Roadtrip to Utah: Day One.

So today has been a VERY long day filled with stiff legs/backs, and lots of sleep. We started our long drive to Utah this morning at six am, and now after twelve hours of driving we are in Ogallala, Nebraska. What a boring day today has been, I can't wait to just be the Utah already and done with all of this driving...at least tomorrow we only have an eight hour drive, which isn't too bad. Well I'm off to bed now, even though I have gotten massive amounts of sleep already today! I will be putting up a roadtrip playlist within the next few days too. Night.

Adventureland

I crave adventure, new soil between my feet, and new paths to walk down. I've always wanted to travel all throughout Europe, and now for some reason I want to more than ever. I just want to take me, a backpack, and my two feet and just go anywhere and everywhere. Hopefully, someday I will be able to do this. Seeing the different cultures, customs, landmarks, and art just sounds so amazing! I can't wait to see the world.
Today's Playlist:

The Lion & The Teacup- Bishop Allen
Buckets Of Rain- Bob Dylan
Tout Doucement- Feist
Teeth In The Grass- Iron & Wine
Summer '76- Yann Tiersen
Young Folks- Peter, Bjorn, and John

Movie Day Monday.

Today I have decided to just have a lazy day and watch movies, much needed after a crazy weekend. The first movie of the day is Little Shop Of Horrors! One I have not watched in what feels like forever, and I love it. Maybe I will just continue with the musical theme and find another one to watch next.

This Friday I leave for a week long trip to Utah. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun, however there are some certain people I am going to miss very, very much.

When I get back though at least I will only have about two weeks until I get to go to Lollapalooza! I'm so excited, I can't wait, and after a long, hard decision process I finally figured out my Lolla schedule. I have all the bands I want to see, but in between those shows I'm sure I will walk around and catch some of the bands I haven't heard of. Hopefully I find some new music, one of my favorite hobbies! http://2009.lollapalooza.com/50280/schedule/2009/08/07

Today's Playlist:
Chicago (acoustic version)- Sufjan Stevens
Dream A Little Dream- Zooey Deschanel
Fair- Remy Zero
Mushaboom- Feist
Us- Regina Spektor
Stretch Out and Wait- The Smiths

This weeks journey's.

Today has been a pretty good week. As usual, I've been busy with going out and such, but one thing I haven't been doing much of lately is working. I hardly work anymore which sucks. I only work two days a week which is nothing! My paychecks are horrible, I need to get a second job or something because I can't last on making fifty dollar paychecks a week.

Anyways, this week consisted of what has now become pretty much my weekly routine--hanging out with Kim, Kyle, and Ryan, going swimming and on walks, hanging out at Kyle's and sleeping/watching movies, endless sleepovers, games of fugitive, and this week a trip to Chicago. Chicago ended up being a lot of fun! Kim, Kyle, Ryan, Callum, and I all headed to the city at two and got there around three thirty. Once we arrived we headed straight to Millenium park, there we went to The Bean, took pictures, and listened to some of the local music playing next to the park. We then took a small break then headed to the Taste Of Chicago. I love festivals and seeing all sorts of different people, and the thing I've come to start doing now, checking out peoples different fashions. I find myself getting different inspirations from the people around me with new styles I want to take and try. The Taste was fun but REALLY expensive. We headed back to Millenium park again, and this time we all took a nap in the big area of grass next to The Bean, it was so relaxing I widh I could do that every day! So all in all Chicago was quite a success, and I can't wait to go back already.

This weekend should be fun as well the Crystal Lake Lakeside festival is going on which is always fun, and then fireworks is a must too! I can't wait for my campout either, should be lots of fun! Anyways, until another day, toodles.

This weeks playlist:
The Winner Is- DeVotchKa
Across The Universe- Rufus Wainwright
The Best Of Me- The Starting Line
July, July!- The Decemberists
Honey Or Tar- CoCo Rosie
Yellow- Coldplay
Alone In Kyoto- Air

Life In The Fast Lane.

Lately, that's how my life has been. I find myself constantly doing something and never really having a moment to just relax, the strange thing is I don't mind that at all. I'm sitting here right now wishing I was doing something, haha. Well tomorrow will be a busy day since mine and Rachel's graduation party is then. Today we cooked and prepared all the stuff we can, hopefully the turnout and such will be good, I'm kind of nervous!

I have come to realize...

That the three ways to my heart are through cake, orange juice, and the Harry Potter movies. An odd combination, yes, but as of right now these are basically all I have been living off of and I don't mind it AT ALL. They all are just simply amazing!
So good!

This container of orange juice is/basically was my best friend for a good solid two-to-three days. I carried it with me everywhere including two graduation parties, haha. That probably sounds so odd, but I love it! (and yes, that is the name I gave the orange juice as well)

I have come to realize that I really need to start becoming more financially stable-- I guess you could say that? I constantly am spending my weekly paychecks on stuff I really don't need! It's time to make a budget for myself and saving up all my hard earnings.

Sometimes...

I wish there was some tall, tall grass for me to hide in.

I need to finish my screenplay, but find myself having little to no motivation... I need to find some more inspiration.

Busy Bee!

So with summer officially started as of a week ago I have been as busy as a bee! I find myself hardly ever home because I'm always out with my favorite people, my amazing friends. This weekend I went to battle of the bands, which ended up being a great time! Ellen, Danielle, and I met up with a few of our other friends so we could see our friends who were in it play. When our friend Kyle went to play we got up and started dancing and singing, it was a blast! I was a dancing machine that day and I'm pretty sure everyone was jealous of my TOTALLY AWESOME moves! haha. I got to catch up with a few people who I hadn't talked to in a while as well which is always nice. That night was great too, I'm glad Sarah convinced me to hang out with her and everyone else!

The girls.
Danielle, me, Ellen.
Sarah and I.

So unfortunately, I can't say yesterday was as good as Friday. I found myself in a really sad mood for reasons I'm not sure. One thing that I could blame is West Side Story, I love that movie, but the ending really gets me every time. Later on I went to the cemetery to put some flowers on my grandfathers grave, and what happens next will probably seem hilarious. That sounds very weird probably, how can a cemetery have anything to do with comedy, well yesterday it did. I managed to lock myself out of my car for a good SOLID HOUR. Yes, I know, I'm really quite an idiot for getting myself locked out of my car, at such an odd place too! So my phone ended up being in the car as well as the keys sitting upon the drivers seat just staring at me with deceitful eyes, stuck with no way of getting a hold of someone I had to whip out all my survival skills to get into the car, and after an hour I finally succeeded. Now, today, I have a bruised up arms that are incredibly sore and an interesting story. What a day yesterday was, hmph.

Today's Playlist:
The Wake Up Song- The Submarines
Lover, You Shoulda Come Up- Jeff Buckley
Calendar Girl- Stars
Pagan Angel and A Borrowed Car- Iron & Wine

Bittersweet Symphony.

So Saturday was graduation, so now I am officially done with high school. Most people are happy to be done, but me on the other hand, not so much. I'm going to miss seeing everyone I did each day and all the friends I made. It sucks knowing that you will most likely never see any of them again, even friends, this kind of step forward changes everything. Bleh, it just makes me depressed I would be lying if I said I don't miss high school already.

Today's Playlist:
Someday We'll Knoww- New Radicals
Fix You- Coldplay

(these two songs are most likely the one's I will be listening to the most the next couple days.)

The Weight Has Been Lifted.

So school is finally over, as of Tuesday. I'm very excited, but also very sad at the same time, it's just very bittersweet. It just sucks knowing that you are never going to see half the people you saw everyday, and even some friends ever again.

Anyways, today was senior breakfast and graduation practice! Last night I slept over at my friend Rachel's with my friends Natasha, Jessica, and Victoria. It was quite a crazy night, even though I ended up turning in early, I was just so exhausted though I couldn't help but fall asleep! So this morning we all drove together, even though we ended up being twenty minutes late haha, then went to the auditorium to watch a video with a collection of pictures from our senior year as well as our senior pictures. After that we headed over to Old Country Buffet for breakfast. It was a lot of fun taking picture, talking, and hanging out with all the seniors there, i'm going to miss everyone so much! Here are a few pictures from the night before and OCB:
haha it's a long story.

Me and Nate. :]


Me and Matt. :]

Tomorrows senior ditch day which should be fun, a bunch of us are having a get together at the park Veterns Acres, I can't wait! Until tomorrow!

Today's Playlist:
Aeroplane- The Everybodyfields
Butterfly Nets- Bishop Allen
Hoppipolla- Sigur Ros
Souvenirs- Architecture In Helsinki
Vincent O'Brien- M. Ward
Smoke Detector- Rilo Kiley

Sunshine and Music.

The weather has been so nice outside the past couple days, and I love it! The constant sunshine and rising temperatures are a great reminder that summer vacation is approaching very quickly, which is even more exciting. I need to start making a list of plans that I have in store for me this summer, so far I have a couple:

• Bike rides with Mariah

• Graduation parties
  

• Lollapalooza 2009 (an AMAZING line-up this year I might add, check it out! http://2009.lollapalooza.com/ )

• A trip to Utah

• Dave Mathews at Alpine-- hopefully!

• Spend most of my time outside; tanning, going to the beach, the park, playing sports, etc.
  

• Furthering my learning at playing the mandolin

• Read as many books as I can
  

Those are the few that I can think of right now, but I'm sure there will be much, much more in the near future. I want to find a lot more concerts to go to this summer, I feel like I have hardly gone to any, which is pretty true, four isn't a whole lot. I will just have to start crossing my fingers and hoping I find some good one's I can go to. This talk of concerts brings us to the second topic at hand besides sunshine, and that's music. The past couple days I have been downloading an infinite amount of new music to start listening to! Finding new bands always makes my day, and I can't wait to start listening away. I can't go a day without my Ipod, it is one of my prize possessions and you will always see it with me. I love when people look through it and are just like "what the heck kind of music is this?!" I find it to be really quite funny, but I personally think I listen to very good music, and not only have I gotten the above comments, but also the "you're music taste is great!' one's too. Me saying that probably makes me sound full of myself, but I don't mean for it to at all. It's great finding people who actually appreciate music and don't just listen to the mainstream crap that is out there now, yuck. It all sounds the same to me, give me something original, seriously!

Well, I should probably enjoy this beautiful day while I can before work. Until tomorrow.

Today's Playlist:
Lover- Devendra Banhart
Wake Up- Arcade Fire
Sunshine- Matt Costa
Carefree Highway- Gordon Lightfoot
Sing Songs Along- Tilly and the Wall
Summer Teeth- Wilco
Train Song- Feist and Ben Gibbard
Subterranean Homesick Blues- Bob Dylan

The Bitch of Living.

I'm so sick of my mother, I literally don't know how much longer I can stand living with her. It's to the point where if I can, I might move into one of my friends houses after graduation. I've never wanted to get out as much as I do now. Why can't she see that I'm working my butt off trying to get done with school? She keeps putting endless amounts of pressure on me and acts like all I do is lie to her about getting my school work done, when I actually am getting it done! UGH I have never been more frustrated in my life as I am right now, and today was actually a good day until that happened.

I just can't wait for this weekend, when I will finally have some peace and quiet. Luckily my family is going out of town so I will have some breathing room, even though my mom is upset that I'm not being apart of the family and going with. Oh well, I think I deserve some alone time.

During these hard times there is one thing that can, has, and always will get me through this, and that is SPRING AWAKENING. I have never loved something as much as I love that play, I just find it to be so relate able, and can't wait to get my tattoo dedicated to it! I have it all planned out already, I'm so excited to get it done.

Well it's off to bed to for me!

Today's Playlist:
The Bitch of Living (live from SoHo)- Duncan Sheik, Hunter Parish, John Gallagher
Where Does It Hurt- Alexz Johnson
Paranoia in B-flat Major- The Avett Brothers
Revelry- Kings of Leon
Carousel- Iron & Wine
The Garden- Mirah
Travel Song- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

I love my mandolin.

To begin with.
I absolutely ADORE my mandolin. Lately I've been trying to learn some basics; reading notes, tabs, etc. I can't wait until I can fully play and learn different songs, and not be stuck to just strumming and such. If only my love Chris (Thile) could teach me, how amazing that would be. He is such a genius and definitely is my main influence for wanting to learn to play, not to mention he is absolutely gorgeous and my husband in the very near future. I will stop rambling now.

I've decided to start this blog because it seems like a good way to empty out my thoughts, and so my sisters can see what I am up to/thinking. I feel as if I am very misinterpreted, so hopefully these posts clear up more of who I am I guess you could say? That sounds kind of cheesy, but it's the only way I can think of putting it.

School is crazy as ever, but I guess that's expected especially your senior year. There is A LOT of pressure on getting everything done in order to graduate, something I am very scared I am not going to get to do. I mean I'm not saying I'm not going to graduate, but it just seems like I have an infinite amount of work to do before I get there even though it's next weekend. I just can't wait for it to be over, what a huge weight off the shoulders that will be. I'm truly going to miss it though, the people I've met, teachers who have been mentors to me, it's going to be incredibly hard for me never in a million years would I have thought that I would get as attached to that school as I did, I just can't imagine what it's going to be like not seeing the people I do everyday and not having as strong of a support system. Oh lord am I petrified.

Well I guess that's all for today, until tomorrow.

Today's Playlist:
To Be Alone With You- Sufjan Stevens
Air Pollution- Page France
Ophelia- Gabe Witcher
I Was Broken- Robert Pattinson
Suicide Medicine- Rocky Votolato
Scotch and Chocolate- Nickel Creek