via Cheryl and Cystal.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
*note - jenny thinks this is crazy! i've read 42. did people have to read at least 10-20 of these for school?

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, ( Read more... )

i want a puppy! soooooo bad! damn apartments. grrrrrrrrr.

i almost hit a peacock with my car today. now that's a sentence i never thought i would type. for some reason there is a phantom peacock living in our neighborhood. i don't know if it's someone's pet or if it escaped from a zoo or something. but every once in a while for the past 3 months, i see a peacock walking down the street. it's usually the ( Read more... )

yes, i know i should have made my new year's post over a week ago, but i also should have updated my journal more than once in the last 3 months. now, i don't know where to begin ( Read more... )

veronica and piz finally kissed!!!!!
and hot chip was playing!!!!!

crystal, cheryl, what did you think? :)

i am such a geek. but it's all good.

so i'm not one for festival concerts. paying huge amounts of money for all the long, hot days sitting around, sweating, breathing smoke, being thirsty, getting sunburnt, just to rush around trying to see as many bands as possible play short sets of music that would be much better in a small venue.
but if i Were, i would be quite temped by the day 2 ( Read more... )

dear sweet john. we've had some ups and downs over the past few years. somewhere around sophmore year of college, you came into my life. you were sweet, and sensitive and romantic, and i fell for you really hard. while your personal life has threatened to interfere with our relationship, i've learned to overlook a few of your shortcomings. i was ( Read more... )

there's something so... thrilling about rediscovering music that you had forgotten about. finding an old cd. or listening to a band that you haven't listened to in a while. it can take you back to a specific place and time. make you remember yourself at a different place in your life. it makes me smile ( Read more... )

so, after some stress and lack of pre-birthday excitement, i have to say today was a good day. i did have to work, which is no fun. but after work i went to pinkberry for trendy frozen yogurt (i got my with heaps of strawberries and raspberries), then went and got a massage. it's such a nice treat that makes all my muscles feel like jelly. in a ( Read more... )

yay! yay! one of the best days every year is mattel bonus day, which usually falls right around my birthday so i feel like it's a birthday present from mattel. :) it wasn't as large (percentage-wise) this year as it has in the past, and uncle sam took nearly 50% of it, but still, hooray for free money! and in a rare display of impetuousness, i ( Read more... )