Swimming pools, burned feet, popsicles, movies, video games, books, smores, staying up too late.
How marvelous!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
moving
The new house:
- strangely big and echoey
- rather like the houses in horror movies
- beautiful
- already feels like home
Moving is exhausting.
- strangely big and echoey
- rather like the houses in horror movies
- beautiful
- already feels like home
Moving is exhausting.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
New and rediscovered music
New: Phoenix, recent 311 stuff, Akron/Family, Johnny Cash (new to me), Discovery, Grizzly Bear, Six Red Carpets
Rediscovered: Detektivbyrån, Air, Camera Obscura, Duffy, Angels & Airwaves, Incubus, Metric
This is some of what I have been listening to lately. Musicmusicmusic, I miss you.
Summer is a really good time to catch up on movies, books, music, and tans. So lovely.
Rediscovered: Detektivbyrån, Air, Camera Obscura, Duffy, Angels & Airwaves, Incubus, Metric
This is some of what I have been listening to lately. Musicmusicmusic, I miss you.
Summer is a really good time to catch up on movies, books, music, and tans. So lovely.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
new home, take 14
Mesa, Bountiful, Bountiful, Cle Elum, Renton, Renton, Maple Valley, Mesa, Mesa, Mesa, Provo - dorm, apartment, dorm (x 2 - but I only count this as one move).
These are all of the times that I have moved.
Soon to be added to this - Mesa.
We move into our new house on Friday.
Here are pictures of my favorite things in the new place:
First, a courtyard. This is in the center of the house with sliding glass doors around it.
And then the backyard, which has this lovely covered kitchen area.
Moving is a hassle. But since I've grown up doing it, I start to feel strange when I have lived in one place for too long. The new place has hundreds of new memories in it, they are just waiting for me to make them.
These are all of the times that I have moved.
Soon to be added to this - Mesa.
We move into our new house on Friday.
Here are pictures of my favorite things in the new place:
First, a courtyard. This is in the center of the house with sliding glass doors around it.
And then the backyard, which has this lovely covered kitchen area.
Moving is a hassle. But since I've grown up doing it, I start to feel strange when I have lived in one place for too long. The new place has hundreds of new memories in it, they are just waiting for me to make them.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
the parts I had forgotten
Being home has been really good in some ways. While I am happy with the person that I have become recently, it has been nice to get back some of the parts of myself I had left behind.
When I moved away to school a lot of things changed. I was still me of course, but there was a lot of myself I had forgotten about and moved away from. I lost contact with a lot of old friends, quit a lot of my old hobbies, and changed certain aspects of who I am. This has been a good chance for me to bring back some of the elements of the old me and mix them with the newer version of myself. It is not going back to the way I was a year ago, or two years ago - it is just finding ways to reincorporate parts of myself I thought I had lost forever.
The old Lauren loved Josh Groban, went to the movies all the time, had a much easier time of flirting with boys, and cared more about causes and crusades. She followed politics closely, loved the summer heat, and let the little things matter more. She loved video games, read just for the sake of reading, and spent more time listening to music. She was much more involved in living and she actively worked for goals. She was less passive about going after things she wanted.
I am finding that the old me is still somewhere here in Arizona and that my old life did not just disappear, as much as I turned my back on it.
When I moved away to school a lot of things changed. I was still me of course, but there was a lot of myself I had forgotten about and moved away from. I lost contact with a lot of old friends, quit a lot of my old hobbies, and changed certain aspects of who I am. This has been a good chance for me to bring back some of the elements of the old me and mix them with the newer version of myself. It is not going back to the way I was a year ago, or two years ago - it is just finding ways to reincorporate parts of myself I thought I had lost forever.
The old Lauren loved Josh Groban, went to the movies all the time, had a much easier time of flirting with boys, and cared more about causes and crusades. She followed politics closely, loved the summer heat, and let the little things matter more. She loved video games, read just for the sake of reading, and spent more time listening to music. She was much more involved in living and she actively worked for goals. She was less passive about going after things she wanted.
I am finding that the old me is still somewhere here in Arizona and that my old life did not just disappear, as much as I turned my back on it.
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