saison de amour

So Valentine’s Day is coming up. (Personally I think its a stupid made up holiday for nothing but making money of poor suckers who are in love. Who needs a specific day to tell your love how you feel? but anywho).

My point is, people make such a big deal out of their romantic love life on February 14th. But why is that the only love that seems to matter to people? I’ve spent a good many Valentine’s Days single. But I also had one where I was seeing someone. It was nice. But my valentines that I spent “alone” were equally nice.

I like to take Valentines Day as an occasion to appreciate all of the love in my life. I tell everyone I care about how much they mean to me. And if that isn’t a significant other, so fucking what. I’m happy being Christine. Not Someone’s Girlfriend. Or any of that. I like being single right now. Im not at a place that I need to be getting romantically involved (and godforbid attached) with anything or anyone. I have MY entire future in front of me. Not OUR. I am a singular unit at this point in my life, so I need to work on planning the rest of my life for that unit. Wow this just turned into a huge rant. Okay. 

BOTTOM LINE IS: I am single this February, like I have been for many, but that does not mean I hate Valentine’s Day and Im going to spend that day crying and eating shitty candy. No. Im going to use it as an opportunity to express my love for everyone in my life and to show them what they mean to me. Love isn’t just for your boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband or fuck buddy or fiance or whatever.

Love is for everyone. So why does the international day of love focus on couples?

Spread the love to everyone around you. Don’t let a less than satisfactory relationship status stop you from loving life and sharing that love with everyone you means something to you.  

Friends

I have made four friends at Greenville Tech. That brings my grand total to six. I have six friends if you count Sara and Rob. I'm proud of my progress.

Summer Time

I have this fantasy plan for the summer. It involves a VW van, a couple people I care about, and the open road. I have this dream of a perfect road trip. Just gathering a couple people that are fun and that I feel close with and just driving. Living out of a van, driving from place to place, enjoying company and enjoying life. I just kind of want to throw caution to the wind and have a huge cliche adventure this summer. In the past few months, I kind of imagined this trip with a person who has been in and out of my life in the past 6 months. There is no reason that this person would travel across the country with me, we aren't anything. We almost were. I think. But who knows. I have a tendency to care more for people than they do for me. Its absolutely silly and unrealistic of me to imagine this killer road trip with people who, in reality, don't actually care for me. I want to just travel from town to town, share a kiss in as many states as I can, camp on the beach, swim in as many rivers, see as many mountains, just do as much and love as much as I can in a few months. Sadly, this is almost positively impossible. What with expenses, lack of roadtrip companions, and a couple of parents with a vice grip on my life. But a girl can dream right?

Yeah. Something like that. 

My Mother's Largest Flaw

She is obsessed with American Idol. Early in the year Wednesday nights, my living room is absolutely plagued with the worst television program to ever exist. I'm just trying to do my homework, and I am exposed to this misery.
It is everything I don't like about pop culture.
Okay that's all, I love my mom, but she needs better taste in TV programming.

What's good Gtech?

Once upon a time... There lived a girl (me) who went off to college at the University of South Carolina! But it was big and bad and Columbia was ugly, so the girl dipped out to come home and go to her local community college!!! ;)

Just thought I would share that with the 1.5 people who give a rats ass about what I have to say! 

Sara snuck this picture of me while we were having a little lunch break down in the Student Center. For some reason that I can't quite put my finger on, I'm a little obsessed with it. <3 Featured in the picture: French and Econ textbooks, wallet, and a diet coke! 

My GTech buddy, Rob. This is how Rob and I spend a lot of our downtime at school. Sara has History on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2 and I do not, so Rob and I just kind of hang out on the many benches outside of the University Transfer building. I see a lot of people I know around here, like Jake Xingu, my buddy Trevor, Cooper, loads of kids from high school. Greenville Tech is absolutely teeming with people I know from here or there! 

Another secret shot of Rob while we wait on Sara. We do a whole lot of sitting outside when we're at school. Its like OUTSIDE. THEN CLASS. THEN OUTSIDE. THEN CLASS. THEN OUTSIDE. and so forth.

And here's one for the road. Me and Sara and Rob! My community college crew! :) wonderful, no? 

First World Problem

My bangs always grow much faster than the rest of my hair. Or at least they seem too because they are right in front of my face. Its frustrating, and at times I want to grow them out. But bangs are kind of my thing. But look at the state of my bangs right now! Its shameful.

They aren't really even bangs anymore. Just longish pieces of hair that hang in my face. Oh well. You can't win them all.

Maybe Someday

If I were ever to be seriously involved with a man, and he wanted to get me a ring of some kind. God forbid I find someone who loves me and wants to be with me forever. The only ring I would be satisfied with would have to come from this Etsy. All of these rings are gorgeous. That would be the only kind of ring I would want from any man ever. Or from this other Etsy.

Okay I'm done being a lame-o and maybe-someday-ing.