Romancin'

        Apologies for my absence. It's been hard for me to get into blogging. I have a difficult time writing or talking about my life that's not occasional complaining on my twitter. It's just always weirded me out that there are ACTUAL people who see me and what I post. I usually forget that people will read my thoughts when I post them anywhere, like Facebook. Social media is so strange. Or maybe I'm just being odd? Whatever. At any rate, I came here to update on my life. For starters, I have a boyfriend! It's really weird to call him that, not because we've been friends for going on 13 years, but because the term boyfriend sounds so mundane and meaningless. When I think of "boyfriend", I think of a fourteen year old school girl who started dating her crush whom she had only known for two weeks because he sits next to her in math class, and they end up breaking up a month later. Don't know if that's stupid of me to think, but I can't help it. I feel like him and I are so much closer than that. Obviously.

A picture of us from last night, wearing my new Modcloth 

dress I intend to blog about in a later post. Oh, does he hate 

taking pictures! Such attitude, haha.

            His name is Ricky. We've been very close friends since we met when we were 8 years old. He's always been my go-to friend any time anything happy, sad, wonderful, scary, heartbreaking, weird, crazy- etc happened to me. Basically he was the first person I wanted to tell whenever I did anything. I remember he was always super in love with me when we were kids, and our parents often joked how we would end up getting married. I too had a big crush on him, but of course I wouldn't let anyone know that. He was my first kiss when we were 13, too. One of the most amazing experiences ever.

Us when we were 13.

          Sadly, we sort of drifted apart through high school, with us dealing with our own lives and dilemmas we were facing. I will definitely not go into detail there, for it's far too deep. But what I will say is that though we were not hanging out as much, with him being home schooled and me being sick, we always found ourselves reuniting and being there for each other. He helped me through the darkest moments of my life, and I like to think that I made things a little better, even though our constant friendship turned into a once a month phone call.

        Now that we are older and have battled our own demons and came out stronger, we found our way back into each other's lives. We have only been together for about three months, which I hate to say. It just feels like we've been together so much longer, since I've been in love with him for over a decade.  But it fills me with so much joy to be able to call him mine and be able to go home after a hard day and see him, Yes, we're already living together. Which may seem strange to other people, but not to us. ♥ 

Carlsbad

Hey! I haven't posted in a few months due to laziness, but I'm ready to get off my butt and start posting again! This post will be about my two trips to Carlsbad with my good friends Ricky and Clay. I've been friends with both of them since we were all about 8, and have always been very close. It was great to go to the beach for a few days with them. Clay is working out in Carlsbad, so Ricky and I have been tagging along with him and staying in a hotel for a few days. It's been really fun. Here are some pictures from the last two times we went on our trip-

                                                                                                                                                   
I've enjoyed spending time with them so much. They are some of the best people I've never met and it saddens me that we didn't spend a lot of time together the past few years. They are such friendly, good natured, hilarious people to be around. I look forward to spending more time with them in the future!

Beach trip!

Hello! Sooo, my friend Aleyah and I recently went on a trip to Huntington Beach, CA. We spent the majority of Sunday there, and it was so much fun. We spent the ride there singing to The Shins, Beirut, and The Fratellis, while eating mango (?) ice cream. Hanging out with Aleyah, or any of my friends, really, is always a blast and filled with a ton of laughter and silliness.

(My swimsuit is from Modcloth.com)

After falling asleep on the sand, almost drowning (and thankfully being constantly saved by my trusty sidekick- the infamous Draco Malfoy [don't kill me, Aleyah]), laughing whilst running away from the water, spotting a Taylor Lautner look alike, accidentally stealing Aleyah's sunglasses, and a million pictures, Aleyah and I left to beach. We walked the pier, and watched people dancing in the middle of a drum circle. I kind of wanted to dance, but I just couldn't do it. There was what looked like a 6 year old boy that was doing crazy hand stands and cart wheels, and I couldn't compete. That would be like singing a song on stage after Beyonce. Yeah, no thank you. After that, we went window shopping for a bit, eventually ending up at IHOP for pancakes and coffee. After that, we went home, thus ending our day. It was all really great, and I hope she had as fun of a time as I did!
 On a different note, tomorrow is my graduation! It has finally arrived, and besides me being happy that it's all finally over, I feel very indifferent. My mood will probably change tomorrow evening once I am wearing my cap and gown and seeing a ton of faces that I will most likely never see again. It's all very surreal, but I'm happy to be moving on to bigger and better things!

First blog post!

   Hiya! So, I decided to switch from tumblr to blogger. I never did much blogging on tumblr, but due to the enormous amount of negativity that site holds, I decided to switch. Anyway, my name is Alexis Love! I'm a vintage loving lady obsessed with dogs and everything else good in this crazy little world. I live in Southern California. Oh, and I also paint things and read stuff.
   I'm not exactly sure what to post in this introduction. I still need to get the hang of this site, it took me a good few hours just designing my page. Oh, well. I will try to update as often as I can, and promise to fill this blog up with wonderful things and good vibes.
   I feel the need to post some sort of picture along with this, so here's a picture of a movie I watched recently titled "Come Live with Me".

 
   It stars Hedy Lamarr and Jimmy (or James) Stewart. It's about an Austrian woman marrying a poor writer she has just met as a ticket to stay in the United States. That's all I'll say, but it was such a great movie, and a lot funnier than what I was expecting. (Oh, look, this post has turned into a movie review!) Hedy Lamarr was wonderful, and Jimmy, as always, had me swooning. Just look at the way he holds her! This has turned into one of my favorite movies, and I completely recommend it!
   
   Anywho, I'll cut this post off here. I hope your day has been fun and eventful!