currently / autumn

didn't get a chance to write an October or November wrap-up post, so this is kinda a summary of what i've been doing lately. ;) very random. 

R E A D I N G

a lot, xd. 

seriously, i'm in that phase where i'm reading about ten books at a time + not finishing any of them. ;P

i'm reading: 

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (for the second time in five months, xD)
• Muse of Nightmares (ok the first one was WAY BETTER)
• Frankenstein
• The Children's Homer (ugh)
• Quo Vadis
• Blue Lily, Lily Blue (haha, again....)
• The Lie: Evolution / Millions of Years

yup. 

had a mini binge session one week (recovering from stress of midterms x_x) + finished The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, House, and Trusting God (wow, what a combination, xD). Trusting God is amazing + changed how I think about God's sovereignty. definitely recommend.

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein was really good -- especially as I'm not a fan of the horror genre, but it was more of a psychological thriller. definitely recommend. 

House (Peretti + Dekker).....was interesting. It unsettled and disturbed me, mainly bc I'm not a horror / supernatural fan. I definitely skim-read it, and finished it feeling very unsettled. so, not sure if I would recommend. ;)

W A T C H I N G

a medley of things. "The Crimes of Grindelwald" was AMAZING. and i need to see it again. 

• The Office
• 24 
• Studio C + JK Studios
• booktube (Cherry Wallis, jessethereader, etc.)
• holiday cooking shows
• CHRISTMAS MOVIES (we have this tradition where we only watch Christmas movies during December. so far, we've seen "Elf", and are going to watch "White Christmas", "Home Alone", "It's A Wonderful Life", and "The Griswald's Christmas Vacation")

per usual, the Office (amazing + hilarious). also, we started watching 24 with my parents, and it's really good! there's definitely parts we skip (violence, mostly), but the concept is so cool + intriguing! each season is set during one, twenty four hour day. so each episode is one hour, in real time.

L I S T E N I N G

compiling playlists for my WIPs is so much fun, xD. also went to a for KING & COUNTRY concert the other day, and it was utterly amazing. it was a Christmas concert, but they also played all of my favorites, "joy", "burn the ships", "amen", etc. SO GOOD. 

• Hamilton soundtrack
• Owl City
• Mumford and Sons
• for KING & COUNTRY
• Adventures in Odyssey (#noshame xD)
• CHRISTMAS MUSIC (y'all, i have a five hour playlist. with michael buble, pentatonix, bing crosby, nat king cole, etc.)

R A N D O M

cherry vanilla bagels are the best. also, my bagel shop just started selling gingerbread bagels. <3

ALSO, i'm officially in love with the starbucks toasted white chocolate mocha. it's amazing. also the peppermint mocha is amazing. it literally tastes like christmas. ;)

i preordered the Bucky funko pop (from infinity war) and i cannot wait till it comes! story: when my dad took my brother and i to comic con a couple months ago, my brother and i scoured all the booths for a Bucky funko pop (seriously, every single booth, my brother would look at every one <3 <3). apparently, they're really rare, so we didn't find any. oh well, xD. update: it's not coming until the day after Christmas *sobs*. apparently there were production issues. x_x

i had senior pictures taken a couple weeks ago. it was interesting, as i've never really had professional photos taken of me before. 

had a college interview the last week of october. it went really well! the guy who interviewed me was super nice + loved Narnia, so we had a brief geek out session, talking about our favorite books. xD

y'all, Christmas is less three weeks away.

also, finals are next week. please send help. also i had a spanish oral presentation on thursday. x_x but it was about lin-manuel miranda, so that was really fun! ;)

also, just wanted to say thank you for putting up with my very random posting schedule recently. for awhile, blogger wouldn't let me schedule posts, so i was just posting whenever i had a chance. i think i figured it out, so hopefully i'll be posting regularly on saturdays and occasionally on wednesdays. ;)

also, nothing to do with this post, but HAVE YOU SEEN THE AVENGERS 4 TRAILER? cuz i'm still freaking out over it. literally, i almost cried when i saw it for the first time. 

what's up with y'all?

favorite for KING & COUNTRY

song?

also, what are some of your

favorite christmas traditions?

merry christmas,

allison