eleven minutes

"..she went over and over what she would say
to him, until she found the right way to begin a story
that would never end."

(I'm obsessed with Paulo Coelho right now.)

everything

because sometimes you just have to take a break from life to be silly, even if it is past bed time.

by the sea

I have an innate ability to turn beautiful things into very morbid, metaphoric massacres.

I spent the weekend staring at the ocean, and all I could think about was Emily Dickinson's poem, By The Sea.

I decided that if ever I want to die, I'll go to Land's End, and just surrender myself to the waves.

HI. HAPPY WEDNESDAY. I have so much to tell you.

the hollie show

SCENE:
sitting on my living room floor, drinking rum, listening to crackerfarm videos on Youtube, studying for my last final, talking to a friend about life things.

CUE:
mental/emotional breakdown I've been putting off for weeks.

16 more hours until I can breathe autonomously. #pleasepray

a story about coffee

I've never really been much of a coffee drinker because I usually prefer tea, but also, I don't know how to use a coffee machine. (is that even what they're called? haha) I had a job once where my boss expected me to make coffee, and quickly asked me to stop doing so. I could just never figure it out.

Bryan bought me a French press for Christmas last year, and it has been a game changer. Why do we feel the need to over complicate things?! The French press doesn't even require electricity! So now that I can make a decent cup of coffee on my own, I've become quite the connoisseur.

Generally, I buy a good, flavored coffee and I take it black, or sometimes with a splash of milk, because I fancy myself a minimalist, so you can imagine my surprise when a couple of weeks ago, a friend made me a cup of coffee with butter and coconut oil in it. I thought he was nuts, and even made a Paula Dean joke, but quickly retracted after tasting it. It was so, so good. He tried telling me it was healthy, and I didn't believe it, so I looked it up for myself, and it turns out that like everything else on the interwebz, there is conflicting information, so it could be? I say positive thinking, people! Ignorance is delicious, and frothy bliss.

Anyway, if you feel the need to try it out, and you should, here's what to do:

Brew 16 oz of coffee. Add it to a blender with 1/2 tbsp unsalted, butter (preferably from grass fed cows) and 1/2 tbsp of coconut oil. Blend. Enjoy.