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May 5th, 2008
09:23 am
note: while spraying hairspray, ensure coffee cup is at least ten feet away. there is a reason "hairspray" is not a beverage flavour.
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May 3rd, 2008
10:39 am
you know it's bad when your feet begin to ache at the thought of slipping them into the same pair of shoes...
Current Music: sound of water
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April 18th, 2008
11:09 am - Welcome back, they say!
I'm really terrible at livejournal updating... I just sort of, meander around it for the most part.
Big news? I am employed again! Finally! After four+ months of unemployment I am no longer a bum. The new job? Department Specialist at Le Chateau! I have my own department? Why yes, I do! Haha. I started tuesday... but love it thus far.
Bigger news? Possible relocation! To where? Montreal! Keeping it under wraps. On the harsh DL. Except not really. When? In a while. I measure time like a toddler.
I've gone through some strange music fixes lately... a huge chunk of time devoted to nothing but Dashboard Confessional... a Gwen Stefani fix (specifically Early Winter and Wonderful Life) that segued into a reawakening of No Doubt Passion... and finally a Feist Fascination. A big Bloc Party chunk in there too... and City & Colour.
... I could say more, but what more is there to say?
I think love is god, if I may be so bold.
xo
ac
Current Music: Feist - Past in Present
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March 8th, 2008
03:09 pm - Update...
Hmm.
Not a lot happening these last couple of weeks.
School a couple of days a week...
The beginning of the search for a job. The realization of stupidity and the re-submittal of application.
Real headway in the prospect of a future. Hope, in relocation and experimentation.
Parents are putting an offer in on a new house this weekend... in theory we'd move at the end of June? Post-renovation of the *new* place. Seems mad to me, buying a new place just to re-do it all.
Don't ask my opinion and I won't give it to you.
Guitar shopping.
Last night, with Michael and Lara.
Tonight, with Anna, Robynn, Bronagh, etcetera.
Maybe Samuel.
Some flames extinguish all too quickly. Even while they burn brighter. Interesting.
I need to do things.
Current Music: Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The Third Bar [feat. Martha Wainwright]
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February 27th, 2008
11:29 am - I must be dreaming.
Well. It's been quite a while, hasn't it? I suppose I'm just bored of the same, simple, monotonous repetition. But regardless...
The month has come and gone. Mostly uneventful, a few nights spent out celebrating life and the completion of years. One night spent utterly despondent that stretched for another and drained the lifeblood but... overcome and pushed to the backburner to sizzle and spark away.
Discovery of music and reawakening of passion... Frou Frou. Radiohead. City & Colour. Sarah Slean. Holly McNarland. Natalie Edward. Blue October.
New beginnings. Anticipation of what is around the bend. Seeking employment and motor skills.
March is just around the corner. I hope the leap year is more than words.
Current Music: frou frou - must be dreaming
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January 30th, 2008
12:09 pm - Snow much love!
Tuesday and thursday classes; love. Just... love! Finally...
Wednesday... was... something? I do not recall.
Thursday evening, nothing. My wallet? Lost. Missing. Gone!! Oh what a day... luckily I retrieved it by Friday afternoon...
Friday was a day of baking and relaxation, and then out! Dinner with Sean, attempted festivities for Aruntha's birthday but, alas, I could not get in to Au Bar. *woe.* Six a.m. sleep, noon awakening, and a return home. Cold... cold.
Saturday evening with Sam; dinner and a movie. A bad movie... but now their purpose is known! Oh how legendary.
Sunday nothing. Plans fell away and I seized the evening to relax and recuperate myself further from a madcap weekend.
Monday I ventured out into the pre-snow world, albeit briefly, for quick connection and coffee. Aside from that? Little.
Tuesday... SNOW! Classes? Cancelled! And TWO new Sarah Slean tracks; and a Baroness pre-order. Love beyond compare... mmm. Coffee and lunch and relaxation and then home and back out for crepes and more snow and... love! Life is ever-so wonderful these days. Finally.
And today... a bit of homework, and am otherwise planless... Winston and Nat Jay at the backstage lounge tonight! And no one to go with... sad. Woe.
Take care!
Current Music: Sarah Slean - Parasol
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January 21st, 2008
06:26 pm - I'd like to thank Birthdays, Alcohol, and the Birth Control Pill
Monday (the fifteenth... we're backtracking here) was a wonderful day spent with Sandose. Coffee, window shopping, dinner, Halo. I love that boy. Pie with Sean. Mmm.
Tuesday school and Sarah! Bussed home with her... but we covered that already...
Wednesday was a mad flurry of late-evening creativity... "creativity." Can it be called 'creative writing' when it's both forced and expected? Regardless it went well, and Thursday was, albeit tired, a blissful day.
I met Mia in Vancouver and we had a fantastic, filling, and alcoholically-abundant dinner at Moxie's Broadway! The storm began to subside... with promises of looking to the future and preparing for the fall. The world seemed to be raveling together again.
Friday was unenthusiastic, and then a grand gala of celebration; Bronwyn's Twenty-First! Huzzah! Red pasta, crimson wine, chocolate bliss and Feist. Madness in the shape of a board game and rekindled connections. Quite drunk? Yes, I was. Well played.
Saturday began benignly... it cascaded into a storm of gin and tears, wine and numbness, and finally blackness. I thank everyone, deeply, for that night. Or, the end of it.
Sunday I dragged myself home with the morning light. Repressing all urge to sleep I relaxed all day, playstation three was my good friend yesterday. Lots of food. No hangover; thankfully.
And today, another day of nothingness. Time spins away so quickly. Homework to do tonight... revisions and reviews. Glory glory hallelujah.
Have wonderful weeks!
xoxo
a
Current Music: Imogen Heap - Closing In
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January 15th, 2008
10:51 pm - "Here's one reason to be sad: half of us have nothing and the other feels too fat."
Fourteen days later... god only knows.
Despondency. Wretchedness and pure evil...
Many nights spent away, with James, Sean, Ryan. Dinners aplenty, drinks by the dozen, and hundreds of dollars pissed away... but no regret. Mostly.
A new friend! Grace Kelly! She was thursday the tenth at the Odyssey, after dinner with Dennis. Grace and Alex, beer after beer, and dancing! With Wes and Grace's new lady friend... <3
Back to school... two classes. Tuesday and thursday; nothing too stressful. :)
New jobs on the horizon... who knows.
And new prospects of new lands and new homes. My only comfort.
Dinner with Mia sunday, and a bus ride with Sarah today.... I love those girls.
you know you love me
xoxo
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January 1st, 2008
05:41 pm - Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Sunday I did bake; another seven dozen cookies. That's right, seven DOZEN. Not including the bakers dozen I burnt because I didn't hear the alarm going off... braindead? Why yes! I am!
Monday. Christmas eve. Relaxing at home... mmm how lovely. The delivery men arrived with a couch! A new couch! It's ever-so lovely. Firm and soft at once; mmm juxtapositional! And then! The bus! Downtown, a grand evening of Buffy and Baileys with Sean... a wonderful Christmas eve.
Tuesday: Christmas! A wild storm of activity. Gifts? Playstation 3 and the promise of a new guitar... life is good. Very, very good. Tuesday night christmas dinner. Alcohol? A necessity.
Wednesday, boxing day. A late start and a late end... and a wonderful middle. The second christmas dinner! Mmm.... so wonderful. Wine. <3
Thursday... a blur of a morning beyond recollection and dinner with James. An entire bottle of wine for me! Ever-so lovely! Did I get sick? No. Tolerance, for the win! Slept at Sean's.
Friday home at 8 am and back downtown for noon! Shopping with Sean, Breakfast at the Elbow Room, video games, dinner with Ryan, Buffy the Musical! A wonderful, wonderfully fun day. A stroll through stanley park? <3
Saturday! Coffee and shopping with Holli! How I miss her... Holt Renfrew and starbucks. <3 Then to Ryan and Sean's, dinner at the Macaroni Grill with Sean, Buffy... met Ryan's mom! She's so wonderful! I like her very much. Drinks with James too. <3
Sunday! Breakfast at milestones with Mikaela, shopping, downtown with Sarah, shopping! A new vest, and a cardigan! "Very Penn Badgley." Driving, an incompatibility of Mp3 devices... home! Nap. a phone call... and then! Band practice and video games, and food, and Sean! Huzzah! Sleeping ever-so late.
Monday. Awoke and relaxed... showered and home! With guitar! Quite the cumbersome object. The mall with Sam (from one to three! The glory of boxing week!) and a new year's party! Many a folk! Kelly and James! Halo3! Xbox360! Guitar! What fun... lots of champagne. And piano! Love. Happy New Year!
Today awakening at two. James is playing Halo3, I'm computering. Drinking coke zero. Watching him play. La la la. To do? Nada! Playstation 3 later.
Love! xo
Current Location: Living Room Couch
Current Music: Halo3 Shooting Noises
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December 23rd, 2007
12:47 am - Countdown to Christmas...
Wednesday was more baking... lots of baking. So many cookies. "It looks like the inside of Santa's stomach on Christmas night. Damn."
Thursday Natalie and I went to Hugh Boyd to visit, it was... nice to go back. Bittersweet; the changes are maddening. Extremely. So different. And then downtown, to act as Santa, and hand out the gifts! Dinner with James, drinks with Ryan and Sean. And another post-midnight sleep.
Friday to the mall, to shop with brothers. Helped Chloe shop too. A mad night. Late... very late, very tiring.
Saturday? Lunch with Michael, Shopping with Dennis, Dinner with James. Back to Richmond, driving through Stanley Park with Bronwyn and Kelly, and watched The Holiday! Such a good night with them.
Tomorrow... no plans. More cookies? Most likely.
Watching Instant Star... love dvds...
Monday... Christmas eve? How did that happen?
[new blog... (i hate that word)
http://winterparade.blogspot.com]
Current Music: Instant Star 2x02
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December 19th, 2007
12:23 am - Familiarity, Friendship... Unsure?
Saturday was most wonderful... breakfast with Sarah and Mia, coffee, catching up and in the morning?! What madness! The first wreckers session in many weeks and how fulfilling it was.
Saturday evening out to the bar. A long, long night. Stayed past close and spent a little time with Todd, Brett, and James. Helped close the place down, grabbed the newly-running b-line back into Richmond. And the first four-oh-one of the day? 6:45am return... that's new.
Sunday evening festivities at the Dycks' with Kayla, Aruntha, Holly and Natalie! Our holiday tradition. Tea and cookies and all sorts of mind-absorbing conversation! Love...
Monday I awoke, re-sickened. Fun? Not in the slightest... Mostly spent recuperating. The same with today. And cookies made! Mmm... so wonderful.
Tomorrow, more baking... must complete the task!
Thursday to high school, dinner with James...
Friday... Victoria? Maybe? We'll see how it goes, I'm ever-so far behind.
And the weekend... god only knows.
Take care, my dears!
All the best of the holiday to you!
xoxo
A
Current Music: Jeen O'Brien - 2 A.M.
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December 15th, 2007
02:19 am
Again, I should be sleeping... I have a 7:30 wake up call... but insomnia seems far more alluring and winning the war. Consciousness is a cruel slavedriver.
The english final came and went... not bad. Difficult as usual but not overly pain-striking. What is the fascination with the biomedicine niche?
Sarah Slean's "Get Home" is pure bliss... maturity and pain as she digs open my chest with her rusty tools and gets to work on my heart. Scraps of wire and metal as she sets it about rebeating and oh how wonderful it is.
In other news... my heart hurts. Again. You know what I mean...
The nights get longer and colder. Storm before the calm, or the other way around. The siding is creaking and ripping off the walls outside my bedroom and keeping me awake. Unhappy.
Today was... wonderful, to say the least. It makes my heart hurt. He makes my heart hurt. In all the best of ways.
"Send me someone. Someone whose empathy roars... A dignified man on a bicycle, with a book in each chamber of his heart." ~ss
Until next time,
xoxo
A
Current Music: Sarah Slean - Get Home
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December 13th, 2007
01:30 am - He surfaces...
I should be asleep right now... I have a final in ten hours, but I'm finding sleep absolutely impossible so instead, I'm reawakening my livejournal that I've left slumbering for over a month.
It's been quite an interesting month...
I left my job. It was time. Lots of extenuating circumstances and I was also just sick of it. Sick of the people, sick of the hours, sick of the complete and utter lack of flexibility.
I'm getting over strep throat. I'm not sure how I got strep throat, but I did... it hasn't been very fun. I had to miss the last two days of school which included missing my journalism final. Luckily I was able to make it up on monday; by email! At home! Oh good times...
School's been alright. Not wonderful. I'm not loving it the way I should but I think that's just the stress of the end weighing heavily on me. Once I finish this week, and see how things go... all should be well.
Relatedly, I should be completely finished on friday. But the group paper for Journalism that is due hasn't even been started yet. I've been trying to get ahold of my group to no avail and... I'm almost at the point of giving up. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Christmas is coming far too soon. I'm not buying gifts for anyone; I think they all know this. For the most part no-gift pacts are made between me and everyone so it should all be good. Cookies are being made though, in abundance, and being distributed on wednesday and thursday (in theory) of next week.
I've been going out a lot lately. Well, not a lot. Once a week on average, missing a week here and there. Crashing at Ryan and Sean's a lot. And spending a lot of time with James... I'm not sure what's going on there. There's definite attraction and definite chemistry but when it comes to relationships I don't think we're quite ready or willing... just dating? yes? "The weighing of options?" Sounds decent to me.
Lots of songwriting these last couple of months... two or three full piano- or guitar-songs finished... good feelings of accomplishment there. I'm liking how it's all going. Definitely need more work and experience and inspiration but not hating the path it's going down and that is definitely a good thing.
This weekend will be good... Friday day with James, Friday evening with Sarah and Mia (for the first time in a month; the evil of school, separating the Wreckers!), Friday night possibly out for Tyler's birthday. Saturday evening/night appys/drinks at UnWined with Payvand to celebrate her new job and most likely going out to the O after... and Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Dyck at their home. Should be a good weekend.
Next week? Baking, Card-writing, Cookie distribution, and possibly a Victoria weekend. Holly's birthday. Christmas eve. And Christmas? What? Where? How?
Until next time,
You know you love me.
xoxo
A
Current Music: Miscellaneous... depressogasm playlist.
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November 10th, 2007
12:09 pm
I'm sitting in my hotel room in Victoria... it's glorious; I'm so happy to be away, so happy to be gone...
The week came and went, fairly unenthusiastically. Facing a crisis of the mind and of life... seeing how it plays out and more than a little afraid of the outcome? Oh dear.
The weekend was wonderful... clubbing on saturday and time change; best saturday in ages. Ever-so fun. Miss those boys... that looked to be about it for excitement. Work was drudgery, school is drudgery and pain. Monday interview at the CiTR (not for a job...) and monotony.
Gossip Girl, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy. Completion of the third season yet again and struck dumb by the sheer gloriousness of the fourth. Mmm it lifts and wounds me so beautifully.
A tiny paint set... Paris?
xoxo
A
"chin up, lover. we're the good guys." (ss)
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November 1st, 2007
09:48 am - Hallowe'en!
Monday I had coffee with Jag, came home and did some studying... I stayed up rather late that night. 2am?
Tuesday... PoliSci and English. I'm always amused when a subject we've been discussing in PoliSci comes up in oiur next English class... feminism was this week's topic! Haha. Fun times... Stuck around after class and wrote my english essay.
Came home and made cupcakes! Mmm margarita cupcakes. <3 And ate sushi. Slept at about 3am.
Wednesday; happy Hallowe'en!!! Yay I love Hallowe'en. Had journalism, it was good. KT was dressed like a man, it was funny. She's so great. Hung out for a bit after with Amanda and Mike. GOt free candy. Mmm. Came home and carved a pumpkin! Made some CDs for Kel and went to Bee's with Vikki! Fun night, I love Hallowe'en. Kelly and I rocked. Bee was a Phoenix. =D
Today I've got english, and then a journalism update and polisci "critical summary" to write. Yay... can't wait. Tomorrow journalismk and polisci... and then wreckers sesh!!! Love.
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October 28th, 2007
11:41 pm - And he's back!
I'm a horrible updater... I'm sure I've forgotten about what happened recently. Oh well. Let's go.
Tuesday-friday was school... and I'm pretty sure that was about it. Not much happening those nights. Tuesday was an in-class essay for english. Umm... yay. Blah.
Friday night with Sarah and Mia! Yay! Love wreckers sesh. It was a crazy day... fires and murders and plane crashes oh my! And the weather insanity jesus eff.
Saturday work... night relax. Sunday work... then metrotown/downtown/ryan's/odyssey with Tyler! Drama day but super uber fun loveeeee. <3<3 I cabbed home... screw the bus! Mwaha. IT was expensive... but
that's ok. Sleep = love.
Monday relax day? I think?
Tuesday school, wednesday school and then a few hours of studying with Amanda in the caf. Yay journalism midterm... thursday school and more studying.
Friday Journalism midterm. Not mondofabulous but didn't suck. Friday night mall/dinner/Resident Evil3 with Kelly and Carmen! Uber fun. Good movie!! I was suprised that I liked it so much. <3 And mmm sushi. Yay Kelly driver yay hallowe'en costumes!
Saturday work, came home... felt like CRAP. Headache, sinus pain, etcetera. Blahhhhh. Lots of sleep.
TOday work. Last Sunday! Sweeeetttttttttttttttt <3. It was a pretty good day. Came home and slept for a couple of hours again *wtf sleeping it's like I have mono again* and then went for coffee w/Mia. <3 Love yay. Great night.
Now I am sitting, talking to various people, listening to the Depressogasm playlist, and counting change. Why? Because I can.
Yay me, love! Mwah.
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October 15th, 2007
07:58 pm
Thursday the 4th I had english, went to UBC, and then downtown. Had dinner with Aruntha at cafe crepe. Yummy! Tres good. <3 CSI and Grey's that night eeeeee so good.
Friday. 5th. Dinner and Coffee with Sarah and Mia! Woot wreckers session! Saw Jag at earls! Such a great night. Love those girls. Had class that day... and went downtown and spent far too much money. Farrrr too much. Had lunch with Ryan and James. Fun day.
Saturday/Sunday work and work and Grey's anatomy! Love! So love.
Sunday/Monday thanksgiving dinners with family! A great weekend. Very nice indeed. :)
Tuesday-thursday class and reading and homework and studying... pretty much the it. lots of grey's too. Devin was born Thursday! Yay Jevin! <3
Friday was midterm... blah-ness. Whatever. Mall'd with Tyler and then went for coffee with Mia and Calhoun's! YUM! So good. Great night. Planned Sarah's Wedding for her. :D
Saturday work. Sunday work.
Sunday night went to Tyler and Tyler's with Biko and Melissa, drank, had fun. Tyler and My 1 year anniversary! Haha. Got rather drunk, slept at 3ish... up 11. Went for lunch with fam and then shopping with Meg. Bought a witch voodoo doll at Voodoo Palace at Aberdeen! :D Yayyyy love so fabulous.
Anyways. School this week. Yays.
Ta!
EDIT BECAUSE I'M A LOSER!!
I forgot to mention!! I saw Katie at the Bank on friday afternoon, and then I saw her friday night at the mall with Tyler!! I love her. I miss her. And I suck for forgetting about her. <3
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October 3rd, 2007
08:31 am - "There's one just one thing I need to see before I take this chance and set us free."
The weekend came and went, unromantically... I rested, thankfully. Time sped by far too fast.
Friday consisted of classes... watching Sam's football game... family dinner.
Saturday and Sunday? Work, work. Meeting. Grey's Anatomy...
Monday shopping (albeit briefly) and studying...
Tuesday back to school! Rescheduled midterm, talking professors and absentminded poetry...
Amongst it all? Texting Kyler, Phone calls with Sarah, planning an ice-related adventure. Mmm life is good.
Journalism today.
Oh how fast the times go...
Current Music: Way Out West - Don't Forget Me
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September 27th, 2007
04:28 pm - "God never liked people that much..."
Sunday was pain... lots of pain. Work followed by pain. I was supposed to go out for dinner for a friends' birthday but sadly that didn't happen... so much for rest.
Monday was lunch for my mom's birthday followed by more pain. Followed, wonderfully, by catharsis. Not much studying got done that day... but that's alright.
Tuesday was a somewhat blah day... or it started out fairly blah, it got better as time went on... Gossip Girl! Yay! I'm a self-proclaimed Gossip Girl addict now. Oh good.
Wednedsday was a great day! I had Journalism which was pretty chill... and then went to UBC briefly and said hey to Sarah and Karen and Mel and chilled briefly and then went downtown, saw Ryan, and met up with Ru for dinner!! Mmm cafe crepe. So good. Came home, watched Private Practice. Damn another show I have to watch!!
Today I had breakfast at De Dutch (mmm so good) and had english. It was good! We had an in-class exam, it went very well I think. Slightly rocky at the end but meh it was alright! Came home, finished up my work for my journalism group proposal, and am now relaxing. Will re-read my PoliSci chapter later before class. GREY'S ANATOMY TONIGHT LOVEEEEE
Tomorrow is Journalism and Polisci... and THEN THE WEEKEND! WOOT! Can't wait.
Current Music: Sarah Slean - Universe
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September 22nd, 2007
10:58 pm - Long Time Gone...
I really... really... really suck at updating.
I'm going to TRY to fix that.
Here goes.
McKenzie and I broke up. I ended it; it was the right thing to do. It's better this way. :) I'm happier, he will be. Actually I'm pretty sure he hates me but that's ok, c'est la vie.
School ROCKS! Actually it's kind of scary and daunting but aside from the paralyzing fear I'm loving being there. I've made some new friends and a few connections... my teachers rock. They all have great senses of humor... my Journalism prof is hcore awesome. She's young and cool and just... a rockstar. :D
Last saturday was amazing. Mia and Sarah and I had an end-of-summer hcore wreckers session. Sushi, Figure Skating Exhibition, Dinner, Shopping. Best saturday of my life. Seriously. Those girls make me SO much better than I ever was. <3<3 Hcore love right there. I'm now a figure skating and ice dance addict. Greeeeat.
Got very drunk on Friday with Tyler and Tyler. Got sick. THey had to cab me home. It was so not cool... I'm so sad. Haha. oh dear.
NEW KT TUNSTALL ALBUM!! Lovelovelove. It's so wonderful; I adore her. I equate her with Fall... probably because I listened to Eye To The Telescope almost the entire time I was in Victoria last year. Haha.
I went to the Backstage Lounge a couple of sundays ago with Jen to see Winston!! SOme random musician... he was AMAZING! So good. I bought his EP and there were two other singer-songwriters performing that night too; it was so fun. I love Jen, she's a rockstar.
Last night I went for dinner with JJ, Jag, Mags, Stanley, Taylor and Maggie. Milestones! SO fun. A couple solid hours of basically just laughing... haha. I miss them all so much... I'm so glad that we all still get together to relax and chill and stuff. I also went to Metrotown yesterday and got a very nice light-olive coloured moleskin blazer from Armani Exchange. It's tres tres nice. Very slim fitting. I'm looking forward to wearing it.
I want a pair of gorgeous boots from Gravity Pope. They're almost six hundred dollars. Boo. Sad.
Tonight Sarah and I went skating. Ice skating. It was wonderful. <3 The best last-day-of-summer (season), totally. We went out in style. Haha. Skating and food and starbucks; we know how to party! This stupid skating chick was hcore showing off her figure skating moves... she needed to die. There were more than a few quotes along the line of "Ice Dance Barbie is going down." Haha... love...
I WILL UPDATE AGAIN SOON! I promise.
xoxo
Current Music: KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
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