October 2, 2009 at 5:22 pm (College, Friends)
Tags: Emily, music, photos, Piper, Samantha, The Weepies, Yasdnil
Soundtrack? The Weepies. Something Sam and I actually agree on. Sam loves folk, and I love weird indie stuff, especially weird lyrics.
If you haven’t been following the Confusing Clues Mini-Album series, here are the links to the prequel, and parts 1 and 2. We are taking pics of parts 3 and 4 today. Yes, the confusing clues are FINALLY answered! Oh, I can’t tell you? Say what?!
Confusing Clues Prequel: Move-In Day!
September 11, 2009 at 11:30 pm (Friends)
Tags: Emily, Miss B., photos, Piper, Samantha
So over the past week or so, Miss B. has been learning more about how to use her camera, which is pretty exciting for us. I think our pictures have been decent, but we always had a lighting issue. Miss B. figured out some solutions to that problem: she adjusted the White Balance on her camera so it photographs according to the kind of light we have in our room, she played around with the Fill Light adjuster on Picasa, and most importantly, she was able to figure out a way to use some boxes to steady the camera while it is on the non-flash mode (before, the box shaking had been an issue, but perhaps the ones she used are more sturdy).
Here are our portraits! Personally, in mine, I have to say my hair looks a little messed up, but I just got back from skating practice so you can’t blame me!
Piper
Emily
Sam
Me!
September 6, 2009 at 12:43 am (Friends, My Lovely Life, Skating)
Tags: "Are We There Yet?", "Locked Up", "The Chain", Emily, Ingrid Michaelson, Lindsay, Miss B., music, photos, Piper, Samantha, Wicked
Honestly Ingrid… what else throws apples?! I love this line from Ingrid Michaelson’s new song, “Locked Up” off her new album. Okay, it’s not really new to me because Miss B. heard Ingrid play it at her concert last year and showed us a youtube video of the song, but this was its first release. It’s one of my favorites. Miss B. got the CD with some of her friends on iTunes (they split it). It was really exciting; usually we don’t get music the week it’s released.
This week has been… not too great. Well, actually just today. Last night I felt like I was coming down with a cold or something, or maybe my allergies were acting up. It’s definitely a cold. I feel MISERABLE. I went to skating practice because I didn’t have a fever, and Sam totally chewed me out for it. I know my body, okay? I know when I can and can’t skate. I skated fine. I’m used to skating under any condition. It’s basically like if you would be able to go to school or not. I would definitely be able to go to school (thankfully, we have a 3-day weekend) but I wouldn’t feel great. Same with skating, although I guess I can see how you are supposed to rest and not do physical activity. I just conveniently forget that. I’ve never gotten pneumonia in my life, Samantha! Then Piper freaked out because she thought I had swine flu. Which, I don’t. There’s a difference between the way a cold and the flu feels, and plus with the flu you have a fever, which I don’t.
Okay, normally this wouldn’t bother me, but I guess the laying around and contemplating made me even more annoyed. Em and I did have a good game of checkers, though. She won.
And I got another weird letter from Lindsay! What the heck?! This one said “Look to the western sky!” which Sam said was a Wicked reference. I’ve only seen the show once so I didn’t get that right away. Neither of us could think of anything that would mean, though. I don’t know if I like this club thing. All the secrecy/mystery is kind-of fun but frustrating too!
Sorry this sounded negative if it did. I imagine once I feel better, I may be more inclined to be positive. And are we there yet?
Here’s the album of me surrounded by tissue world:
Checkers!
Yay, me.
Also, Ingrid’s new album has “The Chain” on it. Again. Just thought I would let you know since everyone in Ingrid-world seems to be obsessed with that song for no reason. She explained in one of the videos that it is a canon, which does explain why it’s so attractive. Still, I’m more obsessed with other songs.
July 2, 2009 at 11:41 pm (Friends)
Tags: Baby-Ruthie, Emily, guitar, hair, Harper, Hope S., Little Miss Playthings, Meiko, Miss B., music, Samantha, Sierra, sleepover
So we’re actually falling-asleep-tired, but I just thought I’d share some exciting news as a “preview” for my next entry. I’ll have pics tomorrow. Miss B. read an online tutorial (I’ll give the link tomorrow too) on how to curl hair, because she has straight hair and doesn’t know how to deal with those of us who have curly hair. So Sierra has been begging to get her hair restyled, but Miss B. didn’t know how to do it until now. She spent about an hour doing it tonight. (Maybe that’s why she’s so tired?!) And Sierra looks amazing!! I have to say, Sierra has been so nice to me since the moment I came here, and she’s just downright fun to be around. Tomorrow I’m going to take my round 3 LMPT picture too (I know I was supposed to stay on top of things and get them done way ahead of time…but we hadn’t got the logistics for this one figured out yet. We still haven’t really got it figured out, but we figure we’ll run with it). At the moment we’re having a sleepover. And yes, Harper is invited. I had to, because she was in the room at the time. She and Miss B. are really close and they seriously have unspoken conversations. Sam is really close to Miss B. too, maybe even more so, but they don’t discuss things in secret in front of other people. They just joke around and pretend to hate each other, which is funny. The secrecy drives me nuts. Anyway, Sierra joined us because she’d been hanging out with Hope, who’s downstairs trying to deal with Baby-Ruthie. Hopefully Emily will help her now that Sierra’s joined us. There isn’t any more room in Miss B.’s room for any more of our sleeping bags unless we don’t want to all face each other, so Sierra’s just going to have to share with someone for now. Also, Sam is playing guitar. She’s actually really good at it. She’s playing a bunch of Meiko stuff, which makes me extremely happy.
January 4, 2009 at 6:38 pm (Friends, Random, Skating)
Tags: "Psycho Killer", Emily, Harper, In the Mood, Miss B., music, Rock Band, sewing, Sierra, skating costume, Talking Heads
The first good news – my costumes arrived today! My mom said she’d ship them since she didn’t want them to get smushed in my suitcase. (The only problem is that now I have to take them to Omaha… but I assume the girls who’ve been there this past semester are expert packers, and I have a garment bag.) That was really expensive and I was happy she got them out to me before Nationals. The first one is for In the Mood, it’s purple, and I made it myself! The other one is for next year and I got to order it out of a catalogue. Emily said she liked the purple one better, but I couldn’t tell if she was just being nice. (Emily is just that – nice.) Harper wouldn’t say. I also met a girl named Sierra who is REALLY fun. She liked them both, too. I do like the purple one, but the white one is definitely more of a showpiece. That’s good, though, because I’d take it to the Olympics if I got there. I won’t get out of it. I know I shouldn’t be wearing it… but it’s so cool.
I am also OBSESSED with Rock Band. My teacher, Miss B. (who is really cool!), plays drums with me. We got a 436 note streak on “Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads. It’s such an awesome game and I’m actually good at it!
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