Five on FriYAY

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So in case you hadn't heard, Adele released her new album last month. There was a literal line of girls at Target that Friday morning buying an actual CD. Adele appeared on Jimmy Fallon to perform her new single Water Under the Bridge, one of my favorites off 25. She is incredible. Even Jimmy Fallon was blown away by her pipes live and in person. 

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I posted a couple weeks ago about the plethora of gift guides popping up all over the blogosphere; but my favorite, hands down, has to be Brittany Fuson's Gift Guide. And not just because of the gifts. The way she put it together guide and her illustrations are absolutely gorgeous . I love how she went letter by letter of the alphabet and got creative with her gifts.

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The greatest email came through on my drive home from work Wednesday night, the Evelyn Henson 2016 desk calendar is here. Call off the hounds, the search is over. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

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After an almost two and a half year hiatus The White Panda is back! The Pawprint dropped Monday and it is ahhh-mazing. This time they mixed in Wild Wild West, Pony, One Direction, and No Diggity. Let your earbuds be taken to panda land.



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ICYMI: this bride is my soul sister for having the greatest wedding after party aka chowing down on a burger at a hockey game.  Go girl, I feel you.

But no one said anything about a panda..

Hopefully you saw my post yesterday (and then immediately downloaded Bearly Legal) because The White Panda definitely did. And even offered up a challenge to my tag line of life being too short to date a DJ. Well boys exceptions can always be made. And I am single with a 401K. Happy Friday!

"Life's too short to date a DJ"

There's the age old awkward first date question of, "oh, well what kind of music do you listen to?" I honestly have no idea how to answer that question without rambling and sounding like a spaz. And if someone was to scroll through my Spotify "Stared" list they would have no idea of what kind of music I listen to either.I literally have a little bit of everything. But one thing's for sure, college made me love the "mash up." Sophomore year I discovered Super Mash Bros and then Junior year I fell in love, The White Panda. Every spring they release their new album for the year. And I have loved them all. But this one takes the cake. From the first track I was obsessed. Needless to say my summer playlist is set. Here are my top 5 individual tracks, oh and you can download the continuous mix or track by track here. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Barely Legal from the White Panda. Take it home, Lawrence.

1. Cashin' Dreams

2. Poetic Night

3. Let's Go on a World Tour

4.Money for Party Rocking

5. Push with Me

Let the blue skies go to your head

   It's like every K-5 hallway art display says, March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. And thank the good lord this month is on the way out. That means Maroon 5 concert next weekend, Easter and GAME OF THRONES the weekend after that, Lent is over SONIC ZAXBYS FIREHOUSE TACO BELL CHIPOTLE, and 65 degrees and up baby. The drive home Friday was glorious not only because it was Friday but because I did it with Ray Bans on and windows down. So this week's 10 Things are all about cruising with your windows on automatic roll down. And lucky you, I even put together a Spotify playlist with all these melodies on it, linked at the bottom of the page. Now turn it up!

10 Things [songs]... to listen to with your windows down and the wind in your hair

1. Love in a College Town- Luke Bryan 

2. Inside Out- Love and Theft

3. American- Lana Del Ray

4. Cinema- Benny Benassi

5. Bigger than my Body- John Mayer

6. All Summer Long- Kid Rock

7. What You Know about Little Secrets- The White Panda

8. Lucky Strike- Maroon 5

9. Drunk- Ed Sheeran

10. Fly Again- Kip Moore

Windows Down- Pekarsk-ing Around