Oh, Laura

Just bought 2 tickets to a Laura Marling concert happening next February in SF for 36 bucks! 18 dollars to see Laura perform live? I LOVE the United States of America! This certainly eases the pain of not being able to afford U2 and Black Eyed Peas concert tickets for next year. I had no choice. I had to choose what I really really wanted the most so I'm going to see Wicked and John Mayer. Priorities.

He walked down a busy street
Staring solely at his feet
Clutching pictures of past lovers at his side
Sat at the table where she sat
And removed his hat
In respect of her presence
Presents her with the pictures and says
‘These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you.
These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you’

He opened up his little heart
Unlocked the lock that kept it dark
And read a written warning
Saying ‘I’m still mourning
Over ghosts
Over ghosts
Over ghosts
Over ghosts that broke my heart before I met you’

Lover, please do not
Fall to your knees
It’s not
Like I believe in
Everlasting love

I'm so excited!!!

Winter Break 2009

Ahhh! The smell and taste of winter vacation ---

Fall quarter is officially over and I'm going to be homework-free for 3 whole weeks! I'll be spending a week of the 3 weeks working at the center but the last 2 weeks I will spend (1)watching movies, (2)staying in bed, (3)driving around, and most importantly, (4)oversleeping.

It's a nice Sunday night knowing I have nothing school-related to do the next day. No classes to go to, no papers to turn in, no quizzes to study for. I actually like school, I just whine a lot.

Christmas is only a couple of weeks away and I still haven't finished shopping for gifts. Argghhh! Gotta go to the mall!

I really like walking aimlessly around the mall - and driving aimlessly, too. If I wasn't thinking about gas prices, I wouldn't mind driving around for a few hours every once in a while. I can organize my thoughts better because the only physical thing you can do while driving is... driving. If you're home and not doing anything, there are a lot of "nothings" that can distract you whereas you are the captive audience of your car while on the road... or is it the other way around?

I enjoy blogging the same way - writing without a purpose or structure feels good. I don't tweet and I don't facebook or get on yahoo messenger as much as I did before so it has freed up a lot of my time. Time which I have used doing school work the past few weeks. I did my second and last practicum this fall quarter and the work load just about drove me insane but I'm happy to say I'm done. It's over. Finito. From now on, school is going to be cake... and then I remember I have English Writing for Winter quarter. Flak.

Disconnected

Of the many stupid things I've done in the past, leaving my cellphone in my jacket and then putting said jacket in the washing machine is by far the stupidest, most troublesome thing I've ever done. As to be expected, when I pulled out the soaking wet phone and had my sister's boyfriend work on it with a hair dryer, it stayed dead. Dead, dead, dead.

All of the numbers stored in my phone, gone. All saved messages, gone. All pictures, gone. Gone, gone, gone.

I had to wait a week to go to Verizon with my sister to get a replacement for my dead phone. The ugliest, most basic phone they had to replace the one I destroyed (which was surprisingly not as ugly as I first thought) cost $170. Fortunately, my sister was able to borrow a phone from a friend of hers who recently upgraded so that's what I'm using now. I couldn't stomach shelling out almost $200 for a really crappy phone, besides, I don't even have $200! Life sometimes sucks. Sucks, sucks, sucks.

So after a week of borrowing just about everyone's phone, I finally have a phone again. Only this time, I only have about a dozen numbers in my contact list. Oh, well. The most important numbers are the ones I use the most anyway.

p.s. Tip from the Verizon personnel. Don't blow dry your phone if it gets wet. Dump it in a sack of rice because it can suck the water from the phone faster.

Same Time, Next Year

I was feeling nostalgic yesterday and decided to watch "Same Time, Next Year." It's a wonderful movie about two married people who engage in a decades long extramarital affair. It's romantic, promise!




Wonderful song by Johnny Mathis: a family favorite for almost 20 years!

Hello, I don't even know your name, but I'm hopin' all the same
This is more than just a simple hello.
Hello, do I smile and look away? No, I think I'll smile and stay
To see where this might go.

'Cause the last time I felt like this, I was falling in love,
Falling and feeling, I'd never fall in love again.
Yes, the last time I felt like this, was long before I knew
What I'm feeling now with you.

Hello, I can't wait till we're alone, somewhere quiet on our own
So that we can fall the rest of the way.
I know that before the night is thru, I'll be talking love to you,
Meaning every word I say.

'Cause the last time I felt like this I was falling in love,
Falling and feeling, I'd never fall in love again.
Yes, the last time I felt like this, was long before I knew
What I'm feeling now with you.

Oh, the last time I felt like this I was falling in love,
Falling and feeling, I'd never fall in love again.
Yes, the last time I felt like this, was long before I knew
What I'm feeling now with you.

Paper-Thin Heart

Beautiful voice, beautiful song.

Mother, can you hold me together
It's so dark and I'm losing my way
I took all of these detours to find love
But when I did, it just faded away

Now what do I do
With the sweet love of mine
Do I give it away and
Hope someday I'll find
Someone half as awake
As the moon and the stars
Mother, teach me to love
With a paper-thin heart

Mother, your words are so healing
You speak of love and of light and of peace
But I've made it my course to avoid you
Just to hide from these feelings of grief

Now what do I do
With the sweet love of mine
Do I give it away and
Hope someday I'll find
Someone half as awake
As the moon and the stars
Mother, teach me to love
With a paper-thin heart

Now what do I do
With the sweet love of mine
Do I give it away and
Hope someday I'll find
Someone half as awake
As the moon and the stars
Mother, teach me to love
With a paper-thin heart

Mother, I know you are with me
You were there when I took my first breath
I can't stop looking back for the answers
I just keep coming up with regret
There are some things I just can't forget