I haven't updated in a really, really long time.

I had the most wonderful weekend. I took a much needed trip home and spent it doing nothing too interesting with people I really love. On Friday my sister and I walked to get some pizza and then stopped by my friend's house, on Saturday Tim came with my sisters and parents and me to this super cute shopping area in West Palm Beach (there was legit the cutest ice cream place there. Like a Kilwin's only happier.), on Sunday I went to visit my Jews and went with Tim to Las Olas at night, and at 2am Tim, Alexis and I went to IHOP because when I found out it was open 24 hours I made it a goal to go have pancakes at 2 in the morning. On Monday Tim and I went to visit the high school, which was - and I know this is weird to say - probably my favourite part of the weekend. I sat in Elder's room for about a half hour. He still confuses the crap out of me, but we get along so strangely well and I still love our somewhat creepy relationship. ;D And at lunch I got to see my favourite Juniors (Rebecca, Priya and Sumedha) and I love love love their beautiful faces. Point is- weekend was great, now I'm back at school and kind of wish I wasn't.

Aside from that, I'm totally stressed because I need to write an acceptable draft of a research paper by tomorrow morning and I don't see how that's possible. I wrote 5 pages with no sources, but I got some sources today so I have to read through them and add some stuff and hopefully it'll end up being 7-9 pages, and hopefully the paper won't turn out too shitty. And ugh, I have a homework quiz due tonight and a Psychology test tomorrow (which I legit need to study for because I did horribly on the 2 other tests, plus I missed the last 2 classes). So yeah, stress. A little bit. And I don't even have that much to do. I haven't a cllue how people don't go crazy when they have 4 times more things to do and half the amount of time to do it. ...welcome to college, I guess.

This was incoherent.

Oh, PS- Kacie Sheik is my new favourite person on Earth. Which reminds me- if anyone knows how to download songs from MySpace, I'd really appreciate if you could download the songs on there for me (myspace.com/kaciesheik), I tried using Firefox DownloadHelper and it didn't work. The one song I really want off there is My Life, so even if someone can send me just that one song I'd love you forever. :)

I just found out about the website GoodSearch, which is a search engine that donates a penny to charity every time it is used. It isn't much, but it adds up, especially if enough people use it. It's run by Yahoo so the results are just as good, and you get to choose the charity you want to donate to. The charity I chose, Cystic Fibrosis research, has gotten $371 in the past year. SO DO IT. :)

I will be far too happy if this is true.

I've been wanting to change my lj username for a while now, but I cold never come up with anything I want to change it to. I'm thinking perhaps:
addiegolightly
beadsflowers
wingsunfurled
letthesunshinein
Um. Any other ideas? Help. ;D

It started as post-its with inspirational/positive messaged, but turned into ...everything else. And they make me happy whenever I look at them.

It started as this:


And turned out this.

...along with like, 7 other pictures from this random girl's facebook that the back of my head is in. This amuses me perhaps more than it should.

LJ cut is not gonna work... already tried. :( Sorry for gobbling up so much space :(

xixlovexgreenx : Do you have a Wicked...well, shrine?
Well, not a Wicked "shrine" necessarily, but I do have a shelf-y thing where I keep most of my Broadway related things.


fabiola91 : Your backyard
It just rained so it's filthy. D:


Magazine collection
I don't have a neat stack or anything ;D


Book shelf


Posters


xx_linge_xx : The weirdest thing you own
This is probably not even CLOSE to being the weirdest thing I own, but it was the first semi-weird thing that I saw in my room. ;D


The view from your room


Your toilet
...in all fairness it IS my toilet. I didn't completely cheat. :P


labellefolie : I want to see your favorite Broadway possession


Your favorite picture of you and a Broadway star

...forever and always.

Your most-worn item of clothing

...back and from of my Senior Sweats hoody. Most people put their name/last name/nickname. I'm obviously cooler. ;D

A place in your hometown you love going to
Might be a little odd, but keep in mind there really isn't much in my town. This place is walking distance and I like going there when I feel like my head is about to explode and just ...stand there. ;D


missalixxx : Favorite pair of shoes


Dumbest book you own


How you spend your typical Sundays


Under your bed


Inside your closet
My closer is a MESS. This is all you get to see.


Your computer desk
...also a complete mess.


runawaytrain31 : Your oldest pair of shoes
...slippers, but still.


If you have things on the walls of your bedroom, the oldest thing
Probably not the oldest thing, but Megan looks so little and cute, I couldn't resist. To be fair, though, it is pretty darn old.


west_witch : Favorite possesion of all times

(inside of my Grimmerie :D)


Where you usually blog from
Again, a mess. ;D


Your room
See how I'm trying really hard to avoid my floor? :P


Favorite Broadway memorabilia/thing you own
Someone (Alex?) already asked this, and pretty much every Broadway related thing that has been pictured in this entry qualifies, but there are 2 things that haven't been pictured yet that DEFINITELY qualify:


Something that inspires you


hallonpaj : Your carpet
Florida is apparently obsessed with wall-to-wall carpet. Which I hate. But every house here has it, arrg.


Your shower
:P


Your favourite pair of socks
And I have bright pink and blue and yellow but those are in the wash. :)


Your toothbrush


Your kitchen


Your pen you usually write letters with



Your hair brush

1. My baby (9 to 5) is closing around Labor Day :'((((( If you haven't seen it and get the chance to, seriously, GO. You'll love it, I can almost guarantee. Honestly, I think they just opened at the wrong time. They opened at a time where people don't have money to spend on theater, and if they do, they go to things like Lion King or Jersey Boys or Wicked. A year or two from now, they would have lasted quite a while longer, I think.

2. Questions given to me by labellefolie :
- What has been your favorite theatre experience you have had thus far in your life?
Does Stephanie's Birdland show count? If it does, it's definitely between seeing Kerry in Wicked and Stephanie's Birdland concert. Even though 9 to 5 and Hair and Next to Normal and Spring Awakening and whatever else were all wonderful and I absolutely adore them, at the time that I saw those two shows, Kerry/Stephanie were my favourite and I was seeing them in person for the first time.
- You can have lunch with one person you've never met before, dead or alive. Who is it?
Audrey Hepburn. I honestly think she is the most beautiful and flawless person who has ever lived and I find her just fascinating. I'd love to have been able to have a conversation with her and know what she thought about things.
- Name a song you are currently loving and your favorite lyric from it.
I Just Might from 9 to 5, without a doubt. Although obviously I'm obsessed with nearly every track on that album, this one is just beautiful in every way and it's so inspiring and hopefull and ah, I just love it.
"I just might rise above the hurt, though I've suffered quite a fall. I just might live to see the day / can say 'hey, I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm all right'. Have to go on either way; rise above it. I just might be stronger than I know. I just might make it. I just might."
- You're given free plane tickets to jet off to absolutely anywhere in the world to stay as long as you'd like. Where do you go?
Right now I'm really tempted to say New York for 9 to 5 a couple more times before it closes...but I won't. I can't decide between Tuscany and the United Kingdom. Maybe I can just be really vague and say Europe and get them both. :P
- FAVORITE MOMENT/LYRIC/WHATEVER IN 9 TO 5. Go.
AHH! Difficult! There are so many. But I cannot get over how Megan says "Oh you're disguuuusting!" It cracks me up just thinking about it. So I guess that.

3. Do it :)

I doubt anyone will do this, but anyway. ;D

1. Comment in this entry with absolutely anything that you are curious of / want to see of my real life.
2. With everyone's comments I shall photograph every requested aspect of my personal life.

The only time I ever had any form of communication with Stephanie Block before (and other than the times that) I met her was when I emailed her once and she answered (...on the same day). I was looking through my inbox today and noticed that said email exchange took place on July 13, 2008; exactly a year before her Birdland concert, which was the first time I ever saw her in person and met her. I love coincidences.

Rebecca came over today and we did some tie-dyeing, which was enormously fun! I had this white casual dress and a white tank top and they both came out pretty cool, actually. Although at some point we kind of started spraying the dye at each other, so right now my nails look like they've got mud stuck all around them and are probably the most disgusting thing on the face of this planet. And there was dye all over my jeans, which went through my jeans and onto my skin, and now my thighs are all oddly discoloured. I literally was scrubbing for like 20 minutes in the shower and it was a hopeless cause, which is fail because I am going to New York in FIVE DAYS and I was planning on wearing shorts part of the time. Which I now will not because I look diseased. The end.

Does anyone know which Wicked tour is gonna be in Miami in February 2010 or in Tampa in March 2010? /Who's gonna be touring?

Wait, WHAT?
I love how I knew this? ><

I need icons. Help? :)
(I know there are like a gillion pictures..I couldn't choose! ;D)


( Pictures :) )

001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions

hallonpaj gave me these:
1. When do you go to sleep and when do you usually wake up?
Whenever I get tired and whenever I wake up. Which is a dumb and non-elaborative (is that even a word?) answer, but when I get tired could vary between 9pm and 4am and when I get up could vary between 6:30am to 11am, soo. ;D

2. Favourite musical right at this moment?
Hair revival cast recording. CAISSIE. <33333

3. If you could be in one place right now, where would it be?
This one's kind of cheating cause unless I'm IN New York, that's where I want to be at nearly any given time. ;D

4. Do you regret anything?
Many things, yes.

5. Favourite website?
PostSecret

(Stolen from Alix)
Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite. I changed it to ten but anyway.
( Hand on my heart, I promise I will see you through. )

I'm technically done with high school.
...That is insane.

1- I HAVE WILLEMIJN MAIL. AND THAT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.

2- Now that Megan Hilty and Eden Espinosa were added to the Scott Alan concert on June 15 (along with Will Chase, Tracie Thoms and Caissie Levy, HAS THERE EVER BEEN A MORE PERFECT GROUP OF 5 PEOPLE? The only way this would get any better is HeidiBlix. And if he added Stephanie, I just may die.), there is no way I'm not going. Or at least trying everything in my power to go. And the thing is, I'm going to New York ANYWAY, it's just that my trip was planned for 10 days later, and that sucks. (I'm going with my friend Tim, and he's on a cruise until the 18th of June, so we were planning on going on the 25th.)

If it was to work out perfectly, the scinario would be as follows: 
I'd go with...someone (maybe mom or dad or sister) on the 15th and see Scott's show, see Shoshana Bean's show at Birdland on the 22nd, see 9 to 5 (because I'm sure Tim doesn't really want to see that one anyway), and go to Behind the Emerald Curtain again (which...I'm also quite sure Tim has no interest in). And then whoever was with me would fly back, and Tim would fly on his own and meet me in the city on the 25th. Unless he's willing to come the weekend before, which would actually make a lot more sense, but then I wouldn't get to see labellefolie , and that's kind of sad.

Ugh, you just can't win. BUT I DO NEED TO SEE THIS SHOW.