oh say can you see

My acapella group sang the National Anthem at the NY Islanders game on Thursday evening! You can check it out here:



And before we actually sang, we hung out around the arena and started coloring pictures at the designated "Kids Table," and some of us also had our picture taken with Sparky, the mascot (who has a broken hockey stick for a tail!).



Then yesterday it snowed. It snowed so much that my school gave us a snow day. Unfortunately, I don't have class on Friday, and my mom was on mid-February break, so it was a waste of a snow day. I didn't even have to go to work anyway! But dad and I cancelled our dentist appointments because we weren't going anywhere. Instead, we shoveled. A lot. We shoveled my sidewalk, part of my neighbors' sidewalks, my Oma's sidewalk, and the apartment houses sidewalk. I'm shoveled out! And then last night, for dinner, since it's Lent and we don't eat meat on Fridays, mom made Pfannekuchen. Yummmmmmmmmy!

you are always trying to keep it real, I'm in love with how you feel

Amanda, Kim, and I found out we have another person in our room on the London trip. Her name is Laura....and SHE KICKS ASS! She's so cool and very sweet, and we already get along so well (and I've only talked to her over facebook and aim). We're definitely going to have so much fun in London. I can't wait....as of midnight, it'll be 22 days until London!

Anyways....in school today, Amanda and I were hangin' around and we were jamming to Moldy Peaches tunes.....and we had Olivia record us. We're pretty amazing, I must say. We're starting a folk cover band called the Fuzzy Apples (hmmm.....folk cover band.... sounds like......... The Twinstrels? SORRY LIZ! I just never see you anymore so we never have time to sing pretty harmonies and jam on Hanson tunes).

Anyway, here's how we rock out Moldy Peaches style.



(TURN YOUR SPEAKERS UP)
Anyone Else But You

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look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she wants to stay awhile

I hate Valentine's Day. I don't know why it exists. Why do couples have to celebrate their love on one designated day, when they basically have every other day to proclaim their love to each other. I had no one to celebrate it with. Instead, I spent the day at school, and out at Panera and TGI Friday's with some friends, and ended the night practicing the Star-Spangled Banner with my a cappella group because we're singing at the Islander game sometime this week. It's gonna rock!

But anyway. Some pictures from this week.


Roses my dad got my mom for Valentine's Day


The tin of goodies I got mom and dad for Valentine's Day


The yummy goodness inside the tin :)


The tulips my sister sent to my parents for Valentine's Day


The high school that my drum corps. practices at sometimes has all these props on the stage from their theatre department, and they have this huge Audrey II on the stage that creeps us out and makes us laugh at the same time. We had to take a picture of it before it disappeared...

stop, hold up! tag team!

This is what happens when Amanda and I are together.
London, WATCH OUT!

it's peanut butter jelly time

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chickety china, the chinese chicken

My friend Amanda and I are going to Panera tomorrow for lunch, and I told our friend Kim I'd pick up something for her so she can eat on our way to the mall. When I asked what she wanted, I didn't have any paper around to write it down, so I used the back of one of my dollar bills.

This gave me an idea for a little while, but I don't know. Maybe I don't have a point to this idea. Anyway...

I just need a little of your time

I'm that girl that will totally rock the bags $20 and less, because I'm not cheap, I'm just poor. And some cute bags really are $20 or less!

But I also am willing to shell out $48 for a Coach wristlet. Because I really want one. Because it's really pretty (even if it's just all black). And because it totally goes against mostly everything I've ever thought. Although, I've said I would never pay for a designer bag, but I would use it if someone got it for me. And if I ever DID get a designer bag, I'd go with Coach. But the wristlet is relatively cheap, it's adorable, and it's practical. It will have responsibilities! It will have duties to fulfill!

I'm totally getting it.

here in this town they have all got the blues

So, that was a real shock today, when I'm half-listening to the news at dinner and I hear Heath Ledger is found dead in his NY apartment.
I liked Heath Ledger! He was an amazing actor...so versatile...and basically just coming into his prime. He had so much to offer the acting world, and he's gone. Basia and I were saying, we wanted to grow old watching his movies. He really was just that kind of person, you know?

The first movie I saw with Heath Ledger was "A Knight's Tale" and I always think of my sister when I think of that movie, because we used to watch it on HBO whenever it was on. Even if we caught it in the middle, we'd watch the movie, because it was awesome, and we loved the fact that it was set in older times, but with modern music. It's just one of those things I'll always connect with my sister, and now that link is dead.

Rest In Peace, Heath Ledger. You were simply amazing.

we are the future

listen to the sound of my voice
can you feel the beat of my heart?
listen to the questions I have
listen to me
it's all very simple
to see what we need

give us hope
my voice is calling
can you see?
look in my eyes
can you feel?
my hand is reaching
give us hope
and we'll show you the way...

listen to the sound of my voice
can you feel the beat of my heart?
listen to the questions I have
listen to me
we are the future
help us believe

give us hope
my voice is calling
can you see?
look in my eyes
can you feel?
my hand is reaching
give us hope
and we'll show you the way

take my hand
now look in my eyes
tell me what you see...

give us hope
my voice is calling
can you see?
look in my eyes
can you feel?
my hand is reaching
give us hope
and we'll show you the way

give us hope
my voice is calling
can you see?
look in my eyes
can you feel?
my hand is reaching
give us hope
and we'll show you the way

come on, vogue, let your body move to the music

I love project runway. And you know what I enjoy most about project runway? Not the show itself, but the fact that I watch it so much now that my PARENTS are watching it. My mom and I will have it on in two different rooms, and we're screaming back and forth to each other which outfits look awesome or ugly, or who's going to be in and out that week. My dad told me he doesn't really care for the show, but yet, he watches it with us when we have it on. Project runway...bringing families together everywhere.

Oh, and I love Christian Siriano. Enough said. <3

I'd become a gay man for him.

And I'd go lesbian for Heidi Klum, if she was into that kinda thing. But it's okay that she's heterosexual and married to Seal, because have you SEEN her children? They're adorable. I want to be their babysitter.

keep holding on 'cause you know we'll make it through

So, here's the deal. In exactly 4 months and 2 days, I'll be graduating from college. And even though I'm really ecstatic and excited about it, I have to be honest, I'm kinda freaking out about it, too. I was just watching the finale of Gilmore Girls Season 7 (because I missed it when it was aired on tv...I missed a lot of season 7) and Rory graduated and she got a pretty awesome job, and I was like, "wow. Rory seems all grown up and ready to go" and then I thought "I'm basically the same age as Rory. Gosh, I'm not old enough to graduate!"

Then my best friend assured me I was old enough to graduate...but what I mean is...mentally. Physically I'm old enough to graduate - physically, I'm old enough to do a lot of things - but I feel like maybe I'm not ready to graduate just yet. I thought I was, but the thought of it scares me a little bit. I have nothing to look forward to after that (except a really busy summer full of drum corps (and working when I have the time). I won't even have time to take a vacation. I kind of thought after I graduate college, I would go on vacation somewhere...Disney World, Europe, someplace crazy and fun where I can both relax and explore and have a great time doing it. This summer I'm going to be stuck in the states, and then after that? Where do I go from there?

I guess I'll keep working at the theatre until I find another job, but I don't know what I want to do with my life. I majored in music and psychology - barely - it's more an interdisciplinary studies diploma than anything. I'm scared of the future. I haven't even thought about graduate school yet, or if I even want to go to graduate school. I'm not sure, I'm never sure. About anything. I wish I was one of those people who was set on doing something since they were 5. That would make my life so much easier, right?

I need to go do laundry, because I have absolutely nothing to wear on the first day of my last semester of college. Yay me....my life is an organized mess.