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August 23rd, 2006
05:25 pm
Hey! It's been a long time since I've written in here....an entire summer in fact! I am currently in Waco, being a bum and living on my old roommates' couch. Just for two days though. Tomorrow, I'll be in Austin, then head back home for a few days, and then next week classes start up. I was in Austin yesterday to take my diagnostics...I think I did pretty badly on just about every part of the test it was possible to do badly on. Oh well. I get the results in tomorrow. I have had a crazy crazy experience with my apartment situation, but I don't think I'll talk about it right now. I'll just say this...I am currently homeless :-) That should be changing soon, but anyway, in the meantime, I'm just hanging out and being a bum. Um...I have nothing to say really, I just thought I'd write something since it had been so long. Here's a list of some of the new things I tried this summer...yeah, it's kinda weird I kept a list, but I'm a list kind of person. I like making them. So here goes:
July 2: drank a whole shot of espresso plain! that's pretty impressive if I do say so myself, seeing as how I never have even my normal coffee without any cream
July 3: went fishing for the first time in my life
July 4: played trumpet for a city's fireworks show...just me and the choir and the fireworks :-)
July 7: saw Hoover Dam
July 7-9: visited Las Vegas
July 18: read Willie Nelson's autobiography
July 30: tried some Indian food--chicken curry...it was really good!
August 6: tried the strange pineapple salsa at Taco Cabana
Ausust 8: participated in my church's visitation...great experience :-)
August 19: this was a big day for me! I actually ate some grilled salmon (the last time I ate any fish was probably when I was about five years old) AND I tried onions and pickles on my hamburger...whoah!
I am such a daredevil, I tell you what...who knows what I'll try next?! Maybe be homeless for a few weeks, that sounds like fun!
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June 7th, 2006
08:45 pm - Why my new pants have a burn mark on them...
I am sure that the title already has you entranced...of course you want to know why my pants have a burn mark on them! WELL...let me tell you...
It all started the other day when I took my little sister out shopping...of course, she didn't buy anything, but I found a pair of linen pants that I liked...I mean, linen pants...yeah, that's pretty cool. Well, as you must expect, I was rather excited and wanted to wear them to work the next day...but when I got up in the morning, I could not for the life of me find them anywhere! I kept my search up all of yesterday and today, but...nothing. I retraced my steps...I had come in pretty late and was carrying a bunch of stuff, so I figured I might have somehow gotten them all mixed together...but nope....nada.
Well, I was pretty frustrated...I've had things disappear on me before, but it's usually the normal things like keys and socks and whatever it is that I need for work or school for the day...but not a pair of brand-new pants! There's only so many places they could be...
So, I came in from working at a camp this afternoon and...well....I'll go ahead and give the ending of my story away...I did finally find my pants...because, of all the places they could be, of course it would make the most sense for them to be found in..........the REFRIGERATOR. Yeah, I have no idea. The only things I can figure is I am either completely insane, or I somehow stuck them in there when I was putting away some fruit the other night. Maybe both. I have no idea why no one else in my family discovered this. I think we're all crazy. Oh, but to go back to explaining why there's a burn mark on them...well, it's because I stuffed them in on the top row of the refrigerator next to the light bulb, which incidently burned through the bag they were in and placed a nice little scar on the new pants.
THE END
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May 19th, 2006
09:49 pm - Romance novels
I've decided that I have a pretty low-tolerance level for romance novels. I've tried reading some that my mom used to read when she was younger and I get bored and can't finish. Same thing for Nicholas Sparks books--I end up skipping to the end and realizing that it ends exactly the way I expected. Although I guess I shouldn't be too surprised at that. Anyway, just thought I'd put that up. The end.
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May 15th, 2006
01:56 pm - Possum Boys
To prove to the world my theory that certain people look like possums:
compare:
with:
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April 7th, 2006
11:00 pm - I found the topics....
AAaghagah!! I'm wasting so much time!!! I should really get up from the computer and go do something else....
I have managed to keep myself out of trouble for the past couple of weeks. No fiascos, which is surprising for me! Except that I burned my thumb pretty bad on Sunday with a hot glue gun...I think I gave myself a third degree burn...isn't it a third degree burn when it blisters? Anyway, it's still all bubbled up and pretty gross, and I don't want anybody to see it, b/c then they might look at me and think there's something wrong with me. Ummm....had a pretty productive Friday...actually got up early, practiced, ate something...practiced some more (had a complete run-through of my music for my recital, so yay for that!!)...went to the art building and made three more cups on the wheel...watched this thing on the History Channel about Al Capone and realized for the first time that he is the same person as Scarface....like I said, it was pretty productive!
Oh, and I was looking through the desk for a CD I checked out from the library...I'm starting to get nasty e-mails from them, so I thought I should probably dig it up and try to turn it back in...but anyway, I was looking for that, and I came across the bag of suggestions that my roomies made for me at the beginning of last year...basically, b/c I want to update my livejournal, but I never have anything to say, they decided to contribute topics to draw from that I could ramble about. I'm so glad I don't seem to have anything better to do with my time. Alright, so tonight's topic is......Pop Research Icon: Gary Coleman. Dangit! I hate the pop research icons!! I have no pop culture knowledge at all....thus, me just figuring out that Al Capone and Scarface are one and the same...except that probably wouldn't exactly classify as popular culture...
Okay....so I have no idea who Gary Coleman is...I just went to Wikipedia meaning to look him up and ended up looking up Al Capone instead. I just learned that he once worked at a candy store and a bowling alley...and also that he hated the nickname 'Scarface' and instead preferred the nickname "Snorky." I somehow doubt that he would have risen to the top of the mafia ranks had he actually been known as Snorky...the things you learn...
Alright--I'm going to try to go to bed now! Y'all have a wonderful evening :-D
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March 26th, 2006
10:23 pm - Random
I almost had an accident last night involving a sharpie, and me thinking it was lip gloss in the dark...
That is all.
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March 21st, 2006
12:47 am - Underwear...and the Beatles
I am a tired tired Christina right now, and I should be in bed...I actually am in bed, but I felt like typing something up for some strange reason. My shoulders are kinda achey, and the only reason I can think of is because we started working on the wheel today in pottery...who knew you could get sore from pottery?! I don't think it takes much for me to get sore actually....pretty much anytime I exert any effort from my upper body, it tends to happen...
Amy and I were in our room earlier tonight, and I got all excited because I wanted to show her my new pajama pants. They're green in honor of St. Patrick's Day (love that holiday!), and they say "Kiss Me I'm Irish". So I pull them out of the drawer and proudly hold them up for her to see...and much to my embarassment, a pair of underwear falls out...to which she replies something like, "Wow! Those Irish pants really work!"...and anyway we got WAAAY too amused by it. That happening reminded me of another story that happened in high school...I was standing around doing something in the band hall, and Sam the Tuba Player comes up to me and was like, "So...what's that sticking out of your pants?" So I look down, and sure enough, there is this strange lump that seems to be growing out of my ankle, and something's poking out...so Sam the Tuba Player reaches down and pulls whatever it was out...at the moment, I was just sure it was a pair of underwear, and that the entire room would somehow see it happen...but no, lucky for me, it just turned out to be a sock...not really sure how it got there though. Weird.
I have finally started thinking about that paper that I'm supposed to turn in soon...I have decided to do it over the Beatles...the specific topic has yet to be determined, but I at least have started reading up on the Fab Four...pretty soon I'll be a walking fountain of knowledge on them. Here is a sample of questions and their answers from their first press conference in America:
Q: Will you sing for us?
John: We need money first. (Applause)
Q: Do you hope to get haircuts?
John: We had one yesterday.
Q: What do you think of Beethoven?
Ringo: I love him, especially his poems.
Q: What about the movement in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles?
Paul: We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit.
Q: Do you know you're keeping kids out of school?
John: That's a dirty lie.
That's about all I've got for now. I will probably read this later, wonder what in the world I was thinking for talking about underwear, and delete the entry. For now, I am going to bed. Good night guys!
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March 10th, 2006
03:46 pm - Nothing to talk about...
Sooo....I was kinda in the mood to update my livejournal, but I really have nothing to talk about. I'm like Seinfield...so this might be kinda random.
Last week Amy and I went down to Denton and we had a conversation about what my ideal husband would be. I said I would like a cowboy with red hair. She said she would like for me to marry someone with the last name of Pickle so that she could always call me Mrs. Pickle. I said I could go with that...that way, every time I introduced myself, I could always have something to laugh about. I am intensely jealous of Michelle, who is in the talks with a boy who has red hair...speaking of red hair, the red headed boy in my class made eye contact with me twice the other day....but unfortunately, I do not think he is a cowboy. Oh well.
I guess I'm not in as much of a writing mood as I thought I was. I can't think of anything else, so I guess that's it for now. Is it just me or are my livejournals becoming more and more pointless? Dangit...and I just realized that I have a research essay due when I get back from Spring Break, and I haven't even picked a topic yet....
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March 6th, 2006
07:13 pm - YESSS!!!!!
Guys, I just had an amazing weekend! Amy and I headed up to Denton for my UNT audition (last grad school audition!), and well...they told me that I am accepted and they are holding a place for me in Keith Johnson's studio if I choose to take it. They also told me that they changed the policy regarding the GRE just last week, and performance majors are no longer required to take it!! Woohoo!!! That saves me a couple hundred bucks and about half a day! Also, while I was on campus, I ran into a guy I worked with a couple of summers ago, and he gave me an Easter gig that pays $500...guys, is it bad to be elated over that?! I feel like I'm robbing somebody!! And then I came back home and found out that a scholarship just got put into my account......so yeah......WONDERFUL times! It feels so good to know I have a place to go next year and I won't have to live on the streets! Don't know yet if UNT will be the school or not, but for now, it's just nice to be wanted :-D
This was actually a pretty normal entry. Way to go me.
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February 22nd, 2006
12:33 am
I just thought I should announce to the world that I think ice dancing is really weird.
That is all.
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