NYC...AGAIN

We've been back for 2 weeks now and I can't stop thinking about our trip to New York! I seriously would love to live there for at least a year when I graduate; being there definitely confirmed this thought. It would be awesome to be able to go up there and work toward my License as a Family Life Educator and even though it is a two year commitment, but that would be the experience of a lifetime! I get so excited just thinking about it (not to mention, I've been looking at job opportunities and housing already...)! Hopefully, this dream will become a reality in just a couple short semesters...I'm ready for it!

LOVES

So I love Channing Tatum, even though he used to be a male stripper...who knew?


Also, I love the fact that there is a possible double feature in the future: A Single Man and An Education. eeeeekkk! DOUBLE FEATURES ARE AWESOME!

I'm currently loving Joshua Radin's CD Simple Times. It is really good! I had never heard of him until I stumbled across him on iTunes. He's kind of like a calmer Jack Johnson. His voice is so soothing! Another CD that I downloaded was Patty Griffin's Children Running Through. I heard Kelly Clarkson's cover of her song "Up To The Mountain" and fell in love with it! I randomly decided to get the whole CD the other day and it is very good. There are some songs though that I skip, but I like the cross between country and Nora Jones vibe she has going.

One thing that I DID NOT love was my dream the other night. I was at my old middle school walking through the parking lot when all of the sudden I couldn't see anything. It was pitch black. Someone from the dorm last year was also in the parking lot and they were trying to talk to me. I couldn't answer them though so I sat against a curb and willed myself to wake up. It was a scary dream; I hate being in the dark with nothing up against my back because I'm afraid that something else is with me. I know...weird.

OH YA KNOW...

Today’s weather was PERFECT. I had class from 8 to 2 (which is horrible), but the weather made it all better!



My inkling that I am a huge list fanatic was also confirmed this afternoon when I made a list of things that I wanted to mention on my blog today. So here it goes:

CONGRATULATIONS TO SARA!! She got in the Consumer Journalism Major! Yay :D



One of my favorite smells reconfirmed = freshly cut grass

My mom’s birthday is in exactly 20 days! She’s growing up so fast…



Here is a little list inside my list, What I Currently Want:
iPod Touch
PhotoShop
A fancy camera + a Holga
For my 21st birthday to hurry the heck up (New York, here I come….in 13 months)
A haircut, although I said that I wouldn’t get one until May
I want/need a job (desperately)

I don’t understand why people wear flip-flops when it is February. Seriously? I was bundled up this morning to catch the bus and someone walked up with flip-flops. I just don’t get it…

I haven’t had any dreams lately and it’s depressing…

My love for my Forever 21 pea coat and Keds was also reconfirmed today

And I finally mastered how to ride the bus standing up. It is much harder that it seems…

BOOKS AND DREAMS

Currently, I am working my way through the fourth book of the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. So far, it's pretty good! I really liked the first three, especially the third, so I have pretty high expectations. My roommate, Sara, got me into reading these books because she is a HUGE fan of them. I already owned the first four and I read them when they first came out, but I didn't really remember them. Now that I'm reading them again though, I'm starting to remember little pieces. Even though I want to read all of them without breaking them up, I'm kind of ready for a change so I might read a book between the fourth and fifth one. I have a ton of books that I've borrowed from my other roommate, Kayla, and my step-mom that I am anxious to read (I think that's why I'm ready for a change):
Dear John
The Last Song
The Princess Diaries Series
The Lovely Bones
I also just ordered some books from Amazon.com that I'm excited to read (The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries).
I'll update when I'm done with Harry Potter and when I've made a decision about what book to read next soon!

Now about my dream. It was so strange and I'm actually really surprised that I even had a dream because I'm not used to dreaming when I only have 6 or 7 hours of sleep (thanks 8 AM classes). So in the dream, I was at my mom's work. Instead of it being her normal office, I walked in and right in front of me was a staircase that led to a large open area. In the area, my dad was dressed up in a suit and he was talking to my mom's boss. I nodded my head hello to him since I didn't want to interrupt them and I walked past the stairs. I walked down a hallway that led to the kitchen and if you kept walking through the kitchen, you would walk right by a Cadillac that was parked on the wrong side of a highway. So I spent some time talking to my mom in the kitchen and for some reason, I decided to go out to the car and look around. The car was very old and had old leather seats; on the seat there was an old leather notebook that belonged to my mom. I knew she told me not to look in the notebook because it had work stuff in it, but I thought I would since she was still inside. While I was looking through the notebook, a car pulled up beside me and made me panic so I drop the book on the floorboard of the car. A lady then came up to the passenger's side window and asked if I was broken down. I told her that I wasn't, in what I thought was a polite response, but for some reason she returned to her car after telling me I was rude and that I needed manners. This upset me so I went back inside to find that my mom had left, but my dad was still there. Somehow, a couple hours had passed, but my dad looked like he was still waiting for something. I went up to him to start a conversation and instead of talking about what he was doing there, I simply handed him The Time Traveler's Wife and apologized for not giving it to him before.
That was a very weird and random dream and I have no clue what the hidden meaning behind it is (if there even is one).

Now time to go read some more HP! :)