Just spent the last 30 minutes driving around the 2 blocks surrounding my home.  I popped in a mix CD from the good old days, rolled the windows down and thought of most of the people I love.  Every time I got close to pulling onto my street another great song came on or I was right in the middle of singing along to the chorus of some song that reminded me of someone infinitely special.

Have you ever been a part of something that you thought would never end?  And then of course it did.

♥o♥o♥o♥

Here's a screen I haven't seen in a while. 


And I have nothing to say.

Alex and I are going on a three week adventure.  Destination Ohio with 4/5 days spent driving through and staying in Memphis, St.Louis and Chicago.  Then on to Cleveland, then up to Niagra Falls and possibly up to Toronto for a couple of days.  Then back to Cleveland for wedding things(Alex is a groomsman) and then Memorial Day in Indiana (near Peru) to visit his aunt and uncle's farm.

If anyone has any recommendations for things to do en route that would be great.  I think Cleveland itself is pretty planned out but we're just wandering around the other cities to find stuff.

So far, I'm making us stop(or rather detour) to visit William Faulkner's house, Rowan Oak in Oxford MS. Something Alex has no interest in, but he humors me.  That's the only thing I really have planned out.

what else what else what else


Got a Kindle2.  Don't like the idea of not owning my books physically but that's sort of possessive isn't it?

Also been working on a short story that's turning out to be much longer than the term short story implies.

Here are pictures from New Year's Eve.  Check 'em out, they were good.  Pay no mind to my horrible hair.  I couldn't touch it so it was sticking up most of the night.  I'm not in most of them as I was the sober camera woman.  :P 


I love my friends.  Seriously.

( My favorites )

I'm so lonely.  And missing the boy, who is out of town for forever.  And school's out so it's not like I'm bursting with things to do.

So if I have this surgery, I will have had two cosmetic surgeries within the last few years.  

I'm well on my way to being that cat lady.



In other news....

I saw the Moscow Ballet perform The Nutcracker at the Majestic this weekend.  I've never been to a ballet.  It was nice.  It's pretty amazing the things people can do with their body.

Alex and I went to the King Tut exhibit at the DMA today.  It was good but I recommend getting the audio tour if you go.  We got out of there a bit later than expected, at around 5, so we thought we were going  to be in horrid traffic leaving Dallas and back to Plano.  Not the case though.  It was actually fairly decent other than a 5 minute rough spot right before and right after 635.

I've been pretty down lately.  I blame the impending feeling of doom that the holidays bring.  Ugh.   I went to the mall Sunday.  Christmas music already!  UGH.  I know, I know, I may be a scrooge or a grinch or whatever else but I'm not a fan of the season.  Too much stress.  Too much tension.  And way too many letdowns.  Hopefully I'll be drugged through the whole ordeal thanks to my surgery.

Funny Senior Portraits



Scroll  down to the The Weird Asian Kid Portrait.
Looks just like John-Paul.



Don't call me racist.

It doesn't look like Peter.

http://www.3rf.org/newsmgr/templates/sci-news-item.aspx?articleid=67&zoneid=5


Nov 15.

Anyone else interested?

This guy        


was Carth Onasi.  

 

Really?

Check out the Denton Reads website.  Orson Scott Card will be there on Saturday to give a lecture and sign books.

I'm going are you?

All is well.  Just so you know.

Yeah, so I won two box seat tickets to Projekt Revolution this Saturday if anyone wants them.  Free.
I'm actually heading to Austin that day to see Reggie and the Full Effect. 

If you want them, tell me and we can arrange some sort of pick up/drop off.

Practically no one does LJ much anymore. My friends page is mostly filled with Neil Gaiman.

My birthday was alright. Saturday I had a bunch of family come over and such. On my actual birthday I went out for bbq with Alex, my mom, and Kristina. Alex got me a super expensive haircut and pedicure. I can't imagine who pays that much for a haircut regularly. Plus I can't get it to look the way she did right after it was cut. I just suck at taking care of myself. It seems pointless a lot.

This month I've read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer at the recommendation of my 13 year old sister. It's pretty apparent that she falls within the target age for readers of these books. But I enjoyed them anyway. The writing is not the best but I find myself caught up in the plot. The first one not so much but I was hooked enough by the second. The final book comes out in August and I have to begrudgingly admit I'm a bit excited. Also, they're making a movie of the first book due out in December. It does not look amazing. BUT it has Cedric Diggory as Edward Cullen(the main guy), so that's a plus. ....... Maybe I am in that target age range. Maybe I'm 13 on the inside.

What else?.... Super Mario Galaxy is fantastic. I need to sew stuff for American Gladiators jousting. My thighs are really sore from last soccer practice. Which is weird because I felt fine during it. I guess the sprinting hit me later. Oh yeah! And Batman was wonderful.



Happy Birthday Twins!
We were the same age long enough. All is well in the universe again.

So I've had soccer practice probably 4 to 5 times a week and my legs have been permanently sore.   I'm really fucking nervous about our first game on Friday.  I think I've improved some since starting but it's so hard to tell because most everyone else on the team is really good.

I just came back from a practice in fact.  Sore legs? Check.  Aching back? Check.  Goals?  NOPE.  Not this time.  Although I got two goals last big practice I got nothing today.  Bruised ego?  CHECK!

But I have such a good time anyways.  It's good to be young. 

Speaking of which... birthday next week not helping my very dwindling mood.

The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. How do you do?

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
5) Put a star next to those you've only partially read.

1 Pride and Prejudice
2 The Lord of the Rings
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte **
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller **
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare**
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot


37/100.  Damn.  I was hoping for more than that.  I'll have to get on it.  I went an extra step and increased the size on the ones I SUPER-LOVED, and bolded the numbers of the ones I had to/was supposed to read for school.

Me lately?

-School.  School. School.
+Awesome boyfriend.
+Awesome friends.
+Playing soccer.
-Sucking at soccer.
-School.  School.  School.
+New bag.
+My grandmother's here!  :D

The things that make my life go round.

Also.  My birthday is approaching and people keep asking what I want and really what I want most of all is for time to stop.  Maybe even go back a bit.  But stopping would be alright too.


p.s.  I think I may die without Battlestar Galactica.

okay.  Way last minute and kinda dorky but I thought this might be fun.

Chimp Haven
Anyone else possibly interested?  It's tomorrow morning.

Or maybe this:
Star Party
And if we don't do it this month, let's plan for next month?

Or women's football?
Dallas Diamonds

Can you tell I want to get out this weekend?
Yesss.

I time traveled Monday night to the time of lake picnics right after high school.  I love all of you that came, and all of you that I wish were there.  It was very nostalgic.  All the elements were there. Multi-car caravan, blankets, food, taking forever to get organized, ghost stories, Texas summer night, and drama-free goodness.

Great seeing Jessica.  Great seeing Ashley.  Great seeing Nicole.  Even great seeing the rest of you that I see fairly regularly.

Also. I am dying with school and am considering pushing graduation back a semester.  I mean... I don't want to kill myself in this process.  It's only 5 more months right?

Also let's go somewhere! Let's take a road trip and go tubing or something.  Lauren and I have been talking about it for about a month now, and I still think she doesn't know when she can get off work BUT I ordered a travel brochure for Texas from http://www.traveltex.com/ and there's so much shit to do in our nice state.

Suggestions?  When people will be free?  Do it.