Guaranteed Crushes

I love boys on swings and girls on skateboards. I love musician chicks and Chicago dudes. I love boys who cover their mouths when they laugh and girls who cradle their books like a secret treasure. I love girls who wear their own hair color and skin tone, pretty dresses and cardigans, and have freckles. I love boys who wear argyle and non-douche sunglasses, have floppy hair and v lines. I love boys and girls who aren't threatened by their own sex or the opposing.

I love anyone on mutual music appreciations and who still find magic in Disney movies. I love those who lean with the ease of James Dean, go around barefooted, give forehead kisses, and speak like they think. I love the ones who wear hats, pastels, modest-sized gauges, piercings, tattoos and have good hygiene, braces, and glasses. I love people who will brush their teeth in front of me-- everyone looks cute doing it-- and have awesome morning attitudes with sleepyhead hair.

And most of all, I love someone who will love my freckles, call me "Rach," help distract me from my Mean Reds, and just hold my hand, even just as a friend, and makes me laugh.

To Know Me, Know...

Cassie Ainsworth, Skins


Tinker Bell, Peter Pan


Summer Finn, (500) Days of Summer


Alice Ayres, Closer


Megara, Hercules


Liz Lemon, 30 Rock


Veronica Mars, she's a marshmallow.


Tiana, The Princess and the Frog


Ryan Bingham, Up in the Air

Credit

parachute: My background code.

I made: My Pleasantville picture header, Friends Only banner, mood theme, as well as the majority of my icons. The rest were made by laurelcrowned, who also contributed some of the pictures of myself used in my mood theme. All of these things made by her and me were created specifically for me and my journal.

As a side note: any photo I post that doesn't belong to me is linked to the original source.

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Things Have Changed For Me, and That's Okay, I Feel the Same, I'm On My Way

Hello there. Call me Rachel, but I'm a sucker for sweet nicknames. I'm a reluctant existentialist, epicureanist; snarky, sassy flower child with a heart of gold. Textbook stubborn redhead who you think it flirting with you but is honestly just being friendly.

I believe in 8 things above all else: Equality, Love, Peace, Karma, Passion, Bohemia, Revolution, and Mother Nature.

      
Bi Pride!

"Rachel's a quick wit with warm glow eyes and a sharp turn tongue.
(She's pinky swears and piggyback rides and talking until midnight)"

~[info]tipsofpencils, being rather on about yours truly

"There's a Buddhist proverb that you remind me of: 'Lotus blossoms bloom in the mud. The thicker the mud, the more beautiful the flower.' It's obvious that your mud is miles thick, because you, my dear, are fucking stunning."
~[info]sita_face, counseling me


April Ludgate is my hero.


And Emma Stone is my spirit animal.






I'll turn you on with my electric feel.


Mood: cheerful cheerful
Music: Panic at the Disco - That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)
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Home


I love Julie Andrews, but her autobiography suffers from the same issues as other celebrity memoirs -- unless your life was particularly awe-inspiring or titillating I'm going to get bored after a short while. When it reaches that point, the only way the book could salvage my attention is to litter it with pretty pictures (a la Audrey Hepburn's son's biography on his mother).

Mood: thirsty thirsty
Music: Katy Perry - Who Am I Living For?
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Tangled!
My Amazing Disney Collection List


Rapunzel origami papers and stickers from my local mart! Too cute.


Mood: awake awake
Music: P!nk - So What
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How the Irish Saved Civilization & Paddy's Lament




Should be a bit wiser before spending money on history books -- for me, the second an opinionated historical writer reveals themselves, the book goes directly in the resell box.

Mood: hungry hungry
Music: Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra


The spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

Mood: hungry hungry
Music: Anjulie - Jamba
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Tokyo Disney & Etsy Collections
My Amazing Disney Collection List


My lovely, adorable first Bambi product: "Wonder" perfume!


My very first Mary Poppins product courtesy of an Etsy shop: A delightful "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" necklace!



More Stitch! A sweet bobble headed Stitch box. Inside includes tiny Stitch stickers and stamps!


There was this little Stitch charm with a sweet-sounded bell inside.


This little nerdy Stitch pin. ♥



Minnie Mouse puddings; inside included little individually wrapped puddings with Minnie's face and mouse-eared spoons.


Minnie Mouse syrup complete with a mouse-eared pancake keychain!


Mickey Mouse cheesecake bites!


NERDY CHIP & DALE VINYLMATIONS! XD


Robot Mickey Vinylmation.


A Penguin Muppet vinylmation.


Precious Winnie the Pooh and Piglet (plus bonus honeybee heffalump) earrings.


Mood: lazy lazy
Music: The Wanted - A Good Day for Love to Die
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs


I LOVE Burroughs, but just couldn't sink my teeth into this one. Strange. I was about halfway through this book when I realized, I just found reading it to be a chore. Picking something new up that will hopefully gain my interest.

What's up with this? I've been uber-critical of books I'm reading lately. Less tolerance than I used to have...



In other news: TOKYO IN 24 HOURS. I SHOULD BE PACKING. I'M SO EXCITED. AHH.

Mood: thoughtful thoughtful
Music: Boyz II Men - 4 Seasons of Loneliness
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STICKERS GALORE!
My Amazing Disney Collection List


I got some adorable fairy tale stickers which include Snow White, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Little Mermaid to name the Disney-related ones.


I found some gorgeous Cinderella stickers at a stationary store. I used them to decorate this frame which features my beloved Jacquie-chan and my student Nicole.


I found some gorgeous Snow White stickers at a stationary store. I used them to decorate this box I have.


Mood: accomplished accomplished
Music: The Young Veins - Defiance
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World


Behold. Perfection at it's finest.

Mood: rushed rushed
Music: Matchbox Twenty - Cold
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2 Losers, 1 Winner
First post of 2012!



I like to give all books a chance. About 20 pages worth. These two books I gave the combined number of pages between them to get interesting. One wasn't written terribly well -- on a topic I know about and was hoping would add something new, but I guess it's too old and just doesn't hold up. The other became hypocritical within the first two pages.

NEXT!

I almost feel bad, having these two books with such a great book in one post. In fact... I'm gonna post this here and move on to a second post to not have them be in the other book's presence.

Mood: amused amused
Music: Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
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Going Solo


This one took me a while... I started before my mom came. Then my mom came and winter holidays happened and my bed was so warm in the mornings. Then I got sick. I'm still sick and throughly hating everything.

Finally finished it and really enjoyed it. It's always interesting to read something not whimsical from Dahl.

Mood: sick sick
Music: LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
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LADY GAGA


Merry Christmas to me! Terry Richardson may be totally sketch, but this photo book is absolutely gorgeous.

Mood: amused amused
Music: A Flintstones Christmas
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Milkweed


I finally finished a book. I finally found something to hold my attention and I still enjoyed to the very end. Jerry Spinelli is very easy to count on for that.

This one was very interesting. The point of view from boy without a past as he spends approximately three years in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Germany. Worth a read. ♥

Mood: restless restless
Music: Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend
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Colors of the Wind~
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Here is the final of ten designer Disney princess nail polishes: I finished 'em up with Pocahontas' earthy color. ♥


Mood: amused amused
Music: Dinah Shore - Bongo
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1 More to Go!
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I got this collection of Designer Disney Princesses nail polish. Here is Mulan's nude pink blossom color. ♥


Mood: awake awake
Music: Rita Wright - I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel For You
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