1month.

O.
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one month from today, i will be at a concert. a concert of a lifetime.

at the beginning of last summer i made a promise to myself that the next time guster went on tour, i would go. the closest place they would be..i would go. well, ladies & gents, that tour has come. 1 month from today, i will be hopping on a bus, going to milwaukee, and basking in the sheer glory that is a guster show. i'm preparing for my life to be changed. and then i'm gonna hop on the night bus at 11:30pm and head back to MN, be back by 6:15am and head up to lake beauty for the weekend. SCH-WOW. talk about the best wknd ever.

here is my current top 10 list of fav guster songs: [which changes daily..]

10. homecoming king
9. keep it together
8. either way
7. barrel of a gun
6. center of attention
5. fa fa
4. i spy
3. happier
2. demons
1. one man wrecking machine

i am so excited. i can't hardly focus on anything. although i was quite involved in the maple tree tapping today with bryan anderson. fun fact: 4 gallons of sap extracted from a tree = 1 gallon of syrup. [aka - not worth it ;)]

3 months from today, i will be in my 3rd week of missions trips. that's weird.

but cool.

BYE!

feral children.

every part of me wanted to just leave the video [below] without explanation, but i just need to talk about how awesome my spring break was.

i got to do so many things - it was great. i was in north dakota, montana, minnesota, wisconsin, and illinois [a grand total of about 40 hours in the car]. SWEET. i got to see TONS of my favorite people and every one of my family members. not to mention my grandmother and ridiculous uncle geno.

some highlights [several of these are perhaps inside jokes, therefore i apologize.]:

• overdosing on card-playing at my grandmas
• laughing ridiculously hard with laura and my mom about numerous stupid things
• shocking myself at a gas station (with some 'prank' candy)
• seeing the neph on his bday
• designing a 'free-cycle' poster for liz's history class
• my day in LF with kate
• reading fmylife outloud (this actually happened more than once)
• cleaning my dad's car (be expecting a blog soon)
• beating the boyz in battle of the sexes scene it ("inflection")
  
• the phenom office episode ("cirque de soleil")
• chilling with sarah and eating trader joes kettle corn
  
• getting pulled over in wisconsin
  
• making inappropriate pit stops on my way to chicago
• the hershey's sale at CVS pharmacies
• reading lovers fortunes/discussing eharmony
  
• people watching at the park
• feral children kung-fu fighting at the zoo (see vid below)
• eating more kettle corn
  
• getting kicked out of a pizza place
  
• "WAIT, does she eat a lot of bananas?"
• being out of control
• mocking the art in mcdonalds
• ebeth getting 'silly-stringed' by some random kid in mcdonalds
  
• great roadtrip conversations
• midnight techno dance party celebrating lauren's bday
  

WOW. what a great break. enjoy the video, i hope you can laugh 1/10 of how much i did. but then again, i got to see it live... [for about an hour].

happy monday all. BYE!

march playlist.

geez, i am suffering from 'nothing interesting to say' syndrome. i'm sure this disease that has been ruining my blog for over a month will subside soon and i will write an epic blog. we'll see.

i'm taking a little roadtrip to chicago tomorrow, that should be sweet. i'm reuniting with 'flash' - oh how it's been too long with that good old friend. and laura is PUMPED (?) to take the dingo for a few weeks. of course. [PS it was a close call with the windshield - we almost got it fixed over spring break! - and then i got to thinking, if i don't have a massive crack in my windshield, i can't use the 'bullet hole' story to break the ice with strangers. but then again, i probably shouldn't have strangers in my car. catch 22.]

i just got back from montana .. which was ridiculously awesome. ate more food than any family has eaten this entire year in the span of 3 days. gained 3 pounds. GREAT. lost at cards. attempted to do some reading.

i was up until 4:30am yesterday catching up on 'friday night lights'. pathetic i know. oddly it was my sister sarah who hooked me on that show, and she thinks that sammy sosa is a football quarterback. [aka she hates sports]. it's super addicting, i don't know why.

i'm going to clean my dad's car for some cash. last time it took 3 hours. no joke. wait, that's what i'll write my next blog about! i'll do before and after shots. except, apparently he reads my blog? whatever, i'd rather have my parents read my blog than be on facebook. i'll take what i can get.

without further ado, here is my roadtrip 'march madness' playlist:

1. rusted root - send me on my way
2. gin blossoms - follow you down
3. the wallflowers - one headlight
4. jet - kings horses
5. dispatch - the general
6. matt nathanson - suspended
7. citizen cope - if there's love
8. nada surf - always love
9. matt nathanson - laid
10. regina spektor - fidelity
11. radiohead - 15 step
12. red hot chili peppers - dani california
13. stevie wonder - superstition
14. U2 - city of blinding lights
15. usher - yeah

i would like to conclude this blog with the best fmylife i've seen lately:

"Today, I was walking through Macy's with my girlfriend. I stopped to admire a mannequins a**, joking with my girlfriend like I was touching it. Then proceeded to slap it. It wasn't a mannequin. FML."

have a great weekend, i hope your on spring break. BYE!

chop suey.

a mass amount of hair was located on the floor of our bathroom this morning. [see below]


DNA reports confirmed that it does indeed belong to me.

what could this mean?

did i really get a massive haircut?

i guess so.

huh.

can't wait to see what nanc says tonight.

the ship.

i'm supposed to be writing a paper on adolescent development right now. gross. i'm not a psych major, nor do i want to be one. why is this a youth min class? [end mini-vent session].

some of you may know that i have drastically reduced my mountain dew consumption over the past month. i was averaging a good 40-50 ounces/day over j-term and decided to cut down. i'm now at about 2 cans/week. for reals. i must say however, today has been quite the day. for no other reason than sheer lack of motivation, i have been guzzling the jesus juice to no end. i'm currently in the 30s of ounces. and it's not even four o'clock. don't tell my sisters - we're in this together and i just screwed us all over. my bad. thanks weather. thanks karen mckinney. thanks LF hockey team. thanks ensuing vacations. thanks ANYTHING that is preventing me from caring about bethel.

tomorrow night the flyer hockey team is playing the first round of the state hockey tournament. in 4 consecutive trips to the state hockey tournament, we have only won our first round game once. we have never been seeded (1-4) and have definitely never won the 'ship.

hello 2009.

can i talk about our section final game for a little bit? ok thanks. we played our rivals up in alex for the third time this season, and it was bound to be an intense game. while LF was undefeated headed into the game, alex had only lost 2 games all season - both to yours truly. and we'd only beat them by one goal each time. they were out for blood.

i will tell this game in words and photos. [that i stole from some random girl's facebook that i'm not even friends with] *signal hands in the air, i don't care what you think.

period 1: alex scores first. we score next. 1-1
period 2: alex scores again. and then...

tie game.
alex scores again [first shorthanded goal we've given up all season]. we are down 3-2 going into the 3rd period. this would be the first game all season that we've trailed going into the final period.

YIKES.

3rd period: ben hanowski whips a goal in mid-period to tie up the game. the remaining 8 or so minutes sent my blood pressure through the roof. LF killed a few penalties to send us into sudden death overtime.

exhausted to the max, the flyers take a couple minutes to prepare for the biggest 5 minutes of their season.



flyers were kind enough to seal the deal pretty quick into OT with a 1st line goal scored by wesley waytashek.




pretty awesome.

in about 25 hours the flyers will hit the ice against virginia (who we beat 1-0 in our season opener in december). it will be televised on KSTP - you should watch it, it's gonna be sick.

i'm pumped.

tune in next, when we discuss my upcoming graduation from high school.

countdown.

so there's this feature i can put on my blog that i'm tempted to add: a countdown timer. so i sat and pondered what i should count down to. and i realized that there are a ton of things that are coming up that i'm pumped for. which means life is just great right now..i have a ton to look forward to. so instead of choosing one, i'm going to list all of the things i'm mentally counting down to.

2 days until the first-seeded flyers slap virginia in the state tournament.
3 days until the new office episode - "golden tickets"? (also the beginning of three straight weeks of new office episodes - aww yeah.)
4 days until montana.
5 days until the flyers take the title.
8 days to the neph's actual first birthday.
11 days until oprah. <-- HA.
13 days until the new student center! SO pumped.
28 days until the twins opener.
55 days until the mother/daughter retreat @ LBBC.
77 days until finals are over.
87 days until i leave for the summer (and sarah's 30th birthday!)
99 days until i enter the next decade of my life.
160 days until i move in to the football coach's house.

life is good. so good.