Hally Marino is quickly becoming one of my favorite bloggers. Girl is funny. I often read her blog and clench my fist and shake it at the sky and say in a really good (terrible) Darth Vadar voice,
"WHY. DIDN'T. I. WRITE. THIS."
Except for that she wants other bloggers to plagiarize her idea of the 108 Things that they are loving right now. So now I'm all like,
"YEEAAAA."
But, 108 is a lot. We all know that I can't commit to writing lists with more than six things for the most part, so this is going to be quite a little labor of love. But I'm biting, Hally. And it is only because you are one funny, badass Midwestern biotch.
(I think I just made history as being the whitest person to ever blog the word biotch.)
15. Giggling about that video. Loudly. With reckless abandon.
16. Secret Single Behavior.
17. Scarves all the time with every outfit.
18. Alternating between boots and flip flops on any giving day.
19. Riding the Galligator Trail in Bozeman really, really slowly.
20. Writing on park benches, near streams, in fields.
22. Taking this picture on my iPhone with no special filters or Instagram or high tech stuff that I know nothing about.
23. The fact that the above picture now represents my current town.
24. That my new method for prescreening cute boys at bars is asking them if they can name at least one Supreme Court Justice.
25. That one could actually name 6 of them.
26. That I proceeded to kiss him because of it.
27. Orange knit hipster hat.
28. 17-year-old me at my senior prom. So clueless, yet so fucking happy.
34. Realizing shortly thereafter that it was a twist-off and laughing for a solid 20 seconds.
35. Learning that Jenna Marbles is from Rochester and finally feeling some justification for my really, really weird sense of humor.
36. Sleeping with windows open and the fall crispness blows all up into my room and then I get to snuggle deeper into my blankets.
37. Dangly earrings. For everything. Even yoga.
38. Temporarily borrowing a dog for the weekend.
39. Taking said dog to the dog park and finally getting to talk to other dog owners instead of watching them creepily from benches and wishing I was in the dog owner's club.
40. Sleeping in my underwear.
41. This song, that I found from Hally anyway. But it's totally been on repeat, like, four million times.
42. Dancing around my room in my underwear (sort of hoping the college bros next door can see me, but sort of also not because I AM NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL MOST OF THE TIME).
43. Hot pink yoga shorts from TJ Maxx.
44. Prioritizing nerdy lectures at REI above other social obligations.
45. Being 27. Not yet 30, but no longer 22. Thank god.
46. Soaking in the hot springs when it's cold outside.
47. Seeing people I recognize on the sidewalk and waving as I cruise by on my bike. Like, more than once a day.
48. Making plans to winterize my bike and biking all through the Montana winter.
49. Chai. With milk. And sugar.
50. Coffee every morning.
51. Networking with badass writers that work for Outside Magazine and finding out that they are actually really fucking cool and have no ego whatsoever.
52. Telling people I'm a writer.
53. No longer owning a suit.
54. Skinny jeans/leggings every day.
55. My mala stack.
56. Email to my girlfriends just to tell them how much I love them and getting individual "I love you too" emails back.
57. Finding my one single girlfriend in Montana who says "Yes. It's Saturday. Let's go drinking."
58. Almond and Sea Salt Chocolove Bars.
59. Eating said chocolate bar in less than 6 minutes.
60. Root vegetables.
61. Enormous salads. Omlettes for dinner.
62. Macklemore. This is fucking awesome. No, seriously.
63. Getting more serious about blogging.
64. Handstanding.
65. Intentionally making decisions based on how they make me feel inside instead of how I think it should feel.
66. No makeup. Just lip balm.
67. Texts that make me throw my head back and laugh out loud in the middle of the library.
68. Clever hashtags. #likeaboss
69. Really, genuinely enjoying the way my body looks with and without clothes on.
70. Feeling like I've found my style groove and it involves lots of accessories, mostly black tank tops, and big chunky knit sweaters.
71. Wearing white jeans after Labor Day and feeling like a big, fat rebel.
72. The Mindy Project.
73. In Praise of the Unplanned Career. "You only get to be in your twenties once, so don't waste them by being boring."
74. Feeling very, very un-boring at this stage of my life.
75. Being hired as the Marketing and Social Media Guru at Alpengirl Camp. I may have made up that title.
76. Reading stacks of outdoor magazines on the front deck of my tiny apartment all Sunday morning while drinking coffee and letting the sun beat onto my face.
77. Thinking it's totally normal to go to a bar by myself and watch a football game.
78. The guy I have a total teenage girl crush on that works in my bike shop.
79. Ski season is approaching so. damn. quickly.
80. Fall leaves crunching under my bike tires.
81. Reflective aviator sunglasses that make me look straight outta CHiPs.
82. Looking through pictures from this past summer and remembering that, even though it ended, it was one of the best summers of my life.
83. Telling my friends from NYC and SF that I now live in the Mountain West and they're all "where is that?" It makes me feel like I've discovered a secret cult or something that people from the coasts didn't even know existed.
84. Creating a blogging editorial calendar.
85. Getting an email saying I was a top candidate for a job before nepotism took over and caring more about how it's super badass when someone tells you that you are awesome when rejecting you for a job.
86. Cleaning out my email inbox to below 20 still pending emails.
87. This article about #ridethroughwinter in Bozeman.
88. Wearing fuzzy-ass socks to bed.
89. Leaving NYC has made me less cynical about love and relationships.
90. "You've had yours, I have mine, we both know."
91. Laughing.
92. Text conversations with my brother re: the Pats-Bills game.
Me: Bill Belachik makes me want to hurl.
Him: Sweatshirt is so low-tech as compared to nanopuff or fleece. Wouldn't do well in Bozeman.
Me: [Losing by] 20 points is enough don't you think?
Him: No, 35 is more reasonable.
93. Contemplating veganism for the winter. For the eleventy jillionth time.
94. The name Kale for a person.
95. Maybe not being sure about kids and having a smarty-pants journal like the Atlantic totally back me up in my hesitation.
96. A big-ass, middle school sized hike with all the Bozeman fools that I'm totally in love with right now.
97. My friends on the coasts who are launching businesses, finishing grad schools, getting married, and totally just jammin' out on life.
98. That my mom just figured out how to text and only uses it when she wants to talk shit about football.
99. Waking up early without an alarm and meditating to the cars that whizz pass my open window on their way to the University.
100. The phrase "GSD."
101. This too shall pass -- good and bad.
102. Wearing glasses and boys saying "I've got a thing for girls in glasses."
103. The view of the Bridgers from my window as I work.
104. College basketball season creeping up on me.
105. Shamelessly loving Justin Bieber because part of me will always and forever be wooed by the heartthrob.
106. Meghan Currie.
107. Phone calls and networking with people who actually figured out their lives and who really want to help me figure out my own.
108. Namaste.
Maybe you don't have 108, but what are some things you're loving right now?
"WHY. DIDN'T. I. WRITE. THIS."
Except for that she wants other bloggers to plagiarize her idea of the 108 Things that they are loving right now. So now I'm all like,
"YEEAAAA."
But, 108 is a lot. We all know that I can't commit to writing lists with more than six things for the most part, so this is going to be quite a little labor of love. But I'm biting, Hally. And it is only because you are one funny, badass Midwestern biotch.
(I think I just made history as being the whitest person to ever blog the word biotch.)
108 Things I Am Loving Right Now
1. Montana. It's so magical and stealing my heart daily.
2. Riding my $98 bike everywhere I need to go because this town is seriously the size of my high school except there are no mean bitches trolling the streets telling me to stop trying so hard in gym class.
3. The fact that I now have a local bike shop.
4. Water with lemon slices.
5. Lemons that I stole from the bar the last night that make my water taste good.
6. Working part-time and being able to make enough to pay my bills.
7. Dry Montana weather that makes my skin airy and not greasy.
8. I live four blocks from a Co-Op.
9. Making new friends in a new town who want to take me places and feed me and teach me and love me.
10. Feeling like I have my feet under me sort of here in Bozeman even though I've only been here for, like, less than a month.
11. Kissing. Softly. A lot. In public. In private.
12. Mug of tea, no sugar, right before bed.
13. Spying on my neighbors because they have a giant bay window and are college bros and would rather invest in a 30-rack of Keystone Light than some sort of window covering. Hey! I see you doing crunches on the yoga ball with your shirt off, but you probably already know that.
14. This video. On repeat. About 3,000 times.
15. Giggling about that video. Loudly. With reckless abandon.
16. Secret Single Behavior.
17. Scarves all the time with every outfit.
18. Alternating between boots and flip flops on any giving day.
19. Riding the Galligator Trail in Bozeman really, really slowly.
20. Writing on park benches, near streams, in fields.
22. Taking this picture on my iPhone with no special filters or Instagram or high tech stuff that I know nothing about.
23. The fact that the above picture now represents my current town.
24. That my new method for prescreening cute boys at bars is asking them if they can name at least one Supreme Court Justice.
25. That one could actually name 6 of them.
26. That I proceeded to kiss him because of it.
27. Orange knit hipster hat.
28. 17-year-old me at my senior prom. So clueless, yet so fucking happy.
29. Teaching yoga. Literally, getting paid to teach people every week.
30. Writing. A lot. And finally trying to get paid for it.
31. The Tobacco Roots.
32. Drinking a cold beer in the back of a pick-up, at the trailhead, after a 10 mile hike.
33. Being taught how to open a beer bottle using a seatbelt, the edge of a pickup gate, and a the latch of a car door.34. Realizing shortly thereafter that it was a twist-off and laughing for a solid 20 seconds.
35. Learning that Jenna Marbles is from Rochester and finally feeling some justification for my really, really weird sense of humor.
36. Sleeping with windows open and the fall crispness blows all up into my room and then I get to snuggle deeper into my blankets.
37. Dangly earrings. For everything. Even yoga.
38. Temporarily borrowing a dog for the weekend.
39. Taking said dog to the dog park and finally getting to talk to other dog owners instead of watching them creepily from benches and wishing I was in the dog owner's club.
40. Sleeping in my underwear.
41. This song, that I found from Hally anyway. But it's totally been on repeat, like, four million times.
42. Dancing around my room in my underwear (sort of hoping the college bros next door can see me, but sort of also not because I AM NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL MOST OF THE TIME).
43. Hot pink yoga shorts from TJ Maxx.
44. Prioritizing nerdy lectures at REI above other social obligations.
45. Being 27. Not yet 30, but no longer 22. Thank god.
46. Soaking in the hot springs when it's cold outside.
47. Seeing people I recognize on the sidewalk and waving as I cruise by on my bike. Like, more than once a day.
48. Making plans to winterize my bike and biking all through the Montana winter.
49. Chai. With milk. And sugar.
50. Coffee every morning.
51. Networking with badass writers that work for Outside Magazine and finding out that they are actually really fucking cool and have no ego whatsoever.
52. Telling people I'm a writer.
53. No longer owning a suit.
54. Skinny jeans/leggings every day.
55. My mala stack.
56. Email to my girlfriends just to tell them how much I love them and getting individual "I love you too" emails back.
57. Finding my one single girlfriend in Montana who says "Yes. It's Saturday. Let's go drinking."
58. Almond and Sea Salt Chocolove Bars.
59. Eating said chocolate bar in less than 6 minutes.
60. Root vegetables.
61. Enormous salads. Omlettes for dinner.
62. Macklemore. This is fucking awesome. No, seriously.
63. Getting more serious about blogging.
64. Handstanding.
65. Intentionally making decisions based on how they make me feel inside instead of how I think it should feel.
66. No makeup. Just lip balm.
67. Texts that make me throw my head back and laugh out loud in the middle of the library.
68. Clever hashtags. #likeaboss
69. Really, genuinely enjoying the way my body looks with and without clothes on.
70. Feeling like I've found my style groove and it involves lots of accessories, mostly black tank tops, and big chunky knit sweaters.
71. Wearing white jeans after Labor Day and feeling like a big, fat rebel.
72. The Mindy Project.
73. In Praise of the Unplanned Career. "You only get to be in your twenties once, so don't waste them by being boring."
74. Feeling very, very un-boring at this stage of my life.
75. Being hired as the Marketing and Social Media Guru at Alpengirl Camp. I may have made up that title.
76. Reading stacks of outdoor magazines on the front deck of my tiny apartment all Sunday morning while drinking coffee and letting the sun beat onto my face.
77. Thinking it's totally normal to go to a bar by myself and watch a football game.
78. The guy I have a total teenage girl crush on that works in my bike shop.
79. Ski season is approaching so. damn. quickly.
80. Fall leaves crunching under my bike tires.
81. Reflective aviator sunglasses that make me look straight outta CHiPs.
82. Looking through pictures from this past summer and remembering that, even though it ended, it was one of the best summers of my life.
83. Telling my friends from NYC and SF that I now live in the Mountain West and they're all "where is that?" It makes me feel like I've discovered a secret cult or something that people from the coasts didn't even know existed.
84. Creating a blogging editorial calendar.
85. Getting an email saying I was a top candidate for a job before nepotism took over and caring more about how it's super badass when someone tells you that you are awesome when rejecting you for a job.
86. Cleaning out my email inbox to below 20 still pending emails.
87. This article about #ridethroughwinter in Bozeman.
88. Wearing fuzzy-ass socks to bed.
89. Leaving NYC has made me less cynical about love and relationships.
90. "You've had yours, I have mine, we both know."
91. Laughing.
92. Text conversations with my brother re: the Pats-Bills game.
Me: Bill Belachik makes me want to hurl.
Him: Sweatshirt is so low-tech as compared to nanopuff or fleece. Wouldn't do well in Bozeman.
Me: [Losing by] 20 points is enough don't you think?
Him: No, 35 is more reasonable.
93. Contemplating veganism for the winter. For the eleventy jillionth time.
94. The name Kale for a person.
95. Maybe not being sure about kids and having a smarty-pants journal like the Atlantic totally back me up in my hesitation.
96. A big-ass, middle school sized hike with all the Bozeman fools that I'm totally in love with right now.
97. My friends on the coasts who are launching businesses, finishing grad schools, getting married, and totally just jammin' out on life.
98. That my mom just figured out how to text and only uses it when she wants to talk shit about football.
99. Waking up early without an alarm and meditating to the cars that whizz pass my open window on their way to the University.
100. The phrase "GSD."
101. This too shall pass -- good and bad.
102. Wearing glasses and boys saying "I've got a thing for girls in glasses."
103. The view of the Bridgers from my window as I work.
104. College basketball season creeping up on me.
105. Shamelessly loving Justin Bieber because part of me will always and forever be wooed by the heartthrob.
106. Meghan Currie.
107. Phone calls and networking with people who actually figured out their lives and who really want to help me figure out my own.
108. Namaste.
Maybe you don't have 108, but what are some things you're loving right now?
1 comment:
I'll say it again. Love this so much. Killah list.
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