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(Brief) Rocky Mountain Reflections
I had every intention of using my trip to Colorado as a clean slate. I assured myself that without the daily obligations of work, commuting, errands, and Netflix, I would have 10 days of extreme productivity in the fields in which I am actually interested. Dreams of breathtaking scenery captured on camera, numerous blog posts,…
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Twilight on Tybee
In a couple of minutes my family will do what they haven’t in years. That is, we will cram ourselves in a not-big-enough vehicle and embark on a too-many-hours long road trip somewhere where we will probably be eaten by bears or mountain lions (Colorado, in this case). We haven’t been on an out of…
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6 Things that Made My Week
So I have about half a dozen real posts (you know, the kind with actually paragraphs and ponderings [that should really be a word] and such) half-written, but I can’t seem to find the time to finish them lately, so in their stead is another easy picture picture post. Hopefully I have time to get…
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8 Things that Made My Week (or last two weeks if you’re being technical)
This is basically the post where you realize I have a shopping problem, in case you didn’t know already. 1. My boyfriend and I went to Stillwater to celebrate our one year anniversary. I think our thought was that we were going to be all fancy. Then we realized we’re 23 and broke and we…
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Chasing Exceptional
When you’re a kid, you know you’re going to be an Olympian. And president. And probably fly to Mars too, for good measure. You’re going to be a rock star, a movie star, a race car driver. You’re going to be the absolute best at absolutely everything on earth. And then, somewhere down the line,…
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7 Things That Made my Week
Visits to 9 Mile Creek with my dude. In between the sweltering heat and torrential down pouring this week, my boyfriend and I managed to find times to venture out of the AC and into the wilderness. Or as much of the “wilderness” as you can find in Bloomington. We had to use basically an…
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Faded with Time
First of all, a very happy birthday to Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling! I spent 7:30-midnight last night volunteering at the Barnes and Noble release party for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and it was a blast. But Harry and JK aren’t the only ones who have a birthday today. Today is also the…
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Nodding Terms
Joan Didion said something in her collection of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, that has stuck with me after almost everything else has faded away. She said, “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” I was reminded…
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5 Things that sucked this Tuesday and 10 things that didn’t
This week has been kinda crazy (mostly with laziness, lets be honest) so I’m a bit late in posting this (okay so almost a week late). These are more things that mildly annoyed me, not so much sucky things, but anyway, here’s the list: My lovely (hideous) rental kitchen cabinets still look like this (hideous)…
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DIY Days
Since I was little, I loved making something more out of something small or seemingly insignificant. Whether it was an essay out of a small life moment or a painting out of leftover house paint and scrap wood, I’ve always loved to spend my free time this way. This year, especially, I’ve been hopping on the DIY…
Babbling Brooks 