CHICAGO!

me by the Beautiful Lake Michigan

So I visited K in Chicago this weekend. It was crazy fun and I'm soooo exhausted.

 

Us in the BEAN
It was soooo cold

No one ever warned me how big Chicago was!  It's like three times the size of Boston.  But anyway, so much fun.

Falling Off the Vegan Train

This would possibly make an appropriate title for my autobiography.  
Which is actually incredibly annoying. 
To me. 
I don't think anyone else actually cares. 
I've pretty much been a vegetarian forever.  I have absolutely no problem not eating meat, but whenever I try to go 100% vegan and cut out eggs/dairy I always screw up a few weeks later.  

Anyway, I'm feeling really unfocused to day. so I'm just gonna share a quick recipe:

Blueberry & Peanut Butter Smoothie

1/4 cup crushed ice

1 cup almond milk 
(basically anything works like soy, rice etc... you can also use chocolate soy milk and make it a Chocolate Blueberry and Peanut butter Smoothie which is pretty damn amazing) 

2 Tablespoons Peanut Butter 
If you haven't tried Peanut Better brand, you need to.  It's basically like Peanut Butter, but it has a different texture.  It's less solid, which is kind of messy for eating straight out of the jar, but it makes for good smoothie material.  

Blueberries- any amount
I go for 1-2 handfuls, cuz I make a pretty small smoothie.  

Blend, and 
TADA

It's delicious. I swear.  Peanut Butter and Blueberry is the new Peanut Butter and Banana.  Trust me

this looks funky, cause it was hand-blended.  

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FRECKLES

This heat wave will probably be the death of me.  One way or the other.  I have very, very pale skin. Summer coxing has basically turned me into one giant freckle.  But not in a good, oh- look- at- that- tan sort of way. Just in a very, very extremely freckled way.  
I gotta say though, I'm kinda pleased. 
Here's one for freckle pride!

Now if only we could work on accepting my intensely curly red hair we'd have something here.  

until next time, 
Stay cool,

-Emme

letters to katie

So this is the new background/avatar I made for my Letters to Katie tumblr on polyvore. 

Does anyone know a good site that has free collage-making programs?  I use polyvore a lot, but sometimes it's limiting. You can't import everything you want.  

I don't know if it's really "get- able" but the short explanation is this: 

A lot of people really use their shoes to  express their personalities.  The collage of shoes is to show that suicide affects people from all walks of life.  It's something we all have in common, and something that we, as a community need to fight.  

Maybe I'm not fighting for world peace. 

Maybe I don't believe I can end poverty or world hunger or AIDS. 

But I believe I have unique experiences that make me an advocate for suicide prevention.  And if something I do protects just one life in just one tiny way, well then, I think that makes it more than worth it.  

For more information check out, 

http://thedearkatiediary.tumblr.com

thanks lovelies, 

Emme 

FEED Baseball Tee

FEED for Target Women's Baseball Tee -Birch (see more raglan t shirts)

So I really love baseball tees.  They're usually light and airy and fantastic.  I was at target on Sunday and I almost bought this.  I talked myself out of it on the basis of how many baseball tees do I need. 
But now I'm reconsidering. I think I might go back next weekend and get it.
There's really no such thing as too many baseball tees. 
Or muscle shirts

(ps: are they still muscle t-shirts is you have spaghetti arms?)

#tomboyproblems? 

Countdown

This was one of those weird facebook survey/ notes things that everyone did in high school.  I thought it would be fun to see how my answers changed, so I did it again. 

10 things you want this moment:

1. Fall

2. Winter

3. Or at least for it to cool down outside

4. I could go for some pancakes right about now.  I could, really, really go for some pancakes

5. I wish I wasn't coxing tomorrow, because they're some friends I haven't seen in awhile that I want to see

6. More people to follow my tumblr

7. to be really good at crafting/ DIY

8. longer hair

9. to take a shower

10. and a nap

9 places you want to go:

1. The beach!!!!

2. The boathouse

3. the movie theater

4: to sleep

5. Boston Common

6. Is this like, in life?  Because I'd love to go to Australia

7. And Hawaii

8. OOh, Lake Placid

9. Can i put beach in here twice? what if it was two different beaches?  

8 people you want to meet:

1. Billy Joel

2. A long lost sibling

3. the Queen of England

4. Come to think of it, Prince Harry

5. Indiana Jones

6. my future boyfriend

7. Whoever invented the math so I can punch them in the face

8. the new novices

 I'm not putting any famous rowers or coxswains on here, because that's just way too intimidating but it's really exciting for me to meet our new novices at the end of summer because it makes me feel old and experienced and like I actually know what I'm doing.  Haha.  

7 favorite foods:

1. coffee 

2. tea

3. greek yogurt

4.vanilla ice cream

5. spinach

6. sushi

7. blackberries

6 things you want to do in your life:

1. coach crew

2. something memorable

3. go to a yoga rave!

4.own a farm

5. advocate for people with learning disabilities/ mental disabilities/ mental illness

6. raise awareness for suicide prevention

5 things worse than a death sentence:

1. 2 death sentences

2. mosquito bites

3. humidity

4. this heat wave 

5. friends/family passing away 

4 things you wish you could do better:

1.crafts/ DIY

2.headstands/ other inversions

3. docking

4. math

3 reasons you are alive:

1. dancer pose

2. plow pose

3. ice cream

2 people you will see today:

1. the checkout guy at CVS

2. rowers

1 thing that will always be true:

1. I won't stop!

Also, this is not inspired by the Miley Cyrus song, becasue "We Can't Stop" is actually the most annoying song ever and actually makes me miss the days of Miley/Hannah Montanna.  TRUE life. 

Post your own!  

-Emme 

I Hide in Libraries and Movie Theaters

Ok, Maybe not all summer.  
I do outdoor yoga sometimes.  I took my dog to for a walk and we swam in the lake this afternoon. But mostly, I am NOT a summer girl.  This probably has a lot to do with being a ginger.  Summer sun is way too much for transparent skin.  Even if that skin is covered in many, many freckles.  So sometimes, I gotta take cover.  Here's another kind of weird thing about me.  I hate wearing short sleeves and shorts.  I wish it was cold enough all the time for me to wear long sleeved shirts and pants. I think this is because, again, I'm pale and I'm kind of long legged/long armed so I feel like a little kid when I wear shorts.   Three quarter length sleeves are my favorite.  I do wear shorts in the summer.  My converse go with everything, and these shorts look super comfy.
Diet Coke is a must have.  Always. Movie theater OR library.  Sunglasses for the way there.  (Did you notice that these are crew sunglasses?)  Also, I really like Honeysuckle tinted Burts Bees Lip Balm.  Actually, I like any Burts Bees Lip Balm.   Or anything else, for that matter. I'm trying out Burts Bees acne solutions to see how that works.  I'll let you know

American t shirt
target.com

Ksubi hot short shorts
$77 - superette.co.nz

Converse
$60 - net-a-porter.com

Matte sunglasses
chalktalksports.com

Burt s Bees lip care
target.com


-Emme