Welcome to Lauren's blog!

Goodness gracious the last couple weeks have been insane. I am literally gone from like 9:45am-9pm every day. I have no time to do homework/laundry/everything else so I wake up at like 7am and get stuff done before I leave for school. SO NOT IDEAL! I am excited for Summer.....in two months. Hahahaha. I'm actually still trying to figure out whether or not I want to do school in the Summer.

Our Junior High Mission Trip is canceled because of the Swine Flu and I'm really sad! I was definitely looking forward to it. Hopefully it'll be back on in a couple weeks.

I finally am going back to Seattle at the end of May for a weekend to go get the rest of my belongings. I'm so excited to have all my clothes/my printer/various books/shoes/etc. Hopefully I'll be able to go see Carly's show and hit up Pike Place/SAM as well!

This morning I woke up at 8am, which is kind of late for me. My room is a wreck and my car is a wreck and I have no clean clothes and I've just been focusing on the homework stuff I need to get done but of course there is never enough time in the day to accomplish everything! Ho hum. Hopefully this weekend I can get caught up and then my blogs from here on out will be less rantful and more..funful...hahaaa...

SPEAKING OF THIS WEEKEND!
Tomorrow I have nothing to do until 4pm, where I'm meeting with my director and another actor to go over some of our scenes/talk about our relationship for the film I'm doing. I guess we also have to take some pictures of us shopping and stuff so that should be interesting.
Saturday I'm going to see South Pacific at Pioneer. Yaaay! I miss doing the spring musical SO MUCH! I need to be involved in theatre right about NOW.
Sunday I'm working in the morning and then in the afternoon I am doing a photoshoot for something. Basically I get to be a boho hippie girl which is always fun!

So, while I ate my oatmeal this morning, I decided to look on demand and see if anything good was on. I discovered the movie Max Keeble's Big Move and I was like "wow, I used to like this movie a lot. I haven't seen it in forever. I should watch it!" I only made it through about 10 minutes when I said, "Hmmm I just don't really know why I ever liked this movie..." Thoughts about Max Keeble anyone? I think that I like it, I guess, but I decided to watch Secret Lives of Women: I'm in love with a Cross Dresser. Hahahaha classy.

DFTBA :)

It's 7:30am. Why am I up like an hour before I actually NEED to get up? Because I have so much to do, that I can only do in the early hours of the morning because I HAVE NO TIME OTHERWISE!

Here's what I did this weekend:

Saturday:
8:30am-1:30pm/ Work
3pm-4:30pm/ Coffee&sushi with Tracy
4:40pm-7ish?/ Hannah Montana movie with Tracy and Ashley (YES, I SAW HANNAH MONTANA AND I HAVE NO SHAME!)
7ish+/ Dinner with my mom and then hung out at home

Sunday:
I don't know all the times but it went: church, hang out after church, lunch with Chad, Tracy, Joel, and Mandie, back to church to get Tracy's car, go to downtown to see Hannah's dance thing, stay for like 5 dance numbers, back to church, hang out at church, set up for day7, hang out with Mandie and Alicia, day7, hang out after day7, get home around 10pm and crash.

So yes, this weekend I was mostly gone and I was busy but at least it was all fun stuff that I chose to do. Now that it is Monday I am back to work and school and homework with friends in between. You should also notice in the above schedule that I did not do any homework/laundry/responding to e-mails/mailing packages or anything else productive which is why I'm up at the crack of dawn today getting stuff done!

I have class this morning, then work, then meeting Chad at church for something, then movie night at Chris's since it's Tracy's last one! Awww. Sad times.

SPEAKING OF SAD TIMES...I am soo behind on ANTM! MUST CATCH UP THIS WEEKEND....really though, I'm also behind on Heroes and if you miss one episode your totally screwed up on the plot. I'm also behind on The Office, and you miss episodes it doesn't really affect the plot but you are missing the creativity and amazing writing! I need some good laughs every now and then!

Now I'm off to finish some reading due for my 10:30am class, maybe do some laundry, make some oatmeal for breakfast, and get all caffeinified up.

I definitely think you should see the Hannah Montana movie because it was amazing and I love Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana (the show). BUT, if you DO NOT like Miley Cyrus/do not watch Hannah Montana....you will not like it..(COUGH COUGH Tracy and Ashley COUGH COUGH). Go see it, seriously.

Go read part one first. I'm adding this second one for several reasons....mostly because I didn't blog yesterday.

OKAY so I got a new layout....again. Basically there were some issues with my other one and the html wouldn't like, align right. It also had no dates showing up and it was just lame and making me frustrated. I like this one because it's all colorful and stuff as opposed to another one I was looking at that was brown are more "sophisticated." But I'm not really a "sophisticated" person so why not go with the wild one!

The stupid "home" and "faq" things don't work and I don't know how to fix that. I guess I'm not as html savvy as I thought, because I'm definitely having some issues with this. If anyone out there knows how to make those clickable, let me know!


So Tracy (good friend/audition buddy/fellow aspiring actor) moves to LA in a week and I'm kinda sad because we hang out all the time and now I will only be able to textually communicate with her. LA is only a 6 hour drive, though, so I'm not SUPER sad. Last night at Terra Nova we talked about the fears you have in your life that stop you from going for your dreams. Tracy had held off for so long in acting because it's definitely a tough world to get into. Other people (obviously) have different dreams that they want to pursue, and we talked about how common fear is, and how it's such a deciding factor in our actions.

Everyone is telling Tracy she is soooo crazy for moving to LA, or that whoever is sooo crazy for picking up and moving, or becoming a missionary, or leaving the country, I can't think of any other examples right now, but you get the point! I don't think it's crazy of her to do this at all (we talk about this all the time). Picking up and moving somewhere where you know no one just isn't that weird to me. I literally do not get it when people say she's crazy for doing this. Call me naive, but you move somewhere and make it work. Maybe you don't get to pursue exactly what you want for a while but you don't move somewhere and laze around and become homeless. You make it work. I guess I just don't have the fears that many people have. When Tracy decided to move to LA (I was there this whole process because I was supposed to be moving with her), my mindset was "of course! if that's what you've always wanted to do, why WOULDN'T you go?!" The reason I'm not going is purely for financial reasons, BUT with my new job I have hope that I will be able to pay off my laptop in a timely matter and start saving money to do whatever I want to do in the future, because money being the deciding factor in life decisions is just ridiculous.

I'll leave whoever reads this with that question, why aren't you pursuing what you want to in life? If you are, that's great. If it's because of financial reasons, save that monayyyy and work it out (I'm in that boat right now of "working it out). If it's because of fear....sorry, I don't relate. I'm totally not trying to sound mean, I just think that if you want something bad enough, you'll find a way to make it work, and if fear is what is overriding your passions and dreams, then I would really question if those are real passions and dreams you have, or just hobbies that you enjoy. If you want something bad enough, you WILL find a way to get it.

Adios amigos! :)

I meant to blog last night but I got home at like...2am and then I was already late anyways so I said "SCREW BEDA! I'LL DO IT IN THE MORNING!" haha...actually literally..I really did say that in the late hours of the night.

Yesterday I did nothing really productive except start watching Anne of Green Gables on VHS. I forgot this movie was like 6 hours long because it has all those part 1, part 2, second VHS, part 1, part 2.....INTENSE. But I'm enjoying it. These were definitely the movies that I watched all the time when I was younger.

Last night I had Terra Nova (college group at church) and after some plan confusion we ended up going to Campbell Billiards. Tuesdays and Thursdays are "ladies play free" night so we always take full advantage of that. I'm not so great at pool, but it's really fun! I think I improved a little bit last night....maybe....

I missed last nights episode of Taking the Stage last night but it's coming on again in like 30 minutes, so yaaaay. I'm excited.

I'm also auditioning for those intense movie that's being shot for 10 weeks in the summer/fall. It's an indie film, but it has a $100,000 budget so they are paying for all the leads to be flown out to all these places (arizona, alabama, canada, etc.) and for them to have room and board and all that. I haven't read the whole script but from what I've seen so far, it sounds pretty good. I already have my sides so I just need to send in my tape and paperwork for my first audition. I should probably get on memorizing those 15+ pages plus a 4 minute monologue I have to do for my theatre class. The monologue isn't due until the end of May but I figure I'll learn it now and then I can use it for auditions that are coming up. Grr...I don't even know if our video camera is working so I can record my tape! A video camera is definitely on my wish list for stuff I want.

OKAY, today is going to be a homework day. DO NOT CALL ME, DO NOT TEXT ME, I must finish my homework so that way I won't have anything to stress about this weekend, and trust me....it's going to take all day. I'm super excited because after work tomorrow night Tracy and Ashley and I are finally going to get to see Hannah Montana (DON'T JUDGE ME)! I loooove Miley Cyrus.

Actually wait, I need to go to the post office today as well, so today is a homework and post office day. And the library....and maybe going to see that show tonight with Tracy and Cory. Hmmmmm.....


DFTBA<3 (speaking of DFTBA, did anyone see Hank's DFTBA rap??!)

oh and p.s. HayleygHoovers new video on her personal channel is so freaking hilarious. Especially when she did Alex Day's BEDA intro. LOOOVE HER!

Ouch, ouch, ouch. The tips of my fingers hurt so bad from playing the guitar so much the last week or so! I keep reforming these stupid blisters, but HEY at least I finished a song. :) I guess it's all worth it in the end.

Tonight I had Oasis (junior high youth group at church) and that's always a barrel of fun! I love all my little tweens and preteens and melodramatic girls! I'm excited for our Visalia trip coming up! :)

Got in home just in time to catch the last part of American Idol with my mom and little brother. Goodbye Anoopdawg! I really liked him....but I like other contestants more, so oh well. I missed ANTM tonight so I guess I'll have to watch that online.

Uggghhh every blog I always talk about how I need to do homework but then I just start browsing around online and I NEVER DO IT! I have such a ridiculous and overwhelming amount of work to do because I have literally done NOTHING yet this quarter and I am just too overwhelmed to tackle everything. How do I solve this problem!? I just need to "man up" (as my coworker would say) and get it done. I bet right after I post this, I will find something more interesting to do instead of read about film noir and it's impact on society. Ho hum. I'm such a good procrastinator! I NEED TO STOP THIS MADNESS!

I always think it's weird whenever people say they have nothing to talk about in their blogs. I don't really think mine are THAT interesting...probably more so for my best friends to read, but I never ever have run out of things to TALK about! I guess I'm just a chatterbox online, as well as offline (but we already knew that)!

I'm feeling a bit nostalgic, so I'll talk about one of my favorite life memories that I was just thinking about. My good friend Nedim and I often (though we haven't in the past few months) hang out after school and work and whatnot and just watch tv together and hang out at night. Then he makes me a cucumber and cream cheese bagel and we watch MTV and VH1 and lurk myspace people and talk about life and take walks around the neighborhood. One night in the fall he had some pastel type paint stuff (he's a super good artist) and he just started drawing all over his face to make himself a raccoon. He then proceeded to draw all over me and make me a raccoon as well. We added the white around our mouths to make us raccoons with rabies. Now, in general, I wouldn't advise you to cover your face in pastel/paint stuff....it's a little bit difficult to get off. BUT the face his parents made when they saw us was priceless. I just love these pictures because it was such a random night that was anything but typical...and isn't it the spontaneous events in life that you never forget? I believe this to be true and out of the many many nights I have spent at his house, this was definitely one of my favorites.




If you are reading this and think I am completely crazy, you just might be right. Don't worry, my friends and I do "normal" things also. Talking about the mall and movie nights just aren't as fascinating, though.

Tomorrow morning I must wake up early for dance, and then I think I might be getting my hair trimmed and seeing the Hannah Montana movie! What fun!

DFTBA<3

Today at work, a little girl named Gabrielle (she's 5) came up to me (and mind you, I see her every Tuesday) and said "Lauren! Today, you are very beautiful!" I laughed and said "Thank you Gabrielle! You are very beautiful too!" I'm not sure if I should take this simply as a compliment, or wonder if I normally look terrible and today was something out of the ordinary? I think I'll go with the former. Either way, it was very cute and there's nothing that starts off a good day at work like a fabulous ego boost.

I got home after work around 8pm, and lazed around because it is JUST TOO HOT! My coworker and I discussed today how this miserable heat is the ultimate energy sucker. It's very unfortunate, because I have quite a bit I need to get done before classes tomorrow. Right now I'm watching Princess Diaries (I haven't seen it in so long). I love Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway and I forgot how funny and awkward this movie is (I'm still at the beginning pre-makeover). There is a lot of witty dialogue that I had totally forgotten about. Yay for good movies! :)

Watching this movie also made me think about how much I wish I lived in a old firehouse. Anne Hathaway's house is amazing and she has a tower and it's just the big huge room that is this warehouse of artisticness. I WANT IT. Maybe I'll move to San Francisco and buy a firehouse to make my home. San Francisco IS only an hour away. Convenient...eh, eh?

Blaaah this is short because I'm trying to watch this movie and maybe start some homework? yuck.

Ciao & DFTBA :)

FIRST THINGS FIRST! This weather is ridiculous. It is WAY TOO HOT! For you non-Californians out there, today/yesterday was 90+ degrees. I feel like I'm melting every time I step outdoors. At least my work has air conditioning. Even as I sit in my room right now, my house is like 80 degrees and I feel like I'm dying.

Today I just had work (I skipped the one class I have on Mondays) and then I had a coffee/Mexican food date with Tracy (good friend/audition buddy/fellow aspiring actor). It is starting to get late and I have quite a bit of homework to do before Wednesday. I'll be gone from 10am-8pm tomorrow with work and school, so responsible Lauren is saying she should probably get at least SOME homework done tonight but irresponsible Lauren is saying it's too hot to function and she should catch up on an episode of The Hills she didn't watch last week and never do homework ever again.

Yesterday my brother introduced me to a fabulous show called Summer Heights High. This show is so hilarious and since there has only been one season so far, I have like 3 episodes to go and then I'm all caught up. Honestly, there aren't THAT many shows that I find myself laughing out loud at and then quoting and laughing some more and re-watching youtube clips over and over again....but this is one of them.

I hate when you have a whole bunch of random things that need to get done but you just don't have enough time to do them. I really need to go to the bank and post office but both of those places are closed by the time I get off of work and my break in between work and school is just long enough for me to drive there and be on time. LAME. I guess I'll go to the bank and post office on Thursday. THIS IS THE MOST BORING BLOG EVER! Maybe I should create the first 24 hour post office. Why haven't people thought about this?!


I hate all the crap Miss California is receiving right now for her comments at Miss America. It cost her, her title as well as being called a homophobe by all of America. I'm glad she said what she did and that she didn't compromise HER beliefs just to fit in with the majority of America. Lucky for us, we are in a country where we have freedom of speech and that she can (or SHOULD) be able to say HER OWN opinions without persecution. She could have easily said an answer that was more neutral but she chose to speak her mind and hold on to what she believed. I commend you Miss California! There are way too many articles in the news about this issue and it's just ridiculous that it's even an issue at all. It's her beliefs and her answer....leave it the heck alone. I still like Perez, but this whole "controversy" was uncalled for.

That's all folks, I'm off to take a cold shower. DFTBA!