move it like that

tonight, i wanted a hot dog...but instead my mother, sister, and I piled in the car and drove to house of pies at midnight. and the pie was just as satisfying. 

if i really had to complain about one thing in houston, it would be the lack of good hot dog stations. like, you know how new york has papaya dog and chicago has super dawg? 

yeah, houston doesn't have those. 

otherwise, i've been taking my time in here and soaking up these last few days before i leave for college. 

today, i got a video message from my friends back in colorado, and i realized that i owed the internet-world a post. so heres, a re-cap of my last days in colorado. 

view from the mountain Station Eleven that i hiked. it was a nice 2 1/2 hours up and by then end of it i wanted to rip all my clothes off and run around naked...i think i was just crazy from the heat. 

smiilessss in the great american basin 

my best friends running through valleys

oh typical lake city. these sort of signs were in every store window. 

tiramisu....i could write a whole book on my love for tiramisu. i probably will. 

last, but not least. heres a little treat. i recently made myself a youtube account and decided that i might as well post videos on it. here's a vid of me singing cat power and playing guitar...mind you, i did mess up a few times, but i figured what the hell. if the comments suck, then i can always take it off. i really have nothing to lose...except, perhaps my dignity and a little self-confidence. 

rocky mountain wonderland

Word on the street is that more than two people read my blog, so i figured its time to update...and i've got good reason to.

Right now, I'm in Lake City, Colorado, which has 450 inhabitants year round so its really more of a village than a city. A friend of mine has a house here and a few of my friends and I decided to visit before we parted ways for college. Its beautiful and amazing. The best part of the trip (notreally) was seeing THE Heidi Montag at the airport in Gunnison. She lives in Crested Butte and Gunnison is the closest airport. I tried to get a picture, but she's famous for nothing so I didn't bother.
Here are some other highlights of the trip.

Its warm in the morning and cool in the afternoons and it always rains around noon-ish. Everyone wakes up around 8 and we all eat breakfast together. Here's a shot of my cereal...branflakes, kashii, and blueberries.
I started running again and now have a blister the size of north africa. its huge, i don't know how i'm going to hike with it. but i will find a way.
THE HILLS ARE ALIVVVEEEEEE!!!!!

Here's the fetus waterfall we hiked to.

And here's us rejoicing after our climb.

Here's the massacre sight of Alfred Packar, the infamous lake city cannibal. The ledgend goes that Alfred lead five people up the mountains and never returned. When the rescuers found him, the bodies of the other travellers were discovered with missing body parts and chucks bitten out of them.

Day two view from San Juan Vista.

There are lots of horse flies in lake city, so isabel figured the best way to get rid of them was the bug dance. i can't remember whether or not this was effective.

mmmmmmmmmmmm turtle cookie dough...need i say more? sometimes you have to reward yourself for being physically active with suger loaded desserts.

you've made your bed, now fuck in it

I used to take swim lessons in this pool when I was ten, now birds shit in it

And right now, a pool filled with bird crap makes perfect sense, as opposed to my life, which is not.

pigeons staring at suburbia through the fence. This is sort of the way I look at my surroundings everyday. The only thing I keep thinking about is leaving.

I leave for New York on Tuesday. There will probably be many posts and many stories to tell. I'm worried and a little scared. But I'm not sure why.
I've started seeing a new therapist, who i love. On our first meeting, she asked me if i trusted myself and my decisions....i don't. At the time, i really didn't know the answer. but the truth is, i don't. I believe in myself and trust in the future. but i don't trust myself.
I've lost control of most things in my life and now resort to trying to control other things and honestly, human beings.

On a brighter note, i am a weeds addict. this is a good thing, i promise. the new season starts tomorrow, so nobody bother me. i will be spending the evening packing, watching showtime, and freaking out over what happends to nancy and the gang.

in an endless summer...let me go waste my time

i wish this could be endless, because i don't know how long this will last and whether or not i will regret it.

its the summer between high school and college...and it scares me because i only have 3 more months to grow up.

The other night i stayed up looking through all the old boxes i have, full of papers, pictures, diaries, and mementos of my life over the past eight years. through middle school and highschool.

it was bizzarre and yet all i kept thinking was, "am i missing something?"

like some clue as to what to do with my life would suddenly pop out

June hasn't even really started, but I've been out for almost three weeks. no finals so to every underclasssman who reads this, "haha suckas!"

that was probably inappropriate.

Madonna Day. At my catholic high school, the day before graduation is called madonna day and its basically an awards ceremony. For the first time ever, I actually got two awards in digital photography and English 4. that was actually quite bizzare for me, because i almost never get awarded for anything involving academics.

The virgin mary ice sculpture was hands down the greatest part of madonna day...and thats including sister janes speech that included the theme song from friends and vitamin c's graduation. Here is a picture of danielle and i holding the frozen madonna's hands. i don't know where this ends up on the spectrum of sacreligiousness. I also don't understand how this ended up on the decoration committee's agenda...i can only imagine the administration being like, "And right next to the sandwiches, we should have a giant ice sculpture of the virgin mary! And about that cake..."

dont judge. the grad cap doesn't flatter anybody. and i added this only so i could prove i actually graduated.

Grad party! So, this is the giant $600+ pan of seafood paella that i ate. well, not all of it, but a good portion over the next 4 days it was in my fridge.

Souvlaki.... hot and roasting on the grill. this is what greek uncles from queens with lamb expertise are for.

when im not stuffing my face or graduating, i'm hanging with friends or working. my job at the museum ended (see end of the year picnic party pic above) so i figured i might as well make some money by finding another job. my friends were already working at the binkini store in one of our malls so i figured "why not?" to be honest, i'm not sure what i was thinking by getting into retail. i hate shopping and i hate hanging anything. But the job isnt half bad and even though i have to listen to rihanna and "make love in the club" and lil' wayne almost 10 times a day, i kind of like it.

NYU here i come....and yes, that is carrie bradshaw in the front seat of my race car...i mean, who else to better represent new york? and NYU violet? i think not...

I did see the movie actually, but only after sipping down martini's with my two aunts and getting someone's number from the bar. so thats one samatha jones point down. get me preggers and move me to brooklyn and then i'll be pulling a miranda.

valley of the dolls

its official. the banner in my bedroom says so

see you next fall in new york.

in the mean time, i'll be in texas, singing every simon and garfunkel song i know.

its been more than a month since i've last written, thats pathetic. so much has happened, but these last few months of highschool have literally flown by. SPEAKING OF FLYING, today was the senior style show. the theme was Wings to Fly. this is where my all girls highschool decides to dress everyone up in expensive outfits (and then you try and find out who has the most expensive dress) and makes you strut down a runway. i didn't fall, obviously, tyra and the ANTM crew taught me well.

models standing around to get their hair did

fabulously fabulous

my friends new hair cut. yes she's a real red head, and yes she's really that beautiful in real life.

PAT 'CHO WEAVE! okay...so its not a real weave....but literally everyone thought it was. i guess nobody noticed how long my hairs gotten over the past year. so i starting patting it and shit to make it seem more authentic. seriously though, people were coming up to me after the show saying, " wow! that fake hair looked great on you!"

PROM 2k8:Party Girls on the Go

sometimes, your best friends are the hottest people you know. so then, instead of a date, you just take all of them to prom with you...

in the greatest limo this world has ever seen! its hot pink and looks like something we stole out of libby lou and hannah montana might just be in the back seat...but it was glorious.

cold souls at spring time

Spring break has come and gone. i spend my 13 days in Houston and Austin relaxing and taking some time off for myself. I actually really enjoyed it, despite not going anywhere for vacation.

Antique shopping in Austin on the strand near UT.

Old door surrounded by colorful walls

Hey Cupcake! oh you know I couldn't pass this up.

take a gander of this deliciousness. vanilla on vanilla.

my mother loves antiques and she really knows how to find this little nooks.

This weekend I was in St. Louis visiting Washington University. They offered me a scholarship, but I'm still stuck on NYU. Thank God I got in, so many people are being rejected from schools they deserve to get into. This year, colleges have been so difficult. The Annika Rodriguez Scholarship committee was so ridiculously wonderful. They gave us so much free stuff and if i ever see another chocolate chip cookie again i'll probably vomit; they were at ever single event the put on for us...but there was never any milk!

The best part of the visit was when they took us on a tour of St. Louis (wash u is a little outside) and then suprised us with a free snack from Baily's Chocolate Bar. We were all starving and ordered everything on the menu. The food was phenomenal. Chocolate brownies, cake, bread pudding, blondies!

My essentials: hot coffee, good cheese, and fresh bread. The simple foods are always the best.

we had a midnight visitor

harvard model congress seems like it was ages ago, yet I think about it everyday.

The girls. For some reason, we were given a room about 10 times the size of a normal one; however they only gave us one bed. So adele and I suffered on the pull-out couch. it really wasn't a big deal except for it was freezing.

Okay, Rodney Miles is my hero. Seriously, the man is incredible

. It was snowing in boston! Caitlin went snow crazy. Here we are in Davis Square where we went to diesel cafe. it was warm and delicious.

I love how my head is pretty much the center of this picture considering i look like a mad possum in the headlights. Anyway, here is pretty much everyone on the trip huddled around getting ready for the dance. We went 80's style while everyone else wore their prom dress. I can remember talking to one of the republicans in my committe who came out and said, " I didn't even recognize you!" probably because I lost any of my moral sense and wasn't wearing my pant suit.

The Armed Services and Ethics Committee. Needless to say, we were brilliant. I could bore you with all the rest of the information, but this is pretty much all you need to know: RI and NE on the bottom right are some of the greatest and most intelligent girls i have ever met. John McCain made me laugh every day, MS and KS in the back were my most favorite boys ever. Franklin (hawt azn center) was our leader and king. Sarah on the right was phenomenal as well as Brad; both leaders, both stallions. Everyone else was just way too cool. Our guantanamo bill (though fake president bush shot it down with an illegitimate veto) still rocked and kicked more butt in the senate than any other. unanimous except for one? does that ever happen? I think i cried. No, i for sure cried when the house almost knocked it down. but thats why senate A decided to pass a bill to make our government unicameral. I also cried that one time Franklin woke me up at 1 am because the Indian Ambassador had a shit fit over some aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean.

As for the present, Friday night I saw the St.Agnes/Strake production of Merrily we Roll Along feturing my bestie Jessica and some other really attractive people.

Remember when Kellie was so ridiculously fierce as Gussy? I mean, i was in awe throughout the entire play. She was phenomenal.

mmThreesome. These guys were the mainz of the play and did an amazing job. the singing was INCREDIBLE, like beyond. Kudos on the fashion department for that lovely velveteen robe and sweater vest.

In the mean time, im ignoring my english test and virginia woolfe. pity, but sexy young john mccain can keep you company.

mmmm, nothings more attractive than a 72 year old former POW with a sexy grin and a incredibly strong stance on the war in iraq.