So I messed up. Part of the reason I originally made this blog was to write as I traveled across Europe. I did however write in a journal so there is that written record but this one went on unused. That is not the point, the point is I haven't written in here in like 8 months so I'm going to try to write more.
Europe was life changing which totally sounds hokey but it was. I have these great friends all over the world and a different perspective on things I had never thought twice about, if that makes any sense.
So as usual, things in my life are falling apart. Before I left for Europe I totalled my car (side note: not my fault) and I'm still not back in school. I'm back to work at Penneys yet again where i get like 10 hours a week and I can't pay all my bills and my student loans. I need to step it up, I need to change. I seem to make a list of things I need to do and I always do them but still the list continues to get longer and longer with no end in sight. Its just really discouraging.
There is one thing in my life that seems to not be falling apart at the seams and that is my love life, which is something that has never been together. I have a boyfriend and have had him under my spell for a little over 4 months. I think I'm probably technically under his spell rather than hes under mine. I love him, which is frightening, I've never felt this way about anyone ever and I sure as hell have never told anyone something as intimate as this. Its so scary to lay myself out like this, completely exposed and vulnerable. We fight alot and it breaks my heart but I know that I'm here until the end and I can only hope he's on the same page as me. I think he is and I think we can work through anything as long as we're both honest, empathetic, and held accountable to each other. Which is what I think love is all about anyways.
I want to read The Late Shift which is a non fiction book about the early 90s late night wars between Leno and Letterman. It sounds super interesting. I also want to take on the JFK conspiracies and a few classic fiction novels.
I plan on cleaning my room in the near future. Is it summer yet?
....stay freshh.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
tentative europe sched
saturday august 1st
leave for DC
wednesday august 5th
leave DC for Dublin, Ireland
thursday august 6th
arrive in Dublin, Ireland
sunday august 9th
leave Dublin for London
arrive in London
tuesday august 11th
ferry to Amsterdam
*subject to change*
friday august 14th
leave Amsterdam for Belgium
(no determined city yet, waiting to hear from a friend)
monday august 17th
leave Belgium
tuesday august 18th
arrive in Prague
saturday august 22nd
leave Prague
sunday august 23rd
arrive in Zurich
wednesday august 26th
leave Zurich
thursday august 27th
arrive in Rome
monday august 31st
leave Rome
arrive in Barcelona
friday september 4th
leave Barcelona
arrive in London
sunday september 6th
leave London
arrive in Dublin
monday september 7th
leave Dublin arrive in DC
hip hip!! hooray!!
leave for DC
wednesday august 5th
leave DC for Dublin, Ireland
thursday august 6th
arrive in Dublin, Ireland
sunday august 9th
leave Dublin for London
arrive in London
tuesday august 11th
ferry to Amsterdam
*subject to change*
friday august 14th
leave Amsterdam for Belgium
(no determined city yet, waiting to hear from a friend)
monday august 17th
leave Belgium
tuesday august 18th
arrive in Prague
saturday august 22nd
leave Prague
sunday august 23rd
arrive in Zurich
wednesday august 26th
leave Zurich
thursday august 27th
arrive in Rome
monday august 31st
leave Rome
arrive in Barcelona
friday september 4th
leave Barcelona
arrive in London
sunday september 6th
leave London
arrive in Dublin
monday september 7th
leave Dublin arrive in DC
hip hip!! hooray!!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
thomas got a bath today
Thomas being my car (because it sounds like a train engine) and a bath meaning a car wash. And he got vacuumed out and all the trash thrown away, its like a brand new car! Except the coffee stains from my dad and the cigarette burns from my dumb ass. It cost me like 7 bucks to do it all too. How sweet is that?
Well, I'm attempting to be productive today. I still have to go to the library, do my laundry, put my already clean laundry away, and post on blackboard for my modern fiction class. I might go out tonight too. Basically I'm kicking ass and taking names.
I should post what the weather is like when I'm typing one of these bad boys up. Today is in the 60s and sunny. So I'm productive. If it were cloudy and in the 40s it would probably sound like my earlier ones when I had plenty to do and no desire to do any of it. I hate being cold.
So I'm still going to Europe. And I'm still beaming with excitement from my ticket!
Not much to update, seeing as school and work literally takes up majority of my life nowadays. But there is a boy that likes me, or just asks me to hang out alot. Poor kid. He keeps asking and I keep saying no. He's nice and fun and all that but I'm going to Europe. And I'm going to make out with boys in every country I'm in, does he really want a part of that? Well I told him we could hang out today but I have no clue whats going on today so I guess we'll just have to see. He's probably annoyed with me anyways and I can't say I blame him. How many times do I expect him to ask me out after I keep saying no?
I'm going to get off here and do something slightly more productive. I just thought I'd take a second to write down that I am being productive even if for the moment I'm not. Does that make sense? Do I ever make sense? Are you there Maggie? It's me, Colleen. Jane. Whatever.
Stay fresh
Well, I'm attempting to be productive today. I still have to go to the library, do my laundry, put my already clean laundry away, and post on blackboard for my modern fiction class. I might go out tonight too. Basically I'm kicking ass and taking names.
I should post what the weather is like when I'm typing one of these bad boys up. Today is in the 60s and sunny. So I'm productive. If it were cloudy and in the 40s it would probably sound like my earlier ones when I had plenty to do and no desire to do any of it. I hate being cold.
So I'm still going to Europe. And I'm still beaming with excitement from my ticket!
Not much to update, seeing as school and work literally takes up majority of my life nowadays. But there is a boy that likes me, or just asks me to hang out alot. Poor kid. He keeps asking and I keep saying no. He's nice and fun and all that but I'm going to Europe. And I'm going to make out with boys in every country I'm in, does he really want a part of that? Well I told him we could hang out today but I have no clue whats going on today so I guess we'll just have to see. He's probably annoyed with me anyways and I can't say I blame him. How many times do I expect him to ask me out after I keep saying no?
I'm going to get off here and do something slightly more productive. I just thought I'd take a second to write down that I am being productive even if for the moment I'm not. Does that make sense? Do I ever make sense? Are you there Maggie? It's me, Colleen. Jane. Whatever.
Stay fresh
Monday, March 30, 2009
now boarding....
colleen and veronica to dublin!!!!
That is correct! Veronica and I finally bought our tickets to Europe so all the skeptics out there who didn't actually believe we were going can just shut the fuck up! :) Yay! We didn't get buddy passes and our tickets are pretty pricey ($800) but we just decided its now or never. So we did it. Tomorrow V is coming over with a bottle of wine and we are finalizing all our plans and making a set itinerary with all the cities were going to visit and a budget and all that fun stuff. Did I mention she's bringing over a bottle of wine? (Maybe I should tell her to bring two. Or three...)
I started school back up today. Again, another thing people didn't think I was going to do. Now what is Colleen going to say? That she's still going to the gym. The answer to that is yes, well for the most part. Brittany and I don't always go three times a week but we always go at least once. I can run for five minutes now! How impressive!
There are some bum-doodle things about starting school back up, such as homework. I have to read alot. I love to read and I read all the time, but I work just about full time and every class wants me to read like a thousand pages. Okay not really but the point is I don't have enough time to do it all. Plus I have to wait for my books to come in the mail because they are way cheaper online. Another bum-doodle thing about school is I smoke way more. I smoke in the car on the way to school, on my way up to campus, between classes, on my way back to my car, and all the way home. It's bad. So just stop right? Harder than you think. Maybe between classes I don't need to smoke but if I get out early that's what I do, smoke until my next class starts. Maybe if it would just rain the entire time I'm up on campus I wouldn't smoke. I'll have to see what I can do about that.
Today I made little Andrew hang up all of my posters. It's like my walls are wallpapered with famous people. I love it!! I wake up to Indiana Jones hanging out with Will Ferrell, the Breakfast Club, and Samuel L Jackson. And Bob Marley is rolling a joint next to Wayne and Garth. What more could I ask for? Maybe just Luke and Han guarding my door.... fabulous! I know I am such a loser. Wow, rereading this....I am a bigger loser than I really give myself credit for. (Does it annoy you that I just ended that sentence with a preposition? Because it's annoying me.)
Well looks like this is my last post for the month of March. And April Fools Day is coming up, better get crack-a-lackin on a joke to play on Laura at work. Hmmm......
Well, you know how it is, stay freshh!
That is correct! Veronica and I finally bought our tickets to Europe so all the skeptics out there who didn't actually believe we were going can just shut the fuck up! :) Yay! We didn't get buddy passes and our tickets are pretty pricey ($800) but we just decided its now or never. So we did it. Tomorrow V is coming over with a bottle of wine and we are finalizing all our plans and making a set itinerary with all the cities were going to visit and a budget and all that fun stuff. Did I mention she's bringing over a bottle of wine? (Maybe I should tell her to bring two. Or three...)
I started school back up today. Again, another thing people didn't think I was going to do. Now what is Colleen going to say? That she's still going to the gym. The answer to that is yes, well for the most part. Brittany and I don't always go three times a week but we always go at least once. I can run for five minutes now! How impressive!
There are some bum-doodle things about starting school back up, such as homework. I have to read alot. I love to read and I read all the time, but I work just about full time and every class wants me to read like a thousand pages. Okay not really but the point is I don't have enough time to do it all. Plus I have to wait for my books to come in the mail because they are way cheaper online. Another bum-doodle thing about school is I smoke way more. I smoke in the car on the way to school, on my way up to campus, between classes, on my way back to my car, and all the way home. It's bad. So just stop right? Harder than you think. Maybe between classes I don't need to smoke but if I get out early that's what I do, smoke until my next class starts. Maybe if it would just rain the entire time I'm up on campus I wouldn't smoke. I'll have to see what I can do about that.
Today I made little Andrew hang up all of my posters. It's like my walls are wallpapered with famous people. I love it!! I wake up to Indiana Jones hanging out with Will Ferrell, the Breakfast Club, and Samuel L Jackson. And Bob Marley is rolling a joint next to Wayne and Garth. What more could I ask for? Maybe just Luke and Han guarding my door.... fabulous! I know I am such a loser. Wow, rereading this....I am a bigger loser than I really give myself credit for. (Does it annoy you that I just ended that sentence with a preposition? Because it's annoying me.)
Well looks like this is my last post for the month of March. And April Fools Day is coming up, better get crack-a-lackin on a joke to play on Laura at work. Hmmm......
Well, you know how it is, stay freshh!
Monday, March 23, 2009
99 red balloons go by
what a wonderful song that is. all versions. I have the cover by Goldfinger in my car and I just replay it over and over and overrr again. I'm loving it.
So updates besides silly music selection..... Veronica and I went to Chicago this past weekend. Well, more accurately we went to Mundelein which is a suburb north of Chicago. My friend Kevin from Purdue, his family lives there and they have this huge St. Patty's Day party every year, a Dolanfest. Lets just say, we weren't prepared. They spent $1,000 on beer. Green beer. 5 kegs. and that doesn't even cover the liquor. I know it's not polite to talk about money, especially other people's money but hot damn they spent alot on that party. Well alot to people like me. To them it may have been mere pocket change for all I know.
On the way up though was the most scary/humbling experience ever. And it was slightly funny. Well I don't know if you have ever heard of a little place called Gary, Indiana. I wouldn't really expect anyone to but its in northern Indiana somewhat close to Chicago. It is overall a shit hole. I'm surprised that we made it out a.) alive and b.) with all four hubcaps. It was pretty hood but that's not what was scary. It was like a ghosttown. Every building, and I mean EVERY building was falling apart. None had windows and there was trash every where blowing around like little tumbleweeds. And there was like no one around, it was really creepy. But what was funny was that the movie theater (which was this beautiful building in its hayday but now its all dilapidated) said "Jackson Five Tonight" which I found ironic and hilarious. So of course I had to call my mom to tell her this (because she loves the musical "The Music Man" and Ron Howard is in it and he sings the song Gary, Indiana. And according to her, that's when she fell in love with Ron Howard.) But my mom works nights now so I call her and basically wake her up just to tell her that I was in Gary, Indiana and there's a theater here that says Jackson Five is playing tonight. She asked me to call her from the concert.
I love my mom.
Anyways on the way home Sunday, Veronica and I decide that a detour is necessary to Aurora, Illinois. If you don't know what's in Aurora, you should probably reevaluate your life. But I'll tell you just in case. It's WAYNE'S WORLD! PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT! Okay I know, I'm a huge loser. But we were more or less in the neighborhood and I love that freaking movie. So we got some food at the Aurora Pancake House (closest thing we could find to a doughnut shop) and let me tell you, that may have been a mistake. I'm still regretting it. Now it seems as if I bring Aurora everywhere I go, if you catch my drift.
Well, I'm going to return Friends season 4 to the library and come home and nap.
As always, stay fresh.
So updates besides silly music selection..... Veronica and I went to Chicago this past weekend. Well, more accurately we went to Mundelein which is a suburb north of Chicago. My friend Kevin from Purdue, his family lives there and they have this huge St. Patty's Day party every year, a Dolanfest. Lets just say, we weren't prepared. They spent $1,000 on beer. Green beer. 5 kegs. and that doesn't even cover the liquor. I know it's not polite to talk about money, especially other people's money but hot damn they spent alot on that party. Well alot to people like me. To them it may have been mere pocket change for all I know.
On the way up though was the most scary/humbling experience ever. And it was slightly funny. Well I don't know if you have ever heard of a little place called Gary, Indiana. I wouldn't really expect anyone to but its in northern Indiana somewhat close to Chicago. It is overall a shit hole. I'm surprised that we made it out a.) alive and b.) with all four hubcaps. It was pretty hood but that's not what was scary. It was like a ghosttown. Every building, and I mean EVERY building was falling apart. None had windows and there was trash every where blowing around like little tumbleweeds. And there was like no one around, it was really creepy. But what was funny was that the movie theater (which was this beautiful building in its hayday but now its all dilapidated) said "Jackson Five Tonight" which I found ironic and hilarious. So of course I had to call my mom to tell her this (because she loves the musical "The Music Man" and Ron Howard is in it and he sings the song Gary, Indiana. And according to her, that's when she fell in love with Ron Howard.) But my mom works nights now so I call her and basically wake her up just to tell her that I was in Gary, Indiana and there's a theater here that says Jackson Five is playing tonight. She asked me to call her from the concert.
I love my mom.
Anyways on the way home Sunday, Veronica and I decide that a detour is necessary to Aurora, Illinois. If you don't know what's in Aurora, you should probably reevaluate your life. But I'll tell you just in case. It's WAYNE'S WORLD! PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT! Okay I know, I'm a huge loser. But we were more or less in the neighborhood and I love that freaking movie. So we got some food at the Aurora Pancake House (closest thing we could find to a doughnut shop) and let me tell you, that may have been a mistake. I'm still regretting it. Now it seems as if I bring Aurora everywhere I go, if you catch my drift.
Well, I'm going to return Friends season 4 to the library and come home and nap.
As always, stay fresh.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
this one's for maggie...
WWCSD?
clean her room, probably. My room looks like a bomb went off and instead of shrapnel, it exploded with brightly colored cotton shirts and dresses! I'm glad it's finally warmed up because all my winter stuff is dirty and is in dire need of a good bath in the washer and all my summer dresses were waiting for me in the closet, excited to see the light of day again. (Yay!!)
I just made an account on www.couchsurfing.com. Veronica and I are looking to meet some people while we're out in Europe and we can stay at people's places for free and hang out and whatever else. It looks pretty cool.
I've decided that it's official. The weirdest shit happens to me. Period. End of story. When I go out, one of two things happens. One, a girl will hit on me. Or two, a guy will do/say something completely crazy and inappropriate which makes me rethink the whole necessity of men in general. I really don't want to go into the full story but an example was recently a guy first asked me for coke (Because I look like I know how to party) and then preceded to tell me it looked like I had a loose vagina. Um..... okay. I'm not even making this shit up. Do I have a sign on my head that says "She likes em CRAZY"? Because I might want to get that removed. Just maybe.
So for the celebration of St. Patty's Day, I thought I was going to Purdue for my friend Kevin's party he's having the weekend after that glorious holiday. Well, as usual, I got things confused and really he's having a party at his house, in Chicago. So I think Veronica, Tiffany, and I are actually going up Friday night and staying the weekend with him. I am so excited! It's two birds and one stone, I get to go to Chicago and I get to hang out with Kevin. I'm kinda nervous though, sometimes Kevin is mean but I think generally he will be nice because he is hosting us. Usually he's only mean when we'd hang out too much.
Well, I've been drunk for majority of the week and I'm exhausted and I'm off tomorrow, so clearly that's the day to be sober and sleep- not the days I work. Duh.
As always, stay fresh ta def.
clean her room, probably. My room looks like a bomb went off and instead of shrapnel, it exploded with brightly colored cotton shirts and dresses! I'm glad it's finally warmed up because all my winter stuff is dirty and is in dire need of a good bath in the washer and all my summer dresses were waiting for me in the closet, excited to see the light of day again. (Yay!!)
I just made an account on www.couchsurfing.com. Veronica and I are looking to meet some people while we're out in Europe and we can stay at people's places for free and hang out and whatever else. It looks pretty cool.
I've decided that it's official. The weirdest shit happens to me. Period. End of story. When I go out, one of two things happens. One, a girl will hit on me. Or two, a guy will do/say something completely crazy and inappropriate which makes me rethink the whole necessity of men in general. I really don't want to go into the full story but an example was recently a guy first asked me for coke (Because I look like I know how to party) and then preceded to tell me it looked like I had a loose vagina. Um..... okay. I'm not even making this shit up. Do I have a sign on my head that says "She likes em CRAZY"? Because I might want to get that removed. Just maybe.
So for the celebration of St. Patty's Day, I thought I was going to Purdue for my friend Kevin's party he's having the weekend after that glorious holiday. Well, as usual, I got things confused and really he's having a party at his house, in Chicago. So I think Veronica, Tiffany, and I are actually going up Friday night and staying the weekend with him. I am so excited! It's two birds and one stone, I get to go to Chicago and I get to hang out with Kevin. I'm kinda nervous though, sometimes Kevin is mean but I think generally he will be nice because he is hosting us. Usually he's only mean when we'd hang out too much.
Well, I've been drunk for majority of the week and I'm exhausted and I'm off tomorrow, so clearly that's the day to be sober and sleep- not the days I work. Duh.
As always, stay fresh ta def.
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