It's usually a week in the summer or around the holidays, I fly home to Georgia. I'm exhausted and hungry when my parents pick me up from the airport and bring me home, but it is widely accepted in my household that the first thing I do will not be to take a nap, or to eat dinner with my fam. Nope, it will be to go hop in my car, dig through my old mix CD's from high school, and drive as long as I want.
My love of driving began when I first turned 16. Free from the stress of my house, I could drive and sing all I wanted, with no one to overhear me. I could cry and laugh and have my hair blowing in the wind. Typical teen stuff, you know?
But it became a lot more than that, when I started to prepare to leave for NYC for college, I realized how cathartic driving had become for me, and how much I was going to miss it. How would I get my emotional release in a city where you didn't need a car? Where you were on the subway surrounded by people? Well, as you know, I came to terms with my daily subway commute being my zen time, but I still long for my little black ford fusion, my overworked stereo, and all the mix cd's that hold all of the songs that meant so much to me then. 
Everytime I put one of those CD's in, I can usually remember all of the songs on it and what will come next. A new track will begin, and it will all rush back to me, playing that particular one over and over when the boy I loved didn't like me, or when I was hating Macon so much I wanted to die. 
Now that I'm moving to LA in the fall, I am beyond excited to have my car back and to make new memories with new songs in it instead of living in the old ones, but until then, I've made a little playlist of my favorite driving songs. Now, it's basically impossible to put all my favorites because it would be hours and hours long, and include A LOT of showtunes. But these are a few that have very special memories attached, and these are the ones I play when I'm really missing driving. Enjoy :)




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A few weeks ago, some of my friends and I found ourselves telling lots of childhood stories. I find that I kept wanting to say: "that was one of my sneaks"...AKA the things you snuck as a child that you knew you were supposed to have, and therefore have an everlasting love for.

Now, I have some pretty chill parents, who let me watch Pretty Woman over and over when I was like 7 because they knew I didn't understand it (seriously, I thought that the condoms Julia offers Richard Gere were candy???), but childhood sneaks are just things that you KNEW you shouldn't be doing, but you did anyway. Here are a few of mine:



Empire Records is a hilarious, DEEPLY 90's movie that I care about very much so. I first watched it one Saturday morning on HBO while eating ice cream that I got from the freezer by standing on a kitchen chair. I knew I shouldn't be watching it: all the sexiness, the girl with the shaved head, the teen angst, all set off my 8 year old in suburbia alarms. But it was just TOO GOOD. It features a young Liv Tyler and Renee Zellwegger, and many other great actors. From the plaid skirts to the Sinead O'Connor references, this movie transcends its original bad 90's self to be a veritable time capsule for me, and also, my fondest childhood sneak. Here's one of my favorite scenes:

Ever since I was little, I have been a huge reader. I remember reading my first words from a Richard Scarry (classic!) book, the first book that made me cry (Where the Red Fern Grows), and the aching anticipation of waiting for the next installment of Harry Potter. The fact is that some of my fondest childhood memories revolve around my pick for the letter B: books.

Is there anything more magical than the way a book can transport you? I have had crushes on some characters, hated others violently. I am more passionate about some things that happen in books than I am about most things in my life. It's crazy, but not uncommon.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, I'm obsessed with movies, but I would choose a book over a movie any day. Although lately, I have been choosing Netflix too often (DAMN YOU NETFLIX AND YOUR AMAZINGLY WIDE SELECTION OF GREAT TELEVISION), therefore I have not made much progress on my 2013 reading list. Ah well. I have many moons left to get through all these books. Since I can't give you some fabulous update on that, I've decided to present you with my oh so important list of Again and Agains. An "again and again" is my term for a book (or movie, tv show, etc) that you can read...um, again and again. Pretty self explanatory. It takes something special for a book to have this quality. Mine are nothing revelatory, but they are my faves, nonetheless.






This post is part of a series, Blogging from A to Z, you can learn more about the challenge, and find other blogs participating, here.

Howdy!! It feels good to be back here after a few weeks of neglect. I've had some personal stuff going on, and overall it has been a very stressful month, but the bitch is back, baby.

I have been writing posts all the time for the A to Z blogging challenge about which I am SO EXCITED!! It's been really fun and challenging coming up with creative posts to correspond with the letters of the alphabet. Can't wait to show you all what I've come up with.

I also have a fun announcement to make in a couple of weeks that's not that big of a deal but it's something I've also been working on a lot so I'm super pumped about that.

Otherwise, not much has been going on. I have been working at the restaurant a lot because I want to get money for my bills for the summer saved up now so that this one (my last in NYC) can be free of worrying about any of that stuff! I'll already have the $$ for my utilities, metrocards, etc., so that way I can spend my money on fun activities and having an awesome time.

I have also been working on my screenplay alot. After being super inspired by my writing partner, it has all really clicked and the ideas have just been pouring out.

Hope y'all are having a great(and warm-it's still snowing here-ugh) week. I'll be back Friday with some regularly scheduled content.

And now a video, because, you know, I MUST: