Stopping to Enjoy the View

Source: flickr.com via kate spade new york on Pinterest

I am a speed walker. I compulsively organize my life with to-do lists always crossing things off, adding things on, rearranging them, making new ones - the lists of my life are never ending. Every day of my life is a list, a schedule, a sequence of events and tasks.

Take today, for example: 9a. SOCY lab. // 10a./11a. Back home to be productive (where productivity time actually turned into sexy time which is almost a waste of time according to my list-making, time-maximizing nature). //1p. AREC discussion and quiz. // 2p. SOCY 411. //Home by 330p. // Other to do:: check Vday plans, SOCY 202 assignment, make pink skirts for Spring line, do other homework, Vday present for Brad, update blogs, check yoga classes. + Rest.

It's too much, but between being a student, working on my spring line, working toward my career ambitions, maintaining my relationship with Brad, having a part-time job and all those other things I want to do in between, there seems to be no other way for me to live right now. I have no time to stop and smell the roses, enjoy the view along my day.

This really hit me today as I was making my way to AREC - speed walking, of course, across our beautiful campus and thinking of what I needed to get done today. My time on this campus is so limited and I've spent it running around and making lists, probably just trying to get the most of everything here, but I really will miss the undergrad life and it's gone by so fast. Less than 100 days to go until it's all over. I'll forever be done being a student (probably). So today I'm adding another bullet to my senior bucket-list: Stop and enjoy the view. -Amina

Theophilus

Super Pressed. My pics from Tour de Roses at the 9:30 Club, DC. Ears are still ringing. Last name London, first name Theophilus. <3 Amina

Cats!

Source: catvshuman.com via Amina @ Handmade Habitat on Pinterest

I have two cats and today is their birthday! I didn't get to go home for it but I hope I can see them soon. :( They're street cats so we have no idea what they are. Might be somewhere between Snowshoe and Scottish fold. Whatever they are, it's adorrableeee!

The North Sea

by Richard Corey

I saw this picture via the A Merry Mishap blog today. Her husband snuck on and did a guest post to suprise her for her birthday. So cute! He included the link to this picture and I instantly fell in love with it. I love its attitude. Rough and wild but oddly calming. I can feel the wind and breeze when I look at this picture and listen to Corinne Bailey Rae's album The Sea - definitely my favorite album of all time. Maybe it's the colors that appeal to me so much or the nature of this wildness - out of control but always ordered. That's the way the planet is and seems to be much of the time - out of control and disorderly, but only to balance from the stress we put on it in terms of resources and pollution. The sea knows what it is doing but we may not always.

Meow

Source: love-maki.blogspot.com via Amina on Pinterest

I have two cats. They are adorrrrablee & I got to play with them this weekend. This picture makes me miss them.

R&M, A Love Story

Once upon a time, there was a lovely cat named Mona & a loving boy named Rashid.

He tries so hard and gives so much, but she just won't have him.

Rash fell in love with her wildness. But the heart of a wildcat is not so easily won.

She is waiting for Mr. Right

(who just happens to be a squirrel that lives outside the window, just beyond her world).

Oh, the poor heart of a wildcat restricted to a housecat's body.

END.

A relationship we cat owners are all too familiar with. R is my brother and M is one of our cats.