love you like the sun loves you

wow! i just have so much to say today. isn't it great? yeah. i bet you love it.

this is mainly going to be pictures. i just uploaded them from my telephone to my computer. yeah, my telephone can take pictures. it's kind of awesome. i can't believe i went 6 years with having a cell phone with no camera.

anyways, let's get started!!!! i think you'll enjoy these. it's mainly thing related to kara and ruby tuesday.




from Kara's birthday! this was her cake!! duh. the good people at Bread and Roses bakery made it. it was DELICIOUS. it had this amazing raspberry mousse in it. i think. it's the light pink frosting-looking like stuff around the border. it's raspberry. and it was on top of white chocolate frosting. unreal.




i love this one! i think kara looks so pretty. even if she is wearing my Zox shirt. also, it looks like she has a halo of candy-corn around her. but, she didn't. that is a trick.



loves it. she's so pretty!



YUM to the max. i seriously loved that cake. although, too much frosting in some parts. i'm not a frosting kind of gal.



yeah, we had Hannah Montana plates. YEP.


ok, so the next pictures need a little explanation.

so, i was taking one of the residents to a doctor's appointment. and, we were sitting in the waiting room looking at magazines. and, i saw the Ladies Home Journal magazine and it the cover story was Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. or basically, Kara's two favorite people in the whole world. they were doing Julie and Julia press. and i got all flustered and didn't know what to do when i saw these pictures. and then i remembered that my phone had a camera. and i turned to the resident and said,

JULIE: Okay, I have to do something.
RESIDENT: Okay....
JULIE: I have to take some pictures of this magazine.
RESIDENT: Um...why?
JULIE: They're for my sister. She loves Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
RESIDENT: (laughs) Okay...you do that....
JULIE: Is this going to be totally embarrassing for you?
RESIDENT: Noo...I don't care.

GOOD. i took waaay more than this, but these two came out the best. let's take a look,



the cover. "dish about men and food." loves it.



they're totally gorgeous. look at Amy's hair! it's like a shampoo commercial!!!

ok. that's it. :)



this is the night that Ruby Tuesday and i watched Coraline. like i said, she either watched it from the floor, or from my lap. this is her on the floor. it was really sweet.



Ruby Tuesday asleep on my towel, waiting for me to get out of the shower.



Ruby Tuesday asleep in my bed.



Ruby Tuesday asleep behind the couch cushion. she burrows in there sometimes. it's kind of confusing while it's happening. but the result is always adorable.



sitting pretty in the window between the kitchen and bathroom.



sleepy in the sun after destroying some fake flowers.



double the fun playing with her favorite toy (the leopard print thing), and the round thing with the ball.



pink mouse.



green mouse.



yellow seahorse. she's been doing this thing lately where she LOVES her yellow seahorse toy. she'll roll around with it in the kitchen and rub it against her face. YEAH. it's really cute.





sleepy on top of the couch. she usually does this when i have my laptop on my lap and she can't sleep there. she'll sleep next to me instead.



me and Ruby wishing Nick Jonas a happy birthday!!

i kind of look horrible in that last one. but, whatev. we're all friends here.

so, yeah!

i have another story that is going to blow your mind. it totally blew mine. it has to do with my headphones. um, guess what happened? THEY DIED. yeah. my speakers and my headphones die in the same week. COINCIDENCE?!?! probs.

anyways, so i decided that i wanted to take a nice bath tonight. and, i always bring my ipod and headphones with me so i can listen to music. it's lovely. sometimes, it's just really nice to listen to music through headphones. it gives the songs a different sound.

so, i put the headphones on, put the jack into the ipod and it crackles a little. whatev. and then i press play and relax. and then i'm like, "wait, why does this song sound so crazy??" it was like, empty sounding. or, tin-y.

and i'm trying to figure out what's wrong. and then i see the headphone cord. the protective case is all frayed in one part and some of the wires are exposed. "SON OF A GUN!" i said aloud. and i'm really bumming becase now the music is going to sound terrible. and now i have to buy new headphones.

so, i continue to listen to the crappy sound. and i'm like, trying to play with the wires to see if i can manually hold them together for a better sound. and, as i'm doing, i think i'm just making it worse. but, i really feel like i'm trying to de-activate a bomb or something. "cut the red one!! no, cut the blue one!!!" i really wanted to say that, but i didn't.

and, my playing around with the wires is not helping. so, i just leave it alone. and continue to be bummed. and then the next song comes on.

"what the heck song is this?" i say to myself. it was just like with my speakers, where the songs would become unrecognizable. but, then i realized that they were unrecognizable in a different way.

i looked at the iPod and saw that the song that was playing was 'Paralyzed' by Rooney. such a great song. and i'm like, "wow, you can really hear Taylor Locke rocking on the guitar." and then i realized that there were no drums. and then there were no vocals. and, it was just instrumental. but then! i could hear Robert singing very faintly, but it didn't sound right. so, i'm listening very intently, and then i realize that he's singing a harmony part. and there are still no drums. you can really hear Taylor on guitar and Matt Winter (who i'm soooo totally in love with) on the bass. and, i actually really like it.

the song turned out pretty cool. so then i'm like, "hm, i wonder what some of my other songs sound like."

so i put on West Coast, naturally. AND, the instrumental parts sounded really great! they just sounded normal. but! Jason never came in to sing! there were no lead vocals.

so, i very quickly took over and started treating it like a karaoke song!!! it was the best!!! AND THEN! all the backing vocals started singing behind me!!! it was like i was a rock star.

and then i decided that i really liked these new headphones.

next came Ben Lee's 'Into the Dark.' another song that sounded great, except there were no lead vocals. again, i took over for Ben. it was no problem really. i didn't mind.

AND THEN, came the song 'Wires' by Coconut Records. which, in an ironic turn of events, turned out to be the song most effected by the headphones. i'm listening, and there is just one guitar part playing in the beginning. and then Jason comes in singing the background parts. which, are so pretty, and i never really realized this before!!!

and then! the chorus part comes on. and there is this GREAT clap-track that again, i never really heard before!!! and the whole song is just background stuff. it was totally bizarre.

i immediately thought of the movie Josie and the Pussycats, where they hear the subliminal messages in the songs, and they have to turn down all the parts in the song to get to the message. and it's saying like, "buy these Nike sneakers. go eat at McDonald's..." stuff like that.

i instantly felt like i was sitting in a big expensive recording studio, in front of one of those huge sound boards with all the volume controls, and i could turn up or down all the different layers of the songs. it was SO COOL. (except, i couldn't actually control them, i just pretended i could.)

and then 'California' by Phantom Planet came on. and it was just the drums and piano version!! very weird at first. and then the backing vocals came on. and then a little bit of Darren on guitar. but, mostly piano and drums. which, was kind of cool.

and then, 'Good Girls Go Bad,' which i totally love. again, it sounded pretty good at first, but there was no lead vocals! but, the backing vocals were really funny to listen to because all of a sudden they sang, "YOUR TYPE. ONE BITE." and it was just the background parts!! it was pretty funny.

and then i listened to 'What For' by Rooney. again, no lead vocals. or drums. just background stuff. oh, i love that song.

and i was REALLY loving this new way to hear music. it was kind of surreal. and so bizarre.

and then i put on Miley Cyrus, 'Party in the USA,' and the headphones totally died. yeah. the wires must have totally cut out, or something. it was dead.

SO, from this new experience i have come up with a new invention: VOCAL CANCELING KARAOKE HEADPHONES. yep. headphones that cancel out the lead vocals so you can just sing karaoke!!!!!!! i have no idea if that's possible or not.

actually, maybe a CD player that cancels out the lead vocals. that way you can actually have karaoke parties with other people and not just by yourself in the bath.

sorry to all those lead vocalists out there. i don't mean to want to cut our your parts. but, karaoke totally rocks.

anyways. so now i have to go out and buy some new headphones. kind of unreal that they died in the same week as my speakers. i guess my electronic things will just keep dying on me. that's the way it goes.

it was fun.

our new resident came today. she seems really nice. now there are 3 girls here! plus me! it's officially a sleepover!

alright. it's midnight. i guess i'll eat supper now. i know i have some movie reviews to give to you. i'll work on that tomorrow, maybe.

hope you had a great day!! i had a good day. lazy day. i slept for a looooong time last night. it made me happy, though. because i had gotten so little sleep for the past few days.

any opinions on what my new headphones should be or shouldn't be? i can't wear those ones that go into your hear. they hurt. that's my only rule. and, they can't be too expensive. i'll probably just go to wal-mart to get them.

okay! i think that's all i have to tell you for now. have a great day today! i'll talk to you later!!!


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ps - i realized after listening to Ben Lee's 'Ripe' record, that it's basically all about sex. having sex, wanting to have sex. yep. it's pretty hott. okay. that's all.

ALSO: JV, if you're reading this. i have to check about my schedule for Ben Folds. i'm 90% yes right now. i'll let you know SOON. promise!

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