Make it 15!

These are in no particular order, but some I definitely wanna see more than others. If anyone ever wants to catch any of these, let me know. I can tell you now, there are some movies here that I wanna catch with certain people.

Fame! I wanna live forever! The cheesy, coke/i-pod rip off ads spoke to me or something. This is definitely a guilty pleasure :/

The Informant: This has oscar buzz written all over it for Matt Damon. It looks funny and smart.

A Serious Man: The new Coen Bros. movie. Nuff said.

Where the Wild Things Are. How could you NOT want to see this? Arcade Fire.. Love it

Zombieland: If you know me well, you know I love zombies. So why would I pass this up?

Capitalism: A Love Story. I've always found M. Moore's movies informative and often times far-fetched, but this piqued my interest. Not on the top of my list, though.

This is It: Mj's last hurrah.

Gentlemen Broncos: Jared Hess' new movie. Nacho Libre was good, but I'm hoping this will be better.

Avatar: freaking 11 years, J. Cameron!?

Nine: This is probably my most anticipated of the year. The cast is stellar and the songs are captivating!

Princess and the Frog: We need more princesses! The animation looks freaking sweet!

Precious: My second most anticipated movie this year.

Broken Embraces: La nueva pelicula de Almodovar y Penelope Cruz. They do no wrong together! cat power in the trailer!

Fantastic Mr. Fox: stop motion, Anderson magic!

The men who stare at goats: Looks funny!

Things that I've realized just sitting here

I've been sitting here mulling over what to blog about and thought to myself that I'll blog about my observations of the last five minutes:

• I can't type as fast as I thought I could

• I'm a scandalous creature. exhibit a:

• I desperately miss my mom's home-cooking. I'm not just saying this cause she's my mom, but she is the best cook I know. Better than your mom, for sure! One of these days I have to follow thru and let my friends come over and enjoy her cooking. I think she prefers her kitchen but oh well.

• I've been listening to John Williams' scores for the last week. With the occasional Monsters of Rock.

• School is getting easier the more I go. Who would've thought ;)

• I think twitter is swell. I don't care what you say

• There are 14 (count them!) movies that I wanna catch this Fall.

• I think I'll have the aforementioned mom do my laundry. What?! She likes doing it and I hate dealing with it.

• I can't decide if I really wanna be Hitler for halloween or not.

• I miss my brothers. They never seem to be home when I visit my parents' place.

• Heidi is designing my next tattoo. So it will be extra special to me :) Something like this but smaller scale :

I finally fell for Utah

I visited Utah with my lovey, Heidi Jo. It was really spur of the moment: I packed up, paid for my stand by ticket and was off... I love traveling with no really set time on when I'm coming back, sorta of like a gypsy or a hobo. Ha!

Heidi showed me a new appreciation for things that I had previously taken for granted. She would point out things like her favorite mountain, Lone Peak, and she liked it because she could see it from her parents house. While we were sitting on the grass playing with her families' new dog (Abby, Sirius, Rabbit?), she just casually pointed up and said, "look there's that mountain i was telling you about" and she said it with a sort of twinkle in her eye. It was really sweet.

I fell in love with her dog and with Jenny's dog's, Rousseau and Diesel. Now for me this was kind of a big deal, because, you see, these are huge rottweilers, but they are the biggest sweetest teddy bears!

I learned to love old friends again... i had the opportunity to meet with my dear loves, Natalie and Jessica. I love these girls so much. I appreciated the talks we had: Jess and I talking while almost hoping to be blown away on Squaw Peak in Provo Canyon whilst overlooking Utah Valley and Natalie my dear just while sitting in her car late night, her counseling me on things that I should be doing, listening to advice I should have had a while ago. I love you both, my dears.

Jenny, Heidi's sis, hosted a fondue night and I had the chance to invite Tim and Elliott to come and join us. It was nice to feel a little piece of California in Utah. Tim makes everything so comfortable, for me anyways, and it was nice to catch up with Elliott who moved up to Utah in March. I've known his family since I was baptized into the church over 10 years ago. I've known Tim since I was in middle school! Joining us for dinner also was Heidi's long time friend, Mike, and his girlfriend, Michelle. They were both very lovely people. Fondue night was really fun! I got the chance afterward to chat with Tim when I walked him out to the car and we chatted like old friends and again I felt so comfortable and at home.

I've grown to appreciate Heidi Jo. She is golden! I enjoyed the little things with her. I enjoyed watching her competitive side come out when she played all boys in Ultimate Frisbee. I loved that she kicked their asses and blew their minds with her incredible catches and perfect throws. When all the other boys were complaining that it was the wind that caused them to throw poorly, she kept her cool and didn't complain once when she would drop the Frisbee or when someone didn't catch her throw. She is golden. She blew me away when I made the mistake (really it was a mistake!) in saying that acting in an animated film is not the same as in a live action film. It was like a fire was lit behind her eyes when she mistook me saying that a live action movie isn't the same as an animated film. She was the Phoenix! Haha! I respected her and admired her passion for what she does in her career. Respect was definitely earned that day by her in my eyes.

I made wonderful new friends in the Gilbert family. They are just so wonderful and had always been since I first met them. Jenny is the sweetest person! I think the moment we met it was an instantaneous friendship. She is the most comfortable person to talk to. I feel like I am able to express to her my vulnerabilities without judgment and with the comfort of knowing that she will keep it in confidence and be able to lend valuable advice.

I saw a boy I really like when I was up there and it felt so natural being with him again. It was just like it hadn't been a month since we had seen each other. I like the way I feel when I'm with him: his sweet kisses, the way he holds my hand, the way he smells, his silly crooked smile, his embrace, the way we share the same filthy humor and i love his passion and how ambitious he is about life and what he wants to make of it. He makes me feel like a girl when I'm with him. He's not disrespectful or rude. I miss that already.

These are little mementos of the good times we've had together.

Utah, I will miss you!

It's my birthday: the list

Every year I make up a wish list of stuff I want for my birthday and most of the time I usually never get what I ask for but here is my wish list anyways. Some of the stuff is ridiculous but I really do think that it'll make me that much cooler and comfortable (haha!):

Running Shoes

A new wallet (just in case I need a place to stash all my imaginary money)

a new desk

A new queen size bed (mmmm i need a new bed!)

This little beauty

I will give into the Mac and get a laptop

a haircut

and finally a VESPA! YES!

Jessica Peterson

I just wanted to put in a little plug for my girl Jessica Peterson. She is an AMAZING photographer with a definite eye for capturing the beauty in all things :)

Here is a little sample of some of my favorites! Jess I hope you don't mind.

also here is her website. Please check it out by clicking on the link below

Jessica Peterson Photo




If you're interested in her photographing you or someone else for anything, email her :)

I like hamburgers and hot dogs too

So I've experienced recent sort of heartbreak and on top of that, I ended school so I have nothing to keep me busy whilst I experience this "heartbreak" and I got pretty sick. So what have I been doing to keep me sane. Well besides watching four Robert Zemeckis films (Who framed Roger Rabbit?, Back to the Future 1 and 2 and Forrest Gump) , watching the Departed, Shawshank Redemption, the Secret Life of Bees, Penelope, and Apocalypse Now!, I've been entertaining myself with something that my friend Nate Fackrell introduced me to a couple weeks ago: Tim and Eric Awesome Show! Great Job! If you have never heard of it, which apparently alot of people have, you need to check it out.

I'll share with all some of my favorite clips. Now disclaimer: this is definitely an acquired taste. sometimes it takes 2 or 3 viewings to laugh or get the humor. I loved it immediately, some people just never like it. But i think its pretty awese.

What the hell is going on?

This is pretty much the question that people keep asking me lately.

Well here is the short and skinny of it: I'm in school and working full time.

Fine! I'll elaborate: I'm currently attending full time (at night, mind you) Glendale Community College trying to graduate in a year then transfer to either UCLA or one of the cal-states (L.A. or CSUN). I'm working Monday-Thursdays at the dental office, BUT i do have Fridays off. so if you want to chill, grab some lunch or something, lemme know.

I'm working towards doing something in advertising. Something more on the creative, fun side. I'm tired of boring jobs.

I'm dating... yes Mom.. I'm dating :) not exclusively, but I go on dates.

I'm seeing my family way more often and I LOVE that! I'm becoming closer to my mom particularly.

I've broken toxic ties with certain individuals (or in some cases they have broken ties with me) and I have come out on top, I'd like to think! A word to the wise or those hanging out with certain individuals: be careful with whom you hang out with. When they break your heart, i will accept you with open hearts after an apology... because i know i wasn't right the whole time, but they and you to an extent were wrong also. I hope you know who you are. Get out before you get hurt!
I have people that I call best friends and I decided that I've used that term too loosely in the past so I really narrowed it down to a few individuals... these are people that have NEVER given me problems, whom i respect and respect me even when I'm a bitch or they are being bitches: Heidi Jo, Nate Fackrell, Andrew Stames, Esther Thompson and Brian Hill.
These individuals don't cry when i don't invite them to things, they are considerate, kind, honest (even when truth hurts), they are cool nerds (oxy-moron, i know) and they have their priorities straight.

I write for Geektyrant.com and will be doing it a little more often. All i do is write movie reviews. Its pretty swell :)

I've grown up... ALOT! I think its because I've had lots of time to step back and evaluate myself and try to better myself. I've learned from mistakes... the hard way. I feel sorry and bad for them. I'm trying to be a better person... I promise! I'm focusing on me now and moving on. I can't do what I've been doing forever (that has so many meaning behind it)

i love all my friends, close and good friends ( ya know who you are, becky and kelly and emily blisses etc.)

Thats whats going on right now.

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