Hashtag Humpday Bookworm Edition.

I have been so prepared all week, ALL WEEK I TELL YOU! Then yesterday, the wheels just came off. hey. none of that "Kasey, yesterday was only Tuesday. That's not very far into the week nonsense okay? Okay. SO ANYWAYS. Here's the reason: I found a new book series to love. HASHTAG OBSESSED.

I don't know about you, but I was that kid in line at the midnight release of Harry Potter books + I would be finished with them in a couple of days (you know because my parents would insist that I HAD to eat or sleep or something else nonessential.) Like, I was that girl walking around reading at the same time. #booknerd #notsorryaboutit #booksaremyfriendsokay

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So I mentioned in my summer to do list that I was going to try to read books I hadn't read before. Kalyn mentioned she was reading a series, so when I went to lunch I was off to the library to see if they would let me pay my $2 from 2005 for whatever they didn't remember me owing it for. WELL I WAS WRONG. First, I went to a library that's apparently not part of the PINES library system, so they didn't even know what I was talking about AND THEY WANTED ME TO PAY $35 FOR A LIBRARY CARD. #butIcanBUYbooksforthat #thatsalotofdollars #atleast7beers

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So, off I went to better spend less than $35 on books to read. I walked into Books A Million and the very first book I see is the first one of the Outlander series. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A SIGN. I buy the one with the original cover (not the one with the tv series cover. nope. #booksnob) and head back to work. #littledidIknow #butwaittheresmoretothisstory

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SO AFTER WORK, it's been a helluva day, I decide to sit down by the pool and start reading. BOOM two hours pass, I only realize this because a huge storm is building and I realize I have to get the chickens back in their house and the dogs inside... SO I get the dogs inside and the storm has knocked out the TV, obviously a sign that I should be reading more, so I figure I'll just read until it's dinner time. THEN BOOM THREE HOURS PASS. Then I accidentally stayed up until midnight reading. Also I forgot to eat dinner. #howdoesthathappen #hooked #cantstopwontstop

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soooooo that's why this post wasn't preplanned. today I've already had to ration myself to just a chapter with coffee. So I'm obviously in a hurry to get done with work so I can make dinner and accidentally read until midnight again..... How's your week going? Have you read the Outlander series yet? 

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I think half of my brain is still in Jacksonville right now. I'm definitely not firing on all cylinders. I also haven't even turned on the lights in the office yet, if you're wondering how the day is going. 100% of the inspiration credit for today's post goes to Meredith. Since the first time I set a "blog every weekday this month" goal, I've actually felt like I need to write every day, like I need to be present for all of the fantastic people that stop by every day to see what mess I've gotten myself into this week. 

It's great, I love blogging. I get ridiculously excited when I check my e-mail and I have unread messages from Disqus about comments [side note, yesterday I tweeted about wanting Disquis to have an app so that I could respond to comments from my phone + they so helpfully told us how to moderate via e-mail. That's the opposite of helpful guys..] I also know that if I didn't show up today, you guys would still want to be my friend, which is actually what makes me feel like I need to be here. Does that make any sense? I'm running 100% on coffee at this point. 

Speaking of coffee. Can we just talk for a minute about how great coffee is? I can't quite put my finger on when I stopped being able to function as a human without at least one cup, it's somewhere between senior year of college and my first twelve game homestand. Even on days when I don't have to do anything and I can sleep as late as I want, the first thing I think when I wake up is "oh god, do I have any coffee in the house?" I'm genuinely bummed that there's not a cute little local coffee place that I can walk to in Buckhead. My choices are limited to Starbucks + Caribou. 

I think coffee might be the linchpin in my creative process. I admit that I just looked up linchpin because I don't actually know what that means, but I've heard it said before. One of the definitions is actually the way I meant it, for some reason I always assumed it was one of those weird figures of speech.  Like catywompus. I use that word all the time, I'm not even sure if it's a real word or not. Spell check seems to think otherwise. 

This post has been brought to you by coffee, a lack of inspiration, and the complete intention of writing about how sometimes it's hard to write even though you really want to write because you're creatively bone dry. Today, it's about forcing creativity, because some days you just gotta make it happen. Also, I've been searching for about an hour for a gif of Lorelai saying "coffee coffee coffee!" and that lady giving her three coffees and a lot of sass. It took way too long and then  I realized I should learn to make my own. I also found 22 reasons coffee drinkers are basically Lorelai...  Then I went down the Gilmore Girls internet article rabbit hole and the moral of this story is that it's good that I did my work before starting this today. 

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I just wrote over 500 words about not having anything to write about, in case my babbling abilities were ever in question. What is everyone else up to today? 

Humpday Confessions :: I've Lost Count

I always feel so unprepared when I haven't written my confessions ahead of time and have to do them the day of. I feel like everyone gets up at like 2 am to make sure they're on the linkup first! So far behind because 2 am is definitely a sleepy time.

Saturday I knew it was too damn hot to wear my cowboy boots to tailgate but I refused to accept it and stubbornly wore them and at more than one point in the day took them off and ran around barefoot.

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I have been seeing a lot of these stupid "x amount of things that don't matter after you turn 25" and according to this COSMO article, I'm not acting like I'm 25 because people still ask me what my college GPA was in job interviews, and I still think what music someone listens to tells a lot about their personality. Also, almost every point she makes is contradicted by her explanations... At first I felt ridiculous for being so irritated over a Cosmo article, then I realized I was most irritated because someone got PAID to write this stupid thing.

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Most of my friends from college are growing up, becoming real people, going on tropical vacations with their significant others, getting married, buying houses, and I'm just hanging out keeping up with the current college kids instead. I don't have any FOMO or guilt. You do your home improvement projects, I'll enjoy my bottomless mimosas.

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I couldn't possibly care any less that the Pumpkin Spice Latte doesn't have any actual pumpkin in it. I'm not really sure what made this lady think anyone really believed that it wasn't an artificial flavor. Also, I think organic is a crock unless you see exactly where that's coming from. I'll stick to my "non-organic coffee that may contain pesticides" thanks.

oh hey Becoming Adorrable is the third google result for "gilmore girls coffee gif"

I didn't mean for this to be almost exclusively Gilmore Girls gifs, it just happened okay? Not sorry. I am a little sorry these aren't as great as you would expect them to be after a weekend in Athens, oddly enough nothing out of the ordinary happened! Hop on over to Kathy's place because there are plenty more people confessing today, and their's are probably better than mine! What do you have to confess today?