Currently I am sipping on a Blue Moon, frizzy hair in a bun, and wishing that the cheap, plastic fan beside me would cool my skin a bit faster. Alas! Such is life. Today I tackled a bunch of stuff at work, took the dogs for a walk, gave the kitchen a good wipe-down, and finally sorted the laundry. A pretty mundane Tuesday, amiright? Well. At least there are weekends like this past one that make the boring days a little less cumbersome. 

I absolutely love camping, and this weekend was the first of three trips that I have booked for this summer (with the hope of there being more!). Kyle, Nicole, Stephen, and myself all headed up to Metamora for the weekend, and it was a much needed weekend away. Kyle and I headed up on Friday night, set up camp, and had about a billion beermosas. We got up relatively early the next morning, got a canoe, and proceeded to spend the majority of the day on the lake. Nicole and Stephen arrived later that evening and we partied as hard as four nerds could possibly party at camp. I had a lot of fun, and it was really good to clear my head. We are not even finished with June yet, and my summer is getting filled up fast. I miss the early days of blogging where I documented EVERYTHING, so I am going to sincerely try my best to get back to that. Cheers!

In the past 24 hours, all of my social media feed has been filled with personal posts declaring various resolutions for a 'new year, new me!'.  I don't think I can blame them, I think it is natural for humans to want to create a fresh start, so why not at the very start of the year, in the dead of winter? I do fear the crowd at the gym tomorrow, but give it two weeks and everyone will decide that evenings are better spent with Netflix, than the treadmill, amiright? Of course, that being said, I have had "A New You" by Jenny Lewis stuck in my head all day. 

There are no full-body outfit shots for this post, they were all blurry. But, check out my bowtie! I wear bowties now, bowites are cool. 

Even though I could make a list of resolutions like I have in years prior, and you guys know my love for list-making, I feel that this year needs to be different. Yes, it would be nice to finally drop those last 12 pounds, or to finish up that project I have been working on, read all of the books that are piled beside my bed for once, and so on. These are all things that are sort-of continuing goals though, or things that I have already started working on. For 2015, I am going to pick a very adult resolution (barf!): My resolution for 2015 is to pay off my credit card debt, and save up money. I know, I KNOW, boring as piss! But, there is some decent reasoning behind this, aside from the obvious. Having credit card debt makes me a little too scared to do the one thing that I would really like to do; travel. Coming back from Chicago last year to a giant dent in my credit card from the Weezer Cruise the previous month had put a damper on the rest of the year. I feel guilty spending money on short trips like that, when I know that if I just pay off my debt, I can then use my money to travel further to visit all of my wonderful friends who have migrated all over the place. I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE Michigan, I do, but I sometimes feel like I have never really been anywhere. 

So, that being said, where would I like to go? Lots of places! But for 2015 in particular I would love to spend a weekend in Chicago with my friend Mariah, and show her around. I would really love to visit all of my wonderful friends in New York (another place I have never been!), and I am determined to visit Lauren in California next fall (again, never been). Word on the interwebz is that there is also a Weezer cruise III in the works, so I want to save up for that, so that I won't have to charge everything on credit cards.


Here, have a pic of Kyle doing Kyle things.

I feel that my goal can be reached, but like most resolutions, it will be hard at times. I can be pretty frugal, I just need to stick with my plans, because planning everything is what really helps out when trying to save money (list things, yay!). I also just downloaded the Mint app, after hearing some great recommendations, so I will see how that goes.

Now I am off to wash laundry, and dry them in our new dryer thanks to my parents! Having piles of clean clothes to pick through the past few days has been life changing. I love having a dryer, so much.

Blogging might  be a little slow for a few weeks, as I have loads of things to catch up on at work, and will need to spend more time there, poop. In the meantime, here is Jenny Lewis:

In October, Weezer released "Everything Will Be Alright In The End", and I fell in love all over again. Seriously, I could not shut up about this album, and even did an entire blog post confessing my undying love for this band.

We also had one of the best autumns! My brother, and his wife Shannon came to Michigan to visit, and we went cider mill hopping! It was so cold, but so beautiful and it was an amazing time. We drove around looking for fall foliage to take outfit photos by, and we drank waaaaay too many pumpkin spice lattes. 

December