Bucket List Time!

My List of Things to Do Before I Die

• Participate in a zombie walk
• Go to Harry Potter World
• Design my own Converse
• Learn to play an instrument
• Go to a drive in movie
• Cross-country roadtrip involving stops at random landmarks in all 48 continental states
• Model something
• Move somewhere on a whim
• Complete the cinnamon/milk challenge
• Make a floating lantern and release it
• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Have a fun-colored front door
• Be a mascot...again
• Pull a Ryan Gosling and lay in the middle of an intersection at night to watch the lights change
• Keep a journal
• Plant a fantastic garden
• Own a hammock and take lots of naps in it
• Visit eastern Europe
• Study abroad
• Own a vespa
• Adopt a dog from the animal shelter
• Send a telegram
• Wear more red lipstick
• Stay out all night dancing
• Try sushi
• Participate in a dance marathon
• Learn to make stellar lemonade
• Do a photo a day challenge for an entire year
• Ride in a taxi
• Pay someone else's tab
• Send flowers anonymously
• Make a scrapbook
• Waitress
• Finish Wreck this Journal
• Watch the northern lights all night
• Go blonde
• Go to a Goo Goo Dolls concert
• Live in a apartment
• Take pictures with a Polaroid
• Walk through a drive through
• Smash lots of plates
• Grow out my hair again
• Go to the airport and fly to the destination of the next available flight
• Kiss someone under mistletoe
• Hang Christmas lights all over my house
• Have a closet full of fantastic vintage dresses
• Build a blanket fort
• Learn another language
• Exercise more
• Take smooching pictures in a photobooth
• Have a pet owl
• Participate in a flash mob
• Throw a surprise party
• Make a Christmas card that involves people tangled in lights
• Send a message in a bottle
• Run a half marathon
• Drop stuff off a tall building
• Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
• Have a job where I have to dress up everyday
• Remodel an old house
• Go to a fashion show
• Build a treehouse
•  Recreate the Beatles' Abbey Road cover
• Go to a masquerade
• Solve a Rubik's cube without help
• Donate hair to Locks of Love

Valentine's Day...Take 2.

A-Z Random Stuff I Like A Lot (Because Valentine's Day is about people and stuff you like)

• Acoustic covers of pop songs, "As Long As It Takes" by The Spill Canvas
• Being sung to sleep, blanket forts, bikes
• Concerts, Clue (Best. Boardgame. Ever.), costumes
• Driving in the dark/ in the spring when everything is still muddy/in the rain, dancing
• Exhaustion to the point I can't even think anymore, Etch-a-Sketches
• Film photography, fresh flowers, fun earrings, family gatherings
• Green beans, gardening, good lyrics
• High heels, holding hands, hugs, haircuts
• Inside jokes, Ireland
• Jackie O's style...she was a classy, classy lady, jumping from the sauna into the pool
• Kisses
• Locks, Lemonheads
• Movies that are slightly sad (Garden State, Where the Wild Things Are, Remember Me, 500 Days of Summer, you get the point)
• New jeans, naps
• Oyster crackers in tomato soup, old people in love
• Polariod cameras, painting
• Quirky friends, quilts
• Reading, red lipstick, road trips, rain hair, realizing it's going to be ok
• Starting over, star gazing, sun rises, sun dresses, sudoku, sleeping in the car on the way home
• Teddy bears (mine specifically), traveling
• Ugly little dogs that are adorable
• Vintage clothes, Vespas
• Walking and exploring, white watches
• X (<---nothing starts with this letter, for real)
• Yellow tights/purses/camera accessories/shoes...pretty much anything yellow
• Zoos--manatees are the coolest

Valentine's Day...Take 1.

In lieu of Valentine's Day tomorrow I will be gracing you with a superrrrrb playlist of songs for you and your lova. Or just you. They're still good if you're single :)



1. "Bob and Bonnie" Houston Calls
2. "Step Right Up" The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
3. "Our Song" The Spill Canvas
4. "Time and Confusion" Anberlin
5. "The Longest Time" Billy Joel
6. "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" Bowling for Soup
7. "Hands Down" Dashboard Confessional
8. "Roll to Me" Del Amitri
9. "Would You Go With Me" Josh Turner
10. "Sweater Song" Hedley
11. "Living Our Love Song" Jason Michael Carroll
12. "First Time" Lifehouse
13. "Best Days" Matt White
14. "My Favorite Accident" Motion City Soundtrack
15. "Your Love" The Outfield
16. "All for You" Sister Hazel
17. "Accidentally in Love" Counting Crows
18. "You're All I Have" Snow Patrol
19. "Can You Find Me" The Summer Set

To come tomorrow:
Random Stuff I Love

Sorry for the Sabbatical...

I haven't posted anything in 2012. Sorry. I've been getting distracted by life--I made New Years Resolutions and have actually been keeping ALL of them! It's amazing! What are they? Oh I thought you'd never ask! Ahem. Every day I will: practice the guitar, exercise, read my scriptures. There is no minimum time requirement for any of these I just have to DO IT. And it's working! So far I've kept them all except for yesterday...my guitar needed new strings so it was out of commission then I got distracted and the other two didn't happen, but that is perfectly ok--other parts of life got in the way of doing them ;)

Anywho, just in case any of you have ever, ever sat next to me in church, I apologize profusely. So the whole learning to play guitar thing has been working, so I decided the next step was to learn to sing the songs I can play. Ok, simple enough. Then I wanted to hear what it all sounded like (not in a weird narcissistic way, but because I've always been kind of self-conscious of my voice, both speaking and singing) so I recorded myself. Bad idea. Whoa buddy. I made it about 20 seconds and was absolutely mortified at how tone deaf I did not realize I am. It's a fact of life, so I'm totally ok with it, but I apologize if you have ever been subjected to that at any point ;)

Other news, Valentine's cards are being made, I had a slight mishap with melting crayons in a glue gun (think red crayon sprayed all over a textured white wall--try getting that off), Parks and Recreation is my fave, and that's about all for now. How 'bout I leave you with a good picture? Ok? Ok.

This is pretty much the best picture ever. DQ + a classic car limo station wagon thing? And taken with my Diana mini? Heavenly. Enjoy. 

Why I love Joseph-Gordon Levitt

This fine fellow will always hold a special place in my heart. Not because he's super foxy, but because he played a vital role in many of my life stages thus far. Let's take a gander:

Wee child, just beginning elementary school: Angels in the Outfield.

A little bit older--late elementary and junior high: Third Rock From the Sun.

A little bit older still--junior high and high school: 10 Things I Hate About You.

Which brings me to now: (500) Days of Summer, Inception, and 50/50.

Ole! It's delightful to see a child star that didn't go crazy or drop off the face of the planet.

For your holiday listening pleasure...peppy edition

Hey peeps! One week until Christmas! Here is the first of two playlists for this delightful, cheery season! This one is the peppier of the two and involves the likes of Bowling for Soup, The Fray, Fall Out Boy, etc., etc. Anywho, enjoy! Pretty much every sentence in this paragraph ended with an exclamation point, I just noticed!

P.S. The next one to come may or may not be entirely devoted to MoTab.

P.S.S. Another song to add to the Totally Tubular 2011 playlist is "The Resolution" by Jack's Mannequin.



1. "Last Christmas" by Hawk Nelson: Hawk Nelson defined a better part of my sophmore year of high school and I just found this song. Random, but I'll take it.
2. "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" by Fall Out Boy: I think everyone can relate to this in some capacity or another. Love it.
3. "Santa Stole My Girlfriend" by The Maine: Hilarious while slightly inappropriate.
4. "I Believe in Us (This Holiday)" by A Rocket to the Moon: Easily the cheesiest title to a song. Ever.
5. "His Favorite Christmas Story" by Capital Lights: I think this is my favorite non-traditional Christmas song, hands down.
6. "Won't Be Home for Christmas" by Blink 182
7. "This Christmas" by Every Avenue
8. "Christmas on the Coast" by A Change of Pace
9. "White Christmas" by Panic at the Disco: This is surprisingly good!
10. "Silent Night" by The Fray
11. "All I Want for Christmas" by Dave Melillo
12. "Merry Frickin' Christmas" by Fricken A.
13. "Feliz Navidad" by Bowling for Soup
14. "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Weezer

Enjoy!

Totally Tubular 2011 Playlist

'Tis the season for the latest installment of pure music bliss. Here is my top playlist for 2011 (this may be added to over the next month):

Here is the playlist on YouTube, sorry about the quality of some of these, they were the best I could find :)

1. "We Owned the Night" by Lady Antebellum
2. "That 70s Song" by The Cab
3. "Spinning" by Jack's Mannequin
4. "Twilight" by Thriving Ivory
5. "White Dress" by Parachute
6. "Someone Like You" by Adele
7. "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show
8. "The Permanent Rain" by The Dangerous Summer
9. "All to Myself" by Marianas Trench
10. "Four Letter Word" by Ingram Hill
11. "Love in a Box" by The Workday Release
12. "Angel of the Silences" by Counting Crows
13. "Passenger Seat" by The Summer Set
14. "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" by the Barenaked Ladies
15. "Fall Back Into My Life" by Amber Pacific
16. "Hell on the Heart" by Eric Church
17. "Stay the Night" by James Blunt
18. "Sirens" by Angels & Airwaves

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.

Who is Charlie Weasley? *Updated*

The roomie and I are having a Harry Potter marathon in lieu of the first real snow storm of the season. Because Charlie Weasley was supposed to be a total hottie, but was never cast, we decided to come up with a list of candidates that could have done the job. A lot of these fine fellows are from Cosmo's Hot Bachelor of the Year List because apparently there aren't many hot actors in their late 20s. Here we go!

Compliments of Buzzfeed, here are another 25 that could qualify :D

Stefano Masciolini

Mr. Louisiana. He's manly. Good for this purpose.

Mr. Maine. He's the rugged type.

Mr. Arkansas. My fave.

Zack Ward-Ignore the fact that he was the bully in A Christmas Story. He could totally slay a dragon.   

Here are a few bonus pictures for ya!

New Age Micheal Bolton.

Ken Doll.

My Nerdery Has Gotten the Better of Me

Yep. Working for a banking technology company has taken its toll. This post is about the bamf of the day: Elizabeth Corley. She is the European chief executive of Allied Global Investors and writes mystery novels. Here is the link to learn more about her.

Also, I realized the link was broken on my 9/11 post so here is a new link that works (I'm 99% certain).

Anywho, that's about all I've got. Oh, I bought a new (to me) camera a few weeks ago and here is a picture I took with it, with super cheap CVS film. Pretty sweet, eh?

Graduation Gowns and Blue Jello**Updated**

So the roomie was on call at the hospital today and got called in about 3 hours ago. In that time I have finished a movie, made brownies, made jello and cleaned my room. Big Saturday night for me! Anyway, roughly two weeks until Halloween, so until then I will be providing a plethora of costume-related posts. Today's doozy is inspired by high school and a discovery I made while cleaning....graduation gowns.

Costumes Made Possible with Graduation Gowns:

Black:

• Darth Vadar
• Voldemort
• ...Pretty much any other HP character
• Judge Judy
• Actually dress up as someone graduating (Possible, but not suggested. You'd look like a doofus.)
• Priest/Nun/Monk
• The Grim Reaper 
• The Grim Creeper

Other Colors:

• Angel (White)
• Boxer (the athlete, not the dog or undies) (Red)
• Merlin, still a wizard, but whatever (Blue)
• A Grandma (Shorten the sleeves and the brighter the color the better...it will look like a mumu. Maybe even paint some flowers on there.)

Well, I hope you've enjoyed that. Over and out.

P.S. Here is a picture to help demonstrate my point. Welcome to my senior year.