Thursday, April 29, 2004
Well folks, I'm back from California!!!!!! And let me say that I had the time of my life. It was absolutly surreal (sp?) I really did not wanna come home once I was there. Rae had to practiclly push me on the plane to get me home. Ill try to go through my trip the best I can day by day:
Day one: Arriving
I wasn't really nervous about flying when I woke up that morning. But when we got to the airport, I was a wreck. I think that If I could have backed out, I would have. But I stayed strong and made it okay. After a long flight, we stopped in Pheonix!!!! For some reason, when we landed, I felt more complete. More like a real person than before. Probably because It's my hometown and I haven't been there in so long. Anyway, after all that, we finally landed in L.A. We get off the plane, wait for our luggage, and catch the shuttle bus to the car rental place. We get our car (after a few minor complications) and head to our hotel. And let me say, The hotel was NICE. I mean, it wasn't an amazing thing, But it certaintly fit our needs and more. It had a heated outdoor pool, a jucuzzi, sauna, work-out room, 2 restaruants, and a gift shop. So we baisiclly hung out and explored the hotel when we got there.
Day 2- La Brea Tar Pits, and The Wayne Brady Show
The next day, we dug out our map and found are way to the general down town L.A. area. We stopped at a museum before our Wayne Brady Show taping. The Museum was really cool. It had all these skeletons and fossils of all these pre-historic animals that all fell in a tar pit and got stuck on the museum property. they eventually died and they've been digging for years trying to get every fossil. very cool. Then next was our Wayne Brady Show taping!!!! that was SOOOOOO much fun. The guests he had on were really cool. One was a magician who did really cool tricks. and the commercial breaks were fun too. The band played and Wayne sang to us and stuff. Very fun! Look for me on TV on May 21st!!!!! Ill be in the Audience!!!!
After the Wayne Brady Show, we went back to the hotel, ate dinner, etc.
Day 3- Off to Hollywood
The next day, we went to Hollywood. We saw the Walk of Fame, and toured the Kodak Theatre (where the Academy Awards are held) It was truly amazing. We also got a look of the outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre too. The highlight of my day was when I found Drew Carey's star on the Walk of Fame. I took a picture of it, then took a picture of me with the star. Then, this guy came out of the store that the star is outside of and told me taht Drew was there a few days eariler filming the last episode of the Drew Carey Show, and the very last shot is going to be of him and his star, just like i posed with it! :)!!!! ::sigh:: For dinner, we went to this REALLY good Chinese Restaurant called P.F. Chang's. Sooooooo good. And our waitor was cute too ;). I think on this day, we also went to Rodeo drive. Where we discovered a REALLY good smoothie place called Jamba Juice. SOOOOOO good. It made surf city squeeze look like nothing. I wish they would bring one here to CT, but they don't.
Day 4- Santa Monica
Next day, we went to Santa Monica, to the beach area and all that fun stuff. We took a walk on the beach and had ice cream and spent the day on the pier taking pictures, and tanning. It was VERY awesome! then we went to this cute little Italian restaurant where once again, our waitor was VERY cute and very nice....after dinner, we went to a mall that we found and walked around there for a while. Itw as a Big mall! it had 3 floors! I got two pins from Hot Topic. One has Peter on it from The Family Guy and it says "Freakin' Sweet!" and the other says "Some people call it stalking, but I call it love" lol. perfect for me huh?! oh! I saw someone semi-famous in Santa Monica. I saw this guy name Marque who used to be on American Idol way back at the beggining of the third season. I didn't talk to him though cuz I didn't realize it was him till after I walked by. Stupid me. Lol- anyways, that was that day.
Day 5- Universal Studios
Universal was AMAZING!!!! when we got there, we waited in line and we got "Front- of-the-line passes" Which pretty much means taht we didn't have to wait in line for any rides. We always got right in. And believe me, it was well worth the money. We went on the new Shrek 2 4D Ride twice, Back to the Future, Backdraft, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 3D, and we saw a special effects show. pure fun. and I bought a stuffed Shrek in the gift shop and a couple things for Rae and Denise. While we were eating, these two guys who were dressed up as the Marx Brothers were walking around and I got my picture taken with them! hehe!!! one of the Marx Brothers I guess doesn't talk or whatever, so the one who didn't talk was just whisteling at me in that flirty sort of way when i asked if I could take a picture with them. LOL! very funny.
Day 6- Back to Hollywood
On day 6 we went back to Hollywood and we went on a tour of Movie Star's houses!!!!!! I saw soooo many peoples hosues like Brad Pitt, Hallie Barry, Keanu Reeves, Charlie Sheen, Tobey Maguire, Jack Nicholson, and I saw Elvis's old house, and Walt Disney's old house. VERY cool. Then we took a tour of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Our tour guide was AWESOME!!!!! his name was Levi and I kind of regret not getting a picture of him. He was the coolest guy ever. Although, I was debating on whether or not he had any teeth in the front...lol. He was sorta cute in a very strange way and me and Rae were cracking up at some of the stuff he did. But i think he fancied me Cuz he started talking to me like that after the tour was over. *wink* After that we ate at P.F. Chang's again. and again, had another pretty cute waitor. :).
Day 7- Leaving :(
Well, the trip was over. boooo hooo!!!!! I did NOT wanna go home. And I didn't look forward to another really long plane ride. the plane sucked. I finally got home and slept from 1 in the morning till 11 in the afternoon. thats longer than i usually sleep.
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Anyways, I'm still on Jet-lag. I still feel like it's 3 hours earlier than it acutally is. and it really sucks cuz i keep going to bed late. ::sigh:: I hope I come off it soon.
Yesterday was bad. As far as american Idol goes. My baby got kicked off!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which is why I made a lay-out in honor of him. I really liked the tribute they did for him at the end of the show. That was really sweet. Im writing him a letter too. Anyways, I'm gonna go and see if I can actually get some sleep. Ciao :)
posted by Lauren 4/29/2004 10:15:00 PM
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
I typed this on Friday but never published it. Here it is:
Well, I feel better. But not completely better. I found out that the paper that I handed in late is being counted for the 4th quarter instead of the third so my 92 in Local History is secure. And If I do bad on it, I'll have plenty of time to bring my grade back up before the year is over. THANK GOD! Heres how my report card might look for the 4th quarter. Let's see how right I am.:
Math- B or B-
Journalism- I have aboslutly no idea
Acting- A
Guitar- A
Local History- A-
Lit and Writing- A ( i think)
looking good huh! I hope I can pull off at least a B in journalism. Who knows though. Ive never seen my grade for that class, and I never got back any of my quizes that I corrected, so I honestly have no idea. I know I've done fairly well on the past two quizzs, so I just hope I can pull off a B.
Chad said something so incredibly funny today. he was listening to "The Who" and he goes "This CD gives me SO much energy!! It's like doing way too much PCP and then beating yourself up!....did I just say that?" LMAO!
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Well folks, I'm leaving for California tomorrow. Wish me a safe fun trip!!!!! I'll be back on the 27th.
People to Stalk look for in CA:
1. John Rzeznik, Robby Tacak, Mike Malinin
2. Drew Carey
3. Ryan Stiles
4. Edward Norton
5. Johnny Depp (I don't think he's there right now, but i'm looking anyways!)
6. Adam Sandler (I don't think he's there either, he stays mostly in the New York area)
7. Ben Stiller
8. Greg Proops
9. Orlando Bloom
10. David Spade
11. CLAY AIKEN!!!!! i thought he wasn't gonna be ther, but he is!!!!! i think....
Thats just the gist of who i'm looking for ::wink::
See ya on the 27th!!!!!!!
P.S.- Ya know what I discovered today that's really good? Take a sausage, egg, and cheese hot pocket and put salsa on it. yummy!
posted by Lauren 4/20/2004 04:28:00 PM
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
I am so incredbily sick of school. I honestly wish school was illegal. At Least where I live. I hate it so much. The word "Graduation" is probably my favorite word right now. I can't stand it. I totally screwed myself over big time. We have this paper due for Local History tomorrow and all of my notes are in my notebook which my teacher collected to grade. She told us to take all the papers out that we needed, and I thought I had them all. But I'm missing the main one that tells us what goes in each paragraph. I have a 92 In the class right now but I knew it was too good to be true. Lauren getting a good grade in an academic class would be an un-accomplishable thing. Why do I have to be so damn stupid?!?! Before you all go telling me that I'm not stupid, I am. Don't believe what you wanna yell at me know, because I truley am stupid. Not just in school. The only good thing I have in clean, common sense. but other than that, you might as well put me back in Kindergarden. I can bareley talk half the time, I can't spell, I can't do anything that involves math, I don't know an ounce of history, and you can forget about anything science thats not related to computers, or the solar system you wanna know how I know what I do? I'll giv eyou a hint. It's not from school. Everything Ive ever learned thats actually stayed with me, I learned on my own. All my computer skills are self taught, and everything I know about the solar system I learned from the magic school bus CD rom. But I have horrible speech, I have trouble reading and doing just about anything. Im just all around no good. part of it is just the crap that I get at school. It's prety much operated on a "smart kid" bias. Everyone whose not smart, is pretty much worth the dirt on the ground that the janitors never sweep up. Like today, we had to vote for the person to speak at graduation. I gaurantee you that everyone on that list is really smart. And I know pretty much all of them, and going by that, they are. Why couldn't I speak at graduation?!?! Whats so wrong me someone like Me who may not be the brightest people!?!?! does that make us unable to speak?! I didn't even vote for a student. Everyone on that list is gonna make up something so sickening saying how "great" our school is and how it was a "great" 4 years and it's just gonna be nausiating to hear. (sorry mike) Yeah, and Im sure the student council president is gonna have a lot to say. haha, yeah right. The student council is just there so students can have someting else that looks good on their college resume. Come on, you know it's true, they don't do a damn thing. And you know what? I really would have liked to speak at graduation. I would at least speak the truth instead of laying down all these lies all over everyone. I would say that Once I graduate, I never wanna have anything to do with taht school again, but I can't say that. Theres one person tahts keeping me from saying that. and That person's name is Chad. He's the greatest person ever known to man kind. If it wasn't for Chad and his fun personality, I would have given up a long time ago. Id probably come back for alumni day just to visit him and Dave and pretty much everyone in my guitar class whose not graduating this year. There is also Dorian who was in my psych class and my english class who is really cool, but im not friends with him.
Top People of 2003- 2004
1. Chad
2. Dorian
3. Eric
4. Lauren (not me)
5. Devin
6. Kristin
7. Rae
kind of a short list huh? anyways. Im just in a rough mood now( as if you didn't know already) so, im just gonna post this and go to bed.
posted by Lauren 4/14/2004 10:56:00 PM
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Happy Easter all!!!!
Well, Today wasn't that bad. It only sucked cuz my dad woke me up at like 7 to go to Church. Im so sick of waking up early on Sundays. Im always half dead and can't even concentrate when i'm doing powerpoint.
I had two really huge meals today. Which is weird because yesterday I made a pact to myself to crash diet so maybe i'll actually look decent when I go to California. Yeah, that definatly won't happen. But I think I'm gonna start getting up early in the mornings to work out. Maybe I'll actually go through with it. I went driving again today. Im getting pretty good at it. It's almost becoming second nature. After that we went to my grandma's house to have a meal with my family. That was alright. Me and Jeff and Glenn were sitting in the Kitchen B.S.ing about the Family Guy for pretty much the entire time. After that, Me and my dad went over to Denise's for another meal. Kate, Derek, Josh, and his girlfriend Mel were there too. I think Im starting to fit in a little more with my step brothers and Step sister. I like them alot. I think Josh might be taking me to see Dave Matthews this summer. Hopefully. It would be nice to get to know them better.
Ya know, I really do need a boyfriend. As much as I love to deny it, I really do need one. I just need someone to always be there for me ya know? Right now I have no stable friendships. I drift in and out of friendships and I feel like I don't even know anyone anymore. so I just kinda need someone around for moral support. boost my confidence up. Ya know what I mean? It might not even take a boyfriend to do it. I would just love for someone to just say they actually care about me. I really don't care who. I havent heard those words in a long time. I guess It's because I'm so quiet. I don't really talk that much so It's hard to have any friends. But, I'm glad I made a few new friends this year. But, they're freshman and I probably won't hear from them again after this year. Yeah, Ill shut up now and stop acting like a dang fool.
Well, I leave for California soon. I don't think the reality has sunk in yet. I'm scared shitless about flying. I'm sorry, but something that big and that heavy should NOT be floating 500 feet above the ground!!!!!!! But I am excited about going HOME!!!! (to Arizona) All I know is i'm gonna drug up before I go so maybe I'll just sleep the whole time. Man am I scared!!! HELP!!!!!!!!
BTW- If you're a regular reader of mine, or even if you just stop in every once in a while, put a message on my tagboard. No one's signed it in ahwile and i"ve been feeling like i've been writing this and nobody's reading it.
yeah, me and my dad are going for a walk now. ciao :)
posted by Lauren 4/11/2004 08:32:00 PM
Thursday, April 08, 2004
omg, i just had the time of my life yesterday. Me and Katie drove up to Gample Pavillion to welcome the UConn players home OMG, it was sooooo awesome. I hung around after I got out of school till Katie got out, then we got a ride back to her house and chilled there (and watched Room Raiders :) ) and waited for her dad to get back from work. When he got back, we bounced up to UConn and got really good seats! but, We waited tehre for like 2 hours cuz we were really early. But we kept busy. They had the dude in the big hat getting the crowed to do cheers and stuff, and they showed the game from the night before on the screens and everyone cheered when they won.....again :). I saw one sign that was sooo funny it said "Someone had to loose, thanks for Volunterring." If you don't know, Tennesee's team is called the "Lady Volunteers". LOL. and another one said "The evil empire has gone down again" (Pat Summit's nick-name is the evil empire) FINALLY after a long time of waiting, the players got there!!! I saw Everyone!!!!!! When the program finally started, The head of the athletic department came up on stage and introduced all the managers for the team and whatever, and then he introduced the players one by one...of course saving Diana Taurasi for last. Then Diana, Maria Conlon, and Morgan Valley (the seniors) made speeches. Then the best for last...GENO AURIEMMA!!!!! I love that guy. I absolutly LOVE That guy. Ya know what was funny? Durring Geno's speech, someone who was sitting in the upper sections yelled out "GENO! TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF!!!!!" and he's like "Take my WHAT off?!....Take my shirt off??...I already did that in New Orleans!" LAMO!! and Diana's sitting there waving her hands out going "nooooo!!!, please dont!" Then, he's talking about something that Barbra Turner was involved in and he forgets to mention her and everyone yells out "You forgot Barbra!!!" and he goes "I don't like Barbra anymore" LOL.
After it was over, The players ran around the outside and gave people high-fives. I got high-fives from Wilnet Crocket, and Jessica Moore :)!! I had a really bad angle, so I couldn't get a lot of people. But I was close to all the players :) :). we go outside and find their busses and wait there for all eternity hoping for them to come out (along with like 100 other people). And we finally saw them there too :) but heres the best part, Me and Geno had a moment.. We made eye contact at one point. And i'm sooooo thrilled that I was about 2 feet away from Geno Auriemma with no one in front of me!!!!!!! My new goal is to get a hug from him. I really love that guy. He's just so awesome. After all the excitement was over, me and katie and her dad stopped at Bennigans for dinner and reflected on the events. ::sigh:: I LOVE YOU UCONN!!!!!
Today, I couldn't even concentrate in school. After the hell of getting through school, I met up with Lauren and we went to Puppy Center so she could get a new leash for her rabbit. LOL- don't ask. Her rabbit is REALLY cute though, her name is Patches. hehe! so cute. Then we went back to her house and watched like 2 million comedy specials on ON Demand, and went outside to play with the dogs. I was over there for another majority of a day. When I got home, Denise had a present for me....A UCONN FLEECE!!!!!!!! I absolutly LOVE it!!!!! :-D!
Anyways, im gonna go watch some movies. Cuz , ya know thats what I do when I ahve no school the next day....
posted by Lauren 4/08/2004 10:48:00 PM
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
WHOSE HOUSE?!?!?! UCONN'S HOUSE!!!!!! THREE YEARS IN A ROW BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GOT IT GOIN' ON!!!!!! AND, THE ONLY SCHOOL TO HAVE THE MEN AND WOMEN BOTH WIN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE SAME YEAR!!!!!!! CONGRATS TO D.T. NUMBER 3 (DIANA TAURASI), MARIA CONLON, AND MORGAN VALLEY FOR FINISHING OFF THEIR UCONN CARREERS WITH A BANG!! ALSO CONGRATS TO JESSICA MOORE WHO TOUGHED OUT A KNEE INJURY AND ASHLEY BATTLE FOR MAKING AN AWESOME THREE POINT SHOT! ANN STROTHER FOR PICKING HER GAME UP, BARBRA TURNER FOR AWESOME FREE-THROW SHOTS, AND OF COURSE, GINO AURIEMMA THE BEST COACH IN THE WORLD NO DOUBT! AND GUESS WHAT?!? I'M GOING TO UCONN TOMORROW FOR THE CELEBRATION!!!!! WHOOOO!!!!!!! YEAH BABY YEAH!!!
posted by Lauren 4/06/2004 11:15:00 PM
OMG, I got a REALLY big surprise today when I got home from school. Wow. See, We wrote letters to ourselves in 5th grade. Just a little blurb telling where we were then and what-not, and my teacher actually sent me mine. It's soooo scary!!! But, funny at the same time. OMG. heres what mine says:
June 16, 1997
Dear Me,
When I grow up I want to be a pro-basketball player. I put in {the envelope} my lines from our flag day assembly at Webster Hill school. I'm 10 years old. I can't wait for school. Mr. Kay is an okay yeacher. I can't wait untill i Go to segjuic (its supposed to be "sedgwick" :-)~) next year. But in 7 years I'll be in Conard when Mr. Kay sends me this letter. I'm also going to send Congos, our fifth grade money from government. I think the future holds me good luck. And as Matt Backel would say, "Be happy!" I have lots of friends. One of them is Catie Welch. "Hi Catie!" and another friend is Alissa Barret "hi Alissa!" I have only 2 tapes of my own. My favorite groups are Spice Girls and Savage Garden. My favorite hobbies are swimming and playing basketball. Love Lauren/ Me
Omg, isn't that funny?!? See, I even liked Savage Garden back then :-)~ My writing was so messy back then It was really hard to read. I actually wrote my teacher a letter back thanking him for sending that to me.
In other quick news.....
Me and Lauren have a new goal: We will go to Chicago and we will serve a Saturday detention at the school where the Breakfast Club was filmed!!!!! LOL!
and, one more thing....
U-C-O-N-N....UCONN, UCONN, UCONN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MEN ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AND THE WOMEN ARE GOING FOR IT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE WAY TENNESEE!!!!!!!
anyways, ciao for now!
posted by Lauren 4/06/2004 06:37:00 PM
Friday, April 02, 2004
Geez. I've been meaning to update for so long. I'm glad I finally have a chance to.
I was home sick yesterday. It's that damn cold again. But I picked a good day to be home because we have weird...wired....crazy scheduales at school because the sophmores are taking CAPT tests and I had an hour and 20 minute math class. Yeah right. like I could have survived that. But the previous days were alright though. The hour long classes I had were pretty bareable...bearable.....tollerable. For my hour long Lit & Writing class, Mr. Rush let us watch "Shrek"!!! I forgot how much I love that movie...which is probably why i went out and bought it tonight. Mr. Rush Is becoming my favorite teacher. He's just so cool. Ya know whats awesome?! He might be on a sitcom!!! If I don't exactly know the whole story, but they're trying to sell it to either NBC or HBO, and if they do, he's gonna be on it!! Isn't that cool?!? I'm definatly having him sign my yearbook before i graduate...
I think I am going to that school in Orlando. Ya know whats WICKED WICKED WICKED awesome?!? You actually get to LIVE IN DISNEY!!!!! yeah, the school itself doesn't have dorms, but they let you actually live in one of the resorts in disney!!!!!!!!! I just read that in the book the other day. Isn't that awesome?! That way when people ask me where I live, I can say Disney World and I won't be lying!!!!! hehe :) I mean, I'm not exactly sure if I'm gonna do it yet because it is rather expensive...but keep your fingers crossed!!!!!! Im most likely going to that school, but i just may not live there. I could find an apartment near there if i wanted to.
I got a strap for my guitar last week. (this is one of the things I wanted to update about before BLOGGER DELETED MY POST!!!!!!) It's got lightning blots all over it. But they actally look real, not like cheesy. I love it so much! I got it at Guitar Center for like 13 bucks. Chad called it "Bitchin". LOL. (He's been using that word a lot lately for some reason) Yeah, I went to Guitar Center and the Mall with Lauren last weekend. (not the mall i work at, a different one) Lauren got a strap for her bass. It's got chilli pepers all over it! hehe! it's cool too. At the mall, we met this really crazy guy in Hot Topic...Lauren saw a shirt for the TV show "Home Videos" and the guy goes "You actually watch that show?!" And when we got off that topic we started talking about how "Barney" and the "Teletubbies" have subliminal messages in them. LOL, he was creepy, but cute at the same time.... They have this stand at the mall that had all these really cool chalk (im guessing they were chalk) drawings of different people, and I saw one of John Rzeznik!!!! I wanted it SOOOO bad, but alas, I was out of money by then cuz i got my guitar strap and a few charms for my bracelet. (not that all that money added up would have been enought to get it anyways.) They also had one of Johnny Depp and the Stooges. I just wanted all of them. :). maybe when i go back there i'll pick up one of them. They also had some kick-ass Family Guy and Pirates of the Caribbean t-shirts at Hot Topic that I wanted too....
I had another issue with Andy today. Yet another one. See, I had these two posters up in what used to be my sleeping area at my mom's place untill he moved in. One of them had butterflys on it and the other was a movie poster from the movie "Atlantis". And, without telling me, without a word, he goes in there and takes them down. Not a big deal right? but, heres the catch. He ripped my Atlantis poster. Yeah, he F****** ripped it and crinkled it!!!!! And let me tell you, I AM PISSED!!!! Cuz, I can't get another one like it. I don't remember where I got mine. I don't think I paid anything for it, but still, I really liked it. It's ripped really jagged like six inches around one of the corners. It looks like he wasn't very careful when he took it down. I don't know if it can be taped. At least, I don't know if it can be taped without it looking really obvious. Maybe I'll tape it and hang it up somwhere with a little sticky note on it with an arrow pointing to it that says "Blame Andy". He's such a selfish butt-f*****.
But anyways, I got 2 new movies today. Mr. Deeds, and Shrek. I'm about to go watch them and make me some pop-corn. Ciao!
posted by Lauren 4/02/2004 09:38:00 PM
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