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A message.

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On Sunday, the last day of Thanksgiving break, Fuzz told me that Dylan, a local Broomfield ripper had passed away the day before and there would be a memorial that night. He was young – I think 15 – and it all started from simply breaking his ankle skating. Seriously, crazy. Before I headed to the Broomfield park, I checked out his facebook page in typical stalker mode. In the “write something about yourself” box, he had written a message that stopped me dead in my tracks. Not sure when he wrote it, but I’m going to guess it was there before anything happened. And here it is…

I Love living life to the fullest and in the moment! U never know when life might end! I live My life with my skateboard in my hand headphones bumping in my ears. Up Lift yo mind with that inspiration and wonders happen…


I can’t even begin to explain how much this message has meant to me. I was starting to stress about maybe having too much fun over break and not working non-stop, but this put all that to rest. Life is just too short to not live it how you want…

I didn’t know him personally, but I am so thankful for the message that he left behind. To his family and friends, I wish only the best in such a crazy time.

Inspiration

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Its been a weird couple days… something’s in the air. I’m feeling off and so are so many of my people.
So here I go, stealing lines…

This is how it works
You’re young until you’re not
You love until you don’t
You try until you can’t

You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took

And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else’s heart
Pumping someone else’s blood

And walking arm in arm
You hope it don’t get harmed
But even if it does
You’ll just do it all again
-Regina Spektor, “On the Radio”

Camera Update

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I just got my first email from Geek Squad about my camera:

Your product is in the hands of Geek Squad®,



getting the care and attention it needs. We


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A few words of advice (and evidence of all the chinese food I eat)

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…____  _____.
I hope so. Now just trying to make it there.
Pretty much the motto of the ITLL… and similar to my mom’s favorite, “watch one, do one, teach one”.
This fortune was either the best warning or worst curse I’ve ever received. The timing was impeccable.
?
Always good. Except after a few margaritas.
a little spicy…
(have to save the best for last)

A few quotes…

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“You can’t rely on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus”

-Mark Twain
(I just heard this one for the first time today… and I really like it.)
“The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty. The engineer knows the real truth: that the glass is twice as large as it should be for optimum utilization of resources.”
-A paper I read for my Sustainable Community Development class
(I love being a nerd.)
“May you take all the opportunities afforded you to expand your wisdom and knowledge and may you use them for the betterment of humankind and the world in which we live.”
-The Introduction to the Biology chapter in my Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science textbook

Far Away

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Written by Ingrid Michaelson

I will live my life as a lobsterman’s wife on an island in the blue bay
He will take care of me, he will smell like the sea,
And close to my heart he’ll always stay

I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls, little Ella and
Nelly and Faye
While I’m combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare
On our island in the blue bay

Far away far away, I want to go far away
To a new life on a new shore line
Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another island, in another life

There’s a boy next to me and he never will be anything but a boy at the bar
And I think he’s the tops, he’s where everything stops
How I love to love him from afar

When he walks right pass me then I finally see on this bar stool I can’t stay
So I’m taking my frown to a far distant town
On an island in the blue bay.
Far away far away, I want to go far away
To a new life on a new shore line
Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another island, in another life

I want to go far away
Away away, I want to go far away, away, away
I want to go far away, far away

Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another life, to another life
To another shoreline, in another life

I LOVE Colorado.

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I always wish my vacations were longer, but it’s great to be back in Colorado.
My flight back didn’t get in until 11pm on Sunday night, and I realized that morning that there was no way that I would be able to make the last bus to Boulder, which left the airport at 11:20pm. Luckily, the Kupperbergs (Jules and Amelia) are amazing. Jules pick me up from the airport, I spent the night with them in Denver, and then Amelia drove me to Boulder the next day. I effin love these girls.
First thing I did once I got in my car was to go straight to work. Fun! Leaving work, I couldn’t help but notice this sweet parking job:
The rest of the day, I spent at home with my kitty cats, who I hadn’t seen in two full weeks. On Tuesday I woke up and went snowboarding with Jules, Amelia, and Pete. We hit up Breckenridge, which was beautiful. The weather was perfect and the conditions were the best I’ve experience so far this season.
We made only one trip up the t-bar, but the view from the top was incredible. Here’s a shot from the crackberry, while we were traversing the top catwalk:

The photo really doesn’t do it justice at all. I wish I was brave enough to cart my Nikon around…
We called it an early day, but hit up the Beaujos in Idaho Springs. We got so much food, and since our waiter screwed up our pizza order, Jules and Amelia got another whole pizza to take home. As always, I completely abused the salad bar:


Seriously, it’s pretty hard to beat a day riding the Colorado Rockies in beautiful weather with the Kupps.
And to end on an even more positive note, here’s some bathroom graffiti from Breckenridge:

Some lyrics…

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Hooked on a few random songs. Here’s some lyrics just in case anyone cares. Mostly I just want to put them somewhere and can’t think of anywhere else… (youtube links, as well, i mean, why not?)

Lykke Li – Little Bit

Uh ooh ooh uh ooh ooh uh ooh oooh
Uh ooh ooh uh ooh ooh uh ooh oooh
Uh ooh ooh uh ooh ooh uh ooh oooh

Hands down
I’m too proud, for love
But with eyes shut
It’s you I’m thinking of
But how we move from A to B it can’t be up to me
Cause I don’t know
Eye to eye
Thigh to Thigh
I let go

I think I’m a little bit
Little bit

A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bit
Little bit
Little bit
In lalalala love with me
Oh ah

Uh ooh ooh uh ooh ooh uh ooh oooh
Uh ooh ooh uh ooh ooh uh ooh oooh

And for you I keep my legs apart
And forget about my tainted heart
And I will never ever be the first
To say it’s still a, Game over
Ah ah ahI would do it
Push a button
Pull a trigger
Climb a mountain
Jump off a cliff
Cause you know baby
I love you love you
A little bit

I would do it
You’d say it
You’d mean it
I would let you do it
It was you and I and I only
Ha hm

I think I’m a little bit
Little bit
A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bitbit
Little bit
In lalalala love with me

I think I’m a little bit
Little bit
A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bit
Little bit
Little bit
In lalalala love with me
Ah oh

Come here
Stay with me
Stroke me
By the head
Cause I would give anything
Anything
To have you as my man

Come here
Stay with me
Stroke me, by the head
Cause I would give anything
Anything
To have you as my man

Little bit
Little bit
A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bit
Little bit
Little bit
In lalalala love with me

I think I’m a little bit
Little bit
A little bit in love with you
But only if you’re a little bit
Little bit
Little bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnTg2GPgTM


Band of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You

It’s looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We’re reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one’s gonna love you more than I do

And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one’s gonna love you more than I do

But someone,
They could have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing’s tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It’s tumbling down
Hard.

Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you’d be better off
Or you liked it that way

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one’s gonna love you more than I do

But someone
They should have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing’s tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It’s tumbling down
Hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZo7pLnL7c

From all the drugs the one I like more is music
From all the junks the one I need more is music
From all the boys the one I take home is music
From all the ladies the one I kiss is music (muah!)

Music is my boyfriend
Music is my girlfriend
Music is my dead end
Music is my imaginary friend
Music is my brother
Music is my great-grand-daughter
Music is my sister
Music is my favorite mistress

From all the shit the one I got to buy is music
From all the jobs the one I choose is music
From all the drinks, I get drunk off music
From all the bitches the one I want to be is music

Music is my beach house
Music is my hometown
Music is my king-size bed
Music’s where I make my friends
Music is my hot hot bath
Music is my hot hot sex
Music is my back rub
My music is where I’d like you to touch

Claro-que-sim
Fui escoteira-mirim
Direto da escola,
n�oN�o ia cheirar cola
Nem basquete, pebolim
O que eu gosto
n�o � de gra�aO que gosto n�o � farsa
Tem guitarra, bateria, computador saindo som
Alguns dizem que mais alto que um furac�o (rh�um)
Perto dele eu podia sentir
Sa�a de seu olho e chegava em mim
Sentada do seu lado
Eu queria encostar
Faria o tigela at� o sol raiar
Debaixo do len�ol
Ele gemia em r� bemol
Fiquei tensa
Mas tava tudo bem
Ele � fod�o,
mas eu sei que eu sou tamb�m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqEH-jfCCu0

Stealing lines…

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Right before spring break, I played a clip from Harold and Kumar Escape From Gauntanamo Bay because I absolutely love this poem that he recites at the end of the movie… I’m obsessed:

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

Aah… it makes me melt.

Here’s a Dr. Seuss quote I saw on skateboard in a Brian Ball’s museum:

“Be who
you are
and say
what you
feel,
because
those who
mind
don’t matter
and those
who matter
don’t mind.”

(or something close to that…)

Last Night – theme songs

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Bad News – Kanye West
Didn’t you know i was waiting on you
Waiting on a dream that’ll never come true
Didn’t you know i was waiting on you
My face turned to stone when i heard the news
When you decide to break the rules
Cause i just heard some real bad news
People will talk like its old news
I played it off and act like i already knew
Let me ask you how long have you known dude
You played it off and act like he’s brand new
When you decide to break the rules?
Cause i just heard some real bad news
real bad news
real bad news
real bad news
oh you just gonna
keep another no you wont
oh you just gonna
keep it like you never knew
oh you just gonna
keep another love for you
oh you just gonna
keep it like you never knew
while i’m waiting on a dream
that’ll never come true
oh you just gonna
keep it like you never knew
my face turned to stone
when i heard the news
what’s on the news?
tell em crew

See You In My Nightmares – Kanye West (feat. Lil Wayne)
I’m cold (Yeah),
I’m cold (Yeah),
I’m cold (Yeah)
I got the right to put up a fight
but not quite cause you cut off my light
But my sight is better tonight and I might
see you in my nightmare,
oh how did you get there
cause we were once a fairytale
But this is fair well
I got my life and its my only one
I got the night, I’m running from the sun
So goodnight, I made it out the door
After tonight, there will be no return
After tonight, I’m taking off on the road
I’m taking off on the road
And that you know
Tell every one that you know
That I don’t love you no more
And that’s one thing that you know
That you know…Okay I’m back up on my grind
You do you and I’m just gone do mine
You do you, cause I’m just gone be fine
Okay I got you out my mind
The night is young, the drinks is cold
The stars is out, I’m ready to go
You always thought I was always wrong
Well now you know…
Tell everybody everybody that you know!!
Tell everybody that you know
That I don’t love you no more
And that’s one thing that you know
That you know
I got the right to put up a fight
but not quite cause you cut off my light
But my sight is better tonight and I might
see you in my nightmare,
oh but how did you get there
cause we were once a fairytale
But this is fair well
Baby girl I’m finished
I thought we were committed
I thought we were cemented
How I thought we meant it
Now we just forgetting
Now we just resenting
The clouds in my vision
Look how high I be getting
And it`s all because of you
Girl we through
You think your shit don`t stink but you are Mrs. P-U
And I don`t see you with me no more
Now tell everybody that you know
That you know!
That you know
Tell everybody that you know
That I don`t love you no more
And that`s one thing that you know
That you knowThat you know
Tell everyone that you know
That I don`t love you no more
And that`s one thing that you know
That you know…