Major Update

Hi friends. Gaby here (aka -Gabriella Audrey the artist) with a major blog update!

It's been a long time since I've blogged. I used to feverishly check out blogs before entering high school and during and always thought I would grow up to be a blogger. I tried blogging in college but my heart wasn't in it as I was "finding myself" in free drinks for girls night at bars downtown and dates I snagged through OKCupid and Tinder during college. But now I have A LOT of down time as I just graduated college and am only working part time so I decided to get back to the roots of my interests when I was young and thought I would enter the exciting job world as a cool and accomplished grown up but entered it as a 22 year old Los Angeles native with drive and creativity and almost nowhere* to put it.

*I was recently hired at Urban Outfitters and I'm suuuuuuper excited for this new adventure :)

Instead of reading a novel, here are some important accomplishments that happened during these last 4 years:

• made a bunch of friends and "networked" in college in Denver.
• learned my drinking limits
• learned that I have pretty cool closet full of thrift store finds and black friday sales
• fell in love and out of love pretty quick
• studied abroad in London for 4 months
• made friends abroad, traveled to Spain, Hungary, Germany and France
• followed The 1975 around on tour a bit and gave them my drawings of them (George Daniel posted one to his Instagram and earned me 100 followers and a few friends)
• felt immense nostalgia and longing to like in the UK again during senior year
• Netflixed. A LOT.
• learned how to live with a pathological liar and all around crazy person
• made best friends who I miss so
• ate an excessive amount of pancakes
• drank a lot of coffee
• wrote a TON of papers (AND A BOOK I HAVE YET TO PUBLISH)
• dated some cool boys and not so cool boys
• cried because I was going to miss my seeing my friends all the time and because I'd have to move back in with my parents as I saved up for a decent apartment in a nice part of LA
• graduated and moved back home

LIFE AFTER GRADUATING...
    has still been interesting but a lot more stressful. Mostly because all of my parents friends and parents constantly ask me, SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE? WHEN YOU GETTIN MARRIED? ARE YOU WORKING? ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA WORK THERE? and so on... but I've gotten tired of deflecting these questions which is why I currently I sit here, watching E! and trying to sew a dress because I am trying to not spend so much on clothes, despite that I now have an AMAZING JOB in retail and am part of the Urban, Free People, and Anthropologie community. I am starting a blog named after the three most important things in my life besides my family, boyfriend, and dog and hope to update people about my adventures in my life after college.

What you can expect from this blog is 

• some writing on the job search (cause I'll need 2 part time jobs to save up enough to get a starter studio apartment)
• pictures of the adventures me and friends have in LA and where ever the wind takes us
• drawings CAUSE I ILLUSTRATE :)
• pictures of some pretty sweet clothes available at Urban Outfitters 
• and general "cool girl" updates about my life 

I have my first shift at Urban Outfitters tomorrow and while I will not broadcast what goes on behind the scenes and company information, I will update anyone who reads this blog with the weekly goings on in my world. Blogging is something I probably can't quit cause I like talking, so I hope you'll enjoy listening to these stories I tell.

XOXO

   Gaby