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Oh how it’s been so long.

May 2, 2008 at 3:20 am | In Life, Music, TV | Leave a Comment

I’m not gonna lie, I watch too much tv. I’ve gotten sucked into too many reality shows like Flavor of Love and Tila Tequila, and they’re borderline guilty pleasures.

American Idol is down to 4 now, and I think it’s pretty obvious it’s down to David Cook (!) and David Archuleta. As much as I still love the beautiful dreaded Jason Castro, I never thought he would win. Also David Cook already has an album which I guess is incredibly difficult to get ahold of. David Archuleta is good and very well loved by both the judges and the crowd but too cute-goody-goody and boring, sounds the same week after week. I’ve always liked David Cook but a few weeks ago he completely won my heart when he covered Mariah Carey Always Be My Baby. He made it into a very pretty slow rock song and I definitely recommend it, I listen to it constantly.

Paula Abdul was hilarious when she critiqued both of Jason Castro’s songs, when he had only sang his first. Everyone was like what?? Watch the drug intake before going on live tv.

My economics teacher told us today that on May 20th movie theatre prices were going up a dollar because of the new Indiana Jones movie. Argh. I already promised my bf I’d go see it, and since he pays mass amounts of gas money from Canby to Portland several times a week, I’m probably paying. Good times.

I am out of high school at the end of this month, and it’s amazing.

4/11/08.

April 12, 2008 at 2:23 am | In Life | 1 Comment

My twitter. If I get more followers I’ll use it more.

Missing my senior prom tonight. I can probably count on both hands how people from my school I actually enjoy spending time with, so it’s not like I expected to have the greatest time in the world, it’s more the circumstances surrounding how I ended up not going that upsets me. Getting ditched sucks.

However, my lovely friend Mack took me to Rainbow Dragon after our early release today, to cheer me up before HE left for prom. It was very nice and tonight I’m seeing my boy so this day is not a waste of time.

We watched a video on Levi’s in Economics this morning, and there’s a wide variety of products from the last 2 or 3 decades that today can sell for anywhere between 500 and a couple thousand dollars. So raid your parents closets?

Blurry.

April 3, 2008 at 1:26 am | In Life | 1 Comment

I have a bit of a stigmatism in my left eye. My new contacts are already bugging me. Fortunately tomorrow’s my Friday but I don’t have a follow up appointment til next Thursday, so if I don’t adjust to them soon I’m screwed.

Prom is next Friday and I still haven’t decided if I want to bring my best friend [who dropped out almost 2 years ago and can't go to prom unless I take her] or a guy I’m semi-seeing who I wonder if I will really have a good time with, or if he’d even be able to go.

I have decided on my next hair coloring and I’m excited! Hopefully doin it this weekend and hopefully it will still look badass with my dress.

One of the biggest flaws of contacts:

March 29, 2008 at 2:58 am | In Life | 1 Comment

Before I could do pretty over the top makeup so that it could be seen, and it had a good effect with my glasses. Now I have to take it down a notch, and where before I could have my eyeliner a bit sloppy without it looking bad, today I had to redo it like three times to get the left eye just right, because it’s so much more obvious now. Hopefully I’ll get some good responses and it’ll be worth it. Tonight’s the test run, a get together with a bunch of friends.

Watching hip-hop videos with Steph.

March 28, 2008 at 5:47 pm | In Food, Life, Photos | 4 Comments

Jason Castro was in the bottom 3. Gave a cute little speech pretty much accepting that he was going home and had prepared for it all day, and then was safe.

Got my [soft] contacts on Wednesday. Took me like two hours at my appointment for them to train me to get them in and out! One of my biggest problems with them is that I get it into my eye fine, and then it just sticks to my finger and comes back out! I’ve finally mastered the technique aside from that, but my other problem is figuring out if the contact is inside out or not. The first pair they had me try had 123 on it so I could tell which was the right way, but it’s a lot harder to tell with this new pair. I usually just kinda wing it. I’ve only worn them for one full day but I got it down! and got them out on pretty much my first try.

Then me and my mommy went and got a hamster! I’ll post pictures later but my mom named him Alfie (which made me giggle and think of Lily Allen, naturally). She wanted to just call him Teddy Bear or Bear [teddy bear hamster] but I nagged her to be more creative. We’ve called our guinea pigs Baby, Miss Piggy, and Buddy.

Yesterday me and Stephanie went to Ihop! For the Horton Hears a Who specials. We both got Who Cakes, and the green eggs and ham (regular ham, scrambled eggs w/spinach. still very very good.) And the drink that I forgot the name, but it was sprite with blue and red jello in it. Free refills and it was mmm. Nothing like jello through a straw.

I got my custom made leather bag in the mail yesterday! and I love it!! I’ve been so excited to get out of my house glasses-free and just show off all my newness.

Starting up again.

March 19, 2008 at 2:14 am | In Life | 1 Comment

So a couple months ago I got put on celexa, which is a medication for anxiety and depression, which side effects can include suicidal feelings?? That seems incredibly odd to me but since I haven’t been feeling this effect I shrugged it off. However, the last couple weeks or more I’ve been having very odd, realistic, and VIVID dreams every single time I fall asleep. And none of them good. Normally I rarely dream or remember them even well enough to describe. I credited this to my senior venture research paper, which was taking up all my time and consuming my thoughts. I thought the dreams would stop when it was finished but they haven’t. My brain is easily tricked, I have no idea if the medication has been working for my anxiety or if its just the placebo effect. I know this, and the dreams are becoming increasingly difficult to deal with but I’m not sure if I want to take the risk of going a step back. Especially the last two months of high school.

When I got prescribed the meds it entirely proved my Psych teacher’s point, who was talking about this only days before my appointment. She ranted about how doctors will just make any diagnosis and throw any medication to satisfy patients. If this one doesn’t work, here, try this one. Which is almost word for word what my doctor said to me when I had barely even described to her what I was feeling. I had only said a few sentences when she said oh CLEARLY you’re suffering from bad anxiety, here we’ll get you started on these. I just like to feel like I’m doing SOMETHING to help myself out, because it just got to be too much.

Anyway. Prom is coming up and on Saturday I’m going dress shopping with Ashlie, and probably Laurel. I was very excited, and still am, but today my mom pulled out my sister’s old dress, which is incredibly beautiful. I haven’t been to any of the high school functions, and for my senior prom I was INSISTING on having a brand new dress, and one of my own. I have my own style and thought dress shopping would be a blast. But I felt like a fucking princess in my sister’s and started thinking of how to do my hair and makeup and now I just want to keep it!

The best dieting program I have ever been on is my senior venture paper. I was so busy I forgot to eat the majority of the time. I was always busy and drank a lot of coffee which would fill my stomach and I would be asleep before it wore off and I was hungry. I realize this is entirely unhealthy but it wasn’t a conscious process and hey, it worked! I’m happy with my body again but am still working on it.