Puff. Pastry. Pizza.

I bought a puff pastry pizza from Trader Joe's and had it for dinner tonight.

Best. Thing. Ever. Seriously.

Even more amazing? It was only $1.99 and will feed me twice. Love that place.

My Couch!

I found this post today (I saved it as a draft and then never published it) and thought it was too good a picture to waste. Love you dad!

Dad's been repairing our old couch (I think it's almost older than he is) for my new apartment! He's turning out to be quite adept at re-tying springs. 

Super excited for it to stop being so lumpy.

UPDATE: It's not lumpy and is super comfortable. My dad is a genius.

Better Late Than Never!

♥ Megan and Nate's Wedding ♥

Love my family.

Labor Day Fun

I know, I know these aren't the pictures you're all hoping I'm posting (namely my apartment) but I don't want to post them until it's finished. And pretty.

Anyway, Emily and Kelsey came to visit me over Labor Day weekend. Yay for guests! 

 you can see the cracks from the earthquake... although probs not in this picture

 we each took this picture (everyone else was) but apparently we weren't supposed to walk that far out into the water... whoops.
good thing the guard came to yell at people on our side of the water after we were finished. 

 group picture + 3 second timer = fail.

yet, fun and spontaneous 

this was very cool.

Susan McCorkindale!

Yes. That is a picture of me and SUSAN MCCORKINDALE!

I decided to take a quick jaunt over to the Barnes and Noble in Georgetown tonight for Susan McCorkindale's book signing. I absolutely loved her books Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl and 500 Acres and No Place To Hide, so I was super excited when I found out that she was going to be in Georgetown. This was also my first official book signing (unless you count the time I got Roger Lea MacBride to sign my copy of Little House On The Rocky Ridge at a farmers market when I was 7) so that was fun too.

She's quite hilarious (in person and in print) and when she read the first chapter of 500 Acres we (the people that braved the rain to come to the signing) just about died laughing. Seriously.

I got my copy of Confessions signed and a copy of 500 Acres signed for Jenny, since she couldn't be there in person. Oh, and I also got a Counterfeit Farmgirl t-shirt.

Then, on my way back to my car, I found Georgetown Cupcakes completely by accident. Bonus!

This pretty much made my week.

Moving Day!

Welp, it finally happened. I have officially moved into my very own big girl (by which I mean grown-up) apartment!

Scary.

I pretty much have all my stuff out of my car and my mom's van, but as you can see from the pictures below, I'm far from organized internally... Hopefully it won't activate my OCD and give me a panic attack haha.

Can't wait to organize and really move-in tomorrow!

Holy Earthquake!

I (along with thousands of other people up and down the east coast) just experienced my first ever earthquake!

That's crazy right?

A 5.9 earthquake.

Since when do we have those in Virginia?

I happened to be in the parking lot of my apartment building with my mom when all of a sudden the van started shaking. We looked at each other and were like 'did we just experience an earthquake?' All the other people in the complex ran out of the buildings... It was crazy.

My brother called and said that he had felt it at home and my uncle called and said that he had felt it up in Vermont!

I'm just glad we survived and that it wasn't a terrorist attack...