Sunday, December 30, 2007

oh. one more.

new years resolution i forgot about.

i want to get back into sketching stuff like i used to.
and i want to manage to keep a journal for more than a month without getting bored and forgetting to update.


in the spirit of post secret and a new year;

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i'm a dork.

i actually have plans for the new year, yay-hooray!
we're partying at jon's with jp, mike, bowen, chelsea, sahana, and maybe dom?
then chelsea and sahana are coming home and crashing at my house.

i also have bright pink hair. i got bored.
so i managed to convince my mom to bleach my hair, and dye it pink for me.
it's got little pinkish orange bits towards the ends, and when i pull it back the underside is really bright neon pink.
it makes me look like a lion, kind of.
i like it.
i'll be pissed if school makes me dye over it.


in other news, we went to michaels today.
shannon bought craft supplies.
i bought a new sketch pad, sharpie, and a can of red spray paint to smuggle into school so the reds can tag the prop room.
white primer just wasn't doing the job... i adore crew <3

i finally got new earbuds from my dad.
apparently he's had them in his drawer for ages while i've been listening to my music for a month through one earbud that's starting to crackle and static. so now, i can hear angels & airwaves in full sound quality in BOTH EARS.
it's fantastic.

i guess in the spirit of the new year, since i'll be too tired to blog tomorrow night, i'll post my resolutions.
i don't really have any set in stone ones.
i decided i should probably work out some. less junk food might be a good idea.
and i'm going to actually take some risks in life.
and i'm going to let my friends know how much i care about them and value them.

oh, and i'm going to hold a killer ping pong tournament at my house sometime so my mom can meet jon.

i really, need to get better things to resolve about. but i'm happy and good.
happy new year, all. i love you guys. :)

Thursday, December 27, 2007

i'm so cool,

i pour my bottled frappuccinos into coffee mugs because it makes me feel less lame.

life is good.
i am legend last night was fun :)
and then chelsea spent the night!
we went to bed at around 5.30am.

i ended up going back to bed after she left and sleeping until about two.
not much else to say thats worth posting for the world to see.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

fuck.

.... that's all i have to say about that, basically.

yeah yeah yeah christmas!

LAST NIGHT I SAW CARL! it made me really happy :D :D we sat a couple rows behind him in church so he gave me a highfive as i was walking back from communion xD my sister laughed at me.
but after mass he ran over and i got hugs and it was cool.

hahah so i was up until about one watching the warriors because i couldn't sleep last night. well, i was actually about to fall asleep when i plugged in my phone and saw that i had a new voicemail from alec. so even though it's like 11, i listened to the voicemail, which was basically an early merry christmas because he knew i'd be too busy to answer my phone this morning.
right, so when i finally fell asleep i woke up again at five am, then AGAIN at seven when my sister burst into my room and started shaking me because "IT'S CHRISTMAS!"

... i could've used a bit more sleep, but that's just me.
anywho, a breakdown of the goodies :]

my stocking was general little cool stuff, candy, etc.
then my sister gave me a "I <3 TOXIC WASTE" shirt (i don't actually heart toxic waste, it's from a movie :D )
er. and i got a kickass moleskine notebook i asked for because i wanted it, some random grandparent gifts, another fancy whiteboard, a tim hortons coffee mug because i always steal my dad's :D

they got me a four pack of "dark chocolate peppermint mocha" frappuchinos from starbucks in the cool bottles, I-EMPIRE (!) and the matches' first album (!) :D
oh and these amazing fingerless gloves i fell in love with at world market that look kind of like they belong on sherpa but they're really cool. they were made in like tibet or something and they're great.

AND...
(insert chelsea and jon freaking out here)

A NEW CAMERA :D
canon powershot a560, just like i asked for. it's amazing and suprisingly just about the right size to fit in my back pocket if i really needed to carry it there.


all in all, a good christmas :]
hope you all had a great one too.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

for christmas,

i've decided that while i'm sitting here avoiding going to bed, i might write this up. i've been meaning to for a while and never got around to it, but i think it might help to put my year into perspective and it'll be nice to have around when i'm blue.
yeah, and i'm in a list making mood anyhow.

things i love about life.
1. looking through stacks of old pictures and remembering.
2. sunny days in the summer where all the leaves are green and the sky's so beautifully blue.
3. bare feet.
4. sundresses.
5. my teddy bear, valiant.
6. warm blankets on cold days.
7. hot cocoa with lots of marshmallows.
8. when my dad makes fires in the fireplace some days in the fall, and we all sit around reading by the fire.
9. the way stars sparkle in the night sky when we're all wandering around at fencing.
10. discovering a song you absolutely love.
11. trench warfare with vitamin water!
12. seeing the full moon.
13. mornings where the bus is on time so you don't freeze.
14. waking up to cute text messages.
15. spiced apple cider with a cinnamon stick in it.
16. wading in the ocean.
17. 35mm film and real pictures.
18. making mixtapes for midnight drives i hope to take.
19. receiving the coolest mixtapes from the coolest people.
20. texting in spanish class and getting away with it.
20.5. seeing other people text in spanish class and not get away with it.
21. jack skellington bed sheets.
22. taking "mental health days" and calling in sick to school.
23. riding on the back of motorcycles.
24. the obnoxious sound the electronic scoring equipment makes at tournaments.
25. waking up at 7 in the morning on a saturday to go run a tournament for seven hours.
26. the way doug always manages to kill his back before tournaments, and the way he always asks me to rub it for him.
27. iced cappuchinos and a doughnut every friday night.
28. driving to detroit in the rain with jon and jp.
29. blowing through red lights while i'm on the phone.
30. converse high tops.
31. mysterious graffiti that appears on my converse after jon wears them.
32. my mom's old jewelry from the 80s.
33. messy ponytails.
34. riding in shopping carts.
35. snow days.
36. riding home at midnight with the postal service blasting so loud you can't hear anything else.
37. green tea with just enough honey.
38. homeade bread.
39. still liking harry potter.
40. waking up at five in the morning on a saturday to go slave labor all day at the renfest, only to get home at ten and wake up again at five the next morning.
41. the car rides up to the renfest.
42. build me up, buttercup!
43. happy meal toys and not the meal itself.
44. that perfect pair of jeans that's destroyed beyond belief but you love.
45. surviving gym class.
46. getting tackled and not even realizing it until you're on the cement laughing.
47. playing baseball in the street on summer nights.
48. jack kerouac.
49. talking to dan about life and living in the wild.
50. organic lotion.
51. the sheer amount of monster cans that collect backstage because of crew.
52. sitting in the parking lot during act one just talking about everything.
53. captain planet tshirts!
54. the mental tie between argyle socks and andre.
55. finding tshirts under your bed you thought were lost for good.
56. hammocks.
57. rustic camping with the family.
58. flannel.
59. paint-stained jeans.
60. when my parents are proud of me.
61. passing algebra 2 tests once in a while.
62. missing almost every hour for in school crew!
63. hall passes.
64. exploding light boards.
65. not sleeping.
66. sleeping in.
67. talking on the phone with alec about absolutely nothing and hanging up and realizing we talked for an hour.
68. SEA meetings.
69. being impulsive, even if it scares you shitless.
70. dying my hair.
71. calling people complete idiots in class and getting away with it because mr. barker agrees with me.
72. reading existentialism for fun.
73. homemade tshirts.
74. sitting crosslegged on counters.
75. daisies.
76. the rec center.
77. albums on vinyl.
78. crowdsurfing!
79. falling over.
80. meeting new, slightly crazy people.
81. carrying monster in my purse.
82. fight club!
83. the feeling of buying a really good book.
84. crude jokes.
85. baking cookies.
86. electric fencing!
87. talking to brian about zombie invasions.
88. knowing at least three people who have made or are making chain mail.
89. fancy coffee.
90. watching cinderella with carl.
91. the christmas spirit.
92. sledding in pajamas.
93. freezing to death at fencing.
94. the bad touch.
95. the phone ringing at midnight.
96. the week that a play opens and crew goes nuts.
97. cast parties.
98. knowing about underground bands before alternative press does.
99. purevolume.
100. the way your ears ring after a really amazing concert.
101. the way your ears ring after riding with jp.
102. red bull for breakfast!
103. being too lazy to eat breakfast.
104. saturday crew and "testing" the strobe lights.
105. listening to people debate about how the metric system screws up the way we cut pizza.
106. facebook.
107. parents being temporarily insane and letting me go to a concert with three guys they'd never met.
108. fedoras.
109. welts from saber!
110. knowing way too many stage combat drills.
111. wishing on 11:11.
112. burger king at midnight.
113. blasting jon out of the house with "because i got high"
114. really warm hoodies.
115. skanking.
116. absurd bruises you don't want to admit you got through your own stupidity.
117. neon eyeliner.
118. falling asleep in world history.
119. biology class.
120. canoeing!
121. building campfires.
122. summer nights where you can lay on the grass and watch fireflies.
123. the feeling of a clean room before it gets trashed again.
124. concert tickets.
125. bike rides in the dark.
126. swingsets.
127. my birthday.
128. being unemployed.
129. hippie clothes.
130. peace and love :)
131. such great heights, by the postal service.
132. amazingly long lasting ipod batteries.
133. comfy pajama pants.
134. hugs.
135. really awesome ballpoint pens.
136. the way you lose your balance in mosh pits.
137. not being able to hear for a couple days because you stood by a speaker.
138. realizing people have no idea how crazy your friends really are.
139. drinking monster when you're supposed to be sleeping.
140. monster chugging contests.
141. beaches.
142. jones soda labels.
143. being able to wander around the school for no reason because "it's for in school crew."
144. the way all your clothes smell like campfire when you get home from camping.
145. the spree fireworks.
146. hiding from creepy cops.
147. getting kicked out of the rec center over and over again.
148. warm concrete.
149. sitting in trees.
150. when sahana and i call matt at three in the morning over the summer and he picks up.
151. buying boxers from the gap and not buying actual clothes.
152. underwear shopping.
153. not doing to-do lists.
154. the perfect green apple.
155. pictures that you didn't mean to take that end up great.
156. ending up on dom's front porch because they took our cookies.
157. eating takeout rice in parking lots.
158. being able to say, a year later, "you still have my shirt..."
159. overpriced concert merch.
160. the overwhelming stack of alternative presses on my shelf.
161. going to fencing and not fencing.
162. smoothies from the smoothie guys at the renfest who dance while they make it.
163. chocolate when you're sad.
164. when you have tons of clean laundry and you wear the same pants for a week straight.
165. cramming five people into four seats after the plays so we can go out to dinner.
166. the cute stickers that come on bananas.
167. that one line of perfect lyrics.
168. tree stars!
169. glow in the dark dinosaur stickers.
170. direct elimination rounds.
171. watching someone pull off a perfect fleche.
172. finally getting your en garde exact.
173. mysterious scrapes from when your non-weapon hand happens to get in the way of your opponents blade.
174. obnoxious socks.
175. listening to doug and travis talk about star wars video games for two hours.
176. balloon duty.
177. NOT knowing the soulja boy dance.
178. flogging molly + dropkick murphys = shawn harris, the irish faerie baby.
179. spare change.
180. walking to the gas station in the middle of act one for mr. corliss.
181. stealing programs.
182. ramen noodles.
183. old pictures.
184. full memory cards.
185. broken blades.
186. fencing parties at doug's house.
187. seeing pirates of the carribean and realizing you own about half of johnny depp's outfit.
188. knowing movies verbatim.
189. the new jersey turnpike.
190. standing at the top of a lighthouse.
191. rolling down sand dunes.
192. frisbee!
193. sunburns.
194. the millenium force.
195. graffiti.
196. obnoxious hats my sister knits me.
197. the way your favorite shirt cost about three bucks, and the way you hate the really expensive shirts.
198. buying new pants and still wearing the old pants.
199. tortilla chips and the good kind of salsa.
200. guacamole.
201. crazy relatives.
202. cheating at euchre.
203. sour patch kids popsicles.
204. christmas cheer.
205. life, in general.

i went kind of nuts

and made two new mix tapes for when i get a car.

the midnight drive.
1. the adventure- angels & airwaves
2. such great heights- the postal service
3. secret crowds- angels & airwaves
4. the gift- angels & airwaves
5. takeoffs and landings- the ataris
6. nightswimming- r.e.m.
7. bittersweet symphony- the verve
8. the quiet things no one ever knows- brand new
9. sweetness- jimmy eat world
10. walking with a ghost- teagan and sara
11. disarm- smashing pumpkins
12. midnight confession- the grass roots
13. chemistry- rush
14. celestial soda pop- ray lynch
15. wonderwall- oasis
16. glycerine- bush
17. let it be- the beatles
18. everything's magic- angels & airwaves


this is the best day ever.
1. surrender- cheap trick
2. bohemian like you- the dandy warhols
3. party boy theme- jackass
4. sweet child o'mine- guns n' roses
5. the bad touch- bloodhound gang
6. little maggots-the matches
7. this is for real- motion city soundtrack
8. ten minutes-the get up kids
9. dysentary gary- blink 182
10. insurance?-the higher
11. feeling this-blink 182
12. fight for your right (to party)- the beastie boys
13. aww dip-cobra starship
14. stuck in america-sugarcult
15. rep your clique- the audition
16. should i stay or should i go-the clash
17. a praise chorus- jimmy eat world
18. blitzkrieg bop- the ramones
19. kiss off-violent femmes
20. my own worst enemy-lit
21. even a broken clock is right twice a day- broadway's not ready
22. the geeks get the girls- american hi-fi
23. girl's not grey- afi
24. red flag-billy talent




so those are all ready to go on tape.
then i had a monster, got forced into two games of family yahtzee that i won (both of them!)
then alec called so we talked for an hour while i finished up arranging the order of the songs.


COOL that killed a battery bar on my phone
tomorrow is christmas eve... crazy thought, isn't it?