Meditations On Daily Life

1. Fix my bike brakes.
2. Switch to Gmail.
3. Cook more.
4. Improve my Spanish.
5. Improve my Mandarin.
6. Acquire a backpack.
7. Visit Renegade Craft Fair.
8. Go swimming at least once.
9. Get vaguely more in shape.
10. Sew or jewelrify something.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Music Mixes: May 2011

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Cat Stevens - The Wind

Christina Perri - Bluebird

Cute Is What We Aim For - The Curse Of Curves

Don Omar feat. Lucenzo - Danza Kuduro

Enrique Iglesias feat. Akon - One Day At A Time

Enya - Wild Child

Glee Cast - Loser Like Me

Green Day - The Static Age

Ingrid Michaelson - All Love

Ingrid Michaelson - Turn To Stone

Jack Johnson - Bubble Toes

Jessie J - Price Tag

Jimmy Eat World - Coffee And Cigarettes

Lady GaGa - Paper Gangsta

Lifehouse - Halfway Gone

The Like - Release Me

Maroon 5 - Never Gonna Leave This Bed

My Chemical Romance - Bulletproof Heart

My Chemical Romance - The Only Hope For Me Is You

P!nk - F**kin' Perfect

Reik - Que Vida La Mía

System Of A Down - Chop Suey!

Weird Al Yankovic - Couch Potato

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Why the Glee season finale pissed me off...

At Nationals:

Finn and Rachel: Let's get to work! Our performance is tomorrow, and we haven't written our songs, practiced them, or done the choreography! We're screwed!

Everyone else: Whatever dude! We got this in the bag, even though we have no idea what we're going to do tomorrow!

Finn and Rachel: *le sigh*

[Finn and Rachel kiss onstage]

Everyone else: ASDKFJADSL;AF IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT WE LOST NATIONALS!!!!

Finn and Rachel: -__-

Seriously, Ryan Murphy? Seriously?

Monday, May 23, 2011

Day 01 - Your Favorite Song

This is impossible for me to answer, because I'm fickle. I've really liked Bulletproof Heart by My Chemical Romance for quite some time now though.

I have rather low expectations for My Chemical Romance for some reason, but I'm always pleasantly surprised. Danger Days is actually a pretty solid album.

All These Things That I've Done by The Killers is a close runner up. It's more of a long-term favorite.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Soap Addiction -__-

Cue mom's voice in my head: "But you don't need soap! You can't even use most soaps!"
...But they're so preeetty. Observe these specimens from BubblesUpByBethieB:

Strawberry Chiffon

Just Peachy

Apple Crumble

Cherry Red

Vanilla Freeze

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Mind. Blown.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Stressin' like a Dessen (heroine)...

...that did kind of make sense.

Everyone older than me must think that I'm worrying about such trivial things. I know I will think that in a few years. I mean, how much of this will matter in ten years?

But I can't let it go because I don't have that kind of perspective yet. There are lessons that people have to learn by experience. I just have to make sure I enjoy life in between stressfests, because they'll happen no matter how trivial they may seem later.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Happiness is...

These past few months, I've been complaining way too much. What with all the summer job worrying, the lack of momentum, and the social awkwardness (nothing new here), I've hardly taken the time to appreciate everything around me. Here are a few things I've enjoyed today:

--Today was the best biking weather I've seen in a very long time. Sunny, with a light breeze. 75 degrees. It was so perfect I actually biked around for 20 minutes just enjoying the weather. Although this may be because I was hyped off sweet potato fries.

--I broke out my pink flower sandals for the first time this year. Happy happy fun fun :)

--The tumblrs I follow are amazing. It sounds cheesy to say that they're inspirational, but they really are.

I mean, there's still a lot of ungrateful angst in the background, but I'll just not focus on that now.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Music Mixes: April 2011

Adele - Rolling In The Deep
Adele - Don't You Remember
Adele - Someone Like You
The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
B.o.B. feat. Rivers Cuomo - Magic
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Glee Cast - One Of Us
Ingrid Michaelson - All Love
Ingrid Michaelson - Turn To Stone
Joshua Radin - Road To Ride On
Joshua Radin - Here We Go
Joshua Radin - You Got What I Need
Joshua Radin feat. Meiko - Sky
Katy Perry - E.T.
Lady GaGa - Boys Boys Boys
Lady GaGa - Paper Gangsta
Maroon 5 - Never Gonna Leave This Bed
Metric - Gimme Sympathy
My Chemical Romance - Bulletproof Heart
My Chemical Romance - Planetary (GO!)
My Chemical Romance - The Only Hope For Me Is You
Remi Nicole - Standing Tears Apart
Sara Bareilles - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars
The Walkmen - Canadian Girl

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Books Books Books

I don't know why it never occurred to me, but there is a real live bookstore just two minutes away from my residence. My 10-to-18-year-old self would be insanely jealous of me right now. I don't know why I don't camp out there more often.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Rebecca Black - Friday

Friday is not nearly as fun on this side of the prolonged nap known as the "nightly sleep." That's the only reason I could come up with to explain why I am posting this song. (Plus, I may be starting to like it? Mere exposure effect gone horribly wrong!)

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Angst

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ingrid Michaelson's 2009 Non-Album Singles

I love the harmonies in All Love.

When I push the sheets away from your face
And watch you sleep all day here
And when I push you away
And say you simply cannot stay here

And it's all love, all love
It's all love, my stupid love

When I say you take away
The most important parts of me with you
When I've had the greyest day
You add more grey, it's just your way
It's true

But it's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, my stupid love

You can't be the one to kill the pain anymore
You let me in but then you slam my fingers in the door
I've had enough but I keep asking you to give me more

What I say
That is no way

It's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, all love, ohh
It's all love, my stupid love

Turn To Stone - beautiful rolling piano background

Let's take a better look
Beyond a story book
And learn our souls are all we own
Before we turn to stone

Let's go to sleep with clearer heads
And hearts to big to fit our beds
And maybe we won't feel so alone
Before we turn to stone

And if you wait for someone else's hand
And you will surely fall down
And if you wait for someone else's hand
You'll fall
You'll fall

I know that I am nothing new
There's so much more than me and you
But brother how we must atone
Before we turn to stone

Brother how we must atone
Before we turn to stone
Before we turn to stone

--
I think I like Turn To Stone better because although its lyrics are shorter, it's a whole minute longer. (Not that I dislike lyrics. I just like the instrumentals/vocals balance.)

It's kind of annoying that Turn To Stone has been dubbed the Grey's Anatomy wedding song, but I guess if it wasn't, I would never have found it. I'm glad Ingrid has been getting so much TV exposure, even though her songs make me think of Meredith drowning or Izzie getting married (not that I follow Grey's Anatomy anymore).

Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Duh Moment

I can't believe it took me four and a half years to liberate the back pockets on my patchwork shorts.
It's not like I didn't know they were there.
It's not like I didn't know they were sewn shut.
It just never occurred to me to snip through the stitches.
-__-

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Climb On!

I reached the top of a climbing wall today!!
(Is it sad that it was the easiest one, I cheated on footholds, and it was like my 10th try?)(don't answer that.)(but yes, it is kind of sad.)
But still!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Billy Idol - Mony Mony

Kind of obsessed with this song, but this man is truly terrifying. Actually, the whole scene is terrifying.

There's a guy down the hall with a very similar top (I hesitate to call it a shirt).
...yeah.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Yore

I always get a little happy and sad when I visit my old robotics team. On one hand, it's great to see them doing so well. They've come so far from when I worked with them, when they were still new and unsure of their skills and how they fit in with the group. Now they're the leaders of the team, those little rookies from years ago. They've designed amazing mechanisms that are elegant as well as rock-solid (lookin' at you, SN and SS; and no breakdowns?!). They lead the following generation and have taught them how to machine and design, and that generation will teach its own rookies, like a never-ending staircase of teaching. (lol)

But it's kind of awkward when they used to ask me for help earlier this year, since I pursued a different field in college and haven't machined or designed anything in ages. I don't feel like I can provide any useful advice since they've designed and tested their creation for so long, and they know how it works backwards and forwards. They know its strengths and weaknesses so much better than me; how can I possibly tell them anything they didn't already know? They're fine all by themselves.

Congrats on a great year guys and gals :)