twice

So I just remembered I've been to new york city twice like literally just remembered.

I once went with my mom and some friends to see Wicked (I'm actually wearing my wicked shirt now) and we were there for the weekend saw the show went shopping went to the empire state building all in all a very memorable trip.

but when I was watching a movie and the new york skyline the connection I made was too a trip I took in order to pick up a friend from the airport I drove all the way up there with her mom picked her up and drove back. I vaguely remember that the car broke down and we were sitting in it while it was on the tow truck and having to climb down.

gotta love the memories that get lost I wonder what else I don't remember.

its that time of year

Except its not at all

Sitting here watching holiday episodes of how I met your mother I realize how much I like holidays and also fall and early winter. Do you think people started having parties to battle the cold?

Theres halloween--costumes and candy

Thanksgiving--turkey stuffing gravy pie and everyone you love

christmas--snow presents stockings trees decorations caroling I mean christmas really takes up a whole month.

and new years eve-fireworks friends sparkling drinks be it alcoholic or not and if youre a part of my family meat dip.

Plus in fall theres changing leaves and sweater weather, then in winter snow hot chocolate and here in germany the christmas market.

so whats your favorite time of year, why? and I know people are reading this and never comment I dont care if its anonymous take 2 minutes answer my question

g'day

Mourning in Silence

Today as I read status' from various friends I got everything from my childhood is ending to come on people get a grip, sadly they all referred to the same thing. Whats funny to me is the 21 year old is a little sad there is a passing of an era--but the 9/10 year old in me is more in awe that the book I read with my family over a decade ago has turned into waiting and bated breath and such a big belief that there is more to people than the ordinary but no sadness.

Despite the fact that I've waited for midnight book openings and showing of films and that I did nearly cry during the movie--it wasn't because of an ending era it was because it was a pretty good movie.

my childhood isnt over its still in transition. And just because the last movie in the harry potter series has been released it doesn't mean that its all over. I still have the books on my shelve and can watch the movies whenever I want. And when I'm older Ill share it with my kids share with them a part of my childhood and I'll get to see another generation believe a little bit in magic and for me that's magical.

sing it out

"I Feel Pretty / Unpretty"

I wish I could tie you up in my shoes
Make you feel unpretty too
I was told I was beautiful
But what does that mean to you
Look into the mirror who’s inside there
The one with the long hair
Same old me again today

My outsides are cool
My insides are blue
Everytime I think I’m through
It’s because of you
I’ve tried different ways
But it’s all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I’m just trippin’

You can buy your hair if it won’t grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can make
But if you can’t look inside you
Find out who am I to
Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty

I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and bright

Never insecure until I met you
Now I’m being stupid
I used to be so cute to me
Just a little bit skinny
Why do I look to all these things
To keep you happy
Maybe get rid of you
And then I’ll get back to me (hey)

My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Everytime I think I’m through
It’s because of you
I’ve tried different ways
But it’s all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
Keep on trippin’

You can buy your hair if it won’t grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can make
But if you can’t look inside you
Find out who am I to
Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty

I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and bright
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight

Oh oh oh oh oh (Tonight)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh (Tonight)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh (Tonight)
Oh oh oh oh oh

I feel pretty (You can buy your hair if it won’t grow)
Oh so pretty (You can fix your nose if he says so)
I feel pretty and witty and bright (You can buy all the make-up that M.A.C. can make)
But if you can’t look inside you
Find out who am I to
Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty

I feel pretty
But unpretty

twenty-one

1. You can get a free slurrpie on july 7th at 7-11 go get one for me

2. I love to bake

3. writing is my life

4.I laugh an abnormal amount--and thats good

5. I like harry potter

6. My sister is one of the coolest people in the world--I wish she could visit me

7. I love living in Germany

8. traveling is fun

9. flying is not

10.I wish I was more photogenic

11. I'd like to learn french

12.I speak German

13.the fact that I only have a tentative plan a frightens me daily

14.I complete peoples sentences it's annoying

15.I get confused easily

16.I don't enjoy birthdays much

17.my favorite holiday is thanksgiving

18.I have tiger bite marks on my arm

19.I wish I could play the piano better

20.this is my fourth birthday in germany

21.I like to dance

Since I know you've missed the lists

Songs for the day

-the way you look tonight

-isn't she lovely

-rolling in the deep

foods I actually like

-ice cream

-waffles

-fruit and cream oatmeal

-salad

-chips--I love chips

foods I dont like

-homemade burgers

-most steaks

-tacos

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video games

So my boyfriend had dental surgery last week and he isn't allowed to be super active for about a week while he recovers. I'm completely up for a week of moving watching and relaxing and just hanging out. Unfortunately there has been a lot of video game playing.

I find video games to be ridiculous but we have them all over, and the people that make them just make them more and more appealing to us. If you want a blue-ray player just get a playstation 3 it stores movies music tv shows games and plays blue ray. If you want a game that you can carry with you well heck it's in your touch screen smart phone. There are games on your new netbook. Video games can replace friends, and basically all social interaction. Who needs the pressure of actually dealing with people. Men have made millions of dollars of off an almost mental thievery. Video games take away our imagination our ability to interact and our desire to get out, its another way to keep us in the house. Heck there are even games now to get us moving since real movement is no longer desirable and it's definitely showing on the waistlines of today.

Take a day turn off the tv put down your phone and have a real conversation, see daylight, run play see how long it takes you to get bored and remember there used to be a time when these things didnt exist-new technologies make our lives easier, but at what cost. In a few generations will all original ideas be gone will all contact be cut off will all need for us to be human be gone?

the fourth

Odd as it may seem the fourth of July is most definitely a family holiday. Valentines, st. Patricks, Halloween even new year's eve are great holiday's to be single. I could walk out of my house and head to any sort of event for said holiday and have tons of fun. I attempted to go to a fourth of July event today and it was well...lame. Cute kids running around, little games to be played, pony rides, barbeque stands and music in the background. After walking around once and getting some fries we decided it was time to go. I remember when I was little essentially doing the same thing we would go and stay for hours playing video games and I remember it being so amazing. I haven't actually been to a fourth of july celebration in four years now and I'm ok with that.

Going to the fourth of july on your own is like being the only single person at a party, vaguely

awkward. Sure fireworks are beautiful but I don't want to wait around 5 hours to see them. In Germany we have to wait till eleven just for it to be dark enough to see them. Sitting around with nothing to do till they come just isn't worth it maybe once I have a family and have more than just 2 to sit around and play games to pass the time it'll be fun but for right now I'll leave the family holidays to the families

Roar

On our first day we went to the rhino and lion park which was neat because there isnt much vegetation so you can see the animals really well. They had Rhinos, cape buffalo, antelope, vultures, and there is a whole predator camp there but we didnt have a chance to go to it. The biggest downside was probably the dust and the rental car had like no seal so the dust got all over the stuff in the back. It was funny since at one point the kid we were with was getting really nervous since the Rhino was staring at us there was also a very cute baby rhino.

Day two we were still at the rhino and lion park and we went to go play with baby lion cubs in their animal cheche. There was 2 white lion cubs2 tiger cubs and a brown lion cub all about 6 weeks old and a brown lion cub that was like 4 months old. The little cubs were nervous at first but the big one got right in there biting and climbing

I thought he played rough until the little cubs started to play the bigger cub definitely knew only to bite clothes while the little guys wanted to latch onto skin like they do with each other I still have bite marks!

While there we also got to pet a grown cheetah! He was pretty chill just hanging out letting us scratch his head. And then we went to the reptile room and the guy that took us around the cats let us hold a python :)

The next three days we spent in Kruger national park which was one of the safari places and I heard from a lot of south africans that its the best place. We saw a ton on animals there and went on a sunrise drive and a sunset drive--it was sooo cold. but because of that we got to see some of the cats (leopard and african wild cat) In Kruger we saw all of the big five(hardest animals to hunt--elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, leopard and lion) except for lions. Our second day there our rental car broke down and we had to go meet a guy for him to bring us a new one. We got a nine passenger van as our replacement (but it was from mercedes so it drove pretty well) and then because of a time crunch we had to drive outside the park and get escorted in. While we were in Kruger we stayed at little bungalows and while a bit cold they were really nice (same for the chalet at rhino and lion park) and whats really cool about it since there were only 4 of us this was just as cheap as camping would have been.

After we left kruger (and got hopelessly lost since bad gps coordinates put us in the middle of a field) we went to this little town to go zip-lining. THis was a really cool experience and because I could feel the harness holding me up I wasn't scared at all even the 11 year old with us could do it on his own. Our guides were really fun and made it so we had all of the fun and none of the work. Then we went to a crocodile farm there we got to see giant crocs and they had them roar for us learn a lot about croc farming walk around in the little crocodiles and hold a baby crocodile I even picked one up off the ground.

these are nile crocodiles the one Im holding is about 2 and the ones were standing with are 2-4 they group them more by size than age. The farm is where people get the skin for things like bags and they also sell croc meat. This may seem mean but the farm gives the crocs a 60% survival rate as opposed to the 3% they get in nature. They have about 200 breeding crocs.

Our last day in South Africa was really different from the others, we stayed our last night at claires of sandton (if you're ever there I recommend it, this was a very nice b&b) We went to a place called jozi x where we got to play on a bunch of equipment like a tight rope a climbing wall one of those balancing ladders under them all was like a bouncy castle type of thing. Then we went to the golden reef city which was like a so so amusement park--at least coming from an american point of view.