November 2020

At least once I day I find myself yelling, “oh my god, how did I forget that?” to myself. Usually I’m talking about the fact that I failed once again to type a response to that text I saw while walking down the street or scrolling through hours of Instagram posts. I am definitely one of those people that will bump into a chair and then apologize for being in the way. And don’t get me started on mannequins at Macys, those things basically have a heartbeat.

Over the past week I’ve been jotting down things I’m sorry for, whether my fault or not. Mostly my fault though. Some I feel terrible about and I promise to try to do better, others I’m not that mad about and you shouldn’t be either. 

Forgetting to say ‘Happy Birthday.’

Yesss, I know Facebook reminds you when you log on and sends you a text plus we’ve known each other for years but I was like super busy and didn’t even check Facebook that day. I promise to make it up to you with a super long winded text about how busy my life is to justify forgetting your birthday then an Instagram post with a paragraph caption explaining how good of friends we are and how no one can replace you. But please don’t replace me, I’ll try to do better next year. Probably. 

Cutting in line. 

Before you come at me with pitchforks hear me out! I am 100% against line cutters! Don’t like em, don’t ever let them slide by me, would vote to have that be something you could get ticketed for if I had the chance. So before you call me a hypocrite this is what happens. I’m waiting for the bus stop, off to the side because other people were there before me. As the bus pulls up it stops literally right in front of me, right in front of me guys! What am I supposed to do? Not get on? So I accidentally cut in front of an entire group of people, but hey, destiny decided I needed to get on first. 

Replying to emails days later. 

While I check my email no less than 50 times a day, I am terrible at replying. Why? Because I’m lazy. Yes I saw the email, yes I heard the notification on my phone, yes I even may have the answer you need, but I do not want to type it out and then stress about how to sign the end of the email. Best? Sincerely? Thank you? More like no thank you, I’ll just tell you next time I see you in person. 

Never replying to your text. 

In my defense, I read your text! I don’t know why I so terrible, but I have a bad habit of reading a text, replying in my mind, but never actually sending my reply. Then I love to sit in my bed of lies and give a thousand excuses about how my phone was on silent and in my purse which I left at work and that’s why i couldn’t respond. Oh, and all those Instagram photos you saw me liking, well I must have been hacked. Sorry, truly truly sorry.

Long winded stories with no real plot. 

Kevin Hart had it right, women do love to tell long stories with no real beginning, middle or end, usually about someone at work, and spill details about things you know nothing about. This one is mainly aimed to my friends who I like to call as I walk home, and for all the hours they’ve spent listening to me rant about how this girl at work had the nerve to talk about her holiday party knowing I was within earshot and not invited. I like to tell long pointless stories, please don’t hate me.

Is there anything you do on a regular basis that you’re sorry for? If so, leave a comment below, I promise to not hold it against you! 

As I was wasting time the other day I noticed my friend Noor had tagged me in an Instagram photo, which at the moment made no sense because there was no possible way she had taken a photo with me. (She lives in Pakistan, I’m all the way on the California coast.)

Turns out there’s a tag going around, and in the spirit of not being rude and ignoring the fact that I was tagged I figured why the hell not? I promise to do my best and not bore you with random facts that you’ve read a thousand times before.

1. I eat an entire bag of sunflower seeds a day. Sometimes more. I’ve always had a craving for seeds and have reached the point of eating them so often that I don’t need any other meals during the day.

2. I went years without drinking water. Years. Then a few months ago I was too cheap to buy anything other drinks to pack with my lunch and suddenly started drinking water.

3. I played softball for one season, and by played, I mean I stood in the outfield hoping the ball never got as far as I was. I was mostly in it for the uniform, which ended up being hideous.

4. I always carry two cell phones with me. The one that is in service and the one I prefer to take photos with. It makes no sense. 5. I used to steal books from the library because I believed the other kids weren’t treating them right.

6. I’m very easily annoyed, so easily that it’s hard to be around myself sometimes. But the only people who see this bitchy side of me are my boyfriends. (In the past, not as in I currently have multiple boyfriends.)

7. I don’t trust the people who work in salons and wax your eyebrows. Do they have an official title? Anyways, I don’t trust them, I swear they always take off wayyyy too much. 8. I’ve never watched The Bachelor and I have no interest in it either. Dating shows have always just felt so forced to me. 9. I’ve never tried most foods that people love. Like cake, donuts, all seafood, hot dogs, Nutella, steak, and about every other thing you probably couldn’t live without.

Nothing sexier than a cardboard box, am I right??

10. Sophomore year in college I dressed up as a robot and it was awesome. I spent days making the costume and kept it for months afterward.

11. Whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself by saying, “Hi, I’m Rubi…with an I.”

12. Every time I ride a taxi alone I will text a friend the license plate number. Just in case I’m kidnapped or something…

13. Late at night when I’m really bored I’ll walk around my house as quiet as possible to see how little noise I can make. Remember that scene in Enough (the movie with Jennifer Lopez and her abusive husband) where she’s trying to sneak out of the house? It’s half that, half pretending I’m in an episode of The Walking Dead. All in all, I bet I look ridiculous.

14. I fist pump whenever my popcorn is done. 15. I only run if there’s a prize at the end. Like a free tshirt or photo opportunity. 16. I don’t put a password on any of my electronics because if I’m kidnapped I’d like the police to find clues of what the heck I was doing before it happened. 17. Now that I’m writing this list it’s pretty clear I’m always preparing to be kidnapped, and to partially solve my own case.
18. I’ve seen almost every episode of Law and Order SVU, which is probably where my paranoia stems from. (Completely unrelated gif, I just love how they were the couple that never happened.) 19. I’ve pepper sprayed someone. It was actually a friend of mine who was getting on my nerves. 20. It’s impossible for me to smile in a photo after I’ve been asked to. I just cant, I’m sorry, my face doesn’t work that way!

If you made it to the end, wow. The lazy in me probably would have quit halfway through so I applaud you. Definitely leave a random fact about yourself in the comments or feel free to mock me for pepper spraying my own good friend.

And if you feel like completing the tag go ahead, this is me tagging you!

At least once I day I find myself yelling, “oh my god, how did I forget that?” to myself. Usually I’m talking about the fact that I failed once again to type a response to that text I saw while walking down the street or scrolling through hours of Instagram posts. I am definitely one of those people that will bump into a chair and then apologize for being in the way. And don’t get me started on mannequins at Macys, those things basically have a heartbeat.

Over the past week I’ve been jotting down things I’m sorry for, whether my fault or not. Mostly my fault though. Some I feel terrible about and I promise to try to do better, others I’m not that mad about and you shouldn’t be either. 

Forgetting to say ‘Happy Birthday.’

Yesss, I know Facebook reminds you when you log on and sends you a text plus we’ve known each other for years but I was like super busy and didn’t even check Facebook that day. I promise to make it up to you with a super long winded text about how busy my life is to justify forgetting your birthday then an Instagram post with a paragraph caption explaining how good of friends we are and how no one can replace you. But please don’t replace me, I’ll try to do better next year. Probably. 

Cutting in line. 

Before you come at me with pitchforks hear me out! I am 100% against line cutters! Don’t like em, don’t ever let them slide by me, would vote to have that be something you could get ticketed for if I had the chance. So before you call me a hypocrite this is what happens. I’m waiting for the bus stop, off to the side because other people were there before me. As the bus pulls up it stops literally right in front of me, right in front of me guys! What am I supposed to do? Not get on? So I accidentally cut in front of an entire group of people, but hey, destiny decided I needed to get on first. 

Replying to emails days later. 

While I check my email no less than 50 times a day, I am terrible at replying. Why? Because I’m lazy. Yes I saw the email, yes I heard the notification on my phone, yes I even may have the answer you need, but I do not want to type it out and then stress about how to sign the end of the email. Best? Sincerely? Thank you? More like no thank you, I’ll just tell you next time I see you in person. 

Never replying to your text. 

In my defense, I read your text! I don’t know why I so terrible, but I have a bad habit of reading a text, replying in my mind, but never actually sending my reply. Then I love to sit in my bed of lies and give a thousand excuses about how my phone was on silent and in my purse which I left at work and that’s why i couldn’t respond. Oh, and all those Instagram photos you saw me liking, well I must have been hacked. Sorry, truly truly sorry.

Long winded stories with no real plot. 

Kevin Hart had it right, women do love to tell long stories with no real beginning, middle or end, usually about someone at work, and spill details about things you know nothing about. This one is mainly aimed to my friends who I like to call as I walk home, and for all the hours they’ve spent listening to me rant about how this girl at work had the nerve to talk about her holiday party knowing I was within earshot and not invited. I like to tell long pointless stories, please don’t hate me.

Is there anything you do on a regular basis that you’re sorry for? If so, leave a comment below, I promise to not hold it against you! 

As I was wasting time the other day I noticed my friend Noor had tagged me in an Instagram photo, which at the moment made no sense because there was no possible way she had taken a photo with me. (She lives in Pakistan, I’m all the way on the California coast.)

Turns out there’s a tag going around, and in the spirit of not being rude and ignoring the fact that I was tagged I figured why the hell not? I promise to do my best and not bore you with random facts that you’ve read a thousand times before.

1. I eat an entire bag of sunflower seeds a day. Sometimes more. I’ve always had a craving for seeds and have reached the point of eating them so often that I don’t need any other meals during the day.

2. I went years without drinking water. Years. Then a few months ago I was too cheap to buy anything other drinks to pack with my lunch and suddenly started drinking water.

3. I played softball for one season, and by played, I mean I stood in the outfield hoping the ball never got as far as I was. I was mostly in it for the uniform, which ended up being hideous.

4. I always carry two cell phones with me. The one that is in service and the one I prefer to take photos with. It makes no sense. 5. I used to steal books from the library because I believed the other kids weren’t treating them right.

6. I’m very easily annoyed, so easily that it’s hard to be around myself sometimes. But the only people who see this bitchy side of me are my boyfriends. (In the past, not as in I currently have multiple boyfriends.)

7. I don’t trust the people who work in salons and wax your eyebrows. Do they have an official title? Anyways, I don’t trust them, I swear they always take off wayyyy too much. 8. I’ve never watched The Bachelor and I have no interest in it either. Dating shows have always just felt so forced to me. 9. I’ve never tried most foods that people love. Like cake, donuts, all seafood, hot dogs, Nutella, steak, and about every other thing you probably couldn’t live without.

Nothing sexier than a cardboard box, am I right??

10. Sophomore year in college I dressed up as a robot and it was awesome. I spent days making the costume and kept it for months afterward.

11. Whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself by saying, “Hi, I’m Rubi…with an I.”

12. Every time I ride a taxi alone I will text a friend the license plate number. Just in case I’m kidnapped or something…

13. Late at night when I’m really bored I’ll walk around my house as quiet as possible to see how little noise I can make. Remember that scene in Enough (the movie with Jennifer Lopez and her abusive husband) where she’s trying to sneak out of the house? It’s half that, half pretending I’m in an episode of The Walking Dead. All in all, I bet I look ridiculous.

14. I fist pump whenever my popcorn is done. 15. I only run if there’s a prize at the end. Like a free tshirt or photo opportunity. 16. I don’t put a password on any of my electronics because if I’m kidnapped I’d like the police to find clues of what the heck I was doing before it happened. 17. Now that I’m writing this list it’s pretty clear I’m always preparing to be kidnapped, and to partially solve my own case.
18. I’ve seen almost every episode of Law and Order SVU, which is probably where my paranoia stems from. (Completely unrelated gif, I just love how they were the couple that never happened.) 19. I’ve pepper sprayed someone. It was actually a friend of mine who was getting on my nerves. 20. It’s impossible for me to smile in a photo after I’ve been asked to. I just cant, I’m sorry, my face doesn’t work that way!

If you made it to the end, wow. The lazy in me probably would have quit halfway through so I applaud you. Definitely leave a random fact about yourself in the comments or feel free to mock me for pepper spraying my own good friend.

And if you feel like completing the tag go ahead, this is me tagging you!

At least once I day I find myself yelling, “oh my god, how did I forget that?” to myself. Usually I’m talking about the fact that I failed once again to type a response to that text I saw while walking down the street or scrolling through hours of Instagram posts. I am definitely one of those people that will bump into a chair and then apologize for being in the way. And don’t get me started on mannequins at Macys, those things basically have a heartbeat.

Over the past week I’ve been jotting down things I’m sorry for, whether my fault or not. Mostly my fault though. Some I feel terrible about and I promise to try to do better, others I’m not that mad about and you shouldn’t be either. 

Forgetting to say ‘Happy Birthday.’

Yesss, I know Facebook reminds you when you log on and sends you a text plus we’ve known each other for years but I was like super busy and didn’t even check Facebook that day. I promise to make it up to you with a super long winded text about how busy my life is to justify forgetting your birthday then an Instagram post with a paragraph caption explaining how good of friends we are and how no one can replace you. But please don’t replace me, I’ll try to do better next year. Probably. 

Cutting in line. 

Before you come at me with pitchforks hear me out! I am 100% against line cutters! Don’t like em, don’t ever let them slide by me, would vote to have that be something you could get ticketed for if I had the chance. So before you call me a hypocrite this is what happens. I’m waiting for the bus stop, off to the side because other people were there before me. As the bus pulls up it stops literally right in front of me, right in front of me guys! What am I supposed to do? Not get on? So I accidentally cut in front of an entire group of people, but hey, destiny decided I needed to get on first. 

Replying to emails days later. 

While I check my email no less than 50 times a day, I am terrible at replying. Why? Because I’m lazy. Yes I saw the email, yes I heard the notification on my phone, yes I even may have the answer you need, but I do not want to type it out and then stress about how to sign the end of the email. Best? Sincerely? Thank you? More like no thank you, I’ll just tell you next time I see you in person. 

Never replying to your text. 

In my defense, I read your text! I don’t know why I so terrible, but I have a bad habit of reading a text, replying in my mind, but never actually sending my reply. Then I love to sit in my bed of lies and give a thousand excuses about how my phone was on silent and in my purse which I left at work and that’s why i couldn’t respond. Oh, and all those Instagram photos you saw me liking, well I must have been hacked. Sorry, truly truly sorry.

Long winded stories with no real plot. 

Kevin Hart had it right, women do love to tell long stories with no real beginning, middle or end, usually about someone at work, and spill details about things you know nothing about. This one is mainly aimed to my friends who I like to call as I walk home, and for all the hours they’ve spent listening to me rant about how this girl at work had the nerve to talk about her holiday party knowing I was within earshot and not invited. I like to tell long pointless stories, please don’t hate me.

Is there anything you do on a regular basis that you’re sorry for? If so, leave a comment below, I promise to not hold it against you! 

As I was wasting time the other day I noticed my friend Noor had tagged me in an Instagram photo, which at the moment made no sense because there was no possible way she had taken a photo with me. (She lives in Pakistan, I’m all the way on the California coast.)

Turns out there’s a tag going around, and in the spirit of not being rude and ignoring the fact that I was tagged I figured why the hell not? I promise to do my best and not bore you with random facts that you’ve read a thousand times before.

1. I eat an entire bag of sunflower seeds a day. Sometimes more. I’ve always had a craving for seeds and have reached the point of eating them so often that I don’t need any other meals during the day.

2. I went years without drinking water. Years. Then a few months ago I was too cheap to buy anything other drinks to pack with my lunch and suddenly started drinking water.

3. I played softball for one season, and by played, I mean I stood in the outfield hoping the ball never got as far as I was. I was mostly in it for the uniform, which ended up being hideous.

4. I always carry two cell phones with me. The one that is in service and the one I prefer to take photos with. It makes no sense. 5. I used to steal books from the library because I believed the other kids weren’t treating them right.

6. I’m very easily annoyed, so easily that it’s hard to be around myself sometimes. But the only people who see this bitchy side of me are my boyfriends. (In the past, not as in I currently have multiple boyfriends.)

7. I don’t trust the people who work in salons and wax your eyebrows. Do they have an official title? Anyways, I don’t trust them, I swear they always take off wayyyy too much. 8. I’ve never watched The Bachelor and I have no interest in it either. Dating shows have always just felt so forced to me. 9. I’ve never tried most foods that people love. Like cake, donuts, all seafood, hot dogs, Nutella, steak, and about every other thing you probably couldn’t live without.

Nothing sexier than a cardboard box, am I right??

10. Sophomore year in college I dressed up as a robot and it was awesome. I spent days making the costume and kept it for months afterward.

11. Whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself by saying, “Hi, I’m Rubi…with an I.”

12. Every time I ride a taxi alone I will text a friend the license plate number. Just in case I’m kidnapped or something…

13. Late at night when I’m really bored I’ll walk around my house as quiet as possible to see how little noise I can make. Remember that scene in Enough (the movie with Jennifer Lopez and her abusive husband) where she’s trying to sneak out of the house? It’s half that, half pretending I’m in an episode of The Walking Dead. All in all, I bet I look ridiculous.

14. I fist pump whenever my popcorn is done. 15. I only run if there’s a prize at the end. Like a free tshirt or photo opportunity. 16. I don’t put a password on any of my electronics because if I’m kidnapped I’d like the police to find clues of what the heck I was doing before it happened. 17. Now that I’m writing this list it’s pretty clear I’m always preparing to be kidnapped, and to partially solve my own case.
18. I’ve seen almost every episode of Law and Order SVU, which is probably where my paranoia stems from. (Completely unrelated gif, I just love how they were the couple that never happened.) 19. I’ve pepper sprayed someone. It was actually a friend of mine who was getting on my nerves. 20. It’s impossible for me to smile in a photo after I’ve been asked to. I just cant, I’m sorry, my face doesn’t work that way!

If you made it to the end, wow. The lazy in me probably would have quit halfway through so I applaud you. Definitely leave a random fact about yourself in the comments or feel free to mock me for pepper spraying my own good friend.

And if you feel like completing the tag go ahead, this is me tagging you!

As I was wasting time the other day I noticed my friend Noor had tagged me in an Instagram photo, which at the moment made no sense because there was no possible way she had taken a photo with me. (She lives in Pakistan, I’m all the way on the California coast.)

Turns out there’s a tag going around, and in the spirit of not being rude and ignoring the fact that I was tagged I figured why the hell not? I promise to do my best and not bore you with random facts that you’ve read a thousand times before.

1. I eat an entire bag of sunflower seeds a day. Sometimes more. I’ve always had a craving for seeds and have reached the point of eating them so often that I don’t need any other meals during the day.

2. I went years without drinking water. Years. Then a few months ago I was too cheap to buy anything other drinks to pack with my lunch and suddenly started drinking water.

3. I played softball for one season, and by played, I mean I stood in the outfield hoping the ball never got as far as I was. I was mostly in it for the uniform, which ended up being hideous.

4. I always carry two cell phones with me. The one that is in service and the one I prefer to take photos with. It makes no sense. 5. I used to steal books from the library because I believed the other kids weren’t treating them right.

6. I’m very easily annoyed, so easily that it’s hard to be around myself sometimes. But the only people who see this bitchy side of me are my boyfriends. (In the past, not as in I currently have multiple boyfriends.)

7. I don’t trust the people who work in salons and wax your eyebrows. Do they have an official title? Anyways, I don’t trust them, I swear they always take off wayyyy too much. 8. I’ve never watched The Bachelor and I have no interest in it either. Dating shows have always just felt so forced to me. 9. I’ve never tried most foods that people love. Like cake, donuts, all seafood, hot dogs, Nutella, steak, and about every other thing you probably couldn’t live without.

Nothing sexier than a cardboard box, am I right??

10. Sophomore year in college I dressed up as a robot and it was awesome. I spent days making the costume and kept it for months afterward.

11. Whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself by saying, “Hi, I’m Rubi…with an I.”

12. Every time I ride a taxi alone I will text a friend the license plate number. Just in case I’m kidnapped or something…

13. Late at night when I’m really bored I’ll walk around my house as quiet as possible to see how little noise I can make. Remember that scene in Enough (the movie with Jennifer Lopez and her abusive husband) where she’s trying to sneak out of the house? It’s half that, half pretending I’m in an episode of The Walking Dead. All in all, I bet I look ridiculous.

14. I fist pump whenever my popcorn is done. 15. I only run if there’s a prize at the end. Like a free tshirt or photo opportunity. 16. I don’t put a password on any of my electronics because if I’m kidnapped I’d like the police to find clues of what the heck I was doing before it happened. 17. Now that I’m writing this list it’s pretty clear I’m always preparing to be kidnapped, and to partially solve my own case.
18. I’ve seen almost every episode of Law and Order SVU, which is probably where my paranoia stems from. (Completely unrelated gif, I just love how they were the couple that never happened.) 19. I’ve pepper sprayed someone. It was actually a friend of mine who was getting on my nerves. 20. It’s impossible for me to smile in a photo after I’ve been asked to. I just cant, I’m sorry, my face doesn’t work that way!

If you made it to the end, wow. The lazy in me probably would have quit halfway through so I applaud you. Definitely leave a random fact about yourself in the comments or feel free to mock me for pepper spraying my own good friend.

And if you feel like completing the tag go ahead, this is me tagging you!

What Am I Doing With My Life? is a weekly segment where I recap all the things I spent my week reading, watching and listening to. Think of it as a weekly link roundup but better, because it has a much more adorable name… 

What you might have missed while you were out having a life:

• I thought this was a complete joke, but apparently some exes have no shame. Including celebrity ones. 
• Next time you’re hungry and have no money to eat out, try doing what this guy did. 
• An all emoji version of Drunk In Love, because why not?
• Food facts that will leave you feeling like you need to share this article with literally everyone.
• For all the perfectionists out there, a Buzzfeed article that will have you nodding until your head hurts. 

What I spent my week doing:

• A winner for my February photo a day challenge was finally chosen! With over 1,350 photo entries, the winner was announced on my Instagram.
• Lent started this week, which meant I just had to write about the things I could never ever give up. See the list of 12 things here. 
• With 2 weeks of college left, I described exactly what being the a senior on campus feels like. It feels a lot like you are ready to get the hell out of here. 
• I linked up with Erin to take part in her Blogmopolitan quiz this past Sunday. 
• I’ve gotten really into Pinterest lately, with boards dedicated to blogging tutorials, blogger resources, blogging freebies, the cliche quotes board and one dedicated solely to amazing outfits that incorporate tights. 
• Plus like every week, I’ve been tumblin’.