july

is beautiful.

"and God help you if you are a pheonix, and you dare to rise up from the ash"
32 flavors - ani difranco

brass in pocket - the pretenders

video - india arie

stay - alison krauss

maps - yeah yeah yeahs

you should post your top five songs too.

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i leave in 3 weeks.

ummmmm...

i love washing my hands.

ooohh! it just started raining! about half an hour ago...it was sunny and i was about to go sit outside. i love it when it rains.

i remember a friend telling me that everyday she could see more and more that God was woeing her with beautiful things...

breath of fresh air

some things come to me as so refreshing...

it's been a tough couple of days. but when i just calm down, relax, stop complaining, and listen or just take a look at what someone else is doing - some of the best things can happen.

things will be good. i know i'm being vague. it's okay though.

these are fun pictures from seattle...well at least i think they are fun.

a pretty mountain flower

fun at the beach with aruna, and elizabeth (a friend of aruna's who came out to seattle for four days while i was there. that was wonderful.)

ahh. the space needle. i hope you like that picture, carolyn.

oh. i like this girl a lot...and i hope she is happy at this very moment because i think sometimes i make her not happy.

i like to think that this is what she looks like sometimes when she is not happy:

but then she finds joy and amusement from the little things:

i'm going to go now and get into my bed and read. i am reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

i can only read it for like...an hour at a time because either i get too sad or too frustrated with the characters to read any further. i started it in seattle and i'm not done yet. in conclusion - i dont want to go read the book...but at the same time, i do so that i can finish it for school and also so that maybe i can get to a good, happy, satisfying part in the book. i guess its not bad...and i shouldn't expect when i read novels for them to be perfect, happy little books with happy endings. right? right. okay. well i'm off.

goodnight.

Tired eyes

"fear can stop you loving, love can stop your fear"
- morcheeba

it's been another sleepless night. surprisingly...i'm okay with it. i'm not as frustrated as i thought i would be. right now, my mom is working her night shift and my dad left early so i'm playing music really loudly throughout the house. it is approximately 7:41 a.m.

i hope you like my icon. his name is hermin, he went to the mountains with us too...as you can see.

well...my mom actually just got home.

i'm out. i tried to post more pictures than just two yesterday but blogger was being funny, so i couldn't.

Well hello!

So! Seeing Aruna in Seattle was wonderful. Maybe I will post some pictures right now. I can't decide. I'm pretty tired...my schedule is a little janked because of the time change...i didnt sleep at all last night. I gave up at about 7 o'clock this morning, I went outside.....and I ran! Isn't that weird and terrible? I don't like running. But...that was hours ago. Now it's almost 11 and I have been playing with iTunes all morning.

I'm glad to be back. I've missed lots of people. I spent the day with Amer, Julie and Liam yesterday:) It was so nice. We went downtown for the Friday Night Lights thing they have going on now...I want to go downtown more often. Like...this sunday...for the lawn chair film fest.

I am dorky. I don't usually recap my days in blogger.

ummmmm...I'm really excited to see everyone on sunday. hopefully now that i'm back everyone hasn't left for their vacations...i guess if they did that would be okay.

this is such a random and boring post.

i will write later when i actually have things to say.

that sounds good.

oh. I want to get a bike. Aruna lived on an island right outside of Seattle (Mercer Island) and we would ride bikes everywhere. I loved that. So...call me if you want to go biking...assuming I have a bike by then, or if you want to go downtown or if you just want to hang out because I would love that.

This morning at 8, I was like "who can I call..." because i just really wanted to see somebody other than my parents. it was a little sad...i didnt call anyone.

...i was going to get off the computer...

okay. so. bye.

Look, snow!

Not The Same - The Luckiest - Golden Slumbers

I don't want to go to bed.

I'm happy I will be home soon. I'ts actually not that soon. About a week.

I just had two smores.

The title of my post are songs by one artist. Let's do this. Who's the musical artist?...without looking it up.

If you guess first and correctly...you get...glory.





Don't forget about me.

The Model

It is 9:11am right now.

i mean. it's good that i'm up because i'm usually a very lazy person.

i've been babysitting.

i wish that i could post pictures of my adventures here but unfortunately i will have to wait for aruna's laptop to do that.

the first weekend - we went camping...cold. beautiful. the san juan islands are wonderfully beautiful. there are approximately 180 islands in the san juan islands of washington.

the second weekend - we drove to portland, oregon...shopping. cute shoes. good food. unfortunately, aruna and i fought a lot. but that's expected, i guess.

during the weeks, i've been babysitting while aruna's been at work, which is the case right now.

um. so! i will be home in about a week and a half.

believe me. i'm thinking of all of you.

seriously.

okay. bye.

missing

i miss people i know...already.

but um...happy 4th of july.

love, me!