I’m totally loving Katy Perry’s new album, Teenage Dream. (Granted, I loved her first album too…) There’s a healthy mix of fun and serious, sex and love, jam and groove. ”Circle the Drain,” “Teenage Dream,” and “Last Friday Night” are probably my favorites, but the latter is definitely the most fun. I mean, just listen!

Last Friday night
Yeah we danced on tabletops
And we took too many shots
Think we kissed but I forgot

Last Friday night
Yeah we maxed our credit cards
And got kicked out of the bar
So we hit the boulevard

Last Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a menage a trois

Last Friday night
Yeah I think we broke the law
Always say we’re gonna stop
This Friday night (do it all again)
This Friday night (do it all again)

(Maybe I just like to live vicariously through my music, since I’m so boring/square, hehehe.)

These words made me smile, inside and out:

“I have all I need and so much of what I want.”

“It’s comforting to know that life doesn’t have to follow all my plans in order to be exactly what I need.”

- “On being twenty-six” by your wishcake

Is true love when two people fit together perfectly, naturally, and easily?

Or is it when two people don’t necessarily fit, but they are committed to making their relationship work, against the odds?

The voltage between their jadedness and my innocence was bound to make one of us unhappy and it wasn’t going to be them.

(author Jonathan Franzen in an interview)

Sometimes I wish I could forget. But then would I un-learn the lessons I paid for so dearly?

It’s not that I’m bitter (except, maybe I am just a little). And it’s not that I would do things differently (because I don’t think I was wrong). But I can’t help looking back on that time — not often, but more often than I’d like.

Sometimes it’s hard to forget the people they used to be.

Sometimes I don’t recognize myself in the person they almost made me become.

I am loving on decor8 today, because she introduced me to the amazing illustrator Hillary Bird. I absolutely ADORE this girl + bear series, and Hillary’s style in general.

Isn’t that just the greatest adventure?! (The second one is my favorite.)