How to survive finding out you have a heart defect.

1. Take a bunch of photos... especially of the hospital wrist band thing since you've never had one before. be prepared for all the old folk in the cardiac area to judge you and give you disapproving looks for this.

2. ladies, for the love of god, please get your little behind to Topshop...why you ask?!

uuuh cause they are having a massive sale!!

all the sale items are buy one get one free PLUS a 20% student discount on top of that.

so that's like 70% off. 

(no promises on that math, I'm a history major for a reason)

Plus, after finding out you have a heart defect, your momma is much more likely to buy you clothes.

Proven theory folks.

3. Eat suuuper healthy.

gotta beat that stroke risk yo!

ok, so in my defense, the ranch definitely exploded on my salad..at least I tried?

while eating, take awkward photos of your momma (:

aww yeah, she's going to be super pleased to see this on the internet.

4. Attempt to take outfit photos in downtown Chicago... a lot harder than you think.

but the results, while mildly embarrassing at first, are actually quite hilarious

artsy?

I feel like I make this face more often than I think..

so close to being good! 

clearly I was frustrated. and wearing green pants. 

5. Have a ladies night with your roommates...and finally exchange christmas gifts (our excuse is that we're young?)

here's some tidbits into our lives:

"you know what gets me hot right now?"

"well mine's eye lips and face!!

...agnes, that's the brand name."

"well your reindeer is a mudblood!"

"that smells good, who just put shit on?"

"I'm going to activate my thing.... silence."

yeah, we're cool.

I finally got a puppy!

ps. It's also the anniversary of my dad's death today so I'm taking today to celebrate his life. my momma tells me some wonderful stories about him and how much he loved all of us and loved to show us off. 

plus he had mad fashion sense.