nothing better...

than a good movie.

My new current favorite is Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)

It's completely French, and completely heartwarming and heartbreaking. The perfect movie for the days when you want something that will make you laugh, cry, and open your eyes. Also, it doesn't hurt that Marion Cotillard costars with Guillaume Canet who is pretty much the most beautiful French man....ever.

Nothing better...

than a good song.

So as I was wandering around YouTube trying to find something to listen to besides the stuff on my itunes, I came across John Mayer's new album and the song "Edge of Desire". I don't think anything else could really put into words the way I feel most days the way this song has.

Nothing better...

than a best friend.

This week has been rough, but Dolly is always there. Hell, the past 5 years have been a roller coaster and yet she's always letting me curse and complain and say random words that don't exist. She just gets it, we share a brain. Must be that whole spirited child thing we got on our sides.

Nothing better...

than a good book.

Evening is refreshingly real. It is a story of a woman's life, her greatest love, and others that came and went.

Nothing better...

than good quotes.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists...When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -Edmond de Goncourt

sometimes i wish i had never met you, because then i could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.
--good will hunting.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift. -Shauna Niequist

Nothing better...

than amazing roommates.

3 girls who put up with your loud noises, repeat stories, and bad decisions every day. Three girls who call you when Ingrid Michaelson is singing to them in Jacksonville, push you to workout, encourage chocochip pancakes at 11pm, jump on your bed and chat before bed, celebrate the completion of a test or paper, think the same words, and love you regardless of how many dirty dishes you leave around the apartment.

Nothing better...

than fresh nail polish on fingers and toes, especially with the name of Cancun Fiesta.

Nothing better...

than long-distance friends.

Friends that despite living hours away, attending different schools, having different lives, still find the time in the their day to send you a text or message on facebook, talk for hours on the phone or video chat while doing nothing. Then, when finally in the same city or at the same table, or in the same bed it's as if you were never gone.

Nothing better...

than having things in your life that remind you it's okay to feel the way you do and be the way you are.