obsessive is my middle name.

confession:  i get a little obsessive much to easily. for instance...

• i mean i spent all of three days in london and now i am dying because i have spent three months away from it and all i want to do is go back.  i don't think dying quite fits.  my entire heart hurts thinking about it.  (please don't judge.)
• i think i am obsessed with russia.  many factors contribute into this one... first my childhood love for anastasia, i even had her in barbie form. seeing a picture of st. basil's cathedral came next in jr. high.  okay.. actually there is no order.  but fiddler on the roof, i love chava's lover, fyedka...  anna karenina.  imperial russia just seems so dang fascinating.  need i say more?
• my art history class made me obsessed with marcus aurelius.
• gladiator made me obsessed with the colosseum... and russell crowe. and my trip to rome completed a life long dream. so amazing.
• and then russell crowe was in les mis. which made me obsessed over that.
• triangles.  enough said.  best. shape. ever.
• sweaters.  mmm... i love them.  especially the really eclectic ones.  the ones with the most character.  i've always been for branching out.
• traveling has been all i can think about lately.  how am i supposed to get through this upcoming semester of school when i want to be in distant lands...  man, oh man, i've got the travel bug!
• i love art so much.  and just want to create all the time.  too bad real life gets in the way of that.  i can't wait until real life is being able to create all the time.  it makes school more tolerable knowing that the end goal will be so worth it. 
• braids.  where would the hair world be without them?
• grey's anatomy.  where would i be without it!?  okay.  i just recently re-watched seasons one through seven in probably three days.  pathetic?  i think not.  it is amazing.  bless you shonda rhimes for creating such an excellent show.  
• music.  if someone can one up me on knowing a song or a band... oh man.... it drives me crazy!! i get one upped all the time.  i sometimes feel like there is a constant headache in my head from that occurring so much.  but there are so many great things to be heard out there!  and when i like a song.. i don't just listen to it once or twice.  i listen to it a million times for months.
• the inventor of writing letters was a genius.  i actually love writing/giving/just letters in general.  addressing them is my favorite part.  which leads to the next..
• i love typography.  a well designed anything could be terribly ruined with a horrible font.  is being a font maker a real job?  because i think i should look into that.  wouldn't that be great fun?
• doors.  i know, crazy thing to obsess over... but i love them.  my pinterest board can attest to that.  also half of the pictures i took in europe are doors.  i need to do something with them... but that's for another day.
• speaking of pinterest..  my dear sis, alyssa, should have never showed it to me.  but bless her heart for doing it anyway.  (also.. she is the writer of my favorite blog ever.  check it out.)
• and... that also is a huge deal for her to be my favorite blog ever.  because i love blogs.  so much. she also introduced me to the blog world.  bless her.
• phantom of the opera was introduced to me in jr. high.  and i can't even begin to count how many times i have seen it since.  going to the play in london was a dream come true.  but i'll always be emmy and gerard's number one fan! hat's off to andrew loyd webber.  such a gem for creating such amazing music.
• if being obsessed with being different is real.. that is most definitely me.  it's much more fun being the different one.  try it sometime.  at first i was scared to.. but that was back in jr. high and my freshman year... but once you get used to it you'll wonder why you were that way in the first place.
• okay.. i am totally obsessed with prancercise.  the best form of exercise at its finest!  there are no words to explain how great... so please check out my newest best friend here and here. 

and i think that is just the tip of the ice burg on my obsessive little head.

also... a post with no pictures.  i even am shocking myself with that one.  i love pictures more than words.  literally.  this is unheard of!  embrace.  that's the best advice a dear old friend of mine gave me.  one word, short, sweet, straight to the point and can be applied to almost any situation.  embrace.  

basically i am not ashamed for being so obsessive.  hopefully these silly obsessions will get me far one day.. who knows.. maybe i'll end back up in london with an amazing job where i can create things, wear sweaters everyday, watch and go to phantom, meet my friend from prancercise, visit st. basil's cathedral in moscow just be for fun because i can travel all the time and anywhere i want..  and you get the gist.