If I wanted to have my heart broken, I'd fall in love with you.

AIM:  karinadelune

jared bought me an ipod touch! for a long time i was really anti touch screen but i like it now. i know i wouldn't want it as my phone though. there is a mad libs app! (and frogger <3)

on christmas morning we opened presents and went to my uncle's house for brunch. egg casserole, fruit, homemade yogurt & cinnamon rolls, mmm! then we played this game called "pass the pillow" which was the silliest game i've ever played. amish always come up with this crazy ideas. christmas was nice but something felt off this year. i wasn't as excited for it, it came really quickly, i was in a blah mood. i'm not sure what was wrong.

( favorite christmas presents )

• 23:04 house is pretty much all packed except for my computer & bedroom. moving is not very fun. #
• 23:12 @buske unpacking &gt; packing #

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hi, hello, my name is Lauren,
these are a few things I've found in my attic, and some things about me.





"Tattooed Family" 1955 Todd Walker
it was folded up in a box, so that's where the lines came from



( this post is full of pictures! )

• 12:40 So seriously...if you buy wings in century village area they charge you for sauce to go with your wings wtf.... #
• 13:16 At a presentation....on my vacation for work #
• 23:04 Candy, mtn dew & inking comics....life is awesome #

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this lovely lady just left! having my mom over for the 2 days after christmas extended the holiday quite nicely!

...

in other news i feel kind of funny wii "snowboarding" in my living room, but at the same time it's so fun! we got a little skateboard to go on top of the balance board!

New Years Eve is basically my least favorite holiday, but I am ready for it to be a New Year. I think I've been waking up at 7:30 without exception because I don't sleep too well in this bed. I am not looking forward to flying on Wednesday because I feel too tired for connecting flights. I am too tired to connect ha-ha-ha.

Well, I have basically bought the world while here and my non-childhood bedroom is surrounded by Sephora, Dillards, Betsey Johnson, Forever 21, ten random thrift stores, Marshalls, Best Buy & Target bags. Whoops! Whoops guys, I have no self-control. At least during the holidays I am an emotional spender instead of an emotional eater? What the fuck how did I even put that in a sentence like it was an okay or good thing?

Anyway, I have been speaking with my parents mainly in Italian and that's been pretty fun. I mess up the same things I messed up as a kid which is calling masculine things feminine and feminine things masculine some of the time. But what the hell man, the car is a dude and a the table is a girl and maybe the keys too but not the dishwasher? Yeah, yeah-- I know, I know. I think I even got that wrong but now it's not funny like I was six. Anyway, half of what comes out of my mouth is Sicilian dialect, Spanish and now a little bit of Latin! Whoops again.

Wednesday I leave for Portland but my flight isnt until 5:30 which kind of makes me nervous. Any insane thing will make me feel nervous right now most likely because I feel insane and nervous. More so than usual. I get in late,like at 11 which will feel like one and then the next day is new years eve and then I believe New Years day we begin our descent down the coast. First we are stopping in a town called Eureka and I don't remember why but we are staying in some crazy Inn and I got to pick the room.


Here are pictures of "Old Town Eureka" and then Room #35


And look at how dream like the rooms are:








Then from Eureka we proceed to San Francisco where we are staying for two nights at The Queen Anne Hotel but I don't know where we are going afterward and I wish I did because I lie about being spontaneous.

i just found out father is having some tournament in San Fransico at the end of January but now I cant remember at what hotel but it looks very much like a geometry project.

I guess I should take a shower or watch more Dawson's Creek because no one else is going to wake up for a while.

I got an HP 10 Inch mini Netbook or whatever but I feel like it is so slow. Everyone said something about slow but I forget that I dont listen to anyone so there is that. I didn't get a digital SLR camera for Christmas because I was bad and Santa knew it. Not the Santa at Countryside Mall who told his life confession to Ilana about being fired from the Dr.Pepper company while holding her hand and asking her how scared she felt on a scale of 1-10 because she was Jewish and had never sat on Santa's lap. At this point I was already done with it and taking pictures of myself.
He wouldn't write down "Daniela Scrima-- Golden Doodle Puppy".
Lumps of coal for everyone.

( +1 )

• 16:14 twitpic.com/viml6 - afternoon tea at the secret garden teahouse #

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• 22:34 Will you meet me halfway? #

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goals:
more film photography.
eat less dairy because it hurts my stomach.
stop sleeping in so much.
fix the seat in my car.

anyone want to be my tumblr friends?

personal: lisafree
business/vintage shoe love: bestshoesonetsy

tell me yours so i can follow!!!

xoxoxo

This year, has been a life changing and learning one. life sometimes tosses you in the oddest of places and it helps lead you back home to who you use to be. And it's mind blowing, perhaps? life is something great like that.

My goal for this upcoming year is to chill out some....relax and enjoy life!!!!!! (but still maintain responsibilities...) I'm truly blessed in some way or form for the people I have let in. I've found some sort of love & it's quite uplifting and pleasant for a change when I let myself unwind and be me. Hence, Alethea....2010...take a chill-pill, a carefree happy go lucky pill so you can just enjoy life instead of worrying life away. What's your resolution?

This Christmas I made necklaces for a few special people in my life (pictured above). They were thoroughly enjoyed. And as I countdown the days til 2009s end, and 2010s rise. I'm excited and entirely waiting eagerly for what 2010 has in stored for me.

• 18:32 Playing gameboy advance on my droid just rules the world!!!!! #
• 22:15 Watching the mighty boosh at kym's house! #

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My neck has been perpetually out for days while everyone around me coughs up what's left of H1N1 and I pretend I am in the movie "Outbreak" I pretend it's Chapter 3 of The Stand. I learn (just like I learn annually) that you can never really go home again, that you will always be replaced by some girl that looks too much like you or a circle of friends that hits the repeat button when the button really says "rewind". I could write him an e-mail and articulate all of it so properly, I can hear just how it would go but I'm sick of writing e-mails so I'll send out psychic signals to the universe with my half broken neck and all the promises of the golden Land. I'll think that maybe in time I could write like that and until then I just can't write like anything.

I face the facts: I arrive in Florida and allow a woman to cover my face in acid for fifteen minutes.

None of this bothers me and no, the acid on the face is not related to the head ache.


My parets cannot get off each others backs on Christmas morning so I make them drinks and clean the kitchen. We put on Troy and they fall asleep and I keep saying that Hector doesn't kill Menealus because he goes to Egypt and then Telemachaus sees him with Helen. And everyone is asleep thoguh mom wakes up briefly to say that Paris and Helen end up together and I wake up briefly to explain how I am either the reincarnation of or direct descent of Homer.

I am Homer, guys.

My face stops peeling off and I think a lot about maps and bank accounts and how you pack suit cases with a broken neck or tend to guests or don't feel homesick.

And I wish I was in Ohio. And I want to cry, I desperately want to cry but my mother is crying at the kitchen table. I've made her crying and she asks me to remember things that I cannot possibly remember. She asks me to remember when she shopped at Macy's 8 months pregnant and I was in utero and did not like the musicians playing so I began flipping around in her belly and she could see my little foot my little hand and it was Christmas 1984 and I was born January 1985 and well, do I remember? And I nod my head because it seems accurate enough.

Everyone tells me I have to start using organic deoderant or I wont be fertile and I tell them that I already started using chlorine-free tampons to which most people respond "there is chlorine in tampons?" And I try so hard to give a shit to recycle. To make long distance phone calls to give advice even though I don't know when Sal's voice changed and I can't see Nicole driving so I mainly miss Ohio.

I put my head in the hands of Randy Phoenix and I beg him to change my hair. To baptize me in the color bowl, to make me anyone else.

"Jackie O on a bad day"
"But that would just be you sweetheart"

And I stop calculating money in my head or weighing myself or vomitting and I am scared of Alex and California and the way strangers say "Hi" or that the planet is vast or that black holes exist in outer space and it is all just like turning 10 when you realize you're in double digits and time is running out.

And a new camera and the west coast and better hair and hospitality, they will all save your life. Even though you've known from the get go that they do not plan to. They have not even considered it.

not that i've really exerted a considerable amount of energy towards finding them. i like my lucky strike blues just fine anyway.

'home' has been playin' on my mind in recent history, not because i'm sick for it but because the word doesn't really exist in french.

the concept, therefore, is not exactly universal, which is a peculiar notion.

this is my hometown ["Madtown, Dairyland"]:


this is where i'm crashing currently [Paris]:


and i like to think i nurse some sort of spiritual connection with this place [Berlin]:


where are you from (originally, currently and spiritually)?

I was recently remembering my friend Sarah, who used to put stickers on practically *everything*. She had one of those huge see-through tabletop Mac's and it was *decked out* in awesome stickers she got at gigs, random New York stores, and what not (cool Azn friends...etc)

So show me your laptops (or cellys). (Hey, a nerd has to get her kicks! And I don't mean Nike's!)



PIC#1: I'm a minimalist, and this Rough Trade sticker, that I got from some cool lesbians in London ('cause I bought Crass's album "Penis Envy") is on my Burberryesque Nokia E63. Sadly, my laptop [a Toshiba sattelite series] is bare (but used to have a ninja turles -specifically Rafael- sticker).

PIC#2: random laptop that I googled

This January, I'm travelling to Stockholm, Oslo, Brussels and Bruges with a friend. In hindsight, it might've been a smarter move to book a trip to Scandinavia during warmer months, but you know what happens when opportunity knocks!

If you live in/have visited the aforementioned cities: Do you have any tips as to what types of clothing/accessories I must pack, amazing(ly cheap) places to eat and drink and other can't-miss things to do and see? This will be my, and my friend's, first time to these cities so our game plan is to arrive and just fly by the seat of our pants!

And so this post isn't simply a travel question, I leave you with a gift I mailed to a friend who is spending the year teaching in Korea:

( Shake it like you mean it )

Thanks for your help!

So it's like two in the AM right now. My Christmas was cute. Christmas morning (like, three AM) me, my mom, my sis, and aunt had an early breakfast of eggs and ribs and watched the first half of West Side Story. We exchanged presents, which we haven't done in a couple years (plus I spent last Christmas in Ghana) so it was nice and all that. Later in the day we had a little get together, some friends came over and we went up to my room and watched District 9. Everyone left around midnight, the fam chilled for like an hour watching the Wendy Williams Show, and then I high-tailed my ass upstairs with a bottle of Corona and some pistachios to find the first upload of "The End of Time" that I could get my hands on.

( ranting cuz i can't sleep )

• 13:13 Awesome christmas eve! Shots, great friends. #

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• 09:11 crappy morning: ran out of gas, had to walk forever with a jerrycan to a gas station, spilled gas all over me. i smell awesome. #
• 11:11 now we're screwed for our moving day. this day just keeps getting better & better! *sarcasm* #

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• 23:32 Xmas with friends amazingly awesome! #

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winter time kitty.

( tree & sweater day & wine drinking )

it's hard to believe that christmas is tomorrow. when i was younger i remember how long it seemed to take for this day to come every year. now it's just..here! i don't even think about it. the "joys" of growing up. my presents are wrapped and ready to be opened. we're planning on presents at 8am, mimosas! then brunch at my uncle's house.