Top 2010.

So I’m gearing up for ringing in the new year, but I don’t want to forget about 2010 just quite yet. I’m going to recap some of my favorite things/moments, I’ll include links and everything cool like that!

 

Top clothing brands:

This year I fell in love with I <3 Ronson. It’s a clothing line found at JC Penny, which is even greater because its not so pricey, the designs are hard to explain, they’re pretty much me, if that helps at all lol

http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/slaves-to-fashion/2009/04/i-heart-charlotte-ronsons-i-he.html 

 

And not that its any different from years past but Victoria’s Secret PINK line is a total favorite. I’m such an easy going, relaxin’ kinda girl and these sweats are the absolute best.

http://www.flirtcosmetics.com/index.tmpl?ngextredir=1 

 

Top Make-up/scents:

As far as make up ive become addicted to FLIRT! found at khols and Victoria Secret make up.

http://www.flirtcosmetics.com/index.tmpl?ngextredir=1

http://www.victoriassecret.com/beauty

 

In 2010 I wore so much Love Rocks from VS, see link above. It smells….. hot. It’s not sweet its more of a “spicy, I could kick your ass” scent. I love it.

 

Entertainment:

I loved NBC’s “Outlaw” but that was cancelled…. so no link, but the show was amazing. I miss it.

 

Tons of huge movies came out: Eclipse, Harry Potter, Inception…. but I actually loved “Last Three Days” it was a good one, Robert Pattenson’s sex hair is hard to beat, but this movie kept me on the edge of my seat so the award goes there. ha!

 

Random TOPS!

Top social networking site goes to……… TWITTER. Because I talk to ta select few on my page and its all so random. I can let the truth be free and announce when im tired of sluts, and nobody comments me all concerned like kara, that’s bad, kara calm down. Because they’re probably tired of sluts too, that’s why the jumped over to twitter.

http://twitter.com

 

Top concert I attended: Gym Class Hero’s….. only because I snuck in…. and got a contact high. LOL but really, energy was great, music was amazing, touched Travie….

 

2010 brought lots of adventure, I mean LOTS. But my favorite was road trippin’ to Kansas with my best friend Kamryn. Getting lost on an amry base (sort of) random hardcore techno in the middle of KS. Good times.

 

Best memory of 2010 goes to…… New Years Eve… yes, that counts, and no my memory of that night isn’t the greatest. JK! There are probably more amazing memories than I can even begin to list, but that was the very first one.

 

My top obsessions throughout the year included my snuggie, henna, anything made from hemp, plaid, candles, Gandhi. I didn’t think I was that indi-hippie, guess so.

 

2011 is going to be full of so many new changes. New school, new friends, new place, new life. I’m so glad to look back on 2010 and see how worth it was. I had awesome friends help create unforgettable memories, an awesome family supporting me through everything I did, a little love…. 2010 is a year I’m proud of, I learned a lot about myself and was me the entire time. Too many people to thank for how fabulous my life has been these last 12 months.

 

My year in silly photography! 

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You Can’t NOT be Happy at Christmas Time

It is almost Christmas! I am soooo excited! This is probably the first year in a long time that there are presents under the tree that I have no clue what they are.

 

This break came at exactly the right time, and so far its been awesome. I’ve really been in this place lately where my close friends and family are most important to me, and I want them to know that. For my family for Christmas I found a huge picture frame that holds like 24 photos and I’m filling with pictures of my parents before they were married, pictures of my brother and I when we were little, and current pictures. Its awesome, best present I’ve ever given. For my friends, with everybody's present is a card. So far I’ve gotten more compliments on the cards rather than the gifts, that makes me so happy because they weren’t generic at all, I put a lot of meaning into cards when I write them.

 

Christmas has a way of making people think differently, and I wish it were the same way all year. I’ve been channeling into everything that’s good in life: my family, friends, laughing, NOT stressing. For a while I was sorta down over a person… but why when the best is to come? I’ve got everything I need right now, and it all makes me very happy.

 

Are you sick of that word yet? “Happy”. Well, I so am, and I hope you are too!

 

Something weird happened this past week, and I feel the need to share. There is this new music venue I’m totally into right now. The people who own it are pretty much the coolest people I’ve ever met. Any way, one of my best friends and I are telling another friend about it and he asks us if they’d do a rap battle. So we go talk to them at an open mic night. We walk in and ask Aaron (the sound guy) if we can talk to Kevin (the owner) so he takes like up these back steps into this apartment, I totally felt apart of the mafia, it was cool. So we pitch the idea and he tells us, “yeah, yeah, we’d be down for a rap battle, we just don’t really have an audience for hip-hop. We really need promoters, do you guys want to be our hip-hop promoters?” Turns out we get a cut of whatever they make from the turnout. So what am I now? Yes, I am in fact a hip-hop promoter. Never would have guessed, huh?

 

I’m taking this opportunity as a chance to possibly change my life. I know, drastic. But never in a billion years would I have guessed I’d be asked to promote hip-hop music for an alternative venue. So maybe this is telling me that there is more to life than what I’ve planned out so far. What if I decide I want to manage music or own a venue? And never before in my life would I have been okay with that decision, but right now, I could totally see myself doing something like that and feeling like I have everything. why not? For too long I’ve had a definition for happy, but what’s wrong with finding it? Right now, everything that is going on in my life makes me happy. I’m in love with it.

 

Things happen how they’re supposed to, truly! Just put everything aside and you’ll figure out what matters.

 

I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and entire holiday season. Be safe! I hope Santa brings it all

I want:

1. A better ACT score

2. Musical talent

3. Things to keep on goin’ where they are headed!

4. oh and a new digital camera (lol)  

Black Friday–Makes My Heart SO Warm!

I hope everybody had an amazing Thanksgiving! I spent mine with my close family and friends, and it was a wonderful kickoff to the holiday season.

 

It seemed like everybody that I talked to had a huge family gathering for the holiday and it made me a little jealous. I wish I had a huge family. It was just my parents, my brother, my 2 aunts and I. We’re the only family in Colorado and the only family on my dad’s side. They are great, I just with there was more of them. BUT I had a good time, because we’re all very close. Our dinner was more of a lunch because my mom had to work, which worked out well because I spent the evening with my best friend at her friends restaurant.

 

Of course, we braved the cold and wee hours of the morning to hit those Black Friday deals! Jennifer and I started out at midnight. yes, midnight. Old Navy had $15 jeans, there was no way I was passing that up. We got there about 1130 and the line was already 2 stores down. Despite our numb extremities, we had a blast!

 

My favorite part of Black Friday is the people that I meet in line. The people behind us this time were actually shopping for a family that they had adopted for the holiday season. They told us about how it was a family of 11, many of the children were adopted. The family had been doing well until the mom had been bitten by a rattlesnake and then the medical bills put financial strain on the family. They were there buying 5 dollar t-shirts and other clothes for the kids. How inspiring, huh?

 

And the funny thing is, when you meet cool people in line, you keep seeing them throughout the day! We went to Old Navy and then slept in my car until 3 when Kohls opened. While we were waiting to check-out we saw them again, of course we all had to update each other on where we’d been and what our mission was. It’s fun meeting other people in line, I love it.

 

Then you have the crazies, the real ones. We were in Old Navy and there is this guy running around with a Chihuahua in his jacket. 1.) it’s midnight and you feel the need to just throw your dog in your shirt? 2.) It’s cold waiting in line, Chihuahua’s have that weird shaky thing goin’ on any way, really is that a good idea? and 3.) people go nuts on black Friday. taking care of a yappy little dog: not on my priority list.

 

We got home around 5:30 and I slept until 1pm. By that time my mom had gotten home (I usually go with her, I was bummed that I couldn’t this year ). So we ended up hitting the mall in the afternoon. So in total, I made it to Old Navy, Kohls, Dillard’s, Victoria Secret, and JC Penny. Definition of a girls perfect day.

 

Christmas music is playing, lights are being put up all over the neighborhood. It makes me so excited and happy!

 

Some photos from my holiday:

 

Line at Midnight!

Bearing the cold! Not a pretty picture of me, but that’s just everybody at 230, in the cold. haha

Sleeping in my car.

Making up for that bad photo! haha

Don’t Mention Connie.

It’s break. whoooo!

 

Okay, not so much. Today I still had college classes and a dentist appointment. I don’t do so well at the dentist. But let me tell you about today’s experience.

 

So the dental hygienist at my office is awesome. We only schedule our appointments with her because she is just the best. She has never ever hurt us and even if she has, I haven’t noticed because she is so enjoyable to talk to the entire time (well listen to, I can’t talk much while in the chair).

 

Any way, I get there today and the desk lady tells me she had to go home because her son was sick and that I could have Connie. 1st off, Connie is a bad omen for me. When I was maybe 6 or 7 I had this dream where I went into my basement and this lady came out of the bathroom and said, “Hi, Im Connie!” and then she killed me. Ever since then, haven’t reacted so well to the name Connie, weird, huh?

 

Turns out I have to go back to the dentist next Friday because of a few small cavities, which is so unfair! I brush and floss and my brother doesn’t and who gets the cavities? yeah, me! I didn’t have cavities for like the first 16 years of my life. And knowing that my teeth aren’t perfect makes me cry. After I left I cried as I drove around town for a little bit. I hate drills and I hate the sound the drill makes (that is the WORST) I told my mom she has to go with me that day, no excuses!

 

So my Tuesday? Not so great. I’m still in need of a hug.

 

On a different note: I went and saw Harry Potter on Sunday. It was good, I guess. I never read the books, I just go because I like the way Harry Potter is filmed. I posted it on facebook, but I seriously loved loved loved Emma Watson’s wardrobe throughout the entire movie. She’s always been so classic in my mind and this just added to it. It was very Brit-autumn-relaxed.

 

I also saw the preview for Red Riding Hood coming out in March of 2011. Definitely not a kids movie. Its like sexified, hot Red Riding Hood:

 

REALLY excited!

Tell Me: Am I Addicted to You?

If bullshitting had an Olympics category, im pretty sure id qualify to compete for the United States. Yes, I know, that sounds cocky. But, at the core, this is me.

 

I just finished my best friends AP Environmental Science homework about a movie, I have never watched. AND I kicked everybody’s ass on that forum, including the teacher’s. I love me at times like this. My best friends computer was acting up so she asked if I could just log on and write a couple of sentences. We all know this is not how I do things. I wrote three paragraphs. Yes, three! Told you I kicked ass.

 

That seriously makes me the coolest nerd EVER. I would take being me over anything any day. I was thinking about it the other day and my days are made when I have a really intelligent conversation with somebody. In Botany one day we were talking about the Bermuda Triangle and all the discovery shows we watched about it… This had nothing to do with my science class, we were actually very off topic. The rest of my day was amazing, just because I talked about magnetic fields for 15 minutes.

 

I don’t know if it’s because I’m in the middle of possibly my best debate season ever, or what… but I’m so on top of the news, foreign policy issues, science, politics. YET, I can barely make it to school for a full week. You know what I say? Fuck the public school system. I would be so much smarter if I didn’t have to deal with all this stuff. The teachers, the students, the homework. I just want to sit in a class and learn. If you other kids don’t want to… then they can leave. I could really care less if they’re having babies or smoking nutmeg, or whatever they’re doing these days.

 

I’m so addicted to being with smart people. And not like smart dull people, like quirky, weird, eccentric, smart people. I strive to be that person every day!

Am I the Only One? Yeahhhh.

Today…. I took what my best friend and I like to call a “mental health day”. It’s sort of funny because, I take these a lot, and they never seem to have quite the effect I hope they’ll have. Though sometimes they do put some things in perspective for me.

 

I thought a lot about the people in my life today and you know that saying that goes a little like:

 

Don’t worry about the people from your past, there is a reason they didn’t make it to your future.

Well, I’m starting to really believe it. My best friend and I talked about how all throughout high school we’ve always been each other’s best friend even when other people would come and go. I’m so grateful for her. All of my really good friends are my really good friends for different reasons, and I think that is really good for me. Some of them I love because they push me to do better, some are there for support, others I have a lot in common with. I’m not sure what I would do without them, and right now I’m just very thankful they are all in my life.

 

I call Jennifer my best friend because she isn’t afraid to tell me I’m a nerd, or speak her mind, even if sometimes I don’t want to hear it. Today my mom, her and I were watching VH1 and one of the classic songs was from the 90’s. I was like what the heck?! I am NOT old, im from the 90s!

 

Long story short we found an old Backstreet Boys CD and a Dream Street CD (for those of you who don’t know Dream Street, that would be Jesse McCartney’s first music project) and I thought that was like the greatest thing that has happened all week, seriously! Jenn just made fun of my music tastes from a decade ago. In fact, I’m pretty sure she took her own car to town just to avoid the fact that I said we were listening to BSB on the way there. haha!

 

I think about when I was IN LOVE with that band, and my god how things have changed! Regardless, I think my music taste has always reflected my personality… and therefore, my music taste is pretty awesome. Basically, I’ve concluded from the music I listen to that I am:

 

- part of the main stream.

- pretty mellow.

- a total sucker for piano because its so classic ==> id like to think im pretty classic.

- reluctant for change but give it a chance.

- have a decent sense of humor

- and a little crazy, but only sometimes.

 

With that being said, I leave you with my song of the day! haha You know you loved them too.

Getting There.

I’m sitting here desperately trying to study for my criminal justice test tomorrow, but I can’t stop thinking about other things.

 

I’m so scared. I’m scared about not knowing what I want. Mostly in the terms of college but other things too. What’s even scarier: the person that I trusted for advice told me that I didn’t have to know what I want yet, and they still don’t even know what they want. That can’t ever be me.

 

I mean there are plenty of things I know I want… nice cars, a law degree, the security of knowing I made it in this world. But the bulk of things I want, aren’t tangible, and most of the time I think that is a problem, but sometimes I don’t… which REALLY is a problem.

 

Everybody tells me I’m so ambitious.. but I don’t even know what I’m ambitious for. For being that person I know I’m capable of? For proving that I can do everything I say I’ll do? Does it even mater?

 

In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt the slightest bit ambitious. I’ve felt motivated. Those aren’t the same things, by the way. I do what I do because that’s what I’m expected of, that’s how things are supposed to work.

 

I also consider myself a very strong person. I don’t tolerate people who aren’t strong very well. But lately, it’s easier to see that more and more people that I surround myself with are not as strong as I thought they really were. I walk around school and I hear comments like, “how does she get a boyfriend and I don’t?” Well, it’s because you have standards and you know what you deserve. don’t ever tell yourself you don’t. Then I have the friends who rid themselves of people that have wrecked havoc on their emotions, did nothing but play with who they were and because that feeling of love or lust or hate or whatever was “real” they can’t get over it. They’ll go back. I’m told I don’t understand, and I don’t want to. I’d rather know what I deserve and keep walking than resort to the past just to get back a feeling.

 

I know I don’t have all the answers… obviously. I’m so scared of what I don’t know, but what I do know is that I’ll keep working really, really hard for what I don’t know and maybe learn something on that journey rather than harness something I don’t believe in.

 

This post is really more of a cheer to a new chapter. I know I'll keep walking and though there’s people who I really do love… I can’t wait, and I don’t have the guts to say that I can’t wait, because if they asked me to I would… but they won’t, so…..

 

on to the next.