Tomorrow school officially starts with the first day of classes. ick. I've been here since yesterday and tonight will be my second in my new apartment!
I wanted to type that this past summer has been one of the best of my life. I turned 20, for starters. I had a great job that pays well and amazing people to work with. I also had everything I could have hoped for in an internship. I have gotten to do things that I never have before; some that very few people get to do at all: groom mules, herd sheep, relive the past. I have had a slogan printed on a bracelets; one of which is in Japan! I went to these movies: Up, Star Trek, 500 Days of Summer, and Harry Potter. I have also gotten to go to RENT with Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, Warped Tour to see VersaEmerge, The Cab, Coldplay, The Fray, and Sir Paul McCartney all in the span of 3 months. I have awesome friends who remembered my birthday and I had food thrust at me from all directions. Yeah there were bad things; gaining weight, bands breaking up, and I barely had time to breathe, and yet I am so blessed and so happy. So even though I am homesick right now, and I have the daunting prospect of classes tomorrow, I still need to remember that I am insanely lucky and loved.
The first thing on my morning checklist is: "Smile with the rising sun" because I know it won't be easy but I need to stay positive or loose everything I am.
Peace Love Harmony!!!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Its beutiful and so are you
This past Wednesday my family and I went to see Paul McCartney.
It was magical.
I grew up listening to the Beatles and they are to this day my favorite band. I'll be the first that out the fab four, Paul would be my least favorite. Maybe that's harsh as I've never met any of them. Anyway, sitting there listening to the music and realizing that this is as close as I'll ever come to hearing a beatle play. He played more Beatle songs than I expected, and of course a tribute to John and one to George. I actually started crying during "Something" "Hey Jude" "Let It Be" and "Give Peace a Chance." Those songs mean more to me now than they ever have. I understand a lot more of what they were saying, and yet the meanings still change too. I am so lucky to have seen him twice now, and maybe I will get one more chance to. If not, I am so greatful that I was able to appriciate him live more than when I was 13. He is an amazing, tallented, and genius musician and no one can deny that.
"All we are saying is give peace a chance!"
It was magical.
I grew up listening to the Beatles and they are to this day my favorite band. I'll be the first that out the fab four, Paul would be my least favorite. Maybe that's harsh as I've never met any of them. Anyway, sitting there listening to the music and realizing that this is as close as I'll ever come to hearing a beatle play. He played more Beatle songs than I expected, and of course a tribute to John and one to George. I actually started crying during "Something" "Hey Jude" "Let It Be" and "Give Peace a Chance." Those songs mean more to me now than they ever have. I understand a lot more of what they were saying, and yet the meanings still change too. I am so lucky to have seen him twice now, and maybe I will get one more chance to. If not, I am so greatful that I was able to appriciate him live more than when I was 13. He is an amazing, tallented, and genius musician and no one can deny that.
"All we are saying is give peace a chance!"
Thursday, August 20, 2009
This summer, while its been great for me, has obviously taken a toll on some of my favorite bands. If you care to look back, you will read that I was quite distraught at the beginning of July when Panic at the Disco became Panic! at the Disco and the Young Veins. Well earlier this summer, I think in June or so, Alex DeLeon of the Cab announced that Ian Crawford was leaving to pursue his own musical excursion. Oddly enough Ian is touring with Panic! at the Disco right now as a replacement.
Anywho, yesterday, Alex DeLeon also announced that Cash Colligan is also leaving the Cab. Sad day. So I don't get what it is with all these bands spliting this summer. Don't get me wrong, I understand why they are doing this and I know that what they say is true: They aren't abandoning their fans, they aren't abandoning the music, or their friends. I don't think that there is any animosity between them either. People just want there to be so they have a reason to hate someone for the split. Luckily these splits have been mutual and I am just thankful that it wasn't ugly, cause it could have been.
I do wish them all the best.
Peace Love Harmony
Anywho, yesterday, Alex DeLeon also announced that Cash Colligan is also leaving the Cab. Sad day. So I don't get what it is with all these bands spliting this summer. Don't get me wrong, I understand why they are doing this and I know that what they say is true: They aren't abandoning their fans, they aren't abandoning the music, or their friends. I don't think that there is any animosity between them either. People just want there to be so they have a reason to hate someone for the split. Luckily these splits have been mutual and I am just thankful that it wasn't ugly, cause it could have been.
I do wish them all the best.
Peace Love Harmony
Thursday, August 13, 2009
I got gnat skilz
I totaly just snatched a gnat out of the air! twice! hahaha
He was pretty cool about it too.
So to you little bug:
Peace Love Harmony
He was pretty cool about it too.
So to you little bug:
Peace Love Harmony
return to childhood
Yesterday after I got off work and was driving around running errands (*sigh* i hate errands) which you know have to be done. I'm trying to wrap up all the lose ends from my internship and also get ready to go to school in a week-ish (eww not ready yet). Anyway the point: I was going to get gas in my car, and they way I get to the gas station is by driving through some parking lots. Well I kinda got turned around and ended up going through the lots in a different way. Well for some reason there is a lama in a fenced in field right around there and as I drove by it, it looked dead! I freaked out and was very tempted to stop and go and ask if it was indeed dead. All in these 30 seconds that I pass this lama I am thinking 1) that it is a traumatizing sight for anyone but exspecially kids 2) should I go ask about it? 3) God, I hope it is just sleeping!!! 4) Please be sleeping!!!. I decided that once I got gas, if it was still dead looking I would go and ask about it. Poor thing! Well I drove around the other side and Yea! it moved! The lama like got up and moved! I was so relieved.
Well I was thinking about that poor lama today as I was driving to work and I happened to be at a stop light. Across the intersection was a paddock with horses in it! I love horses btw. Well two were standing at the corner where a telephone pole is and the way they were blocked by it made them look like a horse with two heads. Well that reminded me of the book, book mind you not movie, Dr. Doolittle and his Pushme-Pullyou. The only problem is that the pushme-pullyou was a two headed lama!
Anyway I guess there really is no point to this: just a story to tell.
Sooooooo
Peace, Love, Harmony
Well I was thinking about that poor lama today as I was driving to work and I happened to be at a stop light. Across the intersection was a paddock with horses in it! I love horses btw. Well two were standing at the corner where a telephone pole is and the way they were blocked by it made them look like a horse with two heads. Well that reminded me of the book, book mind you not movie, Dr. Doolittle and his Pushme-Pullyou. The only problem is that the pushme-pullyou was a two headed lama!
Anyway I guess there really is no point to this: just a story to tell.
Sooooooo
Peace, Love, Harmony
Sunday, August 2, 2009
So long, farewell....
My internship is coming to a close this Thursday. Boooooo I love it there. I'd much rather be there than going back to school.
I have had so much fun there this summer. I have learned so much about the town that I grew up in and the family that lived in the house. I have learned much about myself and what job I would love to have. I have also made some really good friends and not just with the animals. I have also done so much that I never expected to do in my life like herd sheep or find a dead raccoon in the middle of the creek. Some days have been worse than others yes, and some days extremely boring, but most of the time it was bearable. Like the prairie dresses, hot and uncomfortable but it was bearable considering that we go to help kids milk a "cow."
All I can hope for is to be able to visit on breaks and to be able to find a job like it again. No place will ever match up to the Farmstead because it is a museum like no other.
Good bye everybody. Bye Pete and Bill. See you later Jack. I never forget the sheep, sheep. Shut up Geoffrey, we get it your a rooster. Ah the Guineas. Smell you later chickens.
Bye Farmstead.
"Walk the Past"
I have had so much fun there this summer. I have learned so much about the town that I grew up in and the family that lived in the house. I have learned much about myself and what job I would love to have. I have also made some really good friends and not just with the animals. I have also done so much that I never expected to do in my life like herd sheep or find a dead raccoon in the middle of the creek. Some days have been worse than others yes, and some days extremely boring, but most of the time it was bearable. Like the prairie dresses, hot and uncomfortable but it was bearable considering that we go to help kids milk a "cow."
All I can hope for is to be able to visit on breaks and to be able to find a job like it again. No place will ever match up to the Farmstead because it is a museum like no other.
Good bye everybody. Bye Pete and Bill. See you later Jack. I never forget the sheep, sheep. Shut up Geoffrey, we get it your a rooster. Ah the Guineas. Smell you later chickens.
Bye Farmstead.
"Walk the Past"
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