Day In & Day Out

I've been doing a lot of catch-up on my blog and it has given me a nice escape, remembering all the fun I had over Christmas break. Yeah, I live in a beautiful country, but the fact of the matter is I LIVE here. I work here, I clean here, I eat here, I sweat my guts out here, I miss the bus here, I haul 50 pounds of groceries on my tiny back up the flight of stairs here.

Fun trips to Carriacou and feeding mona monkeys aren't my day in and day out life. So shocking I know. Sometimes you have to do mundane errands on Saturday mornings like hunt down allergy pills.

Pharmacies here are kind of funny, maybe just funny because its too disconcerting?

Maybe.

When Ross and I were in Carriacou we asked the Pharmacist, at least I hope she was a pharmacist for some dramamine-esque pills. We only needed one so... she takes out this pill and puts it in a little baggy. No label, no orgin, just magically here was a tiny pill in a tiny baggy.

That is about what I was expecting when I hit up the nearest pharmacy.

This one is particularly small, it is part of a convenience store on the SGU bus route. I walked up to the man who (again) I assumed to be the pharmacist. He was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I asked him for the this *shows bottle* and before I knew it he had a (this time) marked box of generic zyrtec. I was so ecstatic that I forgot I didn't have enough money for them. Once the man at the counter reminded me of this, I went back to the "pharmacist" and no problem, he just cut me 16 pills.

Not 30, 16.

Nothing a little bit of scissors can't fix. Also, I think that is braille on the outside.Cool.

Guess you can't see it too well on this super high quality photo. 

I got the goods, walked there and back. Said hi to some goats, and tried to travel fast before the sun rose too high. 

The Greek Food Truck

I've been working a lot this semester, which has its benefits and drawbacks for sure. One drawback is that I am always scrambling for dinner. The benefit though, is that Ross introduced me to this awesome Greek food truck just outside campus. I was a bit skeptical at first, (you kind of need to have low expectations to really enjoy yourself) but oh man was I wrong! 

This. 

Food.

Is. 

Amazing. 

Why I am just discovering this now. I don't know. But what I do know, is that it's a good thing because bye bye loan money... 

HELLO GREEK FOOD!!

I may or may not have eaten there several times in the span of a couple weeks. Hey, it's not my fault, it's all these long hours mmkay?! 

For like $22 EC you get a big plate of lamb, yogurt, and taziki. And you get a decent sized Greek side salad with a lemon vinaigrette, cheese crumbles, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, and lettuce. Mmm. The first time I ate there I had enough leftovers for lunch the next day. Buuut, I guess I was hungrier the next time because I finished the whole entire thing.  

Recently they cleared out the space behind the truck, and I like how this picture makes it look a little more epic. 

Now the only thing that is missing from my Greek food experience is Kelli and Larry!

Happy Birthday Brigette!

I don't have many friends. And I know that part of this is because I am totally weird. Like TOTALLY.

Imagine. Just imagine for a second, having to be my best friend for 12 YEARS.

I feel like we have been through it all! We haven't always been literally by each others' side, but we've always been there for each other. That is the way friendship works.

For that fact alone, you know that she is going to be amazing. 

A friend holds the camera when I decide to make a reality show about pizza crusts.

A friend gets my lame jokes and laughs at them.

A friend visits me late at night when I'm sick of packing and not ready to go back to school.

A friend finds something else to do when the NYE dance is super lame. And then together we get to take strange pictures and get into trouble with creepy people.

A friend is the only one I will let be legitimately jealous of my PKHS-07-Lifetime-Warranty Watch (don't lie!).



























A friend will pose with you in your homemade Napoleon Dynamite shirt (I call it avant-garde).

And let you wear your leopard print sunglasses.

A friend will come over and make a birthday cake for inanimate objects cos you are kinda pathetic and really heart-broken.

A friend sells her firstborn child to send you massive amounts of LUSH products when you are living in a far away land.

A friend drives you to Warped Tour and walks around with you even though you look stupid with that free shirt wrapped around your neck like a sweat scarf.

A friend keeps your crafts even if they are a little special. 

A friend doesn't care that you used a Lisa Franktastic rainbow unicorn border around a photo collage. 

A best friend calls you out when you are being ridiculous, and forgives you anyways. 

A friend has a million memories and a dozen pictures that don't even touch the jokes there. 

Here us our classic first friends picture that will seriously never get old (hellloooo disposable camera film!).

And a picture from my wedding. I have no idea what is going on, but I love it. 

I was going through pictures of the two of us and we don't have a TON, considering we have been friends since we were 12. But then I thought about it. You don't take pictures when you go to the grocery store. You don't take pictures when you brush your hair. You don't take pictures when you eat dinner (well, sometimes you do). You don't take pictures of normal, natural things that you do day in and day out.

And that is our friendship. It will always be there, forever and ever. 

Happy Birthday to my best friend forever Brigette! I love you so much. You are so beautiful and talented and intelligent and funny! You make my world go round, and I know that I could never go through all I have without you.

Here is to the year left before we "die."

Teo, Cats & Stuff

I am doing my #whitegirlproblems STBL. Short Term Bucket List y'all. And here I am doing the "blog everyday for a week" or whatever it is goal. Hopefully it isn't longer, because this is not a walk in the park. 

So today's post it brought to you,



My best friend loves cats. He LOVES cats. Cats are pretty cool.

So this post is also brought to you,

The Bachelor Monday Sundaes on Tuesday

Grenada turns you into a monster. Have I mentioned that before?

All of a sudden I find myself doing things I never would have done before. Since when do I watch The Bachelor? 

Since Grenada. 

This show is terrible people. I don't know what is worse, the scripted predictable drama or the fact that I have watched enough Bachelor/ Bachelorette (yeah I'm admitting to both) to know there is scripted predictable drama. 

Yeah, I'm a monster. 

Since the show is so ridiculous, Ross has grown a love for it too. So us monsters, we sit and watch the show together if he happens to be home in time. If not, we watch it together the next day. We're so loyal, I know. 

This time I got fancy and had an ice cream Sunday bar! 

And because Charlene (one of the contestants) is so obnoxious I distracted myself by playing with this new photo collage app Brigette recommended. It is awesome! I love it.

 Which background do you like better? 

Ice cream sundaes, making bad tv good since I started avidly watching bad tv in 2012. 

"How the Time Flies!": Gren-ception

Have you guys ever seen Inception?



It is an exceptional movie. A dream, inside a dream, inside a dream? With all this blog cleaning I have been doing I stumbled upon this draft that I not only tried to write once... but TWICE. Third time's a charm?

I'm guessing the first part in purple was written beginng/mid 1st term. The second part in green was written half-way through 2nd term.

"I am now a wise and old SO. My husband is over half way done with Second Term so I have all the answers! Haha that was sarcasm, btw.

I was looking back on some old blog post drafts that never got published and I found this little gem.

'Sometimes I wonder what I could possibly post about. 

Then I think of all the things I do, and start to process that all the things I have done. Then I realize it has only been a week, or a day or a morning and I have already accomplished so many things! It is nice to be so busy. 

This morning, before even 11:00am I: 

-rode about 5 buses-shopped at 4 different stores-explored a new place-spent lots of money 

Before 11am! I wake up early here, because the sun rises, and once the sun rises and the apartment starts to heat up... good luck trying to get back to sleep. This morning I actually caught the bus with Ross!'

The younger version of myself was so ambitious! Haha.
And yes you can all laugh that I still wake up at 6am or 6:30am. Everyone does."

Wake up!



The only thing we are all laughing about little Kristen is how ambitious you are. Did you just get to the island? Are you still in first year? Have you even wet your feet with 4th term?

This is 5th FRICKIN' term darlin' we don't do stuff like that anymore. Amateur Hour was months ago.

Yet.... I still have this feeling like I haven't woken up...

Music Monday #2 Kina Grannis

I don't watch American Idol. Haha, I know right? I don't watch much TV in general. I had a brief stint with The Voice, like I watched it two weeks in a row.

What I am getting at is, I do not know who Phillip Phillips is. But I stumbled across his song "Home" whilst on Pandora sometime last year. My bestie Teo introduced me to this incredible musician Kina Grannis. It was love a first listen. I'm no pro at things like this, but I know that her voice makes me melt. And makes me feel a little angry that I can't sing like that.

Kina writes and sings her own stuff, she tags along with some musicians, and she does a bunch of covers. It is really hard to choose a favorite, so I just chose two.

Home - Philip Philips (Cover by Kina Grannis)

The Scientist - Coldplay (Cover by Kina Grannis, Tyler Ward, Lindsey Stirling) 

I just love the way all the musicians fit together, like pieces of a puzzle, to present such a enchanting cover of this amazing song by Coldplay.

I love musicians that are versatile. I think it's hard to find popular, real talent. Anyone can sing if you fix it up post-production and make them sound perfect. But live performances, and working with different kinds of artists really showcases true talent.

My last and maybe favorite (but let's be honest I could never choose a favorite) is a song she worked on for Fuse with Hoodie Allen. I know you'll never guess it, but Teo also told me about this song.

Make it Home - Hoodie Allen & Kina Grannis 

Lately it has been stuck in my head non-stop, but I'm not complaining. I find myself singing random bits of it around the house. You can check out the live version if you want, because why wouldn't you want to stare at those two for 4 minutes?... or more if you happen to put it on repeat. 

"I wanna go where the lights are low and the dreamers are chasin'.

I wanna live like we don't know much but we know we're gonna make it."