everything in threes

THREE (of the many) NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Laura
2. short-blonde-british-girl
3. london

THREE THINGS YOU LOVE:
1. my cats
2. music
3. my friends

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD:
1.loopylaura7163 [i got it when i was 8, seriously]
2.laurahrawr
3.xscenexdinosaurx [ahaha]

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE PAST 33 MINUTES:
1. showered
2. listened to a hella lot of music
3. eaten

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my friends. <3
2. my morals
3. my hair ^^


THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my luck
2. my nose
3. my height

THREE PARTS OF YOUR ORIGIN
1. London England
2. Cork Ireland
3. soomewhere here ;p

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
1. orangutans
2. clowns
3. being let down

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. skinnies
2. jewelry
3. a shirt thats pink

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
1. music
2. friends
3. clothes

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS
1. ipod
2. my phone
3. my keepsake box of letters, pictures and other stuff like that

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS
1. chiodos
2. drop dead gorgeous
3. panic at the disco

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY
1. sing sing sing, no matter how bad or amazing your voice is!
2. staying positive
3. finding amazing friends to trust

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT
1. citizens of tomorrow- tokyo police club
2. in vogue- drop dead, gorgeous
3. to trixie and reptile, thanks for everything- chiodos

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. see chiodos
2. get my new computerrrr
3. have a massive snowball fight with my dad and my friends

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET
1. forgiving
2. not forgetting
3. idk

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1. trust
2. honesty
3. hugs! [and amour]

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'VE GIVEN THE WORLD:
1. a story
2. a point of view
3. my over processed hair

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)
1. i was born blonde
2. i love fall out boy
3. i'm drunk


THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO (currently, at THIS chronological exactitude)
1. see my dad
2. sunbathe
3. call hannah

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST
1. innocence/ignorance
2. spice girls
3. simplicity

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE
1. a mac book
2. a camera, a really nice canon one
3. perfect hair

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE
1. i've been through a lot
2. i keep an open mind
3. my friends <3333

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES
1. listening to music
2. hanging out with friends
3. myspazzz lol

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW
1. meet jason and craig and matt and pat and derrick and bradley
2. take a chance
3. see my dad

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING
1. interior designer
2. something
3. suicide girl, jk jk.

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY
1. home
2. greece
3. italy

THREE FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTERS
1. cheese
2. shnitzel
3. flapjack

THREE BOYS NAMES
1. andrew
2. craig
3. idk

THREE GIRLS NAMES
1. vanessa
2. hayley
3. eloise

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
1. scuba dive
2. have kids
3. be happy


Kisses
Laura xx

front row, stage left, ego box

tuesday was amazing. we waited in line from three to four thirty and ran across the road to a set of massive stone steps. then we were instructed to run uup them, on go. we did, it was crazy, people were falling over and landing on their faces but i got right up front! Then we got to a set of metal black gates, and when they opened them up, it was crazy! We ran and ran until we got to the stage nd held our place no matter what. steafene and i got right up front, stage left, right in front of jason hale on guitars and matt goddard on bass. but we were also right next to the all mighty ego box. it wa on of the best days of my life! craigery owens stood on the ego box many times that day :D. we also got to talk to the director, darren and jason and matt too.
they played the song over and over again and my hip bones are bruised and battered. my throat paid for it too obviously. when you sing one of your favourite songs over and over again your throat is going to pay for it.
well, it's one of those, i can barely begin to explain how amazing it was kinda things.
love you
laura xx

&& all the worlds a stage;;

on tuesday the 16th september, 2008. i'll be leaving school early to go to an event in pontiac, mi. rachel and steafene are coming with me and we'll be pushing through the crowds so that we may have a chance to appear on screen for a chiodos video. www.chiodos.net has all the information, if you're interested. i'll post pictures and videos on wednesday as i'll be way too jittery and busy on tuesday after the filming. we have to be there between 3 and 4pm in order to be given a wristband and entry. it is expected to wrap up around 9pm but no promises are made :). the song will be "the undertakers thirst for revenge is unquenchable {th final battle}" which is a great song. i can't wait for it! sorry for the short post, i've been busy this week and i have to go dance in the rain now ;).

te amo
Laura xx

my dear juliet

the weather today is lovely. it's raining and gray but lovely. i want to curl up and and watch a movie. but the weather is also affecting my mood in a negative way. i feel gloomy, lonely. i am alone, thats why. i've been alone for a long time. it's my standards i'm sure... they're set to high. how can i expect anything if i'm asking for so much. well, is it too much? honesty, loyalty, trust... maybe it's the fact that i want someone edge.thats probably it. not many people now days are edge. it's sad but true. this means i have an awfully small selection of people, an unfortunately i don't know too many of them. no, out of that exclusive group, i'm still looking for trust and all that, that narrows it down even more. so laura's just going to have to find amour somewhere else... which means waiting. unless something amazing happens and an egde, honest loyal, trustworthy, gorgeous kid just comes waltzing out of nowhere and is actually interested in me. psh, right, whatever.
in other [not so gloomy] news, school is going along smoothly and the first week flew by, unfortunately the weekend did too. so i'm happy about the people i have classes with for the most part, i don't have any truly agonizing classes that i have to force myself through, like gym. it, alright. :)
i'm going to have a shower now, calm down and watch some movies i haven't seen in a while.

je t'aime
Laura xx

meow meow meow

these are my two cats. oktobyr and kaspyr. they mean everything to me. kaspyr is my cat, and he's coming with me when i go back to europe for college. he's very special. he says 'bless you' almost every time i sneeze. and he can tell the difference between a genuine sneeze and a fake sneeze. i love him. his big blue eyes are gorgeous and his fur is so soft. he scratches up the furniture but i don't mind, it's hard to stay mad at him.
oktobyr pees in my closet and demands constant attention in the early hours of the morning. she sleeps when you want to play and wants to play when you want to sleep. she's a complete princess, with her 99% perfect markings {she has the tiniest imperfection on her tummy} and her well groomed fur. i love her too.

enjoy your sunday,
Laura xx

fingernails beneath the dirt

today was a rainy, overcast, sad but beautiful day. nothing went terribly wrong but nothing went terribly right either. tokyo police club, go listen to them. they're an underrated canadian quartet with a very british influence. they're pretty amazing actually. i love to simplicity and pleasently short songs. the songs hold generous servings of clever sayings and edgy style. i'll be keeping an eye on them.
i saw too orange cones today, one on top of the other. and i wondered to myself.. "i wonder if there is a bunny underneath them...". don't ask me why, but it just seemed to fit.
i tried to cheer people up today. and i tried to hide my overwhelming amount of stress and confusion, added together to make a rather gloomy mood. i hid it well, put a big, fat, fake grin on my face. it worked, everyone saw a little happy girl with no problems. i'm not bottling it up, i'm just holding it off until i sort out how to fix it. i hope i'll fix it soon.
this week has been quiet alright. my classes are okay i guess. earth science, re-learning all about the acient egyptians. earth science, revising the metric system... again. health and wellness, watching depressing videos of poverty, drug abuse and eating disorders. lunch. english, thinking about our goals in life. technology, touch typing and screaming inside jokes till our throats hurt. geometry, drawing squares and triangles... again. i have friends in most of my classes, thats what matters.
i'm going to call it a day.

kisses,
Laura xx

mechanical pencils

i went shopping for school supplies today. before today, i've never set foot in wal-mart. and i don't plan on it. my mother was in one of her devil-may-care, lets go and drive around in the moonlight, 'david sylvian' with a pinch of 'the smiths' moods. i sometimes enjoy them, sometimes they piss me off, as she turns into a strange 'not-my-mother' type of woman. but today i enjoyed it. after we bought sixty five dollars worth of stupid binders and notebooks, we talked about the smell of rain and gasoline. and how we missed england so much.
we brought up memories of sitting in traffic for hours coming back from richmond, the warm smell of roses that wafted on almost every street. the mild slightly icy winters that seem so easy now. walking to the train station every morning in my blazer and tie, passing all the florists on the way back home. sitting on the double decker on the way to kingston with my mum when we decided that parking wasn't an issue we wanted to deal with that day. the tiny single lane streets with semi-detached victorian houses aligning both sided of the street.
every friday, my mum would buy a bouquet of white and blush-pink flowers from the florist on the corner of heath gardens, {our road}, the one next to the sandwich shop. we would spend £40 on each bouquet, easily. and on those months where we were skint, we would still spend at least £20 on flowers. it really gets me thinking, we tried in england. we bought flowers, framed pictures, vases and other gorgeous bits-and-bobs on a weekly basis. in england we felt the need to impress. but now, in america, we just don't have the heart anymore to try. not that we think, 'americans aren't worth the effort.' or do we? here, people don't appreciate those little details as much as they did in london. 'thats a nice shirt, i like that band.' compared to 'wow, i love the god save the queen inspiration shown there, and that colour is a gorgeous shade of magnolia blossom.' okay so, thats not an everyday thing, but you understand where i'm coming from, don't you?
i'm ranting and probably not even making much sense. in short, i miss england. i miss london. i miss kingston and twickenham and hampton and richmond and all those lovely places. i miss living in a real victorian home. i miss the slang of my sunbury school. i miss all my lovely well dressed friends. i miss old blighty.
i want to go home.
but i don't have a choice right now.

long, meaningful embraces,
Laura xx

sophomore slump

well, i just got back from my first day of school as a sophomore. no longer freshman... yay, i suppose. i have some classes with friends but no enough. i have first lunch, and most of the interesting people i know, have second lunch. this is going to be interesting. i have pretty alright classes, except for sixth hour geometry, i can't stand that class already. great.

in other news, i should be getting an actual computer pretty soon. and i will no longer be forced to use this 'laptop'. it doesn't really qualify as a laptop though... you'll know what i mean if you see it. i'm counting down the days. when i get it, i'll upload pictures until my hand aches from using th mouse :).

now, i'm off to go be a myspaz whore and read up on the american music scene with my new issue of AP magazine. fun.

Lots of hugs and sheer adoration,
Laura xx