In Which I Buy...

...and ask.

This week (specifically the weekend) has been extremely eventful. My school's gym day, which is a BIG deal, was on Friday. So Thursday I slept at my friend's house. It was also her birthday, so the night was pretty awesome. We wrote on our cars and practiced our cheers and played with Aqua Sand (SO COOL). Then Friday night I worked with my favorite busboy, which is always fun :)

Saturday was supposed to be my lazy day of doing nothing because I wasn't working and I wasn't invited anywhere. That changed pretty early. I found an amazing dress to wear to winter formal. It's dark blue and silver and gorgeous. I bought the dress and went home, prepared to spend the evening with my laptop and my ukulele. A lot of my friends were invited to a barbecue at a relatively popular guy's house and I wasn't. But at about 8:30, two of my friends called and told me to come over to Spencer's house, he just invited me. I got out of my PJs and jetted over there, in shock of how cool I'd just become. The party was great, it wasn't like a wild party or anything. It was super chill, just some of the coolest members of the theatre community sitting around a fire having awesome conversations. I made new friends, secured my place in this talented group (I was a techie among stars), and... got a date to winter formal. XD I was not expecting that in the least. I'll be sure to blog about how this cute little relationship pans out, but I'm wary of saying anything now. I don't wanna jinx it.

Sunday turned into a cute night of dinner and coffee with my two best friends. My two best friends, who hadn't really known each other that well before that night. I love them both equally, but for different reasons, and now they love each other!! The thought makes me so happy.

Still reading Mockingjay, Perfect Fifths, and Nation of Rebels

Currently listening to "Proud" by the Remus Lupins

In Which I Celebrate...

...a successful start.

First two days of school in 2011 = win worthy of a blog post

Since I was a freshman, I had set my heart on winning "Wittiest" in my school's Winter Formal court. Winter Formal's a dance for juniors and seniors that takes place every January. I'm a junior now, and I GOT NOMINATED FOR WIT. XD I'm beyond excited and I don't even care that my parents have to chaperone the dance now and I have neither a dress nor a date, my class pulled through for me. I also don't care that I'm not going to win because I'm a junior and the senior is going to win because the senior is my really close friend and she totally deserves it. There's always next year for me. :)

I also got to meet my awesome new PE class, started three new books, still know what's going on in math, found out about our class field trip to see Macbeth in two weeks, and had shortened classes both days. So, all around :D

I've decided to continue with the little end posts I forgot I had put at the end of all of my old blog posts, so without further ado,

Currently reading Mockingjay, Perfect Fifths, and Nation of Rebels (None of which are for school!)

Currently listening to "Electric Feel" by MGMT

In Which I Make a Commitment...

...I know I probably won't keep.

It's that time of year again. You know, the beginning. The time of Auld Lang Syne and setting goals that will probably fall in a ditch by springtime. I'm going to make a concerted effort to Blog Once Weekly (BOW) in 2011, as inspired by my friend Nick, who got the idea from his friend Whimsy. Anyone who wants to participate is free to join, and here are some rules/guidelines:

1.) One post per week AT LEAST.

2.) A week shall be defined as Monday through Sunday.

3.) A post shall be defined as some bit of writing...just a bit.

For my purposes, I'm adding my own rule. All of my favorite blogs (like Kristina's and Hayley's) have cute little counters at the end of their posts. I want to do that, but I don't want to totally rip them off. So, over the course of this project, I'm going to try out different counters, counting things that matter to me.

I'm going to put in as much effort as I can to remember this blog weekly, but if I fail, I fail and live my life as a failure.

I'm assuming this blog will be filled with my adventures of the week, but I don't like uninteresting play-by-plays or publicized angst, so I don't know what sort of content this blog will contain. Then again, I'm not really sure what sort of content my LIFE will contain.

Who knows, maybe this thing will get an audience if I take enough care of it.

I leave you with a BOW(tie) 11

^^See what I did there? :D

In Which I Rip Off Other Blogs...

Things I Ate Today:
-2 cookies (a chocolate chip and a snickerdoodle, microwaved)
-8 slices of bacon (also microwaved)
-1 waffle with butter

It's funny 'cause I'm unhealthy.

Things I Will Not Name My Children:

-Abcde Nymphadelle

-Uniqua Lou

-Sha'dynasty Amrica

-Viacom Ferdinand

-Albus Severus

-Renesmee Carlie

Currently listening to the Vidcon livestream

Currently reading 1984 by George Orwell

Peace out girl scout

Epic Shopping Weekend

Every once in a while, you just find everything you need/want in every store you go to, and it's the best feeling in the world. I had this the past 48 hours. So now I'm going to list everything I got, because I feel like it and it IS Blog Every Day April. (But don't get any ideas; I'm not blogging every day.)

All About Me (a boutique)
-Four summery shirts
-Two pairs of gladiator-esque sandals that fit (That doesn't happen often)

New Orleans Music Exchange
-A full set of quality ukulele strings

Buffalo Exchange
-A secondhand army shirt for my Halloween costume (I'm gonna be a Hurl Scout from Whip It!)

Funky Monkey
-A vintage silver necklace with the Louisiana World's Fair 1984 logo
-A Beatles pin to fill in the spot on my book bag where one of my pins fell off

Best Buy
-American Idiot by Green Day (yeah, I didn't own it before. I fail as a fan.)

...And a partridge in a pear tree.

Listening to "Jesus of Suburbia," naturally.
Reading The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

I Prefer Lists to Blogs

So instead of blabbering on about the mundane facets of my life, I'm going to list things I like/dislike/have/whatever. Ok? Yeah, I thought so. Today we'll do some music.

Favorite Songs (of the moment)

"Whistle for the Choir" by the Fratellis
"You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds (Feat. Regina Spektor)
"Inside Out" by Eve 6
"Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordello
"Effington" by Ben Folds (This is an equally awesome cover by Mike Lombardo)
"Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga
"Energy" by The Apples in Stereo
"Winter's Song" by Alan Lastufka and Luke Conard

My iChat Just Flickered...

I have just been overcome by an urge to update my poor neglected blog. Sometimes, I listen to my urges. Like today.

Apparently, there was play rehearsal today. I didn't get the memo. I hope my teacher isn't mad because I have a pretty big part. This is the first play-like thing I've ever been in ever. I say "play-like" because it's an incredibly abridged Beauty and the Beast in French. It's for a competition and I'm Lumiere.

I promised no one that I was going to blog, but I kind of like doing it now-and-again. Maybe I'll get into a rhythm and slowly become famous on the internet like hayleyghoover (who totally knows who I am !). :) I've been feeling pretty inexplicably lonely (I hate myself for being so emo in a blog. What am I, 13?), so maybe this will become a sort of release. I never let myself whine and complain about my life, but this is my freaking blog. If you don't like it, leave (assuming anyone is reading this besides Erica, which who really be weird).

Listening to: "Cosmic Love" by Florence + the Machine

Reading: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Gag Me.)