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I spent election night with my good friend Jenny. We watched the states change colors until finally Barack won!! Then we took it to the streets! We ran down the street yelling for Obama and high fiving everyone we passed. Kirkwood was alive all night. There were musicians on the corner, cars honking, people cheering and hugging in the streets. It was a beautiful day in history and I'm glad it happened during my lifetime!!

USA! USA! USA!

Birthday Recap!

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to post, but lots of things are going on that I have wanted to post about!

I had my 25th birthday and it was amazing!! I celebrated for four days straight with some awesome friends. I attached some pictures. Thank you everyone who sent me cards and spent time with me!!

Highlights
-time warp on my birthday
-sneak attack
-Halloween and my birthday falling on the same weekend
-friends
-dinner at the Irish Lion
-Danielle and I playing cash cab with all our cab driver
-having DKE pledges drive me around all weekend
-my new pink dress
-turning 25!

Halloween recap!

I decided to go as Jackie Brown!

Instead of doing school work

Em tagged me, so here goes nothing...

10 years ago i . . .
1. had just turned 15 yesterday
2. was a freshman at Franklin Area High School
3. looked exactly the same as I do right now
4. would be in class right now terrified Mr. Etzel would call on me in Algebra bc I didn't do my homework...again...
5. abusing my hall pass privileges

5 things on my "to do list" today . . .
1. draw a still life before 6pm
2. write a report
3. make a timeline of my life for a presentation tomorrow
4. frequent myspace and facebook at least 100 more times
5. shower

5 snacks I like . . .
1. hot buffalo wing pretzels
2. hummus and pita chips and/or bread
3. snickers, why wait
4. cosmic brownies
5. apples

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire . . .
1. set up a retirement fund
2. pay off my debts
3. purchase a car...maybe
4. buy one thousand lollypops and send them to my ex fiance even though we hate each other
5. give give give

5 places I have lived . . .
1. Franklin Pennsylvania
2. Clintonville Pennsylvania
3. Boca Raton, Florida
4. Bloomington, Indiana
5. The moon

5 jobs that I have had . . . (in no order)
1. model
2. nanny
3. projectionist
4. manager
5. street performer (living statue)

8 other favorite tags

8 favorite TV shows I love to watch . . . (once again in no order)
1. the office
2. mad men
3. Lost
4. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
5. Two and a Half Men
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. The Colbert Report
8. How it's Made

8 things I did yesterday . . .
1. turned 25
2. had a picnic in the park with Jenny
3. played with pitbull puppies
4. went to dinner at the Irish Lion with Jeff
5. Got awesome bday presents from Jeff
6. cleaned my room
7. tech I was still at my birthday party
8. time warped

8 favorite places to eat . . .
1. Kings in PA
2. Leonardos in PA
3. Irish Lion in IN
4. Moes anywhere
5. Village Deli in IN
6. Sais Thai Restaurant in FL (it's gone now)
7. Domo and/or Japanee in IN
8. Newsroom Cafe in Miami

8 things I am looking forward to . . .
1. Thanksgiving in LA
2. Kristin Black coming back from Italy
3. night caving with Jenny and Jake
4. finishing my time line and still life
5. the mail, daily, just in case anyone sends me anything
6. the election
7. the first snow
8. Christmas time with all the spirit of the season and the snow and the songs!!!

8 things on my wish list . . .
1. to have a real Christmas this year
2. red cowboy boots
3. to know Japanese and it's symbols
4. that adult acne were a myth
5. that I wasn't so lazy
6. food, always
7. a yes from IU
8. that I was a trillionaire

8 people I tag . . .
1. Megan
2. the rest of my friends don't blog or are already tagged

Night of the living dead

This is the article from the Indiana Daily Student:

Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street are hubs of nightlife entertainment for college students, but this Thursday the streets entertained a different crowd: the undead.

A few hundred people dressed up as zombies took over the streets for about an hour, walking straight-legged and blank-eyed, bringing traffic to a halt, jumping on cars that honked at them and slapping up against windows of businesses.

The eighth annual zombie parade began at 10 p.m. at the Sample Gates and ended about an hour later on Walnut Street outside Jake’s Nightclub. The “zombies” were mostly students, but a few children and adults were also participating.

As imagined, spectators were, in fact, fascinated by the spectacle.

People poured out of local businesses to watch the sight. Although some motorists who were stopped by the crowd honked impatiently, others embraced the event by rolling down their windows and blaring “Thriller” or by crawling out their car sunroofs to holler at the zombies.

The parade came to a somewhat abrupt end, though, as police cars pulled up behind the crowd with their lights flashing.

Although at first this did not deter the crowd and many zombies surrounded the police car, yelling, the party dissipated as even more squad cars arrived and one man was handcuffed and put inside one of the cars.

Parade participants were divided about the arrest.

Senior Luke Bapple, who believed the arrest happened because the arrestee had touched one of the police cars, said the arrested “zombie” should have known better.

“I mean, I’ll jump on a civilian car,” he said. “We’re dead, not stupid.”

But senior Samantha Miller applauded the arrestee.

“He was a martyr zombie,” she said.

Life is too short so love the one you got cause you might get run over or you might get shot

The celebrating for my 25th birthday starts tonight and goes until Sunday!!

In honor of my 25 years on this crazy planet I'm going to list 25 things I am thankful for.

1)Friends. I know how cliche that sounds. I have some amazing friends that I can count on day and night thru thick and thin. To name a few:


Emilie. We have made the best home videos known to man together. We have a newsletter and songs upon songs we have written together. I love Emilie. I couldn't be more thankful for another human being. (well until I have a husband and kids someday...maybe?)




Jessica has been my best friend since 3rd grade and she truly knows EVERYTHING about me. I can complain to her and she'll set me straight, I can talk to her on my crazy girl days and she'll let me know I'm really not crazy. I can sing Britney Spears into a candle with her. She is truly like family. I love her and I'd be lost without her!




Aaron and I have been best friends since 2001 and he knows me better than I know myself. Although he is completely wrong about color theory he is my panda bear and I love him anyway! We have more inside jokes than anyone I know and talking to him always centers me.




Kayla and I have been best friends starting this year and I am convinced I have gone insane and she's a figment of my imagination. We are the same person. I love our daily chats and our Sam and Lohan double life. She is my little ginger that I can tell anything to!

2) I love my family. Teener included. When I am having a really good day, or a really bad day I always make the rounds and call my mom, my dad, my grandma and talk to my brothers and Teener. We may not have the perfect family, but my family is perfect to me. awwww

3) My health. Overall I have never had any major medical problems.

4) My extended family. I am so thankful that I have an amazing extended family that I am close with.

5) College. Weird thing to be thankful for, but I had to work to get here ( a little behind the game) and I'm paying my own way thru, completely. I really love college and I'm thankful to be in a College that I really like. Now if I could just figure out a major!

6) Ambition. I try to do something I've never done before everyday and I really try to never let fear stop me from doing it, although maybe sometimes it should.

7) Internet TV. I stopped watching tv for a long time and I forgot how much I really like having something to veg out to at the end of the day. I am so thankful that tv shows are on the net now since I don't have a television or cable. I never have to miss any of my favorite shows. (Mad Men, The Office, It's Always Sunny, How I Met Your Mother, 2 and a Half Men, LOST)

8) Youtube. I can't get enough of it! I love watching people's funny home videos and I get so into the meme's on there! Badger badger badger badger snaaaaaaake...

9) The short bus. I don't have a car here in Bloomington and my campus isn't in walking distance by any means. I am so thankful for Betty the bus driver and her daily stories and the free service provided by my college. Even though we almost went down in a blaze of glory the other day. ha!

10) Campus Walk. (my apt building) I have no complaints (other than neighborly noise, which isn't their fault) They pay our gas bill so we stay extra warm in the winter. We are walking distance to anything downtown and we get to live on the south side of campus. (the best side).

11) My cell phone. It's true. I got a new one and I freaking love the thing. It has a touchscreen on the outside and you can flip it open to get a keyboard. I think it does everything but teleport. (I'm still working on that) It's the LG Voyager if you want to check into it. I highly recommend getting it.

12) A certain tall guy and his family. I adore them all. :)

13) Local Hip Hop, MC's, and DJ's. It's the only music I ever want to shake it to and it consumes my weekends. I appreciate their creativity and hard work.

14) Autumn because I love it, and it's my favorite season.

15) Halloween and it's proximity to my birthday.

16) Bluegrass, acoustic, reggae, soul and mountain music. It's soooooooo good. I can't get enough.

17) Pizza, and lots of it with friends.

18) My down comforter. Although it need a duvet cover I know it's going to keep me toasty and comfy this winter. I'm never going to get out of bed.

19) Bloomington, I'm so glad I moved here.

20) care packages, giving and receiving!!

21) blogging, I can keep up with people I can't see and lurk creative peeps.

22) making it thru to 25 without getting any tattoos!

23) my health insurance

24) poptarts, they get me thru long days at school and they have some amazing flavors now.

25) ME!



over and out!

If you haven't seen these yet

If you haven't seen the roasts yet (because you live in a cave?) you should sit down and watch them. Both McCain and Obama are HILARIOUS!

Don't forget to vote Tuesday Nov 4th!

My dreamland birthday wishlist

If I could go on a shopping spree and buy anything for myself for my birthday this is what I would buy:

A square scarf:


Red cowboy boots:


A really cute red girly flannel (cute like the undershirt without the black)



A yellow gold red ruby ring with baguettes (size 5.5-6)like I've wanted since tenth grade:


Brown cowboy boots:



These boots from Target:


A pair of moccasins, any kind with the furry inside and no fringe:


A king sized duvet cover in white or zebra:


and the last thing I can think of that I've been wanting is a sewing machine:


and a shopping spree at Urban Outfitters

Zombie Crawl

I love Halloween, and I love Bloomington!! Last year I was working at Greetings (a little card/tourist shop on the main drag) and someone came in and asked if I had seen the zombies outside. I had no clue what they were talking about so I ran over to the glass door and sure enough there were hundreds of zombies limping past the store and crawling all over everything in site.

All I could say was "WHAT THE CRAP is going on?!" I knew the people weren't really zombies, obviously, but it was still really scary to see. Turns out every year Bloomington hosts a Zombie Crawl and students and townspeople show up at the Sample Gates dressed as zombies to lurk the town. Basically the most amazing thing ever.

and hey Pittsburgh!! You hold the official world's record for the largest turn out to a Zombie Crawl!! GO GOLD AND BLACK!

I'm definitely dressing as the living dead this year and joining!!!!! I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!

Street performing

I had SOOOO much fun street performing this weekend! I started out with the mask outfit, but it scared some little kids so I decided to paint my face instead on the second day. The kids loved the wig and face paint and I got a lot of little hugs that day :)

It was so fun to stand still (thank you years of yoga and modeling) and watch people stare at me like they weren't sure if I was real or not. This one group of people walked by and a girl in the group said 'she's not real' and her friends were like 'yes she is!' and the girl decided to walk up to me and hug me to show that I wasn't real. I waited until her hands were almost around me and slowly bent down for a hug. HAHAHAHA she jumped so high and screamed. Her friends and I thought it was pretty hilarious.

There was a family that came to get pictures with me and after I posed their daughters like statues and got a picture I pointed to the parents and motioned for them to come up (I couldn't talk). I posed the wife with her hand on her cheek standing in front of me and I posed her husband giving her a kiss on the cheek. I stood behind them with my hands on my mouth. It was so cute!!

This one family had about twenty people with them and the tiny little ones came up to get a picture with me and the one three year old girl kept coming up so I decided to pose her like a statue and I stepped down like I was going to walk away. We all clapped for her for standing still it was adorable. Her dad gave me white daisy's.

All in all it was a GREAT time, I can't wait to do it again :)

I'm a street performer

So I need some extra money for school, but I don't really have the time to commit to a job so I improvised. I love acting, I love art, and I love doing zany things I've never done before soooooo I am going to be a living statue right downtown at Sample Gates and at Peoples Park. I am going to test the waters with it this weekend and if all goes well I'll be back at it on the regular in new costumes each time....

for those of you who are not familiar with it... fast forward to about 1:47

The Great Festival of Apples

I spent my weekend back home in PA enjoying their cool weather and the great AppleFest!! I brought two of my friends from Bloomington with me and we all had a great time!! I went to Ben's burial service on Saturday and met his family, they are really great people. If I had more time I would make this post more interesting. Sorry for ya! School is kicking my butt this week....