burrr

apparently i am in love with everything

Mod Cloth sells.

i've been looking for a new coat

and i love this one. if not this exact coat

one like it. i need a hood for sure.

vacancy

i am a coffee zombie^^

actually i think my thoughts today are vacant [va-cant |ˈvākənt|• (of a person or their expression) having or showing no intelligence or interest ].i think of something then i loose it. i stare blankly into space and no one notices. i fall asleep in class and no one cares. i've had only one thing on my mind and music in my ears.

today is a game of hours and minutes. what time i wake up, how long until i am out the door, how many hours i am in my first class, how long i have for lunch, how many minutes i have until my next class, what tasks for the week can i fit in my free time sitting around campus, how many seconds until class is over & now how many hours until i go home. school is wearing on me. 18 days until our road trip, we need the vacation and break from every day life.

i must be doing something right i got positive feed back from a professor who i haven't spoken to a lot before this interaction. she thinks i have potential to facilitate and saw that i have natural skills in leading a group, told me i did a really good job today in class. this is a big deal because i often think leading is a weakness of mine... guess i am 'growing up', and i am feeling more comfortable in my skin with who i am. Because a few class mates of mine told me today i was very good at client sessions, opening statements and empathetic listening. Guess i found my knack and good thing it's skills i need to use in my future career.

lady bug

1 and 1/2 year old addison,

my niece is adorable.

& i dressed up like her.

this was the first year

i have gotten to pass out candy.(i was so excited) although a little disappointed.

some of the kids were so rude. next year i am only going to give candy to people dressed up and if they are nice. none of this i am young enough to go trick or treating but i am too cool to dress up... losers.

also the kids LOVED that i had kit kat bars and said i was the only house with them. how odd.

Music - Sufjan Stevens

Lets talk music for a bit.

I don't think i've posted a thing about what i'm listening to lately since David Bazan's -Curse Your Branches (so good!)

Last week bradley came home with Sufjan Steven's new cd- The Age of ADZ.

let me tell you it's so great. I've always loved Sufjan Steven's for many reasons

but this next cd is wonderful and every song sounds epic. The album art work is great

and I haven't stopped playing it in my car for the last week.

It starts out with the song 'Futile Devices', it may be my favorite song on this album. It's beautiful sounding, like a soft story is being told in his hushed voice about his relationship and loving someone deeply. Which reminds me of something off of seven swans ( one of my favorite cd's Sufjan Stevens has put out)

This quiet song is followed by the song 'Too Much', you won't be able to stop listening to the complexity of all the synth sounds, mixed with horns and jerky electronic sounds. The music paints a picture in your mind more than the words do.

To skip to the end of the cd the song 'Impossible Soul', is impossible not to love. With 25 minutes of glory, in a melting pot of different music genres, it's got something everyone will love. It starts with Sufjan's soft spoken words telling you about a dream of his of the perfect love and love for us all.

"And I was in a dream, I was gone away without you, but not too slow

Lest I put it off, 'fore I put it right for the impossible soul
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life to you, if I could get you at all
Don't be a wreck, trying to be something that I wasn't at all
Seems I got it wrong, I was chasing after something that was gone
To the black of night, now I know it's not what I wanted at all
You said something like, "All you want is all the world for yourself"
But all I want is the perfect love, though I know it's small, I want love for us all
And all I couldn't sing, I would say it all my life to you, if I could get you at all
Oh, oh oh oh, trying to be something that I wasn't at all"

There is a break of electronic mixes and horns which Sufjan Steven's shouts and sings different phrases leading into the 2nd part where his voice actually has some sort of effect on it talking about some man.. leading into a sort of hip hop electronic mix of sounds and chanting in the back ground.. on to the 3rd part last but not least. An up beat conclusion to the cd with answer and calls with multiple voices. Not only is the music up beat but so are the lyrics:

"It's a long life

Only one last chance
Couldn't get much better
Do you wanna dance
It's a good life
Better pinch yourself
Is it possible? Is it possible?
Boy we can do much more together
Better get a life get a life get a life get a life
Boy we can do much more together
Better get a life get a life get a life get a life
Boy we can do much more together
Better get it right get it right get it right get it right
Boy we can do much more together
It's not so impossible
It's not so impossible"

If you listen to the whole cd and lastly the whole 25 minutes of the last song, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

fall 2010

Pumpkin patch!

it's fall...

finally.

Went to Stuckey Farm with Bradley this weekend to pick our pumpkins.

I now understand why people have the urge to smash pumpkins, as we were walking around there were some already smashed, seemed like fun ha.

i enjoy doing these things with bradley. This is our third halloween together. Fall is always a good time with him.

[25 days until our road trip!]

ready for fall

bring it on mother nature.

i'm ready for the chilly wonderful

fall &winter days you have in store

for the midwest.

after searching high and low for the perfect fall boots.. [leather not suede, slouchy, no buckles, no studs and no extra frills, & flat not heels.]

i bought these lovely steve madden boots.. [thanks to bradley's last minute need for running shoes]

book additions

i got my newest book in the mail today :)

LET'S-BRING-BACK

i'm excited to flip though it's pages soon