down in a second

i downloaded two really old Phantom Planet songs tonight. 'So I Fall Again' and 'Down in a Second.' man. really good songs. they're like, totally catchy. i love it! and it's really old. like, from 1998, i think. when it was alex, darren, jason, jacques, and sam. nice.

anyways. yeah, crazy night at work. it's currently 2:22am. i told myself i'd be in bed tonight by 2am. yeah. and i still have a lot to do before i go to bed. and i'm not doing any of it and blogging instead! great!

so, it was up to the staff (me and courtney and jamie) to take care of the two little girls tonight. they were both in pretty good moods. except when we needed to get out of the bath. jamie had the little one and i had the toddler. and she DID NOT want to get out of the bath, because she wanted to stay and play with her ducks.

and she kept rearranging them in different orders and putting them in different spots in the bath. and so finally i said,

JULIE: You know, the duckies are tired too. They need to go to bed.

TODDLER: NOOO!

JULIE: They're sleepy duckies and they need to put on their pajamas just like you do.

TODDLER: NOOOO!

so, finally i just picked her up and started drying her off to get her pajamas on. and she was just screaming, "NOO NOOO NOOO NOO NO NO NO NOO!!!!"

crazy times. i also can't tell you how many "phone conversations" i had with Elmo tonight. probably like, 20. and making lots of funny noises.

man. hang out with some babies and you do things you never thought you'd be doing.

anyways. so, today is friday. 2:28am. at 8am i am hopefully leaving to drive to maine. but probably 8:30am. that's not a very long time from now.

and then i'll hopefully be home by 11am. and then kara and i are meeting pops for coffee, etc, in portsmouth at noon. i'm hoping there will be no traffic. or bad weather.

oh! i got a new pair of shoes in the mail today. it wasn't a surprise. i ordered them. it wasn't like a free sample or anything. they are the shoes that i posted a picture of a few entries back. the Clarks. wallabee style. yeah, they came today. and the ruggedly handsome post office guy gave them to me. that was great.

but these shoes!!! holy man. i love them. it is the weirdest experience walking in them. it's like you're walking, but you're not walking. it's so crazy. they are SO comfortable. and totally hip! i love them. i felt like, a million times cooler wearing them tonight.

although, the talking on the phone with Elmo part probably cancels out the coolness of the shoes. so, i guess i was just normal tonight.

i opened the window above my sink tonight. that leads into the bathroom. so the heat can get back to my bedroom. it's FREEZING in here. i walked into the apartment tonight and there was a breeze. i'm TOTALLY SERIOUS. a breeze. from the drafty windows. like, i was standing in the middle of the living room, and i could feel the breeze.

it was insane. and i turned up the heat. even Ruby Tuesday was cold. so, i hope my bedroom is a little warm tonight. it's freezing in my kitchen. and there's a breeze on my feet and hands right now. and it's also scary because all the window panes shake like mad when there's wind outside. it even woke me up this morning because it was so loud. they shake and rattle and go crazy.

old house. really old house.

anyways. i guess i should really go to bed. or, at least start doing some of the things i need to do before i can go to bed. they are little things. like, throw stuff away. empty the clean dishes from the sink. make the apartment look cleaner, without actually doing any cleaning. the norm.

i'm excited because i downloaded four new songs tonight. i already told you about the Phantom Planet ones, but there are more!

- Bad Things by Jace Everett (the totally creepy theme song for True Blood)

- Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

both great songs!!!! the second one was originally by someone else. Guided Voices, or something. i can't think of it right now. but, i liked this version better.

so i have four new songs to listen to on my very boring drive home.

ok. probably for real now. i should go. wow. it's really cold.

ok. i'll talk to you from maine. sometime this weekend. most likely late at night in my bed when everyone else is asleep.

i started watching Party Down on netflix. just like i said i would! it's super funny. i like it a lot.

i have not yet listened to any Julian Casablancas. but that is next on my list. anyone else listen to him? recommend any songs? anyone?

JULIE! go to bed. UGH. man. i did not sleep well at all last night WHY am i not really really tired?!??!

i went to bed at 4:30am. was awake from 6:30 to 8am. back to sleep, randomly waking up. and then up for good around noon.

ok. i have to really force myself. uugghhhhh. i don't want to. i just want to sit at my Mac all night long. and talk to you.

i made myself a goal the other night.

goal: to write one creative thing a day.

whether it be, a sentence. a song lyric. a short story. a character profile. ANYTHING. just something that could lead to something bigger. something creative.

although, you have to be pretty creative when working with babies.

ok. FOR REALZ. i'm saying goodnight now. i hope you all have a wonderful friday. it's weird that it's friday. this week went by in a weird way.

i'll talk to you all later!

goodnight! goodnight! goodnight!

slick rick james brown

oh hi!!!! i didn't see you there.

i know i just recently used that opening, but it's my favorite and it's my blog and i wanted to use it again.

oh hey, guess what?!

i'm on my MAC right now! yes, it's true. i have it. i'm typing on it. i love it. it came yesterday after the driveway was all plowed. and it was wonderful. the fed ex person delivered it to the upstairs staff office, so i wasn't actually there to receive it, but i immediately got the call saying, "julie, you have a present waiting for you!" it was a very exciting time in my life.

and i immediately opened it. and there it was, in all it's glory. the beautiful thing called Mac.

and it's seriously beautiful. it's all silver and shiny. and glowing. like a spaceship.

and i love the backlit keyboard. and i love the keyboard in general.

and the whole thing is like, half the thickness of my old laptop, which, sitting next to the mac looks like the first laptop ever made.

MAN. i had them both on last night and i was like, "i seriously put up with this for five and a half years?"

i get used to fancy things real quickly.

and when i first turned on the new mac, it played this little exciting movie like i was flying through space. it was awesome.

and i think i got all my music off the old one. which was the thing i was most worried about. and then i had to go through the stressful process of "deauthorizing" the old computer from itunes. so, it can no longer place things i have purchased through the itunes store.

i wouldn't have had to do this, but i registered the new one and it said, "sorry, you've already authorized five out of five computers to play this song! you must deauthorize one."

and the song was West Coast!!! so, i HAD to figure out what to do. and i needed to deauthorize a bunch of computers. so, i basically just went into itunes and said, "deauthorize all." so, if your computer was one of the ones i authorized, i'm sorry. especially if it was West Coast.

(which, i confirmed yesterday is my favorite song of all time. i was so bored yesterday afternoon because i still didn't have the computer, so i was lying on my bed listening to West Coast and watching the snow fall, and i was listening to the song and then i said, "yep, this is my favorite song of all time.")

(and, if you go through allll the playlists i've made in the past 3 years, you'll find West Coast on many of them. probably like, 75%.)

anyways. new computer = rocks. julie = very happy.

dear old computer,

i remember the day i got you. how excited i was! even though you had a tiny hard drive, even though you died on me and i almost lost everything, even though i had to upgrade the memory, even though i couldn't leave you unplugged for more than 10 minutes, even though i can't use the cd-rom/dvd player, even though the screen is falling off, i have no sound, and a million viruses, you were a good computer. i wrote my div 3 on you. i watched lots of movies on you. i started my livejournal and blog on you.

and i don't know if i ever formally apologized for this, but i'm sorry i dropped you off my bed that one time. it was a long fall, and i thought i was going to lose the paper i was writing. but no. you may have crashed to the floor, but you did not crash entirely. that was nice.

and so, old computer, now we part. yes, i am still going to try and get the rest of my files off of you, but, let this be our formal goodbye.

goodbye, old friend. and thank you.

love, julie

and now i must depart for work! i have a feeling tonight at work is going to be super stressful and busy!!!! lucky me.

but YES lucky me! because i have such fancy things waiting me to return. i can't wait to talk to you more. i feel like we haven't gotten in proper blog time since my laptop became ill. phone blogging is just not the same. i hope you agree.

have a great night!!! i'll talk to you later.

<3,>

Snow place like home on a nice snowy day!

that's for sure. It's snowing quite hard. We're supposed to get 6-12 inches.

i was a little worried that this meant that fed ex wouldn't deliver my laptop today. But, i checked the tracking online and it said, "on your local fed ex truck for delivery."

YEAH. Today i become a mac person. Today i become a part of justin long's little club.

i probably shouldn't speak until i have the laptop in front of me.

anyways. There are no cars in the driveway. Which makes me think that nobody came into work. That makes me nervous for some reason i cannot explain.

our street hasn't even been plowed yet. Good thing those fed ex trucks are big.

i have to go finish watching 'i'll sleep when i'm dead.'. I got like, 75% through last night and then got too tired.

pretty boring movie, actually. Like, it seems like the story is finally ready to start, and the movie is almost over!

i feel like i had seen the first 20ish minutes before, which was a weird feeling. One of the guys names in the movie is Davy and that just makes me think of the second Coconut Records cd, entitled Davy.

ok. I'm gonna go. 1:15pm right now. Wednesday afternoon.

have a great night!!

I have to watch movies as part of my job. To "screen" them to make sure it's alright if the residents watch them. My selection is:

- the eye (scary jessica alba movie that i am dreading)

- i'll sleep when i'm dead (clive owen, jonathan rhys meyers gangster type movie)

- street kings (sounds really violent and i keep thinking it's the 'three kings' movie with mark wahlberg and the cloonster.

anybody seen any of those?. The scary one i'll most likely watch in my bed. On my new laptop. When it comes (hopefully tomorrow).

so today was our staff holiday lunch!. It was lots of fun. For realz. Me, courtney, julie w, and diane all carpooled over. It was nice. I really like my coworkers. A lot.

and i learned that the program director is also a drummer, among many things, and i got really excited about that.

then i came home. Did not go back out for an oil change or haircut. The traffic was already waaaaay backed up and i didn't want to go out again.

i repaired my jeans. I havent't tried them back on yet, so i hope they work.

ok. I'm going to finish my lunch leftovers and watch 'how i met your mother.'

i'm on my phone right now and i hope it doesn't go all caddywonker on us again.

oh, caddywonker.

i love you guys. Hopefully my next post will be from my mac!!!

goodnight!

and Blue

OK, WHOA.  

let me apologize for that last craziness of postings.  i have no idea what happened.  i didn't realize this until just now.  i was blogging from my phone and something must have gone caddywonker on me.  you should scroll down to the "oh hi, i didn't see you there" and start reading UPWARDS.  weird, but i know you can do it.  

right now i'm blogging from a computer.

no, not my computer, but A computer. more specifically, the one in the staff office.

it's currently 11:28pm. i was just hanging out with one of the residents. i told her i was going to see Rooney on sunday and she asked to see a picture of them online. she thought they were all pretty hott, and was very excited to learn that the lead singer was in the Princess Diaries.  

then, weird thing, she happened to be reading the back of a movie case and asked,  

RESIDENT: Have you ever heard of Erik Von Detten? 

JULIE: Yes! He was in this really awesome Disney channel movie called Brink!

RESIDENT: About the skateboarders? 

JULIE: Yes! And, actually, he was in Princess Diaries too. 

RESIDENT: Who was he? 

JULIE: The guy who she was in love with, but turned out to be a jerk. NOT the guy she ends up with. 

RESIDENT: Oh yeah....he was mean to her on the beach. When they kissed! 

JULIE: Yes!  

so. yep. awesome story, right? Princess Diaries, man. such a freaking good movie.  

anyways. today was a productive day. it started out great when i went to the post office and the guy there (not the ruggedly handsome one) knew my box number!! and he said, "i knew i'd make the connection between you and your box one of these days!" and i was soo happy and excited. i had been waiting for this day to come. now i feel like a real town resident. they know me at the post office. what more could you ask for?  

then, i swung over to the bank! when i purchased my laptop online this past weekend, i had to have my "daily money limit" way upped so i could buy it. and, my mom suggested that now i down it again. so, i went to the bank and downed it. they were very helpful.  

then i went to JoAnn Fabrics to purchase the fabric to repair my jeans, like i told you about in the next entry down. i also bought two things of thread.  

then i went to the grocery store. i needed a few items. the guy at the deli was very nice and let me have a piece of cheese. i was excited.  

everyone i encountered today was just very nice. and helpful. and friendly. it put me in a good mood. well, i was already in a good mood.  

so, after i last talked to you, i decided to watch my Phantom Planet dvd. i know, after i went on and on about my zac efron dream, i decided on Phantom Planet. i got this sudden urge to watch a Phantom Planet blog video online, but obviously i couldn't because my laptop is dead. so i put on the dvd. there's a great opening where Alex talks about this 2.000 year old skull that they keep on the tour bus and everyone thinks it's haunted. man, i miss them.  

i didn't repair my jeans, though, i repaired the pockets in my winter coat. because i wore my winter coat today for the first time this year and remembered that the pockets are pretty destroyed. the left one wasn't so bad, but i turned the right one inside out and it was pretty much all frayed.  

so, the left one was easy to fix - i just sewed the seam back together. but the right one was a bit of an ordeal. it took up the majority of the time of the concert dvd. and then some of the second concert on the dvd.  

i ended up cutting out most of the pocket. and just leaving about half an inch of the original fabric. then i went and got some of the shiny teal fabric that i got when Aliya was cleaning out her room. and i cut a big piece. i was going to attempt to recreate the pocket. and i got my pins out. and then i just started pinning the new fabric to the old. and i would resize the new fabric as it needed to get smaller, etc. and then i decided that if i wasted any more time planning it, then it probably wouldn't come out right.  

so, i jumped the gun and just started sewing, kind of making it up as i went along. and, it came out friggen awesome. i totally created a new pocket! it might be a little big tinier than what it used to be, but it's still a great pocket. a pocket that's not frayed and doesn't have holes. i was very proud of myself.  

and tonight i have to do the jeans, or else i'll have no pants for tomorrow. and tomorrow is our holiday staff lunch. and i have to wear pants.  

hm. alright. i'm hungry now. and i haven't eaten dinner. it's currently 12:12am. tuesday morning. i've got my second disc of True Blood tonight. sexy! okay.  

maybe my laptop will come today. oooo that'd be exciting.  

alright friends. for real now.  

OH OH!!! i know what else i wanted to tell you.  

so, this morning the government delivery truck came with the food. my least favorite day of the whole month. he always comes at like, 7:45 in the morning. and he slides these huge boxes of heavy, frozen food off the back of the truck, and i have to catch them and carry them inside. then i have to unpack the boxes. let me repeat: 7:45 IN THE MORNING. that's pretty much still the middle of the night. anyways, it's always the same guy who comes. and we always say, "hi" to each other, things like that. but today! he saw me and said,  

DELIVERY GUY: Guess what!? 

JULIE: What?! 

DELIVERY GUY: I quit smoking! That's why I've got this lollipop! 

JULIE: Wow! That's great! 

DELIVERY GUY: I've been using the lollipops as a replacement, and so far it's working! 

JULIE: Congratulations!  

DELIVERY GUY: Yeah, it's been one week so far. 

JULIE: That's really great.  

and it was really nice. and then i thought, "whoa, is this guy my friend?" and, i think maybe yes. i mean, we see each other once a month, for about ten minutes, at the most horrible time in the morning. we're both up way too early for our jobs. although, my job allows me to wear sweatpants and a sweatshirt. he has to wear real clothes. anyways. it was a nice interaction. and it made me very happy.  

okay. THAT'S what i really wanted to tell you. and NOW i can go back upstairs.  

i hope everybody has a great tuesday. i might go get an oil change. i haven't decided yet. and also maybe make a hair cutting appointment. i haven't decided that yet either. but, have a great day! i'll talk to you either sometime today, or later on tonight. but, definitely sometime. i'll let you know what i decide about the oil change and the hair cut.  

ok great!! love you! bye!!  

<3

other word.

ok. Hope you're having a great night. It's so nice to talk to you!

lovelove!!

vanessa.

duh.

anyways. I had an action packed day, which i will tell you about when i don't have to type with my thumbs and go back and correct every

n a love triangle with zac and vanessa hudgens. And i had a big musical number set in a high school cafeteria and i totally stole the movie from zac and

net dvd.

i had a dream last night about zac efron. The dream was that i went to go see Me and Orson Wells, but i ended up being in the movie caught i

Emily watson should have starring roles more often. She also should have an academy award.

right now i might either watch Hairspray or my Phantom pla

certo in e minor right now on repeat. That is the piece of music featured prominently in the film Hilary and Jackie, which i just watched. Great movie.

But they probs won't be here until next week.

and that's my awesome jean story that took up way too much finger energy.

i'm listening to the Elger con

patches, just pretty teal behind the holes. I hope it works.

if it doesn't, it's okay because i ordered two pairs of jeans online last night at work.

ned fabric. And then i ripped off the patches from my jeans. And now i'm going to sew in the fabric on the inside of the jeans. So, there won't be any

while ago and ironed them on with my hair straightener. But, now they're falling off.

so, today i went out to joann's and bought a pretty teal patter

p my jeans. I have one pair of jeans that i like. And since i wear them pretty much everyday, they are slowly becoming destroyed.

i sewed in patches a

Oh hi!. I didn't see you there!!!

it's just me. I am about to start some sewing, and i just wanted to say hi before doing so.

i'm one again patching u

so. Here's the deal. I'm blogging from my phone because my computer is destroyed. Last night i opened itunes. I thought it wasn't working because it was taking so long. And then an hour later it opened. Yep.

this virus is killing it. For realz. I went to my dad's house yesterday to try and fix it. We spent about 5.5 hours trying and ended up making virtually no progress.

but, my new Mac is on its way to me!!!. I have never bought anything as expensive as this mac. But, i feel really good about it. And i'm so friggen excited.

but, until then, my internet use will be limited. I'll be probs using the staff computer at night for a bit, and then blogging from the phone, most likely.

so. That's what's up.

today is sunday. I'm working 3:30 to 10pm.

so, ROONEY CONCERT ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!

ONE WEEK and we will be on our way to see matt, robert, taylor, ned and louis.

it's gonna be the best day this week.

okay. Now what?. I don't know. Maybe i'll watch a movie.

alright!!. Have a great day!. I'll talk to you all later.

love!