| hi 2009 |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|03:54 pm] |
first entry.
i really don't have much to say about this year yet.
only two concerts, almost three, this month. i don't think i am going to anymore before the end of the month unless they are spur of the moment kind of things.
started college again. hate it/love it. hate it because i just don't feel like being there. love it because it is my last semester there and i only have classes on monday, wednesday, and friday.
i like my new default icon. it is cute.
that is all for now.
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| goodbye 2008. |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|11:18 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Decode" by Paramore | ] |
ah, well, this year has been an amazing whirlwind, some of which i would've never expected to happen.
i want to give highlights from 2008, but i really don't even know where to begin. this year has been so amazing for me that the lows i have had seem insignificant to the point where i can't even remember them. i would probably have to say that my lowest low of this year would either have to be right now, being stuck at home on new year's 2009, or when i had my wisdom teeth removed right before warped tour making it impossible for me to go this year.
highlights 2008 in sort of a list form:
- all the wonderful people i have met this year and became friends with starting at the beginning of the year til now.
- the people i am now friends with that i knew before this year.
- hanging out with a band that i thought i would never in my wildest dreams thought i would ever hang out with and get to know.
- going to California for the first time ever with my concert buddy for an amazing concert going time.
- traveling all the other places i have traveled to this year that i have never been to before.
- going to NYC for new year's eve 2008.
- all of April 2008 was pretty epic.
- same goes for August 2008.
i think that about covers the highlights in a very, very short version of the stories involved.
i have certain goals for this year. some of which will be difficult, but i need to do these things for myself. as previous entries have stated here and on my other journal, things happen for a reason and change is inevitable.
goals for 2009:
1) Become somewhat financially independent.
2) Get on the road to my career.
3) Become better friends with the friends I have.
4) Eat healthier and maybe work out a little.
5) Clean my room.
the first one is in bold font because it is the most important for the rest of the goals to work out. well mainly the first three at least. the first one has to somewhat happen though because i am turning 22 this year so i need to branch out a bit more on my own. on top of this, my mom is probably going on disability soon because of having MS. since she makes most of the family income, the family income will significantly decrease when she goes on disability. on top of that, i will no longer have health and dental insurance through her job anymore. to most people my age they would not worry about whether or not they are going to have health/dental insurance, but i am not most people my age. i always seem to have medical problems/emergencies so i feel i need something to protect me. and once again, i am back to my main goal of being financially indenpendent to make all of this happen.
/end word vomit
so i guess this was a recap of the year. i would say it was a pretty good year in music, a pretty good year for movies, a pretty good year in tours, and a pretty good year for myself. i am hoping for bigger and better things in 2009. even though i am not coming into the new year with a bang like last year, i still have a good feeling about it.
officially, my favorites of this year:
favorite album of 2008 - The All-American Rejects - When The World Comes Down (i had been looking forward to this album for a while)
favorite song of 2008 - it is between two songs that were released in 2007, but had a lot of play with my this year - "Let the Flames Begin" by Paramore and "Here It Goes" by Jimmy Eat World. though i particularly liked Paramore's release of "Decode" for the Twilight film.
favorite movie of 2008 - unexpectedly, Kung Fu Panda was a favorite of mine this year. i am not really remembering much else atm. even though i love movies, i have not been able to see too many lately.
favorite book of 2008 - the whole Twilight series
favorite TV show of 2008 - Grey's Anatomy
things i am looking forward to in 2009:
- Paramore's new album due out in the summer
- the next Harry Potter movie due out in the summer as well
- Warped Tour
- Bamboozle
- possibly Bamboozle Left
- any tours that have good line ups
- and the future i am meeting head on...
hello 2009. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2008|01:54 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  lonely | ] |
"Hear Me" - Kelly Clarkson
Hear me
Hear me
You gotta be out there
You gotta be somewhere
Wherever you are
I'm waiting
'Cause there are these nights when
I sing myself to sleep
And I'm hopin' my dreams
Bring you close to me
Are you listening?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Can you hear me?
Hear me
I used to be scared of
Letting someone in
But it gets so lonely
Being on my own
No one to talk to
And no one to hold me
I'm not always strong
Oh, I need you here
Are you listening?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
I'm restless and wild
I fall, but I try
I need someone to understand
Can you hear me?
I'm lost in my thoughts
And baby I've fought
For all that I've got
Can you hear me?
Hear me
I'm cryin' out
I'm ready now
Turn my world upside down
Find me
I'm lost inside the crowd
It's getting loud
I need you to see
I'm screaming for you to please
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Can you hear me?
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me
Can you hear me?
Oh, oh, oh, oh...
Hear me
Hear me
Hear me |
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| clementines are good |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|08:23 pm] |
i just felt like writing a little something here.
i barely write here, but i may make it a more permanent thing on this account.
so many good things going on right now, but then some not so good.
i sometimes wish i could do everything, but i can't because i know i am only one person. lately, i lost myself again. this is why i am so much happier when i please myself first and then the others around me. i know it sounds selfish, but really it is what has to be done so i am happy and healthy. if only others could see, that i am not doing to piss them off or to push them aside or to not do something, but i am doing it so that in the long run i am around and happy and can be there for them on my own terms though.
sort of a bad rant, but i needed to get it out of me.
i feel better already.
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| i lied... |
[Oct. 2nd, 2008|10:58 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  hungry | ] |
i'm sorry.
i will update more tonight, but i got busy around the time i was going to update so that is why it was put off tot he side.
i am hungry.
i think i am logging off to venture to wendy's.
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"Life is like a box of chocolates..." |
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[Sep. 23rd, 2008|02:07 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "I Wish" cover of Skee Lo by The Secret Handshake | ] |
i'll update this tomorrow.
i am a little bit too tired to want to update it at this point in time. lol
i hate allergies.
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good night. |
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| i decided |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|11:37 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  bored | ] |
to update my old journal and my new journal at the same time as well as write a blog on myspace. i am bored, really bored. sorry.
i don't feel like writing the same things over and over again, but what i failed to mention in my other entires was that fact that i am content with a lot of things in my life atm.
even though there has been drama lately with some friends and i am a little bit sick and i am hungry atm and a little broke til i get paid this saturday, i am really happy with where i am in life.
it has been a progression up to this point and i don't see it stopping anytime soon. i am glad. it feels like all my time spent has not been in vain. nor my money. lol
i have class at 12:30 and then i am done at 1:45. after that i am going to buy a hoodie that i want and then head home to eat and take a nap.
i really like blogging. i feel it is a productive use of my time, no matter if it is slightly meaningless.
i don't know what else to write, but i don't feel like ending this yet as i still have 45 minutes to kill before class starts. and yes, i want to kill those boring minutes because i am so bored. maybe i should say something like while them away or lazily rambling them away with meaningless typing or something a little more witty, but i am slightly mad that i am bored so i shall be killing them.
i feel bad that i am taking up a computer in the library at college when people need them to print out stuff, but i need entertainment of some sort and i don't where else to get it while i am stuck here.
i am going to finish this up soon, but i just thought i would update y'all. <---jsyk i love that contraction. lol
i find blogs slightly meaningless as who the hell would care what i am typing, but i just find it sort of like a release of thoughts. maybe someone out there cares that at the present time i am hungry and sick and want a hoodie and really don't want to be at college right now. i don't know, but what i do know is that it was a good time killer and slightly enjoyable for me to type this out. and i think that's what counts. to me at least.
what i like about blogs is that you don't have to type properly or even spell correctly (though i usually try to) and you can still post it. most of the time people don't even care as most of us can still read and understand the general idea we are trying to convey. no grading system, no pass or fail, just something that is put out there for the world to see, read, and judge how they feel fit.
hopefully this wasn't too boring. and thank you for reading all this if you did. comments would be appreciated, but are not necessary.
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-Laura |
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| I am to the point where I just don't care anymore... |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|08:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  annoyed | ] |
like seriously people, get over it.
I am not trying to offend anyone and I am sorry, but when things like that happen you can't just pass them up because it might piss a few people off temporarily.
I need sleep.
On a side note to the drama, yesterday was a lot of fun.
Good times, good times.
SMART CARS FTW!
lol
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p.s. my last lj entry still stands. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2008|02:38 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | my room. | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" is stuck in my head atm | ] |
I have been thinking a lot about life lately. I am trying to take advantage of every moment possible. I don't like to feel like I am wasting time. I don't mind being lazy every once and a while, but I don't want to feel like I have no purpose in what I am doing.
I am trying to put in as much as I take from life. I feel like I need to do that as my top title says, "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could" (from The Sound of Music <---go watch it if you haven't because it is an awesome musical). Also I feel like I need to clean the clutter out of my life, but at the same time I feel that is what makes me, me. I don't know if I could function the same without some of the clutter that is in my life, but at the same time I feel it is too much.
I liked the newest Paramore LJ update where Hayley talks about life and how we should live it just for ourselves, not selfishly, but because we should not try to live someone else's life for them when we can barely make it through our own. This is why I try to do right by myself before others, even if it makes them unhappy at first, because I need to make myself happy first. I know this seems like a selfish concept, but it is not really what I am trying to say. I am just trying to say that if you are not happy yourself then nothing will seem to work.
I used to be that person who wanted to make everyone else happy so that everything would seemingly work out, but I was never happy myself so the situation always seemed stressful and too much like work and not fun at all. Now, that I balance this and make sure that I am happy first, things seem to work out better for me. Sure every once and a while I have a friend who gets a little mad because of something I did or didn't do, but I have found that they get over it quickly because it is usually not something massive.
Like the saying goes, it's the little things in life that make us happy, and it is usually the little things that make other people unhappy that they get over the quickest.
Update again soon,
Laura
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p.s. Check out the Paper Route if you haven't yet. They are really good and sweet dudes. |
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[Jun. 9th, 2008|06:03 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  content | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Fallen" by Death In The Park | ] |
So I am going to start using this account more.
My old account has too much drama attached to it.
I still use it for certain things on LJ though.
I am leaving for FL on the 13th.
That should be fun.
First time going to FL.
FUN FUN FUN.
lol
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