sorry i’ve been mia

BUT I’M IN AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i’ll be posting my adventures down under at marybael.tumblr.com 

check it out!

-Mary

europa

last weekend, m and i booked our flights for florence! we CANNOT wait! we have a google doc of places we plan on visiting that is literally a mile long (or like 18 pages or something ridiculous like that). here are some photos of europe that are currently inspiring me. i didn’t take any of them, but i dragged them into a folder on my desktop so i lost the url’s (sorry- a lot of them are from sunsurfer, though)!

xo charlotte

how appropriate, given this morning’s post

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xo charlotte

csm

hey guys! charlotte here! hope you’re all having an amazeballs monday! just wanted to pop in and let you all know that i started another blog! OF COURSE i will still be blogging here with my besties, but i kind of wanted to just try out a tumblr. the new blog is just mine. check it out here!

and, can i just say, wordpress is SO much easier to use than tumblr. woahhhhmg.

also, HAPPY THREE MONTH BIRTHDAY TO RULE OF THREE! woohooo!

xo charlotte

pin it!

the other day, my best friend cat introduced me to a new website called pinterest. i had zero idea what she was talking about when she first brought it up, but within like 2 days, i was HOOKED.

pinterest is SUCH a cool website. it’s a little hard to explain, so i’ll include some photos in order to do so. here’s how the company describes it:

once you sign up for pinterest, you drag “pin it” to your bookmarks bar. then you go around the internet and grab/pin images you want from any website. note that you don’t have to be logged into pinterest for your computer to upload the photos. you put the images into a designated board, and it creates really cool inspiration boards for you.

you can create as many different boards as you want. i currently have 7 boards: images, food and drinks, for the home, my style pinboard, books worth reading, favorite places and spaces, products i love. anyone who uses pinterest can see what you pin, and they can repin your photos, like them, or comment on them. in this way, pinterest functions like a social networking site. like on facebook, you have a minifeed with recent images you and your followers have pinned.

this sounds very confusing, but i promise that it’s not difficult AT ALL. it’s not a lot of work to pin images, but the final product is completely worth it. even i can figure it out, and i can’t even upload pictures to facebook! it’s really an amazing website, so you should definitely check it out! let me know if you try it out or need an invite! if you sign up, be sure to follow me!

xo charlotte

so true

just read this truly inspirational quote from the dalai lama on one of the many blogs i read:

“men, because they lose their health to earn money, then they lose that money to stay healthy; they think anxiously about the future and forget the present… so they neither enjoy the present nor the future; they live as if they are never going to die and die realizing that they never really lived!”

a nice thought for a sunday.

xo charlotte

scenes of summer

{all images from we heart it}

xo charlotte

things i’m obsessed with right now

i am an obsessive person. no, i don’t have ocd, but once i find something i like, i get REALLY into it. but then i get bored or sick of it, and i drop it forever. like food/hobby/interest a.d.d.

for example:

• for three months straight i ate cup noodles everyday at 3:30 pm (i do not recommend this unless you are trying to gain 15+ pounds.)
• for the three months after that i ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich everyday at 3:30 pm instead of cup noodles.
• for two months straight i ran at least 4 miles everyday (i wish this DID last…)
• once i like a song i will play it on repeat….over and over again. one night last year i downloaded the song “the freshman” and played it 70 times. in one night. no joke.
• when i watch a tv show i have to watch all the episodes from the beginning, in a row. this is unhealthy because you end up watching 12+ hours of tv in one sitting and realized the only times you moved were to eat and pee.
• when i find a piece of clothing i like i try to wear it as much as possible without people thinking i don’t own other clothes until i get sick of it and then i never wear it again
• i thought i was interested in painting, went and spent over $300 at michael’s on painting supplies…and have only ever painted one painting
• same story as above, with scrapbooking…but spent only $200.

so basically, yeah when i like something i like it alot. no matter what. so here are some of my (recent) obsessions:

 “the girl with the dragon tattoo” by stieg larsson. i just finished reading it within two days because i couldn’t put it down which resulted in two very unproductive days, where i cancelled lunch plans so i could keep reading (yeah i’m a nerd). unfortunately i probably will be anti-social til i finish the next two books in the series… i’m just about to start “the girl who played with fire.”

aloe juice. it’s juice made with aloe pulp. sounds gross (yes, aloe is used to relieve sunburns etc.) but don’t judge before you tatse it. it’s actually really sweet and refreshing and the pulp has a gummy-like texture. you can find this juice at basically any supermarket or convenience store in korea…i used to drink it at least once a day when i was on vacation there a couple of summers ago but haven’t really seen it here except for specialty asian stores. however, the other day i found out fairway (basically the same thing as wholefoods and wegmans) had it!!! i’ve had it four days in a row now…so yum.

 “the blonde salad”. which is the fashion diary of the 23-year-old girl pictured above. it’s one of my new favorite blogs. she has amazing clothes, sense of style and has now become a paid professional blogger who has even come out with her own shoe line. so jealous of her life. did i mention she’s italian and lives in milan? ohhh and i forgot to tell you she has a hot boyfriend..that bitch  wish i was her…

organic dark chocolate espresso beans. the organic just means i pay double the price, but i can’t find any that are “non-organic.” but anyway, chocolate AND coffee (two of my favorite things) in one!!!! and espresso beans are less calories than the same amount of peanuts and/or raisins making this lower-cal than chocolate covered peanuts or raisins. (1 cup of beans without chocolate is 40 calories)  this is my new mid-day afternoon snack and guess what…there’s caffeine in BOTH the espresso beans and chocolate. YAY! totally my new go-to study smack…

that feeling of empowerment and self-satisfaction  of not texting someone back. self-explanatory.

so yeah, we’ll see how long it takes til i get sick of these. hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather because i know i am :)

-Mary

april showers…

bring may flowers!

{all images from we heart it (my newest obsession)}

xo charlotte

people are weird.

and i thought i was weird. if you don’t believe me, look at the things people search (and then somehow end up on our blog…)

• emo girls with blue eyes and black hair
• asian guys kissing
• edward cullen naked (i’d probably search that though….just kiddin!)
• edward and jacob in love
• kissing boys naked
• me and edward cullen
• boys kissing boys
• darts with paint filled balloons (huh???)
• vedio sexxxx
• girls and boys in bed kissing
• xxx.sexxxx (why are there so many xs??? i don’t understand…)
• sexxxx몰카
• different types of berrys with names
• naked garrett hedlund troy
• bed comphy
• girl with black eyes and blonde hair and is lonely
• edward cullen and jacob black kissing
• i then realized my life is a joke (dear google??)
• emo+guys+hair kissing
• hot emo guy kissing girl taken with phone
• asia girl sexxxx
• garrett hedlund hot pictures of him alot more
• don’t worry about boys quotes

hahaha what are people thinking??? i’m glad alot of pervs have probably read our blog…

good luck surviving finals week!

-Mary