Adventure is Out There!

I adore travel. I'm not afraid to move across country (and often.) In fact, I welcome it! I love new experiences and the terrifying feel of a new city. I hope it's not a secret, I try to show it as often as possible! As you can tell from my map below, I have been to 27 out of 50 states. I would love to expand that to all 50 throughout the years, but it's kind of a big goal to hit.

What about you my favorite followers, how many states have you been to?

The Polyvore Files: Craving

I'd like to start by saying how much I LOVE Starbucks. It's not a fact that I hide very well. Most people know, and tend to make fun of me for this obsession. Especially now that I have Christmas gift cards to use, Starbucks has basically been a part of my every day life since Christmas. So it only makes sense that's what I would be posting about today, right?



Make sure you link up with Joni and I for The Polyvore Files! We'd love to have you!

Starbucks by kara-stone featuring chain jewelry

My Mindy Project: Week 1!

Happy almost weekend!

If you haven't heard, I'm starting a new blogger project I've titled, My Mindy Project! Where every week this year, I will tackle a question from Mindy Kaling's, "Questions I Ask When I Want to Talk About Myself." 

This week's topic card looks like this:

and has a charming story on the back of Mindy's first apartment.

The question I'm tackling this week from the back of the card is:

"What was your first apartment like? Were your parents horrified when they came to see it?"

My first apartment was actually really nice on the inside. 4 huge bedrooms, individual leases, walk in closets, private bathrooms for all 4, and that's pretty much where the niceness ended. The office management fined for every single detail, cars got broken into on a nightly basis, parties would be going on outside almost every weekend night, and they had the tiniest parking spaces you've ever seen. Needless to say, it was pretty rough. I tried to shelter my parents from that aspect of the apartment and focused on the inside and my awesome roommates, when we could keep them.

And then, a second question:

"If your apartment had relatively cheap rent, a pretty nice backyard, and you felt safe 85 percent of the time (even if there were a few drug busts next door), would you renew your lease?"

All in all though, I did feel pretty safe there. We lived on the third floor (a work out in itself), my car had never been broken into, and I never had klepto roommates. I renewed the lease before deciding to move to Louisiana, and ended up breaking it after. 

Tell me in the comments what your first apartment was like!