Essentially Ericka

20-something. Worker/hustler. Schooler/scholar. Food snob. Brand loyal. Nashvillian. Cheapo. Extra girly. Political. Single. Here we go y'all.
Sunday is for baking bread.

Sunday is for baking bread.

herblondness:

antissa:

Summer Sky. Boston, MA

I always see the pretty NYC pics, so I wanted to spice it up.

I love this beautiful city. My favorite besides my own.

herblondness:

antissa:

Summer Sky. Boston, MA

I always see the pretty NYC pics, so I wanted to spice it up.

I love this beautiful city. My favorite besides my own.

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams,

You dreamer,

Bring me all your

Heart melodies

…That I may wrap them

In a blue cloud-cloth

Away from the too-rough fingers

Of the world

-Langston Hughes

P.S. Another newest thing in my life is I’m training for a 5k AND a Warrior Run (where I will get an ULTRA AMAZING viking helmet when I finish it)

The newest thing in my life (well, one of the newest I guess) is all of a sudden on Friday night, I decided I was going to try to be vegetarian for a few weeks, maybe a month. Saturday, I had a hotdog. But then I vowed to be vegetarian from that point on. Then yesterday, Sunday, I had some chicken. And it was really good so I don’t regret eating it. But for real, y’all. Now I’m really vegetarian. So even though I’ve been pretty absent from the blogging world lately, just because life has been really crazy and busy (in the best way possible), I’m going to start being a better blogger and as a form of accountability, I’m really going to be hammering the vegetarian thing home. So today:

For breakfast I had some homemade (organic) banana nut bread.

For lunch I’m having fruit (an apple, a banana, a few chunks of watermelon and pineapple), some cherry tomatoes, and some baby carrots.

For dinner before I work out, I’m having a bowl of Great Grains cereal (that has granola, dates, raisins, and pecans I think) with organic soymilk.

And for an after work-out snack, a Clif bar for some protein.

I know I don’t have many followers here, but if you’re a follower and you have some vegetarian recipes or ideas, I’d love to hear about them.

Two small confessions.

-I am not a lipstick girl. I wish I could wear it. I want to. It looks nice. I think my lips are too big and cartoonish with lipstick on. Now a sheer lip balm I can handle. But not lipstick. Sorry.

-I wish I lived somewhere that I could wear cardigans in the summer. Our Tennessee weather will melt a cardigan in no time flat. And even on a day that isn’t so hot in the summer, the humidity alone will make even the thinnest t-shirts feel like a parka.

As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different god, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.

—Ricky Gervais: “Why I’m an Atheist” (via patricktimothy)

(via odins-flatmate)

ohscience:

a planet forming in the debris around the star HL Tau. the protoplanet won’t condense into its final form—a ball of hydrogen and helium gas about the size of Jupiter called a gas giant—for at least another million years. 

ohscience:

a planet forming in the debris around the star HL Tau. the protoplanet won’t condense into its final form—a ball of hydrogen and helium gas about the size of Jupiter called a gas giant—for at least another million years. 

Did you know…

That plumbers expect you to be leaving your house by 7 AM. I know this because at 7:10, 7:15, and 7:20 there was a knock at my door. At 7:20, I finally answered and it was the plumber saying he was about to shut the water off so they could work on the plumbing.
Um, that’s not going to work for me. You need to go get some breakfast or something and chill the eff out while I take my shower and brush my teeth and do other things with the water.

In other news, this is officially Train Your Plumber week.

On Life & Love

They say the average person has their heart broken 5 times before they find “the one.”

If that’s the case, I’m going to tap out after the two I’ve had. I’m out.

Sunday Funday

Got home at 5 AM…slept til 1. Overindulged in Burger King.

Going to work on homework and studying for an upcoming test and clean this nasty apartment.

Have a few Woodchucks after homework but before cleaning.

And at 7 PM, I’m watching the Civil War special on PBS.

That’s right. I’m planning my free day around a special on PBS.

You’re a ramblin’ man. You ain’t ever gonna change. You gotta gypsy soul to blame and you were born for leavin’.