back to basics.. cont

My spending habits are such a trending topic in my life for the past few years. I think these past few months I've dipped back into my shopaholic ways because there were things I've literally been wanting for years that I think I just hopped on the gun and just bought. But now, I need to to back to basics. I feel like when I first moved here, I simplified things to the point where everything I owned fit into my small tC.. now they definitely can't. But I also own furniture now. But still. I need to get back to owning a small collection of things I love and cutting off the excess.

Life is so good. This has been a very musical year for Nick and I and it has no intent on ending. We've seen so many artists in the course of a year than I've seen my whole life... maybe? But definitely after Outsidelands, Coachella, and this weekend is Zion I and Third Eye Blind! I didn't manage to get tickets to TEB so the free seating is probably up in the nose bleeds but whatevs. I cropped my size L TEB shirt and I intend on living in it and singing along to all my favorite until Saturday. It's really a dream, you know? I talked about this with Nick the other day, how I feel like I'm living out all my youthful dreams. Before, the idea of even attending Coachella was a teenage dream and now I have tickets to Coachella and Outsidelands. Crazy, right?

Adam was visiting last week and we showed him some of our favorite spots and at the end of the day before he left, we asked if he wanted to do anything else. His reply stuck with me for a while, it was something along the lines of "today was quite an adventure but it seems so normal to you guys." And it's tiny things like that where I need to remind myself to not become numb to things that were not so easily accessible before.

I also decided to just skip out on the MacBook. I don't NEED it so I'm not going to get it. Sometimes you just need to ask yourself that question, you know? Do I really need this?

And no, I don't. I bought all I really wanted and now it's back to living with what I have and not in thoughts of what I want. 

Tomorrow is Nick and I's anniversary! 

I'm excited. I don't think we've ever been this stable or happy or in love. And I'm so glad to be off the emotional roller coaster that a relationship can be and am now more like coastin' on the Pacific Highway of love. That was incredibly cheesy.

I can't wait to get finals out of the way, hunt for a second job, visit the beach at least a few times a week, vamp up the free bike I picked up last week, and just live, you know? 

here's a funny picture I took waiting for the bus a few weeks ago.