the winter song

today was rich.

I have one amazing family- we're all so different and we never really see each other- but it doesn't matter. Because when we all get together, it's just.. love. We love each other! I wouldn't trade my melting pot of a family for the world. 

also, this has nothing to do with today..

but i want to experience winter like this:

you get the idea.

11 bucks my butt

mmm monday december 15, 2008, 1:30 AM

i just finished my first mustache. only 50 more to go! haha.

aint too shabby. I'm surprised I actually started on em tonight.. I was wonderin if I ever was gonna get around to it. I blame my dad.. he got me all in the christmas-y mood. I came through and he was prancin' around the house with wrapping paper and his box cutter labeling presents with his recently bought label maker and humming christmas tunes and calling my mom the grinch. Every time she walked by he serenaded her with "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.." She doesn't like Christmas too much. I think it might be because she's British. Who knowwws.

I live an interesting life. Gosh I love my family.

other updates:

target sells a hot dog and icee combo for 2 bucks

yoasis gots candy cane flavored yogurt (yum!)

alyse and brett did it last night

hannah's in town

needles hurt when they poke you

i love kanye west

i wish i had mistletoe

my grandpa sent his annual christmas cd of him singing ancient songs

i already have a paper due on tuesday

anddd there's only 10 freakin days till christmas!!

-m

just puttin this out there..

could 234 days seem any longer?

photobucket treasures

Today I stumbled across my old photobucket.. so naturally I went and looked through all the ancient ridiculous pictures of everyone. You know how people say in the present that one day you will look back on yourself and wonder what the heck you were thinking? I just had one of those moments. Not saying they weren't some good times.. but LORD! what were we thinking?!

        ^this was taken after staying up all night in front of best buy on a black friday. 

yes, we wore paint on our faces.

                                                                           ^ I think that one has to be my favorite.

With hopes of many more "What the heck was I thinking?!" moments to come,

Michelle

copeland/lovedrug show

eh.. it was aight (;

...happy birthday yesterday jessica!

I love..

these nights. 

minus 43 degree weather conditions.

perspective

What exactly does it mean to love God more than your own life?

can you imagine waking up in the morning and literally being overtaken by such a sense of wonder and awe of who God actually is.. every morning?

I want that, so badly. 

I want to wake up in the morning and have the only thing I think about is how beautiful God is.. and truly, truly appreciate this life he has given me.. and then! maybe even strive to do something great with it.

So often we take it for granted, getting caught up in our agendas and things we feel are important- yet when put into perspective (dare I say!) ..are not. I find that I need to remind myself daily (though sometimes I forget) of what exactly I'm here for- nothing more than to glorify God in all that I do. 

anyway, Im ready to face whatever is coming.. whatever that is. hopefully something great.  

in other news..

i have recently discovered tampa!

how bout that.. I've lived here my whole life and never really ACTUALLY walked around the city. It was fun.. I think I'll do it more often.

andddd

my camera is fixed... ehh it was never actually broken :/

thanks chris and cj! haha (:

-m

p.s.

the vow is cheesy as crap

jus sayin.

My clever mom.....

I came home today, and discovered that my mom had covered up her mac camera with a bandaid. Hahaha.

this paper is so easy... yet time consuming. 

why do i keep making this longer!

study break #3

instead of posting bulletin updates on my paper breaks, i decided it would be much more worthwhile to just blog them here. 

hence, my first two paper breaks:

 

i find the most interesting things while i'm procrastinating. 

study break #3 consists of this:

an american apparel hoody.. that i want

a very tasty peanut butter and banana sandwich (energy!!)

AND

the scent of a spiced pumpkin candle. mmmmm.

I realize i'm not too good at this whole paper-writing thing. Maybe I'm ADD, I dont know. 

AT LEAST i'm going to finish it tonight though.. and then, tomorrow I won't have to worry bout anythin cept sleepin in till noon! mmmm (:

with the hope of many, many more breaks to come,

m

so i realize i haven't updated in a while... my bad.

i really shouldn't be bloggin right now.. i gots a 8-10 page paper to write by tuesday, which is, by the way, election day.. so vote vote vote!

so down to business. 

last night i went stargazing with my girls down on taylor road.. and lemme tell you- it was perfect! I made my special hot chocolate, brought my christmas mix cd (i had forgotten what a mean mix that thing is!) and saw not one, but THREE shooting stars. Then we watched sister act 2.. that movie always makes me wanna dress in 90s clothes and join a choir. couldn't tell ya why..

i dont have any pictures to document last night though, because my camera is still broken.

hence another area of my life i procrastinate in. :D

BUT,

i do have a picture of my first pumpkin carving from a couple weeks ago! It only lasted bout 2 days, and then start to shrivel up and get all moldy.. it was pretty gross. 

if you ask me, thats the cutest pumpkin i've ever seen (;

p.s, happy halloween! i'm bout to get my bowl-on tonight.

more later.

-m

benedryl

i hate ants ):

my foot is so swollen right now.

we gots the penthouse suite, dawg!

penthouse suites, white comfy robes, fancy schmancy restaurant, room service.

perfect weekend.

however, the night before i got a concussion :/

see what happens when i fall off trampolines and bump my head?

i put paint on my face.. i don't remember this being taken, i swear.

..okay so maybe i do remember. 

please, don't let me near a trampoline ever again.

anywho..

i aint got no mo homework left and tonight heroes is on! i'm full of pure joy right now.

thats it. i cant take it anymore.

i'm getting my dang camera fixed.

im cravin some dang picture takin.. RIGHT NOW.

im smitten all over again.

mmm

ahhhhhh good song!

whenever i find a song i like i tend to overplay it and ruin it..

hopefully this song won't become a victim to my ocd just like 

dancin in the moonlight (;

just got done with homework- it was fun actually. i had to look in depth at the life of Nehemiah 

and try and figure out all these different things. It got kinda confusing, seeing as there was either 10 different King Artaxerxes 

or just one with different names.. ughghghhg. We will never know.

Esther is an amazing story however. I like reading it.. but somehow thanks to veggietales I always think of Mordecai

as a grape and Hamen as a peach and the king as a pickle or whatever he was.

Today i thought a lot about the upcoming holidays.. I am so excited. I love

Thanksgiving. And Leftovers. And Miracle on 34th Street. And camping out with

Jason and the girls outside Circuit City for Black Friday deals. AHHH so much fun. I love life. And winter.

Hopefully it will get cold sooon.. i like seeing my breath

outside.. and wearing scarfs and boots. mmmmm (: and bonfires. and 94.9 christmas music. 

WAIT! would that be considered secular music?

Sigh. It really is the most wonderful time of the year.

love,

m

p.s.

it's raining (:

hold on, hold tight

first, jason has a potty mouth.

second, passion iced tea RASPBERRY lemonade from starbucks is my new favo

third, study groups at starbucks are not a good idea. we don't get anything done. I think out of the four hours we were there, 30 minutes of it was good solid work.

fourth, my AF is still broken. and i'm too lazy to get it fixed/

fifth, i got problems mayn

paper writing time :/

i dont feel like it i dont feel like it i dont feel like it

homework bites mayn.

i stay up too late, wake up too early, procrastinate on homework,  have unhealthy eating habits, and break rules too much.

and life has never been better.

but, i know it will only get even more awesome once i start doin things right- so i'm working on that.

i am a good intern, i am i am i am.

p.s.

i have soo much homework.

dancin in the moonlight

i want to start taking more pictures of the simple things in life.. you know, back to things that usually go unnoticed or are just simply taken advantage of because they are so common. I don't know. 

today i went to a 50th birthday party with the fam. It was nice just being together for once.. our schedules have been so busy lately and they all conflict with eachother, so it's hard to have good family time, you know? Anyway, there was an open bar.. and lemme tell ya, i took advantage of all dem free shirley temples, if you know what i mean (;

here are some more pictures from our after dinner walk:

and, this song has been stuck in my head alllll night. 

i think i may have listened to it a good 20 times. 

I, am a train wreck.

study hall

 

so, the internship has finally started. right now we're all sitting in the conference room not doing our work.. 

hey, we got the whole weekend, right? (:

love,

the interns

startin tuesday...

i'm gonna be single for 11 months.

buttttt it's okay..

i'll be gettin some sweet lovin from jesus?

in other news,

JOHN MAYER

was amazing on Saturday.. mmm him and his sexy pants. mmm mmm mm mmmm mm.

you dont even know. haha. But seriously, this man is one talented musician.. he pretty much blew me away.

more later. i'm tired.

-m

my af is broke mayn!

so, the automatic focus on my camera is broken. ^that's daniel massey's goofy face up there.

anyway, i think i broke it at mosi during kids camp.. i was playing around with some science exhibit in the kids place, and you have to spin some lever around really fast. My hand ended up getting wedged between the lever and my camera and it knocked my camera so hard that it gave my hand a bruise. I think that's where the deed was done :/ I'm pretty depressed about it. Today i really feel like taking pictures too.. and i could, but using my camera manually would be a major pain in the BUTTT. 

Anyway, yesterday I took a 6 hour nap. I don't know how I did it, but it happened. I woke up around 1 AM and couldn't fall back asleep till around 5. I am so irresponsible. Whatever. I do what I want! haha.

more exciting updates later.

-m

vote for me!

dear cha cha,

what do you do...
when a bag flies out of your car, and a cop pulls you over, 
and you and all of your passengers are in their skivvies?

love,

kellie, michelle, chelsea, holly, jessica, and tony perkis

skinny dippin tuesdays

last night we decided to go skinny dipping..

we've decided to make it a weekly ritual.

these past few days have been crazzzzy.. kids camp wore me out!
and today finally we did another photo shoot.. honestly, i think it was the best yet too.. even though at the time all we wanted to do was either jump in a pool or go streaking (thanks to danielle, she fufilled the latter) because it was so dang hot and humid out there.
anyway, i'm waiting to edit them all.. even though it's driving me crazy. I already have a few done- here are two moments of our day at the abandoned slaughter house-

I finally got that bouquet of huge sunflowers.. 'cept i bought em myself! ..and right now they're wilting in a vase on my kitchen table (they were out too long galavanting with us).


more later.

-m

restlessness

someone should buy me a bouquet of huge sunflowers.. i'm jus sayin.
and they're on sale at super target, so why not?


I need a long vacation. a very very long one.
and is it possible to marry someone's voice? cause I'd marry john mayer's.

-m

p.s.
cadre tonight.. coffee. just what i need.

we went on an adventure

I love when hanging out is planned ahead of time.. so I don't have to make any spur-of-the-moment decisions. Yesterday we went to clearwater beach and had a blast!
My camera died unfortunately right in the middle of the sun going down, so I don't have many more pictures to document the rest of the night.. but we had fun, regardless of me being the buzz kill! (: Fortunately CJ just got his new slr, so we weren't completely out of luck.

From Snowflake Inn to Frenchy's to watching scene boys dance around with glowsticks to weird music, we had a great night. Clearwater beach is hoppin! The beach part sucks though.. there's signs up saying you can't swim past a certain point. The view however, is brilliant and great for taking pictures.. which I've been dying to do lately. I haven't pulled out my camera to do anything creative in ages it seems.. so, yesterday was completely refreshing and I can't wait to take more! I even put new batteries and film in my 35mm camera.. which has been collecting dust on my bedroom floor for far too long.

more updates soon, and hopefully with pictures <3
-m

life, it's funny sometimes

congratulations for winding up here!
i'm starting a new blog 'bout my life..
you know, what happens behind the scenes and on stage.
and dang, that just seems so unoriginal.. but i dont care.