simples smiles(?) on a tuesday

Seems like everything this past week is a day late ... strange, because I'm FINALLY ON VACATION! No longer do I have to wake up at 6am, nor read another Shakespeare play (though I now secretly love them). Now, I get to relax with friends, make up for lost time with The Boy, and design Sims 2 houses to my hearts' content. I made a deal with myself that this week would just be about relaxation and socialization, and not worrying about the past or the future.

Welcome to the story: my father. The second I come down to make myself breakfast on Friday, he launches in about my marks, how I need to boost my average, how they can't afford to have me go away to a teacher's college outside of my city, asking what different teacher's colleges need.

My response: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I was saving this research for the next three weeks of 'vacation'. And I kept telling him that I wanted to relax and that this talk was stressing me out

... So much so, that I took it out on The Boy just hours before his big grill at his place. He managed to cheer me up as he always does, and we had ourselves an awesome time.

It was a fun get-together with three guys, two girls, and music blasting through my tiny but loud speakers. It was the perfect celebration of temporary freedom!

<- From top to bottom: The delicious burgers made by The Boy; a guy shot with The Boy, his buddy Mexican Phil (since there's also a British Phil), and Ben ... channeling Gene Simmons; and a girl's shot of me and Christina, being 'angry'/tigers.

After getting kinda drunk (woot, a first!), we had some fun before falling asleep at his place. Sleeping over is always an amazing treat, mostly because I wake up and his smile is right there for me to see {my simple smile of the week!}.

We spent the rest of the morning lazing around and walking to the grocery store to get me a 97 cent big jug of Fruitopia (I -LOVE- Fruitopia) and then sitting in the park, drinking it.

Welcome to the story: nostalgia. I spent Saturday night, at home by myself, watching Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl. One of my favourite movies, that I know all the lines to, and it brought me back to simpler times when this movie first came out, when I was younger, more naive, and didn't have to think about my future so much.

Basically, I'm putting myself in a cycle where I'm fearing the future, reminiscing about the past, and it's making my present look like this:

I don't want to be a suitcase on the sea, taking all my baggage with me when I'm supposed to be enjoying the time that I have off. I want the waves to hit me and enjoy the feeling, not be overwhelmed with feelings. I want to act like a ray of sunshine on the stormiest of days, not walk like I always have a storm-cloud over my head. I want to open up that suitcase and let loose all the papers that are weighing me down ... so that I can enjoy every moment.


My apologies for the emo-ness taking over a 'simple smile' post, but here's some more happiness! The lovely and talented Archana gave me a wonderful gift that's helping me think more like a ray, and not a cloud!



And girl, I would LOVE to travel somewhere with you and get a delicious cup of coffee or perhaps indulge in the recipe of the week with :) Speaking of which, it's breakfast time! I'm going to spend this week putting the final touches and sending out a package to the awesome Sarah after much delay, and reading/catching up on some of my fave blogs! By the way, the awesomely cool Kym is having a giveaway at her blog, so make sure to check it out! Whew, that's a lot of links in that paragraph!

Hope you're all having a great week :) And thanks for all the wishes of luck for the exam (I think I aced it, fingers crossed!) and I would love to take you all to Poland, haha.