C'est si bon

its 20 degrees outside... the perfect day for sleeping in late, drinking hot coffee, and just spending all day online doing nothing...

so yesterday was fun... bridgette and i went into the city while she had class and i went into grenich village in search of a place called The magnolia bakery that bridgette said had the best cupcakes... they are amazing... but if you really want them to be amazing you have to eat them almost immediately... they get a little stale when you walk around the city with them for 9 hours in 9F temperature... i have never been colder in my life... my legs felt like needles were in them when i finally found a warm place to take refuge in...

so i did find a few christmas presents for people... you'll get them eventually... ha ha 

so i plan on taking more pictures when i find batteries for my computer... the only problem is at the most i can take 27 pictures because i have no memory card on my camera...

anyway... peace love and happiness

~ erin

Red reindeer and pink pajama pants

so here we are... 5 of us stuck in jake's house... and its so beautiful outside... the snow and the pretty trees and the fact that i can be under the covers and watching it all outside the windows.... this place is pretty big... and its warm so i'm not too scared about the fact that we couldn't leave last night and its after 1 and the streets still haven't been plowed... the point of living back east must be... don't make plans because you're not going ANYWHERE once it has snowed... and according to bridgette and kaitlin its the reason nobody made it over last night...

i sound like the dork in the house because everybody else has seen this much snow before... and although i have a few times... its actually feeling like christmas... and the bagle in my stomach is making me happy

Carlo is playing some video game with Eatern European Mob men... and i think its hilarious to hear them speak in such accents while talking about women and something about darts... and referring to everyone as cousin... shouldn't it be comrad?

ok so bridgette and i are about to play with the scythe-chette we foud in the bonus room... we don't know who felt the need for a machette with a scythe but its here... and i have to go save carlo from being killed by bridgette with an aruban machette... i dont know the difference but either way

Apparently anyone who asks you if you need a ride shouldn't be giving you one

thats the advice of the baggage carrier cart in the food court. 

So i'm here... i made it... and god do i hate connection flights. But i'm glad i got off that first plane... because i was so over being stuck in the middle and still being hungover... i just wanted to curl up by a toilet and die... 

So Minneapolis has quite a long airport... it took me almost my whole layover just to pee and make it to the gate... but on the flight into minneapolis i realized why concerts are never going on during the winter. Its because nobody is willing to take the fucking risk of driving. it was horrible weather in Minnesota. Apparently it was 9 F when i got there ... 9 F people!!! i have never ever been in whether that cold!!! so i'm really excited to be here... 

so i've just made a new friend with a girl from germany who is attending Rutkers in New York and we're just talking about life and school, traveling and computer stuff. i love it here

i drove today in New Jersey and it was insanely scary because of the screeching creepy sounds coming from the front of the car and well we made it back alive... but i met jake and we had fun... i almost made the mistake of  screaming "surprise" at kaitlin in the library where she works

(update 12.19.2008)

I went into the city aroud noon today with bridgette. walked around the metropolitan museum for about 2 hours, then i found dean and deluca to grab a red velvet cupcake... and then being so amazed with the snow and beauty of everything i ended up getting lost in Central Park for over an hour and when i tried to find my way back to to the met i got even more lost. apparently no one in new york knows where the hell 7th Ave is and i even had one person ask me if there WAS even a 7th ave... they made me question my own self of where the metro drop off was...

anyway amazing day. kaitlin is here and spending the night and we are watching house. so its insanely addicting and i gotta go... luv ya all... especially you bridgette...

sex, music and amazing trips,

 Erin

Maja Iverson makes me want to be Swedish

so its just been a busy busy week... finals start tomorrow... my 25 page paper is due and i'm about on page 19... so i've still got a bit of work to do....

just wanted to get on here... say hi to everyone who actaully reads this... and update by saying that as much as i love christmas... our house, especially my room, is very unfestive. For a few reasons. A- i dont have the time B- i don't have the money nor do i have anything christ-massy of my own except for ornaments (and no tree) C- whats the point? i leave for new jersey on the 18th and won't be home until after new years.

I'm hella excited though... its really starting to settle in that i'm on my own. I mean i see mum from time to time and although i do my own grocery shopping and stuff like that, the whole not talking to parents for sometimes weeks at a time, the spending holidays away, and making decisions about tattoo's on my own is really making it sink in soon.

So i'll be getting a tattoo design of the fleur de lyce (sp?) by bridgette behind my left ear sometime between now and school going back next semester. Its so weird to not have to ask or tell my parents. Um... John will be coming with me so that'll be fun... i can use all the moral support i can muster because i've totally forgotten about any pain or the taking care of tattoo's since the last one over 2 years ago.

so yeah... everything is going great.... jsut wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas and i'm very very excited that my paramore goodie bag will be arriving shortly... seriously though... they said during the week of the 15th they're shipping them out... but i hope its rush delivery and they mail it the 15th ... because i leave for New Jersey hella early thursday morning and i really really can't wait until after the new year to find out what the hell is in it!!! GAHHHH!!!

lol ok so Almost acoustic christmas... this saturday and sunday... sadly i can't afford to go and i am not having much luck at winning tickets... but c'est la vie... another year perhaps...

je t'aime

just to let you know... i never stopped

so as much as it sucks to lose friends and relationships, what sucks the most is the no closure part... no closure with jarrett, no closure with melody, no closure with stacy

Oh, oh, how could you do it?
Oh I, I never saw it coming.Oh, oh I need an ending.
So why can't you stay
Just long enough to explain?
You can take your time, take my time.

Father, oh father, are you ready, to let it begin, cus i am here now, i want to dance in the bloody palm of your hand

The Shack

 So its not really the most recommended book for atheists or anyone who doesn't believe in god but i've heard atleast 2 or 3 people talk about this book and i thought i should read it. I'm only about 75 pages into it, but its fascinating and deep. I think i relate to it on a couple different levels and i think this book is good for anyone along different walks of life. Quick synopsis is a family goes camping, his daughter disappears and its about his relationship with god. thats all that i'm up to right now. but actually since i've started reading it i've found so many people who have heard about it, or have read it, or something like that. so i'm really excited to finish it and we'll see how it goes. I'll keep you all updated when i'm done.

Son't de mont que vont tres bien ensemble

Observations While Waiting for the Bus

 So while its raining ash here, i had a poli sci class to get to and since i don't have a car, i take the bus. So while waiting i noticed a lot of the drivers are so somber. They almost have this expression of pissed off. I understand you should concentrate on driving people, but whatever happened to the good old days of listening to music and bouncing and singing along? seriously... there could not possibly be the excuse that they all don't have cd players or radios. so in attempt to perhaps solve this issue i thought maybe they just don't know some good songs to drive to and sing along to. And who knows... you just might entertain some people who watch you driving as we wait for the bus.

Hot'n cold - basement jaxx

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder

With a Little Help from My Friends - The Beatles

Bruises - Chairlift

Your Retro Career Melted - The Faint

Kiss With a Fist - Florence and the Machine

ok so this was just to get you started... so add some more and have fun in your car... don't look like your in jail for a crime you didn't commit... because as much as people tells you no one pays attention, we actually do when we're bored

Conundrums

this explains tonight in depth discussion between my roommate maribel and i... ha ha all of life's little conundrums...

so i love postsecret so much i'm posting a few from this week on here... enjoy

try reading the master and margarita if you ever get the chance... its an amazing book... i only wish i had the time to finish it...

also if you have read "the shack" i would love to hear from you what you thought and maybe a little bit more of a detailed summary than what the book has on the back cover...

life is like a bowl of oranges

Clairaudients

so Postsecret.com is pretty amazing for anyone who doesn't already know... Maribel and I went to hear Frank, the guy who started it all, talk last night at USC and it was a pretty amazing event. I don't know what it is about reading other people's secrets, but its funny to see that enough people to fill bovard auditorium feel the same way you do.

i think it has to do with the fact that you often find secrets you can relate to, yet you don't know the person, so there is some mysterious connection. Its indescribable... you just have to experience it yourself.

you know that point in time when you can just write like amazing blogs that touch everyone and don't just focus on you and your everyday routine? well there should be more like that. the more the masses can relate to the topic or the writer, the more of an impact you can have and thats a much better feeling than bitching about the last guy you broke up with or things of that nature. Not that they don't matter... but well... not everyone can relate to specifics, the more general the more open to interpretation.

So i guess i'm going to start trying that. Maybe someone will stumble across this and maybe be able to relate a sense of connection to themselves and who knows where that will take them?

Clairaudients - look it up... see what you think of it... how would you describe it? can you relate it to anything?

I guess that everybody went to a better party

its also been a year since Stephen Hampton died... not gonna lie... its getting easier but it sure as hell ain't easy...

Marching Bands of Manhattan

So first of all, don't take this as me praising the act... i'm praising the motive behind it...

i don't know what to call it, there is probably some great word out there on the top of my tongue but i'm jsut too tired to think about what it might be. But the drive that it takes to decide something and stick to it. How is it that there are these people who commit suicide, become anorexic, do these outrageous things? how do they stay motivated, how can they be so serene about the outcome of their decision? I admire them because i have no motivation. I can't do what they do, i wonder how i'm going to make it through a week, much less how i'm going to make it through a semester or to get a college degree... so i admire these people, not because they take what some would call the cowards way out, but because they have a drive to accomplish it and nothing is going to stop them... i want that... i want it so badly... because i don't want to be the one here still wondering whether she chose the right major, whether she made the right decision in going to a school that is so fucking easy to get into and didn't try harder, i don't want to be the girl who once again settled for a guy who couldn't support her in ANYTHING, even music choices.

So i'm still here, pissed off at counselors who seem to have lead me astray and gave me hope that i was going to get my AA over the summer, but have today decided to tell me that i need one more class... which just so happens to be waitlisted right now... and in my heart of hearts i know that the person i should really be mad at is me, because i didn't stay on top of things, i didn't ask the right questions, and god damn it sometimes i feel as though i didn't care enough... and all i want to do right now is care, care about something... care about a guy, care about school, care about a friend... i can't care about anything right now... and it really sucks to be motivated for anything when you can't find something to be motivated about...

You're My Androdgeny

I'm on a whistling streak, along with a posting of a lot of blogs... i sound like a first class fire alarm

so Hayley mentioned tuesday that paramore would be going on tour at the end of summer with jacks mannequin... anybody know anything about that?

finals are 2/3 over!!! thank god... i would be happier if i didn't think about summer school starting in just over a week... another math class... oh so much fun... hopefully this means i don't have to take another math class at CSUN though... right?

so i'm looking into getting me self a side kick... kinda stoked... my phone that i've only had for like 9 months is already dying on me... freezing, won't receive pictures from people... don't know whats going on with it...

the store has sold btw... LASSENS HAS A NEW OWNER... but he's not in town... so i can't say there's a new owner in town...

So i feel i must turn back to my music rants... i LOVE LOVE LOVE approach the bench by the audition... its mind blowing... well atleast for me... everyone should listen to it... that and have gun will travel... Then yesterday i started listening to the wallflowers again... and i just fell in love reminiscing about when i was obsessed with them just after high school, and how great Jakob Dylan's voice is ( yes the son of bob Dylan) and how the lyrics always make me just feel so overwhelmed with a flood of emotions. Red Letter Days i think personally is one of their better albums, but you can't go wrong with any of them really...

To all you people in the world of blogs and blogging, life is a bowl of oranges...

If there's no such thing as boobs that are too big, then....

Warped Tour is June 22... who is more stoked than me? no one... ok ok except maybe sandi... this year in going to be bomb... ok so it would be a little bit better if the sounds and paramore were playing ventura... but i'll be satisfied with what i'm given this year... they're giving me the audition... that in itself is well worth the price of warped tour and spending hours burning your skin in the hot hot sun...

hayley williams... ok ok so i'm not obsessed with her... but she's so darn cute... seriously... but i'm not stalking her or anything... and i think she has an amazing voice... ok i'm going to change the subject so i don't start sounding like a lesbo...

LUDO concert tomorrow and Death Cab For Cutie in 2 weeks... i'm just a little more than stoked!!! its what's getting me through finals...


so with finals here and me totally ignoring my intense need to study for them... i have decided to reminisce about better times... such as my thanksgiving in New York...

all of us having a marvelous time... btw the guy who took the picture had a really hot English accent

kaitlin getting her nose pierced... i really need to go back to this place to get my next tattoo

very hot piercing guy

more pictures later...

She's really into snow mobiles, she owns a lot of nice flashlights

dun dun dun... last day of class before finals is complete... well almost... i have sociology left...

the house is a little weird with everyone at work or at school now, giving me hours of quiet time. Could be good or bad, but since i think my room is haunted i'm going with bad... we even tried to Ouija board my room... but no one wanted to make contact with us... we are going to try again sometime this week...

myspace is gone... mwa ha ha ha... its makes me think of that maniacal laugh wanda makes... if you don't already, you should all be watching corner gas... its a canadian show... but its really quite a "hoot"

i was talking to an acquaintance and i was admiring her ability to just get up and leave everything behind. She just moved to Australia for a few months and is now considering coming to the US... i wish i could just get up and leave like that... gives me motivation to do that as soon as i get out of school now. I would love to go to Greece and eastern Europe more than anything... i thought about being a roadie or tour manager but i sometimes feel i might not be as devoted to the career as some others might be so maybe its just best to think about and focus on my actual major...

while we are on the topic... i'm still #166 on the waitlist for dorms... kinda upsetting... but who knows... i'm just being patient and trying to not let things feel like they are totally out of my control...

to all of you in cyberspace... (well i have no idea who is actually reading this... if anyone), eating an apple a day won't keep the doctor away, but it will help the next time you go to the dentist...

Don't Look So Blue You Should Have Seen Right Through

So lunch break blog... woo hoo... i just really felt the need to break the blog cherry here... and i'm also taking off my myspace... so i'm using this as a new addiction

not much going on... exciting exciting times in the life of erin... ha ha ha... so for anyone who cares and hasn't heard i will be going to CSUN... yeah i know i wanted to go to UCI... but i'm dealing with the cards i was dealt here... (something is starting to smell upstairs)

joe, the former all blacks guy, came into our store today, so i took a picture... the ironic thing is i took it for mum, but she won't be home for 5 weeks... oh well...

anyone heard the LUDO cd, You're Awful, I Love You? Well its pretty fucking awesome to be honest... so download it or do whatever it takes to listen to it... i'll be seeing them on jimmy on friday... pretty f-ing excited to be honest...

anyway i should probably head downstairs and eat unless i want to be really late for work...

to all of you in cyberspace... eat your greens!!!