It's freakin' me out, man!

SO. My new favorite show is True Blood. It's absolutely fantastic!!! (On HBO at 9 CST in case you're wondering... :D) Plus I'm a total vampire whore. <333 I'd say I blame Stephenie Meyer, but honestly, I've always loved vampires. I was a vampire princess for Halloween my freshman year of high school. I wanted to see Interview with the Vampire for THE LONGEST time. The list goes on and on. I guess I never really got into it because my parents would always freak out about that kind of thing. They freaked when I became friends with a goth girl and started reading manga and watching anime. But whatev.

Anywho, so I was driving back to my apartment after watching True Blood (we don't have cable at the apartment, so I watch it at my parents' before driving back... I still come home every weekend...) and this idea popped into my head. It's not like I made it up. It just hit me as I was speeding into Omaha. And before I knew it, the characters were forming in my mind. The basics of the plot were beginning to unfold. I had my main character, her background, and her appearance mapped out before I stepped into my apartment. And then I started writing details. I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning writing stuff, randomly researching different subjects for no apparent reason, etc.

This was last Sunday. Since then, I find my mind drifting back to my idea. More details about her hometown float through my mind and I find myself going "Ohhhh! Well, that makes sense." It's like I'm not even writing it; it's like someone is telling the story to me piece by piece.

And it gets WEIRDER. I was struggling with names. I wanted my main character to have a common name that's not used very often anymore... More of a grandmother's name, not a teenager's name. So I was toying around with stuff like Prudence, but I REALLY liked the name Iris. So I thought to myself, "Okay, she'll be Iris." Then I thought of the name Marjorie (btw... thanks, Marjorie Fair! XD). I was going to switch it. I promise you I was going to switch it to Marjorie. But on my way back to my parents' after work, I heard two songs on the radio that fit my characters EXACTLY. It was freaky. One was "Everywhere" by Michelle Branch. And the second one I didn't know the name of! It was bothering the crap out of me, so about ten minutes ago I googled the lyrics that I'd managed to scribble on my hand while at a stop light. What was the song? Get ready for this 'cause it's crazy.

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

I was freaking out. This song fits my vampire (oh, did I mention it's a vampire story? lol) SO WELL. It's creeping me out. It's like this story WANTS to be written. I don't know. I'll have to tell my friend/roommate Morgan about this... She's writing her own story. I'm editing/illustrating for her... :D But she'll get a kick out of this. Or tell me to start writing NOW. Haha.

Fun fun fun.

I'm at work. As usual. I'm always at work or at school. And then I'm usually working on homework or organizing my music junk when I'm at my apartment. Until Morgan comes home and I talk to her for two hours... I love living with her. She's fantastic.

I've been in school for... nearly three full weeks now. O_O; It's crazy! My classes are all pretty fun... Or easy. My theatre class isn't as fun as I thought it'd be. We're already done with the acting portion because the teacher is a tech person. And my applied piano teacher is kind of a jerk to everyone EXCEPT me, which makes me feel really bad. Oh, and I'm probably going to fail music theory. But whatever. I'm going to the free tutoring sessions that the CMENC (College Music Educators National Conference... I think?) have on Wednesdays. It's sort of helping. I need more help with the written stuff, but they focus on ear training. But I shouldn't complain.

I've made friends, too! Well, I think they think I'm kind of... odd. I'm naturally just a touchy person. I touch people. I hug them. I high five them. I nudge, I pat them on the shoulder... And I'm kind of grabby, too. I can't help it. My one friends kind of got mad at me yesterday because he couldn't figure out how to read manga and I KINDA SORTA grabbed at the book to show him... He was a little dramatic about it, but I was out of line. I thought he was mad at me, but then he started talking about how he loved my shoes, so all was forgiven... I think.

I don't know. I think I'm too insecure with new people... I'm naturally outgoing, but I kind of question whether or not my company is wanted sometimes. I do the same thing with the friends that I've had for years.

Nothing else is really interesting about my life right now. I'm getting caught up with all of my appointments: dentist, eye doctor, physical, etc. I need to dye my hair again... I decided to keep with the dark red color rather than the strawberry blonde. I just loved the way my hair looked during Brigadoon... It was this rich red color, almost bright enough to be Little Mermaid hair! It looked really pretty against my pale skin. *sigh* I know my parents want me to go back to blonde, but whatever. I like my red hair. And it's not as hard to maintain as people claim it is. :/

Ugh. I don't want to work. Seriously, this is the worst day for work. I had to wake up super early because I had to shower in the morning. I fell asleep before I could take one and then when I woke up at 3 in the morning, I realized what had happened and just set my cellphone alarm for 6:15. Too earlyyyyyyy. And it doesn't help that it's freaky hurricane weather outside. Seriously. The rain is WEIRD today. It hasn't rained like this for a good long while.

I don't even have that much to do today. I wish I could clean today instead of tomorrow, but I'll probably have even LESS to do tomorrow...

Well, I'm off to find some random stuff to do. >_>

Moved In.

Holy crap.

I've moved out.

I'm living in an apartment.

O____________O;

Nah, it's actually way easier than I thought it would be. Maybe having a pet helps...



Her name is Rosalind (after the character in William Shakespeare's As You Like It... and a little bit after Rosalie from Twilight because she's a blondie, too). She's very outgoing and a total sweetheart. She likes cleaning my fingernails. And smelling my ears. And messing up my hair.

In other news... Look at my psychotic hair color. Too bad you can't see the roots... They're pretty much bleached blonde. It's insane. I look like a big FLAME.

Wellllll, I'm in the apartment all by myself, so I think I'm gonna put some clothes away and put in Atonement before my roommates decide to send it back to Netflix. They watched it without me. ;_; I think they thought I'd seen it before... But they should have asked. And I probably should have asked if I could eat those cucumbers... Oh well!

<3

I'm in love.

I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again--

JIM STURGESS IS THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE.

My mom and I kind of have a bond over him... He looks so much like Paul McCartney (which, I theorize, is why he got the part of Jude in Across the Universe) and my mom absolutely LOVES Paul McCartney. So I want the younger version. >3

Just look at him! And with his hair all messy like that... he could make a pretty good James Potter PB, no? So cute.

Clean, clean, clean.

It's all I seem to do these days. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Sweep the kitchen. Scrub the toilet. Wash the cabinets. And my sister never does her chores (Well... not NEVER. Just rarely!). I thought I'd be done with the super crazy cleaning after graduation, but NOOOO. Now we have friends from Baton Rouge staying with us for the College World Series, and where do they stay? MY ROOM. Why? "Because you have a full-size bed, Whitney. It's only fair."

So I get to clean my room, which is in a state of disarray due to the fact that I'm moving into my apartment in the beginning of August. I just got a bunch of boxes from my friend to start packing. So I have to get my packing in high gear so I can shove my boxes full of stuff into my closet so people can sleep in my room while I "sleep" on the floor of my sister's room.

I'm so excited. NOT.

No, really, I am kind of excited. These are family friends that I haven't ever met. Not that I remember at least. I think I met them when I was, like, two. But they're really sweet people, and I've always heard stories about them, so I guess I'm pretty stoked for that. It'll be fun. I think their 15-year-old son is coming... maybe he's cute... XD (I'm such a pedofile, I'm 18!!!)

In other news, OMG I WISH I COULD GO TO CHICAGO FOR THE BREAKING DAWN TOURRRRR. ;_; Too bad I'm gonna be moving into my apartment that week. Srsly. But I like Blue October, and I LOOOVVVVVEEEE Stephenie Meyer. Maybe she'll write another book and FINALLY come to Nebraska. There are a whole lotta Stephenie Meyer fans out here. Practically every girl I've ever met has read them. I even wrangled my sister into reading them! But that was kind of a mean thing... She claims to be a romantic, so I said "Really? If you're a romantic, you'll like these." I just wanted to prove to her that I'm more of a romantic than she is. She doesn't even kiss her boyfriend (at least she claims that...). Not a romantic. She's a PRUDE. But I love her. <333

Oh well. Guess I'll get back to shoving crap into boxes until my bed is finally uncovered so I can sleep... And then most likely be woken up by my sister, who has taken to flinging herself in my room in the morning every time she sees something slightly interesting on TV. This morning it was Cry Baby (the musical) performing for the Today Show... I think. Either way, I was angry and tired. But I know she does it because she thinks I want to see stuff like that. I just don't like having heart attacks. O_o;

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Now playing: Blue October - Overweight
via FoxyTunes

Holy Downloading.

Still downloading every single song on Stephenie Meyer's playlists. I'm just starting on Eclipse. Man, I love this music. It's SOOO good! I listened to the New Moon playlist while reading Eclipse the other night... It makes it much more interesting, let me tell you. I'll have to listen to the music a little more, though. I don't know many of the songs, so I tend to listen to them more closely, which distracts me from the words on the page. I was surprised that I knew as many songs as I did. Liiiike... "I Miss You" by Blink-182. TOTALLY didn't know that song was called "I Miss You." Or "The Reason" by Hoobastank. Or "Hate Me" by Blue October. I was actually singing along with them before I figured out that I knew-- and liked-- the songs. I think "Fix You" by Coldplay was another one...

Anywho, my quest to fix my iTunes is nearly complete. Did I write about that? Through some extremely impressive acts of stupidity, I managed to delete every single song off my computer. My dad, being the wonderful genius that he is, recovered them for me, but I still feel really stupid. And I had to move all of my music to a different harddrive because we decided to put it on a shared drive. I'm the only one that manages any music through iTunes, so my sister would be helpless if I didn't load things for her. So I've been re-adding the 1000+ songs that I had on there, re-importing the CD files that were corrupted from being deleted, and so on and so forth. I'm also adding some really old CDs of mine... and my mom's. Gotta love the good stuff-- Wings, Edwin McCain, The Beatles, REO Speedwagon, Little River Band, ABBA... OH MAN. It's good.

I'm wired from seeing Iron Man. I FINALLY got out of the house. I've been trapped here with my dad for the past two weeks. I graduate and suddenly it seems I fall off the face of the earth-- socially at least. The only person that invites me to do anything is my soon-to-be roommate, and I'm trying to lessen our time together since I'll be living with her soon. I love her to death, but sometimes too much of a good thing can become a bad thing, and I don't want that to happen with us. ANYWAY. Iron Man was great, but there was this REALLY annoying girl that sat next to my dad... She wouldn't shut up. I was about to say something to her, but then my dad said something instead, which was probably a good thing because he was much more polite than I would have been. And then she was screaming at everyone to stay because there was something at the end of the credits, but a bunch of people left anyway. But I was like, "Uh, lady, no one is listening to you because they're tired of your voice. They didn't want to hear you in the middle of the movie, and they don't want to hear you now. SHUT UP."

Well, now I must let the dog out, so I'll end this silly rant about nothingness.

Done.

It's official-- I've graduated from high school. Scary, I know.

So I've been at home by myself for the past, oh, week I'd say. My sister's been at school. Yesterday was her last day-- she got to test out of all of her semester tests (except for Precalc... She's chosen to take that test because she's an over-achiever). And what does she do today? She goes to a movie with her junior friends and leaves me by myself. AGAIN.

So I'm cleaning my room, and sort of packing along the way. I've been doing that for a few days now. My room was really that bad. I can now walk in it, but it's got a long way to go. It gets better, then it gets worse again... And then I decide to take really long breaks where I decide to download music or talk to people on Windows Live Messenger. My downloading is getting out of hand, but I've got a BUNCH of really cool songs. I'm downloading every song on Stephenie Meyer's book playlists. I'm a nerd, I know. But she has AWESOME taste in music. And I'm sick of listening to Broadway showtunes. Shh! don't tell Jordan; he'll have a heart attack.

WELLLLLLL, I better get back to my room. Maybe I'll try downloading a few more songs. Limewire crapped out on me last night, so I ended up reading for about... four hours and then going to bed. My life is so BORING. At least I'll (hopefully) get a job soon. I applied at a Christian book store called Parables. It's practically a step away from soon-to-be MY apartment. I could walk to work from my apartment if I didn't have to walk on major roads. Wait, I think I could walk anyway. I think the walking trail goes right past it. Hm.

Anywho, so I have connections in the store, and I think I can get a job there. WOO! But enough about that. I'm going to CLEAN.