Morning // Evening
Officially on spring “break”!!!
Studying for the MPRE, running long (longest since October due to IT band issues) with friends, reading for fun!!!
:)
What is UP homies
Somehow find myself here every few months. It’s been a sec. Updates!
-have finally found myself (dare I say it?) enjoying law school again for the first time since…the beginning (lolz)
-my class is graduating in may but alas I will be done in december since I took time off but absoLUTELY no regrets on that
-AND instead of spending my summer studying for the bar I will be spending six weeks in europe 😍😍😍 10 days of a lil trip with jared’s fam and then doing a law study abroad program in italy for a month 😍😍😍😍😍😍
-have been a FIEND for SJM books since mid december. Read all of ACOTAR. All of CC. And now halfway through TOG. Incredible!!!!!
-theo is perfect as per usual (duh)
-have been to berkeley, colorado, and seattle in the past two months. lots of moving around.
-last weekend when I was in seattle it was just a friend trip not a jared trip and ugh it’s so fun to travel with your pals sometimes??? So many laughs. And my first concert since like…pre covid?? Im not even sure who the heck knows anymore. What is time
Feeling kinda…good??? What the fuck lol
blackcoffeeandblankpagess reblogged
adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline
Anonymous asked:
Danielle! You are so gorgeous inside and out, and I am thrilled to hear that you and Jared are engaged! Been following your journey on here for a while and literally so proud of all that you’ve accomplished in terms of life + mental growth 💓💓
I love you!!!! thank you !!! 💘 this means a lot :,)
Thanksgiving our way ✨
First year in the past five thanksgivings that we weren’t in Charlotte with Jared’s fam. A bummer but the cost of flights was INSANE (as usual) and being that we are both on the west coast now it just made more sense to visit eachother.
We went hiking on a normally very busy very popular trail that jared had yet to experience. Very empty on a holiday! Would recommend!
After a day in the woods we stopped by my professor/friend’s house to take her dog for a walk, etc. (we were on dog duty for the night/morning) which was fun lol
Ordered Indian food in lieu of cooking (last year we ordered Indian food on thanksgiving because J’s parents were remodeling their kitchen) and ate it in bed watching modern family. Kinda ideal???
Lil weekend recap, it’s been a sec!!
- Friday I had my final trial for my trial practice class aka 1/5 classes done for the term! It was on zoom so we could have anyone we wanted play a witness so Jared got to join as a witness which was fun
- After that I got the Explosion of Energy™️ that comes every time I finish an exam, etc. I deep cleaned the kitchen (desperately needed) and put up the xmas decorations and then took a lil walk to pick up pizza
- Saturday my law school bestie and I met early for a run/walk. I’ve been having IT band issues since early October (advice welcome), been doing the PT exercises and I THOUGHT things were improving but Saturday was def a major setback :(
- But still super nice to start the day outside with a friend, then we picked up coffees and parted ways
- Spent the day GRINDING on a paper for my international sports law class (goal is to finish today and have another class wrapped up!). Honestly feeling so stoked about this paper. Last fall I had my Mental Breakdown while trying to write a 20 page paper and honestly writing has stressed me tf out ever since (and I’ve always loved writing, never had a mental block with it), so it feels SOOOOOO good to have crossed that mental barrier. And I’m stoked on the topic
- Had a lil facetime with Jared + his parents to discuss plans to visit them over winter break and fun travel plans for next summer 👀
- Sunday morning I volunteered with the same friend to hand out medals at a local race. It was a gorgeous morning but very very cold (for eugene). It was awesome to see so many familiar faces cross the finish line and seeing the winners of each race. Super cool.
- Spent the rest of the day grinding yet again. Finals season fast approaches 😅
- Monday I had classes and did a toooon of work and ran errands and TRIED to get my latest booster but when I showed up to my appointment (appointment! specifically for the booster!) they were like lolz yeah we dont have anymore and I was like neat neat good thing you did not let me know in advance!
- But the good news was that I spontaneously got a little xmas shopping done and bought teeny tiny stocking for the cats to match mine and Jared’s. And I bought three books (I miss reading for fun much during school) and it turned out they were buy two get one so that was a score
- Today is another big work day but tonight Jared and Allie (cat) fly in for a week!!!
And the fall!
I don’t know how to say this without sounding like…so fucking dramatic but it literally feels like day by day I’ve come slowly back to life.
Last week I had this stunning realization that I was okay. For literally three years I feel like I’ve been hanging on by a thread. And it’s still really hard, don’t get me wrong. But I am starting to feel more like me. I wrote this in the notes app of my phone just before walking out the door to class on wednesday—
The week I decided to come back to life
I wore a dress to school / even though / it was 26 / degrees outside
I made iced coffee / in a mason jar / even though / I didn't have time
I started taking pictures / finally feeling like / I wanted / to remember
lol remember seven months ago when I said I should start posting again…
I don’t know what compelled me to come on the fr*cken website tonight but here we are! I’m already annoyed because it took me twenty minutes to get all these photos to even load on one post and I bet something is gonna get f’ed up when I hit post!!
Anyway — I went to share some highlights of the past few months but they didn’t all fit on one post (aww) so here’s the summer.
Most of you who are real world homies follow me elsewhere and already know these things, but for anyone else!
-most importantly, jared and I got engaged!!!! he proposed at the end of a super random half marathon I ran, in the evening, in virginia, in june…aka after he proposed I spent the rest of the night puking from dehydration lmaoooooooo it’s quite a story that’s just the surface
-started off the summer with jared’s sister’s wedding in NYC in may! i got to meet a ton of extended family that I hadn’t before which was neat
-spent the summer in charlottesville doing enviro law work. my coworkers were awesome, the mountain views from the office were stellar, my supervisor was amazing and we went on a run together :,)
-because we were on the east coast we got to (in person) ask our bestie if he wanted to be the one to marry us and I got to ask my bestie to be my MOH
-lots of hiking, waterfalls, mountain streams, sweaty sweaty sweaty runs, early mornings, bug bites, mellow mushroom pizza (iykyk), unexpected torrential downpours, family time.
April -- Currently
December // January -- Winter Break
November // December
October -- Allie
October -- THEO!!!!!! LOOK AT HER!!!! THE LOVE OF MY FRICKEN LIFE!
Anonymous asked:
Cannot express how happy it makes me too see you back!! I used to read your blog when I was going thru a pretty tough time in my life & would be inspired by how much beauty and hopefulness you brought into your own life. Now I'm in a much brighter place, it's so lovely getting to hear about your adventures again
Aw!! I'm so glad to hear you are in a better place. Thank you for sending this :)