Very Good Things

• my family
• my friends - especially the ones I haven’t seen in a few weeks
• the great weather lately
• binder clips. trust me.
• finally having a job and knowing that I’m working towards a good paycheck
• rose wine
• cooking shows
• panera mac and cheese
• my friend’s baby toddler turned THREE YEAR OLD last week
• crushed ice
• honeysuckle
• possible camping trip with my friends this summer!
• tattoooooooossssss
• short nails
• duct tape
• the new fall out boy songs, I think.

My friends are Very Good Things.

Very Good Things

I’m having a rough week. 

• my family and friends
• having a pretty decent job lined up for the summer
• dresses
• IFC
• vodka
• scary movies
• taking naps during thunderstorms
• I already know my roommates for next semester and they’re awesome. I’m so excited. 
• sunshine
• aviators
• iced mint tea (which I need to start making by the gallon)
• I only have two sit down finals because one in take home and one is online. which means that I get to leave a lot earlier than I thought.
• music, specifically: Bulletproof Love by Pierce the Veil (x), Mama’s Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert (x), The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy (x), Angel by Gothminister (x)
• FINALLY feeling better thanks to some heavy duty meds. 
• corgis 
• mac and cheese
• knowing what’s good for me and what (and who) isn’t.
• there are tulips EVERYWHERE!

How are you guys doing?

Very Good Things

• my family and friends
• IT’S FINALLY GETTING WARM OUT!
• I volunteered at a block party for Habitat for Humanity and it was a really great, eye-opening experience. plus I got to paint little kids’ faces.
• I only have one observation left for the semester
• air conditioning
• string lights
• trying to slowly eliminate the bad things/people in my life
• sunglasses
• pumpkin seeds
• my monstrosity of a hamster
• I get to see my family on the 26th
• there are only like 30 days left in the semester (translation: THANK JESUS I ONLY HAVE A MONTH LEFT)
• I have a definite job lined up for the summer
• I’m working on being the bigger person 
• converse
• blue nail polish
• just started following like ten awesome blogs 
• Eucerin lotion
• I got an A on a presentation that I didn’t give (that’s kind of good, right?)
• chapstick

I hope you guys are doing okay.

Very Good Things

I really, really need to do this today.

• my family
• my friends
• buffalo mac and cheese
• dogs
• boot socks
• metal
• I’m going home tomorrow for 3 days
•  my dinosaur silly band
• old songs 
• pinterest
• i’m getting drunk this weekend
• cabin in the woods
• countdowns

Very Good Things

• my family and friends
• 11 days until spring break!
• I finally watched Lord of the Rings. don’t judge me.
• peaches
• blue nail polish 
• air conditioning
• my weekend was pretty great :)
• I finally got my copy of TFIOS at school!
• my observation work didn’t suck nearly as much as I thought it would
• sweaters
• fuzzy socks
• I’m going to a community service run on sunday
• lemon yogurt
• endless episodes of SVU

Very Good Things

I need to remind myself that shit doesn’t suck as much as I think it does. So, here we go:

• my family, who sent me a really awesome flower arrangement for valentine’s day, more contact lenses, and another package that’s coming tomorrow
• minty facial wash
• CHIPOTLE.
• seeing everybody being all cute today!
• my wonderful friends/roommates/neighbors
• the sleep I got after sitting in a hospital for 7 hours. Best sleep I’ve had in probably a month.
• glittery nail polish
• finally having a table for beer pong!
• cranberry juice
• this song for when I’m in a really great mood
• and this song for when I’m not (and no, it’s not better than the original, shut up)
• my friend is coming to visit in about two weeks :)
• the clip on fan I have in my room
• tacos
• good books
• my tattoo is almost completely healed
• breaking out my beat up old yellow converse and having them fit my feet perfectly

How are you all doing?

Very Good Things

• my family
• finally being back at school
• Lucy the hamster 
• my friends and neighbors
• gray socks
• The Walking Dead comes back in less than three weeks!
• jello shots
• only having one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• posters. so many posters.
• SNOW!!!
• this song
• and this one
• How I Met Your Mother
• finding another English/Secondary Ed major who happens to be in my English AND education classes, and does not totally scare me
• red glittery nail polish
• not having left home feeling like complete shit
• oh this song too
• valentine’s day decorations (not the actual holiday itself)
• buffalo chicken wraps
• Jurassic Park
• the smell of Marlboros

Very Good Things

• I’m 20! (I guess that’s good, right?)
• SNOW!
• my family
• I got rainboots for Christmas. I mean, I got other things too, but I’m so excited about these rainboots. 
• scones
• I go back to school in a little over two weeks. I love being home, but I miss my room and my friends.
• netflix
• Glittery nail polish (as opposed to my normal so-dark-it’s-almost-black purple nail polish)
• The Walking Dead comes back next month
• I have plans to get highly intoxicated on the 22nd. 
• matte eyeshadow
• old CD’s
• liquid apple pie - I don’t really know what’s in it, but it’s alcoholic and it tastes like heaven
• new t-shirts
• sims 3

Very Good Things

• my family (most of them…)
• my wonderful friends/roommates
• Calvin & Hobbes comics
• Chipotle 
• getting extra credit in bio
• the paper that I’m writing right now is the second to last paper I have to write this semester! (I just have to write it…)
• teddy bears
• Office Space
• The Walking Dead…except are you fucking serious with that cliffhanger? 
• calling a truce with the boys next door
• and sealing said truce with a shot of jager and some sugar cookies
• scarves
• the crazy nice weather we had earlier this week
• 8 days until I’ll be home!!
• getting a new bed and mattress. so. freaking. excited.
• pinterest
• mixed CDs from two years ago

what’s up with you guys?

Very Good Things

• thanksgiving finally being over
• my family, who are pretty much my favorite people ever
• finally being able to walk into a liquor store without getting twenty dirty looks.
• fuzzy socks
• bath and body works soap
• infinite cuddles with my dog over break
• only three more weeks until the semester is over!
• The Walking Dead…I think. 
• snyder’s pretzels
• How To Train Your Dragon
• hoodies hoodies hoodies hoodies!
• got a new phone which is pretty beast
• mashed potatoes 
• those awesome, grab-your-face-and-kiss-you kisses. ugh ugh asjrhdfljgs
• also related: tongue piercings
• flannel everything
• pillows
• coping mechanisms. yup.

how are you all doing?

Very Good Things

• my wonderful family and friends
• my wonderful followers (seriously, you guys are awesome)
• Batman, because…BATMAN.
• infinite episodes of Say Yes to The Dress while Mary naps
• having a 97% in world civilizations. not sure how it happened but I’ll take it.
• White People Mourning Romney, aka one of the most hysterical things ever
• various animals that make me inexplicably happy. especially: giraffes, otters, cats, foxes
• sunshine
• “story of Kasi’s life: tries to be nice and gets yelled at.”
• B- on my philosophy
• nice weather for the first time in days! (you know it’s getting bad when 55 is considered t-shirt weather)
• ice cream
• coffee
• that fresh laundry smell
• getting a new phone over Thanksgiving break because mine is a non-functioning dinosaur
• THANKSGIVING BREAK IS 11 DAYS AWAY GUYS
• people who follow me only to talk shit about me on someone else’s page. Hi. I see you. you’re adorable. now go away. (why is this a VGT, you ask? because I find it hilariously entertaining)
• mountain dew
• “It’s a ‘slumber party’…okay. It’s a sex toy party.”
• chocolate!
• “We got 99 problems but Mitt ain’t one!”
• Rammstein
• “Sometimes I wish that my lips could build a castle, some night I wish they’d just fall off”

How’s everyone else’s week going?

Very Good Things

Idea from her - I try (note: try) to post one of these every week to remind me that life doesn’t suck as bad as I’d sometimes like to think.

• My family and friends making it through the hurricane
• Having only one day of classes this week
• IT’S OFFICIALLY NOVEMBER! Which means that I am more than halfway through the fall semester and three weeks from going home for break. 
• StumbleUpon
• Unexpected visit home during which I got to see my animals, shop for my social Friday, and go out to dinner with my mom and sister.
• Apples To Apples
• burgundy nail polish so dark it looks black
• the clip-on fan in my room 
• “You don’t need legs to get around” aka, the funniest thing I have heard in three days.
• having my friend down to visit last weekend
• vodka
• “THIS IS FREE BIRD, MOTHERFUCKER.”
• The random two guys dressed as Batman and Bane waving to me on Saturday night (I was drunk. It was exciting.)
• rave-themed party on Friday, aka an excuse to buy glowsticks
• this video over and over and over and over.
• shopping for the end of the world (in case you were wondering - 6 gatorades, cheetos, mini-muffins and a copy of Looking for Alaska)
• fire.

How’s everybody else’s week going?

Very Good Things

• Carolyn’s bed. Can I just stay here all day?
• my family, because they’re wonderful
• THE WALKING DEAD PREMIERE OH MY GOD
• hot cocoa
• the entire German language.
• midnight drives
• Mary’s birthday next week!
• 11 days until Halloweekend and I get to see my friend from home.
• glitter
• cranberry flavored vodka
• asparagus 
• ZOMBIES. I’m reading World War Z and I’m going to a zombie-themed party this weekend and I literally cannot contain my excitement. my friends all think I’m a freak.
• pumpkin anything

Very Good Things

for new followers - I post a list of Very Good Things each week to sort of remind myself to appreciate life. I got the idea from Kimber, and here are her Very Good Things (ps. you should just follow her, she’s pretty awesome).

• my family, and the fact that they are all okay after some asshole came really close to driving through our living room last week.
• my wonderful roommates and their drunken shenanigans
• living 25 minutes away from the beach
• this blog of HIMYM gifs
• cookie commotions (basically like McFlurries, but with shots of espresso)
• this theme, which I’m currently using and in love with
• teal nail polish
• the possibility of a zombie-themes party on the 19th 
• Carolyn hypothetically threatening people I don’t like
• The Walking Dead and American Horror Story both came back this month!
• 18 days until my friend comes to see me at school/Halloweekend
• mascara
• mike’s hard lemonade (especially as a chaser to vlad)
• music, specifically: Blow Me by Pink, Die Young by Ke$ha, Rox in the Box by the Decemberists (featured in this awesome video which I know I’ve shown before but shut up it’s cool), Erase My Scars by Evan’s Blue, Ho Hey by the Lumineers, and pretty much anything by Mayday Parade and Emmure
• having my wrists bare for the first time in literally years. which was really weird at first, but I’ve decided it’s definitely very good.
• “stirb nicht nor mir”, which means “don’t die before me” in German.

How’s everybody else doing?