Great Wall of Portland

Jeramy took these photos on our last day in Portland,Oregon a few weeks ago. There is this remnant of a wall in the Pearl District that just sits there and looks pretty so we decided to climb it and have a photo shoot.

Oh, right so did I mention I went to Oregon? Yeah, so that happened. We were there for 9 days to attend Musicfest Northwest and to just check out the city in general. We stayed at the swanky Hotel Modera in Downtown Portland and spent our time perusing vintage and record stores, sipped way too much Stumptown coffee, and went to venue after venue to see some amazing bands like Iron & Wine, The Antlers, and Band of Horses to name the more well known headliners. Some of my favorites to see were Talk Demonic and Explosions in the Sky. Jeramy brought me along to see my first Metal shows which was fun too. We even squeezed some time in to rent a car and drive out to the Bagby Hotsprings and see the crazy amazing forests. I'll probably do another post soon about the trip because there is just far too much to share in just one post. All in all, it is an amazing place and I'm pretty sure that living in Portland will be in my near future!

Paving the way

... for a whole new Rosemud! So, hurrah!! My BEAUTIFUL new macbook arrived in the mail on Friday and I have been glued to it since then. We are new BFF's, which means I'll be around the internet more, which means more blogging for me! I have some new blog ideas floating around in my head and want to completely redesign everything, so you guys will just have to bear with me while Rosemud gets under construction.
Speaking of construction, Jeramy snapped this photo when we took a walk down his newly paved road. we took a walk to break in my new Asos Chelsea boots, which I'm super in love with! As always, I stopped to pick pretty weeds off the side of the road and where else to put them besides my hair!?

under a rock

Yes, its true. I'm coming back to the blogging world. I have a macbook in the mail on its way to me to replace my Vaio whose hard drive crashed and forced me off the internet for awhile. Honestly though, it has been very necessary as life has been quite draining the last year or so. I've been needing time to refocus my energies into things that I love rather than get caught up in the fact that I am not happy with my situation currently in life.
We just got back from Portland, OR which was quite the refreshing vacation (more to come on that later)and I've been taking more time to work on myself and to be okay with where I am. I found a really great quote that really rung true in a book I got in Powell's Bookstore out in Oregon (most amazing bookstore in the world? I think so. The place takes up an entire block and I legit got lost in there.
Okay, so back to that quote, it goes as follows

" We must bloom where we are planted."
-The Sound of Paper, by Julia Cameron

I'd been having a hard time accepting my situation in life and have come to terms that no matter, where I am or what I am doing with my life, I must flourish and live life to the most. No more pity parties for this chick.
Not going to lie, this comeback will be slow. I'm still working on taking photos and figuring out exactly how I want this blog to be, but I wanted to pop in and let everyone know where I'm at and to prove that I have not disappeared off the side of this planet!