november 13, 2003 1:43 am
tonight we went to the beach with three of my work friends. i've been to the beach at night plenty of times, but tonight it was just clear enough and the moon was just bright enough to make it a gorgeous night. we played in the water and made silly sand sculptures. whilst i was
being buried in the sand, a big wave came way up on shore, and my friends all ran from it, but i was stuck in the sand and got smacked in the face. i would have been mad, but it was pretty damn funny (and i had just enough warning to avoid sucking salt water up my nose and down my throat). then we went back to my friends' apartment and sat around playing video games.
now we're back at my house, and everyone's gone to bed except me. this is pretty much the only time i get to myself. i'm pretty tired, but i know i need to update my site, and i don't really feel like going to bed yet. i just want some nice me time, where i can sit in front of the computer and
randomly cam and actually talk to people on AIM. but i should go to bed soon. got stuff to do tomorrow.
so that's about it... life's kinda crazy right now, but kinda boring at the same time. i can't wait until the semester is over and i can stop worrying about my classes. they're pretty easy, but all the paper writing and pissy professors... ugh. really a pain in the arse. okay, it's sleepy time. night to everyone who actually reads this! :)
currently listening to: outkast - hey ya
october 23, 3004 4:49 pm
so yeah, now i'm awake, but still tired. when i finish this entry i'm going to go lay back down in bed and read until i fall asleep. i've hardly eaten today but i'm not even really hungry. *sigh*
tomorrow i've got classes, only two thank goodness. so at 3 i'll be home for the day and i can rest. i should start writing my 10-page paper for my history of civ course, but not today. the first draft isn't due until next friday, so i can put it off for today, especially since i'm feeling like crap. okay, i'm going to go lay down now. no game this weekend, so i'll spend saturday and sunday working. hopefully, saturday i'll get to work with the lory birds. i haven't been there in a while and it's always nice and calm back there.
currently listening to: simply red - sunrise (love to infinity classic mix)
october 16, 2003 10:21 pm
currently listening to: 3lw - no more (promises, promises)
october 16, 2003 12:44 am
i've missed two guard rehearsals this week. i feel like crap. i think my schedule is finally catching up to me, because i've felt absurdly tired lately, and the past couple of days i've had a sore throat and some minor sniffles. i hope it goes away soon, because i can't
afford to get sick right now. i have to work tomorrow. shouldn't be too bad. it's a thursday, so it won't be too busy. maybe i'll get the golf course animals all painted and finished up, finally.
oh, i added a section for past layouts. i only have pieces of a couple of them left on my computer, but hopefully from now on i'll keep old layouts. i still have to add my sweden pictures. i think i'll have to do something like the regular pictures viewer thing, because there are way too
many pictures to have them all on one page. the page would scroll down for ages, and it would take even longer to load. i took the boyfriend application down because i'm not single anymore, and no one really responds to it anymore anyway. i think that's all... oh well, if i remember anything, i'll make a note of it and
include anything i forgot in an update tomorrow. if i update tomorrow, that is.
currently listening to: sunrise (love to infinity remix) - simply red
october 13, 2003 12:03 am
that's all! i've got to go to sleep, i've got classes tomorrow. night!
<3 my teddy bear
currently listening to: bloodhound gang - the bad touch
october 8, 2003 12:18 am
i miss my teddy bear. he's been quite ill and i haven't seen him in a bit. so i miss him terribly. i wish there was something i could do, or i could take care of him, or something... but i can't. and it makes me very very sad. look mike, i'm updating and you didn't even have to remind me. :p you need to get better! i wish you were online right now but i'm sure you're resting, and rest is very important for you to get better, teddy bear. so feel better soon and know that i miss you.
okay, end message to boyfriend. yes, i said boyfriend. i'm very happy about that. not just that i have a boyfriend, but who it is. we have so much in common it's ridiculous. he makes me happy, he makes me feel beautiful, he makes me laugh... he's an amazing guy and i'm very very lucky. :) and he better read this when he gets back to the computer!
okay so i lied, there was more 'message to boyfriend' there. but i promise i'm done now! i have classes tomorrow, and i don't feel like going, but i have to. i hav ea three-hour guard rehearsal, which is a pain in the butt, but necessary since we only practice two days a week. considering we only practice two days a week, we're pretty darn good. except for a couple
of people who need to get their acts together and pull their weight. but hey, you've always got people like that, in every group, right? so i don't know what else i have to say tonight, but i know i've got this horrible caffeine craving, but i'm too lazy/tired to walk out to the kitchen. sooo yeah. i think i'll end this update with some song lyrics, from a song i love (and have listed several times under 'currently listening to'. ^_^
i join the cue on your answer phone
and all i am is holding breath
just pick up i know you're there
can't you hear, i'm not myself
go ahead and lie to me
you could say anything
small talk will be just fine
your voice is everything we owe to life
and it all depends on you
it's only summer, the sun hasn't set
i refuse to believe that it's only me you fear
just hear me out, i'm not over you yet
love is on the line, can you handle it
so how do i do normal
the smile i fake, the permanent wave
cue cards aren't fixing it
can't you tell i'm not myself
i'm a slow motion accident
lost in coffee stains and fingerprints
i don't wanna feel anything but i do
and it all comes back to you
it's only summer, the sun hasn't set
i refuse to believe that it's only me you fear
just hear me out, i'm not over you yet
love is on the line, can you handle it
it's only summer
you've got me strained
just hear me out
don't make me wait
i'm not myself
i can't take this
love's on the line
is that your final answer
i join the cue on your answer phone
and all i am is holding breath
just pick up, i know you're there...
it's only summer, the sun hasn't set
i refuse to believe that it's only me you fear
just hear me out, i'm not over you yet
it's love on the line, can you handle it
frou frou - hear me out
obviously this is the song i'm currently listening to, so there's no need for me to list it, right? right.
october 6, 2003 12:04 am
but i do have something to be happy about. i'm resolving the guy issue (if you can even call it an issue), in a way that makes me quite happy. said guy is being a goofball, telling me to update my site because i always tell him to update his. i should update though, i haven't updated in a few days. i'm feeling good tonight. quite awake for once. i don't feel like going to bed on time, though i know darn well that i should.
i'll probably wake up tomorrow mad at myself for not going to bed at a reasonable time, but hey. i'll get over it, right?
i've got a big honkin' bruise on my right wrist from spinning sabre. i don't know when i did it, but i know at some point during the game saturday night (which we won, woohoo!) i caught the sabre with my wrist, hence the bruise. it sucks. but at least it doesn't hinder me in any way, unlike my still-jammed right middle finger. it seems like i re-jam it at every freakin' practice. totally teh suk.
not much else to say. not a whole lot going on. thinking of throwing a halloween party, but i'm not sure. especially since i just found out today that 311 is coming to sound advice on halloween. that would be one kick-butt concert, and i'd love to go. now i just need to find someone to go with! okay, that's it. no more to say. stop reading now! :p
currently listening to: moby - sunday (the day before my birthday)
october 2, 2003 11:55 pm
so tomorrow i've got two classes (one is cancelled because my professor has a family emergency and has to go out of town). no band. i get home early, and i don't have to get up terribly early on saturday.
which is definitely nice for a change. i was hoping to go out with a certain someone tomorrow night, but that certain someone hasn't been feeling well. i wish there was something i could do to help him get better,
but i don't get the chance. *sigh* i don't want to be alone for the rest of my life. i mean, no one does, but i'm really starting to worry that i'll end up that way.
i'm making myself sad, so i'm going to stop now. going to go play diablo 2 or poke around online or go to bed or read or something other than keep typing unhappy stuff.
currently listening to: coldcut - autumn leaves
september 27, 2003 10:51 pm
speaking of being tired, i have a midterm and paper due on monday. i haven't studied and i hardly started my paper, so i'll be doing that tomorrow night. i was really hoping on going to the movies tonight, but i spent the evening sitting around waiting for someone to call me (which he didn't... *sigh*), which is time i could have spent
either sleeping or working on school crap. oh well. i'm not about to sit and beat myself up for things i can't change.
i'm considering throwing a halloween party, since it falls on a friday this year. i was going to try to go to orlando for the phi mu alpha halloween party, but i doubt i can make it up there (especially since i'll be working the next day). so i'm going to talk to my mom about throwing a small and sober halloween party. i don't know yet though. i've got conflicts between people in my life, and that makes things quite difficult.
on that tangent, if you talk to me often, you know that i've been interested in someone. that someone is very hard to understand. at first, he seemed very much into me, and i liked him (even though he thought i didn't... silly boys). then he slowly seemed to pull away from me. well, not so slowly, it was quite sudden. and now, every time i breach the topic of him not calling, not wanting to spend time with me, he gets quite defensive and it ends up
very ugly. it's upsetting me, but i can't even really say anything anymore because he gets so defensive. i'm wondering if it's worth working through. i know he's going through things, but he can either let me be a part of his life, and help him, or he can push me away and make things worse. *sigh* i keep losing my train of thought because people interrupt me with their IMs. blech. forget it. i'll say more later when i remember my entire train of thought. and i'm getting a little upset myself now...
currently listening to: frou frou - hear me out
september 14, 2003 9:05 pm
so now i'm poking around online. helped fix some html for this guy's site. now i'm pondering either reading or playing diablo 2, since i'm probably not going out tonight. *sigh* i'm so sick of coming home from classes or work and being too tired to go out, or not wanting to go out because i know i have to get up early the next day
(which is every freakin day). i can't wait til the semester's over, but that's not for a couple of months yet. oh well.
look for some changes on my site in the coming weeks. i've been tweaking various things lately, and i'm working my way up to a major overhaul. maybe even a new layout.. but probably not. i feel industrious sometimes, but not enough to revamp my entire site. especially since it's cute and clean and works for the content i've got. right? right.
okay i'm done for now. i think i'm going to play some mindless games online for a while.
currently listening to: david bowie - bring me the disco king (loner mix)
september 12, 2003 10:39 pm
so then on the way home, i get a message from my dad that i need to stop by the saturn dealership to sign some paperwork on my car. no problem. went over there on the way home from classes, signed the paperwork, and i was on my way home. well, i was driving down belvedere, and when i got to the i-95 overpass, this guy in a black truck slams into the guard rail
(on the right side) and goes flying across all three lanes, ending up right in front of me. luckily, i had time to brake and didn't get hit. i (along with several other cars) stopped to see if the guy was okay (he was fine) but it shook me up big time. if i had been going a little faster, or had been a little closer to him, i would have gotten creamed. and i would have cried, b
because i've only had my car for like two weeks. whew.
i got home safely, and i've pretty much been poking around all evening. i went to meet this crazy guy mike at friendly's for some ice cream. he thinks i don't like him, but he's wrong. i think he's pretty cool (and cute too). but i won't tell him that, i'll see if he reads this, teehee. so now i'm home, and i'll probably spend the rest of the evening working on my site/downloading music/playing with my webcam/whatever else i can think of. i want
to play some d2, but i have to play on the other computer (too much lag on my comp because of the networked dsl). maybe i'll try playing though, my connection has been much faster the past couple of days. ah, and i need to add a link to the aforementioned guy's site, because if he ever adds some content, it'll rock hardcore. *hinthint, mike!*
i think that's all i have to say. i'm sure in five minutes i'll think of something. in which case... i'll either update again or just forget about it. ^_^
currently listening to: alien ant farm - summer
september 3, 2003 9:53 pm
my classes are quite tolerable this semester. well, except for intro to fiction. god, that professor is a horror. she totally shredded the response paper i wrote. so sorry if you don't like my writing style, but i've had plenty of professors who haven't had any
problem with it! oh well, right? i'll just keep writing how i write, and if she wants to give me a bad grade, then i'll give her hell for it.
i don't know that i have much to say tonight. i'm kind of preoccupied getting my site all fixed and updated. i got the cam archive working again. i don't know what else there is to fix, besides a few images in my pictures. if anyone notices anything, could you email me and let me know? i'll probably miss some things. :/
currently listening to: jamiroquai - canned heat (reminds me of band camp (cones!!) at ucf!)
august 15, 2003 6:30 pm
my car is still in orlando. we haven't heard anything about the progress of fixing it, or what even needs to be fixed. i miss sweden. i miss christian. i got stuff today to start on a scrapbook to chronicle my adventures in sweden, but i have to wait until i get all the pictures together before i dive into it hardcore. classes start in ten days. i'm looking forward to it because it'll give me something to do besides work and sit on my ass. and the sooner classes start, the sooner they're done, and the sooner i can get closer to graduating. whee.
i think that's about all i said, but i obviously elaborated before and now i don't feel like it. oh yeah, and i said something about needing to update my webcam but being too lazy to take a cam pic on my computer, load the pic onto a disk, load it onto this computer, and upload it to my site. so nyah. i'm friggin hungry. we're supposed to be ordering chinese tonight, but my parents like to eat late and i like to eat early, so it's not working out.
oh yeah, i wrote christian (my hot swedish military guy) a letter last night. well, i started it thursday night and finished it last night. i wasn't home in time today to mail it off though, went shopping with mom. i'll mail it tomorrow. not like it matters, he's stuck in the military for four more months and i don't know how quickly mail gets from his house to whichever base he's on at the time. *le sigh* oh well.
well i'm done. i'm pissy and hungry now, so i'm going to go harass my parents to order friggin dinner already. and here's some happy cute piccies to make me feel better about losing that nice long post. grr!


currently listening to: sarina paris - romeo's dead
august 11, 2003 8:12 pm
so i drove up to orlando on the 27th, which is the day we started rehearsals for the trip. rehearsals were fun, but sometimes boring. we were all quite excited though. on the 2nd, we began the long trek to sweden. we were split into two groups, and i was in the second group. our first flight was from orlando to washington dc, then from washington dc to frankfurt, germany, then on to stockholm, sweden. to top off all the travel time we had already racked up, it was a four-hour bus ride through sweden to the town we were staying in (eksjö). we stayed on a military base in sweden. it was quite interesting (and the food was pretty terrible). the morning we got there, we had a parade to do. i figured it would be like parades here in the states, where you have several groups in a line marching down a street. i was a little wrong. it was just us, stopping traffic and marching in a big circle. very strange.
we had like four parades total. we also had four performances. those were beyond awesome. the first rehearsal was pretty kickass, because we got to see most of the other bands perform. their shows were so completely different from ours, more artistic/military and not meant for the same sort of crowd we perform to. it was quite a culture shock for both sides, but by the end of the trip, i think there was some understanding. but i digress. each band did a short program (about ten minutes maybe?) and then after all the bands had performed, there was a mass band which played four or five (i don't remember) songs. it was very cool, very beautifully done.
so on wednesday night we find out about the officer's club, which is a building right off base for fun times. there's a downstairs sort of basement part to it, with a bar and pool table and tons of seating. i spent a good deal of time in there, and that's where i met christian. he's a cymbal player in the swedish army band (but normally plays saxophone, big shock!) and very very nice. we hit it off pretty well and spent the next few days doing a lot of hanging out and talking. we exchanged email and snail mail addresses, and he's possibly going to come visit me in the states. he gets out of the military in four months, so i'm hoping we'll be able to talk more often (than will be possible currently) and spend some more time together without the rigid performance schedule. he was so sweet. before one of the performances, he came up to wish me good luck. his group went right after the marching knights, so they never got to see our show. i made quite the effort to go running from the exit back around to the entrance side, just so i could get inside and watch him perform. he's such a cutie and so nice.. why did i have to go all the way to sweden to find a guy like that? it's silly, but oh well. anyway, back to the trip!
we got to go to a castle (kalmar slott) on tuesday, and it was quite beautiful. i got some really incredible pictures there, and some cool souvenirs. we also got to see a peppermint-making-type place, as well as a glass blowing place. really neat stuff. some of my pictures didn't come out so great, they were kind of dark. :( bums me out. and the picture my friend took of me and christian on the last night is off center and makes me sad. :( but she took a picture with her camera, so hopefully her picture came out better than mine. i bet i'm the first fool to get pictures developed. it was like $60-something to get them developed tonight with picture disks. but mom and dad paid for it and said not to worry because it was their last 'gift' to me for the trip. :D
i keep losing my train of thought because people around me are loud and annoying, so i'm going to stop trying to follow a timeline. but i want to babble more because i feel like i still have something to say about the trip, even though i can't think of anything. i think i'll post my pictures on my site, in a format similar to that of my other pictures. it'll be easy that way, all i have to do is alter the html and slap a few links here and there. right now i'm working on getting all the pictures saved to the computer. we're supposed to have a chunk of space on dotphoto to upload all our pictures, but i'm impatient. i need to save a chunk of money to buy copies of other people's pictures, as well as copies of pictures from the marching season which i never bothered to order copies of. i think i'm going to stop for now, seeing as how the dogs are pissing me off and giving me a friggin' headache. :(
oh yeah, they sold dvds of the show, which i'll be hopefully getting soon. it's a two-dvd set or something, and i hope it has lots of swedish band on it (and especially a certain person, teehee). i'm really done now! promise!
currently listening to: abba - super troupers (which was performed by the swedish army band and rocked hardcore!)
july 18, 2003 10:45 pm
i think this is the first time i've updated while my parents have been sitting in the room. my computer is still in the crapper, and i have no plans as of right now to fix it/get a new one in the immediate future. i'll probably save up and get an alienware somewhere down the line, but that'll take a while.
so for now, since i hardly use the computer, i'll continue to tolerate using the 'rents computer. i need to post a picture of our new puppy abby. she's adorable, a basset hound like gracie. she's much more droopy though. she'll be funny looking when she gets older. she's still just a puppy (and still piddling all over
the freakin' place). i think that's about it for now. i've got work tomorrow and sunday, then i've got two days off. no road trips this time, just some nice off time. i think i'm going to put some new songs on a disc for my mp3 player and hit the sack.
currently listening to: sophie ellis bextor - murder on the dancefloor
july 10, 2003 9:25 pm
on another topic, boys r dum. very much so. one boy pretty much stopped talking to me, and he's apparantly back with his ex, so forget that. the orlando boy never talks to me, even though i apologized profusely and he said
he accepted said apology. we'll see what happens there. another boy is a wussy and is like scared of girl cooties or something. i mean, yeah, i have girl cooties, but they're good cooties, right? what guy wouldn't want to have my cooties
all over him? okay that's dirty. there's a fourth boy, but he's still all stupid over his ex and stuff, so i'm not going to waste my time nor energy on that one. c'est la vie, n'est-ce pas? oui.
come on baby, don't fear the reaper... sorry, song i'm listening to. i'm typing fast, and i don't know why. i'm babbling. i'm in a babbling mood. i'm tired but hyper at the same time. i want to go out, but it's getting too late to really do anything,
and i should get a full night's rest so i'm not falling asleep at work tomorrow.
man i switch topics fast. i don't know what to talk about now. oh yeah! the cd player in my car stopped working, and i can't deal with not having a cd player in the car, so i went and got a new one. it's freakin' awesome, and maybe sometime
i'll post a picture of it. anyway, i let a friend of mine try to fix the old one, and all he basically had to do was plug it into a battery and it worked. we concluded that it was just pissed at me and decided it didn't want to work in my car anymore.
so i'm going to sell it to one of my other friends. and it will be grand. yes. i don't know what i'm going to do for the rest of the night. i'd stay on the computer, but i'm sure my father will want to play freecell or check his business email (even though it's
late and no one in their right mind would be doing anything related to work as far as his field goes). blech. as far as my computer goes, i've decided to save up my money (after my sweden trip)
and buy myself a kickin' alienware computer. then life will be grand, and i will be a master gamer. well, i'm already a master gamer but it's hard to game when your computer is in the pooper. *le sigh* okay i'm done now. time to go do... stuff... *insert lurking smiley here*
currently listening to: blue oyster cult - (don't fear) the reaper
march 16, 2003 11:31pm
march 13, 2003 12:54am
currently listening to Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor
february 22, 2003 12:42am