Where He Leads

You can say anything, you know that.

2010-02-16T21:55:00.001-08:00

I love this song. The video is kinda lame. But I love this song.

This cover is amazing. She has a lot of talent.

I need coffee so bad but I don't want to get out of this warm bed of mine.

2010-02-01T20:26:00.000-08:00

My Seventeen magazine tells me that you're in love.

Bah humbug.

2010-01-18T08:21:00.000-08:00

I'm tired, drinking coffee, and I don't have much to write. I'm just procrastinating, really.

My last semester starts tomorrow..

2010-01-10T13:08:00.000-08:00

I can't believe today is the last day of the last Christmas vacation I will ever have. I guess if I go to grad school I could count that. But, really, I don't.

The break was fantastic. I spent a ton of time with my niece and nephews, playing and teaching them things.

I took my friends' kids to the museum and learned more than I should have.

Lots of boyfriend time. He's crazy.

Only went snowboarding once which is actually pretty disappointing. I was a bit sore, mostly in the butt area. I'm not a terrible snowboarder, I've been riding for 8 years. I'm just clumsy. No amount of experience is ever going to save me from that mess.

My mom's in Florida. So the condo is a mess. Awesome.

I could be fighting zombies right now..

2009-12-20T18:37:00.000-08:00

but instead I have a date tonight...

I wish I had this disease..

2009-11-01T20:57:00.000-08:00

Pumpkins

2009-10-27T06:47:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween Season Beyotches!

I think my eyebrow ring is rejecting..

2009-10-18T10:23:00.001-07:00

I've been really stressed lately.

I don't like not knowing how to control situations that should be handled.

I deserve a plan.

2009-10-05T08:46:00.000-07:00

Despite the fact that last week I seemingly had gotten over whatever it was that I was dealing with I got into yet another fight with you.

Why do you insist on being such a horrible person and breaking my heart over and over again?

Whatever.

The new Angie isn't going to just accept it.

I told you I didn't need you and I meant it. It's too bad that I live with you.

I really hate it when you call me Angela..

2009-09-30T12:40:00.000-07:00

I'm writing so that I don't have to finish this paper.
It was due on Tuesday.
I skipped the class and hung out with some friends instead of going.
I only skipped the class though because I only had half the paper done.
The films I'm working on now take top priority over a communications class.

I went out to breakfast with my best friend today. It was therapeutic. I needed some girl time.

I got a new table lamp that looks like the Eiffel Tower. It's the shit.

2009-09-29T08:39:00.001-07:00

I realize I haven't written in a while. It's mostly because I've been rapidly changing into a different person. Well, I changed last summer, but instead of being brave I ran away to England for three months and avoided the inevitable.

I started a new journal July 10, the day after The Darkroom wrap party. It's nearly full. Prior to that I hadn't written in a long time. It was super depressing. Even more depressing was what I found myself going through.

I can't even begin to explain how much I've changed since June. And I love it because I've stopped fighting it. I'm totally done trying to struggle to keep you happy. You're not important anymore. For once I've realized that I'm fuckin' happy and I don't need to keep anyone in my life that will challenge that.

My emo rant is done. I'm gonna go make some grilled cheese and attempt to write another 3 pages of this paper and get to school in an hour to hand it in.

This will probably not actually happen though. I mean, I will definitely make the grilled cheese. But I will probably just say, "Screw you Walter Lippman and your notions on the public sphere, I'm just gonna hand you in late."

2009-07-31T23:41:00.000-07:00

Oh how I need Ormskirk right now.

The Darkroom

2009-07-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

I can't believe principal filming is wrapped! 13-18 hour days of film, sweat, and yawns. Literally. I loved every minute.

Some highlights :
+The days in the sound booth when over half of the crew came to me to vent in the sound proof room.
+Punching Jesse (the art director) in the gut after he was making fun of audio.
+Playing Snaps and Black Magic over and over again.
+Running 4 hours over on Day 5.
+Getting bitched at by the AD after the breaker was tripped and took down my whole rig. Then proving my awesomeness by fixing it in 5 minutes.

Overall, the experiance was one of the best I had. I learned a lot and it was great to work on a film that will no doubt do well.

It was written and directed by Eric Yang who is a relatively recent mfa graduate of Florida State U. His senior thesis at the time won an Academy Award. I have faith that The Darkroom will do very well in festivals. It's a great character story about an old school photographer who isn't willing to change to digital but must when his daughter returns home and tries to repair their relationship.

Rediculously too small for a car seat.

2009-06-25T18:24:00.000-07:00

Crooked Skies.

2009-06-25T18:20:00.000-07:00

Photoshootyness

2009-06-07T14:15:00.001-07:00

Introducing Lincoln & Izaiah Pollema. And big sister Mattie, of course.

I've Been Busy

2009-06-07T07:56:00.000-07:00

Class. Pre-Production. Photoshoots.

Marissa at Festival of the Arts.

Rabies is only funny on The Office

2009-04-15T19:37:00.000-07:00

Okay. So. I received my 5th and final shot today. I also sent in over $400 worth of payments to Blodgett today for my first two shots. I'm not sure how I'm going to get through this but my mom said she's lend me whatever I couldn't pay. I just don't get hospitals. The worst is the registration ladies who role in on their little rolley carts that have laptops on them and they act all hoyty toyty because they're taking my money.

Fact. You are NOT better than me because I just handed you $300. Just because you take people's money with your gnarled, money grubbing fingers does not over compensate for the GED that you no doubtly have.

Okay, so that was tremendously harsh. I don't really think I'm better than someone with a GED. Well...
Okay, so the old high school diploma is still worth nothing. But you don't see me bringing frowns to the boys and girls.
No, you see me giving them french fries and twinburgers. People, twinburgers = smiles.

I wish I had a time machine that could go back and punch that bat. I feel like a fool for actually detering my step-Bob from not killing it.

On the bright side, now that I'm a vampire I'm most likely obligated to meet Joss Whedon.

The New Face of Rabies

2009-04-03T13:43:00.001-07:00

Okay, so...a month or so ago there was a bat in my kitchen. No big deal. He was hanging from the curtain in the dining room. Then I found him lying on the floor by the doorway and thought it was dead. Prodding it with the butt of a broom, he hissed at me. So I went and hid in the living room and about 15 minutes later I turned to see it struggling to fly in the room. It was almost hopping, spread eagle into the room. Hissing and grunting it finally took flight and dive bombed into my head. It did this once more before I ran upstairs to lock myself into the bathroom.

A week ago, under the strong advise of animal control I went to the emergency room and started treatment for rabies exposure.

Let me take this time to point out that I haven't had any symptoms yet. When rabies symptoms start, they resemble the flu in the first stage, it is impossible to stop the virus from attacking your brain and death is imminent.

So I got my first round of rabies shots. One shot in my arm and two shots of the rabies globulin to protect me until the vaccine could kick start my immune system. Since then I have gotten two additional shots and am scheduled for two more. This ultimately is destroying what little savings I have. My priority health hmo copay is $100 every time I go and after my last shot I will start receiving the medical and doctor bills. I absolutely can't afford to get vaccinated from rabies, but the likelyhood of me having been bit in my sleep is really high so I needed the medicine. I'm a heavy sleeper and had been sleeping out in the living room.

I really had no other choice.

studio times

2009-03-13T12:54:00.000-07:00

Today was fun, I worked at my internship 8am to 2 pm. It was fun. This morning while I was filling up the actors green room I ran into Collin, the lead said hi to him. He found me about an hour later in the wardrobe and I picked up a conversation with him about how he likes acting and this is his first role.
Note: He is 12 years old.
Then, in the basement of the museum while prepping to roll he walked up to me and started talking. He asked me my name and I tried not to laugh and asked him his. The set designer, Bill said, "Looks like you have a fan." and I ran to the art department while Collin got prepped for his scene. He's such a sweetheart but I didn't have the heart to tell him I'm about 11 years older than him. I always end up little boys' girlfriend. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I like playing video games and hanging out. :D

I have to go to my normal job 5-10 tonight. That will not be so fun.

Back to normal?

2009-03-12T11:03:00.001-07:00

well look who finally returns to the blogoshpere.

I just returned from an interview for a job as Second Assistant Director for the summer film at my university. It's really competitive and I don't think I will get the job but I do think I will get my second choice. There is also a possibillity of being the Art Director for the whole shebang which I'm not entirely sure why the director was pushing it on me. I'm not qualified for the position because I haven't taken all the 16 mm classes yet he seemed really enthusiastic about getting me to be enthusiastic about the job. Oh well. I'm not worried about any of it because whatever crew position I get I know it's where God wants me to be.

A couple weeks ago I got hired as a P.A. (production assistant) for the indie feature film, "Hopeful Notes". It's been a blast painting and building sets, raiding craft services (the food!!), and networking with others. I don't get actual school credit for this internship so I can't cross that off my degree checklist but I will get my name in the credits and a great addition to my resume. :)

I've really been missing England. It's been raining quite a bit around here lately and getting dark when it does. It reminds me of getting soaked in London, walking to Costa for a mochiatto underneath my umbrella, or that night on the way to Morrisons for groceries, when we got splashed. Every little thing I see and hear reminds me of Ormskirk and I miss it. I realize now that studying abroad was a healthier way of escaping my life. I still went to school and got to see the world and instead of wasting my time watching tv or going online I spent it with some great friends and everything else in my life just stopped.

Classes have been going well and I've been pretty busy at work. But I'd rather just be back at Edge Hill. Even though there were a lot of issues with the differences between American and English academia and those losers in my animation class sabatoged my grades, I really would rather be back there.
Someone at work asked me yesterday if I was going back this fall. I glumly told her that I wouldn't.

I know it's common to go through this and that once people taste travel they get addicted and I've definitley got caught with that. My friend Erin is like that. She's living in China and even though it's difficult sometimes she knows it's worth it.

That's something I struggle with every day. The people in my life I care most about haven't been challenging me. My best friend isn't in college and my boyfriend is unmotivated in everything he does. I feel totally complacent in pretty much everything I do and totally bored about it. I just want to graduate and move on but I feel so pressured to stay because no one I really care about is interested in trying for something better. It's really frustrating. Then I feel guilty because I've become the bad person who doesn't support them for not doing anything in their lives. I'm sorry, but when did taking the easy road ever lead to anything rewarding?

I pray for all of those in my life who are lost everyday but I know I won't be there to do that forever.

Back in Michigan

2008-12-23T11:51:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it. I can't believe that only a few days ago I was still in England and now I'm looking out my living room window to a frozen, snow covered land. Several inches and low visibility.

¡No pare, sigue, sigue!

2008-12-09T03:30:00.000-08:00

So, this past weekend the Festive Friends ventured of to Barcelona, Spain. I really loved it.

Some Highlights

*The bumpy flight into Girona, filled with men in Hawaiian shirts for some kind of crazy, hair-gel'd convention.
*The men on the corner of every street offering us cocaine.
*The three (3) trips to get gelato.
*The sangria. The bottle of champagne we split. The third night when we got more sangria.
*Gaudi. We went to the cathedral he didn't quite finish, Sagrada Família and Casa Batlló (Which is known to locals as the House of Bones). Both which blew me away. He was definitley ahead of his time.

Those are just some basic things. We lucked out and were able to fenagle a room together for the five of us. Lauren and LG's friend from "The ATL" , Mark was there too and we were able to spend a couple days with him. It was nice because his birthday was last Thursday as well as Lauren's so it was a real partybration weekend. The people Mark was rooming with found out it had been his birthday so they cave him a bottle of Champagne and we popped it Saturday night and toasted eachother along with Cayley, this guy from Canada that we met.

On saturday we walked through the square and saw all the touristy stuff such as the frozen people and the booths. This is the area that is noted for its pickpockets. Luckily the five of us have not been picked in any of the countries we've been too. It's most likely because we always looks smelly and poor when we are backpacking. Unlike Emily Gilmore who travels in style.

The hostel had free internet which turned out to be a huge blessing because I was able to get into Audio Production 2 which I've been trying to get into since March.

I was also able to (finally) find a beer stein for my boss, Paul. I was hoping to get one in Irelad but after asking several people around Dublin, I came up without any clue.

Barcelona was beautiful though. We went to the Marina, saw some beautiful architecture, and walked through this gorgeous dog park by the zoo. It was definitley worth skipping two days of school.

Our flight home kind of sucked. We got Dunking Donuts and to the airport 4 hours before departure but our flight was pushed back an hour 30 minutes before boarding.

Now I'm back home with 9 days left until I leave for the States and I have so much homework I think I might die. I have two films to edit by friday but now way to get into the labs because of class. Grr.

Lauren and LG pouring the Champagne!

Bikes for Rent

The Marina

A woman waiting for $. These are everwhere.

A Jar of Sangria. YUM!

Me chillin' on a tree trunk

At the dog park.

The Arc De Triomf.

Gaudi Cathedral

Gaudi's House of Bones

GELATO!

Frosty mornings

2008-12-02T11:16:00.001-08:00

This past Sunday, after church. (Yes, we found a church to attend here when we aren't traveling.) The morning was covered in frost which exposed every single spider web we never noticed before. At first it was beautiful, amazing architecture only designed by the Creator. After awhile though I started to get grossed out when I realized just how many spiders inhabit our ten minute walk into Ormskirk.

Turkey Day

2008-11-28T11:10:00.000-08:00

Well, so for Thanksgiving this year we did it English style.
The international office here at Edge Hill was amazing enough to provide us a meal and they gave it their best interpretation of how our tradition food is made. Sadly, things such as pumpkin pie and stuffing are really just impossible because the ingrediants and spices needed for them just aren't available over here.

Doctor Who is Love

2008-11-27T05:08:00.000-08:00

On the train to Liverpool to the Spaceport for the Doctor Who Exhibit.

Pretending we are "flying" on the ferry to the Spaceport.

Marissa is gassy.

Yep, it's an actual TARDIS.

K-9!!

Daleks are freaking huge in real life. This is me trying to be scared but I'm sooo geeked out.

The backside of a Cyberman suit. Can you see the zipper?

A sadly blurry picture of us standing in front of David Tennant's Doctor 10 suit, wishing he was actually in it, hanging out with us.

When we get time we are heading back to Blackpool again to the Doctor Who museum because they have a lot of the older props there too. I'm hoping to *steal* one of Tom Baker's scarves but I bet they're under lock and key. :(

Ireland

2008-11-25T10:53:00.000-08:00

So two weekends ago the girls and I woke up before the sun came up and headed off to John Lennon Airport for an hour long flight to Dublin, Ireland.
We didn't get to see the rolling landscapes and beautiful nature that I was hoping to see but Dublin was pretty cool and after stuffing some magical scones in my mouth, it's really difficult to complain.

Pouring the perfect pint.

Marissa enjoying her frothy brew.

The retired throne in the Palace.

The remains of the original palace.

London for Your Eyes

2008-11-16T05:32:00.001-08:00

Off to see Harry!

London Underground

The London skyline.

Sweet Dali sculpture.

Skyline again.

Buckingham Palace.

London Bridge

Tower of London

Shakespeare's Globe Theater.

Danielle in front of the London Scientology Center.

Remember that time Jacob called Marissa a whale?

It's Kota the Triceratops!

This is a Lapras skeleton.

Cheerio!

Backpacking across Europe is tiring.

2008-11-16T05:08:00.000-08:00

Well, last week was "Study Week" which means the students get classes off in favor of meeting with professors, getting tutorials, and working on papers.

Did I do any of this?

No. :)

Instead I went backpacking across 5 lovely countries; London, England, Paris, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

It was quite lovely.

Well except for the parts where we were trudging through London with our clothes soaked through with rain, missing our bus to London, and getting separated on the Chunnel.

London :
It was great but I think we could have spent a week there honestly. There was just too much to do in two days.

We saw the Natural History Museum which was full of dinosaurs and cool scientific stuff, The Tower of London as well as London Bridge, took a ride on the London Eye, visited Big Ben and Westminster Abbey and watched a football game in a local pub while stuffing our faces with lasagna, pizza, and wraps.

Paris :
I really enjoyed Paris and we saw hundreds of skeletons in the Catacombs, the Arc De Triumphe, the Moulin Rouge, had wine and cheese in a Fondue Restaraunt, saw the Mona Lisa in The Louvre, visited the Eiffel Tower and walked into about a zillion designer stores and salivated over $500 + handbags.

After Paris, Marissa, Danielle, and I split apart from Lauren and Lauren who were headed to Switzerland for the rest of the week.

The next stop on our trip was Luxembourg which was so much more than I expected. We visited the palace there and oogled the young gaurds and hoped to see any of the four young princes that live there, hiked through gorgeous castle remains, walked up and down a mountain, painfully, to get to our hostel and ate at the ever classy McDonalds and ordered our food in German!

Belgium was next and quite a treat. We had Belgian waffles covered in Belgian chocolate and let me say that IHOP's Belgian waffles hold no candle to the real thing. We walked through the markets and got to see the brilliant architecture. It was quite a cool city and great for just relaxing before our next destination.

Amsterdam was not what I was hoping for. I was actually pretty dissapointed because we only got to see one traditional windmill in the motherland. But we did get to go to Anne Frank's house and see the remains of her infamous diary and where she and her family hid from the Nazis. We walked along the cannels and saw boobies because there is a crazy amount of porno there, and we didn't even go to the red light district.

The next morning we got up at 5 am and caught a plane back to London and then road a bus home for ten pounds. It took six hours and thankfully none of our ipods died because the ride sucked. Near the end the rain started dripping through the bus's roof and got my head all wet. Then we took the train from Liverpool back to Ormskirk and walked to the usual 10 minutes walk back to our house.

Not for the faint of heart..

2008-10-27T02:14:00.001-07:00

Rubbing Lidocaine on my tongue. Illegal in the U.S. because it's made from Cocaine.

Marking the spot where she will pierce me.

Clamps. Check out that huge needle!

In we go!

Preparing the jewelery.

Threading the barbell through my tongue.

Waiting for her to screw on the top piece of the jewelry.

There, nothing to it! Too bad I drool like crazy because my body thinks my new piercing should be digested. Oh well. I should be better in a week or so.

Home Sweet Home

2008-10-21T06:23:00.000-07:00

For your viewing pleasure.. Milton House.

Kitchen

Our fridge, "The Cage"

As you can see, it earned its nickname.

Common room.

Our room!

Hallway that leads to other potty and shower room.

One of the bathrooms.

Secret ladder to the bottom floor. To escape fire.

Showers!

Stonehenge, Bath, & Beyond

2008-10-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

Wow, this past weekend the girls and I headed down to southern England to see Stonehenge and Bath. We left the house at 5:20 a.m. Saturday morning and walked into town. We got on the first train of the day and then switched trains in Liverpool. The six hour ride was pretty gruesome but wasn't too bad. We got to Salisbury around noon and hopped a double decker bus up to Stonehenge. I was really really interested in seeing it because the only time I've ever got a good look at it was in an episode of the tv show, Doctor Who. The episode in question came out in the 70's so I knew that the site might look a lot different today.
We had to drive all through Salisbury up a winding hill to Stonehenge and when we first saw it, it was pretty breathtaking. It was amazing to see such a wonder in real life. I remember reading about the great stone circle when I was younger but seeing it jutting over the horizon was just spectacular. (For the computer illiterate, you need to click on the pictures if you want to make them bigger.)

Then it was off to Bath. We hopped on a train as well as a bus to get there by night. We immediately checked into our hostel where we were put stuck in the R.I.P. room. Creepy!

Hostels can be pretty gross and this one was no exception. It wasn't the cleanest and the employees were rude and delayed our check-out. We definitely chewed them out.
After the riggamaroll we went to see the famous Roman Baths. The temple was originally built thousands of years ago around the hot springs. Now there are just remains of what lasted after the crusades and renaissance.

Beautiful Bath Abbey.

Thumbs up for Bath!

Medieval frolicking.

The hot spring is still 98 degrees!

A medieval drainage pipe to bring heated water throughout the Roman Baths.

Nice buns!

Finally, we stopped at Jane Austen's house which was a treat! I'm a big fan of her books (Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice for instance) and it was cool to see where she had written Mansfield Park while she was staying in Bath.

Lauren chillin' with Jane.

Finally we stopped at Starbucks for a coffee run and got on our shuttle bus toward the train station. We were on 4 different trains for over 6 hours and the first hour we had to stand because it was so crowded. Let me tell you, that many people all packed together can get very hot and smelly!

English kisses & rainy days

2008-10-07T11:04:00.000-07:00

Now that I'm back from the dining hall and still have internet access (What luck! God bless you, Pat) I can share some of the stories that I've experianced

First things first. About 2 hours ago, Marissa walked to the windows that frame our beds and reached for the iron furnace.
"We have heat!" She announced with a huge grin.
"Praise the Lord!" I replied, we both then danced around our room and cheered.
This is the first time since we've moved here that heat has poured from our heater. Both Riss and I run cold, so it's great to not have to wear 6 layers around our room.

Last weekend Lauren, Lauren, Danielle, Marissa, and I went to Liverpool to get some shopping done. I didn't buy anything but made some mental notes for gifts for people at home.
Well, it started raining while we were there.
And raining.
We got on the train toward Ormskirk at 6.
It was still raining.
We walked to the store, Morrisons. This is much like Meijer at home.
As I reached for the stop walk button a huge truck came past us and splashed us thoroughly.

I got the worse of it since I was closest to the curb.

So, soaking wet we trudge on to Morrisons, bought snacks and beverages and returned to our house. It sucked so bad. But we all changed into sweats and met up in Laurensquared's room for movie night. It ended up better than it started.

Here at Edge Hill there is an on-campus bar and club called The Venue. Every wednesday afternoon campus shuts down so everyone can take a break from studies to go and party and get shwasted. Well last Wednesday was my 3 year anniversary with Jacob. So after talking to him for a couple of hours via Skype, Marissa and I headed to the laundry room to wash our clothes.
Unfortunatly the laundry room was tough to get to because The Venue is part of the building that the laundry room was in.

We loaded up our clothes and washed them with no problems. Then when we started drying them a bunch of rowdy drunkies came in. One guy found a soap tablet, opened Marissa's dryer and threw it in without saying anything. He thought it was funny.
I prodded Marissa to go pull it out, afraid the soap would get over her clean clothes.
When this guy realized it he apologized profusely. We accepted it.
But when he and his friend found out we were Americans they seemed to fall in love with us. The only people who have in fact. Americans aren't very cool our exotic over here.

Mark and Laura. Very cool, despite Mark's first impression. We talked to them for an hour about body piercings, American television, and great places to shop in England.

Then when we were saying goodbye Mark gave me a hug and kissed me on the cheek. Odd, seeing as it was Jake and my three year anniversary. But Laura did the hug and Hollywood cheek kissy thing too. But she didn't make lip to face contact with me. It was really odd but funny because I knew it was just a social norm for them. (And Mark's girlfriend, Sara Jayne seems very nice.)

So that's some of the unique highlights so far.

Yes, found some internets

2008-10-07T09:46:00.000-07:00

Well, the next door neighbor, Pat has wireless. Sometimes I can get a connection and it's pretty low but it's still something. It's nice not having to take my laptop to the lab. But there's no telling when she will switch her computer off so it's kind of hit or miss.
I went to Liverpool last weekend with Marissa and some new friends. We wanted to shop because it's a lot like Chicago but everything is just so expensive. A ten pound top is actually 20 dollars for us if you convert it. So everything is twice as expensive for us which sucks.

Classes ahoy!

2008-10-07T04:46:00.000-07:00

Well, the semester is in full swing. I can't believe I've been living here for 2 and a 1/2 weeks now. I just got back from a workshop session where we are taught the software program, Photoshop. I went because I didn't want to miss a thing, but it has become quickly apparent that in my Photoshop as well as my Final Cut Pro (film editing software) I am light years ahead. I think this is because in the States students take time to play around with the software themselves. I learn best by using it. So that's what I do! I'm not the best at either softwares but I think because I take the time to play around with the programs and use it every chance I get, it puts me at an advantage.
Now all I need is about $1200 and I can purchase Final Cut Pro.;)

I will be shooting my first film today. We got in the television studio yesterday and it felt great to get behind a studio camera and work in an audio booth. It's a blessing to know I can still work on my degree even here. Some of the girls I'm friends with are taking classes that they are intersted in because they can't find classes to transfer over.

I'm still at a loss for text books though. Here they don't 'require' you to buy them, they just tell you if you want to pass you should. But I can't seem to find any of my Creative Writing books.

More later. I'm off to the set.

I miss you all!

Stuck in the lab

2008-10-03T15:10:00.001-07:00

Well, I've been sitting here in the computer lab for like 5 hours trying to book a week long trip around Europe. Starting in London, we will spend two days there, two days in Paris, then off to Luxembourg, Belgium, and finally Amsterdam. It's very stressful. But I know it will be worth it.

Well, I'm off to walk toward home, we have to scale the locked gate first.

Scotland!

2008-10-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

Well, I went to Scotland with Marissa and the new friends I've made (Danielle, Lauren, and Lauren) It was absolutly beautiful! The rolling green hills, the dormant volcano that we climbed, everything. We even took the bus around the city, it was such a great and convenient way to see everything from the safety of a double decker bus!
We stayed in a hostel for a couple of days. It wasn't too dirty and pretty unlike the rumors about hostels that I have read about. They are much less scary than they are in the movies!
We went through the royal gardens which were full of flowers and walked through Edinburgh castle which was huge and we even saw the crown jewels.
Thank you all for your encouragement and prayers, I can feel them all and have even continued to pray for you guys back home! I hope the snow doesn't hit you too bad, since we will only get rain here in Ormskirk.

Till next time. :)

The volcano from far away.

That's Lauren, Danielle, and Lauren by us!

Beautiful Edinburgh Castle!

Ahh! Scottish men!

My crazy new friends, Lauren and Lauren

A beautiful old church.

Scotland!

Happy Anniversary to not me...

2008-10-01T13:16:00.001-07:00

Well tonight marks the 3 years anniversary between my boyfriend and I but we are a zillion miles apart. Oh well. We called each other and were able to talk about how we are doing two separate things, 5 hours apart. Quite funny!

Finally! We have arrived.

2008-09-20T15:15:00.001-07:00

So we have arrived safely in little Ormskirk and what can I say, the Lord has blessed me greatly. After arriving, within hours I felt "right". I know after some troubles with Marissa and my applications that He knew better and that we should wait and I believe it was well worth it. Everything around this area is just so lush and beautiful. Everyone we have crossed paths with are so kind to us and have repeatedly told us that we brought the sun along with us. The sky is golden and warm, but unlike at home, when the sun goes so does the heat. It doesn't sit in the air, but dissapears behind the clouds immediatly.
Well, we're pretty much settled in to the Milton House. But we still haven't called home, so hopefully everyone isn't too worried yet. All of our housemates seem to be into partying except for Danielle, Lauren, and Lauren so we will most likely be hanging out with them while we are here. I thought the two girls that we were picked up with seemed cool and we could travel with them but it became pretty obvious that they were not on the same page as us. They've been getting drunk every night, been super loud, and inconsiderate.
Tomorrow we don't have any activities planned so we are going to buy our rail passes and tickets to hopefully go to London soon because we have a longer weekend.

Beautiful Ormskirk.

A beautiful Church.

Our home for the next 3 months.

Really?

2008-09-13T13:18:00.000-07:00

My second cousin, Abby is engaged and getting married in a month or so. This is one of her engagement pictures..
I don't really have much to say about it other than..really?!?
What's cool and artsy about grabbing at your fiance's leg?
Perhaps, she's being blown away.

Almost There!

2008-08-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

Exactly a month from today I will be boarding a Chicago flight toward Manchester, England.
I'm extremly excited, however I'm afraid I haven't saved enough money. The more my bff plan our weekend travels (Edinburgh, Scotland, London, Paris) the more I think I might have to really tighten my belt. It's a bit stressful but I'm more than happy to go. I'm less excited for my classes. We don't find our classes or times until the day of orientation. This sucks because whatever classes they assign me, I must change around my film classes for the winter semester when I return to the States.

My cousin, Kim is leaving for China this week. She's a teacher for ELIC. She's learning Mandarin right now and it's fun to talk to her and quiz her on vocabulary.

My friend, Erin is leaving for China in two weeks. She's also a teacher for ELIC. She's super crazy.

My brother Mike is getting married September 6 and I'm very happy for him. I already refer to his bride-to-be as my sister.

My brother Brian is getting ready to propose to his girlfriend. (Mom made it clear he had to wait until Mike's wedding as to not steal any spotlight. Stephanie, his girlfriend thought my mom was being a bitch about saying this and made it very clear to us that she thought so.)

I hate Stephanie. She's rude, disrespectful, and a total crumbum. I will not be sharing my riches with her when I become famous.

I can't believe I will get to see this in a month!

Bridal Showers

2008-07-20T09:15:00.000-07:00

I have to go to my soon-to-be-sister's first bridal shower today. Which is okay because I like her and I'm always up for free appetizers or other assorted delicious treats.
I hope my other brother's girlfriend, Stephanie won't be there, though. I really REALLY don't like her. She's rude, disrespectful, and in considerate. And that's just to my parents! Brian wants to marry her but none of us like her. And this weekend I'm driving to Nebraska with her for my cousin Josh's wedding. This is not going to be fun.
She always makes excuses not to show up for family functions and when she does come she's hours late. Whenever any of us try to strike up a friendly conversation with her she replies with gruff, one word replies, and when I first met her, when my parents met her for the first time, she was incredibly drunk. She knew she was going to meet us but she got completly sloshed.
When Brian introduced us, I stuck out my hand and said, "It's nice to meet you." And she ignored my handshake offer and looked at the ground, frowning.
Ugh, she doesn't fit in our family. And it doesn't take much, all you have to be is nice!

Oh, it's a monday. Yay. :(

2008-07-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

Hm, it's been less than a month since I last wrote.

I'm perusing the Sonic menu online and I don't think it's fair that they advertise in Michigan when the closest Sonic is over 120 miles away in Indiana. At least with my lust for IKEA they don't advertise and make me feel bad about the money I'm not spending there.

On a brighter note I'm watching Doctor Who. The series is The Inferno and it's circa the third Doctor. I actually really like him, he's charming. Not quirky like the fourth Doctor but he has his charm. He doesn't creep my out like the second Doctor.

It ain't easy being whiiiite!

2008-06-22T19:38:00.000-07:00

And so goes the semester

2008-06-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

I would be lying if I said that my two classes this spring aren't whooping my fanny.
My audio production and media and society classes are fun but I really don't have the time. Lucky for me finals are next week. Unlucky for me, I'm totally failing my media and society class. Well at least I failed the midterm. Bad. Leave it up to me to completely misunderstand the last two essay questions and write on something totally different. Yep, I had "good discussion but not what I asked" scribbled into the margins of my bluebook. Because of my clear retardation my professor let me do some stuff to make up the points. On a better note, I think the group project is going to get an A, my participation points are waaaay above the class average, and the final is a take home so I can at least ask her via email if I'm super confused and if I'm headed in the right direction.

Go Team Venture!

2008-05-31T18:07:00.000-07:00

I'm serious. Join today if you have the dough.

Some stuff.

2008-05-26T16:17:00.000-07:00

I'm watching This American Life. Yep, it's a show based on the radio show.
My best friend has been accepted into the University that I am transferring to but I have yet to hear from them. I'm really nervous.

What if I don't get in and instead of moving to England for 3 months I sit on my butt and stay at my university. How am I ever going to see the world when things hold me back.

I told him I wanted to join the Peace Corps after I graduated and he thought that was ridiculous and didn't understand why I would want to spend two years helping others.

Why not?

Why not have adventures in like the amazon, working with orphans, building houses?

Why should I sit on my fanny in Michigan for the rest of my life. I'm not going to wait forever. But he doesn't care about anything anymore.

And now a poem..

2008-05-19T12:14:00.000-07:00

Your penis is nice..

It's too bad you're attached to it.

Edie from Six Feet Under (Season 4)

(Good call Fred, I think this means I have to drop the writing major now.)

The Story So Far.

2008-05-09T11:47:00.000-07:00

Summer classes suck and I'm sick of them already. I have so much homework and it's been one week. And I have to go to the studio twice a week on my own time and sign in and work in the audio booth and acclimate myself with the equipment. Now I totally understand this. But, I'm staring at my schedule and realizing that I won't be able to to do this unless I go to class early. After I bake and before I learn. Ugh.

Class Canceled Tuesday May 6th:

2008-05-06T08:09:00.000-07:00

We will meet for the first time on Thursday May 8th in PAC 1206. The room has been changed due to a flood in KC 94. Same time, different channel. See you then.

Prof. Hunter
School of Communications

I win! Good too, because I should be leaving right now for my 12 o clock class.

Study Abroad Woes

2008-04-21T12:37:00.000-07:00

All my study abroad post acceptance forms are due wednesday. Well, they were due april 1 and I didn't realize it. Now all the other kids who got their apps in on time are waiting for me and my bff Marissa to hand in our stuff because the study abroad office won't send their stuff until we get it in. I don't know why the s.a. office is giving us a second chance. We didn't make the deadline, we deserve to lose out. But I'm very grateful for a second chance to hand in my application.

All my materials are ready to hand in tomorrow with the exception of one signature and a copy of my official transcript which I'm picking up after my exam tomorrow and handing in immediately. I'm going to school early to grab a signature, get a passport pic taken, hand in the stuff I have ready, take my exam, and then I'm gonna pick up my transcript which wont be ready until four. In a tight squeeze, the office will close at 5. Whoo!

Wish me luck on trying to rectify my procrastination.

Bla Bla Bla Bla

2008-04-20T17:51:00.000-07:00

Today has been so boring. I filled out my World Cinema review sheet. I have exams this week and I hate world cinema. Well, the class, international cinema is awesome. See : Children of Heaven, Central Station, Chunking Express, Amelie.

But I did play Twilight Princess on my Wii. I'm finally enjoying the game! That sounds silly but the first couple tasks are the boring, acclamate to the game, things. Now there's a story and I actually know what I'm supposed to be doing and I'm not just riding around aimlessly on my horse until something works. I just got to the part where Link is transformed into a wolf. I really like it.

The Center of my TwitterVerse

2008-04-17T12:43:00.000-07:00

Ok so : bought class doesn't fred getting going home jacob know lilly need new think time tonight want watching wii work waiting.

It's like a crazy run on story.

I like how my boyfriend's name is directly in the center of my twitter bubble. It's kinda romantic.

Does Death Always Come in Threes?

2008-04-16T16:03:00.000-07:00

Well, I apologize now for the dark post. But since I retired the 27 paper diaries, I needed a serious way to vent my anguish.

Last week I found out that my longtime friend, Aimee past away on April 8th. She went to my church and my school. In fact, I was with her the day that she found out she was pregnant and the night that she started bleeding, losing the baby. I was with her when she found out she was pregnant again and around after Savannah was born.
She moved to North Carolina after I graduated high school and moved in with her biological parents. When she passed due to a car accident, she left behind not only Savannah, but a 6th month year old daughter and a fiance, too.
So, Sunday night, my sister Marissa and I went to the funeral home to say goodbye.

The next morning when I woke up my mom told me that Mr. Van Til, a very good friend had passed on. His daughter Sharon, is in her late 30's and when she was much younger in a car accident with a drunk driver who left her paralyzed. She has problems talking and controlling her motor skills. In high school, Marissa and I would hang out with her after school every week and play rummy or watch movies with her. Mr. Van Til was always kind and when I went on a school trip to Washington D.C. he and his wife were extremely generous and sent a check to my school without telling me to help me raise money for the trip. I hadn't asked them, but had been talking about it because I was excited. These are the kind of acts that the Lord has blessed me with.
So my mom, Marissa and I went to say goodbye to him Monday night. As I was giving his wife, Arlene a hug she grabbed my hands a smile stretched across her face, "I hear you're gonna have a baby." My jaw dropped and my mom burst into laughter. Not sorry to say that, no. I am not having a baby. Another Indian girl named Hope, NOT ANGIE, who is married, is pregnant in my church.

Then tonight, my last day of school. My last class with my favorite professor ever. He is a visiting professor and his contract is up so we were going to have fun tonight, emailed us to let us know that an extremely close friend of him had died and the death was unknown. He realized shortly before class that it would have been too difficult to stay composed during class.

I don't know what's in the air. But I don't like it.

The thunder rolls...

2008-04-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

I can hear a rumbly in the sky. Great. The dog will be hiding in the basement soon. Heading out in a couple hours to pick up a 27 inch tv I found on Craigslist. I'm excited. But I went through all this a week ago with a dood who sold it a few hours before I was going to pick it up. Pretty crappy of him.

Just remembered I have leftover Appelbee's riblets in the fridge. Hooray.

Woke up at 5:00 AM :<

2008-04-09T04:19:00.000-07:00

Just working on a couple assignments and then back to bed. I woke up before the sun this morning to go into work and bake one (1) pie and make oatmeal. What a waste. So since I got home at 7 I thought I would work on my homework that's due today. Well, due two weeks ago. I'm pretty much a loser at life.

Happy Coming to America Day

2008-04-08T13:08:00.000-07:00

Today is an interesting day. It's my boyfriend's birthday so that's pretty cool. I'm taking him to Applebee's tonight for supper. Right now I'm watching Taken. It's consistently still good and I'm half way through. Just started on disc four.

This weekend was fun, fun, fun until my daddy took my t-bird away.

2008-04-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

Friday was a fun night. Fred, Jacob, and I headed to Outback Steakhouse to celebrate Jake's birthday which is coming up tomorrow. It was a fun time, Jake's family is crazy in a good way. I had some shrimp and they gave me this butter spread and it was awesome.

Yesterday was the best though, I didn't do ANYTHING. I laid around and worked on "Taken" which is a Mini-Series from 2002 that was produced by Spielberg and won an emmy. It's really good, I love sci-fi. Though not in a nerdy way. I'm cool and socially adept.

I have two weeks left of school to go.
Two more weeks of Advanced Playwriting, World Cinema, Creativity, and Drama Studies.

I'm excited to be done with this semester. And much closer to becoming a professional writer/filmmaker.

Here I am, again. Ya miss me?

2008-04-07T16:03:00.000-07:00

You know, I used to post on my own blog once a day, never once in two months! Yeesh I can't believe it's been that long. This is my first senior year of college (I'm looking at two more, being a double major.) I only have one more Creative writing class, WRT 495, which is my Capstone. But I have about 8 more film classes. Plus my senior film project Eep!

I'm still trying to wrangle a class selection for the University I will be studying at next fall. I'm excited to move over-seas. I really love old architecture, and Europe has it in spades.

Right now I'm house sitting, my sister and her family are in Florida so I get the house to myself. Well, along with Huey the Hamster and Dakota the Lab of course. It's fun though. She bought honey nut cheerios, strawberry poptarts, a 90 count bag of combo pizza rolls, and Kraft mac n cheese for me. So I'm stocked with deliciousness.

Creativity Quotation Station

2008-04-07T16:01:00.000-07:00

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
— Scott Adams

Twitter Stats

2008-04-05T16:24:00.000-07:00

I think I'm at a healthy number of tweets. I at least have a life and don't have as much time recording what I am not doing. :)

Interesting that wisoka is my partner, but I have sent a bazillion tweets to livingfrisbee. This is because while at work, his wife love2cookpie often asks me to tweet him into ordering pizza for Thirsty Thursdays.

Looking at these now, it's intersting. I didn't think I twittered that much.

3:20 at the Oasis..

2008-02-13T12:18:00.000-08:00

Stacks of info caught on isight.

Well, my second class was canceled so I decided to bring good ol Clayton and head over to the library at school. Nice and quiet, just the way I like it. The community college I go to (dual enrolled here) has few places to chillax quietly (try hanging out in Subway beneath Main) so I'm quite happy chewing on my granola bar and having an outlet for my plug.
My next class (studies in drama) I skipped Monday and we had a reading quiz..so I just get a nice reality check from missing a days worth of discussion and possibly three points toward my grade. (Three points that's just crazy talk.) Then I have my three hour, advanced playwriting. Which we had a snow day the past two periods. It should be long and boring. My play, a not so charming outlook on a girl who is in love with, and sexually attracted to her father, is up on the list for discussion tonight. I hope they don't rip it to bits, but I'm sure they will.

On the bright side, I didn't crash, nor did I end up in the ditch on the way to school today.

Yay, me!

What the kcuf?

2008-02-12T13:44:00.000-08:00

It's been exactly three months minus one day since I've last blogged. That makes me pretty much an anus hole. I can't say that I've been particularly busy either. Let's see, November 13 you say? Oh, I celebrated Turkey day, Jesus' birthday, three weeks off of school time, my birthday, and a lot of laying around eating chocolate and watching South Park.

Yep, looks like I do suck.

The weather in good ol Michiganian is pretty lousy. Yesterday on the road to hell [college] I hit a patch of beautiful black ice, spun my tail end into the opposite lane and found myself in the snow. Hip hip hooray. While sitting in the cold (don't worry, I was wearing three pairs of socks on each foot) I watch five more cars crash, including one that flipped over.

A police officer walked up to my car and announce that he had a tow truck on the way which sucked monkey balls because my brother, Mike was on his way to pull me out. What could I do? Verbally sparing with a man of the badge wasn't on my list of things to do.

So after a bunch of hullabaloo I got to school and was greeted by the sign on my World Cinema class's door that said that Dr. Professor wouldn't be teaching today.

Yay.

So all in all, it was a great day and I lost out on $85 dollars. What's that you say?? Yeah, that's right. They charged me $85 dollars to pull my back two wheels out of the snow.

I hate winter.

Wii play!

2007-11-09T18:41:00.000-08:00

Today was a fun day. I babysat and a lot of video gaming went down. Here's a lil' video that I thought was really cute.

I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm soo

2007-10-16T16:34:00.000-07:00

scared......

Man, I love that episode of "Saved By The Bell." Who knew that children all around the world were being taught not to take caffeine pills. No, NO! No matter how many you take, you will NOT get in to Stanford. If you forgot which I pray to the world, that you haven't, here is the clip :

Halloween

2007-10-15T18:06:00.000-07:00

...is coming up. I find myself always drawn to the things that scare me. I have a lot of fears. The usual; rape, marriage, and kidnapping are included. I think it's the unique fears that set us apart.

Indiana Jones was scared of snakes
Lord Voldemort was scared of death

Every hero has a weakness

I have a zillion..

I'm scared of spiders
I'm scared of the dark
I'm scared of that creepy doll, Billy from the Saw movies. Ugh, just the commercials on tv freak me out.

Trasformers on DVD tomorrow!!!

2007-10-15T17:52:00.000-07:00

Got back my midterm today. It was not exactly what I was hoping to get. On the bright side, I can write a paper to make up the points I lost for not knowing anything about Wharton's "House of Mirth". The book is a waste of paper, I don't give a care.

I'm gonna make some tea and relax while watching Heroes tonight. Then I have to finish the third section of Falkner's "The Sound and the Fury". The book is very confusing. I hope I understand it well enough to ace the reading test on Wednesday.

Time to clean up my supper mess (Buffalo Wings) and double check that all my homework is done for tomorrow.

Secrets and Lies

2007-10-13T12:06:00.000-07:00

Searching the wayback machine for an old Postsecret that resonated in me this past summer. My writing 330 exercise this week is to write a story about a secret. I'm building mine about one that told , "I hunted down the person who raped me as a child and killed him." something like that. It was so powerful. I want to find it so I can attached it with the pdf of my story but the secrets disappear every Sunday morning with new ones so it's becoming really difficult. Why doesn't anyone archive them?

Found it.

Isn't it haunting?

I got one, two, three, four, five..

2007-10-08T16:14:00.000-07:00

.. senses working overtime!!!

Ugh, I have NOT been updating. Well, last week was the 2 year anniversary of my smoopsie poo (mosters inc.) and I, so Saturday we went to Red Lobster and I spent too much money and ordered the Ultimate Feast. I always get it, but it's like $20 and I felt guilty.
We exchanged gifts and Jacob got me a Wii!!

I cannot wait to get more wiimotes and some games so I can bring it to my friends, Lilly and Fred's house and we can play and stuff. That would be really fun. I feel like a wii is so much better when I have someone to share it with.

I gave Jacob the complete Fruits Basket series on dvd and I painted him a picture and framed it.

I just finished all my homework for tonight, so that's good. I'm gonna eat some pizza bagel bites and a big glass of yummy milk for supper soon.

I promise I will post again soon, with something more interesting.

Those are strings, Pinnochio

2007-10-02T18:55:00.000-07:00

I'm currently working on a bit about; obligatory leisure, vicarious leisure, conspicous consumption, and vicarious consumption. It's giving me a migraine and I don'd understand it.

Something (sort of) funny

2007-09-22T15:29:00.000-07:00

Below is an assignment I have due Tuesday. Just wanted to post it here because I did...

Voice Mail for September 22, 2007

Hey honey, it’s mom. I just wanted to leave you a quick message in reply to the one you left me earlier today. I don’t know what possessed you to do what you did last night? Coming home at 4 am and then getting upset at us?! Your father is booking therapy sessions for the next six months. He was just so surprised to walk into your room and to find a young woman crawling from beneath your desk. What were you doing sitting at your desk while she was hiding beneath it anyway? I just don’t understand why you feel that it is okay that you can have young women sleep over. You are twenty four years old and as long as you live under our roof then you are under our rules.

Dear, don’t touch that. No, we don’t have coupons for Extra Whitening Detergent. No, I told you. Get the Meijer brand. Get the Meijer brand. Dear, listen to me. Hank, no the one on the right! Fine, just go get the chips. The sour cream kind. No, just go.

Anyway teddybear, the other day some girl; this, eh, Kristy called for you. She wanted me to let you know that she will be meeting you Monday at three pm at the downtown Planned Parenthood. Who is this Kristy? Your father and I have talked it over and we do not remember meeting her. Is she the young woman who was with you last night? I just don’t understand why you think it’s healthy to keep a young lady underneath a desk? Wasn’t she claustrophobic under there? You’re father said that you were pushing her head down with your hands. I don’t think it’s appropriate to hold her down. I’m sure she was surprised enough to jump underneath your desk. And speaking of your desk, I was in your room the other day dropping off your clean clothes. Why do you insist on keeping a collection of old Mountain Dew cans all over it? Don’t you think it’s a little dangerous to drink that much caffeine in one night? And where are the coasters? Your aunt Millie gave you a beautiful set of coasters for your birthday last year. If I remember, they had beautiful cats on them dressed in lavish period outfits. I always thought it was just darling to protect that beautiful desk of your with a Tuxedo cat wearing a cute velvet suit and powdered wig. I just don’t understand why you can’t use them. Well, at least I know you are staying awake all night at your computer searching Monster.com for a job. It’s nice to know that you haven’t been wasting the last six years since you graduated. I’m happy to know that you haven’t been wasting a single moment and have been searching for a job since. Though, I would to see you do something other than sell gold on Ebay. I don’t understand how playing video games all day can make you so much money but I am equally impressed that you can use your skills as a Level 70, tier 3 geared, Dwarf Hunter to make money. Oh is that how you met this Kristy? And don’t you think that we should have a proper meeting with her? If you are serious about this Kristy than you need to show her more respect. You don’t just hide a girl in your room and meet her at such odd places, like the downtown Planned Parenthood. That place always looks so dirty and those extremists holding up the signs, yelling at all those pregnant, cocaine addicted girls. Oh god, where are their mothers? That’s what they all need, a good talking to. I mean… No, honey I told you, I’m calling Kevin.

Honey bear, I need to talk to you about your.

If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again.

Emo rantalization

2007-09-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry kids, it's been a summer. I spilled water on Esmerelda. *tear* So I only have internet connection/computer usage at school and my boyfriend's. Until it gets fixed my soul shall cry hard black tears.

2007-09-10T19:23:00.000-07:00

Rump roast is so funny to say. And cornucopia. I have a fresh cuppa hot chocolate. Here I go to wander off into the world of Fruits Basket Manga Goodness. Tata!

What the hell are "free radicals"?

2007-09-09T16:32:00.000-07:00

I spend too much time browsing the web via my free University dial-up. I haven't even touched my homework since 2:30. Luckily, it's 75% done! I'm going to take it easy tonight, do the rest tomorrow morning, go to class, than clean it all up for handing in tomorrow night after.

I need more shoes. I also need more creative and clever shoes storage.

What the heck?! If this isn't "Let's tie the knot, then you can go int the kitchen and make me some pot pies" I don't know what is. Originally found at Offbeat Bride, I just can't imagine how a partnership and equal such a horrible engagement picture. Yeck! On further investigation I admit the photographer is talented and this seems to be the flaw in her portfolio. Though I have to admit the bride to me seems psychotically happy about being at the heels of her man. (Or master?)

Sam Weber's stuff is wonderful. I love the contrast in this baby.

Blue Crush and then some

2007-09-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

Bla Bla Bla. Not doing anything of consequence. Finished a paper after 3 hours. Doodled, painted, ate some leftovers.

This coffee tastes good in mouth..

2007-09-02T19:00:00.000-07:00

Today was like a sad poem. Just lifeless and empty. I did stuff but still feel like I did nothing.

I had my car jumped by my dad.
I ate chicken strips and watched, "The Cat Returns".
I painted a picture.
I read 15 painful pages of "Frankenstein".
I went to Joanns.

School's out for summer...just kidding

2007-08-29T20:30:00.000-07:00

Yuck, three days in and my 4th year of higher learning is kicking my booty. Oh I just remembered I was supposed to start reading, Frankenstein. Whoops! I spent quite a while doing homework, but then I got distracted by chili cheese dogs and Mountain Dew and other delicious treats of the sort. I might peruse the book and then turn over for a night full of dirty dreams with Matthew McConaughey.

Chica-chica-chicago!

2007-08-26T11:27:00.000-07:00

Warning : pics are extremly low quality. I had to compress them so that I could upload them online via dial up.

Spent Saturday in Chicago. Jake and I left at 9am but got lost going the wrong direction so we didn't really get on the road till about 9:30am. After getting situated it was smooth cruisin' until we got to Stinky Gary, Indiana.

Then we hopped on the Skyway, saw our money deplete to the toll booths and gladly welcomed the Chicago Skyline.

Fortunately, we found the Dan Ryan Exp. right away, unfortunatley we didn't realize "The Loop" exit meant Congress Avenue and got very, very lost. Eventually, we made our way to the East Monroe Garage just as the needle hit E. :(
The Jazz Festival was going on so instead of parking for $12 like Lilly told us, we had to pay $20!
We wandered around and looked at all the goodies around the Art Institute. We even got yelled at for sitting on something that was not meant to be a bench, but was supposed to be art!

Anywho, so I snapped a zillion pics that I won't waste your time by posting. But we did hit the Sanrio Store!!! I only spent $53.00 there. :)

Jacob was getting crabby so we had to put some yummies in his tummy. We even fed the lemon!

Then we walked like an hour and a half from Michigan to Lincoln Ave.It was really tiring so we hung out at a few different parks, here and there.

And I had to pee really bad but all we could find was a nasty gas station.

We got to the gallery an hour and a half early so we got ice cream at the little coffee shop next door. And I totally got nervously sick and went to the bathroom a billion times up until seven.

Julie West showed up at about 7:20 and was really cool. She talked to us and joked around. I don't think anyone knew who she was at first..

Kurt showed up at quarter to 8. I felt bad, he said he got of the plane and came straight to the gallery. He didn't act tired but I'm sure he was. He was really cool and laid back.

Shortly after I talked to him the fan girls realized who he was and I lost my window of coolness. We left shortly after and spent 2 hours walking back to Monroe and Michigan. :( Many things to see and smell on the way back..

Then we asked a nice traffic lady for directions to the nearest gas stations because if we drove around looking for one we would surely have ran out of gas.

We finally got to Cutlerville 2 which was lovely. I shoved the snacks in the fridge and passed out on my bed.

Ranting in Progress

2007-08-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

...*grumble*
The ceiling caved in. Or well, a large chunk of plaster fell on top of one of our ugly, 60's, lazy boy chairs. The maintenance guy, head of maintenance, and a pretencious, condescening snob just left our house. She stayed behind, Trish...just saying that rolls off my tongue in a resonating, "I'm better than you because my nose points to the sky.
She called my moms cell and told her to tell me (who was standing next to her) that she should talk to her daughter and tell her to move everything out of the living room because it could fall at any time and she should stay out of the living room because she "wouldn't want me to get hurt".
As I stand there, perplexed by my obvious invisibility, because why would a woman need to tell a 21 year old girl's mother to tell her what she could say to her face, unless she was indeed, invisible. Then she steps on my purse to make her way to a 15 year old family picture and with a chortle says, "Oh are these allll your brotheeers". Her red painted nail practically scrapes the canvas as she points out each on the ancient photo.
"No, those are my nephews."
"Oh" she sharply replies.
"Where do you go to school."
"Grand Valley."
"Is it hard?"
"No. After four years, I have the hang of college" She can now sense the severe agitation in my voice.
"I went to Davenport and I thought it was hard."

(Oh, I'm sorry your not adequate enough to go to a school for monkeys)

Then she turns to leave and tosses a, "Thanks sweeetheeaart".

I am left standing in my kitchen with a mug of luke warm coffee and a cold cinnamon roll to accompany the attitude I should probably re-check.

On the bright side, I was smart enough to put on a bra before the cavalry came.

Megatron is too proud to be leader, that's why they always fail

2007-08-22T17:28:00.000-07:00

I'd be lying if I said this surprises me.

I AM
59%
STARSCREAM Take the Transformers Quiz

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals

2007-08-21T13:35:00.000-07:00

..so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel...

Whatever.

My house is 100+ years old and creatures of all sorts live in it with me.
Some are friend.
Some are foe.

Friend :
Sexing beetles -

Foe :
Spider that shall eat my face off -

Virgin Post-it-tude

2007-08-20T16:07:00.000-07:00

My manager is diabetic. He takes a shot during his shift, the whole shebang, but he has this wonderful habit of bringing his impending diabetic shot on himself.
I find him making sundaes and standing in the back of the restaraunt shoveling the ice cream in his mouth as if it were the last sundae in the world.
Despite all of his health concerns he can't stay away from my friend, Lilly's mint brownies. Last time she made a batch he ate so many that he had to take an insulin shot, just because.

You crazy kids and your insulin-shock-going-into-ness.

Sorry for the short post. I'm watching Vertigo with the mister. Jimmy Stewart is lovely, he has that whole, "I sound like I have a peppermint in my mouth when I'm talking" sound to his voice.