Music is life for most people...here are some of the highlights of my musical life right now.
Jesse Y Joy- Mi Sol* Amazing, no other word.
Best lyrics... "I want to lose myself in you and be wrapped in everything you are" You dont even need to speak spanish to feel this song.
Angel Taylor- Maple Tree Thanks to "TOUGH LOVE" for this! She sounds a lot like Colbie Caillat
James Morrison- Please Dont Stop The Rain He has such a soothing voice
Mario- Thinking of you
Chris Brown- Brown Skin Girl
Rihanna- Cold Case Love
The Dream- Livin a Lie
Trey Songz <3 <3- Black Roses
Nelly Furtado- Mas
And always, any good songs that come your way, send mine :)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
year in review
JANUARY:
Kate, Sam, Whit and I got together for our annual All Star SAS reunion in Pittsburgh. We played Burma ball (an all star favorite), drank Mimosas and back packers delight and had an awesome weekend!
FEB: First trip to Boston to visit Carrie and Whit! Carrie took me up to this viewing deck to expensive martinis and a ridiculous view of the city! (Brilliant surprise!)
MARCH: I am not entirely sure that anything fab happened in March...
APRIL: Celebrating my bday with friends! I celebrated with some of my fav people including my sister, Tina&Megan (you, you two are a duo) and Katie!
MAY: LA to visit Matt with Allison! Highlight...riding around in a convertible enjoying the city and listening to boys play John Mayer on the guitar :)
JUNE: Bought a new car and moved to pitts for the summer.
JULY: Back to boston to celebrate Whits bday with her. Best part was she had NO IDEA i was coming. I worked out all the details with her friends (Props to Kerry on that one) and she was so confused when she saw me haha. Success!
AUGUST: My bro, sis and I drove our 2000 (?) Ford Taurus from Erie to Denver (stopping in Indianapolis, St Louis, Kansas City) to take Bobby back to school. We broke down twice, pissed Adrienne off every 15 miles and dressed up in Hick Suits to attend a state fair. Highlights: Pig races, Cirque Du Soliel!!!, driving 2+ hours in a rain storm with a double mattress and box spring strapped to the roof of a sedan.
SEPTEMBER: Visiting James in Seattle and participating in the Susan G Komen 3 day for the cure. I walked 60 miles in three days and raised $2,900 for Breast Cancer research and initiatives. It was an incredibly emotional weekend..and an exhausting one. But it was great to see James and I am now in love with Seattle!
OCTOBER: Halloween as the Super Mario Brothers (especially the getting frisked by an overly-aggressive officer Wanda who was convinced I stuffed cocaine in the seats....all we did was run a red light...dressed as Toad, Peach, Mario and Luigi. Lovely).
Oh and Kevin and Angies wedding in Ohio! Highlight..Cousin bobby jumping on the bridesmaids back and making horse riding motions as the song "Jump On It" played in the background! That and playing flip cup in the garage!
NOVEMBER: The most fun Thanksgiving dinner ever...I had my entire family playing Wii games! My Aunt even boxed for a half hour and couldnt lift her arms the next day haha. Ohhhh but Nov was full of MONO. Bummer.
DECEMBER: Once again went and cut down our christmas tree which I love doing.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
What's the deal with the downstairs?
Sam and I have officially booked our flights to California in May to visit some Semester at Sea friends. We are going to spend a few days outside of Carmel at Micah's place. Hopefully the whole crew can make it! I see Sam and Whitney fairly regularly as they live relatively close. I haven't seen Kate in about a year now and Emily in almost 2 years. (Has it seriously been that long?!) James I visited out in Seattle in September. Micah I saw last in GA in May of 07...and Bobby I havent seen since Dec 7th 2006! The day we landed in Ft Lauderdale and ended our Semester at Sea experience.
I am so excited to see these people I cannot even put it into words. It is so rare that we all can get together. We all, somehow, bring alive this tremendous spirit in one another. We bring each other back to the MV Explorer and everything that the trip meant to all of us.
So its officially time to figure out, what's the deal with the downstairs??
I am so excited to see these people I cannot even put it into words. It is so rare that we all can get together. We all, somehow, bring alive this tremendous spirit in one another. We bring each other back to the MV Explorer and everything that the trip meant to all of us.
So its officially time to figure out, what's the deal with the downstairs??
Setting my sights on Central America
This is the third time I have dropped the "I'm leaving the country" bomb on my parents. The first time it was for Semester at Sea. They were surprised at first, confused, nervous...as to be expected. But the program was official, through the UVA as a matter of fact. I would be accompanied by professors and other "guides." Their biggest fear that time was "What if something happens and we have to call you? How to we get in touch?"
The second time was for South America. I had just gone through an emotional, rough break up. I was looking for something...for myself. I had been depressed for months and when I told my parents I was graduating early and packing up for 3 months with my best friend to travel South America...I got a "You're what!?" Their biggest concern this time was money. I was a recent graduate, I had no savings, I should be doing what everyone else is doing and saving for a car, an apartment, a life really.
This time is completely different. Third time means this is somewhat of a pattern- a direction my life is taking me. I have been living at home for over a year now. I have left for brief periods of time(3 months in Pittsburgh for summer) but for the most part, here I remain. I am bored. Very few friends live in town. I love my job but most of the other employees are 30+ years old. Not really friend material. I have a boring life. I am not depressed but I am not satisfied. I cannot imagine having this for the rest of my life even if i were to factor in a husband, kids and a family. I want that, don't get me wrong, but I want other things more right now.
I want to wake up and feel like I matter. I want to feel the endless possibilites for the day in the pit of my stomach. I want to know I have a slew of options for how to fill the hours in my day. I want to FILL the hours of my day with passion, not just fill them to pass them. I want to stand in a moment, in a place in this world and see everything as if it will never be better than this moment. I crave that feeling. It brings me alive to be in a new place, learning a new language by being immersed in that culture, to not be able to predict what the hours of my day will contain. That is when I thrive. That is what my life is missing...that passion for every moment.
Its a lot to ask for. One cant possibly have that euphoria every moment of their life for as long as they will live. But you can strive for experiences that will satisfy that part of you that craves new and exciting. For me, that is traveling the world. So here I go again.
This time I want to do it a little bit differently. My main goal in all of this is to become truly fluent in the Spanish language. I have taken Spanish for a few years but I am only decent. I have memories of being a kid reading the liner notes in Selena just wishing I could speak that language. Now, I dream of having a job where I speak Spanish on a daily basis....where I can build bridges between cultures. That is the main goal of this trip.
My friend Whitney, who I have known since college, she and I are planning a trip to Central America. Our main spots at this time are Guatelmala, Costa Rica and Panama. Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are having some political instability issues that are deterring us from visiting at this time. We want to leave in September of this year.
My parents dont understand why I keep doing this. They keep saying "When this is over, will you have it out of your system?" They don't understand that this is a part of me and it will always be. Its not a question of checking it off so I can move on to something else. My mom says "Why can't you just do what everyone else is doing...the normal things." But I cant help but think that I am meant for something more, and that is a blessing.
The second time was for South America. I had just gone through an emotional, rough break up. I was looking for something...for myself. I had been depressed for months and when I told my parents I was graduating early and packing up for 3 months with my best friend to travel South America...I got a "You're what!?" Their biggest concern this time was money. I was a recent graduate, I had no savings, I should be doing what everyone else is doing and saving for a car, an apartment, a life really.
This time is completely different. Third time means this is somewhat of a pattern- a direction my life is taking me. I have been living at home for over a year now. I have left for brief periods of time(3 months in Pittsburgh for summer) but for the most part, here I remain. I am bored. Very few friends live in town. I love my job but most of the other employees are 30+ years old. Not really friend material. I have a boring life. I am not depressed but I am not satisfied. I cannot imagine having this for the rest of my life even if i were to factor in a husband, kids and a family. I want that, don't get me wrong, but I want other things more right now.
I want to wake up and feel like I matter. I want to feel the endless possibilites for the day in the pit of my stomach. I want to know I have a slew of options for how to fill the hours in my day. I want to FILL the hours of my day with passion, not just fill them to pass them. I want to stand in a moment, in a place in this world and see everything as if it will never be better than this moment. I crave that feeling. It brings me alive to be in a new place, learning a new language by being immersed in that culture, to not be able to predict what the hours of my day will contain. That is when I thrive. That is what my life is missing...that passion for every moment.
Its a lot to ask for. One cant possibly have that euphoria every moment of their life for as long as they will live. But you can strive for experiences that will satisfy that part of you that craves new and exciting. For me, that is traveling the world. So here I go again.
This time I want to do it a little bit differently. My main goal in all of this is to become truly fluent in the Spanish language. I have taken Spanish for a few years but I am only decent. I have memories of being a kid reading the liner notes in Selena just wishing I could speak that language. Now, I dream of having a job where I speak Spanish on a daily basis....where I can build bridges between cultures. That is the main goal of this trip.
My friend Whitney, who I have known since college, she and I are planning a trip to Central America. Our main spots at this time are Guatelmala, Costa Rica and Panama. Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are having some political instability issues that are deterring us from visiting at this time. We want to leave in September of this year.
My parents dont understand why I keep doing this. They keep saying "When this is over, will you have it out of your system?" They don't understand that this is a part of me and it will always be. Its not a question of checking it off so I can move on to something else. My mom says "Why can't you just do what everyone else is doing...the normal things." But I cant help but think that I am meant for something more, and that is a blessing.
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