Julienguyener’s Weblog

the labbits have another friend.

as you can see, half of my dresser is full of labbits and dunnys

i love the purple one, its gorgeous. thank you thomas. he surprised me with both of the larger labbits. the blue was from last year, purple this year. =)

also, the pirate language option on facebook is quite entertaining

my weekend was great, i was preparing myself for hell week part 1 & 2 (this week and the week after). and by preparing..i mean playing! i went to the fratellis concert friday evening with lauren and spent the rest of the weekend with the guys. i even got to see chau and fahd! (congrats again guys! i love you!)

mmm niko niko’s

yay! food!

nom nom nom omp omp omp

matt – learn2takepictures

darn you matt. your picture came out clearly

i think the best part of the concert was after every song, this guy behind us would yell “WHOOP WHOOP!” like a douche. am i being sarcastic? why…yes i am.

i’m not ready for the next two weeks to start…clearly, theres still much playing to be done!

reliant k – be my escape

“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me… but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life…” - Lester Burnham from American Beauty

paramore – crushcrushcrush

thought this was pretty interesting (thanks dianne!). taken from a marie claire article

by Rich Santos, Marie Claire, on Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:07am PDT

1. You are not on the VIP list for breaking news

Were you the last to learn about this person’s job promotion or newborn niece or nephew? Once things are serious, you should be among the first to know about exciting news, or bad news.

2. They avoid meeting your family or friends

If they are shying away from meeting your friends/family consistently, then there are problems. Even if they are very shy, they should want to meet those who are important to you.

3. They don’t make any sacrifices

Healthy relationships don’t require bending over backwards all the time, but a certain amount of sacrifice is necessary in a selfless union. When two of my friends first started dating one another, she demanded that he go to Farm Aid for her birthday, which was also the opening NFL football Sunday. While all the guys gathered to watch the games, he was sweltering on some field attending Farm Aid — an event he never would have gone to if she hadn’t have invited him. Now that’s sacrifice.

4. They can’t fit in your future

I admit it. When I meet girls, I envision future moments I may some day share with them. Most of my scenarios are her with me and my family at a Thanksgiving holiday or at a summer crabfeast. If I’m really into her, I usually relish the thought. If not, I kinda cringe.

5. They are too controlling

It’s scary but I’ve seen many relationships where guys forbid girls to hang out with certain friends, or wear certain clothes. Major problem if someone is controlling you and not allowing you to be who you want to be within a relationship.

6. The “what are we” conversation fails miserably

Almost every relationship hits that crossroads where you both decide if it’s worth taking the plunge into being exclusive and calling each other boyfriend/girlfriend. If they are confused and surprised that you’re ready to get serious, the timing is not right, and you should try to figure out how long you want to wait around until they are ready.

7. They talk about plans that don’t involve you

My sister has major wanderlust. She’s always talking about heading off to Chicago or living in London for a year. She often talks about these things with no regard for the fact that she has a boyfriend at the time. If you find that someone is making plans or talking about far off places without inviting you along for the ride, don’t let yourself get too into this person.

8. Your friends or family don’t like them

Remember that your friends and family know you best. Don’t take their thoughts with a grain of salt. It’s one thing if a person or two don’t get along with your significant other, but if a lot of them are saying you should reconsider, then do it. Unfortunately, we often find out about how much our friends hated that person after this person is gone.

9. They violated your trust

Whether it’s cheating or a little lie that they got caught in, it will be hard to regain trust. Trust is something we don’t give away easily, and once it’s gone it’s hard to get it back. We’ll always be wondering about that lie, and doubt will creep in more and more as our minds fixate on that lie. Too often, people take trust for granted and once they lose it they never get it back.

10. You practice “unbalanced dating”

Are you always seeing his friends or doing things that he wants to do? Do you just let him pick the restaurants and events? Or is it the other way around? Relationships are fun when you are both able to contribute. If you’re not taking turns creating fun times together, it will most likely fizzle out.

as for me, im sick of being in this current phase right now. it needs to pass because each day seems like a freaking eternity! dajkfljdakfljdakfljdakfljdkal

i’ve been playing so much rock band within the last 2 days that my forearms [that's right! plural!] are so sore. i feel like i’ve been lifting weights. our band has a plane now! we’ve been playing so frequently..i’m not surprised if we unlock everything by the end of the week.

keeping myself busy is a really difficult task. rock band resolves everything.

what an adventure today. i woke up early to accompany mark and peter to assess the hurricane damage that was done to the UH architecture building and also to bring back mark’s computer/belongings. when we arrived, it was REALLY bad. a lot of the copper roofing laid in ruins in the front, with apart of the roofing still dangling off of the side like a wilted leaf. ive never actually been inside of the architecture building prior to today’s visit but it looked like it would have been a nice building…haha. there was immense flooding inside of the building, so they were tearing out all of the carpet and it smelled oh so wonderful. we ended up assisting one of the upper level arch. proffs in clearing out her office, mainly to be able to go inside and get mark’s stuff but to also be good semeritans as well =P this counts as my montly work out.

afterwards, we met up with shalin for lunch and went to peter’s office to pick up his paycheck. man! i took in a lot of architecture today haha. i really appreciate architects though. ive always been so intrigued by the models and how creative they are in terms of interior design. peter’s office was awesome! they ended up purchasing rock band 2 after…yay! our band [me, peter, mark, & shalin] will be referred to as ‘Asian Avenue.’ i literally spent 7 hours playing rock band. my forearm and hand hurts pretty badly….but it was all worth it because we unlocked livin on a prayer by bon jovi! a lot of the songs were surprisingly not too difficult on expert but others were.  my next mission is to work my way up to playing the drums on hard. we’ve played so much rock band in one day..our band already has a tour bus.

another interesting experience. mark and peter somehow got a hold of an MRE from one of their friends…so, what better way to entertain ourselves than to eat like a soldier. it was crazy! it was a meatloaf meal…which included a toaster pastry, vegetable crackers, grape jam, tootsie rolls, paper towels, a spoon, condiments, mashed potatoes, and of course the meat loaf. the mashed potatoes tasted normal…except the fact that all the moisture was sucked out of it. the pastry was just a pop tart..and the crackers tasted like cardboard. as for the meat loaf, it wasnt half bad. we just wanted to play with the preperation [sticking it in another bag with this chemical agent that heated up pretty quickly].

i still dont have class for another day. apparently, there was substantial damage done to a few of our buildings and we still do not have power. i honestly do not want to get that far behind! bahhh. electricity where are you?

paramore – that’s what you get (i love this song! the lyrics are great and im always drawn to angry girl music)

[lyrics]

No sir, well I don’t wanna be the blame, not anymore.
It’s your turn, to take a seat we’re settling the final score.
And why do we like to hurt, so much?

I can’t decide
You have made it harder just to go on
And why?
All the possibilities…
Well I was wrong

I wonder, how am I supposed to feel when you’re not here.
‘Cause I burned every bridge I ever built when you were here.
I still try… holding onto silly things, I never learn.
Oh why? All the possibilities. I’m sure you’ve heard.

That’s what you get when you let your heart win. Whoa!
That’s what you get when you let your heart win. Whoa..
I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating.
And that’s what you get when you let your heart win. Whoa.

Pain, make your way to me. (to me)
And I’ll always be just so inviting.
If I ever start to think straight,
This heart will start a riot in me,
Let’s start… Start, hey!

i hope this gas/energy situation gets resolved soon. it took forever and a day to get gas and its even harder to find places to eat.

however, im absolutely loving this weather.

due to the hurricane, everyone is stranded at home because of the curfew. i got really bored and started to surf through wong fu’s website [if you don't know who wongfu is, click here] , particularly to find philip wang’s bio. he has a blog, so i started to skim through some of his entries…but one particular entry caught my attention.

he created a chart about relationships:

it was a really cute entry. if you want to read about it, click here

oasis – the importance of being idle

i tried to make use of my time off yesterday by studying but i kept falling asleep. ike did minimal damage to our home and i’ve texted everyone to see if they are alive and well. phone towers are out but the internet lives! a bunch of our tress/shrubs/plants are all broken and laying dead on the cement. the big tree in the front of our house was stripped of all of its leaves.

yesterday sucked though! i fell asleep at least 5 different times and each time, i was awakened by a bad dream. the kind of dream thats seemingly realistic. it was just full of fighting, hurtful words, actions, etc. these bad dreams are becoming more prevalent! i hate it! adjkfljdaklfjdkalfjkdalfjlk

i hope everyone is well.

stick figure version

Oh lately it’s so quiet in this place
So darlin’ if you’re not here haunting me
Im wondering…

i’m having a bad case of writer’s block as i’m attempting to start a paper. recap of today:

- went with my lovely friend lauren to chinatown for some cheap asian food. we’re making it into a weekly thing AND i’m starting a list of places i’m going to introduce to her, which includes restaurants, sammy’s, howl at the moon, etc. hopefully, we can tackle at least half of the list before the semester ends

- cpr class. the instructor, who’s probably 6′3″ and looks like he weighs about 300lbs., tried to get me to show the class how to do the heimlich. i felt really awkward trying to wrap my feeble arms around a man that looks like he could literally crush me with his finger. i think his pant leg could fit 5 of me.

- i get paid to stay at home all weekend! how great is that? too bad i have to spend it catching up on my reading.

you would think that i would have no use for markers while in nursing school. wrong! i had to throw this together for today. i like the expression i put on the nurse’s face. haha. yeah..i feel like i’m in middle school.

lauren’s sad because she has to wait for me to get out of piano before we can eat..or maybe she was constipated. i forget which.

we were playing around with an ancient nursing cap. did you know that they put the black horizontal line on those caps after florence nightingale passed?

i hope hurricane ike doesnt do much damage. everyone be safe!