Goals are crazy important to me. She believed she could so she did seems to be my mindset within the past year, and I am not complaining. Setting goals internally for myself has become such an improvement from my daily night to-do lists. There’s not guilt when you wake up the next morning with a halfway accomplished to-do list, and having it in your mind means it is always able to edit.

I’ve been reading “101 in 1001” lists for quite some time on other fab blogger’s blogs even before I started a blog of my own. I think they’re so super neato and it is so crazy cool to see an individual’s goals and watching them fulfill them. If you have never heard of one, it is basically a bucket list for yourself, but you’re only given 1001 days, or 2.75 years. I started mine on February 25 and it will end November 22, 2018. So, after months of working on it, I’m finally ready to publish my own. It isn’t fully complete, because 101 goals is a heck of a lot, but I will add to it as they come to me! I created a new tab on my blog that you can click on to view the whole list, that is linked HERE. Feel free to comment what would be on YOUR 101 in 1001 list, or if you share some goals with me!! I hope you enjoy and can watch me mark off these dreams over these next 1001 days, because nothing is more satisfying than a good to-do list. The tasks range from huge dreams of mine to simple things I know are going to happen one day. (It’s like the same sense of satisfaction of when i put “shower” on my nightly to-do list.) This one is just glorified, intensified, over-hyped, and extra glittery, like everything in life should be.

until next time, xoxo, Ally

Happy Valentine’s Day to you ALL! I think we all (myself included) tend to miss the real meaning of this overly festive and happy hearted holiday. love may be super cheese-ified today, but through my years (all seventeen and a half of them) I have learned a few things about the four letter word, and that most of the time it isn’t as out in the open-here-is-a-handwritten-card-professing-my-love-for-you kinda way. love is secret a lot of the time.

love is saying good morning to your friends in the hallways at school when it’s pretty certain both of you are still asleep.

love is not dropping TOO many death glares on your sister when she steals the shirt you bought for the thousandth time. or maybe love is her stealing the shirt, mimicking IS a form of flattery.

love is car rides home from school with your buds and realizing how lucky you are to have the friends you do.

love is the car in front of you paying for your Starbucks (i have a certain crazy knack of good luck with this one I am not complaining about one bit)

love is your mom waking up before you and having breakfast and coffee ready for you before school…even when you gave up coffee for Lent…she proceeded to make me tea which is also pretty loving.

love is simply smiling in the hallways. love life and it will love you right back. that quote has driven so much of my personality and mentality these past few years, and my grandma wrote me a letter for my senior retreat and ironically said the same exact quote had always reminded her of me. not only was the conscience insanely amazing, but i think it really proves how great the phrase is. you get what you give, so give the world a WHOLE lot of love.

it is SO easy to get caught up in the day to day routine, especially with work and school, that we forget to sit back and truly just love life and the things and people in it. don’t forget to TELL the people you love that you love them, trust me they won’t discourage it. life is crazy cool and we are insanely blessed to be living it. so how do you LOVE LIFE exactly? seize opportunity. if you want to do something, do it. live in the moment, don’t plan too far into the future when you can be living in the now with the people around you. love yourself. don’t forget how insanely special you are and how much other people appreciate you. it makes loving others a whole lot easier.

so take the little love notes i’ve preached today and show them to the world.

let’s all learn to love love.

xoxo, Ally

Mondays just aren’t a rough day for me, unlike many others I’m sure. The weekend is over but fresh starts are my ish and I’m one of those dorky kids who actually enjoys going to school every day. I saw this quote on Pinterest and it struck me a lot more than the really cute shoes or smoothie recipes I had been pinning just seconds before.

Now lately I’ve sort of been in one of those “i don’t want to admit it but time is going by super quickly and I feel like I am just sitting here watching everyone have fun while I am working my booty off but what for?” kind of slumps. Don’t get me wrong: I have a vision and very clearly know what I want. I one day want to have my own domain name, I want to have a nice camera with daily fashion posts up on this blog, i want to be able to write about what I love style wise, but also how I love my friends and God and feel like that all still fits onto this place on the web. I want to have fun in college, meet new friends, and learn a whole lot. However, lately I have been forgetting that all of that takes time.

I am a HUGE worrier. Ask any of my friends, they’ve probably heard me worry and stress over the future, whether it be college or literally what I’m having for lunch that day. I forget to sit back & just be. It is my senior year and I am soaking up every minute of it. i am involved in so many activities within my school. I am on dance team, student board, the speech team, the newspaper staff, all along with blogging and working two jobs solely because I can’t stand not being busy. I’ve been that way my whole life, constantly have to be doing SOMETHING (yet I never seen to want to be doing my homework…ha.)

Lately I’ve found myself wanting the exact opposite though, less time of work and school related activities, and more time to just sit and be. which has made me find myself dreading working lately. I guess it’s just the side of me that has huge dreams and is impatient and realizes that those big dreams are NOT serving breakfast food (but if any of you want to come visit me let me know for real). But for now, that’s gotta do. So moral of this lil rant, work hard, but enjoy what you do, life moves pretty fast, so soak every little piece of it up.

until next time, xoxo, Ally