For everyone's (and by that, I mean Debbie's) benefit, I'm going to recap our week in OBX (May 9-15). This will be long, and I don't want to make everyone's flist explode, so I'm going to cut it. Also, I’ve had this saved as a draft since we first got back, and I keep forgetting to do this. So when I finally do post this, it will be well past May 15. :P

( Senior week! )

Yeah, it's definitely past May 15.

OHMYGOD. So most people I talk to know that I'm supposed to be seeing Brandi Carlile in October, right? I haven't gotten tickets yet... I will as soon as I get paid next week... but let's just assume I get to. SO excited, because I LOVE her.

A few hours ago, Ludo tweeted that they were doing shows in NYC and Philly soon. Can I get another OHMYGOD?!

And now. Finally. I found myself at antigonerising.com, and guess who is doing shows in NYC and Philly in September. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. OMG. I'm going to make out with and/or marry each and every one of them. Sweet Jesus. I'm, like, heart-has-stopped-in-my-chest, I-might-burst-into-tears-at-any-moment kind of excited. And NO ONE IS ONLINE TO TALK TO. I'm going to literally explode. They'll find me dead on the living room floor in the morning. And I'll never get to see my loves. :(

Oh, on an unrelated note, I actually started working on the OBX entry again. lulz. Maybe I'll post it next May. :P

I was going to update my old one, but it's not even worth the effort. Plus I don't know where it is. So here we go. All albums are complete to the best of my knowledge.

( This definitely needs a cut. )

Always open for requests. Last updated July 18, 2009.

Almost six months since I last updated! I was going to say, "I might try to keep up with this again"... but we all know it probably isn't true. Maybe if I don't say that I will, it will actually happen this time? :P Plus I might have something to write about when we go to Outer Banks for senior week. 20 days! :D

Marcy and I went to Sheetz this evening. I have no money, but I had a set of coupons, so I got a free burger (extra toppings and upcharges included!) and a soda that Marcy used the coupon for. One per customer per visit, you know.

By now you're asking, why is this worth writing about? Going to a gas station for food? So? Well, I'll tell you why. FIRST. Because we parked next to this red car that was running, and there was a guy sitting in the driver's seat, holding a cup of coffee, and he looked dead. We actually sat in the car watching him for a while to make sure he was breathing. He appeared to be. But he'll be out of gas whenever he wakes up. :P

And second... did you know you can put vanilla, lemon, or cherry in any of the fountain sodas there?! Sheetz is my new favorite place, because I has vanilla pepsi. Number two favorite soda evar. (Mountain Dew is number one, of course.)

Oh, also, I got a 94 on my sight singing quiz the other day! I'm kind of surprised, tbh. I'm okay-ish with pitch, but solfege is a life-ruiner. I screwed it up the first time... I kind of drew a blank when I was supposed to be singing "fa"... but we got one false start, and I started over, and I was okay the second time. :D

Also, we've been watching The Office lately. I flove it, of course. Jim + Pam = <3. xD Marcy and I keep dying at stupid things Jim does to Dwight. I thought the jell-o thing was hilarious back in the first season, but when he said about putting nickels in his phone, and then taking them all out so he hit himself with it?? And the telekinesis thing? rofl.

Still working on posting some pages from the quiz book. :P

I wish I was better at keeping up with this. I'm thinking about trying again, since it seems like I have a little more to talk about these days, with these classes, than I did before. Plus, Marcy and I went to NYC on Friday, and I got this book called "All About Me". It's basically a survey in a book. I think I'll fill it out and post a few pages at a time. I would imagine that people who read this will already know most of this stuff, but it'll give me something to post about, and maybe I'll be able to do it more regularly. Plus, you never know... maybe you'll learn something. Or just figure out what to get me for Christmas. :D

I haven't started it yet, but I'll post the first segment ASAP. :)

When the neighbor's house burnt down, I said it was a weird day. I think today was even weirder. :/

When my mom came home, we noticed that there were a ton of people standing around the burnt down house, so we were watching them out the window, and the landlord had this guy who works for him over there, basically looting the place for scrap metal. It wouldn't be bad if he was just taking the tin from the roof or something, because it's not her trailer, but he was taking her actual stuff. Like I saw him take her wheelchair, ironing board, and he ripped stuff out of her piano. And he had given her until the end of the weekend to get her stuff. And the worst part is, the fire company was going to investigate the fire and maybe try to take the landlord to court, because of the conditions she was living in (the floor was falling apart, you could see daylight through it in spots and they had planks lying on the floor that they walked across, and there were bare wires exposed all over the place), and the guy ripped apart the air conditioner and took it. So now she probably can't fight it at all. >.<

So I stayed up till like 12:30 watching these people, and the cops coming, and I was waiting for a phone call back from Giant... so it was late till I got to bed... and I ended up not waking up till 9:45 pm. Haha.

Then I went to Denny's with Marcy, and my car overheated. When I parked it, it was steaming and boiling all over the place... so after we ate, we looked under the hood, and it was still hot, so we went to Walmart and got a jug of antifreeze and put it in, and I followed her out onto 15... and I had the defroster on because the heat was still steaming up my windshield... and at some point, I noticed that the reason I couldn't see was because the car was filling up with smoke and fumes. So I parked it (blindly, whilst asphyxiating) and called Marcy, and she dropped me off at Walmart so I could tell my mom and drive her car home. So I guess we're gonna go where I left it (Budget Bakery in Hummel's Wharf :P ) and try to get it home after work. >.<

What a day. :/

My neighbor's house burnt down today! D: It was actually the neighbor across the street... had it been the one to the left of us, my house would have burned up too, definitely, because of the fence and porch. Which is a scary thought. Luckily they weren't home, and another neighbor managed to break the door down and get their dog out, but their two cats and bird probably died, because no one could find them.

The worst part is, my dad, sister, and I went to Walmart to tell my mom about it after the firemen left, and we saw the neighbor's car parked there... so we found them, and my dad told them what happened. That pretty much redefines being the bearer of bad news. And it was so awkward... I don't even know the people, and I had to stand there while the mom teared up and the son (he's like 14) started sobbing loudly in Walmart. *insert awkward turtle/mother here*

And... I was the one who had to call 911. I don't like phones in non-emergency situations... so that was unpleasant, to say the least.

It's been a weird day. :/

Today was pretty fun. Marcy and I met Saf at Bonanza for lunch (I got lost on the way though... I've only been there like five times in my entire life, and I can never figure out how we got there, it just sort of appears... so I asked Marcy, and she told me, but she forgot about a turn, and I should have remembered, but of course I didn't... and I ended up out on White Deer Pike... lol, oops.), which was tasty and fairly cheap. I think I won at getting the most random food... after a salad, I came back with mac and cheese, a stuffed pepper, and halushki. hehe.

After that, we went to the house that Saf is house-sitting for the week, cuz they have a pool. It was nice out, so we swam for a while... then we all took turns getting out to use the bathroom, and I was last... and apparently Marcy broke the pool while I was gone. D: lol. Not intentionally, I guess her flip-flop broke and she sort of fell on this one board that wasn't fastened well, and it hit part of the filter, and the pipe broke. I like how every time the three of us get together, there's some sort of catastrophe (the best one still being Saf's taking out Marcy's gram's garage. bahahaha). I also like how I'm never the person at fault or the person who will be held responsible, so I get to sit, watch, and laugh. I know, I'm a nice friend, right?

After we wedged a butter bowl down into the filter to stop the water until it could be fixed properly, we all went inside and changed, and then sat around watching tv for a while... which would have been fine, except the people had a dog and two cats. And the cats were cute and friendly (one especially, I'm calling him fat shit cat... honestly, the fattest cat I've ever seen...), so I was petting them... and now, twelve hours later, I still can't see. I feel like I have pink eye. Ugh.

Later in the evening, we went to see Mamma Mia, which was suuuuper gay but really good. Mrs. Weasley is my hero. xD

I still need to blog about my life plans, even though pretty much everyone knows at this point... :P

So I was sitting here doing nothing earlier tonight (It's morning now, I know. The day doesn't change until I sleep.), and Marcy asked if I'd go to Taco Bell with her. So I thought, sure, why not. I threw some pants on, got in the car, and went. No problems, I got to Lewisburg, got on 15... and some douchebag sitting in the bushes across from Bucknell threw a fucking water balloon at my windshield. OH MY GOD NOT COOL. I about had a heart attack, and had I seen them as more than a person-shaped, water balloon-wielding silhouette hiding in the bushes, I would have hit them instead of just yelling a stream of obscenities in their general direction. Ughhh.

And then to make matters worse, I needed gas on the way home, and I decided I needed to wash my windshield while I was there because the water from the balloon as all dried and gross, and I don't have a working squirty mechanism (yes, that's what it's called), and there were spiders EVERYWHERE. Big ones. Spiderzillas. Ewww eww eww.

Way to ruin my night, asshats.

(I wish James looked a little angrier in my icon.)

I feel it's my duty to inform everyone that... *drum roll*...

I have a new obsession. :D

It really is a nice feeling. My last serious obsession was... probably Darren? That wasn't a new one, but it intensified last year and again this past winter because I finally got to see him. But anyway, my new one is James McAvoy. :D It was a slight problem when I first saw Atonement a few weeks ago... then I bought it and watched it again, and it got a little worse... and then Wanted. :| I'd been dying to see it for months just because it looked awesome. I didn't even realise he was in it at first. But he was, and he was AWESOME. Then I went to see it a second time... you see where this is going, right? lol. I also saw Penelope. Several times, because it's that good. And a few days ago I watched Becoming Jane, which was nice but thoroughly depressing. So now it's a full-blown obsession, and I'm thrilled.

Along the same vein, I finally found some icons! I'd been looking since I saw Atonement (that had to have been at least a month ago by now) and I couldn't find any active communities... but today I finally found some. Like the fucking mother lode. I only looked at the front page of one community, and I left with 75 icons. :| Which of course means I had to clean out a bunch of old ones... but the most important ones stayed. Colbert being homosexy, the Kermit OMGYAY one, Clay's "Hee" icon... you know, the basics. :D

Well that took care of the obsessions... now on to the accidents. Last Sunday, my nana and her boyfriend were coming up to see fireworks with us, and I was cooking burgers on the grill before they got here, and I came in to put my contacts in because the smoke was hurting my eyes, so after that I hurried back out so my burgers wouldn't burn, and my ankle caved underneath me when I took a step off the porch, and I fell on it weird, and I ended up spraining it. >.< I thought I broke it at first, actually... it made this awful snapping sound when I landed on it... but it's just sprained. And it still hurts, a week later.

The worst part of the whole thing was, I had waited so long to get my drivers license, I got it on Saturday... and Sunday I sprain my ankle on my driving leg. Ugh. But it's better enough to drive now, so I guess I'll survive.

I had a bit of an epiphany about what I'm doing after college and how to go about making it happen... but I'm going to save that for a later post. :)

Once again, this is long overdue. There are quite a few things I'd like to write about, and as this one happened first, it seems like a good place to start.

( Behind the cut. I don't want to ruin anyone's day/flist )

Ok, so that was pretty long... There are a few other things I need to blog about, but they'll wait. :)

Once again, I'm weeks late with this. I don't know why, it's not like I'm busy... I just sit here on IDF or playing Luxor. Or lately, it's been Spyro. I've played through the first two and half of the third game in the past week or so. About 3-4 days of actual playing total. Awesome.

Anyway, bullets, because these things all happened on different days, so it's not like I can make it into a story... not without giving you every little detail of the past week or two of my life. And who wants that?

-- Last Sunday night, I think, Marcy and I decided we were hungry at like 1:30 in the morning, so she came and collected me and we went to Denny's, since it was the only place that was open. When we got there, we parked beside this car, and there was a guy close to it who was yelling. Marcy thought he was yelling at somebody in the car and kind of laughed at him, but I didn't see anyone and I jokingly said that we shouldn't laugh at him cuz he'd kill us... Then we slowly got out of the car, discussed whether or not we should lock the doors, and then moseyed into Denny's. When we got in there, all the employees were crowded around the counter... Apparently the guy had been vandalizing the building, and the cops came a minute after we were inside, and they thought he had a gun. And we'd parked right beside him. They ended up making us move to a table in the back corner in case bullets started flying... but none did, and they took him away. Still, it made for a more interesting evening than I would have had if I'd stayed at home and watched tv.

-- I still need a job, and Walmart doesn't seem to be calling me back, so I decided to apply at Weis Warehouse. My mom took me over, and I was gonna just go in and get an application... but it turns out there were like a dozen people there, and they were doing interviews on the spot, so I had to fill it out and wait. I did the application, then I had to do the questionnaire about how often I get into fist fights, and then I waited for like an hour and a half to be interviewed. And after all that, I'm 95% sure they're not gonna call me back and hire me. The guy was nice, I guess, but he struck me as kind of condescending. He said something along the lines of, "I see you worked at McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts, and I'm sure you have to move at a decent pace when you work there, and I guess you don't want to be a slow cashier at Walmart, but we have to keep up a pace here........ do you think you can handle that?", and something along the same lines about having to lift boxes that were 20-75 pounds. Yeah, I can handle it, kthx. :| I'm just not holding my breath on that one.

-- I won my first Guitar Hero competition! It was at Montandon Community Days... I didn't even go cuz it's lame, but my mom found out about it and came and got me out of bed to go win them a pizza party. We played three songs, and this one kid actually beat me on two of them, but just barely, and the second song was Reptilia, aka my favorite GH song ever ever ever, and I totally killed him on it, so I ended up ahead in points. He was practically in shock... he said he'd never been beaten before. hehe. So we got two large pizzas, bread sticks, mozzarella sticks, and a 2-liter of Coke. The funniest part is that my mom asked the pizza guy what time the competition was, and he told her, and she was like, "I have to go get my daughter, she'll win", and the pizza guy knew the guy who was my only competition and how he never loses, and he was just like, yeah, ok. And then we went in afterwards and told him we won, and he was amused. :P

-- Best story... Yesterday we had a game night at Debbie's house, and in the middle of it we decided to go to Applebees to get something to eat, and this lady sat us, and apparently Kayla has some sort of issue with the one waitress there, Kara... She says she always seats her at a dirty table, so Kayla thanked this lady for not seating us at a dirty table, or something. I missed it. So Kara came out a little while later, and was like, "Hey, bitch..." or something like that, because I thought she was kidding, but apparently she wasn't... and they were bitching at each other about Kayla talking about Kara to her coworkers. After that, Kayla asked to talk to a manager, and when he came out, she told him this story about Kara always seating her at dirty tables or whatever, and we were just trying to make ourselves invisible because the whole thing was awkward... but then it seemed to be over. Until we were leaving. Kara followed us out of the restaurant, and just went and sat in her car and didn't leave. So Torrey and I sat there to watch if something was gonna happen... then she pulled away behind the building. So we left, but we saw her sitting there waiting behind the building, so we decided to go up to the Walmart parking lot and get front-row seats for this. Kayla had been sitting in Saf's car because she was worried... so Justin left, and Kara still sat there. Then Saf left, and she started to follow her, but she saw Kayla wasn't in the car and backed up... So Saf called Kayla and warned her, and told her to come up to the Walmart parking lot instead of going straight home... and when she came out, Kara tore out of the parking lot after her, really speeding, not stopping at any stop signs, and followed her to the parking lot. They just sat there in the cars, nobody got out... Then she whipped her the finger and left. So Kayla decided to go home while Kara wasn't there... and like two minutes later, Kara came back and looked for her again. She ended up following Saf around Walmart, I guess still looking for Kayla. But Kayla was gone, and she made it home ok.

So basically it was the most entertaining thing ever. :P

Ok, I'm tired of being harassed about this, so I'm finally blogging! This is only two weeks overdue. :P

So, April 30th, Marcy, Torrey and I went to see Panic! at the Disco! And yes, I'm keeping the !, kthx. Anyway, Marcy had gone home because it was Reading Week, so she came up to Bloom to collect me. On time, surprisingly. It's a good thing she did, because traffic was terrible in Bloom, Shamokin Dam, and everywhere else, so we ended up being really late. It was especially bad in Camp Hill... we ended up sitting in traffic for like fifteen minutes, and I can't figure out why, there's nothing in Camp Hill... At least we're easily amused... there was this person who passed us whose license plate was DGN 7470. Diggin' tato. haha. Now I feel like I'm stalking that person. :P This isn't related, but before we got to Camp Hill, we were coming up the hill and there was this guy waving at us to slow down, and we were confused... and when we got around the turn, there was a car flipped upside down off the road. D: Everybody seemed to be ok, but it really surprised us, and we ended up having a fifteen minute long string of swearing about it... lol.

I don't know why, but driving to Gettysburg is really weird... there's some kind of time warp or something. It goes ok till after Camp Hill... then there's a sign that says 27 miles or so, but it takes you like six hours from that point. Ok, maybe not, but it feels like you drive for 15 minutes, and then the sign says 24 miles. No freakin' way. :P At least I had my purse full of snacks to entertain me... every time we go somewhere, we stop at a gas station and get snacks, and I always fold them up and stick them in my purse, so I ended up having like five bags of crap. It's all gone now, though. :(

We finally got to Gettysburg, and Torrey told us to meet him in the parking lot where we always park, but we managed to get lost, and had to drive way down the road and call him again, then turn around again... and it turns out we'd driven past it by like five feet, lol. So we collected Torrey, and we decided it would be faster if we drove him back to his house, since we were already late... but we had to park in some admissions lot, and then we had to get a parking permit... so it ended up taking forever, but it was ok, cuz I got to talk to Lindsey again (she saw us when we were parking and hung around to talk to us). We finally got Torrey's stuff from his house and parked Marcy's car where it was allowed to be, then left, really late at this point, and we really had no idea where we were going...

The drive there was pretty uneventful, and I don't remember us having any real problem finding the place... but all the roads were one way, and we had to drive past it to find parking, then we kept getting caught in these one way streets, and it was time for the show to start when we found it... and then we found ourselves miles outside the city. Like, well into Virginia. We turned around at one point, where there happened to be 'a Latino in the grass', lmao... and somehow managed to find the place again... I saw the Jefferson Memorial from pretty close up!... and then we found a parking garage that was like six blocks away. But at least we parked the car. Torrey tried to park us on the right street, but it was on the other side of the river... haha.

When we finally got there, the show had started half an hour before hand, the Hush Sound was halfway through their set, and we'd missed Phantom Planet entirely (not that I care), and we all had separate seats so it was kind of awkward to navigate in the dark... I asked a lady where my seat was, and we had serious communication issues in the dark, but I finally figured out that she meant my seat was at the top of the row she was pointing at, but I couldn't see my seat number on my ticket or the numbers on the actual seats, so I just went all the way to the top, and that ended up not being the right seat. But nobody ever came and yelled at me, so whatever.

Between sets, Marcy, Torrey and I kept texting each other, and apparently Marcy went and sat in Torrey's box at one point, but they were all the way across the room from me, and I liked my seat, so I didn't join them.

Anyway, the actual show. It was good. The Hush Sound were alright, but I only really know one of their songs (Wine Red). Motion City Soundtrack was awesome, but I saw them once before (Warped, but still). They did a lot of songs I knew, so that was helpful. Panic! was last, and they were awesome. I was afraid they would only do new songs, and I only know a handful of those, but they actually did tons of old ones. The best one was I Constantly Thank God for Esteban (hence title). My only complaint was that they were really gimmicky. I thought maybe they'd lost some of that with their !, but apparently not. I'm not saying they weren't talented, because they were, but like... they had this elaborate set... and it was covered in flowers... and they had all they rugs and lights and stuff... I just think that all of that wasn't necessary, they could have just come out and played like every other band does, and they would have been just as awesome. But I guess the thousands of 13 year old scene kids were paying for the gimmick. Speaking of 13 year olds, Rachel was/is sooo jealous. I cellcerted her during a lot of the older songs, and she wanted to die. hehe.

After the show, we decided that we were going to do a bit of sight-seeing, since Marcy had never been to DC and I'd only been there once, over two particularly gross days in December. But of course it was dark by now, so everything was closed and hard to see... but on our way back to the car, we realized that we were walking right past the back of the White House, so once we were in the car, we parked it as close as we thought we could and then walked there. It turned out the venue was pretty much right beside the White House, we just didn't notice because it's kind of far away and all the lights were off. So we just stood at the barrier and I took pictures with my cell phone at midnight. There was a cop car sitting right near us, and I guess he turned his interior lights on so we could see him watching us, but I wasn't paying attention to him. They probably thought we were terrorists. :P

We somehow managed to get out of the city, but I have no idea how... we took roads we didn't take in, and we took some we took in but not in anything close to the right order... but somehow we got back out on the road to Gettysburg. We stopped at an IHOP on the way home, which was delicious (they srsly need to put one in here). While we were in there, 'Lady in Red' was on the radio, which was amusing, mostly because Marcy and I kept making eye contact and dying at each other, and not explaining to Torrey... haha. :P

After IHOP, we didn't really have much of a problem finding the road that would take us back to Gettysburg, and we were following it for a while with no problem, but at some point, we weren't on the right road anymore. Our route number had been paired with another number, and I think the other number exited and we followed it or something, because we were suddenly in the middle of nowhere. We kept going to find a place to turn around and get back on the right road, but it became a one way street, and then it forked, and neither of the roads were right, so we just picked one... and we ended up taking that road for like an hour... and it led into this foresty area where we definitely should not have been, in the middle of Maryland... we ended up finding an intersection, and we pulled over and got out an atlas, and figured that if we drove for another hour on two or three different roads, we would eventually get back to the original road. But we were sooo confused, because we still thought we hadn't done anything wrong, and we were in the middle of the woods, and we almost hit deer a couple times... and Marcy slept through this whole thing, except for one deer-related near miss (the screaming woke her up. haha).

Since Marcy had slept, we just left for home once we got back to her car, and we survived the trip... but we were like four hours later than we thought we'd be (because of sight-seeing, IHOP, getting lost, etc.) and it was daylight by the time we got near Bloom, so we decided to stop at McDonalds for breakfast. Which was also delicious. I don't get to go there for breakfast enough. :( I was dying of thirst for some reason, and they only give you a shotglass full of orange juice these days, so I kept filling my cup up with sweet tea... not sure that was allowed... but I ended up drinking like a gallon of it. Like I would stand at the counter and fill it up, drink it, fill it up, drink it, and then finally fill it up and take it back to the table. And I did that twice. I felt kind of gross afterwards... lol.

Then we went home. At like 6 or 7 in the morning. Debbie actually went to work before I managed to go to bed. I didn't talk to her though... I was tired and unsociable. But she said later that she heard me come in.

So that's basically the story of our trip to DC. In case you don't know, I'm working on an upcoming entry... It's going to be a working list of things I hate, inspired by a conversation I had with my mom. I already have lots of things in mind. :P

More bullets!

-- I forgot to blog about this before... I called and told on a trucker last week. :o The guy was swerving all over the road, and he almost got a motorcycle... so when the people between us and the truck cleared out and we got close enough, I called the "How's my driving?" number and told them it really sucked. Actually, I was pretty nice about it, I just said that I felt bad calling but I was pretty sure he was sleeping... and while I was on the phone with the lady, the guy actually ran a red light. haha. They must have called him or something, cuz right after that he pulled over. Which is good... even if he got in trouble, he can't be doing that, he'll get himself and other people killed.

-- We had our wind ensemble concert. It was ok. In C was long and annoying. My nana was not a fan. And when we were walking down to the pit to play the song with the choir, I tripped like fifteen times. But that's just how I roll, you know. No pun intended. :P

-- I've basically given up on info tech. There was a project due, and I didn't do it. And it's worth 20% of the final grade. Awesome. I'm not just being lazy, I actually thought this through. I couldn't get the book in the beginning because he was too retarded to order it like a normal professor, and then I looked everywhere for it, and ended up getting one somewhere, but it turned out to be the wrong book... and then I finally found it at the bookstore, after looking a couple times... so at that point, everything was really late, and I was losing points on it. I turned them all in then, at least from that book, and he never bothered to grade some of them for like a month... and I emailed him about it, and it took him like three weeks to respond... so now it's two months later, and he finally emailed me back about it, and yelled at me for wasting time with this. Ughhh. Plus some of the assignments are just ridiculous. So, screw it. I'm gonna take the final and hand in the homework that he missed again, but that's it. And if I fail, whatever. I'll still have 24 credits for the year so I won't lose my financial aid.

-- Now, the real reason to blog... Jimmy Eat World. Omfg. Well, first, Dear and the Headlights... they were okay. I didn't know any of their songs. After that was Paramore... they were pretty good, but I only knew like five of their songs, so it wasn't that exciting. They did all my favorites though... For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic, Born for This, Misery Business, and Pressure. I didn't really think she had a whole lot of stage presence, but I was amused by how, no matter what color the lights were, her hair always looked bright orange. :P Anyway, the whole reason for going: Jimmy. OMG AWESOME. They did... pretty much every song I was hoping for. 23 (*dead*), Futures, Work (*dead again*), Big Casino, Sweetness (that was fun, because it was a sing-along), and lots of others. The only ones I was hoping for that I don't think they played would be Firefight, Chase This Light, and Get it Faster. But I'm definitely not complaining, they were AMAZING. xD

-- We went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall tonight. It was pretty funny. I think it's one I'll end up buying when I get some money, along with Juno (which could easily be one of my favorite movies ever).

-- Knoebels concert tomorrow... yay! Also, I have to write a paper for lit. Not so yay.

This past weekend was ridiculously busy for me, so we're gonna recap in bullets.

-- Friday, Marcy, Torrey, and I went to see Jack's Mannequin! We left after my band concert dress rehearsal, and got to Wilkes-Barre in plenty of time, but we drove past the venue three or four times before we realized that it was the place and found where to park. Then we had to walk forever in the rain... but it was all worth it, because the show was really good. He was like flailing wildly at the piano... it was great. Although he looked more like a lesbian than I expected. lol :P And we really wanted to get seats in the balcony cuz there were other people up there, but we couldn't figure out how to get up there and we didn't want to get yelled at, so we stood.

-- We went to Bees at midnight on Friday so I could get a drink for my birthday. I got a Bahama Mama and a Strawberry Shortcake frozen drink for dessert. Both were delicious. "I Want You" came on around midnight, which was nice. It was like an early birthday present.

-- Saturday afternoon was the band concert. It went fairly well. I sucked at my little solo much less than I ever have before, so that's good.

-- After the concert, I went out to Bees with my family. I got a Strawberry Mojito, which was delicious, but had a bit too much foliage for my tastes. I also got a free apple shooter for dessert and they sang to me. :P

-- Saturday night, Marcy and I met Allie, Josh, and half of Kappa at Good Old Days. That was FUN. I did a shot with Josh in the beginning, which apparently was Liquid Cocaine, that made me instantly retarded. And then I had four Long Island Iced Teas. I wasn't too bad but I was drunk enough to think that doing karaoke with Josh, a song I didn't even know (Sunday Morning by No Doubt), was not a bad idea. :P I told him next time we're doing a song I know. lol. Marcy was a lot worse than I was though... she was gone after like one drink. She has no business being that much of a lightweight. :P

-- Sunday morning, we went to Bloomsburg High School to see Bill Clinton talk. I'm not voting for Hillary, but I still like him, so we went. I got to shake his hand. xD Truthfully, I think she would make a great president, and if it comes down to it I'll vote for her, but for now, Obama's my man. :P

Oh and in the middle of all this I wrote a four page paper and finished a presentation that I presented last night... It wasn't that bad. I really am bad at presenting but it was in a group so I just let everybody else do most of the talking. We ended up presenting for like an hour and a half. :x I'm just glad it's over... the rest of the semester is pretty much smooth sailing. :)

This blog is also long overdue... We went to the Obama rally at Penn State last Sunday, and I couldn't be bothered blogging about it, even if I took text notes for myself. So here we go... now Marcy will have no reason to harass me.

Last Saturday was my audition for the music department. It was scary but I survived. Dr. Oxley didn't make me play the whole selection I'd practiced, he said because he heard me play all the time, but it might have also been because at that point, I'd been all scared and shaky and retarded. I'm so bad with audition nerves. :x Now I'm just waiting to hear... Sara said it took about a week, so I'm hoping I know on Monday. Mostly because I'd like to schedule classes. I'm also kind of concerned about the theory placement test... it seems I don't know any theory at all, and I was hoping I could skip the first level so I can take theory skills next semester and get on the right track so I can graduate sometime in the next decade. :P

Anyway, after that, Marcy and I left for home for a little. She had to go home to give her cats medicine or something, and I'm allergic, so she took me to my house, and I had dinner with my family and then played Mario Party on the Wii with my sister (I beat her, of course). Then we left for Penn State for the night. On the way, we stopped at a Sunoco and got bratwurst for no particular reason... we wanted cheeseburger dogs, but left with bratwurst. Not particularly good bratwurst either... it was kind of crunchy. Which is something bratwurst should never be. :/ We also had a romp in the forest... on the most deserted stretch of road between Montandon and State College, Marcy's iPod fell off my leg and I couldn't find it to pick it up, so we had to stop in the woods and get out and retrieve it. Luckily, I didn't get eaten by a bear. I was kind of concerned. We had a brief scare not long after that, though... the people in the car in front of us kept flicking ashes out their window, which is no big deal, but at one point they tossed their whole cigarette out the window and it erupted in this big swirling cloud of sparks, which we called a swirling vortex of fiery doom (side note, if you text that to yourself, all of those words are the first choice that comes up). And back on it being deserted... there were so many stars out. It was like at Ron and Jeff's house, when we're swimming... I opened the moon roof and drooled out at them, and Marcy ended up stopping in the middle of the road to look at them. We saw Orion, too. :D

When we got there, we decided to eat at Applebee's... creatures of habit? lol. Marcy tried to order a drink, and the waitress carded all of us... she said that it was Pennsylvania state law, that everyone at the table had to be 21 for someone to order a drink. I think she's a liar. So Marcy couldn't get anything cuz I'm not 21 till next week. :P The lady who brought our food out was really retarded too... She forgot my sour cream, but she was like, "here are your chicken tortillas... sorry, I remembered your mexican ranch but forgot your sour cream!"... Chicken tortillas? Mexican ranch? lmao. I thought I was the only person who noticed, but apparently not, because as soon as she left we all died. So we took about fifteen minutes mispronouncing everything we could see... the biggest hit seemed to be "sour creme" lol.

Afterwards, we hung around Josh's room and watched tv for a while. When we went to bed, Josh gave us the remote because he figured he'd fall asleep before us, and Marcy gave it to me because she didn't want it... but when I decide it's time to sleep, it takes me like a second, so I was the first one asleep, and I got the most sleep out of any of us, even though I was sleeping on the hard floor. haha.

We got up entirely too early, for me at least... and at like 9:30 or 10:00, we started heading over for the rally. We waited in line foreeever. It didn't even start moving till like 12:45, 1:00 ish... When we finally got in, we ended up being really far back. I couldn't see him at all. I thought I did once, but I'm pretty sure now that it wasn't him. It's kind of annoying, because people who only got there an hour before us were close enough to shake his hand... but oh well, it was still cool.

After the rally, we went back to Josh's room for a bit, only to discover that we were all sunburnt to death, even though it was like 20 degrees out and we'd been freezing to death the whole time. Awesome. We went to Olive Garden for lunch/dinner, and it was delicious. After that, Marcy and I went home for a while again... I thought we were just gonna come straight back to Bloom, but she had to pick up some stuff at home and decided she was gonna take a nap, so she dropped me off at my house, and my mom was gonna bring me back.

I'm glad I went home though, because right before we were about to leave, all of Montandon burst into flames. Seriously. I don't know how accurate this is, but people were saying that a train went by with a leaking fuel tanker, and it caught random things on fire. Like all of the woodsy area right when you turn into the trailer park, and the lawn ornaments/decorate outhouse/trees that belonged to this one family who live right by the tracks, and something behind the post office, and a bunch of spots in fields along the tracks. And of course, I had my phone, so I took pictures.

( Under the cut, because it stretched everything out. )
That was the outhouse. "Was" being the key word there.

Funnily enough, half of my town caught fire and it barely made the news. They mentioned it for like a second. And there was nothing on the wnep website about it. lol

Ok, I'm finally gonna blog about this. Just so Marcy shuts up. :P Last weekend, Marcy, Torrey and I went to the University of Delaware to see their production of Bare. But of course, plenty of interesting things happened before we got there...

We left from home... Marcy came and got me, late of course, and then we went to McDonald's. We were being stupid... There were a bunch of kids screaming in the playplace, and I was saying that they were screaming because they were killing each other or something, I don't remember... but anyway, I know that it was a bloodbath. :P We also had a french fry exchange going on... I like the less cooked, whiter ones, and Marcy likes the overcooked crunchy ones. We were saying that it was sort of french fry racism...but at least we like different ones so we can trade. There was also this stupid old guy walking around who kept whistling... I hate whistling... He might have been the cause of the bloodbath, actually.

Stupid stuff happened on the way there, too... The river was really high, and anytime I see the river, I have to say hello... and Marcy was like, are you going to do that every time you see the river? Yeah, pretty much. :P Marcy's iPod refused to work if it wasn't sitting on my purse, too... which was irritating, because I didn't really want to hold my purse the whole way there, but as soon as I put it down, it would stop working. We were composing minimalist pieces, but that's nothing new... and for anyone who doesn't know, "composing minimalist pieces" means that we were making repetitive, obnoxious noises. lol. When we were getting close to Gettysburg, Marcy saw a sign for Peggy's Antiques that had a Coca-Cola logo underneath it, so she said "Peggy's Antiques and Coca-Cola"... but I thought she said "Piggies, Antiques, and Coca-Cola"... and it made Marcy die. Also, at one point we were listening to "Angry Inch" from Hedwig, and the radio cut in over it and someone said "at least sixty inches"... it was actually the funniest thing ever.

At that point we arrived at Gettysburg and met Torrey, then went up to his room for a little bit, then we headed towards Delaware in his car... and we kept being stupid... We were listening to Bare, and it was Good Friday, and there was a big group of church people outside, and we turned it up a little bit, lol... somehow that led to a conversation about making a Barody (Bare parody, get it?) and geeing to death like the old guys on Robot Chicken, but I don't remember how anymore. We stopped at a gas station in Maryland that had traps for Pennsylvanians, or so we believed... We couldn't figure out how to get in, and then on the way out, I got caught on a cigarette thing, and Marcy tripped on the curb or fell off it or something, because they were painted white instead of yellow. *gasp*

So we eventually got to UD... We didn't have time to eat beforehand, so we just got our tickets and hung around in the lobby. The show was... not good, really. I really wanted to like it, but Peter was awful. Jason wasn't terrific, but he was alright most of the time. This was a state university... how could they have not found a better Peter?? His acting was pretty good, but it was hard to appreciate that around the terrible singing. I kept trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he was sooo bad. It was especially painful every time they tried to do a harmony... like in "Bare"... ugh. It hurt my soul. On the other hand, Nadia and Ivy were amazing. Nadia especially, but Ivy's "All Grown Up" actually made me tear up, and I never expected that. Speaking of tearing up, I did cry a bit... I would have sobbed if it had been decent. I only cried as much as I did because Jason looked like a cross between Brain from QaF and Darren's fella Richard, so I was kind of attached to him by that point. There was also this guy at the end, during "No Voice" who was making his crying face, but just looked retarded... That kind of took something away from the whole thing, too. :P

After that, we were starving to death and had absolutely no interest in staying to meet the actors, so we went looking for a fine dining establishment. I kind of wanted to go someplace we don't normally get to go... we ended up going to Bennigan's. Not exactly what I had in mind, but we couldn't find anywhere more interesting. I wanted to order my drink last to see if she carded, but nobody else was saying anything so I ordered mine, and she ended up not carding. Boo. :(

After that, we drove back to Gettysburg, then Marcy drove us home. I don't remember anything interesting happening on the way back home... I know I nodded off at one point, but not until we hit, like, Lewisburg, so there was no point.

And that's about it. Now I have to blog about the Penn State adventure. If you're lucky, I'll do it before I forget the details.

I've been planning on blogging for over a week now. I even took notes via text message draft when we went places so I'd have something to write about. And I thought to myself, this is the day.

But I am le tired.

So, Spamalot. It was AWESOME. Sooooo funny. I figured it would be because Marcy really liked it, and I really like the Holy Grail movie, but it was even better than I expected. And Clay was really, really good. People would probably think I'd be biased and love everything he does, but really I'm the opposite... I've seen him do so many things in the past five years that I tend to be overly critical and point out every mistake he makes. But he was sooo good. He was three or four different characters, and he actually had a different, decent accent for each one (besides Sir Robin, he was the first guard who goes on and on about coconuts migrating and whether or not a swallow could carry a coconut, Brother Maynard, who talks about the Holy Hand Grenade, and the person guarding Prince Rupert's tower... the one who talks and can't seem to understand the directions), his singing was awesome, of course (I actually think they may have written in some different parts for him... I know it's Broadway so they're supposed to be belty, but I listened to his song before and I don't remember there being such a big, stereotypical Clay note at the end :P and they definitely added in the "idol of his age" part in one song, which made everybody laugh), and he was really funny. My only complaint was that he made the most ridiculous faces... moreso than anybody else... but that's just Clay. :P

Afterwards, we went to the stage door to meet him... and he came out... but he quit signing stuff right before he got to us. :( I guess because it was cold and there were a lot of people. Marcy seemed really pissed that he didn't get to us, but I wasn't overly surprised or even disappointed... I think I expected it. I probably would have died of shock if he'd actually gotten all the way over to us. We did get to meet some of the cast though... Lancelot (who looks like Brian and Ben from QaF at the same time. I'm not even sure how that's possible), Galahad, Prince Rupert, and the Lady of the Lake (who really is British, she's from London, and has the most amazing female voice I've ever heard. Seriously.)

The rest of the trip was okay too. We went to the Museum of Natural History, but we got there late and they closed early so we didn't really get to look around a whole lot. We want to go back sometime when we have the whole day and do touristy stuff, because as many times as we've been there, we've never done that. I actually saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time ever on the way home... you can actually see it from the one highway on the way to I-80, which doesn't even make sense to me, but whatever, it was cool.

So, Spamalot = awesome. I'd love to go back again before Clay leaves in May, but it probably won't happen. :(

On an unrelated note, I still can't get this computer to sync my iPod, but I've been looking online, and a lot of people seem to be having the exact same problem, so maybe it's iTunes itself and not my computer? I don't know, but I hope so. I did notice that my new computer was kind of skippy when it was playing music last night... not so bad that I couldn't listen to it or anything, but it was slightly irritating. And there doesn't seem to be any way to make the speakers not sound tinny, other than to put headphones on. Sigh. Oh well, it's still sexy.

Idol in an hour... goooo Amanda! xD