that beep

I like this song a lot. The music video is kind of weird though.

april shmapril

It's April!
Some SLC homies thought it'd be fun to make a Facebook group where you make a monthly playlist, upload it, and then share it. You can download my playlist here.

Tracklist (not in this order):
01. Codename: Rondo - Ghostland Observatory
02. You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates
03. I Remember (Caspa Remix) - Deadmau5
04. Lights (Bassnectar Remix) - Ellie Goulding
05. Son of Shiva (Instrumental) - MC Yogi
06. Might Like You Better (Vaski Remix) - Amanda Blank
07. Flutter - Bonobo
08. Mileena's Theme - TOKiMONSTA
09. I Wanna Go Back - Onra
10. YES - Bassnectar & Datsik
11. Fucking Boyfriend - The Bird and the Bee
12. Contrails (feat. Tegan Quin) - Astronautalis 
13. Collect Call (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix) - Metric
14. Hey Boo Boo! - Danny Breaks
15. Coffee Break - Zed's Dead
16. The Anthem - Onra
17. Pass This On - The Knife
18. O'Sister - City and Colour
19. Bamboo Banga - M.I.A.
20. Alohomora - Pogo
21. Muggle Born - Daedelus
22. The Sickness Unto Death - Typhoon
23. The Shrine / An Argument - Fleet Foxes
24. Holocene - Bon Iver

media

Earlier in the week I went on a date to the Los Campesinos! show at Club Sound. They're not anything that I would normally listen to, but it was a pretty good show. Here's a few songs of theirs.

In unrelated news, James dragged me to see Anonymous at the dollar theatre last week. I've never read anything by Shakespeare and I wasn't aware that there were people who think his works were written by a nobleman, but I really enjoyed the movie. I love all movies and books set in the Elizabethan era. If you haven't seen it yet, go. Do it now. 

the new year

So this is the new year. 2012. Possibly the last year any of us will experience. 
It's been a pretty busy year for me so far. On New Year's Eve I moved out of the dorms and into an awesome house near the bottom of campus. Then I threw a huge party. It was doooope.

My resolution this year is not to drink any alcohol. Ideally, I think it would be nice to wait until I turn 21 to drink. But we'll see. My friends are borderline alcoholics so it could prove to be difficult. I also want to cut out soda, as I do every year, as soon as I finish all the soda that's left from the party. I have 4-5 more cans of diet grapefruit soda I need to push through. :( They're so disgusting, but no one else in my house wants them and I don't want to pour them out since I paid for them and I'm extremely broke at the moment.

I started school this week. I changed my schedule (again) so I have 3 classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and an online class. I'm down from 19 credits to 12 but I have a feeling the classes I'm taking are going to stress me out hard. 

    + 9:10-10:30 Intro to Ethical Dilemmas

    + 10:45-12:05 Human Origins: Evolution and Diversity
    + 12:25-1:45 Family Studies
    + online Evolution of Human Nature (again)

Paul and I are taking Evolution and Intro to Ethical Bullshit together. He loves our ethics class but I think it's a load of crap. There's this girl named Tschaun who has a question or a comment for every single thing our professor goes over. On the first day of class we were learning about how in an argument there should be premises and a conclusion. If the conclusion makes sense, you have to check that the premises are absolutely true. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's an example:

    + All humans are mortals.
    + Socrates was a human.
    + Therefore, Socrates was a mortal.

It's so easy. I learned this kind of stuff when I was a freshman in high school. Yet this girl could not find a way to agree with our professor. The example he was going over in class had premises that could be challenged. But whenever someone made an argument against a premise, she had to "clarify" whatever the person just said. It's hard to explain. You'd have to be there. But BASICALLY, she's a pain in my ass and I hate the class.

I really really like my Human Origins class. The professor goes over really interesting material and doesn't drone on like some of my other professors. I'm interested in everything he has to say. I'm not sure how I feel about my Family Studies class. I didn't want to take it because I don't really care to learn about families, but if I want to major in Human Development (I'm still unsure), it's a required class. I'm retaking Evolution because I'm an idiot and never went to class last semester so I got a C. Plus Paul wanted to take it and I can't say no to him. 

can't stop won't stop

My dream boy needs to be able to play guitar and sing Circa songs to me when I'm feeling down. Bonus points if he owns the same bass as Nick in the Soundcloud session videos. swoon.

Anthony Green appreciation post

I'm surprised that I haven't been flipping shit all over this thang about Anthony Green's upcoming album and tour. The day tickets went on sale I was in Missouri and I seriously lost it. I was in such a panic that I tried ordering tickets several times before I realized it kept declining me because they weren't on sale for another 3 hours. I'll be seeing him on February 17th and I'm soooo excited. It's been too long. I haven't seen Circa since the week I moved to the SLC. I got pressured into going to Moab on the night that they were here last. :(

On his website, he's been doing an advent calendar of Beautiful Things-related goodies. He has also been taking requests lately for songs to cover. I peed a little when he covered Fleet Foxes's Someone You'd Admire.

You should definitely click through to the calendar and watch day 8's video of the song Blood Song. I love it and I'd include it here but the embedding code and Blogger refuse to cooperate.. so click through. I promise it's worth the extra couple of seconds. ;)

The video for Blood Song is on youtube:

Also, for some added luls:

The first time I met Anthony, 2007.

The last time I got to hang out with him, August 2010.

stupid cat

Friday night was Crimson Nights. I looked really nice. Like, really nice. You might even go so far as to say I looked hot. (Paul would disagree). You'll just have to trust me on this one because the only pictures I took all night were of Dr. Theo and Alina...

Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night I.... watched... Secret Life... It's become an addiction. I started watching it as a joke because Cassidy really likes it and I wanted to get caught up to her so we could watch it together when I was at her parents house. But then I couldn't stop watching. Before I knew it, I was on the last episode of volume five and bawling every time Ben or Adrian were onscreen.  Oh god, it was awful. Ugly open-mouthed crying that I hadn't experienced since I watched the last episode of LOST season 5 when Juliet died.

Anyway... 
Today our idiot cat singed off his eyebrow whiskers because he thought playing with the candle was a good idea.

Then he went into our roommates' bathroom and fucked up everything.

Ehehehehehehehehh... ;)

I'm going back to Secret Life but before you leave, you should check out these albums that came out during the last two days:

 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto

She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas

falling in love at a coffee shop

I was sitting in Starbucks studying and this came on. I'd forgotten how much I love this song.

Today is the last day of fall break. I basically did nothing but work and watch netflix. It was so boring and uneventful. If I didn't input each thing I did every day into the Momento app, I wouldn't be able to recall anything I did.

October 7-9

 

On the 7th, Riley went on a field trip to a pumpkin patch. The kids got to pick their own pumpkin, place in a hay maze and then learn about the hundreds of different kinds of pumpkins, squash and gourds. The next day was the Utah vs. ASU game where we lost, 14-35. It was cold, I was tired and we were losing so it was boring. I spent that night in Ogden with Chelsi and Michael and spent all of Sunday intruding on their family. By that I mean I accompanied their entire family (Wendy, Shayne, Cass, Noah, Chelsi, Michael and Mitch) to the movie theatre and then to dinner. I tried to be as un-awkward as possible since it was the first time Mitch and I were seeing each other but he kept making it weird and so were his parents. It was very obvious that they thought it was fucking odd that I was there as just a friend AND that Mitch was going to give me a ride back to Salt Lake. Whatever. We talked things out on the ride home and I feel like we can finally move on and be friends. When I got home Paul and I went to the dollar theatre to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides..... It was so terrible. I am a huge fan of the Pirates series but this one was just... awful. The acting seemed unnatural and forced and I guess I just wasn't a fan of the plot. The whole 2 hours we were sitting there I was bored and unhappy. I've never been so disappointed by a Johnny Depp movie in my life. 

October 14-16

On Thursday I was getting pretty pissy about the fact that I hadn't done shit during break. So I hit up Chelsi. On Friday we threw a party of epic proportions where everyone got really wasted and had a blast.

 

Then last night Paul, Bottom Joe, Stuart, Corinne and I went to the Haunted Forest in American Fork. It was $20 for an hour and a half of wanting to pee my pants. Not because it was scary. I just really needed to pee. But it was really fun. It wasn't scary so much as shocking at how close the actors got to you. I was the leader of our pack so creepers kept jumping out and getting within an inch of my face. There was also a guy with a blow torch that nearly took out my shoe. Not cool. What WAS cool was the guy dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow:

He was stumbling around in one of the rooms of the mansion you go through before the forest. We caught him afterward and I managed to snap a picture of him with Paul and Bottom before my phone died.

Speaking of phones, I got the iOS 5 update and I loooove it. I can't decide if the notification center or the ability to make custom text tones is my favorite. I love everything. I especially love this tumblr called Shit That Siri Says. It's a collection of screenshots of things that Siri has responded on the new iPhone 4S. It makes me so jealous of 4S owners...

Anyway. Back to school tomorrow. It'll be my first time to French class in two weeks. I'm excited to see how much Luc picks on me. À bientôt!

bottom mellow.... sunshine!

Have any of you Blogger users switched to Blogger in Draft yet? I've had it for a few weeks and it's fantastic! I love it!

Listen to all of these songs multiple times. You'll feel better. Even if you've had a wonderfully wonderful day and everything in your life is perfectly perfect, give these a listen. I promise you won't regret it.


Pogo - Alohomora


Foster the People - Waste

I finally got around to making an "About Me" page since this fancy Blogger layout allows "pages." I've linked it on the sidebar but you can also find it by clicking here or by hovering in the left side of the white bar above the header.

wildlife wednesday

I feel like people enjoy my blogs more when it has less ranting and more pictures.

Technically, it's already Thursday but I haven't slept yet so ITS STILL WEDNESDAY TO ME. 

Everyone knows what Wednesday means... Wildlife Wednesday! This concept was introduced to students at the U by my roommate Corinne and her sister Abby. It's really simple. Basically, you wear a shirt every Wednesday that has some form of wildlife on it and you cannot re-wear that shirt on another Wildlife Wednesday. It simply isn't done. For examples of shirts I've worn since January, you can click here, which will show you every post on Dailybooth tagged with #wildlifewednesday. Or you can look below:

If you want to join in on the Wildlife Wednesday festivities but don't own any wildlife t-shirts, do not fear! Just head on down to your local thrift store (probably a D.I. if you live in Utah). These places are literally crawling with animal t-shirts. It's where Corinne and Abby have gotten most of ours from.

In other news, Stuart and I are back together. Kind of. The only difference is that we're not facebook official (since there's only 3 weeks of school left and we're not staying together over the summer - it's just not worth it), we're not "boyfriend and girlfriend," and we're not going to spend every second together like we were before the break-up.

I received my first college F yesterday. It was on that stupid Christianity exam we took last Thursday in World Religions. I honestly didn't know any of the short answers. And since I didn't know a lot of the multiple choice questions either, I couldn't base my short answers off of already answered multiple choice questions! Ugh, it was horrible.

But then I went to the gas station Corinne and I have become regulars at to get a 44oz Mountain Dew before work and saw this beauty parked next to me. It's a Nissan Maxima but instead of Maxima it says Maxipad. Utahns are so clever with their license plates and other assorted rear end accessories. I love it!

One of my kids came to school today with a huge coloring book that told a story and I was completely blown away by how fantastic it was. Seriously. I couldn't stop fawning. So when Paul Kim wanted to go to Smith's to buy brownie supplies, I couldn't help but buy a coloring book for myself. I swear it's causing my stress to melt away. I'm having such a blast coloring Toy Story characters.

Toy Story 3 is now on Netflix instant watch, so maybe I'll watch it tomorrow while I color. Tip.

So anyway, we bought all of the supplies to make brownies, along with chips and dip, my coloring book and a huge bottle of lemonade. Bridget, Becca and Paul's friend Rudi from the drumline joined us. Paul found some super sketchy vegetable oil in one of the cabinets and used it in the brownies, so they tasted disgusting. The oil had little flakes floating in the bottom that looked like pepper. I didn't trust it. Apparently he and Stuart used it the first time we made spaghetti in the kitchen though.. so it must be okay, seeing as how I haven't gotten food poisoning or died or anything.

Then as I was taking things back down to my room, I encountered a pizza box on the stairs...

Becca and I inspected it and, instead of being a piping hot pizza left by an angel of a delivery boy, it was some old half-eaten pizza. I was thoroughly disappointed.

It's now 2:22 am. I probably won't get into bed until at least 3 am because I'm still pretty wide awake. But Corinne just conned me into turning the lights off and I'm starting to get sleepy. I discovered that the song "You Really Got A Hold On Me" defines our relationship perfectly. Bah!


She and Him - You Really Got A Hold On Me

bazaaring

Dictionary.com defines bazaar as 

1. a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East
2. a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
3. a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store

If a bazaar is a shop, wouldn't adding an -ing onto the end make it shopping? Aha, it would! So, if we had to define bazaaring, we could probably say

1. the act of shopping

Awesome. This is great. We can finally define my url.

Bazaaring actually originated when I signed up for dailybooth with the name Bazaar. I wanted to use that on other websites but of course it had already been taken.. hence the randomly added on ending. I'm not about using numbers in my usernames like some people (coughcoughcorinnecough)...

Anyway.

I'm sitting in the library. Alone. Because Corinne won't skip class to join me. I should be studying for the Christianity exam we have tomorrow... Instead, I'm browsing Facebook and staring at every single person that walks in to the library. Do I feel like a creep? Of course I do, that feeling never leaves me.

Yesterday I took my oral exam in French.. totally aced it. That's 2/2 exams I've kicked ass at in French this week. I also got my composition from a few weeks ago back and got an A on that too! Why am I so aweeesommeee! All of the studying I've been putting in this week is starting to get to me though. Last night as I was studying for the History midterm I had this morning, I fell asleep while reading. So when I woke up at 7 this morning, I was freaking out that I wouldn't have enough time to learn everything the exam was over. Because before last night, I hadn't studied at all for the midterm. Yay procrastination! But when I got to class the test question was over the one I had studied this morning, so I lucked out. Now I just need to start learning about Christianity so I don't fail tomorrow's test...

I'll do it later.

Man, I love sitting in the library. Its so quiet (unlike our room), it smells nice (unlike our room), and there are so many cute boys here (unlike our room). On Fridays I have history from 8:35-9:25 and then an hour break before mythology at 10:45, so I could come in here for that time. It's too bad I haven't been to a single history class this semester. Maybe this Friday...

yacht

Any person who knows me knows that I have this ridiculous fascination with the band YACHT.

They have a new album coming out this year and I am beyond stoked. You can peep their new track "Dystopia" below. If Corinne and I get to Coachella (cross your fingers!), I'll probably pee my pants when we watch them perform. 

YACHT - Dystopia

In other news, its been a really good day! My French exam went well, I feel like I did a pretty good job on the essay I turned in for Mythology, AND there's a guy walking around campus in a shark costume. It's amazing. I've walked by him three times already and I love it. Also, some kid was trying to solve a rubix cube during Mythology and got called onto the stage to do it in front of everybody... so I took a video to show my readers. Haha, it's over a minute long and part of it is in the dark, but its a video! THIS IS SOMETHING NEW! I'll start vlogging eventually but for now you can deal with the rubix cube kid.

can I just

Adele - Someone Like You

A Fine Frenzy - Happier

I am in love with these two ladies and their music.

WELCOME TO MY BLOG.

THIS IS HOW EXCITED YOU SHOULD BE:

Or maybe more excited. I just look like I'm grinning unbearably.

Anyway, hi.

I'm kind of suffering from a caffeine high, which has resulted in me taking many pictures of myself, FaceTime-ing multiple people, Skyping multiple people, and blowing up everyones' news feeds on Facebook. (bwahahaha) This is my new Facebook profile picture:

I'm kind of scary, it's okay you can agree.

I'm in a much better mood than I was in my last post. I've realized that I need to stop being such a troll and be lucky that I get to go home and see my family because the chances of them being able to come here during the summer was very slim thanks to that asshole Aaron (my youngest brother's dad) who has legal control over whether my brother can leave the state or not. Fathers suck. I sure am glad I never had to deal with custody agreements like Nick is being forced into. Anyway, I'm going to suck it up, hang out with whoever I can, and hopefully rake in some dough so I can come back to Salt Lake and blow it all on things Trenton does not have (Forever 21, Urban, SUSHI, etc). Oh and go to Warped Tour like every summer. It's just as much of a shitfest this year as it has been for the last 3-4 years, but I can never pass up a good time like that. I just love gettin' me some skin cancer. Examples: (Click to make bigger and see the full effect of the sun on my deathly white skin).

Not even halfway through Warped 2010.

Only a few hours into Warped 2010. 

A few hours into Warped 2009.

Super crispy.

On a note completely unrelated to Missouri, I have two exams on Thursday. One is over Judaism - I also have a response essay on that ess due tomorrow that I have yet to start (it's only 7, I have time) - and the other is in French. I just got my ass kicked by three French exams (chapter 7, oral and composition) and now I have to experience that ass-kicking again. Then we have ANOTHER composition on Monday. I think my French teacher hates my class. He is dishing tests like the world is about to end. I do not appreciate. 

rolling in the deep

I have rediscovered my love for Adele.

I haven't had a legit blog post in almost a month. Remember the old days when I used to post every day about how ridiculously exciting my life was? Let's see if I can still do that.

February 13th

Corinne and I went grocery shopping at Smith's. She got a drink from Starbucks, lots of apples and diet mountain dew and a bunch of other food. Whilst shopping, I told Stuart I didn't think things were going to last through the next week. Cue freakout on his part. Later, Paul asked Corinne and I to come to dinner at Chili's with him and Stuart, who surprised me with a huge vase of white lilies. They're still chilling in my room but all but 4 have died because Stu didn't give me the freshening stuff for them. They still smell nice though so it's okay. After dinner, Rose and I had an hour long conversation about what I should do about Stu, then Stu and I had an hour long conversation about what I should do about Stu. Haha. Things were fixed. Corinne and I also had this great conversation:

February 18th

Mitch (Stuart's best friend/gay lover from the Drumline) threw a party at his sister's house for the Drumline. Paul, Stu and I went with this kid Bryan who studies religion. ha. It was surprisingly a lot of fun. Corinne and I thought it would be no fun, as everyone would probably be obnoxious like Paul Kim. We expected lots of "tip," "ti-op," "dis niggggaaa," and dickflops. Turns out, the drumline has some pretty cool kids on it so I had fun. Paul Kim almost died from the 20+ shots he had and Mike would have died if he wouldn't have gone to the hospital. So.. it was fun but everyone had way too much to drink. 

February 19th

Stu, Paul and I went to the Olive Garden for dinner. We didn't make reservations (my fault) so we had a 20 minute wait, in which Paul and I wandered around the block and listened to a man play the bagpipes. It was fun. I had the garlic-herb chicken con broccoli (as always), Stuart got some kind of girly pink drink and Paul devoured a fettuccine alfredo. Then it was snowing and we almost died on the ice at a couple of intersections. We watched Splice, then I fell asleep and the boys watched youtube videos on my computer and Stuart spit a fruit snack on my keyboard and didn't clean it up. 

February 20th

Stuart and I went on our first legit date at The Melting Pot. It was my first time having fondue and I looooved it. It's ridiculously expensive but really tasty. Then we discovered that Trax wasn't running anymore and we had to bum a ride off of Dan. I locked my phone in Dan's car. Stu came over and watched Clash of the Titans while I slept. So romantic, haha.

February 24th

Mitch came to Salt Lake to have Shogun Sushi with Paul, Stu and I. It was our first time going to Shogun in a few weeks. We had gotten into the habit of going every Thursday at 10:30. But then our groups starting getting too big to contain at one table and people started complaining about money so we stopped going. I had a Harajuku roll. yum.

February 25th

Crimson Nights! Our trio plus Max and Zack went to the Union for Crimson Nights. I didn't have much fun, haha. I think its impossible to have a good time at Crimson Nights unless you're completely schwasted. Otherwise its just boring. There was a button making station, cotton candy and pizza, magic tricks by our very own David DeCarolis who keeps deleting me from Facebook, an oxygen bar, a photobooth, and a giant orgy on the dance floor. Hell yeeeuh.
Also, Stuart totally spit his drink all over the table at dinner. It was pretty embarrassing. ;)

February 26th

I took an hour long shower in which I tried to stretch my right ear up to the same size as my left ear.. Didn't go so well. I could only get it about halfway through so its chilling at that size for now. It looks kind of stupid but I don't want to damage my hole. It already looks like shit because I stretched too fast the time before. Corinne is skiing with Bottom Joe, Paul and Stu are playing video games instead of getting haircuts, and I'm sitting in my room listening to Adele and blogging. Such an exciting day. My boss wants me to go with her on a huge group day at 7 tonight but Stu doesn't really want to go.. so I'll probably spend the rest of my Saturday watching Netflix and doing the puzzle of New York City that I finally moved from Stu's room to mine. 

hey mac users,

I'm really freakin' sorry if upon opening of my blog you get the spinning rainbow ball of death. I think its all the gifs and pictures doing it, but mostly the gifs. I don't know how to make it not bring about the rainbow death ball, so just try to deal until I get shit figured out. I've found that opening the window and not moving the cursor until everything has loaded seems to make the ball not appear? I dono. I'll keep y'all updated.

Things I don't like:

• The fact that "y'all" is spelled that way, not like "ya'll." That's how I've spelled it up until moving to Utah. "Y'all" is just weird.
• When people look through my phone, especially my texts. It's invasive and aggravating. I don't go looking through your personal conversations, so you probably shouldn't be doing the same with mine.
• Supplying the bathroom with tons of toilet paper, when I'm not the only person who uses it. It seems like such a small problem but it makes me so angry. Somehow we go through toilet paper like no one's business and no one seems to want to buy more, so I end up doing it. I'm not buying anymore for the rest of the year, or at least until Emily buys more than I have. We tried making her buy toilet paper last time it was her turn.. She bought a four pack. A fuckin' four pack, while everyone else has bought like 25+ rolls a piece.
• Whining about petty things like the aforementioned. But holy cow, I am so annoyed right now and I want to vent so I can finish this stupid Hinduism paper and go to bed.
• Staying up until midnight so I can be one of the first to apply for housing, only to find out that the application process doesn't start until 9am. Gr.

Things I do like:

White Hinterland - Icarus

Marina and the Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot (Clock Opera Remix)

Kid Theodore - This Scene is a Play

#funfact
This Scene is a Play is my definite favorite song of all time. It's beautiful and listening to it makes me happier than anything else.

UHHHHN TIP

ITS BEEN A WHILE.
hehehehe

Before I forget, I want to throw out a couple of things:

1. You should probably click here and be impressed with my ability to successfully do a 30 day challenge. Somehow, I could do that but not blog... hm.
2. Over break I discovered a band called Cœur de Pirate and I am in love. 

Et il m'aime encore, et moi je t'aime un peu plus fort.

Break was not a good time for me. I kept going between being pissed and being sad and it was exhausting. I watched the first six seasons of the Office, watched countless classic Disney movies, and read 3 Harry Potter books + a ton of French poetry. 

The first week back in Utah wasn't a great time either. I came in to it on the edge of a depression and things didn't look up when someone (we won't mention any names ;) ) decided it would be fun to call things off, turn them back on, then go back to being indecisive. No one has the slightest clue about what's going on there even now. So that's been fun! (sarcasm)

Semaine deux wasn't so bad. I was relatively happy. Things were improving everywhere and I was finally starting to get out of the slump that Missouri so graciously put me in. Then we hit the weekend. Davis Powers, that little lump of a boy, always trailing after Black (or was that Peter Pettigrew? teehee), decided to remove me from his life because I wouldn't give him someone's phone number. Bit of an overreaction, eh? Apparently it had been a long time coming. So that ruined a good part of my Friday night. But I managed to drink and not cry or puke so I guess some would call the night a success? Haha. Saturday was spent the same way as Friday (Little Big Planet 2, movie, free Domino's pizza) but without the drinking. Then Sunday night rolled around and I discovered that yet another person had removed me from Facebook - and I assume - from their life. That was a huge blow and ruined my night. I lost my appetite, was on the verge of tears at dinner, and resorted to curling up in a ball of pity after Corinne left for Scott's. haaaha. I don't really want to talk about him anymore since he and his girlfriend read my blog apparently? Wouldn't want to give off the wrong impression, like I want to be his friend or anything. Yeesh. That would be terrible...

Anyway...

I really want this dress:

Embellished Capsleeve Dress $22.80

so pretty

#funfact

It's very common knowledge that I'm a picky eater. People seem to be asking me a lot lately what foods I do and do not like. Here are some foods that I definitely do not like:

• Raisins, peanuts, cantaloupe, mango, peaches, pears, apples, grapefruit, peanut butter, steak, catfish, pork, peppers of any color, hummus, milk, raw carrots, pineapple, watermelon, calamari, sausage, hamburger (usually), cream cheese, sweet potatoes, scrambled eggs, ketchup

And for foods I do like, since people think I'm too picky to like anything:

• Strawberries, bananas, grapes, oranges, tomatoes, mushrooms, salt, pretzels, cooked carrots (but only with roast so they're not very carroty tasting?), potatoes, broccoli, celery, lettuce, eggs (overhard, broken yolk), Froot Loops, Honeycomb, Special K Fruit and Yogurt. lol.

2011!

Happy New Year!

Things I did on New Years Eve:

• Had lunch at El Nopal with Rose, Evan, Amber, MaCee and Molly.
• Had dinner at El Nopal with Zach.
• Drank two and a half bottles of wine while watching Titantic (for the third time this week) with Rose, her boyfriend Evan and my grandma.
• Fell off my bed around 2am.. My phone fell off and I thought I was sober/ninja enough to reach it without falling. I was wrong.
• Decided that sleeping on my futon would probably be a wise choice.

Things I did on New Years Day:

• Watched 11 episodes of The Office.
• Watched the first two Swan Princess movies on VHS with my grandma.
• Painted my nails.
• Started and finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

And here I was thinking I was being unproductive. ;) Oh I also went out and bought party hats before Evan and Rose came over.. Johnny and I had quite the party.

Band of Horses - Older

This song was playing when I fell of my bed last night... I really like it. hahaha

Whole-Z - Hood Stunna

I can't decide if I like this song or not... so many songs mashed together it's almost overwhelming, especially towards the end.

musique

Little Dragon has been crossed out from the Upcoming heading on the right side. :( The show is strictly 21+. I was hoping that I could somehow bypass the system but I don't think it'll happen. Hopefully they'll come back to the SLC another time and play at an all ages venue... or wait to come back until I'm 21. I'm hoping for the former. Skrillex was added to the list and I'm pretty stoked on that. From First to Last used to be one of my favorite bands and when Sonny left to become Skrillex, I basically shit from excitement. Hahah.

I'm not sure that anyone even reads my blog anymore. But if someone out there is reading this, definitely check out some of these songs I've been digging recently. 

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms


Gorillaz - HillBilly Man


Sufjan Stevens - Heirloom


Bon Iver - Woods




The Lonely Island - I Just Had Sex

joyeux noël

I got a ukulele for Christmas. So far I can kind of play the demo version of Talking Bird by Death Cab for Cutie that they released on their newest EP. Someday I want to be able to play like this girl:

Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie

Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are

People are probably going to read this and either think I'm a total bitch or that I don't know the meaning of Christmas.. but I am pretty pissed about the gifts (or lack thereof) that I got from my uncles. 

Each year my Uncle Jeff gets really bad gifts for everybody at Christmas. I understand that his family doesn't have a lot of money because his latest wife put them in hella debt when she decided she needed to take college classes and become some kind of nurse secretary thing. But I don't understand the point of wasting ten dollars on shit like crossword puzzles and ugly Walmart t-shirts - things that people don't really need - when you can just give them $10 or a gift card to somewhere. It just seems like a waste. You're putting good money to bad use by wasting it on things that aren't going to be used. This year they got me a $1 t-shirt that my aunt found somewhere, some kind of weird fluffy socks, and a hairbrush... I don't even want to know what was going through her head as she was shopping for me if she thinks these things are needed by me. Last year they got me a book of crossword puzzles. The year before that I got a computer game.. a really cheap, stupid one intended for children. It's just aggravating considering I'm a poor college student living on my own. I could use $10, not a hairbrush.

My Uncle Greg, who isn't broke and got everyone really nice gifts this year, didn't get me anything. He gave all of the adults homemade jam and gift cards and all of the kids got candy and games and whatever. I didn't get anything. His excuse was that I'm an adult now and he didn't figure I would like homemade jam. .......Seriously? I love homemade jam. Corinne's dad makes it and it's pretty friggin' fantastic. The least they could have done was given me a gift card like everyone else.

I think I'm irritated mostly because I spent my own money on all of my relatives to buy them nice things and I wasn't gifted in the same manner. I have a $400 insurance payment due the first week of January. I would probably have money to pay for that if I hadn't been a good family member and bought presents for everyone. But now I don't and my mom is pretty peeved that she's going to have to pay for it. 

Now that I've blogged about it, that issue is out of my system. I'm not going to think about it anymore. I'm just going to lay in bed, watch the Office and play my ukulele, and hope that the next two weeks fly by. I'm ready to see my friends back in Utah and start another semester of school. 

Also, because it's been a while since I've done a #funfact:

Does He Love You by Rilo Kiley makes me cry. It has since the summer before my junior year. I re-downloaded all of Rilo Kiley's music last night and discovered an acoustic version of the song. It's slower and more heartfelt which, of course, made me cry all the harder.

Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? (Acoustic)


Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You?

OH AND here's what I started out the day wearing:

But mom didn't dig the cut-up Girl Scouts shirt so this is what I wore for the rest of the time...

I have such style.