The Trapeze Swinger
Iron and Wine

Someone caught us in the kitchen with maps,
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this is kinda cute:

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend has never seen you cry.
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in their address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you

 post_it_love

yeahhh…..dont know why but im having another iffy day. most of the day was fine…..pretty much most of the second half was just….kinda bad. cuz of a couple things. and other reasons i don’t even know of. well anyway. song lyrics.

konstantine – something corporate

I can't imagine all the people that you know
And the places that you go
When the lights are turned down low
And I don't understand all the things you've seen
But i'm slipping inbetween
You and your big dreams…
It's always you
In my big dreams

And you tell me that it's over
Wake up lying in a patch of four leaf clover
And you’re restless, and i'm naked
You've gotta get out
You can't stand to see me shaking
No
Could you let me go?
I didn't think so

And you don't wanna be here in the future
So you say the present's just a pleasant interruption to the past
And you don't wanna look much closer
Cuz your afraid to find out all this hope
You had sent into the sky by now had crashed
And it did
Because of me

And then you bring me home
Afraid to find out that you're alone
And i'm sleeping in your living room
We don't have much room to live

I had these dreams that i learned to play guitar
Maybe cross the country
Become a rock star
And there was hope in me that i could take you there
But dammit you're so young
Well i don't think i care
And if i hurt you
Then i'm sorry
Please don't think that this was easy

Then you bring me home
Cuz we both know what it's like to be alone
And i'm dreaming in your living room
We don't have much room to live

And Konstantine is walking down the stairs
Doesn't she look good,
Standing in her underwear?
And i was thinking
What i was thinking
We've been drinking and it doesn't get me anywhere

My Konstantine came walking down the stairs
And all that i could do is touch her long blonde hair
And i've been thinking
It hurts me thinking that these nights
When we were drinking, no they never got us anywhere
No

This is because i can spell konfusion with a k
And I can like it
It's to dying in another's arms and why I had to try it
It's to jimmy eat world and those nights in my car
When the first star you see may not be a star
I'm not your star
Isn't that what you said?
What you thought this song meant

And if this is what it takes
Just to lie in my mistakes
And live with what i did to you
And all the hell I put you through
I always catch the clock
It's 11:11
And now you want to talk
It's not hard to dream
You'll always be my konstantine

Konstantine, they'll never hurt you like i do
No they'll never hurt you like i do
No, no, no no no no no no

This is to a girl who got into my head
With all the pretty things she did
Hey
You know
You keep me up in bed
This is to a girl who got into my head
With all the fucked up things i did
Hey
Maybe
Baby
You could keep me up in bed
My Konstantine
You spin around me like a dream we played out on this movie screen
And i said
Did you know i miss you? [x7]
Oh god i miss you.

And then you bring me home
And we'll go to sleep, but this time, not alone, no no
And you'll kiss me in your living room
I know
You'll miss me in your living room
Cuz these nights i think maybe that i'll miss you in my living room
We don't have much room
I said does anybody need that room?
Because we all need a little more room
To live

My Konstantine…

( you pray for silence, step into my quiet violence )

ive been meaning to make this layout for a while. here it is:

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whatttttt?!?!?! the last couple weeks have been really nice and warm and stuff and all of a sudden this weekend was cold. and tomorrow its supposed to snow 4-6 inches………its april!!! snow?? god. michigan weather is lame.

**havent written for a while so the post is big...its two entries. sorry you guyysss.....you'll have to read the one before this first. SORRY!

monday_ in film critiques alex gave me and abbie a note that him and colin passed back and forth in fifth hour. it said that he liked this person named lauren. abbies like

whos lauren?

me: idk probably someone from church or something.

abbie: from  the synagogue you mean.

me: haha are you calling him jewish???!

jewish jokes…….are love. hehe. then later….track. it was the first day of track. then i got home at like 4, had lessons from 4:30-5:15, homework, dinner, shower…..ack.

tuesday_ we had a flex schedule that day and apparently in first hour science, according to amanda, mr. accidentally went like this:

the cell’s fuck- i mean FUNCTION…..

haha. i love when he embarrasses himself. he deserves it. anyway, adams dad is running against abbies mom for schoolboard, and in third hour abbie told me that he decided to try to make his dad mad so he was like

hey dad, im going out with abbie heath!

his dad: GOD DAMMIT ADAM *yelling*

adam: …just kidding.

hahahahahahaha that is hilarious. seriously. we told abbie that she should have adam write her a fake love note and she should leave it in her pocket for her mom to find in the laundry. haha. except she didn’t do it cuz her mom wouldn’t believe her if she told her that it was just a joke. heh. later during lunch i was telling abbie about this thing that i heard someone say, and it was really ghetto and then we made a song. and andrea joined in. it was so funny. i had tears coming out of my eyes. hahahahahahahaha. then, me abbie and andrea were walking to fourth hour as always and andrea was telling random people in the hall that i made a song. it was SO funnnny. hahahaha. then later in film critiques we were watching the news cuz they chose a pope. we kept making pope jokes too…like when he came out on the balcony for the first time, alex was like

THROW HIM OVER THE EDGE!    

hah. then we were like

if he lives……..HES A WITCH! KILL HIM! if he dies….

haha. oh and this is something random that abbie heard in the hall who knows how long ago:

I DON’T HAVE KNEECAPS, WHY DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?

hahahahahahahaha!

wednesday_ not much that i can remember…….but after school i had track, got home around 4, did homework, went to gymnastics, dinner, shower, and stayed up til 11 doing math. ewwww.

thursday_ the day before in spanish we had to write letters to senora about our best friends. and draw a picture. well on thursday, we saw how kraig drew brandon and he looked like a chubby dork standing in the middle of some random street. hahaha……..wow. it was bad. then some people went to the front of the room and read their letter out loud, and while juhee was reading hers, brandon took cassandra’s crutch and was pointing it at the front of the room and then he pretended to shoot senora in the head with it. hahaha he definitely got yelled at for that one. hehe. oh yeah and later the whole

it may not be gatorade andrea….it may not be gatorade

thing. J. hehe. i didn’t go to track cuz i thought it’d be only field events like it was last year so i didn’t bring clothes or shoes. and besides…….when i got home, it took me from 2:30 to 6:30 just to do my math packet. then i still had spanish science and social studies to do. so if i went to track i wouldn’t have had time.

today_ in spanish…..myryah was sitting there and she was like

chris if i fall will you catch me?

abbie: god it sounds like a song.

so…..myryahs working on making that a song. yay…..we’re all making songs now J J. haha after that, we were all talking and apparently ben fleck told kraig to call me nairobi. which is a city in kenya…lol. then we did a worksheet and senora matched us up with a partner and i ended up being with kraig and hes like

oh, im with nairobi?

GOD! everyone was calling me that haha. seriously. everyone. and kraig would get this evil look on his face and start laughing. it was pure evil i tell you. then when we got up to leave, i was holding my lunch and brandons like

hey neeyati, i like your lunchbox.

………? haha. it sounded like a kindergarten-type comment. haha. then later at lunch, abbie told me about a dream she had and i started to tell lizie and sarah and juhee but i guess abbie didn’t want me to tell them so she smacks her hand over my mouth. it was so out of nowhere. haha. oh and apparently in one part of her dream, she was at my house and i was forcing her to inhale helium from a balloon but she didn’t want to so she left my house and she was making weird grunting noises cuz she was mad at me…….you had to hear it…haha. oh and she told us about a time when she was little and she forgot how to breathe…..only abbie. only abbie would do that. hehe. after fourth hour, i was walking to my locker and i see sophie and dan pochmara walking and sophies like

neeyati! *weird voice as always*

dan: oh hey nairobi

me: GOD!

i don’t even talk to him usually and hes calling me that. DAMN IT KRAIG! and ben…! haha. oh well. in orchestra, the cellos kept messing up and they kept fighting with each other and so mrs vargo turns to the violin section and shes like

*serious look* drugs. this is what happens, kids.

hahahahahahaha! it was funny. hehe. well. okay im done.

drowning, just as fast as i can, but don't throw me a line, don't reach out your hand, cause, i'm on the brink of something beautiful, and i want to sing about it, but i don't know where to begin. write it in a letter, but the words don't come out right. trying to explain how no one can do me like…you don't understand how helpless i can get,  since the day that we met, oh can you feel it yet? it's never been more perfect being alive. i've never been so satisfied. oh...i could feel something different for the first time. heaven made sense and all the words rhymed. no chance of stopping now. im taking it all. and now i'm caught in the air, its a good glide. pass it up, wouldn't dare what a wild ride. i remember being ready and waiting to fall, just like i did tonight. spinning around and around, until my left was my right and up became down. with just one look you knocked me off of my feet, so unable to speak. oh, how you made me weak. though it was a while ago, i still can recall, that moment so ready, and waiting to fall. can you take me back in time,  remembering when you captured my heart? over and over again...

[ready and waiting to fall – mae]

havent had an actual entry in a while………….so…….im gonna hafta do the thing where i put the date in too. and its gonna be long since its been a while...im gonna hafta split it into two posts again. sorry you guys :( here we go.

monday the 4th_ at lunch we were talking and i was like

i cant believe mrs george put kraig in the back when she made the new seating chart!

amanda: i know! she hates him. shes always yelling at him. maybe she actually LIKES him

abbie: it’d be worse if he liked her

alicia: lets start a rumor!

heh i thought it was funny J.  hmm well im too lazy to write about anything else that week. basically on wednesday we went to the zoo and it was okay. i got cotton candy though J hmm…oh and a couple other things i guess…not gonna explain them but here

-the unicorn song haha

-global warming (it was a comment rishi made in orchestra…..i think sarah remembers it)

yep.

friday the 8th_ it was sarahs bday! yay! hah it was an early release so macky was at our lunch. we heard that she was retiring the next year so we called her over to our table to make sure. mandy was like

mrs mackinnon, my brother wants to have you next year!

macky: oh but im not gonna be here next year!

all of us: you’re not? awwww!

macky: *flattered*  *blushing and laughing*

haha. oh and andrea was like

mrs mackinnon PLEASE make sure mr. howell doesn’t take your spot.

haha wow andrea………shes always so up front about things J. its excellent. J. like when espiffophis first sat at our table.

andrea: what are YOU doing here? i only ordered a salad.

J. well anyway after school i went on lizies bus. cuz she had a sub bus driver so of course the person didn’t notice that i was on the wrong bus. we got to her house and i call my mom to let her know where i am and shes like

YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT I WAS WORRIED! *freaking out*

me: …….we just got home so that’s why im calling now. i wouldve called earlier…….

heh then i get online and abbie and juhee and sarah IM me and they’re like

WE WERE SO WORRIED! WHERE WERE YOU?!!?

wow….my mom freaked out so much that she called everyone…….lizie was laughing at me J. after a while me, lizie, abbie and sarah went to the mall. abbie bought a prettttty skirt……..even though it took her like 20 min to decide on but OH WELL! its nifty. we bought little candy lip gloss things for juhee cuz she was sad that day. hehe. we all bought sugar shoes for sarah for her birthday. they’re awesome. oh yeah when we were in Icing, abbie and lizie sat on these big red ball shaped things that looked like chairs. but then the lady was like

PLEASE DON’T SIT ON THOSE! *not-so-friendly voice*

they were like “..okay….” then later abbie was just looking at a lip gloss and she opened it to smell it and the lady was like

*snappy voice* now i cant sell that. put it away. i can’t have you looking at my stuff. please leave.  

wow……..THAT there is the reason why no one is ever in icing. the employee/manager people are cranky jerkwads. although……..i always get a rush of excitement whenever i get kicked out of somewhere J its somewhat fun….? hehe.

sunday the 10^th_ at the temple i had class again. and you probably had to be there and you probably have to KNOW the people but this happened:

teacher: open the window, its hot in here.

kid: *opens window* AH! theres a huge BUG on the window!

teacher: oh well, just sit down.

kid: *sits down* *keeps looking at bug nervously*

teacher: calm down its not gonna do anything to you

kid: ……..its gonna do something to me…….

haha…..yeah you probably really had to be there. so anyway……….after that…….nothing.

monday the 11^th_  in spanish we did the fingerprint family tree thing and myryah made her older brother purple on purpose. she said hes a little different…..haha! that was hilarious. then later…..hmm i think it was monday where at lunch sarah was eating hot cheetos and all of a sudden shes like

*huge gasp*  JUHEEEE! *grabs juhees water bottle*

…haha it was funny.

tuesday the 12^th_ in first & second hour we saw the play. it was spiffffffy J. i like plays a lot…….anyway…..i was in like the second row. before it started, mr howell came up to our row and tried to scoot us over to sit by us and then all of a sudden sierra’s like

*scream* NOOO MR HOWELL!

so he just stares at her and then goes and sits somewhere else. haha! fun. well anyway then in third hour, we were talking and apparently since kraig was in the front row during the play, he kept making faces at abbie. haha. then we were doing flashcards and i held up the one for “fea” and kraigs like

it looks like senora.

haha that was nice….. later in film critiques, idk what we were talking about exactly…..i think it was about the effect that music has on movies and alex is like

no duh, what would the music man be without the music? THE MAN.

hahaha.

wednesday the 13^th_ at lunch lizie was like

you guys the shirt i bought on friday is ripped.

all of us: WHAT????

lizie: you always do this to me! you always yell something and stare and point at me!

lol……..i guess we do….its fun J. then of course the whole

everybody dance now! *high pitch voice*

hehehe. after that me andrea and abbie were walking to fourth hour and there was a random phone in the hallway…..not even a cell or anything…..it was a phone. it was so random. we laughed. hehe. oh yeah…….and that was the day of the lspifffficiao psiffreakub. excellllent J  

thursday the 14^th_  came into school late cuz i had an appointment. its funny how during the school year, you consider 8:30 as “sleeping in” but in summer it means death. anyway….in science we went outside for a walk in the woods and when we got out,

joanna: eww i hate the outside doors!

haha joanna….. J. later in film critiques, cameron was sitting on his desk doing something weird and chrissy’s like

arent all guys just really gay?

cameron: *stares at us*  *gets off his desk and walks away*

chrissy: NOT LIKE THAT i mean gay as in STUPID

haha it was funny but you probably had to be there. then alex was like

neeyati, did you hear about the thing in the hall? TELL ME ABOUT IT!

me: what thing in the hall? idk anything about it

random people in class: the thing in the hall? what thing in the hall?

brittany busch: abbie knows what thing in the hall.

abbie: what? oh….apparently there was a huge genital on the wall….

everyone still talking: what thing in the hall? oh THAT thing in the hall

alex: no, not THAT thing in the hall

…….its hard to explain but it was funnny. everyone was just talking back in forth about “the thing in the hall”. haha. once again, you had to be there. thennn in orchestra mrs vargo was like

i was sick last night and i went to bed around 7:30 cuz i was so tired. and my daughter kept jumping on my bed.

rishi: i HATE when that happens!

mrs vargo: ….you hate when your daughter jumps on your bed while you’re trying to sleep…?

rishi: yeah!

lol. wow…..it makes sense…..considering michael jackson & mr. howell are his idols. *shakes head*.

friday the 15^th_ was the day of the “oscars” dance. so a lot of people dressed up. hmm not much happened.

saturday_ the awesome concert! already told you about that though. J  here and here. tons of fun there.

 

was gonna make it an lj icon but its too big.

A group of professional people posted this question to a group of 4 to 8 year olds. "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think.....

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouths.
Billy- age 4 (this one is so beautiful)

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.
Kari- age 5

Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French Fries without making them give you any of theirs.
Chrissy- age 6

Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.
Danny- age 7

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
Bobby-age 7 (wow!) Yes - WOW!

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.
Nikka- age 6

Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.
Noelle- age 7

 Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.
Elaine- age 5

Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.
Chris- age 7

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.
Mary Ann- age 4

When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you
Karen- age 7

You really shouldn't say "I LOVE YOU" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.
Jessica- age 8

And the winner was a 4 year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly man who had just lost his wife. When the child saw the man cry, the little boy went over into the man's yard and climbed on top of the man's lap and just sat there. When the boy's mother asked him what he'd said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

aww.

( concert pics! )

(( stole from abbiepants ))

1. post the names of 20 musicians or bands you like.
2. see who can guess which is your favorite song by each band/musician.
3. once someone gets it right, write song name and person's name who guessed [in the comments area]

--it’ll be kinda hard cuz i usually don’t really talk about what my favorite songs are. oh well. GUESS!--

1. something corporate

2. something corporate (again)

3. the starting line

4. the spill canvas

5. the rocket summer

6. the juliana theory

7. taking back sunday

8. rufio

9. red hot chilli peppers

10. plain white t’s

11. michelle branch

12. mest

13. matchbook romance

14. mae

15. mae (again)

16. hawthorne heights

17. further seems forever

18. death cab for cutie

19. daphne loves derby

20. damien rice

that was reallllly hard. its so hard to pick ONE favorite. i obviously couldn’t do it. im not even exactly sure what my favorites are so i’ll decide when you comment whether you’re right or not J

comment please.

whooooooooooo im so high right now…..you have no idea. just got back from a concert. it ROCKED!!!!!  …….that was a lame play on words but whatEVER. okay okay….well first of all, i went with lizie, her mom, jenny, andrea, and amanda. hah and zach and dave followed us. they’re all such weirdos. anyhooo…..we got there like 40 min late cuz we stopped at a wendy’s to eat. me and lizie and andrea were freaking out, we thought we’d miss mae…but we didn’t so that was awesome. it was SO COOL cuz it wasn’t crowed!!! i thought it’d be super crowed and everything and i was expecting a mosh pit in the front, but it was really just a bunch of college kids standing around listening to music. I WAS LIKE 15 YARDS AWAY FROM MAE. oh man…..it was so cooooooooool. they played some awesome songs. and they have amazing stage presence. that’s what i thought anyway. when they were done they threw some stuff into the crowd and i wish i was closer…..but yeah we didn’t catch anything. ohhh well. after that john mayer came up and me and lizie werent interested so we all went up and bought tshirts that are just the coolest. then after a while the donnas played……….they are lame. they can die. because of them, we had to leave while the starting line was still playing. no one wanted to hear them. they were there to hear the starting line. whatever. we took a bunch of pics. haha. then FINALLY after like forever the starting line came up and amanda andrea dave and zach went right up to the front cuz it really wasn’t hard to get up there. but mrs rogers wanted us to stay a little farther back with her. that’s okay it was still close. it was like….10(?) yards away. the first song they played wasn’t so great but then they started playing best of me which is only their best song ever. then we left but as we were walking away we heard them start another really good song (( cheek to cheek )) and we were all just like “EVERYONE SHUT UP…LETS JUST LISTEN TO IT FROM AFAR!” haha. oh yeah…..all of us “ladies” thought the guitar player on the right was gorgeous. ohhh yes. J J haha. it was just incredible cuz we were so close to them………im on like an adrenaline rush right now. okkkaayyys…………………………that’s all!