Life After Graduation

To be blunt: life sucks.  It just does, and there is no other way around it.  Now, that being said, you really do need to appreciate the smaller things in life.  It helps the stupid things seem smaller. Embrace your guilty pleasures! I love PSL (Pumpkin Spice Latte) season, my colored pens, and wondering which cardigan to wear. I even post pictures of these things on Instagram! I could care less what people think. Spontaneity is a thing.  You should do it more often.  You never know when it will produce something you didn't know you needed. Gratitude and Love.  They are the things that make life ... well ... life.  Practice them, even if it all sucks. Traffic is the perfect time to listen and sing along to music without caring about who else is listening. Think of the car ride as a concert staring you, and it will always be awesome. Age is superfluous - unless you are doing something adult in nature, in which case it is very important - friends are friends, and good time

If you're anything like me, then you keep odd hours and throw care and sleep to the wind.  This would include late night drives to places you have never been and trusting a GPS that has gotten you lost before.  And did I mention you have one of your best friends and the Queen in tow? Let me put the ages into perspective for you: Queen: 33 BF: 25 (soon to be 26) Me: 22 The reason for us heading down to Stockton at 8 pm is not important, it is the conversation that filled the silence on our way that makes it funny. Mixed tapes are a classic way to spend a car ride, and this one was no exception.  The Queen has quite the selection of CD's and playlists; so he likes to pick one at random, put it in, and the rest of us just roll with it.  Well, it was a 90's sort of evening, and of course there was Britney, and then NCYNC and Backstreet Boys. As soon as Bye Bye Bye comes on we all start singing and dancing (what else are long car rides for?) When the song changes, my