I figured since I enjoy making playlists and finding new music to listen to, I should share what I'm listening to with you guys! I'll be posting playlists of my favorite songs from my favorite artists and posting them here, and since I illustrate I want to draw them as well. For this week, it's Kali Uchis. She is amaaaaazing and I'm convinced her voice is what angels sound like. Let me know if you enjoy the playlist!
I get this annoying feeling every once in a while where I crave being in a relationship. I watch a dumb indie romance movie on Netflix and suddenly I'm like... "damn where my boyfriend at?". And I've been wondering, is that something that stops happening after a while (someone please tell me it does)? Sometimes I'll see a couple leaning on top of each other on the L train, kissing incessantly, and I scream internally because I wonder how those two weird ass people (lol) found each other and I'm still alone! Other times I look around at all my friends with their significant others and wonder why my future boo didn't get the memo. I feel like when I start to get upset about these things that it makes no sense, because I'm young and still have plenty of time to find someone. But the actuality is even though the future will be great, it doesn't stop me from being bummed right now.
I'm trying to work on confidence and self love more, because I think before I get into a relationship with anyone I want to work on myself first. It's not that I mope around all sad and shit 24/7 either just so you know!! But I think a lot of people including me have some days where we just don't feel our best.
I also found out that when you're single, guys are a D-I-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N. All they do is talk nonsense to you, make you interested in them, and then hate that you're interested in them. Like men... I'm sorry but y'all have work to do. I NEED TO GRADUATE AND PAY OFF THAT TUITION. And unless a guy is going to help me get my diploma and give me a check for a million dollars (call me), there's nothing to talk about.
All jokes aside though, I'm hopeful I'll find a cool dude, but in the meantime I'm just going to focus on me and let it happen naturally in time because,
Hey everyone! It feels like I haven't blessed everyone with my amazing music taste in a while (I know you think I'm kidding but I promise you I'm not), so I'm back with another playlist. These are the songs I've had on constant repeat this month and last month, and if you check back by the end of July I should have more! These songs are great poolside, with friends, at a party, or even to dance alone to in your room. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I also love hearing new music, so if you guys have songs you're loving right now, feel free to leave them in the comments!
Yesterday, as suggested by my friends Nijah and Briana, we went to a cat cafe! It's called Meow Parlour, located at 46 Hester Street in Chinatown. They take appointments, but we went for a walk-in. While you wait, there's a cafe around the corner with snacks and some cat themed treats and gifts.
When there was space available for us, they notified the cafe and we headed over. The cats were so cute, but to be honest, cute is an understatement (I am a crazy cat lady though, so I may be biased). When you go in, it's 30 minutes for $5 each! You're allowed to pet, play and just watch the cats if you wish once you're inside. I also think all the cats are up for adoption, which is really great because every cat deserves a good home. Here's some shots I took of them:
After that, we decided to get some food! No one was in the mood for Chinese even though we were in Chinatown LOL, so we walked a few minutes right into Little Italy (one of the reasons I love living in the city so much). We stumbled upon this place called Sal's, and had pretty good pizza!
We stopped at Vivi's for Briana, and of course I have to take advantage of a mirror. We took a cute picture together!!
Wondering what we should do next, I remembered last time Nijah & I hung out, we wanted to check out the Whitney! None of us had ever been there before, so we decided to continue our journey. Listen, walking in the city is definitely good exercise, but after a while it's just f***ing tiring! Briana hailed us a cab like a damn pro (add me on Snapchat while it's still there to see it haha @petalprincess). I really enjoyed the Whitney Museum, and it was a nice way to spend a cloudy day indoors.
The museum even has some cool outdoor artwork and a beautiful view!
If you take a trip to the museum, it's conveniently located next to the High Line, so we took a little trip down there. If you've never heard of it, the High Line is like an elevated railroad park that stretches 1.45 miles with a beautiful view. We decided to go up and ran into this creepy but really cool sculpture.
It was a really fun day, and if you go to any of these places or have suggestions of places to check out, comment and let me know! (✿◠‿◠)
I started this blog July of last year, and boy have a lot of things changed. My friends are different, my outlook on life, hell, even my hair. And after all this time, I realized people take life so seriously. Of course, we only have one life to live (depending on what you believe), but we should all life our lives to the fullest. I mean, living in New York City, there are so many endless possibilities and always something to do. I've also realized that as a person, there are many sides of me. The side who just really likes to be alone and shop or sit in the park and reflect on life. There's the me who likes to cry in bed with a candle lit on the table beside me. And there's the me who really enjoys the company of other people and keeping myself busy with things at all times in order to stay positive. It's normal to be that way if you are too, and as long as you are happy, no one can tell you anything!
If I could have it my way, I'd party all the time but we know that's not realistic. What I do want to do however, is balance the headaches college gives me with finding good food to eat, making memories with people to look back on and laugh about, and doing things I've always wanted to do. I want to have stories people would love to hear, no matter how mundane or outrageous they are.
With that comes posting about my experiences on this blog, which was super hard for me in the past, but I'm filled with so much excitement now for things that are going to happen and I want to document my life more than I have been. So with all that being said, my blog is going to change, just like my life has. For real this time. Like I'm totally serious. Guys, believe me. We're all here just trying to get our shit together, and you can watch me do that here.
If I could have it my way, I'd party all the time but we know that's not realistic. What I do want to do however, is balance the headaches college gives me with finding good food to eat, making memories with people to look back on and laugh about, and doing things I've always wanted to do. I want to have stories people would love to hear, no matter how mundane or outrageous they are.
With that comes posting about my experiences on this blog, which was super hard for me in the past, but I'm filled with so much excitement now for things that are going to happen and I want to document my life more than I have been. So with all that being said, my blog is going to change, just like my life has. For real this time. Like I'm totally serious. Guys, believe me. We're all here just trying to get our shit together, and you can watch me do that here.
I remember waking up one day, seeing a tweet from YouTuber/Musician Troye Sivan saying tickets for his first U.S. shows were going on sale and I flipped. I really grew to like him as a personality as well as a singer over the course of a few months. When I see anyone I like is going on tour, I immediately freeze and ask myself two questions: 1) Do I have the money? and 2) Do I have the money? LOL. But in all seriousness, in my live I've decided to put experience over everything else and I knew I was going to regret it if I didn't at least try to get a ticket. I bought mine as soon as tickets went on sale, and somehow by a strange miracle I got one.
When the day of the concert actually came (which was about two weeks ago), I was kind of anxious because I was going by myself, and it was my first general admission show. I felt like I was going to be bored waiting around for hours for Troye to go on, but again, miraculously I wasn't alone. I met two people, Larissa and a rising YouTuber who goes by the name Handsmile who were totally awesome! After dancing uncontrollably to a DJ who was probably just shooting the shit with a Spotify playlist, Troye finally came on and gave such a good show! It was unreal being in such an intimate venue and I'm glad I got to experience him on tour before he gets even bigger.
Here are some pictures and a couple clips from the show which I apologize in advanced for but I was not lugging around a DSLR at that time of night giiirl:
This is his song Ease, which is my favorite.
Here he was talking about what it's like being in New York City
If you haven't heard of/listened to him you should! He has really great music and his album is coming out in December so you've got a little time before then! I'm so glad I went and I would do it all over again if I could. Thanks for putting on such a great show Troye <3






