day in the life

a quick scroll through my blog revealed a slight favoritism of one topic the best topic it's the world cup and only happens once every four years what do you expect?- in my last few posts, so i thought i'd take a break from all the soccer-spamming to actually blog about my life again.

today i...

started the day with a healthy breakfast of poptarts and milk in my room

said hi to my teddy bear shelf

laughed at my woefully un-updated bulletin board (last used circa 2008)

actually made my bed

played with my dogs (and started my epic harry potter reread)

showered and got dressed

went to the mall with sarah stücke (cool story: i totally just learned the short cut for umlauts on a mac - you hit the option button, then u, then whichever letter you want the umlaut over), where i...

bought the world's silliest bra (and a few other things, but they're in the washer so i won't picture them)

saw hannah banana in her natural workerly habitat

went to kohl's for the very first time. (here pictured: sarah stücke, obstructing the wonder of kohl's). be proud, s-la

and then i came home, where i rewatched the conferation's cup (in spanish, since univision was the only channel in the US that would show it) and...

began an epic lord of the rings marathon.

i really am that boring. now i'm off to continue my boring life with the hobbits for company.

things i learned today

1. spill orange juice on your jeans in the car
2. show up at school two minutes late
3. forget what day the juniors have sol testing 

in other words, i woke up half an hour late this morning, rushed through a shower, grabbed a glass of orange juice on the way out the door, and attempted to towel dry my hair with a wash cloth in the car. 

sadly, even with all of these sacrifices to my morning routine i still ended up at school at 9:02, two whole minutes after i was supposed to be in class. so i went to the attendance office for a pass. and found out that, as a result of the stupid juniors and their stupid writing sol, my lit class had been moved to another room, which - of course - no one knew the location of. you see, our lovely main office only kept a record of which stolen classrooms the oh-so-precious baby juniors were supposed to report to, not where the Displaced Seniors were supposed to go. 

so i spent half an hour chilling in the main office only to learn that my lit class had been relocated to the library. 

there's a three word phrase that sums up my reaction to this statement but it's a little profane so i'll stick to the acronym: fml. 

there, i'm done being bitter and whiny. someone sent me this link today and i thought it looked pretty cool:

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

you know what else is pretty cool? 

reverend and the makers. they're a band out of england, they toured with oasis (before the brothers gallagher decided to pull a mean girls and have a girl fight with each other), and spend their time being awesome and making music. see?

other things i liked today? 

also, i'm incredibly thankful for operation: read instead. before giving up the telly (ha, british people have the best words) i used to watch the daily show all the time and now i'm glad i can't anymore since i found out at school today that rpattz (you might know him as eddie c. from Those Crappy Vampire Books, or merely as FootFace for the strange shape of his head on tabloid covers) was on last night's episode. whew, that was a close one. i might actually have been tricked into watching FootFace simply because his interview would've been sandwiched between my two great comedian loves - jon stewart and stephen colbert. 

you're a wizard, harry

what's playing on itunes right now? HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. oh, itunes, i less than three you (no, really - a whole sampler of free holiday songs? why, you shouldn't have).

well, currently it's on pause at 5 minutes and 46 seconds since it's still downloading, but i'm excited. while i wait for it to finish, here's an update of my day.

the yearbook spreads are done! gina put the finishing touches on them a few minutes ago since cory has class and i was in guidance (i finally got an answer for my transcript request form question - if they have copies of your common app forms already, you write that on the side instead of saying its attached). and i just sent my sat score reports! (ugh, $78.00, way to rip us off, collegeboard). oh, and i wore my new coat and scarf today! they were both quite comfortable and warm, which was appreciated since our school is freezing cold.

and oh my god, i think i'm dying of cute:

does truth lie in the sincerity of another sullen song?

so i'm thinking blogging about my favorite drink discovery was a bad idea. mostly because whenever i have one now i keep wanting to blog. so, here, have a picture of my latest favorite drink in the universe (it's quite photogenic) and my favorite cheeseball too (isn't he cute?). also, in case you couldn't tell, i'm rereading the potters in time to watch the newest one on dvd. is it lame that i'm excited about that? i don't think so. but, eh, it's me - i spent half an hour in the car looking up youtube interviews with the cast about the deathly hallows movie. (according to daniel radcliffe they're hitting the "home stretch" of filming after christmas. which means new movie soon!) besides, it's not like my fixation with british children's fantasy literature in general is news to anyone. it's not even my fault, either. if they would just write silly fantasy

like twilight i wouldn't be so addicted, but, nope, those silly brits had to go and invent narnia and hogwarts and - and - roald dahl. how could any kid have been expected to step away from the bookcase after reading the witches? it's just not possible. and speaking of old roald, we went to see the fantastic mr. fox and it was pretty funny (if a little disconcerting to hear clooney in theaters so soon after goats). i still prefer the book, though. oh, and remember my last post? (you should, it was from, like, two hours ago) well, i'm serious about midtown, okay? they were my cutie and the followills before i knew who cutie and the followills were. you will like them. like, it's not even up for discussion. and to help you out with that, i'm going to feature an album review/primer every day for the next...three days. maybe longer, since they had a few EPs that weren't officially released.

let's start with my favorite: forget what you know. it was their last album. and their best (according to me and gabe saporta; clearly this is a consensus you should trust, okay?). here's the ap.net review, which is a lot more detailed and coherent than i could ever hope to be since my default state when listening to music i like tends to be roughly equivalent to a gibbering baboon. i'm just saying. also, here's gabe from cobra starship talking about midtown. let's all take a moment to soak in the hopes of a reunion tour (well, if blink-182 could do it, why can't they?). excited now? good. now when you listen to the album (and you're going to listen to the album or we're not friends anymore), here's the songs you should pay special attention to, aka rachel's list of favorites:

1. to our savior - no, s-la, they aren't taking the lord's name in vain and i will never forgive you for making that your only comment on brand new/jesus christ.
2. waiting for the news - the intro. also, for any cobra fans, gabe's voice on this kind of reminds me of his voice on the scene is dead; long live the scene.
3. god is dead - no, seriously, steffi, i know what you're thinking and you should stop it right now. it's a nice interlude, okay, and there's a reason it's been on my sleep sleep playlist since eighth grade.
4. help me sleep - doesn't actually help me sleep, but it's fun to sing along to in the car. the only way the momster got me to drive on the way back from gettysburg this summer was by letting me play this song on loop for half an hour (although was she really expecting me to drive to the accompaniment of the beegees? she should've known better)
5. whole new world - i don't why, but in my mind this is automatically filed under 'soundtrack'. even if it never made it to tv (that wikipedia knows of), it's still awesome. besides, everyone knows the only things being played on tv shows nowadays is lady gaga and the disney kids. (although that bonus jonas kid's blog is the most amazing thing i've ever read, even if i don't know if it's real or not. either way, go look at it)

go where you want to go

mondays are sad days, even when it's a day off.

nanowrimo started today. that's partially why this monday's such a sad day. i really wanted to do it this year, but...college applications. it's so not going to happen. so i'm going to try to blog every day instead. buckle up and hold on -- it's going to be a bumpy ride of blogging inanity.

i've been on a weepies kick lately. (as in: currently listening to can't go back now)

listen to them, isn't this song (and video) just the best? yea, i think so. you probably don't. one day i'll finally find just one person who shares my taste in music...or bully my friends into pretending they do.

i'm re-reading harry potter 5 right now (it was a birthday present from s-la, isn't she wonderful?) well, sort of. when i re-read the potters i try to drag it out as long as possible. keep the magic going, you know? there's something about the harry potter books and narnia and lord of the rings that just takes me right back to being a sixth grader in pennsylvania, all long snowy winters and curling up with a booklight.

i love winter. i hate being cold, but there's something about decembers that just makes all the cold go away, if that makes any sense. i can't wait for christmas! it's pretty early (well, not according to the grocery stores...candy canes are already out!), but i'm just starting to feel that holiday urge now.

i'll end this on a happy note. cookie says hi!

when eddie c. met buffy

so, despite evidence to the contrary, i am alive. busy, but alive. and, best of all, since we have a yearbook theme and all the people i babysit or dogwalk for are finally home, i actually have downtime. 

which involved seeing harry potter and the half-blood prince. only once (so far). and loveloveloving it. it's actually probably my favorite of the movies, but i'll fangirl about that next post. right now, i just want to post one little thing:

in other words, why joss whedon/buffy summers totally pwn stephenie meyer/eddie c. 

also, cobra starship's new single hot mess? totally frigging amazing. i've only had it for the two days since i got back from gettysburg and it's already cracked my top 25 on itunes (hello, 66 plays, soon to be 67)