take me away...

i've just been thinking lately about the places that i want to live someday. preferably soon. i would gladly ditch this apartment i am currently living in to get away to... practically anywhere.

even though i went to the school in the city and still live here, i really consider myself to be a small town girl. i just love mountains and the woods and beautiful scenery. I could probably live in a small town or in the country in any part of this world, but i have a few places that are my top choices.

1. Prince Edward Island/Nova Scotia/New Brunswick. Well let's just say that this girl has ALWAYS wanted to live on Prince Edward Island. I could have picked to go anywhere when i graduated college and I chose to take a 10 day long bus tour of these three GORGEOUS provinces. First of all, there are still actual small towns up there. Second, I have a fascination with Canada for oh so many reasons. Third, there is a HUGE Irish/Scottish influence way up north... and i have a HUGE love of Irish folk music! I have been looking up teaching jobs in Canada for the past few weeks. however, i am just not so sure on how someone would go about moving to another country - even if it is Canada. can anyone help me with this?

2. New England. Have you ever seen Gilmore Girls? I would like to move to New England... any state... and live in a real life Star's Hollow. I have in fact googled that - "Real Life Star's Hollow" - and have gotten some promising leads. In fact small towns in New England are very similar to those in the ones listed in #1 above. & moving within the U.S. is slightly more realistic, so I may have to shoot for there.

3. Utah. hands down i just love utah. everyone there is just so friendly and welcoming - just tons of people with beautiful personalities! i have friends that are dying to get out of utah, and i may just have to take their place when they leave, because the mountains are to die for and there is always something fun to do. LOVE it.

4. Portland. I have never been & i know that Portland is not a small town, but it seems like a place i would love to live! sipping on coffee, wearing cool rain boots and wearing a totally awesome coat.. that is what i see myself doing in portland. so maybe i could do the city for a little bit and then move out to the suburbs, i'd figure it out.

6. Washington, D.C. If for no other reason than it would be my dream come true to work at the Holocaust Museum. oh yeah, and my big bro lives there. so we could hang out all the time!!!!!!

so i am never too sure what the future will hold for me, but maybe someday you will be visiting me in one of these wonderful places!

my good deed.

so word on the street is that Robert Pattinson is having a hard time finding a girlfriend. apparently everyone is interested in dating the absolutely wonderful vampire, edward, and no one is interested in dating him.

well ROB, I am most certainly interested in dating you if you are that hard up.

i can promise you that i will never ever mention edward cullen in your presence.

i cannot promise you, however, that i won't beg you to wear your Hogwart's robes, plead for you to read to me from the Goblet of Fire and force you into naming our sons Henry Sirius Pattinson & Ezra Albus Pattinson...

so, Rob, if you can deal with the Harry Potter references - I could probably deal with being your wife. it would be tough staring at you all day long, but i would suffer through it, just so you could find someone.

My Hero!

i truly have the best big brother in the world!

i'll admit. he is one of the most obnoxious people around sometimes.. but you better not say that, because only I am allowed to rip on my brother! Truly, I have gotten in fights before with people who have dared to say anything negative about my big bro!

jonathan has always looked out for me as a little sister and he is GENEROUS! I have him to thank for j.crew shopping trips, my coach boots and my red wayfarers. basically anything i have of value has been a gift from him! he gives & gives and does not expect anything in return. (which is good because we all know that I am temporarily broke)

jonathan has a good sense of humor and despite the fact that he is a professional, hard-working, 28 year old, he still loves Disney World just as much as I do! He is not afraid to be his own person, which makes him so great! Seriously, he sets a goal and does what it takes to acheive it! he does not worry about what others think, he just does what he knows is best for him - which more people should do!

So in addition to all of the support and encouragement he has given me over the years, I also have him partially to thank for my musical tastes. I like to think that they would have evolved on their own, but he definitely gave me a push in the right direction. I am oh so lucky to have been 10 year old who appreciated both Weezer & Rancid.

So for my brother's birthday a few weeks ago, i made him a CD of the 15 songs/artists that had the biggest impact on my later musical tastes! Some of these artists are still my favorites, and some not so much, but they definitely played a part in shaping the music lover I am today! THANKS JON JON!!!

I AM a mix tape pro & you should definitely check these songs out!

Following is the CD Playlist:

In the Garage - Weezer
Apple Shampoo - Blink-182
On & On & On - Catch 22
Flight of the Bootymaster - Ozma
Chicago is So Two Years Ago - Fall Out Boy
Johnny Quest (Thinks We're Sellouts) - Less Than Jake
Boy Crazy - New Found Glory
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Ten Minutes - The Get Up Kids
What it is to Burn - Finch
Given the Chance - The Starting Line
Seventy Times 7 - Brand New
Cute Without the "E" (Cut From the Team) - Taking Back Sunday
Standing on the Edge of Summer - Thursday
Ruby Soho - Rancid

it's always the girls that get the bad reputations.

i often hear people comment on how teenage girls are looking too old for their age. miley this, miley that. yeah maybe she does look too old for her age. i'm not here to argue with that. but i do have an important question.

WHY DOESN'T ANYONE GIVE NICK JONAS A HARD TIME?

No way this young man looks 16. oh okay, maybe he did turn 17 in SEPTEMBER. but sorry, guys did not look like that when I was 17.

I don't really want to get too into this topic, because i don't want to sound creepy. so that is all i am going to say on the matter. i just think when people start giving miss cyrus so much crap they need to think about her famous ex-boyfriend. someone needs to give him some teenage acne or something...

help!

i have such a bad relationship with my blog.

i really need to write more, especially because i feel like I have such INTERESTING things to say... i'm being sarcastic here. but really i would like to write more often. if only because it gives me justification for updating my playlist and doing something "useful" when i am procrastinating.

i also would like to say that i haven't been writing because i have been having this great, exciting life, well that is just not true - just not true at all.

well here are some quick updates on my life.

1. i am rereading all seven harry potters. ahh such a great feeling.

2. thats IT! okay, seriously i said i have no life, and i wasn't joking. So this is not only a blog it is a call for HELP! someone find something fun for me to do!

team tay.

okay. i'm not going to really get into the whole big huge butthead picking on sweetheart t.swift... but obviously i think kanye west is completely disrespectful. fine. have your own opinion, but at least have enough respect for a young woman to not grab something out of her hand.

and anyways.. is anyone else missing that this was only the mtv vma's? why did he take this so seriously?

as a celebrity, he obviously has a lot of power and money.. it would be nice to see him put that passion into something worthwhile, perhaps making a difference? i dunno. i guess he might be doing that, but lets face it - kanye is not known for doing "nice" things. it is sad really. i know for sure that he had a "near-death" experience before he became a celebrity... & you would think that something like that would put things into perspective and make someone feel grateful instead of entitled to anything and everything that they wanted. guess not.

taylor just might be one of the sweetest people ever & kanye is a total tool bag.

still i don't know what the worst part of the VMA's was. kanye or ijustine?!?! yyyyyuck.

hey there delilah

as i was riding in the car with my dad last night, i was flipping through the radio stations and landed on delilah. i decided i would listen to what some poor chump was saying about the love of his life, that he is just hoping to be with forever. i was simultaneously thinking that I would most likely HURL if my significant other called in & seriously spilled his guts to delilah.

this quickly progessed to a silent pity party in which i was thinking that a totally lame significant other might be better than none at all, when my dad interrupted me, saying "Can I tell you something personal?"
"Um.. sure dad."
"I can't stand delilah."

amen to that! can't stand her, she makes me gringe, but i love it when she disses people so i cannot help but listen!

so anyways, i get back to my apartment and do something i've been wanting to do for a long time - google delilah. i have pretty much been dying to see what she looks like. So when I do a google image search, up pop some pictures of her AND the girl whom the song "hey there delilah" was written about.

i'll tell you what.. I'm pretty unsure how this one human being got so blessed. not only is she gorgeous with a famous song written about her... she's apparently an accomplished runner/olympic hopeful. How does someone win the luck lottery 3 times when I cannot even win it once!

& okay.. used to love the song, she is very pretty, and congrats on being a great athlete... but being interviewed on the Today Show? with the headline - "The Woman Who Inspired the Song 'Hey There Delilah'" seriously?

you know, the two didn't even work out. this songwriter promises so much to delilah.. and they weren't even together. what a load of crap!

10th grade ashley listened to "It's Gonna Be Me" by N*SYNC over and over again. swearing to myself, that it was gonna be ME. I'd like to go ask that songwriter, whoever it was... "was it you? did it work out with you two? or were you just giving me false hope that it was going to work out for me?"

I think I'm going to call in to delilah tonight: "Oh yes... hellllllo delilah. i'd like to dedicate a song to myself..."