sometimes i feel like i expect a lot from people. only because of the way I treat people! maybe if i expected less...i wouldn't be so let down? if people treated me the way i treat THEM, i'd be SO happy. that's all.

Opening Up.

“I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.”

The XX

"So don't think that I'm pushing you away
When you're the one that I've kept closest"

Bobby Pin

This made me laugh so hard last night...

N: "What's this?!?!?"
ME: "OH, that's my bobby pin!!!"
N: "Who the heck's BOBBY?!?!?"

hahahahha<3

500 Days of Summer

i absolutely cannot wait to see this movie on friday!

E.E. Cummings

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Summertime Playlist

VOL. I



1. "Oceanside" - Akron Family
2. "Cocaine Blues" - Bob Dylan
3. "Cause = Time" - Broken Social Scene
4. "Courtship Dating" - Crystal Castles
5. "Saturdays"- Cut Copy
6. "When I Grow Up" - Fever Ray
7. "Paris" - Friendly Fires
8. "It Was A Good Day" - Ice Cube
9. "MEXICOCU" - The Kills
10. "I'm Good, I'm Gone" - Lykke Li
11. "The Reeling" - Passion Pit
12. "Book of Flags" - Q and Not U
13. "Same As It Ever Was" - Talking Heads
14. "Sugar" - Wooden Birds

Here We Go Magic

Gym Etiquette

1. DO NOT TALK ON YOUR CELL PHONE WHILE WORKING OUT. this is one of my biggest pet peeves. it's SO annoying. i see girls doing this ALL the time.

2. Getting completely naked in the locker room. is this really necessary? i am not a fan of seeing old naked women's T's A's and/or V's.

3. When i am on a machine, I HATE when girls will look over at my machine to see how fast i'm going, how long i have been on, etc. it's not a competition! mind ya bizness!

4. "TMI" in the sauna. I really don't want to hear strangers talking about their sex lives in the sauna and all the gory details. k thanks.

5. Clothing (or lack thereof). I hate the girls that work out in next to nothing. whether it be a jog bra, a shirt exposing a mid-drift, or pants that are just way too tight that we can see your dimples. i just think there should be some sort of dress code.

more to come...

Pack up the Moon

excerpt from this book i'm reading that i really like:

Memories are absurd things. Some are vague, some crystalline, some too painful to recollect and some so painful it's impossible to forget. Happy times are remembered with warmth and laughter, recalled as an anecdote in the pub, exaggerated for the crowd. The really good ones keep you company on an otherwise lonely evening.

The clearest memories are of those occasions when you experience great highs or lows. It's the emotion the situation inspires that you remember. That feeling of incredible exultation or terrible despair enables your brain to note the details that normally pass you by, like the color of someone's shirt, a hand gesture or how warm or cold it was. You can recall the creases cause by a smile on a loved ones lips or the way tears crept from their eyes.



But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save. We all have regrets - even Frank Sinatra had a few.

Some tragedies are of our own doing and then sometimes things happen that are out of this world's control and when it happens, it takes our breath away.

Happiness is a gift. It washes its warmth over us and reminds us of beauty. It should never be taken for granted. That thin blue line represented happiness. I didn't know that it would later represent something that I would never get back. But then I wasn't ready.

Lou Reed

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

Well said, Mr. Reed!

In The Gutter

in the gutter
is
a
collection
of
photographs
and
illustrations
that
attempts
to
bring
into
greater
focus
the
preoccupations
and
concerns
inherent
in
the
design
process,
namely:
fingers
faces
floors
feet
figures
hair
logs
legs
moustaches
noses
nobs
nudes
prayers
prickly pears
peters
parts
tattoos
tutus
teeth
torsos
tongues
toes
underwear
walls
and
zippers
presented
by the people
at
the
curious collection

Tumultuous

Word of the day: Tumultuous.
ex. My relationship with you is very tumultuous.
See also "Volatile".

Biden

Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway



WASHINGTON—Taking advantage of the warm spring weather Monday, Vice President Joe Biden parked his 1981 Trans Am in the White House driveway, removed his undershirt, and spent a leisurely afternoon washing the muscle car and drinking beer.

"This baby just needs a little scrub down," said Biden, addressing a tour group as he tucked the sweat-covered top into the belt loop of his cutoff jean shorts. "Gotta get her looking good so I can impress the chicks when I'm cruising down Pennsylvania [Avenue]."

White House aides said that Biden pulled into the driveway shortly before noon, the chorus of Night Ranger's "(You Can Still) Rock In America" blaring from his car's stereo. According to witnesses, Biden spent several minutes maneuvering the Trans Am into the perfect spot, and was observed drumming his fingers on the steering wheel until the song came to a close.

The shirtless 66-year-old then entered the executive residence and greeted employees with a round of high fives and a variety of nicknames.

"Hey, hot stuff, looking good," Biden told a passing aide. "Would you know where I could get a little bucket and sponge action? My mean machine needs to be cleaned."

After acquiring the necessary washing materials, the bare-chested second-in-command returned to the driveway, where he spent several moments staring in apparent awe at the firebird decal on the hood of his car.

Biden, who purchased the white Pontiac in 1983, has made an annual tradition of taking time off each spring to wash and tune-up his vehicle. In 2008 alone, the veteran politician reportedly missed two dozen Senate sessions in order to spend some quality time "taking care of [his] baby."

"He does this every year and it really seems to rejuvenate him," Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) said. "Back in 2001, the car was up on blocks in the National Mall, and he was so busy rotating those tires that he bailed on the confirmation hearings for secretary of state."

"What're you gonna do, though?" Dodd added. "That car rocks."

As Biden gently applied a sponge to the hood and moved it in small circular motions across the car's contours, a number of White House interns walked by and caught the vice president's attention.

"She's a real beaut, ain't she?" said Biden, popping open a wide-mouth can of Coors Light and tilting back his head to take a long drink. "Back when Smokey And The Bandit came out, everyone wanted the black paint job, but looking back now, I'm thankful the dealership didn't have it in stock."

"Oops, looks like I got a little brewha in the flavor-saver," added Biden, referring to his wispy, four-day-old mustache. "Any of you girls care to join me for another tallboy?"

Biden then spent the next 15 minutes boasting about the features on his Trans Am.

"They don't make kick-ass T-tops like this anymore, sweetheart," said Biden, shaking his head in exaggerated disappointment. "And check out these gold snowflake rims. They're a real bitch to clean, but they're totally worth it."

"Back in the day we used to call 'em panty-melters," Biden continued. "One babe caught a glimpse of those rims after a Cinderella concert in '86 and she couldn't get into that backseat fast enough. If any of you girls wanna take a ride, just let ol' Joe know."

For the remainder of the day, Biden occupied himself with hosing off his car, giving the side doors an extra coat of wax, and throwing out a variety of items from beneath its front seats, including crumpled-up fast food wrappers, a number of soft packs of Doral kings, an issue of Cheri magazine from 1991, and Senate bill S. 486.

According to White House officials, Biden was still hanging out in the driveway long after dusk, revving the engine at passersby and explaining the intricacies of a turbocharged V-8 motor to anyone within earshot.

As of press time, Biden had convinced Jennifer Britmore, a 41-year-old mother of four visiting from Indiana, to let him show her around D.C. '

source: http://www.theonion.com

Strength

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
August Wilson

Bob Dylan

"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."

Lykke Li

met her & her band at coachella - they were staying at the same hotel. SUPER nice people with the coolest accents! LOVE her & this song!

Bat For Lashes

i really love this band/this song a lot!
get into it.

David Carson

my favorite graphic designer thus far.

“Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.”-David Carson“

growing. up.

i've been doing a lot of growing, thinking & soul searching lately. i've had my back pushed against the wall a few times and i've always came out a better, stronger person from the experience. sometimes we need a good shaking to make us wake up and take a good look at ourselves and really see the bigger picture.

i feel like i am starting another chapter of my life. even though you are technically considered an adult when you turn 18, i have never really felt like an adult until now. my first 23 years of life were lived somewhat carelessly. i loved and lost a lot and didn't necessarily know how to deal with that in the best way.

entering my 24th year of life, i feel like i have accomplished a pretty good amount of things thus far. i have my associates degree in liberal studies. i am working on my bachelors in graphic design with a minor in marketing (and i only have like TEN classes left)! and i even scored an AWESOME internship doing exaaactly what i LOVE - working in baseball and doing graphic design.

i think i've dwelled in the negative a lot and not stopped and realized how much i really have going for me and how GOOD of a person i really am! i sell myself short all too much and put myself down in my mind because that's how people have made me feel. but i know better now.

i AM a good person with a HUGE heart.
i AM intelligent, witty, and funny.
i LOVE the ones i call friends and would do anything for them and they know it.

i truly appreciate everything i have and am happy to be where i am today. i don't take back any bad experience or negative thing i've been through in my life because they have shaped me and made me the woman i am today.

miss misery

I'll fake it through the day
with some help from johnny walker red
and the cold pain behind my eyes
that shoots back through my head
with two tickets torn in half
and a lot of nothing to do
but it's alright cause some enchanted night, i'll be with you
tarot cards and the lines in my hand
tell me i'm wrong but then untrue
got plans for both of us
that involved a trip out of town
to a place i've seen in a magazine
that you left lying around
i can't hold my liquor but
i keep a good attitude
cause it's alright some enchanted night, i'll be with you
and though you'd rather see me gone
than to see this come the day
i'll be waiting for you anyway
next door the tv's flashing
blue frames on the wall
it's a comedy from the 70's
when the lead no one recalls
vanished into oblivion
it's easy to do
and i cry to sleep when you talked to me
the day you said we were through
but it's alright some enchanted night, ill be with you