all in all, it's been a good year. a hazy, frenzied, challenging, comfortable one all at once. i sometimes forget i'm only 23, but it's like amy poehler said: you're never too young to be very wise.
self-five.
but before i go through the minute details of a fabulous year, i thought i'd share the minutiae of my year in review. because i'm easily excitable. if you didn't know.
best song: taking into account my ability to listen to it endlessly, sing along passionately, turning to it desperately - and happily - throughout the year...i'm gonna go with "i wanna get better" by bleachers. but for purely sentimental reasons i can't beat "shake it off"
best album: i may be biased but 1989 is really all that and a bag of chips.
best film: there weren't many great films this year - or at least i didn't get around to seeing them yet. but i really loved the lego movie. which i am not at all ashamed of. and dawn of the planet of the apes was truly - how you say? - unforgettable.
best tv: it's parenthood's last season and it's made me a weepy mess.
best show: the other mozart - this amazing one-woman show about mozart's equally talented but sexistly forgotten sister
favorite celebrity: taylor swift. the songs! sass! the slayage! the self-made success! hear her roar, amiright? also, bff status.
high: emma watson's #heforshe speech
low: #handsupdontshoot #icantbreathe
new life philosophy: forget the games, the expectations, the ideas of who i should be and what i should like and how i should act. you do you and i'll do me.
favorite quote: "i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i've ended up where i needed to be" - douglas adams.
best book: i loved eleanor and park. also, my coworker is repping this new ya novel coming out called all the bright places and it's so wonderfully good so just read it okay? okay.
best trip: malta, obviously. but i also loved our blitz through istanbul.
greatest concert: grouplove. i didn't know how much i loved them until i saw them live. and now the memory of that show is one of my favorite.
makeup must: NARS velvet matte lip pencils. especially never say never. lifetime supply, please!
fashion favorite: skater skirts
better with: karaoke is my eureka.
better without: caring so much about what people think of me
wish list item: this gramophone for the iphone
biggest temptation: buying concert tickets for the bleachers nyc show in april. likelihood of me giving in to said temptation? 100%. totally weak-willed here. and have you heard them?? they're awesome! UPDATE: i totally bought them. (note to self, don't contemplate ticket purchases while listening to band)
