And so it begins.

Classes ended on December 5th. I had my music final on the 12th and my education final on the 16th. I am now officially done with the semester and it feels awesome. To quote Evan from a post on my facebook wall, this will be "the most epic winter break of all time". Why is this you ask? Well...

1. Myboyfriend is now even more awesome than usual because he isn't drowning himself in an immense amount of 10 page papers.
2. Danielle comes home tomorrow
3. My sister and her family are coming to visit for a few days after Christmas
4. Dan DeLuca, his family, and I are going to see Shrek on January 2nd. And I'll get to see Andrew that afternoon too!
5. Dad's 64th birthday is January 3rd
6. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion listening party on January 5th in the city with Evan.
7. Seeing Billy Elliot sometime in mid January and then getting to see Gary and Jeff the same day!
8. 8 months with Evan on the 14th
9. January 20th: Animal Collective show/Obama/MPP release

There's bound to be more awesome happenings during the break. Yay!

Kovu and Thanksgiving and school, oh my!

So a lot has changed in these last few weeks. Firstly, I made the decision to rehome Kovu, my Siberian Husky due to the fact that I'm rarely ever home and when I am home I do not want to be bothered with him, or anyone. And for him to spend 10 hours a day in a crate is not fair at all. This one woman, Karen, called me about him and after coming over to meet him and they got along so well, everything seemed so perfect. Little things such as how she used to have a cat named Kiara (who's love interest was Kovu in the Lion King 2) and that her youngest son's favorite Disney character was Kovu just made it seem like it was meant to be and I wasn't at all worried about giving Kovu to this family. I brought him there one Saturday night and their pomeranian, Bella, didn't like Ko' at all but we all figured that it would take some time.

I went to Evan's that night, then went to work early the next morning and I heard my cell phone ring in my pocket and saw Karen's number and my heart immediately sank because I figured that either Kovu ate Bella or Kovu ran away. But I listened to the voicemail and she basically said how Bella showed no signs of wanting to get along with Kovu and that it wasn't going to work out. And as I got home from work that afternoon, Kovu was laying in my room. I was devasted because it I had to go through this process all over again of trying to find a good family to take him. My mom's friend suggested that I post an ad on Craigs List for Kovu and so a few days later I did just that and within minutes I received an overwhelming response from interested people. After talking to a bunch of different families I decided to give Kovu to this family from Lindenhurst, Leon and Helena. Kovu seemed so happy when he was with them and now I'm really happy that he has a great home!

For Thanksgiving Johnny, Kerry, and Jack came up from Georgia for a few days and it was so great seeing them. Sucks that they live so far away :/ They're my favorites!

Jack-Jack and my Dad :)

Tomorrow and Friday are my last 2 days of classes for the semester. YAY! I'm more excited over the fact that I won't have this crazed monster as my boyfriend for one whole month, he'll actually be somewhat normal and enjoyable, thank god.

I probably should get back to studying for political science and spanish...see ya!

p.s. Christmas is in 22 days

January 20th, 2009

January 20th 2009....

The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States

The release of Animal Collective's 9th studio album, Merriweather Post Pavilion

And as of yesterday around 3:30 pm, Evan and I will be seeing Animal Collective in the city that night.

Fuck yes.

yuppers

OH Klockyy: i miss you terribly mr. carey :-(
redletterday8809: i miss you awfully ms klock
redletterday8809: so bad
redletterday8809: like makes me want to murder innocent kittens bad
OH Klockyy: thats what i was thinking, either that or just stealing you, telling your family and professors that you joined the peacecorp and keeping you locked in my room guarded by kovu so you cant escape and feed you blended chicken salad sandwhiches and tuna melts through a straw
OH Klockyy: but i thought that was a bit extreme
redletterday8809: i would kick you in the shin if you did that
OH Klockyy: you wouldnt be able to. your legs would be tied together and attached to a chair
OH Klockyy: trust me, i have it all planned out
redletterday8809: sexy
OH Klockyy: you have no idea
redletterday8809: lol
OH Klockyy: alright enough of the craziness haha i love you too much to ever do that
OH Klockyy: but dont tempt me
redletterday8809: hey we could always just run away together
redletterday8809: : )
OH Klockyy: that seems a lot less violent and constraining, i like that a lot

I totally love this guy.

rewind

Can we rewind back to August, please. I hate this :(

Random thoughts...?

Less than 2 months of school left. Thank fucking god. I can't wait to be done with these terrible classes and my boyfriend will also return to his normal self...which I am beyond excited for. You have no idea. He's one hell of student though, so I'll give him that. :)

I think I'm going to buy myself a new camera this week so that should be nice. I need some sort of new gadget to play with and a second computer to mess around with is out of the question since I'm trying really hard to save money. I also just opened up a Flickr account cause I have a ton of old pictures that are just so great, great meaning hysterical/pathetic/really lame...such as 9th grade me...oh god haha. It'll help me organize myself and it'll also be fun going through tons of older pictures again.

New Animal Collective cd in January. So psyched!

I can't stand Kovu anymore. And as I typed that I looked behind me and he sitting there giving me a really cute look. Ughhh....

I'm in the middle of a wordtwist game on facebook with Jeff...adios

Time flies...

A lot has been going on lately, thus lack of updates. School's been a pain, I really can't stand it this semester. Usually its only one, maybe two, classes that I dislike. This time around it's all five of my classes. Awesome

This past Thursday October 16 marked the day that my brother Jimmy passed away in 2002. I think everything really sunk in last night when I was laying in bed. I'm so bothered by it, still. I really miss him. I should put a picture him up on here, don't feel like digging out my external harddrive at the moment. Next post. And my dad isn't doing much better. He had to start chemo again a few weeks ago and his body is so fragile. He broke 3 ribs yesterday just from coughing. Everything's just crashing down at once and I'm not too sure how to handle it. Best to just keep my chin up.

In happier news, I turned 18 on October 10th. Danielle came down from New Paltz for the weekend and her, Evan, and I went to see In the Heights that night. I loved it, and surprisingly Evan and Danielle did too...thank god. I would have felt terrible if they would have spent all this money to take me to see it and they didn't like it. Overall, really fun night. It was the third show I saw in 2 weeks haha. I saw Xanadu the night of Sept. 27 with Marissa, [title of show] with Andrew on Oct. 4, and then In the Heights with the boy and dannyyyyelllll, as my little brother Frankie would say.

The day after I drove out to my dad's house with Michael to see my brother Johnny, my sister Kathy, their mom Gerri, and Kat's two kids Ben and Meg who were up from Georgia. My family is awesome. That's me, Johnny, Michael, and Kathy...not such a hot picture of yours truly but you get the idea.

Ben and I took a couple of cute pictures too.

That would be Johnny and Meg playing in the girly kitchen

And Ben is secretly a vampire.

Halloween is coming up and I think I want to schedule myself to work that night just so I can wear a costume and mess around with my manager Steve. If I can master the Sarah Palin imitation I may do that but not unless I have it down really well. We shall see.

It's 1:20 am on Saturday technically, I should get to sleep. This is the first weekend in a long time that I really can just relax and do nothing. I did all of my homework while waiting for Evan to get out of work last night. High five Jen.