Phantom of the Opera

i just finished watching this for like, the gazillionth time.

GAH. i LOVE this movie.

random thought

i was on facebook just a lookin around, and i found that some people were talking about what song was #1 the say they were born. out of curiosity, i went on and looked up what mine would be.

the result: "If Wishes Came True" by Sweet Sensation.

hmm. excellent.

in case you'd like to know, here is the link to the website i used:

http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInhistory/selectMonth.htm

List

soo.... i got bored. and got to musing. and i decided to make this random list of things i want to do before i die. or whatever. yup.

1. go skydiving
2. learn how to ballroom dance
3. live in seattle
4. go to paris, france
5. go to barcelona, spain
6. help build a habitat for humanity house
7. write a book
8. take a cake decorating class
9. learn how to play the banjo
10. get a dog
11. name that dog "Waffle."
12. see 10 plays on Broadway
13. get married
14. graduate college
15. own a restaurant/ bakery... perhaps when i am old and gray
16. learn to speak Lithuanian
17. go to Vilnius, Lithuania
18. ride a motorcycle

yep... pretty random i guess. oh well. haha... i figured 18 was good for now, same number as my age. more to come-- enjoy!

The Vocabulary of the Erin.

I use certain words to describe certain things.

I have intensely rational reasons for all of these.

Some are made up, some are commonplace, but all are completely legitimate. Or as I prefer, Legit. Which they are.

Buttload: A large amount of something.

Cubic Buttload: An extraordinarily large buttload of something.

Douche, and all of its variations, 'like such as' douche, douchebag douchetastic, douchey, etc etc.

Douchecake: This one is set apart from the rest, as it is a special brand of insult. It is a careful combination of the words "douchebag" and "fruitcake." As much as I would love to take credit for the creation of this word, I cannot. Though I am eternally grateful for he who did.

Fruitbag: ..............eh. Just kidding about this one. It doesn't seem to work as well the other way around.

"For shiz lagit:" Pronounced "fore shi[z] lag-it." Not 'legit.' 'Lagit.' Generally used to express Astounding reactions to something that has occurred.

i.e. "He did whaaaaat last Thursday? For shiz lagit?"

"I don't know nothing bout birthing babies." Commonly expressed by Erin in the place of simply saying "I don't know." Famous quote from "Gone with the Wind." Generally expressed monotonously, accompanied by a deadpan look.

"Shut the front door!" Used as a substitute for a similarly close phrase, to express indignation.

uppindates

so... news time!!

I got into the FLSR Spanish House for next year! Woo! My application and interview went really well, and it feels good to know of my plans for sure for next year. Plus I am crazy excited, and the more i hear about it from other people the more excited I get... yay! This is something I've wanted for a while, probably longer than a lot of people know. I almost applied at the beginning of school, before i even picked heritage or freshman academy or had any plans. I definitely wanted to live there for sure, no doubt, after this year. So yeah, finally making it a reality is a big freakin deal. :D

Otherwise... no huge news. I've had an excellent week so far (knock on wood) grades wise and also just in general for the most part. So, we'll see what the rest holds. :)

La vida a este punto

I've come to a decision about something. Somethings, actually.

I am through with trying to be something I'm not. A year ago, I would never have let things get like this. I feel like I have changed as a person in many ways, not all of them beneficial to myself. I don't like that I've felt pressure to be different than I actually am just because of what others say or might think.
I was a very strong individual. I didn't let others mold me into whatever they wanted. Peer pressure was not even on the radar as an issue.
Now, I can feel a difference in myself. Now, I stand back and let others run the reigns. Now, I let myself be convinced of so many things. One of those being how to act and think.
I am through with this.
I'm standing up for myself again, like I did before. I'm tired of having to defend myself when I didn't even do anything that needs defending. And those who think I have, obviously don't know me as well as they think.

Basically, I've learned that I know what is best for me. Friends are hard to make, but they're not worth changing yourself for. The point is that they accept you as who you are.

I genuinely do believe that there is a reason for everything.

I thought I might go ahead and put out what my current plans are for next year. I'm applying for the Foreign Language Speaking Student Residence on campus, hopefully speaking Spanish. I've heard great things about it from my brother and my sister-in-law, including that people there are just different from others at BYU. Generally more tolerant and social, for example.



By the Way, I got my cast off last Tuesday!!! Now I can move my arm again. Well, relatively. Te muscles atrophied, so it'll take a couple weeks to get them stretched back out to their full length and strength again. So we'll see.

Hahas

I went to humor U tonight with my friend Spencer. It was really funny, a good show. There was one part, at the end, that was sort of ironic... So pretty much the best guy they saved for last, and He came up to the stage and was talking about watching people fall while walking across campus. As soon as he mentioned that, all of my friends looked right at me... then he said something about watching some girl fall down one day, and everyone was like, oooh was that you?? unfortunately, from what he said just after that, no it was not me who had fallen around him. That would have been a little bit too magnificent. haha.