Okay, so this time I did ditch, and for a while. I am sorry. I am going to try very hard to not let it happen again. Things have just been so CRAZY these past couple of months. Below is a quick run down of my life since my last post:

July: I got to see my wonderful family while we went on a 5 day Mexican Cruise to Cabo San Lucas, and I must say a cruise is the best way to spend a vacation. This was the first family vacation where we didn't have to fight over what to do, worry about the cost of the attractions, or try and find transportation for us all to have some alone time. We were able to do things ourselves, meet new people, see new things, and still all meet for dinner in the evening. Most of everything was paid for in the cost of the trip and so we didn't have to worry about money. Not to mention unlimited food...and really good food. We also met a beautiful couple, in their...lets say 50's. Linda and Charles. They were delightful and made each day just a little bit more exciting. We are set to go on a 7 day Caribbean Cruise in May as our second.

August: I MOVED!!! That's right, I got out of the house and moved into my own studio apartment in the North End. It has been glorious. It was like when I moved my creative floodgate opened up to whole new realms. My first month in here I wrote 3 new songs, several poems, and a short story that I was proud of. This was after months of trying to create anything worth keeping. I bought a microphone and am looking into some software to look at recording a CD (for myself) that consists of seven songs I have written since living here. In the move I did lose a dear friend, and that is sad. She didn't die, she just went away but those are the choices we make. I am able to hear through the grapevine a general of how she is and that makes me feel a little bit better about that.

September: BUMBERSHOOT and COHEED AND CAMBRIA. Those two alone would have made September the best month ever. I made incredible concert friends, one of whom I still talk to a little bit. Felt loved, and fell in love during the Modest Mouse show, and yes I was on the bar. Then at Coheed I met up with an old friend, Aaron and even being in seats that show rocked it. They played 'The Crowing', how does it get better than that? Oh wait, it was that they finally played 'The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer' because I LOVE that song and have always wanted to be in a crowd of [mostly] white girls screaming, "die white girls, die white girls!" Note: The band is not racist, you just have to know the story behind Al.

October: October was glorious. I saw WHY? yet again, this time with Hannah and they made my heart scream "WOOHOO!" The newest album Eskimo Snow is different but intelligent and beautiful. Pick it up, listen, then listen again. My best friend, Priscilla also showed up for a few days and we had the pleasure of seeing the ever funny Kevin Smith, that night my stomach hurt and my pants, I must admit had been peed.

On another note, I was also promoted and got a raise in this month of October, that's always good news.

November: So I start NaNoWriMo this month, I get the pleasure of writing a frantic novel of 50,000 words in thirty days. I will keep my updates here, also at nanowrimo.org. Check it out, it's going to be a good time!

The New Wave

I know its been awhile but I promise I didn't just ditch. I was in San Francisco this weekend! It was really fun. We left Thursday night at around 5:30pm and drove all night into San Francisco. It was beautiful and fun. We weren't aware that it was Pride weekend and so we were in for a suprise but had a blast. Pink Satuday, the Pride street fair, we also did a ghost tour and saw Charles Manson, Jim Jones', and Janis Joplin's houses. We drove down the crookedest street, went to the aquarium, and stopped at a beach.This was along with driving through a tree, having 'real' chinese food, and hanging on to the edge or a cable car. All in all it was pretty eventful. We met very nice people and became delirious on the way home deciding we are starting a rockish/popish/ technoish band thats more of a trip to watch live, than Pink Floyd on acid. We don't have a name, or band members but it's going to be a hit! There's pictures at myspace.com/liquidscenes for your enjoyment, don't have the time to post them here. Toodles!

I'm Back!

I have been gone for SO long and missed so much here on Blogger. I am sorry and I will not neglect again, at least I will try not to neglect. So much has happened but nothing has happened all at the same time. Lets talk about upcoming things, my schedule is as follows for the next few weeks:

Thursday June 26th- Go to San Francisco for a mini weekend vacation with Heather
Tuesday June 30th- Start new school classes (one of which is Into to Literature!!)
Friday July 3rd- Pick up stranger Webley fan to stay at our house for the weekend, also,attend awesome Webley Extravaganza
Friday July 5th- CAMP TOMATO
Friday July 10th- Leave for San Diego and a day with my brother, Victor
Saturday July 11th-16th- Mexican Cruise with the Long/Sanchez Clan
Friday July 17th- Decemberists/Andrew Bird at Marymoor Amphitheater
Saturday July 18th- Death Cab for Cutie/New Pornographers at Marymoor Amphitheater
Sunday July 19th- Fighting between Lacuna Coil and Neumos or No Doubt (which I have tickets to)

Times are lovely and I feel like I am actually doing things, enjoying life, living. I haven't begun to plan August yet but we have birthday's coming up, maybe new housing to look into, wonderful shows I'm sure are coming. It's going to be fantastic and I promise to be more frequent to update so everyone who can't enjoy it with me can enjoy it through me.

In better news I also purchased a little digital camera so that I can now better document the happenings of life around me. I'm glad to share it. Good day

Bye-Bye

I'm leaving New Mexico today to go back home. It was a nice visit while it lasted. I really enjoyed seeing my friends and family, making plans, going to parties, and hanging out but thankfully it's time to get back to my big, beautiful and very comfortable bed with my larger than life housemates and my slut of a cat. Once I get home my nose will stop bleeding (high altitudes do that), my mouth wont be swollen (dryness issue) and I'll get a good nights sleep (hospital beds=not comfortable). Sorry I was away while I was...well away but I should be back with pictures and poetry for you shortly. Thanks for your patience.

Home Sweet Home

I arrived at the Albuquerque airport at about 11pm last night to 70 degree weather with twelve mile an hour winds. Meanwhile my housemate is freezing in our 50 degree house back in Seattle. Gosh, it's good to be home! Getting home, however, was quite the ordeal. I got my new (and vegan) shoes, had all my bags packed and was ready to go. As I am walking up our hill towards the bus I hear this loud roaring, its awfully familiar but I can't seem to place it until I look up and see my very mode of transportation flying past me. I think, "Well, its only twenty minutes till the next bus. I'll just camp out and listen to my iPod." Wrong. I put headphones and get silence. Wait for it.....silence. I look down to see my iPod listing "no music". check artist "no artist" just nothing at all. Trying not to panic I grabbed my bags and rush back home to load music on to my iPod before the next bus arrives. It's just my luck the itunes decides to crap out on me at exactly the same time and wont load music to my ipod without freezing. I've now missed the second bus and have to call a cab to take me to the airport. The cab shows up within five minutes and I'm left to six hours of travel time with zero music. In addition, I'm trapped on vacation for SIX days without my drug. I just spent 20 minutes listening to Lil' Wayne rap about toilet bowls...it's going to be a long six days....

What I Should Be Doing

Yet again I am twittering, blogging, myspacing, facebooking, all when I should be working. I am going to the great Southwest in two days and haven't done laundry, packed, cleaned my room, finished my three mid-term papers, or secured a ride to the airport. Talk about procrastination. Instead of taking care of business today I worked out (which felt so good, I have to start again), dyed my hair (purple, but it looks black), I went shopping and got a great new skirt (not like me AT ALL), adored various female artists via Rhapsody and Youtube (Tori Amos, Bjork, Jesca Hoop, PJ Harvey, Bat for Lashes) and read some Chuck P. 'Pygmy,' his new book, is taking me much longer than I expected but I just haven't had a whole lot of time to read, as sad as that is. So far though it's good. It's written in a broken thought dialect though so it takes some getting used to. I also haven't had time to blog, which is sad but I will quickly catch you up on the events of my life to this point.

May 2nd- I saw the Shins and this lovely band that opened called Delta Spirit (visit various myspace/websites) They were both really good. It was at Western Washington University up in Bellingham and rained almost the entire time. It was beautiful and cold.

May 4th- I saw my beloved Iron and Wine and Sam Beam will always impress. He was charming and very funny and played very beautifully. It was at Vera Seattle. No suprises there. He gave out free CD's which was totally cool and Yogoman Burning Band (from Bellingham) opened and were AMAZING. I totally suggest checking them out. They will rock your world.

May 8th- Saw Star Trek with Mimi and did enjoy. I totally have a crush on Spock, but only as Spock....is that really weird?

May 10th- Finally got to blog, is thinking about writing music again, and has a new housemate named. JD. These things all make me happyish.

Snail March

So, there's a march for snails rights and I am pretty sure the snails know I love them and would never want to hurt them so they are holding it on my walk way. I know this because it honestly took me 6 minutes to walk up to my door. We have 27 little camouflaged snails in various places along our walk way, its like walking through landmines or laser fields to avoid stepping on them! I am really scared to come back tonight in the dark and might just have to go through the back door because if I hear that little 'crunch' under my feet I will probably start crying and Heather won't be here to comfort me. Snail death is everywhere, people, be cautious!