Love doesn't break hearts.

Notes: I should really have leaned my lesson by now. I finished this mix weeks ago and had it all finished and ready to post but when I pressed the post button it all got lost in translation. Usually with longer posts, I always copy them just in case. Just. Ugh. But it is here now and still timely, I think. 

This mix holds a lot of feelings for me. Many of the songs are songs that remind me of my boyfriend and our long last summer together before we each go to separate colleges. They're about getting high and having fun, but also just about being in love. But they are also about what happens after summer is over, after we part ways (which, at this point, has already happened for me and him, but had not happened at the time I originally created this mix). It's about finding home again, too. Whether that this going back to your original home or making a home all your own with new people and new places even though you might miss the people you left behind.

This mix is 26 songs (long, I know), mostly mp3s with a couple mp4s. And it comes complete with a summery picspam, just because I believe it's such a worthy subject for a picspam.

Comments and downloads are greatly appreciated. :)

P.S. Is there any way to create zip files if you don't have a paid membership to these downloading sites? I'm a poor college student who loves zip files just as much as the next person. 


( Do you remember when we would dance in your apartment? )

I want to live a simple life. 

I want to live near the ocean and work at a small, local paper. I have no desire to be a huge, well-known reporter, no desire to win the Pulitzer Prize, no desire to work for the New York Times and write on court cases and government every day. 

I want to live in a small community where life is slow and everyone knows everyone else. I want to write feature stories on the locals and have them like me as a human being. 

Eventually, I want to have children and actually have time for them. I want to drive them to school in the morning or make them sack lunches and urge them out the door so they won't be late for class.

I want to be out on the beach when the thunder starts rolling in, when the clouds go dark and the world turns into this crazy beautiful place.

I want to be friends with musicians and hipsters and hippies and go to the local farmer's market ever week in the summer and then sing around a campfire at night.

I want to wander into the local bookstore every day and just take it all in, breathe in every scent and every emotion. And then I'd wander down to the coffee shop and sip my mocha in the ocean air.

I want to be able to go down to the ocean every day and dip my feet in the sand and the water even when it's freezing cold. I want to be able to smoke as much as I want and not have to think about what my mother might think of me.

That would be the life for me. 

These last few days, I've finally gotten round to organizing my computer. And I found a bunch of pictures with a similar theme: pretty places to sleep and/or take a nap. I've appropriately titled the folder "Places to lay my head" and now I'm sharing it. 

Tomorrow is newspaper day, so I probably won't be around at all. I love you guys. <3

Oh. There are A LOT of pictures. FYI.

So I got the chance to get out of town last night. It was a short trip (less than 24 hours), but very much worth it. My parents won a weekend in a cabin in this tiny town only about an hour from where I am. It's this sleepy little tourist town and there was still snow on the ground. It was beautiful. We got to have pizza and then we went out to the hot tub. We spent a long time out there and my mom and I got this brilliant idea to go roll around in the snow. It was awesome. After we got out, I got to sleep up in the loft of this little cabin. The wind was howling and the power went  out and - I don't know. It was perfect, really, and I slept like the dead. I woke up this morning to the smell of coffee and cooking sausage. So. Yeah. Best little weekend getaway ever, I think.

On my way back, I decided to stop at Wal-Mart. I bought myself a rose and bought a couple people valentines, including a package of little valentines that I'm going to give to a lot of people. (My favorite one says "You're pandatastic." :D) Also, after much deliberation, I got Mark a card and some Reese's. The card is just a picture of Snoopy and Woodstock in their motorcycle and sidecar. It says, "Happy Valentine's Day from your favorite sidekick." And yeah. 

So. In honor of the fact that tomorrow is Valentine's Day, I'm picspamming love. I would do it tomorrow, but I'm not sure I'll have time. Enjoy. <3

I just finished watching this movie. I'd bought it a couple months ago, but I never made time to watch it. Tonight, Logan left me alone again and I just needed something to kill some time. And, shit, I'm in love with this. Seriously. If you haven't seen this movie yet, please do. The acting is spot-on. It tugs at all the right heartstrings. On top of that, the soundtrack is amazing. I could listen to Alexi Murdoch all day. 

So, here, because I'm feeling so much love for this movie, have a little picspam of pretty.

While I was packing up my room last night (it's so lonely right now, there's nothing in it) I watched the Half-Blood Prince (and found and icon of one of my favorite Harry moments!) and was newly reminded of how much I love Tom Felton. While I've never been much of a fan of movie!Draco (he's too whiney), I loved book!Draco. And, well, Tom is wonderful. And pretty. So then while I was on tumblr later (I'm really trying not be be addicted), I saw that someone (I'm actually quite certain it was cayskank  ) posted this loveliness. I swear I'm not going to start shipping Tom/Dan. XD


So I then proceeded to internet stalk him and found out that he sings. Like, really sings. It's wonderful. I totally wasn't expecting it. 

( Lots more pretty, pretty Tom Felton behind the cut. Including singing! )