Monday, May 31, 2004
The past two days have been really fun. Yesterday we went to Rhode Island to my aunt's boyfriend's (John) beach house. It's sooooooo nice up there. Lucky for Jeff, he's staying there like all week. OMG, it was pure crazyness up there. We had a water fight. Yeah, me and my messedup family had a water fight outside when it wasn't even that warm out. At one point, Jim (my uncle) sprayed me, Jenn (my cousin) and Denise (my "step mother") with the frickin' hose!! we were drenched. Then my dad was hiding in the back of Russ's (my cousin) pick-up truck and when Jim walked by, he nailed him with a super-soaker. Then the rest of the time we were just nailing each other with water baloons every chance we got. I think it's gonna continue at my graduation party. I'm tellin' ya, my party is gonna be pure water fights the whole time. I can't wait to see how Chad and Mike are gonna react to my family, if they come.... LOL. The only bad part about yesterday was I got sunburn. My whole face is pure red and my arm that was closest to the window while we were driving up and back is like scorching red. It hurts a lot...::moans:: Jenn got burnt too.
Today I worked 10-6. That wasn't much fun. But, I went over and talked to that dude from Munson's that I mentioned a while back. His name is Peter. The only reason i know that is cuz I saw his nametag....lol. Anyway, I didn't really say much. All I said was "Are you new here?" And turns out he's been there for a year. I guess I never noticed him before. But he really is cute. I dunno. he's either not interested, or has a girlfriend. Almost guaranteed. While I was working, Jenn, and my Aunt Ellen came up and had lunch at Sbarro's with me. that was nice of them :-). On my break I also got Mike's Birthday present. Well, part of it. Anyways, after work, me and my dad went over to Denise's house and she made us dinner. I got to see Kate and Derek too. I hope they come to my party. Kate had this friend of hers over who was just the most annoying person I've ever met in my entire life. Yes, I FINALLY found someone whose more annoying than Katie. hard to believe, but my God, it happend. She and Kate aparently went to the mall earlier today and she got all thise stupid ugly-ass skirts and tried them on for us and was parading around the damn living room in these butt-ugly skirts. I think she got pissed at me because she asked me what I thought of one of them and I said "All skirts are ugly". and it's true, all skirts are ugly. but I think she got mad at me for saying that. Derek got so pissed at her that he left the house for a while and came back when she left. As he was leaving he whispers to me "hey Lauren, good luck!" LOL, believe me If I could have took off, I would have. MAN, SHE WAS ANNOYING! Stupid girly-girl.
Anyways, Tomorrow is senior skip day, So I a'int going to school. Yahoo!!!! Ill sleep late and do nothing all day! yay!
lol...
Ciao!
posted by Lauren 5/31/2004 10:15:00 PM
Friday, May 28, 2004
"Uno, dos, tres, Tango!!!!!"- Chad
OMG people. Today was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, not today, just guitar class. But when is Guitar class not awesome?!? But today was especially awesome because we had Noise Fest 2. HELLLLLL yeah! It was soooo fun. It was Me, Lauren, Chad, Dean, John, and Wes on the lights again. Chad, Dean, and John had amps turned up pretty much all the way, and everyone was just jamming random stuff. Then we all joined in played "I belive in a thing called Love" and "Iron Man" and Miss Hammel and Chad played a song together. It was the most fun thing I've ever been invovled with at school. IT was so loud Lauren's guitar was vibrating and the whole room was shaking. By the time we were done, we all couldn't hear and our stomachs hurt. LOL. But it was soooo much fun. We'll probably have a few more before the year is over. (another side note, while we were in the practice room having noise fest, Dyllan and Dave turned Chad's backpack inside out....LOL)
We got our yearbooks yesterday. Ive only gotten a few signatures so far. Heres my favorites from what I've got.
"Lauren, your quiet, yet loud style demands attention no matter where you are. good luck with guitar and always stay true to yourself.-Alex Adams"
"Lauren, (I apologize in advance for the crappy handwriting) Thank you very much for the Mitch Hedberg CD and the Hendrix picture. I'll give you some money sometime down the road. Sincerely, The Chadilac (Chad)"
"Lauren, Its been great to have you in multiple classes! you are a great student and a special person. Keep your dream of comedy alive. Maybe we'll meet on stage one day :)!
-TJ Rush" (mr. rush)
"Dear Lauren, Lots of fun in both acting and stagecraft. Now, transfer that fun to the rest of your life. My best Wishes, Mr. Casey"
Anyways....IM gonna go reflect on noisefest. ;)
Ciao!
posted by Lauren 5/28/2004 01:25:00 PM
Saturday, May 22, 2004
I GOT AMERICAN IDOL TICKETS!!!!!!! THANK YOU LAUREN! If It wasn't for her, I'd be in the dirt right now. Oh man, I can't wait. The concert is August 28th...2 days before my birthday :) :). Im so excited you have no idea.
according to this, it's my 100th post since I had to clear my blog out last. I know i've posted a lot more than that, But ive had to delete stuff because of errors and all that. Happy 100th post to me!
I got more pictures developed from California. As soon as I get my scanner hooked up again, I might post a couple on here.
Can't wait for the third Harry Potter movie to come out. I'm hoping we have a midnight showing here. I'd be first in line for that.
I gave Alaina the address to this page...so if you're reading this now.... HI LAINY!!!!!!!!
Kinda excited about my Acting show. It's on the 16th of June, which is also the last day of classes. SCORE!!!!!
AARON (the jerk who i used to work with) GOT CANNED!!!!!!!!! I'm sooooo happy about that I can't even begin to describe it. It's like a dream come true. He was such a jerk and he would just look at me like I had the plague or something. It really wasn't fun working with him. Now all we gatta do is get rid of Annie and we'll be golden. I wish me and James worked together more often. I love James, he's such a sweetie. Leslie left too. Not because she got canned, she moved. I'll miss her!! She was really nice.
I'm going to Rhode Island for Memorial day. We're going up to my aunt's, boyfriend's beach house. I think we're just staying for the day, but it'll still be fun. It'll be nice to get away from here for even a day, and seeing my crack head family is always nice. LOL ;).
Anyways, im gonna go. Im gonna try to get some more reading done. I'm trying to read the Harry Potter books again before the movie comes out..... At least up to the third one, just so I can refresh my memory.
Ciao!!!!
posted by Lauren 5/22/2004 10:20:00 PM
Friday, May 21, 2004
Well folks, the verdict is in. It looks like I'm gonna lose all my files from my computer. Im really angry, but what am I gonna do? I think I can get the programs back that I had. But, I'm not sure if I'm gonna get KaZaa back. I know I'm gonna miss it, But thats probably what gave me the virus in the first place. All those videos I had....gone... Man, that really stinks. Im glad I made my mix CD so I have most of the music files I want. Theres just like 3 or 4 songs that I'll have to get again that I really want...or maybe I'll just by the CD's that the songs are on. I also want my JohnStevens mp3's back too... Man...all those screen captures I took from my Clay videos...everything just gone...omg. Well, what am I gonna do?
If theres one thing I learned from this, It's back EVERYTHING up on a disk. And I mean EVERYTHING. Don't leave anything important on it incase your computer crashes.
Graduation is getting closer and closer. I can't wait. Im soooo psyched. Disney World, Here I come!!!!!!!!!! but ya know what stinks? I think this past Wendesday was our last short Wendesday. Well, every day is short for me, just certain Wednesdays were even shorter. insted of getting out at 12:30, I got out at 11:30 LOL, i'm so greedy. Im lucky I even got the scheduale I did anyways. It took a lot of begging to my guidence counseller. (who i hate)I used work as an excuse.
I've been making an honest effort to stop swearing. At least I have been in the past few days. If you remember, it was one of my new years resolutions. But It's soooo hard, Considering I've been swearing since I was like 10. sometimes It just slips and I can't help it, or I do just to calm myself down. (yeah, swearing calms me down for some reason) I know I've been close to swearing at my math teacher a few times this year though...I don't know where that loser got his teaching degree, but it wasn't in America. I can't believe that freak has kids. Kinda scary. I feel REALLY bad for them.
Anyways. I just got "Biloxi Blues" on DVD, so I'm gonna go watch that. Ciao!!
posted by Lauren 5/21/2004 08:33:00 PM
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Well people, I did it. I fixed my images and I didn't lose them. It's a really long story about how it all happend though and I'm sure you don't wanna hear it. But, I will say that since I last updated, I've spent all those days searching and searching for a new image host and being unsucessful, then trying to make my old one work again, and then eventually finding a new one. I backed up all my images in a disk so if anything else happens, I'll be prepared. The only image I lost was my archive button, which I made a new one anyways. (yes, I know it's blurry)
Things are going a little better now. Im still just so angry that I don't have my computer right now. I'm on my dad's computer and the thing is ancient. It still has windows 95 and only 48 ram. yeah, it's a piece.
One good thing happend today though. I found out that I have an 87 in Journalism! I'm hoping I can get it up to an A by the end of the quarter. That would rule. Maybe I'll graduate with maximum honors again! Altough, my grade in Local History may very well be heading down. I got a D on the paper that counts as 75% of our final exam grade. Yeah. I could have re-done it, but guess what? I didn't have a computer at home. I don't even know how I would have re-done it anyway. I bareley had enough information to get through it at all. Hopefully the A- I got last quarter will keep me alive. I also should get my math grade up. I really have no idea what it is right now, But I have to finish a project I owe from when I was on vacation and get that in. That should bring my grade up. If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to get straight A's for the last quarter. I don't think It'll happen, but It would be nice to do it once before I graduate. I was pretty close last quarter. only two grades were B's. Wow. I never thought I'd ever hear myself say that....
Guess what happens on Saturday?!?! American Idol tickets go on sale!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im hoping Lauren still wants to go with me....If not, I can kiss any chance of seeing John Stevens GOOD BYE! i'll talk to her about it tomorrow.
OH!!! WATCH THE WAYNE BRADY SHOW ON FRIDAY!!!! I'M GONNA BE IN THE AUDIENCE!!!!!!! LOOK FOR ME!!!!
Speaking of The Wayne Brady Show, I don't believe how much of a bug I have to go back out to L.A. I absolutly love it there. Theres jsut so much to do, you can't possibly be bored at any time. I really would love to go to school out there, but It's just to far to keep flying back and forth for holidays and stuff, and It would get REALLY costly flying all those times. I just love it there. ::Sigh:: but all I have now is pictures and memories. but hey, theres always next summer. maybe I'll go out there for a little while next summer with a few friends or whatever...perhaps put a down payment on a house.... ;)
I wont a Charm for my bracelet on Ebay that says I <3 Clay Aiken :)!! I love it!!!!! Clay is also coming to a casino near me, but the tickets are like 100$!!!!! HELLLLL NO! I can't afford that! i mean, If I could, I would DEFINATLY pay it. But I just can't afford that. But, He is coming to the Big E! So me and Lauren are gonan try and get to that. WEEE!!! i love Clay!
More good news, RANDY JOHNSON PITCHED A NO-HITTER YESTERDAY AGAINST ATLANTA!!!!!!!!!! Wow, for being 40 years old, that guy sure hasn't lost anything. He's still the one pitcher that everyone in the league fears!!!!! GO BIG UNIT!!! I'm hoping I can get a to a game this season...me and Rick are hoping to go see a D-backs/ Mets game sometime in August. yay!
Well, ciao for now!
Peace, Love, and The Goo Goo Dolls
posted by Lauren 5/19/2004 06:02:00 PM
Sunday, May 16, 2004
OMG. I AM SOOOOOO mad. SOOOOO incredibly mad. The image host that Iw as using said that I'm out of bandwidth and the only way I can view my images is to upgrade. Well guess what? They won't let me view my images so I can save them again and move them to a different server. So they're stuck on there and I can't get them. They want my goddamm money!!!! I have them saved on my computer that F****** being fixed now, and I'll probably lose them. So guess what? all those graphics that I worked for hours on are gone. All that time and effort that I put into making those has all been for nothing. Chances are really good that I'm gonna lose all of my files from my computer. The hundreds of songs and videos and pictures on KaZaa, pretty much every lay-out and graphic I've ever made is gone never to be heard from again. Im sooooo frustrated. I can't even tell you. Now my blog looks like total shit. But honestly I don't care about that, I just want my pictures back!!!!!!! wait...i think i may have figured out a way to do it just now...hold on....nope. didn't work. GREAT! JUST FRICKIN GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want my damn computer back with everything the way I want it. Why does everything always happen to me?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! I envy people with great lives. What did I do to deserve this crap!?! Am I a horrible person?! It seems like every possible thing that could go wrong in ones life has gone wrong in mine. Everything is just torture. Just all that hard work I put in has just gone down the drain. You people have no idea how long I spend picking colors and fonts and pictures and everything for those graphics I make. It takes a lot of thought and time, all of which I love to do, but to work taht hard and have your work lost is just so increibly painful. I hope to God alimighty that my files are still in my computer. but knowing my shitty luck, they're already gone. My dad said theres a chance that I could have my computer back tomorrow. But again, knowing my luck, I probably won't get it back untill I'm 80 years old and can't use the damn thing anyway. WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAPPEN TO ME?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?
posted by Lauren 5/16/2004 10:50:00 AM
Friday, May 14, 2004
Hello again peoples!!!!!! Im back!!! Well, not really. sort of. I'm using my dad's computer. He just got his upgraded a little bit and i just hooked it all back up for him...and now i'm using it. Yeah, my computer got a virus. And aparently it's pretty bad. Im just PRAYING that I don't lose all my files. OMG would taht SUCK or what?!!?!? Do you all realize how much stuff I have?! I have soooo many pictures and songs and videos and my layouts and everything...I can't lose it! I'll cry for days if i do.
I had stuff to update about all week, but I forgot it all. As Ir emember I'll post more. Ciao!
posted by Lauren 5/14/2004 03:57:00 PM
Saturday, May 08, 2004
::sigh:: this may be my hard day at work talking, but I just feel so hopeless...in many different ways. Love, my future, everything. It's all in jepoardy is far as im concerned. But, I know you all don't want to hear all that psycho babble, so I'll spare you this time. But next time, you may not get so lucky.
God, I had such a shitty day at work today. It honest to God wasn't even funny. It was insanly busy the whole time. I barely had time to go eat my goddamn dinner. Everyone just kept coming in. it was 10 f****** o'clock and people were still coming in. Keep in mind, the mall closes at 9:30 and I was already in a horrible mood because of all the shit that I delt with throughout the day. And of course, My boss doesn't have the balls to tell people in the store to leave when we're about to close. She just lets them walk around an hour after were supposed to have left. Normally I wouldn't give a flying shit, but I really wanted to get home. I honestly almost broke down and walked out. I couldn't deal with it. I can't wait till the day I can quit that place. Should be sometime late August.
Im honestly starting to question my choice of careers. Does anyone really think it's realistic to pick a carreer in movies? I've decided to broaden my choice from "actor" to everything involving movies. I'd love to be a director, producer, set designer, anything like that. It would just be incredibly awesome. But honestly, Is it realistic? I have a feeling I'm never going to make it. Im not that good of an actor. (although I can see myself being better if it wasn't for those corny scenes in acting class and something alittle more realisitic) I have to start learning more about movies. I'm gonna try to get to the library sometime soon and read up on movie related stuff, and maybe ill see about more schooling I can do. The school that I'm planning on going to is pretty intense. Classes are 6 days a week from 9-6, and we only get one break around Christmas time. (at least for the time that i wanna go at...you can pretty much go any time of the year) I really wish my dad would let me go to California because theres another school that I saw out there called "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". That looked interesting too. But God forbid I go somewhere like that. Could be fatal. But honestly, Id like to hear some feedback, so if u have any, leave it. I'd appreciate it.
My Mitch Hedberg CD/DVD thingy finally came in, and I picked it up today. I'm very excited. Maybe that'll bring some joy in my life.
Theres this new guy who works at Munson's (the store across from mine) whose pretty cute. I saw his nametag today, and his name is Peter. Im thinking about introducing myself sometime, but chances are he's got a girlfriend. What decent guy doesn't now adays?
God, I'm so stupid. I'll be going now. I can't believe I just typed all that psycho babble.
posted by Lauren 5/08/2004 10:46:00 PM
Friday, May 07, 2004
Another awesome day in guitar class. We had a noisefest. (Chad's idea i'm guessing.) LOL. we fit as many people into a practice room as we could (which was me, Lauren, Chad, John, Joe, Brennan, and Wes- who i don't normally like) and (as chad put it) just played random shit on our guitars as loud as we could all at the same time, while Wes flicked the lights on and off to make a strobe affect. OMG, it was so much fun. We've decided that we're gonna be like a little "group" we're making T-shirts and everything! LOL! OMG, we're such dorks. Close to the last day of school, we're gonna walk around the halls just strumming our guitars and randomly stop in front of classrooms and play. (HEHEHE!)
May 22nd is the magic day. Thats the day that American Idol concert tickets go on sale. Im SOOOOOOO excited. The good thing is, I don't think it's gonna be that big of a deal this year which means I have a better chance of getting awesome seats!!! Maybe ill see John close up!!!! HEHEHE!!!! I found a cuter picture of him than the one i posted last time. I'll post it some time soon. (*wink*)
Anyways, im gonna hit the sack or watch a movie or something. I really don't feel like being online anymore. Ciao :)!!
posted by Lauren 5/07/2004 11:01:00 PM
Thursday, May 06, 2004
*~*If u read this before 10:30 EST, I updated it, so theres more*~*
Today was possibly the best guitar class we've had all year. Omg, it was so much fun. Mrs Hammel let me and the gang (Chad, Lauren, Dave, Dean, Brennan, John) Go outside to play our guitars cuz it was so damn nice outside. Chad then said that we should have a public Tencious D singalong. LOL, So we were sitting outside singing "Tribute" while Chad was playing it on Lauren's mini Alverez. Fun stuff. Then Lauren and Dean started throwing dirt at each other....lol. We talked about the craziest stuff. It was sooo funny, Chad said "hey everyone, who am I?!" and he just strummed his guitar like twice and put it down. Everyone was like "what the hell?" and I go "oh! oh! you're the chinese girls in our class!" he's like "exactly!! haha!" yeah, theres this group of Aisian girls who are in are class who don't even play their guitars. They just sit there and strum a few times then put their guitars down. Omg, they were talking so much smack about them, and more stuff that really wasn't appropriate...omg it was so funny though.
I got this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly!!!!!!. you're probably thinking, "Whats so special about that?" well, this weeks issue has the American Idols in it!!!!!!!! including.....yep, you guessed it...JOHN STEVENS!!!!<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 EEEEEEEE!!!!!!! he's the new Clay of american idol for me. LoL, I still love my Clay though! :)! (yes, i said "my" clay. I own him. LOL, j/k)
Anyways, I'm gonna update some stuff on the left side of my page. Yeah, im gonna add a few things. ciao!
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My dad took me to this Italian restaurant tonight for dinner to celebrate my AWESOME report card, (which ill get to latter) and they have this Elvis impersonator there every Thrusday evening and he sings all the Elvis songs and stuff. It was soooo cool. It was like seeing Elvis in concert. I really wish he wasn't dead.
Anyways, on to my AWESOME report card.
I did WAY better than i've EVER EVER done before. This is the best I've done in my entire life. Lauren is no longer a stupid dumb freak. Well, I guess I always will be a stupid dumb freak, but I must have done something right this quarter, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten These grades:
Math- B
Journalism B- (YES! I pulled off a B!)
Acting- A-
Guitar- A
Local History- A-
Lit&Writing- A
how AWESOME is that??!?!?!??! I got a 3.7 GPA and made Maximum honor roll. How great is that?!?!? I'm soooooooo happy. Sooooo incredibly happy. :-D!
posted by Lauren 5/06/2004 06:12:00 PM
Monday, May 03, 2004
quick update tonight....
My stereo is FINALLY fixed!!!!!!! i can now play CD's through it instead of rigging my portable one to play through my speakers like I have for the past 2 years! WAHOO!!!! Ya know what I discovered is the best thing to do when you're just chillin' in your room? Pop 3 Dave Matthews Band CD's in your stereo and hit "Shuffle" and just let em' play!.
I bought the AI3 CD on Saturday. Despite the fact that Fantasia's on it, It's a good CD.
I also bought "The Italian Job" on DVD. Another Edward Norton movie to add to my collection. I just love him.
anywhoo, thats it. Ciao!
posted by Lauren 5/03/2004 10:57:00 PM
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Wow. I had a really amazing dream last night. It was possibly the best dream i've ever had. I won't go into details, but it was about this guy right here: (the picture is from idolonfox.com)
Isn't that the cutest picture of him?!? (Yeah, my guy friends that read this are proably clicking that little X in the upper right hand corner right now cuz im so obsessed by guys. LOL, if youre a guy and still reading this, I commend you :) ). But yeah, my dream was about that guy, who is the same guy this page is about, who is John Stevens :-).
::sigh:: Life is good :)
posted by Lauren 5/02/2004 04:55:00 PM
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