Hey everyone!

It's been a week exactly since I've been back home in the Seattle area, and I'm happy that I'm able to sleep in my own bed in my own room! Yes, this is the same room I had to clean awhile ago. I'm not sad about it anymore though, so ha! Now that I've had some time to come down from spending almost two weeks driving across the country, I've also had that time to remember what it was that we listened to! We drove a U Haul from Washington to Washington because furniture wouldn't fit in his car plus all the other things he had. What we couldn't put in his car was put in there, and when I mean "we", I mean Josh and his friends put everything in the U Haul and I was sitting on the floor watching basketball.

U Hauls, fun fact, are really only equipped with radio, or at least that's what ours has. The good ole' AM/FM standard, but it has that area where you can plug in an adapter into the lighter to plug your phone into, so that's how we get music that way. It's pretty ghetto, and it definitely makes me miss driving an actual car (hint hint) that I can just plug in and listen to Spotify. But this experience also let me figure out what kind of music Josh likes, and he actually likes a couple specific genres, unlike me, who can listen to just about anything and everything.

More than music though, we've also been listening to audiobooks. Pre-trip, I couldn't stand audiobooks. I love books, but I love physical books that I can hold in my hands and smell that book smell. I don't like Kindle or Nook version of books, and I honestly would space out and not listen to audiobooks. Josh brought audiobooks up before we even left, and I told him that I wasn't the biggest fan of them, whereas I think he's the biggest fan of them I know. He's got Audible (this isn't sponsored, but you can get a month free trial right off the bat. Hey Amazon, sponsor your girl) and convinced me to at least think about it.

SO. This post is going to be about the music and audiobooks that we listened to! I ran a poll on my Instagram awhile ago asking if anyone wanted a post also about books, and the majority wanted to read about the books we listened to along with music, so I'm going to combine posts! So if you want music or books OR both, read on!

How Josh and I met + engagement story

Hi, everyone! If you missed it, I got engaged! On April 26, 2018 to be exact. And it was the greatest most amazing moment of the last several years of my life, and I'm so so happy I get to be with this kid for the rest of my life (okay, he's not a kid - he's twenty six haha). So I of course had to take some time to write out a blog post all about him! And how we met, how we got engaged, etc. If you know me, you know that we moved very quickly in this relationship and some people say we're taking things too quickly! It's pretty laughable, honestly, like... let me be happy, people! I'm not hurting anyone by being happy, and I hope people truly understand that.

And that's an important thing to know, that I'm happy. You guys, I'm really happy. For the first time in a long time, I don't remember what my life is like being in a massive depression spiral. I don't remember what it's like to sob so hard, my throat is raw and my eyes are out of tears. I don't remember what it's like to constantly want to look perfect for someone else. I don't remember what it's like to be sad. I don't remember what my life is like being constantly anxious. And I know there will come days where I am in a massive depression spiral. I know there will come days where I can't get out of bed because life is so heavy and unable for me to bear. I know there will come days where I'll have an anxiety attack so major, I can't breathe.

But for now: I'm happy. Click through the read more to read about aaall the mushy love stuff!