solid potatoe salad

whaaaaaaaaaat theeeeeeeee heck.

some tunes

today i updated my ipod. it's lovely to have new tunes to listen to :)
here are some gems that i've added today:

the skins theme song - fat segal


under mi sensi - barrington levy (i love this guy, so good and chill)


raindrops - basement jaxx


it's all over - broken family band


i'm running - mistress barbara


there is no light - wildbirds and peacedrums (i actually couldn't find these guys on my downloading thing, so youtube is all i've got for now)

most of the music i uploaded to my pod were from skins season one. i think season two has better tunes, but i haven't gotten a chance to go through them yet.

whaaaat? uhm, yes please.

don't even have anything to say about this. just, YES.

blah blah blah

remember how i took a month of chocolate? well, it's starbucks turn to be banned! i get it way too often. i've found on plenty of occasions that i am short on cash because of several grande light caramel frappiccinos with extra caramel drizzle and a dome lid. sorry bucks, but this july, i'm saying farewell.

on tuesday i have a costume party to go to. i have yet to think of a costume.
on wednesday it's CANADA DAY. it's a guaranteed great time, especially since i don't work. i plan on biking everywhere so i don't have to worry about parking or getting the car home at a certain time. yay for bikes and it FINALLY being summer.

i have a ridiculous headache. i had a bucks and a coke. i NEVER drink coke, the only soft drink i'll get is iced tea or maybe some sprite if i'm having an alcoholic drink which is rare. i'm on a caffeine buzz right now and my head is paying for it. mrowr.

i think i may change my lip piercing from a stud to a ring, just to try it out.

movie i've seen lately:
-the proposal: a total chick flick that i didn't want to see but got out voted for so therefore saw. it was actually pretty funny. at one point i was laughing so hard i actually had tears in my eyes. it was during a scene where sandra bullock is trying to get an eagle to take a dog. it sounds stupid, which it was, but it was so funny because this little white dog reminded me of my little white dog, and it seems i think my dog being scooped up by an eagle would be hilarious. sorry jewel.
-high fidelity: i'd never actually seen this one! i was really tired when i watched it so i started to doze off near the end, but i'm pretty sure i liked it.
-zach and miri make a porno: didn't think it was funny at all. i would give it 2/10, and it only gets two because i like justin long (even though i didn't think he was funny in this) and jason mewes.

i also went to the imax the other night and saw under the sea 3d. it. was. amazing!!! they film in left and right eye vision, so everything looks real. i had to resist the urge a few times to bat away the floaties in the water. a few times certain sea creatures would bump into the camera and i literally would be flinching away from the impact haha. honestly, if you ever get a chance, go check one of these out. i'd seen the african safari one with my grandma a few years ago, and again, AMAZING.
i'm positive i've seen some other films recently, but i really can't think of any.

any good ones i should look out for?

Skins

i've watched almost a full season of skins in one day.
the only reason i haven't finished the season was because my internet is fighting with youtube.

so good. it's like a british form of degrassi, but much more interesting, gritty and funny.
favorite characters:

maxxie

chris

cassie

right now,
i would like a hug.
not any hug though,
one of those hugs that happen
where you fit perfectly into the other person
and for a brief moment
that hug, and that warmth
is happieness.
it's all you need.

Hi.

quiet dog

i like this. it's kind of hypnotic.

But you dont know what he means to me, jolene

"he talks about you in his sleep
theres nothing I can do to keep
from crying when he calls your name, jolene"


i've been craving this song all day for some reason.
i love that they didn't alter the lyrics so that he wasn't singing from a woman's perspective.

i saw the white stripes live when they were here a few years ago. i don't remember what they played, but i remember i had a great time. i was right at the front against the guard rail thing. my friend andrew acted as a security blanket around me. jack white commented on a rowdy guy right behind us, and i swear we made eye contact. i'm not a huge white stripes fan, but i think they're interesting and i do like quite a few of their songs.


the original. p.s: check out that guys bedazzled jacket at the beginning! it's intense.

i had no idea i had enough energy for a 6 hour bike adventure.

-biked to the uni
-biked down pembina to os
-read in os for a bit
-biked by the parliament building
-biked wee wee wee all the way home

i checked google maps to see the distance that i covered, which was about 33.5km or 20.815 miles. i figure i was actually biking for just over 3 hours in total. the rest of the time i was walking, reading or eating. all in all, it's been a good morning/early afternoon. i feel like i didn't waste a minute of my day so far which is a lovely feeling.


on saturday i had my first full saturday off in what feels like forever. it was a great day. the afternoon was spent with my friend lounging in a park, reading, napping, seed throwing and gymnastics. dinner was at the nook where i nibbled my usual, a tasty cinnamon bun. the night was filed with great friends with even greater one-liners, play structures, styrofoam swords, dancing, and the best end to any wpg summer adventure...a slurpee.

my weekend has been great, i hope yours has been too.

dear leopold rabus,

i think your artwork is awesome.

love,
lauren.

one reason i love my friends is because of the weird text converstations we have.

me to tim:
"age is of no importance unless you are a cheese"
tim to me:
"you're looking for advice on your 46 yr old boyfriend Salvatore, just follow your <3"


^this makes me happy

chocolate chip banana muffins from hell

making muffins has never been so infuriating!

-i preheat the oven. i see a small fire at the bottom of the oven because someone let something fall and burn and never cleaned it up (to be fair it was probably me lol)
-i clean the oven
-go get chocolate chips and bananas
-start mixing stuff. i don't have eggs.
-go out again and buy eggs
-while peeling the bananas i drop one in the garbage
-i continue mixing stuff while spilling flour EVERYWHERE
-i mean EVERYWHERE. i'm worse than a kindergartner
-time to put it in the muffin pans
-where the heck are the muffin pans
-call my sister and my folks to help solve the mystery of the missing pans(my mom was the last one to make muffins and she washed the pans after. she never washes dishes so she probably put them away somewhere ridiculous)
-they know nothing
-i look everywhere and can't find them anywhere. whoever took them didn't even bother to leave a ransom note.
-conclusion: the pans have entered a black hole and are never going to be seen again
-now i'm trying to bake chocolate chip banana bread
-i've never made banana bread or anything close to it before in my life

.....we'll see how this ends in about an hour...if i don't burn the house to the ground in frustration first.


on the plus side: i won tickets to see the movie away we go tonight, so i'm going to that with kelsey. i'll get myself a popcorn and nibble away my bad vibes. another good thing: i bought cherries caz they were on sale and they're delicious.



UPDATE:
the banana bread turned out ok.

just some poems to make your heart smile

who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

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somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what is is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

p.s:

people usually think i'm older than i am, and just think i look young for my age.

i find that interesting.

picture you lovely

p.s: i don't know where it came from, but i'm kind of digging long hair on guys.

the morning after my last post, i woke up with a bruised hip bone and a sprained pinky finger. it took me a second to remember how i got those injuries, and when i remembered i smiled. i got my torso stuck in a tree, hence the bruised hip. and i was tickling/wrestling for a ball and somehow sprained my pinky in the process. both still hurt.

today i was thinking about if i was a song, what kind of song i would be. i would like to be a kind of song that sounds happy and cheery and wonderful, but when you listen to the lyrics you realize the song has a lot more to offer than a smile.

1945 by neutral milk hotel kind of reminds me of that. there are other songs that would make better examples, but i really like the story this song tells. plus it's really catchy.

The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

tonight i scrapped my hand while climbing a tree.
totally worth it.

i am now going to have a 2:30am shower and i bet it'll be wonderful.
i have a neat idea for a art project i want to do. you'll probably never see it. unless i trust you, because i'm shy like that.

i found out today i won tickets to a movie this wednesday. i don't think i've ever really won a prize before. i mean, i've won at scratch tickets (twice in a row...and only once since), but this is different. i'm kind of thinking everyone who emailed the contest won movie passes....BUT STILL! i think it's cool :)

i keep making weird decisions and i dunno what to do anymore. i'm trying to make the right ones, but it doesn't seem like any of them are more right. sorry. i'm rambling. i got told not to apologize so much today. i didn't realize i apologized all that much. i guess i do. oh i just said it. k now i'm really just going on about nothing. goodnight.

9

this looks amazing

stalker love songs

i don't know why i like this song. or why it makes me smile....
it might be the accent.
it might be the fact that she doesn't really rhyme.
it might be because she reminds me of amelie.
ya, that's it :)

best lines:
"they would have liked me..caz..sometimes i'm funny"
"so then i told him, if i find her, i'll just find something, anything, just a gun if i can, anything, and i'm strong enough so...i'll do it, i'll kill her"


here's another by soko. i will never love you more..


the boy i left behind by theoretical girl. she just has such a pretty voice. for the first time ever i think, i've been getting really into music of girls with super feminine pretty voices like this lady, and laura marling. normally i'm into guys who are bad singers. hmm.

mythbusters

i'm a klutz and bruise like a peach (or maybe for this post i should say i bruise like a banana ha har). not the best combination. so of course i have mad bruisage all over. the other day i searched the internet for a cure or quicker heeling process for bruises. they had a bunch of strange tips. in my head the one that sounded most valid was taping a ripe banana peel to the bruise overnight. why this sounded valid to me, i'm not sure....i guess because bananas are healthy and have vitamins? either way, i just had a nap after eating a banana and thought, what the hell, let's give it a try!

conclusion:
i think it actually may have helped! i may give it a overnight trial tonight...i'll let you know how it goes.

other uses for banana's as provided to me by the internet:
-Make a face mask
-Eat a frozen "banana-sicle"
-Tenderize a roast
-Polish silverware and leather shoes
-Brighten up houseplants
-Deter aphids
-Use as fertilizer or mulch
-Add to compost pile
-Attract butterflies and birds
-Cures warts
-Heals acne
-Ointment(it said rubbing on a scraped knee can help promote healing, so bruises aren't that far off right?)


*
oh, another strange thing i've done recently...i ate a cricket. they were selling dried crickets in salt/vinegar, sour cream and bacon/cheese at sugar mountian. i was curious. we bought the bacon/cheese. basically it tatsed like crunchy nothing. although i did get the cricket legs stuck in my mouth. that was unpleasent.