Catch Up

HELLO NOVEMBER.

Fall is here and the temperatures are dropping here like no one's business. And I love it. I've been looking forward to this time of year since the springtime and it's coming back. I've been super happy every time I look at my phone's weather app. I seriously couldn't live any place else at the moment. I'm way too freaking happy here. I feel like everyone should be in a place that they truly love, and here is definitely that place for me. My metaphorical puzzle piece fits so perfectly here!

With gorgeous cold weather... comes sickness, though. I knew it wouldn't be that easy. Monday night into Tuesday morning I woke up and was instantly sick. I feel like it's some sort of lame-o stomach virus. I can't keep anything down and even though I hate its guts, I've been trying to down Gatorade like a pro. I think I've found one flavor that I like the best so.. props to that.

Or it could have been something that I caught from the weekend. Which isn't likely, but oh hey, I had the best weekend of my freaking LIFE this last weekend. And since this is my blog, I guess I'm going to blog about it lol!

So me and one of my very best friends drove like.. a half hour or so (??) to where his* parents live because I was crying about something last week and he suggested that we go see his parents. They have horses. And like... many farmland. So many farmland. Many. I accepted his gracious offer and we went up there at like.. 2:00 on Saturday morning. Too much flipping fun. It was great because we listened to Bob Segar's song Night Moves and it was so right for the moment. Also Don McLean's song American Pie. You know, the song that's like eight minutes long? You got it, dude. I'm going to make a playlist for this blog in a second. Spoiler alert: these two songs and at least two others will be on there for sure.

His parents were really nice when I saw them when I woke up. Very nice and warm. I like them. That was what, Saturday? Halloween. YES. I saw the horses that his family has and I was instantly transplanted into June. Good times. Anyway, we went to a murder mystery dinner for Halloween and THAT was a treat. The actors who were doing it were also dressed up in casual attire so literally no one knew about it until the reveal and I think it was a lot more fun that way. Later on, my BFF and I had to wait like half an hour for something and we lip sang One Direction and I thought of my homegirl (SHOUTS TO AILY ILY GIRL!!!) and it was great.

I honestly didn't go to bed until about 6:30 Sunday morning. We stayed up and had a campfire and made s'mores and were stargazing and.. gah. Just lots of good stuff. It was the perfect aesthetic. Too good. So much love and extremely loud laughter. Love that guy! I woke up the next morning in the best way possible (nothing freaky, I promise!) and I got to watch my Seahawks beat the Cowboys! Always a nice treat to have the Hawks to into a bye week at 4-4. Well.. sorta. Come on, Hawks!

Then later on I headed home. It was great to get out of the city and into the rural areas and press "pause" on the remote of life for a couple days. I think everyone should do that, as well. If you're ever feeling suffocated or tied down to where you are, just get out for a weekend! It'll do wonders.

That's all I really have today.

Oh wait.

I guess I could mention that it's been two years since I had my heart transplant. Fun fact: I had a heart transplant two years ago today. I don't really bring it up as much as I did on social media. I don't really talk about it unless I need to or if I really want to. Which isn't often anymore. It's still weird for me to think about. That's all I really feel like saying about it.

Here are some tunes that I'm listening to at the moment.

Wait - M83
American Pie - Don McLean
Night Moves - Bob Segar
One Thing - One Direction
From Now On - The Features**
Lights On - Big Grams
Revolt - Muse***
When It's Over - Sugar Ray****
Dirty Little Secret - All American Rejects
Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer*****
Girl Crush - New Politics
New Americana - Halsey

So there you go. (most of the) Links are the song titles. I've been trying to find a specific song lately, but I can't find it anywhere. I was listening to satellite radio (the XM U channel on Sirius fyi) a couple weeks ago, and I heard this really rad song but I can't remember any of it for the life of me. It sort of reminded me of outer space, and every few seconds I heard a small 'beep' sound in the background. Idk. It was cool though. If any people who read my blog also listen to indie music who may have an idea of what that song it, let a girl know, please!

Anyway, I think that's all I have for now! If this stomach virus doesn't kill me, I'll probably blog again soon!

xx

* = pls don't forget I can have best friends who are guys! (:
** = I can't find a link to a music video for this song mostly because this was a song that was made for the Twilight Breaking Dawn soundtrack. But it's on Tumblr, I know that. I think if you search for "the features from now on" and narrow your search to audio posts only, it should be there.
*** = WHY I CAN'T FIND THIS MUSIC VIDEO IS BEYOND ME. I didn't look at their official site (muse.mu) which may be on there. But it's not on YouTube. Try looking on their website. The song is my favorite off their new album!
**** = Mark McGrath will always be my 90's girl crush. Unf. <3
***** = 2006 John Mayer was such a babe. May I repeat: UNF. <3 <3