darrin’s dance grooves

I went shopping today and came home with Darrin’s Dance Grooves. lol. It’s actually pretty fun — I am determined to learn the routine from Jordan Knight’s Give It To You and be able to perform it at the normal speed. Rob was doing the video with me too — hee! It’s so cute seeing him learn the dance moves. 😛

Seven on Sunday:

Seven Stores that Could Put You Into Bankruptcy:
1. Abercrombie and Fitch
2. Banana Republic
3. Crate and Barrel
4. Borders, Barnes & Noble
5. Tower Records
6. Best Buy
7. Bath and Body Works
I know there are more — I’m a shopping whore. 🙂

driving

The Friday Five is about driving, and since I *still* do not have my license, I can’t really answer any of the questions. ::shrugs:: Yes, I do realize that at some point, I’ll have to learn. But for now, I’m quite happy in my ignorance.

One week until Hawaii! Eek!

go kelly!

Am feeling sick. Hope this stupid stuffy nose goes away by the time I leave next week. Grr. I always get sick at the most inopportune times.

Oh! I remembered to watch American Idol tonight. Kelly Clarkson is my personal favorite — she is so versatile with her singing style — every genre so far, she’s been right there taking the challenge with flair. I hope she wins!

And uugghh, did anyone catch the disaster of a movie on MTV? Real World: The Lost Season? I was flipping the channels while American Idol was on commercial break and caught a few minutes of the movie — terrible. Where do they come up with these stupid ideas?!?

laid back

Urrrgggh, back to work tomorrow. Work is evil.

Anyway, I had a pretty laid back weekend — on Friday, I hung out with my best friends, Carmen and Robyn, at a friend’s house in the city. Everyone was piss drunk (heh) and I found it highly amusing to be the only person who was completely sober. The one thing that kept cracking me up is the way Robyn kept saying “yo” at the end of every sentence — she doesn’t normally talk like that. And geesh, can that girl chug down a beer! I mean, dayum. 😛

I spent a few hours earlier surfing Fan Forum for DC spoilers — hey, at least I can be prepared for any cringe-worthy D/Jo scenes. There are quite a few early season premiere spoilers which made me snicker — it might not be such a bad season after all. 😉
And finally! CTS is thinking about putting out DC DVDs — I definitely want to get my hands on S1, 3 and 4. Go here to vote — DC DVD Survey.

Seven on Sunday:

Seven jobs you would Kill For —
1. Professional shopper
2. Britney Spears or Janet Jackson back-up dancer
3. Set designer for movies or TV shows
4. Joshua Jackson or Tom Welling’s personal assistant
5. Travel Critic
6. Promotions Director at a company like Disney
7. To sit at home and do nothing, ie. watch TV and play with my sites all day 😛

survey thing

A little survey thingy that my friends sent me…

CURRENT
Current Clothes: gray Abercrombie sweatpants and pink tank top
Current Mood: eh
Current Music: a mixture of girly skater punk (Avril), bubblegum pop (Britney and *N Sync), and songs from the Buffy musical (hee)
Current Taste: the after-taste of a green tea mochi ball (yum)
Current Hair: spunky ponytail
Current Annoyances: the unvacuumed nature of my apartment
Current Smell: nothing — i am notorious for my extremely bad sense of smell
Current thing: updating my website
Current Desktop Picture: a Dawson’s Creek wallpaper — minus Dawson. 😛
Current Favorite Group: The Strokes
Current Book you’re reading: Twelve by Nick McDonell — the guy was 17 when he wrote this novel, I just wanted to check it out
Current CD in CD Player: Avril Lavigne’s “Let Go”
Current DVD in player: A Walk to Remember
Current Color Of Toenails: clear — too lazy for colored nail polish
Current Refreshment: cold water
Current Worry: 1) finding a job cause my current one is taking me straight to… nowhere, and 2) getting teacher recommendations if i finally decide to apply to grad school

LAST PERSON
You Touched: Rob
You Talked to: Rob
You Hugged: Rob
You Instant messaged: I don’t really go on aol anymore — it freaks me out
You Yelled At: Rob probably — but i don’t remember why
Kissed: Rob

FAVORITE
Foods: pasta (especially with a cream mushroom sauce), sushi, burritos, buffalo wings
Drinks: Shirley Temple, Coke, Mountain Dew, Lemon Iced Tea Snapple — and yes, I *do* realize these are all non-alcoholic 😉
Color: burgundy
Album: David Gray’s “White Ladder,” *N Sync’s “No Strings Attached,” The Strokes’s “Is This It,” Janet Jackson’s “The Velvet Rope,” Britney’s “Britney”
Shoes: strappy black platforms from Nine West
Candy: Sour Patch Kids
Animal: Dogs, specifically my old dog Tramp (Wampy). he was a lhasa apso. I suspect that he died but my dad told me he ran away.
Movie: Ocean’s Eleven, Titanic, Bring It On, Harry Potter
Dance: i’ve always loved ballet
Songs: Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated,” Britney Spears’s “Boys,” The Strokes’s “Last Nite,” *N Sync’s “Girlfriend”
Vegetable: corn, string beans
Fruit: nectarines, cherries, green grapes, strawberries, pluots
Cartoons: Beverly Hills Teens

ARE YOU
Understanding: i hope so
Open-minded: i like to think i am
Arrogant: i wish i could say no but i have my ignorant moments
Insecure: who isn’t?
Interesting: depends on who you ask
Random: sometimes
Hungry: always
Friendly: i try
Smart: not naturally, i really have to work at it
Moody: my moods are like a roller coaster
Childish: i try not to be
Independent: at times. i know i rely on rob way more than i should though.
Hard working: if i have motivation
Organized: yes, i like to have a place for everything
Emotionally Stable: i’m not sure — i think i have a lot of “only child,” “raised by my dad” issues
Shy: definitely — i find it hard to open up
Attractive: eh
Bored Easily: not really, i can always find something to do
Messy: not normally, but when the rest of the apartment is a mess, i take that as an excuse to be messy also
Thirsty: always
Responsible: depends on what it is
Obsessed: with Dawson’s Creek. it’s my favorite show and has my favorite TV couple.
Angry: i don’t get angry too easily. but when i do, i have a bad tendency to keep it all in.
Sad: sometimes
Happy: for the most part
Hyper: only around certain people
Trusting: it takes a while
Talkative: sometimes i can talk your ear off and sometimes i’m deadly silent
Legal: yes

WHO DO YOU WANT TO
Kill: eek! what a horrible thought
Slap: no one really
Get Really Wasted With: i don’t drink cause i’m a lightweight and will throw up after 1 drink so i don’t think anyone would want to be subjected to that. but if i had to pick, carmen and robyn cause they’ve already seen me vomit and they’re still my friends. 😛
Get High With: never tried it and i don’t think i ever will
Tickle: my cousin riz, cause she’s a sucker. 😛

carmen and robyn

My two best friends are coming up to visit this weekend! It’s weird, the three of us don’t talk or see each other often (mostly cause I’m bad at keeping in touch and I live on the other side of the state), but I feel like they’ll always *know* me. I mean, sure, I have friends from college but they’re not the ones who saw me through my “growing pains” — all the awkward moments that, as hard as you try, you can never really forget. They’re the ones who stood by me when my mom passed away, gave me moral support when I had my first real crush on a boy, and hugged me tight as I was leaving for college. I can’t wait to see them. 🙂

Hawaii countdown: 15 days!

friday five on saturday

Going to see Austin Powers in Goldmember (:P Amy) in a few but I thought I would do the Friday Five first —

How long have you had a weblog? Since January 2002 — when I got my domain. For the first month, I blogged manually because I couldn’t figure out how in the heck to use Blogger.
What was your first post about? Something about hoping my domain finally worked. lol. Really lame, like “Oh my gosh! I hope this works! Please work!” heh.
How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one? I don’t have a name for my blog — just never really occurred to me to have one. ::shrugs:: And the blog has always been accessible on what I call the “main” portion of my site — the page after the splash that holds the navigation to the different sections.
What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else? I use Greymatter, which is amazing. I actually tried to use Blogger first but for some reason, I am too stupid to use it. My entries would never show up. Humph. But I’m glad I installed Greymatter instead because it really is much better to have everything located on my domain.
Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place? The people I know really only have weblogs. Besides, sometimes I think that by reading people’s random thoughts and comments that you can learn a lot more about them than by reading something that they’ve intentionally written to be deep and meaningful.

summer diaries part 2

Because I am a good samaritan, I will be recapping the DC summer diaries so you guys don’t have to. 😉

Dawson… to ditch or not to ditch Oliver? That, boys and girls, is the question.

Jack… the poor guy misses Jen. But really, wasn’t he the one who ditched her for frat boy Eric? ::rolls eyes::

Joey… She wrote Dawson a letter that she’ll never send. She writes — “Feels like we’ve barely spoken all summer. And yet there’s still so much unspoken, isn’t there? It’s not as if time and distance and all those things don’t make it next to impossible to reach each other, plus you’re busy, I’m busy, and these things tend to fall by the wayside. Is that how it’s always going to be?” It goes on and on like that for a bit. ::sigh:: Good grief — it’s never-ending with these two. Writers (not that they would ever read my blog), you need to put these crazy kids together and make them decide, once and for all, if they belong together. Cause all this back and forth silliness is really maddening. Also, still no definite confirmation that she’s in Paris.

Pacey… my sweet Pacey has become little more than a vehicle for the writers to let us know how Audrey is handling the summer with her very critical and scrutinizing parents. ::yawn::

Jen… I’m still upset with the writers for tackling Jen’s parental issues in the diaries of all places. They had ample opportunities in Seasons 3 and 4, when Jen faced her mom and dad for the first time in a long while but of course, those 2 storylines were a whole lot of nothing.

american idol

So I finally broke down and watched American Idol — and I’m sad to say that I’m hooked. *sigh* After the disappointment of PopStars 2 (I hated the second season but I thought the first was highly entertaining), I didn’t think I’d ever be able to watch these crazy reality shows again. But gah — these contestants are actually pretty good. 😛 My two favorites are definitely Justin (I love his facial expressions) and Kelly (what an amazing voice and a great name :P). AJ had a cute voice but he didn’t look very comfortable on stage and that girl Ryan made me cringe. I guess the others weren’t very noteworthy cause I can’t remember anything about them — either that, or I just have the most horrible memory. 😛 I’m sure I’ll tune in tomorrow to find out who gets booted off — let it be Ryan! — heh.

a walk to remember

So I finally saw A Walk to Remember — it’s such a cute movie — Mandy Moore and Shane West really make an adorable couple. Gah, I’m such a sucker for sappy love stories. Case in point: I saw Titanic about 8 times in the movie theatre. 😛 Heh. And can Shane West *be* any cuter? (*wink* at Mickie)

Oooh! My Hawaii tickets came in the mail today! Yippee! 23 more days!