hooray!

Happy Birthday to me!!

You might remember the song and video that I made for my brother for his birthday. He returned the favor and made an awesome rap for me. I can't get enough of it. I keep watching it over and over.

My mom also had me watch this video from the beatles. Sometimes I think who has the time to make these types of things. I know if I had though of it first I totally would have made it as well. So I guess I can't judge.

I have had a pretty chill day. Watching One Tree Hill and eating birthday cake. Me and my friend MJ are going to watch all the seasons of One Tree Hill. There are 7 of them. Yes we are crazy. Over about a week we have watched season 1 and a disc of season 2. I will keep you posted on how that goes. 

I can do anything good.

How cute is this little girl. Oh, the things we can learn from little kids. We should all stand/dance in front of the mirror on occasion and repeat things we are grateful for or even things we like about ourself or about life in general. 

(The word ourslef is looking very very strange to me right now. It is making me think of elves and sleds. I have no idea where that came from since christmas is six months away!)

Anyways we should copy Jessica and repeat in the mirror "I can do anything good...better than anyone else.

I have decided to list a few things I am thankful/excited for here and I will go and dance around my bathroom repeating them later.

1.  My birthday is in six days! 23 here I come!

2.  I get to spend time with my parents and Caleb for the next little while (maybe a bit too much time
     though. haha.) We do miss Jared. (some of the time) He comes home in about 4-5 months!! We
     don't know his actual release date yet. It could be beginning of November or Christmas Eve.
     Hopefully we will know soon!

3.  New Zealand's Health Care system. hellooo it's FREE!!! Which has been a blessing. Seriously
     paying taxes is SO worth the benefits. Caleb even gets free dental work done since he is a student.
     Too bad i'm not still in high school.

4.  Decorating my room! I haven't officially started yet, but hopefully it will be incredible. If it turns 
     out decent I might even post pictures!

5. The soundtrack's to One Tree Hill and The O.C. duuude I knew that One Tree Hill soundtrack's
    were pretty decent but I just started listening to them and i'm completely obsessed.  Also I can't
    believe I have never seen The O.C. until a few days ago. Where have I been? The show has only
    been finished for about 4 years. Oh well I am enjoying working my way through them. Although 
    i'm sure the season finale's will be a little more anti-climatic since I don't have to wait three months
    to find out. I  just pop the next disc in like 2 minutes later. I haven't decided if that is a good or bad
    thing yet.

What are you thankful/excited for?

dynamic.

I found this poem on tumblr quite awhile ago and fell in love with it. I recently found it again and thought I would share it. enjoy!

I’m just a Summer Roberts

Waiting for her Seth Cohen

Well, you can be Peter Parker

And I’ll be your Mary Jane Watson

Won’t you be my Danny Zuko?

I want to be your Sandra Dee

But we don’t need to be them, you know

We’re perfectly fine, just you and me

We’re kind of just like John and Yoko

Maybe even better than them, I bet

I like you better than Katherine did Petruchio

You know me better than Romeo did Juliet

You got Nick’s indie boy vibe

I got Norah’s no-bullcrap attitude

I can’t keep sane without you by my side

You know you need me when you’re feeling blue

What about Barney and Robin?

Or Cinderella and her charming Prince

The moment I first saw you, there was no denying

That I’ll never be able to stop thinking about you since

Like a sappy movie scene

When Boy tells Girl he loves her

I anticipate our moment; it’s almost here

We’ll live out our own happily ever after

Because it’s written in the stars

Although it’s not completely astronomic

I just know it in my heart

You can’t deny it—we’re dynamic

boys will be girls.

This video kills me everytime.

class of 2005.

(I meant to post this on the 25th of May but life has been super crazy so it's a little late.)

It has been five years since I have graduated high school. I honestly can't believe it. Some days it seems like it was yesterday and others it feels like a whole different lifetime. I remember when I was in 2nd grade. I went to a school that went from Kindergarten up to 8th grade. I thought the older kids were so cool. I couldn't wait until I was one of the big kids on campus. I guess I never really imagined what it would be like when I was in high school. sometimes it seemed that I would never get there.. Not that I thought I was going to die or anything it just seemed like a lifetime away. Since being fourteen or fifteen was "so old". haha. I guess my little brain just couldn't comprehend it at the time.

In honor of my fifth year anniversary of graduating into the "real world" I decided to make a mixtape of songs that remind me of being a senior in high school. These songs bring back so many memories. Every time I hear them it is like I am seventeen again. Most of the memories of these songs are driving around with the girls screaming these songs at the top of our lungs whether we were going to QT, Applebee's, TP'ing someones house or creating some sort of havoc, or any of our other favorite haunts. One memory that stands out at the moment is when we were at the church off of 32nd street and Southern (I'm not too sure who was in the car but I know that Marinda was.) We were there for a roadshow that Kimball Stake was putting on. We had just been blasting "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani. There is a part in the song where she says "ding" in the song and Marinda wanted to get the timing right so she could sing along with the "ding". We must have played that part of the song about fifty times. She would with either be ahead or behind by just a fraction but she did get it in the end!! It was hilarious at the time though. (do you even remember that Marinda??) I have so many amazing memories from high school, but I am sure glad I am done with that part of my life. I wish that I had some pictures to put up but they are all on my laptop which died on me :( hopefully I might be able to get them back though. (if anyone has any pictures they could send me that would be great!) I hope that you will enjoy this mixtape as much as I do.

class of 2005 {a mix}

1. let's get it started - black eyed peas
2. beverly hills - weezer
3. leave (get out) - jojo
4. yeah - usher feat. lil' jon and ludacris
5. you and me - lifehouse
6. stacy's mom - fountains of wayne
7. these words - natasha bedingfield
8. switch - will smith
9. come clean - hilary duff
10. vindicated - dashboard confessional
11. listen to your heart - dht
12. i miss you - blink 182
13. toxic - britney spears
14. sugar, we're going down - fall out boy
15. somebody told me - the killers
16. rich girl - gwen stefani
17. since u been gone - kelly clarkson
18. don't cha - the pussycat dolls feat. busta rhymes
19. ocean avenue - yellowcard
20. she will be loved - maroon 5
21. hey ya - outkast
22. boyfriend - ashlee simpson
23. pon de replay - rihanna
24. meant to live - switchfoot
25. run it! - chris brown

if you would like to download this, click below
class of 2005

What are some of your favorite songs from high school?