Spring is here...wait is that snow?

Hola!

I'm back from spring break and ready for these next 6 weeks to fly by. My break was a nice, relaxing trip home. I got to hang with my favourite person in the world: my sister, Amanda! We spoke in Aussie slang, visited the OG, went to the movies and oh yeah got new tattoos! A lucky number 5 for her wrist and a nice outline of Australia for my arm. These hold more meaning to each of us than you could ever realize. Anyway, after visiting some friends, family, and watching Friends on Nick @ Nite and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami it was time to come back to the city. Unfortunately a small blizzard covered STL and my flight was delayed 13 hours. This essentially led to:

• waking up at 3am to get to the airport for my 7am flight on time
• having a nice 5 minute layover in one of my favourite cities: Chicago
• making it back to New York just in time for my last 2 classes of the day.

Exhilirating, right? Wrong. I'm living off of 2 hours of sleep and I think I'm going to bed in 5 minutes. However, I felt it was necessary to catch up with my life on here.

P.S. I can't wait for the amazing tours that are bound to happen this summer!!

"Get Some" Mexican Sun

Hey hey! So I decided that it was time to write again because a) it's been awhile and b) I read 4 chapters of biology today, so I earned it. As you may have guessed, I'm back at school at NYU in NYC. Classes started Tuesday and that's about all that's interesting about that. Right now, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be here in NYC as I am possibly having a change of plans in the near-ish future.

Anyway, since the last time I posted I went to Mexico! I went with my mom, stepdad, and some family friends. It was so much fun and so beautiful but let's be real: me and my hair don't like that Caribbean humidity. Plus most of the drinks (water, milk, juice) were warm...eww. But we got to do a lot of fun shit, including my favorite thing: seeing the ruins of Tulum.

 The beach of Riviera Maya

Tulum

I'm still peeling from my sunburn BTW. Also, my sister, Amanda, and I are only 9 days and 1.5 hours from what is going to be an "interesting" day at worst. I'll let you know how that concert goes after I start breathing again. Kidding, but seriously, going from seeing someone on a regular basis to twice in the past year is obviously going to make that whole shindig interesting. At least if anything goes badly, Amanda and I will be in our favourite city in the world, CHICAGO! 

At some point, I'm going to post another list-like entry that sums up some of my favourite albums...but for now, I must go. 

P.S. I think it's important that you know I'm currently listening to "Forfeit (Live)" and smiling. Just listen and you'll know why. You can't miss out on the voice of a sexy sheep!

Matte Days

Right now I wish I was at Summerfest in Milwaukee. How dumb is that? I hate festivals, but God what I would give to be there. Anyway, since the last post life has been a little more low key (by that I mean we've stayed mostly in Missouri). After coming home from Chicago, I've just been working and hanging out. For 4th of July Amanda, her husband Devon, and our parents made our way to Cloud 9 for the annual fireworks. We chilled and burned by the pool, sat outdoors on an indoor couch, bought some '50s furniture, and met my future husband. Now we're back home. We went to see the Katy Perry movie the other day. Amanda and I don't even really like her that much, but somehow we both ended up sobbing by the end of the movie.

It rained today for the first time since like May (seriously). My nails are currently painted matte teal. Amanda's are matte grey and pink. We're trying to figure out the rest of our summer plans. We've got an Atlantic City/Boston concert trip in the works but we still have some major details to work out there. We're also figuring out the details on how we're both getting to Chicago in September for a show. However, we get to see some good friends in a few weeks so that should be fun! And we've finally made some way with names for our venue. I don't want to give them away just yet though.

Cobblestone, Concerts, and Chicago

I don't even know where to begin on this one. When I last posted, I was pissed because the tours I was expecting to happen this summer are non-existent. That's still the case. My sister, Amanda, and I decided to go to an outdoor show anyway though because we just needed to.

We made our way to Burlington, IA which is in the middle of a few cornfields. The town itself was awesome: tons of cobblestone, abandoned buildings, and fallout shelters. The day was a high stress situation to say the least. But alas, we ended up front row center for the show, thanks to Chevelle and Janus. The concert itself was fantastic. We were also lucky enough to see Pop Evil at the show. From the picture below, do you think we got along with them? ......

No.

Chevelle

After the show, we said a quick goodbye to a few of the guys. The overall experience was what was expected I guess. It was no Blue Note, but we kind of knew it wouldn't be. It was basically a mini-festival (not my cup of tea). But I'm glad we went because I would've died being at home. 

                 Straight Mosh Pit Chillin                      Soundcheck

After that we drove to Chicago to see a few "sights" and hang out. We got to spend the day basically chilling in Millennium Park, having lunch at Navy Pier, and walking around. Then we headed to the Laugh Factory on Broadway for the Chris D'Elia comedy show. That guy is a fucking riot. And now we have a few more quotes thanks to him: "It is what it is...you do the math." The next day we met downtown with our family architect, Mike, to discuss some future building plans. Before we left we of course shopped at The Brown Elephant on Halsted. Then we were homeward bound.

Chicago

Chris D'Elia

Now I'm left with that "I wish I was still there having the time of my life with people that I love" feeling. Don't get me wrong, I love being home but being on the road is a fucking good time. On the bright side, it seems things are less awkward with Janus now. Hopefully Amanda and I will get to see some of our guys again and a few more of our favorite assholes this summer. Fingers crossed. And I mean Amanda just reached her 555th tweet, so I think fate is on our side again.