hello college.

you know you're a poor, lazy, college student when your roommates sneak across the street to mcdonalds and steal a roll of new toilet paper from the bathroom, because we're out. 

and, you know you're a poor, lazy, college student when you and your roommates have made friends on the janitorial staff at school who are black marketing us paper towels and toilet paper... 

ohh, college.

L

hello talent.

so this weekend was filled with fun adventures. friday night i kayaked out to chinaman's hat (which is a small island), had a swell bon fire, and slept under the stars (which i might add i thought i was going to freeze to death by about 3am...). But besides the most comfortable sleep ever on those comfy rocks... it was really fun! that morning we woke up and got to watch the sunrise. however, the tide rose in the middle of the night and washed away our friends kayak... yeahh, fail. so after my first experience spear fishing in the morning, we somehow managed to get all our stuff back across the ocean while swimming to shore. it was quite the adventure. well, some other fun shtuff happened but i don't really feel like blogging about it. what i really want to blog about is my new friend. devin graham.

tonight i hung out with some friends and we made brinner (breakfast for dinner, which is my absolute favorite). i met this kid, devin. he makes these amazing videos with different ideas he comes up with. i sat down and talked to him about it all, asking him different questions i had for probably 2 hours straight. i loved every second of it. hearing him talk about it all and how he got to where he is now is really inspiring to me. as you know, my plan is to major in photography. which i'll be honest sometimes it's discouraging because i feel like there's so much more i can do with photography but i haven't figured it all out yet. but devin kept telling me how if you want something, he believes you have to put all your efforts into it and make it happen. don't let anything stand in your way. if you want it, you will get it. 

he went to school for film but he actually didn't get his degree, but he's still got so much going for him. he's made some sweet connections and i know he's going to go really far, very soon. he just got back from tahiti shooting for 15 days. different company's are seeing his work from youtube and using it. the state of hawaii even hired him to make a video showing off the island. i would bet money that we will one day be paying to watch one of his movies at the theater. his talent is extraordinary. but his desire is even greater. he even offered to help me with some of my camera stuff and send me links that he's used for helpful material. 

well pretty much, you just need to watch his videos. there's no point in me rambling on about them, just watch them. plus, it'll give you a great feel for where i live since a lot of them are shot here in hawaii with byuh students. i told him my two ideas for his next movies should be a food fight or a paint fight. so if he ends up making them, you know who is to be credited for them haha. anyways, he's a sweet kid and i'm definitely inspired to do what i love with photography. 

do what you love. love what you do.

http://www.youtube.com/user/devinsupertramp

subscribe :) my favorites are the tarp surfing and the bike jumping. oh and the break dancing to classical music.. haha okay i just love them all.

L

hello one of those days.

ya know sometimes you just have one of those days. 

and there's really no other way to explain it except by saying it's just one of those days.

i mean of course my journal can here my true thoughts about how it's just been one of those days.

but as to the blogging world... sorry. 

it's just been one of those days.

p.s. i know i've already used this picture before, but it just give the perfect description of my mood.

L

hello valentines day.

ohh valentines day. i love this day. who couldn't? it's all about love. i know a lot of people hate this holiday and i'll admit, it's definitely not as fun when you don't have a valentine to share it with. but it's still a good holiday (: 

i think my annoyance grew throughout the day though over the fact that i don't have a valentine this year haha. at first i was all about enjoying the day and smiling over the cute couples. 

well i had to go to campus for something so during my quick walk to and from i saw the following:

1. a guy walk by with a bouquet of roses covered in heart pattern tissue paper

2. saw 2 different couples lying on blankets around campus having picnics

3. had to awkwardly smile as some guy biking with his girl siting on his handle bars passed by me. they were giggling..

4. walked passed a guy on his way to meet his girl carrying a heart balloon, bouquet of roses, and a white teddy bear.

5. walked past about a million different couples and annoyingly watched as they held hands, hugged, kissed, etc. 

6. see a girl get out of a car, kiss her boy goodbye as he drove off, and watched as she carried her roses back to her dorm

i finally get home after my short visit on campus to check facebook.... enough said.

and this all happened within 20 minutes of me walking on and off of campus...

i think it's absolutely great that other couples are so in love and happy. it just makes me miss that feeling a lot more on this day. i can't wait till i'm married and i'll have one valentine, always, for the rest of my life <3

but until then i'll enjoy each valentines day the way it is, single or in a relationship. to all the lovers out there, i hope you guys are having a spectacular day and cherishing every moment together (: 

"the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return"

-moulin rouge

Happy Valentines Day (:

xoxo

L

hello frydae.

hello new releases.

i want to see these two movies for a few reasons.

1. rachel bilson.

(if you forgot, i made one post soley dedicated to how much i love her)

2. robert patinson.

(i made another post soley dedicated to twilight)

3. i love a good love story.

ta-ta for now

L

p.s. i have a tumblr now. i know, like i really need another thing to waste my time away on...

 i'm still trying to figure out how it works, but here's the link if you're interested: http://hopingforchance.tumblr.com/

hello good reads.

so i've decided i want to start reading. i look on sam and amy's blogs and see all these books they've read in just the first part of the year and it's more books than i've read in my entire life. sad story. for realzz. plus i feel like i'll feel smarter... hopefully. and i'll feel a lot better that i'm wasting my time reading rather than on facebook, twitter, blogspot, etc. it just sounds so much better right? 

i asked for suggestions on fb of good books to read. i think my favorite suggestions so far were thrasher from cade (it's a skateboarding magazine). and bill's suggestion to read everybody poops. i'll look into it, thanks fellas. but if anyone else has a good suggestion please comment :) 

L

hello words of the wise.

"nothing is 

impossible,

the word itself says 

i'm possible"

-audrey hepburn 

hello top 5.

top five things that happened to me today:

5. i rolled out of bed. looked a hot mess. and went to to school without a care. i was comfy. good day. 

4. went grocery shopping, and received not one, but two coupons upon checkout. chha-ching. true life: college student.

3. i made and ate my own acai bowl. obsessed. it's the only way to put it. if you've never tried an acai bowl... you're missing out. acai ice cream (it's not really ice cream but i dunno how else to explain it), granola, bannans, and honey. weird combo, i know. but delicious? absolutely.

2. i bought two journals. but here's the thing, they're five-year journals. the first journal you write one line every day and you do it for five years. the second one is the same concept but it asks you different questions and you can see how your answer changes over the years. i'm so excited to get them in the mail! i know two is kind of excessive, but i couldn't decide which one i wanted so i got both haha. i might end up giving one away. who knows. if you want one, i got mine from amazon, but anthropology sells the question one too. (it's just more expensive at anthro).

1. i talked to my mom and dad :) and my wonderful friends too. good day.

happy hump day people

L

hello jacob.

jacob blackmore grew up with a lot of us. to the people that didn't actually know him they probably just thought of him as the big scary guy. but personally, i thought jacob was actually really sweet. i'm not going to act like we were best friends because by no means were we. but we were friends and i pray for his family and the loss they are suffering. 

jacob was in my homeroom growing up. and he always had something interesting to say. he could make us all laugh more than anyone else. i remember he told us how he was building a UFC fighting arena in his backyard. for days he was trying to convince rachel and i to fight in his arena once it was finished haha. 

then there's also the time at the senior picnic where neelam decided to go against jacob in the inflatable 2-person race. you tried to see who could put the velcro thing furthest while attached to a connected bungee cord. everyone new neelam was going to die based off of her tiny size compared to jacobs. we were all waiting to see neelam fling backwards. but surprisingly neelam won!? we still don't understand how that happened...haha

jacob disappeared for a long time at one point. he was gone for like 8 months or so and then randomly one day, in the middle of the week, in the middle of the semester, jacob walks into homeroom and sits down as if he'd never left. haha everyone in the room looked around at each other in confusion including mrs. stiltz. rachel and i looked at each other asking if that was jacob?? we then asked jacob where in the world he had been for the last while. he continued to explain to us about how he escaped from some boot camp thing and how he survived off of the animals in the woods haha. 

david once told us how coach kemper was having a serious talk with the football players one day and jacob was in the corner laughing. when asked what he was laughing about he said, "you know in the movie Where The Wild Things Are, they never tell you where they are" haha

jacob also always tried convincing garrett, sam, and nick to fight him. it was pretty much a daily conversation in homeroom haha.

i think we all agree that jacob always put a smile on our faces. he was truly one of a kind. let us not mourn in the loss, but smile in the life he lived. when death happens it really makes you rethink about everything. so if anything let this be a reminder to us all to take advantage of every day. my mom always tells me to live by faith, not fear. faith that we will do what makes us happy with the ones we care the most about. not fear that tomorrow could be our last day. 

our class of 2010 at pope has graduated and moved on. some have moved thousands of miles away while others have stayed in the same place. but either way, we've all begun new chapters of our lives. it's great to know though that despite how different we all may be, we can still unite together during times like these to be there for a classmate, a peer, and a friend. 

live each day to the fullest

rest in peace jacob

L

hello february.

oh february.

the month of groundhogs, presidents, black history, and love.

february also happens to be the shortest month. which means, i think it's the best month to make goals because they don't have to last for that long.

so i plan on making this month extraordinary. 

who's with me?

L