Simpler.

I've been obsessed with Anne of Green Gables since I was a little girl. There was just something so amazingly simple about the time in which she lived. I know that L.M. Montgomery portrayed a female who had extraordinary advantages that many others didn't have, but, on the nights when it's Halloween and all I want to do is sleep, I wonder what life would be like if I didn't have to worry about school and peer pressure. If I could just be mature, old-lady me who goes to bed early. If I could be just getting married and living on a beautiful farm somewhere in Canada, where the White Way of Delight would amaze me everyday. 

I sometimes wonder if this is the way college is supposed to be done. I know that you're not supposed to compare yourself to anyone else, but I keep wondering if I'm missing anything. Where is the balance between being content with who you are and and changing?

Wanna hear a fun fact? I was on a gameshow for my school today. And I knew absolutely nothing about pop-culture, especially no pop-culture that was Halloween-themed. And while I was standing there, not buzzing in on a single question, I at no point wanted to be anyone different. And that was a helpful feeling. I'm proud that I can't name all the Kardashians or stick one-liners to movies. If it had been one-liners from documentaries though, I would have felt bad about myself. Haha, such a nerd. 

This last picture is from my camping trip a few weeks back. Haha, I'm trying to share more pictures from it, but I can't see a preview because I'm shooting in RAW for my photography class and have no idea how to work a computer. I just kinda clicked at random and uploaded a few weird ones until I found one that was a lot of fun. This blog is losing all rhyme and reason. Whatever.

Thanks for reading through this mess. :))

Not a Bit Tamed

The back of one of my favorite dresses! Hooray that it's still warm enough to wear it! :)

Totally normal. Shameless plug to try and cheer up Elsa.

State fairin' it up with the weird looking pumpkinss

Cutest thing ever!! :)) Love these girls. Thanks for coming to my house for the weekend!

just chillin' with Abe

Benjamin Franklin keychain! Three months of dreaming fulfilled. Thank god you're in my life, Ben.

Hi, I'm Allison and I pose on pumpkins. But only after I VOTE FOR THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BECAUSE I'M FINALLY OLD ENOUGH TO DO IT! :))

hi. loves.

Riya's first trip to a Krispy Kreme. What? We fixed that problem.

Wut Up Stressin'

Today I had a period of very high stress. I'm a planner. I always have to know what my next step is. This time last year I knew what my plan was for the next year and a half, and I found that extremely comforting. But right now I'm trying to figure out study abroad and internships and classes and how the heck am I expected to do this all by myself? How do people do it? How do they figure out what they love and pursue it? I've always wanted to say I have a passion for something. "I have a passion for collecting old plates" I'd say. Or "I just love learning about caterpillar saliva and will dedicate the rest of my life to researching it!" Instead, I feel like I've been blindfolded and spun in a million circles and told to "Figure it Out". Terrifying. Instead of relishing in my good fortune and excitement for the future, I feel like a deer in headlights. And I'm realizing that this uncertainty never goes away. And I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to it.

(The pictures are just from my mountain adventures. I'm having SUCH a good time with manual focus and large apertures.)

Throw Some Glitter Make It Rain

Blurry Mirror Picture of the day wut wuttt. Yesterday marked the end of my glitter guilt. What a glorious thing direct confrontation in the form of an apology is. Why the heck is it so hard to do? Note to self: work on apologizing skills.

Blatantly Unpolished

So I haven't been posting in a very long time. And this has been a combination of a large number of things: namely school and extracurriculars. I'm a chronic yes man and I sign up for too many things. This is why it was especially nice to be able to go on a camping trip to the mountains this weekend and take a break from everything with a really great group of people. I'm going to try to start updating the blog more regularly (but I always say that, I know). I think that this time, I'm going to give it a more personal life twist. Pictures are well and great, but some of the emotions that I'm working through in this crazy thing called life are what I'm going to want to remember most of all. I already take way too many pictures. I want to start portraying my life as what it actually is: a crazy hot mess that isn't always well dressed. I choose to live blatantly unpolished.

Livin' in Style

(Sweater: Gap, Tank: Cotton On, Skirt: Pink Zone, Mocs: Minnetonka, Bag: Steve Madden)

On our way to FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

We're here and she's SO GOOD.

retreat to da mountainz

spring rolls for lunch. we're so cosmopolitan.

j biebs on my envelopes. best thing ever.

adorable children stealing our snacks.

CFL trade-out anyone?

(Shirt: Walmart, Jeans: Sevens via Plato's Closet, Shoes: Converse via Plato's Closet)

bada$$ day.

care packages from aunty!! <3

matching jackets. how sporty do we look?!

gav on plates at anthropologie

we're my horse?

love my beebees!!

yeah, we're related.