to my best friend♥ (day 4)

day 4 – your favorite photograph of your best friend.

dear ashlee,

you are my very best friend in the whole wide world :)

you have always been there for me, through thick and thin.

you care about me and my happiness.
you worry about me.
you act like my mom sometimes ;)
you support me even when my decisions aren't always the smartest...
you let me cry on your shoulder when i need to,
or even let me sit on your lap while you just hold me as i break down.

and i know you love me because you do all these things for me.

idk what i would do without your friendship.

i know i'm a difficult person sometimes,
and i know i'm crazy.
i'm blunt and can be mean on accident...
i don't always think before acting.

but you still love me.

and because you love me so much,
it makes it that much easier to love you in the same way.

you are my best friend...my sister even.
i hope we're close forever, because you mean the world to me.
i love you ash :)

♥♥ashley nicole

dia tres

day 3: your idea of the perfect first date

hmm.

i think this is difficult because usually you can't find perfection on a first date...

you're just barely getting to know someone!

so i guess that's part of what would make a perfect first date--

an instant connection and being way comfortable right away.

as far as first date activities...

anything interactive.

as in, not movies or anything you just sit and watch.

but rather, something where you can talk and play and laugh together :)

there should also be food...

because food is always good :)

especially when someone else is paying ;)

although it does not have to be expensive haha :)

so...

i guess i'm not very specific about what i'd want for a perfect first date.

oh well.

guess that's how i'm rolling at the moment :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

my life calling..and day 2

day 2 – a photo of something you ate today.

mmmmm :)
can't live without these!
i swear...
if i cut these out of my diet,
i'd probably lose like a million pounds.
but noooo :)

and also.
i'm pretty sure i have the friends that i have so that i can help balance them out.
most of my good friends get like *CRAZY* stressed.
and i don't know hardly anything about stress.
so i'm just here to remind them that even if they fail at school,
they won't fail at life.
and.
they won't even fail at school,
so where's the big deal, really?
non-existent :)

not that they listen to me.
but hey.
that's my philosophy and i'll share it with a stressing buddy any day of the week :)

3 weeks...
just 3 more weeks and then i'll be enjoying summer...
lovely :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

blog challenge...

is it really challenging?
hmm.

i guess if i were to actually do a post every day, maybe...
but nope.

i'm just posting whenever i feel like it.
so the 30 day challenge might take a few more days than 30....

day 1: A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.

soo...
this pic isn't from today...
but the requirement wasn't that the picture was from today so....
i just wanna use my random pillow holding picture
♥
:)

and my day.

well.
i skipped 2 out of 3 classes today.
i was trying desperately to finish an 8 page paper.
failed.
only made it to 6.

went to writing class.

came to blog.

in a few hours i'm going out to dinner for my sister's birthday :)

and then a few hours after that, i'm going over to her house for a surprise dessert party! :)

and i'm hopefully not doing any more homework for the duration of
MY LIFE
because i'm so sick of it.

good news?
only 11 more days of classes :)

i love my life a little bit :)


peace&&love

*ashP*

drag racing and video games.

haha i love all the adventures that ash and i have in my car.

it's the best when she takes the wheel while i've got the pedals...
today she said it's like playing a video game...
except her life kinda depends on it.
it's great.

haha :)

and then i LOVE when there is good music on the radio after ZUMBA...
cuz then the dancing can just continue!

haha me and ash
(and whoever else makes it to zumba that week)
just party it up in my car....
...and then have drag races with random people next to us while screaming eminem lyrics at the top of our lungs.
again,
it's great.

:)

haha i love that girl and our random party situations :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

neon and rainbows.

sooooo.
if you are reading this,
you are probably viewing my new re-vamped blog.

personally
i think it looks BOMB-TASTIC.
to use a frequent quote of my friend liz jones :)

thankssss mauricio :)
for making my blog look super awesome ♥♥

peace&&love

*ashP*

paradox

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd
but in reality expresses a possible truth.


i love to learn.

i hate school.


that, my friends,
is a seemingly paradoxical statement.

except it's only half-true.
cuz i don't actually hate school all that much....
just right now when i don't feel like doing all of my

tests.
papers.
assignments.

that's all :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

thinking about life

lately.
i've been thinking about all the things that i want to do in my life.


because when you really sit back and think about it,
there's SO MUCH to be experienced,
and less than 100 years to experience it all!


so then we have to pick just a few of those things.
which is why i've been wondering what i want to pick...
what i want to experience.


especially in these next few years.


i tell one of my friends all the time that THIS is the time to be selfish.
that might sound bad, but it's true.
once you have a family, you have to learn to be selfless basically all the time.
so for these next few years before that happens, i'm going to be selfish.


i'm going to read as many books as i can get my hands on.
i'm going to finally learn how to play the piano.
i'm going to admire art.
i'm going to learn as much as i can fit in my brain.
i'm going to scrapbook and sew and create things from scratch.
i'm going to become a better cook.
i'm going to make new friends.
i'm going to change my mind. (several times...)
i'm going to fall in love again. (maybe several times... :) ha)
i'm going to travel.
hopefully i'll live in mexico for a few months.
hopefully i'll go on a study abroad.


i'm going to be a little better every day.
i'm going to be happy.
because life is beautiful :)


i'm going to enjoy whatever the next few years have in store for me...
because no matter what that is, it will be good :)


love your life...
i know i love mine :)


peace&&love

*ashP*

7 weeks

7 weeks of what you may ask?
ok i'll tell you.

exercising.
EVERY day.
minus sundays.
for at least 30 minutes.

and i haven't even missed one day.

yeahh i'm basically proud of myself, so i thought you should all know...
so you could share in my joy with me
;)

that's all :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

ode to cereal

since coming to college, i've discovered something.

cereal.
is delicious.

i think i actually eat it for every meal sometimes.
and definitely anytime i want an after-school snack.
or a midnight snack.
or a pre-dinner snack.
really just anytime. :)

because like i said,
cereal is delicious.

so the thing about cereal...
you could just eat it forever.

in fact, i think that's why the infinity symbol exists.
i mean, look!
∞
it's basically a bowl with a spoon sticking out from underneath if you look at it really hard.......

but anyways--you basically end up eating it forever.
because when you run out of cereal, there is still milk.
so you gotta pour more cereal!
and then you put too much cereal....
so you gotta get more milk!

and the cycle goes on and on.

yeahhhh don't even worry about it.
apparently i just think about cereal all the time.
i'm soooo interesting.
HA.
not.

peace&&love

*ashP*

bucket list!

sooooo
remember how i applied for that study abroad in new york?
well i shouldn't have worried about beating out any competition.
because it turns out there wasn't enough competition!
not enough people applied to go...
so the whole thing was canceled.
SAD DAY.

however.

luckily.
i have a best friend named ashlee snow :)
and the other day, we made a bucket list together...
things we're going to do in the year 2011...
mostly during the summer.

so i may not be exploring manhattan...
or watching a broadway show this summer...
but at least i'll be partying it up with my best friend ash :)

and i'll truly need to be partying
since my other best friend will be leaving me for 2 years in june...
:( :/ :)

i'm excited for him :)

and i'm excited for me and my
fun-filled-bucket-list-fulfilling
summer with ash :)

peace&&love

*ashP*

stupid cupid

so so so.
i know valentine's day was a few days ago...
but i'm not the most on-top-of-it blogger.

maybe i should work on that...
eh. probably won't happen
:)

but i was thinking about all the different opinions that exist of valentine's day.

for instance,
some people are bitter.
it's only "single-awareness day"

others think it is the greatest thing ever because their significant
other is basically required to be romantic on this day.

i have my own opinions...

for the past 2 valentine's days,
i had a boyfriend.
so i haven't had to throw myself a pity party.

but even when i had a boyfriend,
i still thought v-day was dumb.
because in my opinion,
your significant other should do adorable and romantic things all the time...
should be spontaneous...
not give you a rose on the same day everyone else is doing it.

now don't get me wrong,
i enjoyed my valentine's day festivities with my boyfriend for those 2 years.
but still.
spontaneous is better.

now this year i had no lover...
and i formed a new opinion.

i decided i like valentine's day.

because i mean, who can really hate on love?
i just thought it was nice to see all the happy couples
and to know that i'll have that again soon enough :)

and even though i had no lover,
i still had my best friend :)
ash bought me chocolates :)
haha so sweet!
even though it totally goes against my new obsession with exercising....
but they tasted good :)

and even though i don't have a boy to love,
i have ash and many other best friends to love!

so don't hate on love...it's all good :)
and cupid will catch up to everyone soon enough :)

peace&&love
*ashP*

temper. mental. temperamental.

so.
i tried blogging like 2 weeks ago.
tried to include pics from my trip to hawaii.

but alas, it did not work.
blogs are too temperamental.
the key words being "temper" and "mental"...
therefore i am not posting that blog because it is basically lame without the pics.

but in other news!!

it's a new semester! :D
and i'm loving all of my classes
i'm even loving all my homework, although it never seems to end...
it is my goal for the semester to actually LEARN.
not just store, regurgitate, and then lose forever.
haha :)
so it's quite fun to actually learn :)

also.
i'm applying for a study abroad in New York!!!
ahh it sounds amazing!!
english classes, side trips to boston, palmyra, and DC...
let alone staying in manhattan!!
but.
i have to apply.
and make it.
which is possibly a long shot.
but.
i'm wishinghopingthinkingpraying :)

haha so i had a friend tell me my blog was inspirational.
i don't really get that, since i've only had maybe 2 inspirational blogs...
but hey.
why not include a little inspiration in every blog?
so here's today's inspiration!

"things which matter most must never be at the mercy

of things which matter least."

always remember what the most important things in life are.
always remember what you want to get out of life,
and then live your life so as to obtain those goals.
never let the little things get in the way...
because those things aren't important :)

peace&&love

*ashP*