Prom

Last night was Prom in my hometown.  It made me realize how grown up some of those "little" kids are now.  It also made me realize how old I am getting.  I went to my first Prom when I was a sophomore, I don't even remember the theme.  I went with one of the schools top wrestlers, Mike.  We were the typical movie prom date couples, big man on campus and cheerleader.  It was his Junior Prom.  Then I skipped my Junior Prom because I was all rebellious during that year.  And went my Senior year with one of my best friends at the time, Jason.  The theme was Willy Wonka.  It was cute I guess.  Prom was lame.  Both times.

Prom 2005

The boys decided they wanted to be Mr. Moneybanks from Monopoly.

Prom 2007

We were quite the group to get to cooperate to take a decent picture.  

Things I don't understand

Sorry If this offends any of you.


1.  Dubstep Music -  It's the straight edge or super scene kids rave music.  Just dance to good rave music and don't incorporate the drugs or glow sticking, its amazing.  Try it.

2.  Sayings that you don't finish like:
"I just"
"I can't even"

You just what?  You can't even what?  FINISH YOUR THOUGHTS PEOPLE.

3.  Dudes at bars who are clearly not attractive that think cute girls who are attractive want to dance with them.  NO.  Leave us alone.  (Yes, im putting myself in the attractive category because I can).  If I am wearing skinny jeans, a v-neck, have facial piercings and clearly am not your type....do not bring your carpenter wearing, ugly shoe sporting, truck sweatshirt, goateed face over to me and try getting up all in my bizzznesssss.  I am the master of the spin move and making you look like a failure in front of all your friends.  So save yourself the embarrassment and just don't try.  Thanks.

4.  Snow in April.

5.  Professors who tell their class to email them if they have any questions yet do not respond to emails.  Buuut have plenty of time to send forwards to students.  Real professional people.  If you have time to send forwards, you have time to respond to an email that would only need about three words for the answer.

Labyrinth - Magic Dance

Gaaahhhh you have NOOOO idea how bad I want to watch this movie right now.

Who has a copy they want to send to me?!

99 years ago

To this moment (2:20 am), the Titanic sank.
RIP to all the lost souls.

In remembrance, I shall fall asleep to Titanic.






ps.  i stayed up just long enough to post this.

Darren Criss!

Yesssss this boy!! I knew there was a reason I liked this boy.

He is not afraid to admit he likes Hanson!!

Boys like this...

They don't exist in my world.
if you are a boy who is like this, please, cross paths with me!  


“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”

- John Green (Looking for Alaska)

24 hours later

I have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time.

- A 53 slide powerpoint presentation
- A math lesson
- A math menu lesson
- Two papers for human relations
- A two page grading assessment assignment
- and currently working on a two page paper for my genocide class.

I have also talked to my grandma on the phone, showered and gone to Target.

Not turning on the television makes a HUGE difference in my work habits.  Me like.

Perfect

Thats what tonight has been.
It is so nice outside.  Spring is here and I couldn't be more happy.
I am sitting on my balcony, having a drink (or four), working on homework, letting the sounds of Jason Castro, Lydia and Landon Pigg float out my windows to keep me company and the smell of people grilling is filling the air.  Oh and the sky is so clear.
If that isn't damn near perfect, I don't know what is.

I have accomplished so much in homework tonight its unbelievable.
I wish I had been this motivated all semester.
Theres always next year ;)

L&S

Not sure why, but right when I saw this, I thought of L and myself.  Long brown hair and cute dress is so L.  Blonde hair with plaid and jeans is so me.

Favorite

"To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure" - Peter Pan
(original from 1902 says "will" instead of "would" but the movies say "would")


One day, I will get these words somewhere on my body.
I know that many people have them, including Mr Peter Pan himself (Jeremy Sumpter)
But I still want them.
Peter Pan is my all time favorite Disney movie.

This...

Chris Carrabba will always be one of my biggest crushes in the music industry.

I wouldn't mind...

having a relationship with a boy where we did this...

Jarrod Gorbel Does Alicia Keys - "No One"

Oh my goodness. I have always loved his voice.

WTF?!

Just got a random text message from someone and the conversation went like this...

RANDO: Hey I need your opinion.  I was getting a BJ from this girl I've been seeing and she couldn't fit it all in it was to big lol. You ever had that issue? Any ideas?

ME:  Uhhhhh who the hell is this?

RANDO:  OMG like seriously I am so sorry you recieved that text.  I just realized I miss dialed.  I do not know you at all haha opps my bad.  I feel so stupid.

RANDO:  :s Yes I'm so sorry.  Please tell me your at least a girl I said that to? Ha and not a 12 yr old boy uhh

ME:  Yeah, I'm a girl.

RANDO:  You seem pretty chill and friendly ha.  Could I may ask you for your opinion and advice?

ME:  Hahaha umm not really sure how to help you.  You may be on your own.

RANDO:  Well no offense but do you even have any experience at giving guys head though? ha

ME:  Not really something I want to discuss with some random.

RANDO:  Ok sorry.  Goodbye.  My bad.  I won't text u again.

END CONVO

Okay first of all, how do you "misdial" a text message?!  And why would you continue to talk to a random person after sending a weird text message like that?  Aaaannnddd why would someone think I would talk about my personal sex life with them when I do not know who they are?!
Weiiiiiird, man.

Myspace Overload.

I hadn't been on Myspace since Februrary of last year.  Not even sure I was on it then.
I found some great pictures, messages and comments.
I will now share them.

These are just of me...I was even self centered 6 years ago. :)

A.B. commented this one ^ "Mega Babe Disaster".  That was in 2005 and it still slips out of L and I's mouths once in a while.

I once had killer hair.  

This picture ^^^^^^ was the day I decided to chop all that gorgeousness I called hair off.

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These are with other people 

Dakota always thought he could get with me.

Z and I at L's grad party

This is circa 2003 probably.  The four of us were so tight.

I still secretly love all of these boys. but sshhh

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Ones I debated putting up due to the memories they bring back

S, L and me.  "Baby-birding night"

Ohhhh T.O.

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now some great messages or comments

^^^^Ohhh Tim.  After 3 years, he still owes me Reba even though we don't talk anymore.

^^^^A.B.  I had the biggest crush on this dude back in the day.

^^^^6 years ago.  Holy cow.  That was a looooong time ago.

^^^^We have been talking for over 5 years and JUST met.  WTF?!  So glad we still talk after all this time :)

^^^^^Ha Blaine and his Blake jokes.  I could never live ditching Jay at prom for Blake when I worked at Aces.

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Oh and of course some great pictures L took!

I am so glad its almost summer.  I want those^^^ freckles to come back!!!

UNI-STAND for Peace

Last night I had the great pleasure of meeting two really great guys.  Kambale and Claude are two of the most inspirational and amazing guys I have met in a long time.  Claude gave his personal testimony of surviving the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.  Kambale spoke about the raging war in Congo and what we can do to help stop this war.  There was so much information given during the 2 hours it was so hard to wrap my head around.  All I know is I need to do something.  

One of my favorite quotes from the night was: "When you're aware, you'll care.  When you care, you'll do something"

If you did not have the chance to come out to this event, sucks for you :)

Here is a short clip of the speech though.

Some interesting facts:

- Congo has enough resources to equal $24 trillion yet the people of Congo live on a dollar a day.

-  1.2 billion tons of fish die in the Congo reef a year due to pollution.

-  Congo has enough resource to have enough electricity for all of Africa, Europe and parts of the Middle East.

-  Mark Twain spoke up for Congo.

-  Congo soldiers fought int WWII on behalf of Europe to stop the Holocaust.

-  Cadbury (the chocolate maker) was a member of a Congo Association to stop the horrible wars in Congo.

-  Every known element on the periodic table is found in Congo.

-  There are over 200 ethnic groups in Congo.

-  In 1981 there was a colored t.v. shortage.  WHY? Because 65% of the worlds Cobalt comes from Congo and there was a strike for Cobalt by the Rebels.  

- 80% of the worlds Coltan is fond in Congo.  Therefore, Dick Chaney has a piece of Congo in his heart. (his pace-maker if you don't get it)

I am so excited to keep in touch with these guys and have them help STAND as much as they can.  

Feel free to join our Facebook group, STAND-UNI Chapter.  B and K are great at getting messages out to let people know what is happening with our group so JOIN!!!

My future kid

Will totally jam to good tunes as well.
However, my future husband will NOT call my child "boo"

Things I've learned

This semester:

- Always eat before you drink
- I unfortunately love Justin Bieber when I'm trashed (sorry matt!)
- I really enjoy living by myself
- I'm really dedicated to my Student Org group - more than I thought I would be
- I have really matured
- I have learned to move on
- Give everyone a chance, they might just surprise you
- I really miss my best friend (not that I didn't know this before this semester)

Too Cute.

Iowa Shitty

This is what happens when you go to Iowa City.  You get shitfaced on $1 you-call-it and wake up with massive bruises. 

For real...

This man is goooood lookin'.

again... photos by Dirk Mai 

Future

I hope my future husband still dresses and looks like this when he is in his 40's/50's.

photo by Dirk Mai.  link to his work in THE ONES -------->

Jammin'

If you were to walk into my apartment today, you would think the biggest Hippster on Earth lived there.
Jammin some sweet tunes on my day off.

Jealousy.

I am kind of jealous of some of the talent in this world.
Some kids are just super blessed while there are kids like me who have not a talented bone in their body! ha!

I have cool friends.

Because my momma purchased this cute little flower barrette, another one was made and gave to a woman in Haiti last week.  So proud to have friends who do amazing things like this.  Thanks Jen :)

Tonight by FM Static

So I decided to take it upon myself to learn ASL slowly.  I know all my signs aren't right but I'm just beginning :)  Once I have this song down I will post another video of it!!

Oh and I'm not a lefty, the video is just reversed. 

and the words will probably be off of the signs because I'm uploading it from the AWESOME Photo Booth application.

Andrew Jenks

Andrew came to UNI on Tuesday and spoke to about 300 or so students.
Once I saw he was going to be at UNI, I knew I had to go.  I wanted to see if he really was as great of a guy as he seemed to be on MTV's World of Jenks.
Sure enough, he is.
Andrew spoke about how he got where he is today.  He started out with 500 dollars in his pocket and sweet talked his way into getting into a nursing home to film Room 335.  From there, he filmed a documentary in Japan about Bobby Valentine.  Then, MTV called.  The rest, we all know.

He spoke as if he was just one of us.  Not for a second during his speech did I get the feeling he thought he was better than any one of us sitting there.  He spoke about how to not take "No" for an answer.  I believe he put it as, "No became a big turn on for me.  If someone said "No".  I said "Awesome! Great place to start"".  He showed us all that we are capable of doing what we put our minds to.

He never expected to be where he is at today, but he got there.

Anyway, it was a great speech and a great question/answer session.

I even bravely asked a stupid question in which he answered.  Not going to lie, I was kind of shaking the whole time he was staring at me and answering my question. Ha!!

Oh and did I mention I had front and center seats?!  This kid probably makes some of the best facial expressions.  Wish I could have caught them in a picture.

aaannnddd he re-tweeted me :)

A. Lambert

He is one of the most gorgeous men on this planet.
His voice is also one of the most gorgeous voices on the planet.

More to come later....

Favorite quote of the night
"How can you be a roll model when you curse every other word and throw up your middle finger in every picture?"
Went and saw Andrew Jenks tonight.
A-maaazing.
Will write more later :)

T. Hilt.

I'm amazed by his talent.
I wish I had the talent to see the places he sees and meet all the people he gets to meet.
Anyway,  Des Moines got a little love in this video.
Last ten seconds!
Yours truly was standing under the Exit sign.