

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift

One More Night - Maroon 5

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

Charlie Boy - The Lumineers

Folk Song - The Sundays

Save Me - Nicki Minaj

It's pretty all over the place so it makes perfect sense for me.

xo Laney

Presidential Election 2012

The final Presidential debate was tonight. I have to admit that I missed the first one, only watched an hour of the second one, and fast forwarded through a lot of what Obama said in the third one. I really don't like discussing politics especially with friends, but I'm just going to leave these here.

Go Mitt!

xo Laney

So basically I'm obsessed with all of these shows!! If you don't watch them, you should! If you do, let's talk about them!! 

I seriously love each one of them. I'm get so excited every Sunday afternoon because I have this little OH YEA! moment when I realize Revenge will be on. I also added 666 Park Avenue to the excitement. I was skeptical at first for fairly obvious reasons, but also because I hate (hate, hate, hate) scary movies. After giving it a few watches though, I've decided it's just thrilling and suspenseful so nothing to worry about... yet. Nashville. Ohh Nashville. We're only one episode in and I love you already. One of my friends said you were "just like Country Strong, but I don't think so. Just because you're both all about country music doesn't mean you'll turn out the same. I'm excited to see how this plays out. 

Maybe I'll start doing little recaps? I always want to talk about shows that I love and my friends don't watch all of the ones I do. I'd love to have chats with people about them!!

I mean check out these gorgeous casts!! Love my new shows and can't wait to see how the seasons unfold!

xo Laney

Thoughts of the Moment

1. I keep avoiding cleaning my room like it's the plague... 
2. LOVED my Pumpkin Party with my girls at my mom's house last night. I just wish everyone could have made it!
3. I need to stop drinking so much diet coke.
4. work out, tan, work out, tan, work out, tan.. you get the idea
5. No going out to eat this week has been easier than I expected. Yay for no junk food!
6. It's going to be really hard to save money. Looking at my "earned to date" tab on my pay check makes me sick. No money saved. All of it spent. Sad.
7. I really need to start building some credit.
8. I've gotten somewhat better at paying my bills on time!
9. The last 3 ^ have made me realize I'm growing up... que anxiety attack.
10. I wish blogger was as easy to design and style as tumblr.
11. I'm very happy being single.

I love that I came across my old thoughts of the moment Sunday on tumblr. It's weird that even though they were all a year old or so I remember exactly what the situations were and what was going on. It's funny how the memory works.

xoxo Laney

Lazy Sunday

Sunday was weird. I had the day off and I decided I needed to spend time at home with Sippi and myself. I had a "me" day. I LOVE them. I didn't do anything special. I didn't even paint my nails. I laid around all day on my sofa and caught up on tivo. I worked out. I ate pizza rolls and drank 4 diet cokes. I went to my mom's with Avery and decorated for Halloween. After that, I worked out for the first time in so long that I'm embarrassed to admit the true time to myself.

During all of this I had a weird feeling. It was a feeling I remember having my freshman year about this same time of year. I decided to go back through my tumblr page and it reminded me of the person I was  two years ago. I was so confused and lost and emotional. I feel that way again to some extent. I'm not saying I wasn't happy then because I was but I had this very stressed relationship with myself. Does that make sense? Probably not but I'm kind of going through it again. Granted I'm in a much much better place than I was then, but the feeling is still there. It's very strange and I'm trying to figure it out.

If anyone wants to go through my tumblr page I'd definitely start with page one. 

Whewwwww

Nice to get that out.

xoxo Laney