Lucky me

Today I bought myself the most expensive bag I've ever owned and I almost had an anxiety attack.

I have been staring at a brown leather Lucky Brand bag for years now. YEARS. I didn't get the one that I have been loving for a long time, but I did get this one.



I really like this bag a lot, and I considered it to be a wiser purchase because it's a crossbody bag, and you know how I feel about crossbody bags. They're necessary for me to function normally. With a bag like this my hands and arms are free, my ass is covered, and all of my necesseities can go with me anywhere.

Carolina in my mind

I never thought I would say this but I miss school. I don’t miss the being tired all the time and always having to study part, but I miss the whole student-identification part of it. I am still very much a student at heart. And with my job it’s easy to still feel that way because we’re required to read and study stuff all the time and that’s very student-like. I also still have very student-like behaviors. Like flip flops. I still live in them. And laundromats. I still take my dirty clothes there. And Whole Foods. I still get a home-cooked breakfast in a box. This morning I ate my breakfast in a box while doing my laundry in the Laundromat and this process made me feel “at home.” Like, I’m still young and student-ish because I was doing laundry at 9am on Monday morning while everyone else was at work (I work Tues-Sat).

Today was a hat day

My mom is moving so I'm having to pack my lifetime's worth of belongings up and transport it all in my tiny little car. Moving heavy, awkwardly shaped items in the daytime heat is not fun. I am becomming more and more convinced that I need a little closet-sized storage room because I have massive suitcases and so much stuff that I am unwilling to part with, but don't want to see every day.

I started on that project early this morning. Since I've been so busy lately I haven't seen my mom that often and she sends me dramatic text messages when she gets bored like "Are you dead?" No, but thank you for your concern. I surprised her at work today with this creamy, cheesy, crabby goodness that I made.



It's especially delicious if you stuff it in mushrooms like this and bake it in white sherry wine and garlic butter.



It's really fattening, but so delicious that the Olive Garden menu options will become a joke to you.

I have been wearing the hell out of my Tom's. I got the dark green ones and I also ordered the gray ones but they are back ordered. Last week when I was suffering over dirty clothes in a laundromat on Duke's campus I saw a cute girl with sparkly purplish-blue Toms and I wanted to steal them off her feet.

And I really need a bike. There is a safe and distant (from the road) sidewalk 3/4 of the way from where I live to my job and I want bike to work most mornings. I know that I have no business riding a bike on the street with cars passing by just yet, which is why I love the sidewalk so much. Anyway, I'm a little embarassed because what is most important to me is that the bike is mint green in color. I'm slowly coming to termswith the fact that this may not happen. My neighbors have a cute retro mint green cruiser that I'm in love with. I almost bought a $200 bike from Target but I'm afraid it will fall apart on me on the side of the road, so I'm doing some more research. I've seen quite a few bikes at the Bicycle Chain that I love. At first I thought I needed a "road bike," but now I think I need a "comfort bike." These are styles, I think. I'm probably going to order one soon and I'm so excited, even though it's definitely not going to be $200.