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soundtrack: twenty favourite songs

• "counting stars""counting stars" — onerepublic
• "demons" — imagine dragons
• "do it anyway" — ben folds five
• "explode" — uh huh her
• "hardest of hearts" — florence + the machine
• "intro" — the xx
• "landscape" — florence + the machine
• "let her go" — passenger
• "lucky" — daft punk featuring pharrell
• "midnight city" — m83
• "perth" — bon iver
• "radioactive" — imagine dragons
• "royals" — lorde
• "sail" — awolnation
• "sweater weather" — the neighbourhood
• "sweet nothing" — calvin harris featuring florence welch
• "team" — lorde
• "the sound of winter" — bush
• "wake me up" — avicii
• "wasting my young years" — london grammar

fifteen major life events & happenings

• in february, josh and i moved out of our first apartment and into our first house.
• in march, my aunt jill and brian got married.
• in march, my friends amber and chad gave birth to twin girls, autumn and aryiana.
• in may, my classmate cain died of a drug overdose.
• in may, my friends eric and jemma got married.
• in may, josh and i adopted a kitten, pandora.
• in june, we had to put down our cat vuschel due to kidney failure.
• in june, i was promoted to customer service manager.
• in july, i cut my hair for the first time in years: nearly two feet.
• in august, my friends robyn and jonathan gave birth to a son, carlin.
• in october, josh and i celebrated our two-year anniversary.
• in october, i suffered from frequent panic attacks and poor mental health.
• in november, i resigned from my position at walmart after four years of ‘service’ and began my new job as a bank teller.
• in november, my co-worker elaine suffered a fatal heart attack.
• in december, i met josh’s paternal family for the very first time and fell in love with the mountains.

watchlist: thirteen favourite films

• blue valentine
• catching fire
• grave of the fireflies
• jeff, who lives at home
• moonrise kingdom
• pitch perfect
• silver linings playbook
• star wars, episodes iv-vi
• the boy in the striped pajamas
• the help
• the perks of being a wallflower
• the slums of beverly hills
• warm bodies

watchlist, pt. ii: ten favourite television shows

• downton abbey, series 3 & 4
• freaks and geeks (first-timer)
• friends (entire series re-watch)
• lie to me
• my mad fat diary
• once upon a time
• orange is the new black
• supernatural, seasons 8 & 9
• twin peaks
• weeds, season 8

bibliophile files: seven favourite books

• american gods, neil gaiman
• looking for alaska, john green
• the book thief, markus zusak
• the fault in our stars, john green
• the help, kathryn stockett
• the hobbit, j. r. r. tolkien
• we are water, wally lamb