The most recent etsy adore feature and giveaway is up at my other blog!

Oh! How Lovely! Shops

Go check it out and win a great print or card.

Also, subscribe to that feed while you’re at it so you don’t miss any other fun giveaways!

P.S. You know Jenn at Free and Flawed? Well she is having some blog issues and her feed changed. I know you adore her as much as I do and don’t want to miss any tiny bit of what she has to say so make sure you subscribe to her new feed!

DO IT.

Free and Flawed’s new feed.

New post coming. I start classes today so I’m sure I’ll just have oodles to write about once I get back!

Remember all that stuff I wrote about before this?

Go do it

(I emailed Penelope to see if everything was okay since she deleted her blog suddenly. She asked if she could write a guest post to explain. Here it is.)

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Allow me to take a moment to introduce myself to some of you that don’t know me. My name is Penelope. I used to have a blog called The Rivers of Addiction Flow, however on Tuesday morning I deleted it.

It wasn’t something I wanted to do or that I was happy to do, but in the moment it needed to be done. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how I had just moved to Chicago to be with my boyfriend, WB, but that there was someone back where I moved here from that I had feelings for and that I was struggling to decide what I was going to do.

This past weekend when I went to Indianapolis to visit my sick grandfather, I also made a trip back down to Bloomington (where I used to live) to see my cousin. While I was there I saw this boy and I ended up making a mistake and making out with him.

When I returned to Chicago, WB and I had got into a fight on Monday night about how we want two different things out of life and that we have issues in our relationship. He asked me that night point blank and the next morning if there was someone else and I lied to him and said no. I realize I shouldn’t have lied about it, but I couldn’t find the words to explain that yes I had moved up here to be with him and yes I had feelings for someone else. I felt horrible about the whole thing and I still do.

So when I left for work on Tuesday morning, WB got onto my laptop and found my blog. He read the post and text me that he knew what was going on and that I lied to him. When I arrived at work the first thing I did was delete my blog so he couldn’t read anymore of my now not-so-private thoughts.

When I signed the lease with him, I didn’t have feelings for anyone else. Just him. I just wanted to be with him. But life happens and life can be shitty. I realize it’s not the most convenient time to have these feelings, but I have them. You can’t change the way you feel, life doesn’t work that way.

At this point, I am not sure if WB and I are going to be able to get through this. My feelings for this other person are really a secondary issue because WB and I want two different things.Even if we can get past the my feelings/cheating, I want to move back to Louisville. So I have to ask myself what the point of staying and trying one more time to make it work when in a year we are going to want two different things? I have been trying to make things work for a long time. I have cried, begged and pleaded

I feel like I have spent the past three years of our relationship catering to him and making sure his needs are met. And in the mean time I haven’t been meeting my need and making myself happy. I never wanted to move to Chicago, and WB knew that. But he moved here anyway and as a result I felt like to make the relationship work and give it a real fighting chance that I needed to move up here. I gave up my whole life (close proximity to my friends and family, my job, my comfort) to be with him and all he can see are these other feelings and how I could do that to him.

I know two wrongs don’t make a right, but I will continue to feel that the moral high ground he is standing on is very shaky. It’s like the golden rule or something: you shouldn’t throw stones when you live in a glass house and what goes around comes around.

I thought that my feelings for this person would change when I got to Chicago. I thought that I just had those feelings because I was scared to move to Chicago and that I would get up here and be with WB, that things would be fine. But they aren’t fine and they haven’t been fine for a while. I can’t pretend that I am happy living my life for someone else and always making sure that they are happy. It’s not a fun or healthy way to live my life.

Sadly all my writing is gone. Lost in the vast space of the Internet somewhere. I do plan on starting a new blog again, but it is going to take some time.

It’s so long for a while, but not farewell.

No, you sicko. It’s an ice cream parlor!

I’ve passed this place a million times on my WP excursions and that Coming Soon sign has always been in the window. Well by the end of the week, it should be open. Yeah, the name is pretty suggestive but they make ice cream! You choose what kind of dairy and toppings and they make it in a mixer right there for you. With liquid nitrogen!

Ice cream.

LIQUID NITROGEN.

ICE CREAM!

I will personally be checking this place and reporting back because hi! Have you heard? Ice cream made with liquid nitrogen!

If that isn’t cool (gimmicky or not), I don’t know what is.

(sorry, dirty minded people. only ice cream here)

source.

Walking into school on the first day with my book bag as full as can be, was my favorite part of school starting. Being able to use all new crayons, pencils and folders. Organizing my desk just so. Showing off my brand new pencil case or notebook to all the friends I hadn’t seen since June. Fresh paper with no indents from writing on the sheet before because this is a brand new pack. Brand new school bags stuffed with blank notebooks. I always wanted to use college ruled because I couldn’t wait to be grown up but never could get away with it because my school supply list said wide ruled. Mom vetoed that faster than I could say “but…but…all the other kids’ moms…” Brand new shoes, always black or brown because I wore a plaid skirted uniform and that was all that was allowed. White untouched sneakers for gym that would soon be scuffed and marked from dodge ball in the lot. Catching up with friends I hadn’t seen in months. Meeting my new teacher.

I wish I still had the same enthusiasm for school that I did in grade school, even if it was fleeting. It usually faded after a couple weeks and the thrill of it all was over.

School starts next week for me, five classes from 8AM to 2PM. I can’t say I’m really looking forward to it. Summer went by far too quickly. Now it will be cramming for tests, 10 page papers, note cards and study sessions.

Maybe it’ll help if I go buy a new pencil case.

I promise I will be back to regularly scheduled posting once this entry is done. I’ve been shoving new blogs at you left and right, asking you all to go take a look so you probably hate my by now.

But seriously, adorable shopping blogs with free stuff?! Blogs about making zombies and human hearts made of Starbursts?! How can you resist that kind of awesomeness?

You can’t.

(Hopefully you don’t remove me from your reader with all this shameless self (and sisterly) promotion.)

Anyway, next order of business: a 20 Something Blogger Meet Up. It will be open to others outside of the 20SB community but it’s just getting planned on the 20SB forums so don’t feel left out okay?

Jenn and I are trying to do this. So head on over to her blog and vote for the lucky city that will hold the first 20SB meet up!

Go vote!

Lastly, please go say congrats to Chris and Ari over at Surviving Myself who just got engaged!

This week’s feature and giveaway is at my new shopping blog which launched on Saturday!

Go check it out!

Oh! How Lovely! shops

You know how I post tons of adorable things I find? Well I finally made a seperate blog for all that stuff!

Oh! How Lovely! shops

New items will be posted daily! More than likely, my contests and features will move over there eventually so go add it to your feed reader!

And if for some silly reason you don’t have this blog added to your feed reader, you should probably do that now too!

My sister, Sara, goes to school for special effects makeup. You know like gore, zombies, fake blood, as well as learning other makeup techniques, sculpting and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Her most recently project was to make something out of food. She made a heart out of Starbursts, the candy! It was my idea because I’m kind of obsessed with Starbursts but it came out pretty fantastic.

I just helped my sister finish setting up her blog yesterday. She’s going to be adding pictures of all the work she has done so far in school and continue to add more as she progresses. There are some photos up now though!

Sara’s blog: Back from the Dead

Go check out her blog and leave her some love. I’m sure she’d love a welcome to the blogosphere!

Or follow her on twitter @saratheterra

If someone met me in person after reading my blog, what are some things they would be surprised about IRL Me, compared to Blog Me.

• I don’t wear any pink. My clothing is mainly black, grey and white. The colors I wear are mainly like burgundies, purples, sometimes teals and blues but you get the idea. I think the only pink items I own and still wear are probably some of my little collection of Nikes. This blog lets my inner pink out!
• My hair really is just as pretty as I say it is.
• I’m really not that vain about my hair.
• No wait, I AM. It’s the only thing I am like that about about so shut your face.
• I really don’t like dogs.
• HAH. Lied. You know I love them. How could I not love this face?

Okay, this may be the most ridiculous entry I have ever written. Obviously, there is not much different between Blog Jamie and IRL Jamie.

Your turn.

Anything different between Blog You and IRL You?

Edie got a bath this weekend because she decided it would cool to swim in her pool then dig a hole then go back in her pool. Her short little legs and belly were covered in mud.

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