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Post #236: Dedicated to: Sweeter; Gavin DeGraw

I leave in a few short days for school again, and I am both excited and terrified to be back. Excited because I've missed everyone so much – the Outskirts, the Admissions office, FAB, my good ole' friends – but terrified because I'm going to be knee-deep in work for the next year and a half. And not just work, but hard, demanding work. Work that's inevitably going to result in a lot of emotional, mental, and physical breakdowns; work that is going to be exhausting and draining; work that means little to no sleep. It's going to be so much harder than anything I encountered in Denmark, and for that I'm terrified.

But I'm still so excited to be back.

In other news, check this out – it'll give you insight into what my upcoming internship in Ghana will be all about!

The History of Love

Post #235

I can't even describe it. I don't even know where to start.

It just builds up. It builds up inside me until it feels like I'm going to explode. It builds up inside me like it's suffocating. It builds up inside me like it needs to escape.

But it's not bad. It's neither bad nor good.

It's a feeling of the book's magnificence. It's importance. It's excellence.

It's so good that I can't seem to contain whatever emotions in my mind, or in my body. It's so good that I feel like someone, something is obstructing the blood vessels to and from my heart.

There's something about it.

It's just so. good.

Yes, Please!

Post #234: Dedicated to: After Midnight; Blink-182

Being home means I get to do wonderful things like make homemade marshmallows with M-!

It was quite fun! Well, I mostly just watched...and then dried dishes at the end of the night.

We used Alton Brown's recipe to make these vanilla flavored marshmallows – they were a bit too vanilla-y, and M-'s mom thought the vanilla extract should be replaced with real vanilla beans, and I wholeheartedly agree. It was still delicious, though!

The little marshmallow cubes were so fun. They're just so jiggly and cheerful on the tray! It was fun to poke them, and coating them/tapping off the powdered sugar was a joyful task.

M-'s mom spent a lot of time upon completion looking up ways to tweak the recipe – there are a ton of ideas out there. Peppermint marshmallows, mocha marshmallows, chocolate marshmallows, marshmallows cut into cute shapes...the list goes on and on.

Seriously, though. You should make your own marshmallows! They're sooooooo much better than the store-bought ones, and they weren't hard to make at all! Although you do need a stand mixer – apparently the motor will burn out on hand-held ones...which unfortunately means I will be unable to make these at my own home. (I'm waiting to invest in a fun-colored kitchen-aid stand mixer until I move into my own place!)

The Day After Tomorrow

Post #233: Dedicated to: Life in Color; OneRepublic

Hope.

Hope, Hope, Hope.

Hope.

And lots of it.

Here's to a spectacular 2012. (If only because of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Michael Phelps.)

Today, Tomorrow

Post #232

One night on New Years Eve, I will be at some fancy, exclusive, invitation-only party, looking glamorous and feeling beautiful, dancing the night away with the best music pumping in the background, without a care in the world, ready for the ball to drop, ready for the midnight kiss.

Homesick

Post #231: Dedicated to: With a Little Help From My Friends; the Beatles

I miss speaking Danish.

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Post #230: Dedicated to: Paradise; Coldplay

"Butterflies are God's proof that we can have a second life." (from Nikita)