the way way back

Duncan:   My mom’s boyfriend called me a 3 out of 10. Who says that to somebody?
Owen:   That’s about him, that’s got nothing to do with you. You've got to go your own way, and you my friend, you're going your own way. 

I saw The Way Way Back this weekend and fell in love with this little movie. Duncan broke my heart, in every scene. I bawled my eyes out when his mother saw the "Employee Of The Month" board at the pool and his smiling, happy face was there and I just couldn't handle it. It's such a fantastic film. I'm a sucker for coming of age stories, and this one really hit it for me. 

let you down.

beautiful!
it makes me feel happy and sad all at the same time.

songs & tea & shameless selfies.

Can't stop listening!

I'm sitting here on the floor of our lounge, my new laptop plugged into the wireless modem (because the stupid thing won't connect to our wireless...), drinking a sweet cup of tea and bopping to these new tunes.

Back to work tomorrow.

No no no no no. 

Lovely things & I'm back!

Things I really, really love:

New York City 

Annie

Jennifer Lawrence

Robert Sheehan

Glasses

Snowballs (lollies... And the snow)

Airports 

The view from a plane's window

Reading

The smell of books

Sense of humours

Cute old couples who hold hands 

Panda Express 

The Empire State Building 

Garden State

Singing along to music with people. There's nothing better 

Random conversations with people when you travel

The metropolitan museum of art

Word feud

Broccoli. I love it

Going into a store simply to try their perfume so you smell nice 

The jokes you make when you're overtired and giggly

Away We Go

Hats 

Seals

Starkid 

The glitches that happen on the Sims game

Laughing so hard you cry and your tummy hurts 

Cider

Babies

Saying "aww little buddy" whenever I see a cute baby animal 

So I just returned from a month long trip from the states. It was absolutely amazing! I want to go back. Travel post coming soon :) 

X 

and you come crash into me.

"Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock and sweet you roll. Lost for you, I'm so lost for you."

I'm making a USA road trip playlist; this is going on it (this, and 'America' by Simon & Garfunkel). I can see us driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, windows down, feet out the window, thinking and just drinking in the sights and the moments. There'll be so many moments. I'm putting songs in that add to those moments, that encapsulate the essence of travelling on our own, the three of us, in the wild unknown. This will be a great break from the stress at work in the past month. A hard-earned break. In a way, I will miss it (it, being James) and I will be ready to return to the craziness once I get back...but for now, bring on 'Murica.
10 days now.
10 DAYS!

johnny & june.

You know, if I find the kind of love that Johnny and June had, I would be a lucky, lucky girl. I would know that I've made it. Those two make me so happy!

sunday night inspiration.

"People forget what it's like to be sixteen or seventeen, and you know these will all be stories someday, and our pictures will become old photographs, we'll all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her, and she is so beautiful."

Us 3 girls are off to the USA in 3 weeks and we have almost, almost finished all our booking...because we live in different cities, we use our Google Hangout video chats to talk about the trip and book some shit. Google Hangout is so much fun! You'll find me with the moustache...(trying out the special effects). 

booked: resort in Orlando, apartment in New York (eee!), house in Portland and our hotel in LA.

what needs to be booked: hotel in San Francisco, car hire from San Fran to LA anddddd...maybe that's it! 

So excited and nervous all at the same time. 

ms mr, feelings & cold.

how could you be what i wanna see?

these guys remind me of Florence & The Machine. so great! so so great. 

also, this link is amazing. it might make me seem like the girl from Mean Girls who wants to bake a cake of rainbows and has a lot of feelings. but...it's kind of true. i'm that girl. i've always felt a lot; i get excited about small things and i'm generally happy and enthusiastic about life. i'm always affected by other people's emotions, shedding a tear at weddings and birthday cards and family gatherings and when Forrest Gump talks to Jenny's gravestone at the end of the movie (always).  i just can't help it, and i wish i could somehow tone these feelings down. it makes me who i am though, and i don't want to try and be something i'm not. i am a giant ball of happy/sad/anythingundertherainbow. 

watching psych, meant to be practicing the keyboard, but i'm too warm and cosy on the lazy boy and i don't want to move. wellington is so cold right now! dayuuuum. 

night world.
i love you. 
x

this damn movie

"Jordana and I enjoyed an atavistic, glorious fortnight of lovemaking, humiliating teachers and bullying the weak. I have already turned these moments into the Super-8 footage of memory."

- Oliver Tate, Submarine (2010)

The flatmate & I spent our Sunday watching movies, and I fell in love with Submarine. I didn't really care much for Jordana, but Oliver was so spesh. Him and his adorable father. The soundtrack is amazing! I want to listen to it forever.