#five things challenge

I’m going to assume that it’s due to my impending shark week that my weight has decided not to flirt with the low 200s today.  Oh well, at least I’m a bit lower from yesterday! 

The ever talented @keepgoinggreen tagged me in the “5 Things” challenge and who am I to deny him!?  (But seriously, go check out his work, I once bought an octopus painting from him for my gf and I’m obsessed with it!) 

FIVE THINGS THAT ARE ALWAYS IN MY PURSE

Blue & White Polka-dot wallet - purchased on my Thailand honeymoon!

Keys! Including my new Rav4 key (!!), two house keys, one office key, and a key to my parents’ house.  Along with a giant letter for my (new) last name that I bought after Kevin proposed.  

All the pens!  I like having pens from businesses back home in California as well as in Virginia.  Reminds me of how far I’ve come and what my new normal is. 

Feminine products!  Because one can never be too prepared. 

Driving glasses (and movie watching glasses!)

FIVE MOVIES THAT NEVER GET OLD

The top three just so happen to be my favorite movies - funny how that happens :)

Goonies

Empire Records

Back to the Beach

10 Things I Hate About You

Now & Then

FIVE DESSERTS YOU LOVE

NOPE, not going to spend any time thinking about desserts I’m not eating at the moment, and INSTEAD will be answering my top 5 keto recipes.  

Jalapeno Popper Casserole

Chicken Cordon Blue Casserole

Pancake Muffins - I actually can’t have these in the house any more because I have no self control when it comes to these guys.

Broccoli Salad

Brussels Sprouts & Bacon! - no recipe to link :/

FIVE FAVORITE PLACES TO BE

Somewhere in my house early on a weekend morning with no plans, the windows open with light and cool air streaming in.  

Back in California either at my parents’ house in Walnut Creek or visiting with friends in Chico at the Bear or walking in Bidwell Park

I’m racking my brain for more things to put down for favorite places but really, for me, it’s about a mindset and not a specific place.  It’s about the people I’m with and the feeling in the air and in my heart.  I could be on my walk and feel a warm breeze and a beautiful view and start skipping along (literally, I do this) or hear a song while I’m driving and be transported to a happy memory or place.  So yeah, I’m going to cheat and stop at two.  

tagged by the wonderful @thislovelymaelstrom (waves aggressively, hi!!)

5 things you can find on my blog:

1.Star Trek, all day every day, because clearly I have a problem

2. Star Wars aka my other space children

3. Fanfiction, other people’s and my own

4. Lord of the Rings, Wonder Woman, Harry potter, and other assorted nerd shit

5. Space aesthetics for days

5 things you can find in my bag:

1. Cute lil coach wallet with pink flowers I’ve had forever

2. Altoids (gotta stay minty fresh!!)

3. Piles of bobby pins and hairties

4. tissues and benadryl because ALLERGIES

5. Broken pens

5 things you can find in my bedroom:

1. Way too many stuffed animals for 19 year old

2. Piano (keyboard)

3. A bunch of random pretty stuff I’ve collected like a damn crow

4. Posters, art prints, and outdated pictures

5. A pile of unread books as well as several shelves of read ones

5 things I’ve always wanted to do:

1. See the northern lights (same, boo)

2. Work at the United Nations, even if it’s just as an admin assistant I don’t care I just want to be able to say I worked there its a DREAM of mine.

3. Get a masters degree in international studies (I’m working on my bachelors at the moment)

4. Wander around traveling with a friend/significant other for a few months and just see a whole bunch of shit and not wear makeup the whole time and LIVE

5. Idk not to get crazy or anything but it would be nice to get married to a nice person that loves me unconditionally and all that jazz??

5 things I’m currently into:

1. Star Trek (I know, you never would have guessed that)

2. Space in general, it’s just hella pretty. I could care less how it works, I just like to look at it.

3. Learning about feminist and queer theory (I’m also a gender and women’s studies major) it’s all just wild and blows my damn mind, I love it so much.

4. Leonard McCoy and my personal headcanon that he’s just as much of an anxious mess as me :)))

5. This TV show called Endeavor on Masterpiece Mystery, it’s just so good and the next season finally started and I’m very pleased.

5 things on my to-do list:

1. Pack to go back to college

2. Gotta get my hair chopped off again

3. Write the last part of Long Time Comin’ (actually so excited to be done with this and very proud of myself that I stuck with it)

4. Finish reading “Mostly Harmless” by Douglas Adams so I don’t have to drag the giant book to school with me

5. Get out of bed at some point today

5 things you may not know about me:

1. I think science is hella interesting and I have mad respect for people who can do it, but I’m TERRIBLE at it.

2. I’m a wild inter-sectional feminist hippie-liberal christian that lives in a constant state of annoyance at other christians that clearly do not understand what Jesus meant when he said LOVE EVERYONE, NO FUCKING EXCEPTIONS (that’s a direct quote)

3. I don’t do well when I don’t have some sort of structure to adhere to, it makes me really anxious when I feel like I’m floating around, meaning I LOVE being at school despite how stressed I get because it gives me purpose and tasks to complete.

4. I love to sing! I personally don’t think I’m very good at it, but I’m in an a cappella group at my school and I love it so much. (I’m a first soprano for anyone interested!)

5. The first “fanfiction” I ever wrote was in seventh grade, before I even knew what fanfiction was, and it was this bizarre combo of wizard of oz/wicked/lord of the rings I wrote with one of my friends. There are seventeen completed stories in all, and let me tell you, I’ve been re-reading them lately and they are fucking terrible.

1- I like the way I sing everything

2- I like the way my eyes shine when I’m telling a joke

3- I like the way my hair gets super weird curly in the humidity

4- I like my back. Idk, I just love it

I was tagged by @elanev91.

Five things you’ll find in my bag:

Phone

Lip Balm

Money

Earphones

A pen

Five things you’ll find in my bedroom:

Books!

Textbooks

Harry Potter stickers all over my cupboard

A ‘Stand Out’ poster

Many dangly earrings

Five things I’ve always wanted to do:

Skydive

Go to Universal Studios in LA (Harry Potter World)

Teach Physics and Maths!

Hang out with Jennifer Lawrence

Adopt a kid

Five things that make me happy:

Reading books

Food (especially junk food)

Hanging out with the fam (sometimes)

Travel

Write fan fiction (Not regular fiction)

Five things I’m currently into:

Carmilla

@themischiefmanagers - A youtube cosplay channel

@asktheboywholived (bingeing their blog as often as I can)

Ed Sheeran

Kate McKinnon

Five things on my to do list:

Study

Study

Study

Finish a couple fics

Score well

So 'parently I was tagged by mage-lochlyn to do this challenge in which I post five things about myself, so... here you go!

1. I keep my favorite usernames for a long time... my last one was Pokexpert3334, so if you recognize it from somewhere it was most likely me!

2. My note taking skills are practically in the negative zone. Meaning: I suck at note taking xD

3. My favorite Pokemon is Flareon. It's so adorbs. <3

4. Because I'm naturally an anxious person I usually never go up to someone and start talking  to them; all my friends have befriended me, not the other way around.

5. Whenever I think actual thoughts they tend to be in story form... ex: 'What if she says no and our friendship is ruined?!' I thought nervously, chewing on my nails.

Now I have to tag some followers; 10, to be exact! Hmm, let's see... kat3031 intiqyi zoeythemooshroomqueen liaxing emmathewizard ninjacat1515 blessthesesugarycookies aquarellerose quibbler-quills the-kat-is-back