post from the road

the roaring city sometimes wears me out. i love it, no doubt, but after going and going and going for 12 hours straight, sometimes you just want to come in and put your feet up for a while.

is everyones family like mine in some way? does your family get to a point where you think it might be best if everyone lived in different parts of the country? i've been with these people since 6:30 last night and well i think i'd be happy if i got in the car and went home now. i think we're at that stage where we are too old to spend long periods of time together and too young to go out and do it on our own. i have 2 brothers (one is 17 and the other is 21) and everyone is never happy at the same time!! i get tired of the arguing really and everyone thinks they know the right way to get somewhere or the right way to do something, and i'm included, so it just ends up in everyone being mad. how is it possible that some people can have semi-perfect relationships with their family? or is that some tv image that has been emplanted in my head from too many years of watching the Cosby show?

all i know is that i miss my bed and my quiet apartment and the ability to do whatever i want without someone having a hissy fit because i got what i want and they didn't.

listening to: whatever this ashley judd movie is on HBO
shoes of choice today: beat up brown rugby Sketchers

now back to regular programming.....

happy birthday

i think today is "the boy i was in love with when i was in 5th, 6th and 7th grades"'s birthday. i have no idea how i remember that. i just saw the date and his name came to mind. i haven't seen him in forever. i think he's a marine now. and i know he has at least 1 kid.

it's my brothers 21st birthday on sunday so i guess i should wish him happy birthday as well. we argue about everything, but that's what siblings do, right?

i told you this blog was going to be about nothing!

listening to: Incubus "warning" <33333
shoes of choice: black doc slides with sparkley diamond looking things in the stars

now back to regular programming....

daylight savings time

something needs to be done about this whole daylight savings time thing. i'm blaming it for the fact that for the past week i've been waking up at 5:30am instead of 6:30am. and it doesn't even start for another week! are we behind schedule this year and my brain thinks it has already started? i think it was created to help the farmers get more daylight so they could tend to their crops. so they can't get up an hour earlier if the sun comes out? i know arizona doesn't observe this practice...and i think part of indiana doesn't too. part of me is thinking i should consider moving to one of those places. arizona is too desert-ey for me. i need trees to make my allergies go nuts and snow in the winter. i've seen indiana once and it just seemed kind of flat.

that's why i'm in arkansas! mountains, hills, trees, snow every once in a while. i could totally do without the summers though. when i'm rich.....i'll have a summer home in the northeast or maybe even canada. find me a place where the temp does not get above 70 degrees and i would be content.

and while we're doing things that will never happen like ending daylight savings time...can we find someone to train all the birds in the world to not chirp until say 8am? those noisy buggers wake me up like 30 mins before my alarm goes off everyday! although i guess it's more peaceful to be awoken by "the sounds of nature" instead of that beeping alarm that scares the crap out of me everytime i sleep too late.

listening to: annoying birds outside, computer hum, aka "the sounds of silence"
shoes of choice for today: barefoot right now (in pajamas yay)...probably going for the black bowlers or black clogs today.

now back to regular programming....

how on earth did you find this blog?

i'm incredibly lazy, which explains why i'm using a free host with ads instead of my own fancy domain. that and i have a job that does not allow internet access during the day, so whatever is done here is done in the non-work hours (ie: M-F between 5p and 7:30a and whenever on Sat-Sun). Maybe one day i'll get a real job that actually has internet access and therefore can spend some time creating something i'd actually be proud of.

summary of me: i'm laurie. i'm 23. i live by myself in a scary apartment in little rock, arkansas. i graduated college once. i'm a state employee (for the time being). i'm not married, never have been and probably won't until i'm 30. i have been described as "sarcastic," "funny," "intelligent," "hard working," "overachiever," "loud," "obnoxious," and "a real people pleaser." please feel free to form your own opinion.

i love music and have recently acquired a taste for movies. my most prized possession(s) would probably be my cds and my stereo. i love my car as much as i would a boyfriend. the car can't leave me though, so i'm probably best off this way. i have no idea what i want to be when i "grow up." i've almost decided that growing up really isn't the best road to take.

i guess if i say too much here, there will be nothing to discuss later. i don't care if one person, one thousand people or absolutely no one visits this blog. it's here for my purposes and not yours.

listening to: The Minus 5 "I'm Not Bitter"
shoes of choice for today: Old Navy blue on blue flipflops

now back to regular programming....