Filed under: Life, Shopping, The World | Tags: 50th anniversary, relatives, the country vs. the city, upstate new york
I was recently in New York for a 50th anniversary of some distant relatives. During the five hour long car ride there, I wrote a blog, which I was unable to post at the time because there was no wifi on the road. I’m just getting around to it now, so here it is :)
June 26, 2009:
Current Location: The middle of nowhere. Also known as upstate New York. To be honest, it’s really not that bad .. I guess. It’s all so green here, as opposed to the familiar gray, cement color scheme of the city. So I like the green. I must say that the huge expanses of greenery make it hard to believe that we are actually at a loss for trees and nature and whatnot, heading the planet into a state of dried out rock, suffocated by greenhouse gases. It’s also hard to believe that New York can hold all this green while one of the filthiest, most polluted cities in the world also is located here. On top of all of that, I’m biased. I very much support a greener lifestyle, and saving the planet, but I prefer city living over being surrounded by farm land. I don’t have much against farmland, it’s just that it gets old when you’re my age. Everything is like a mile apart, and it’s so quiet, and there’s a very limited amount of activities that would entertain me. I’ll be honest, I’m not very good with physical labor. I doubt I could keep a window sill garden alive. Despite that farmland and forest lifestyles seem much cleaner and healthier, something I hold in importance, (does that make sense?) I would rather be lost in the vastness of urbanity than be swallowed by nature, and be bored. So what it really comes down to is how much fun I’m having, and how convenient things are. And I’m okay with that.
I’m on my way to a 50th anniversary right now. Five hours in the car with my two aunts, my brother, and Coco and Dot – the dogs. However, I did get a beautiful dress out of it. Well, besides all the wonderful benefits of bonding with distant relatives and blah blah blah. ;) I’ll have to post a picture of it from the Forever 21 (or should I say XXI Forever?) website. I can’t right now because I don’t have wifi but I’ll do my best to describe it. It’s soft white with a country style flower pattern all over. The straps are like that of a tank top, but there’s a slightly frilly piece of fabric along the edge of the sort of low cut neckline. The skirt has a slight bubble-ness to it, and it falls above the knee. (My conservative, catholic, incredibly judgmental aunt will probably have a heart attack that it’s not ankle length, but then again…that wouldn’t be most horrible situation either. Kidding! … o_O) All in all, the dress is really endearing. I hope that it’s not too dressy to wear throughout the rest of the summer because I absolutely adore it. The only thing I wonder is if I can get away with wearing black heels with it. I have these awesome pointed-toe, black, two inch heels that I haven’t had an opportunity to wear yet and I really was hoping that they would make their debut at this party. I think I can get away with them because the only thing I brought to go over the dress is a black cardigan, so it will create a nice balance.
The last time I was here was about fifth grade, and I was going through a stage of Gothic apparel and anything related to Hot Topic. And I was reading the fifth Harry Potter book, thus making me the anti-Christ in the eyes of my aunt (previously mentioned) Things surely have changed. I’m interested to see how her kids have developed, from what I hear they’re kind of on the weird side but what can you expect. Anywho, appearances are no judge of character and I’m willing to look past odd mannerisms and get along with my cousins.
We’re getting close I hear, so I’m going to wrap up here. I’ll post my dress too. Until then, xo.
Not bad for 24.80 ;)
What a day,
What a silly little day.
Time to kill, take a pill,
As I sit and contemplate
- Saturday by Holly Brook
There’s a certain comforting mugginess to the air today while I sit here and wait for the forecasted thunderstorm. I woke up exhausted this morning to run around Worcester and the near by towns, assembling my Mother’s Day gift. I had originally planned on cleaning the entire house and redoing the living room but we weren’t able to get my mom out of the house so we settled for a basket filled with an assortment of motherly things. My mom has been complaining for what seem like ages, for new pots and pans. Thus, I bought her a few good ones that I’m sure she will highly appreciate. I also blew up a nice picture of my brother and I and framed it. I think she’ll appreciate that more.
I haven’t written in a while, to be frank, I haven’t had the time at all. I actually don’t have the time now either but there’s an odd relaxed feeling about this hour of the day and I had to take advantage of it. I’ll admit I have not had the greatest day, quite stressful actually, so it would be a sin to not acknowledge the calmness that has settled over my house. It’s relieving because this week has been the worst I’ve probably ever had, maybe not measured by the events of it, but measured by how I’ve felt. Which is awful, by the way. I’m really, horribly, terribly, ridiculously, upset by Jonny leaving. Now that it’s May, it seems like the days are just flying by and each second brings us closer to having to say goodbye. If there’s anything I’m not good at, it’s dealing with emotions. So I figure this is going to be extra hard. Anyway, I haven’t had much to eat all day and I just got a wave of ravenousness.
I’ll try to update more often, but until then,xo.
Filed under: Life, School, Shopping | Tags: field hockey, Labor day weekend, Pre AP
So I know that I haven’t been on lately, and my last few posts have been kind of blah, but I’ve just been so busy. Obviously school’s started up again so with field hockey and the pre-AP U.S. History class I’m taking, I’ve been completely swamped. I feel silly talking about the class but I really have my hands full with it. It’s unbelievable, but I guess it’s all worth it right? I hear that the class i’m in (mostly because of the teacher,) is at the same level of difficulty as the actual AP class, or maybe even harder. Hopefully when I actually take AP History it’ll be a breeze then. I actually shouldn’t even be on here now, I’m in the middle of working on some history assignments at the moment. But I kinda have been wanting to get on here and do something other than research or typing up an essay.
Field Hockey, well that’s a whole other story. The practices really haven’t been bad, or as bad as I expected them to be. We have a new coach this year aswell, Mr. Angers. I do miss our old coaches Alli and Erin but I have to admit there are a few things about Mr. Angers’ coaching that I prefer over the old ways. This year there are a ton of sophmores on the team. We did get new freshman and whatever but it’s mainly tenth graders. Next year when varsity loses all of their seniors, JV is going to be seriously lacking in the defensive line. And varsity won’t have it that great either, we’re only going to have four players on defense, meaning none of us are going to get switched out during the game, which will be tough. Tomorrow is our first game, it’s away in Marlboro. I believe that was our first game last season as well. It’s the start of a long eight weeks.
In news other than school and sports, I’ve been pretty good. This past Labor day weekend I went to Blackstone with Michaela, Heather, and Tyler, then headed to a “party” at Jack’s. (It was really just us sitting around a bonfire with a group of immature, over rowdy, boys) on Friday night, a cookout at Heather’s aunt’s on Saturday, watched this video of a skate team scavenger hunt at Eastern Boarder (cuuutest guys there ;D) on Sunday, and spent monday with Jonny at his aunt’s wicked nice house out in Norfolk. It felt good to just relax and get the feeling of summer back a little bit. I went and got my physical today too. I needed it to play this season, so I got it right in time for the first game. I’m really excited about this Friday, I’m going shopping and Jonny and I are going out to eat. I don’t get the chance to go out much so it’s nice to do something like this once in a while. That probably sounds ridiculous with the weekend that I just described, but I really never have plans like that ha. I hang out with people but we just hang out. We usually end up driving or walking around aimlessly for a few hours to kill time before curfew. Ahh, so exciting. haha
But it’s getting late, and I have a ton more reading to do. This class is killing me. :P Night!
Filed under: School, Shopping | Tags: field hockey, Shopping, steve madden boots, summer reading, unemployment
I found my boots! :D They’re Steve Madden, I ordered them online. They’re gorgeous. haha I’m sure I sound ridiculous right now, I’m just really excited. I’m kinda spending all my money on them though .. :/ But I’m just going to work more and hopefully I’ll be able to make up for this splurge. But back to the boots. They come up to about mid calf I’d say, and they’re like a heather gray (maybe a little darker) and they tie in the back. They’re suedey material, idk how else to explain them but I’m so pumped. I got new stuff for field hockey too, but Karan bought it for me. Goggles finally, because they’re always out of stock when I look for them at Dick’s Sporting Goods, new cleats because I lost all the studs in mine and it messes up my feet when I run, and a new mouthguard, because Karan insists.
I’ve got most of my shopping done, but I still have some more to do. I’m probably going to wait a little though, maybe into September. And I’m gonna try to not just blow all of my money either, because I have a tendency to get out of hand when it comes to shopping. I guess it’s a good thing that I never go shopping, ha.
I’ve been really stressed lately. I need to do my summer reading, well, I already did the reading portion, I need to do the writing part. I know a lot of kids think summer reading is totally stupid and a waste of perfectly good summer hours. But I’d be reading anyway, whether it be required or not. And I’m competitive with myself when it comes to things like grades. I like to do better than I did previously, so I’m always looking for a challenge. I’m not about to give up ten percent of my english grade first quarter. I don’t really care to sound like a nerd, I’ve always found school to be really important. I’ve been gifted with being able to look at the bigger picture in life, something a lot of people never really get a grasp on, or at least not as a teenager. But whatever, I’m just rambling haha. I actually have some work to do, like I said, I’m doubling my efforts to get money this summer. That is, as long as I’m unemployed. :/ It looks like I’ll be job-less until January probably. Yikes. But that’s all for now, toodles :)
The title actually has nothing to do with what I’m writing except that it’s a line in a song I was just listening to. Boys with Girlfriends by meiko. It’s ‘featured’ on myspace, but I like the rest of her stuff anyway. And hey, I have no objection to good music. I don’t care where I find it. Actually, I was thinking I need to make a new playlist. I’ve been hearing a bunch of new music lately and I don’t want to forget about it. This new playlist, I need it to be all the same kind of music, and I need it to be writing music. Alot of it is soft, yeah, but I can’t rely on my other playlist full of soft music cause that’s more of a fall asleep/listen to when you’re depressed kind of playlist. So I’m gonna put this together, and I’ll post it on here.
It’s been really stormy today, like the thunder and lightning have been on and off and really extreme. The dogs of course were going nuts because of it. I probably already mentioned that in the previous blog though. Oh well. I went shopping earlier for school supplies. I’m not even gonna lie, I almost like that more than getting clothes. Alright, that’s an exaggeration but I really do love it. I love new pens and blank paper and everything being clean and organized. I don’t even know what I love so much about it, but I just can’t get enough. I like to lay it all out and just idk, look at it I guess haha. I sound so silly but I really love new supplies.
I just got done looking through my photobucket at all these old pictures of myself and it was just really weird. I look at how much I’ve changed, and it’s kind of shocking. I mean emotionally, mentally, and physically I’ve changed, but I was just looking at surface things that have changed. Like how I used to wear so much eye makeup, and how my hair was so long, and all the different cuts and dye jobs it been through. Some of the things I look at just make me wonder what exactly was going through my head when I did it. Others, well, they kind of give me the urge to do it again. I think the biggest thing I miss is my long hair. I actually just got another trim today, but still. It was a lot easier to deal with, but i think back to my dead ends and blotchy colors and I’m not missing it too much.
But I’m gonna go brush my teeth and call Jonny. Night!
Filed under: Shopping, The World | Tags: BCBGirls, Christian the Lion, Forever 21
Honestly I don’t know if this would be considered a miracle but I’m sure that it’s up around that category.
Originally, Heather’s mom was sent this video in an email. Heather saw it while she was coming out of the shower and proceeded to show me the next day. It’s probably the most heart warming thing I have seen in my life .. or atleast in a very long time. You know, it’s things like this that keep me optimistic these days.
In less touching news, I went to the Solomon Pond Mall with Heather the other day and I found this gorgeous pair of BCBG heels in Macy’s. I’m not much of a pumps kind of gal (I don’t see it to be fit with my height). the shoes. They don’t seem as amazing in the picture but believe me, they are. But sheesh, all these designer clothes need to stop catching my eye. It’s simply not healthy ;) I’ve been in a really shopping, artsy, creative mood lately. I need to find something to do or this burst of potential will go to total waste. I think i’ll go check out Forever 21.com. I was in there trying on a few things when I went to the mall with Heather and I feel inspired, ha.
I’m home now, so I’m sure I’ll be posting more often. (:
