1st Post 1st Post!!!! AHHH!

                I don’t know about all you fine folk, but I spent all of last week blabbing to everyone that would listen about our awesome Chicago adventure.  I miss you guys and gals like crazy already.  I don’t know if everyone was privy to the conversation, but a few of us talked about starting a group blog to help us all keep in touch.  I think it could be really special and fun!  I love keeping up with ya’ll (especially those I don’t talk to very regularly).   As Sam reminded me recently, you guys are my Target of people.  You are the folk I know I could call if shit was going down.  I want to keep in touch!  So, here it is!  I made the blog!  And, as this came out of my crazy brain, I will make the first entry!

                The News from the LBC:

1.       Black Swan is FUCKING NUTS!  It so beyond nuts I cannot even describe it.  Nat Port for sure took me on a journey.  I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.  Would I recommend it?  Yes.  Would I go see it again?  Probably not.  It was too scary for me and if I’d known it was going to be that scary, I probably wouldn’t have gone to see it.  That said, I am the biggest baby in the whole world when it comes to scary movies.  AND when I came home my roommate was gone, so that didn’t help.  Garcia and I had to curl up in bed together and try to stay connected with reality.

2.       I have one more week off then I start school.  This semester is going to be crazy for me as I am doing all of my field work in the next 4 months.  If you have a vision board and wanna’ put a little Rachel + Suisun song sparrow action up there, I would appreciate it.  I just really need things to go well so I can get done with school by next summer and go on to PhD world.  I’m  not sure what all that will entail yet, but I will update you when I know more.  :)

3.       D Lo is in Peoria at HFO this weekend.  I miss him, but I’m glad he is having fun.  He told me he saw a bunch of our old speech peeps.  I wish I could see a few people that I love to fuck around with.  I probably won’t get to go to NFA this year (because of the birdie field work), but I really want to go next year.  It could be the midpoint between New Years and seeing one another again!  Anyway, D Lo comes home tomorrow and I’m pretty ready.  Two years and some change and I’m still a smitten kitten.

4.       My brother is getting some of his songs recorded and also getting some videography done for some of them.  They will be on Facebook next week and I will share them with all of you guys.  PLEASE, share them with everyone, especially if they might know anything about the music business.  Jake is trying to turn his life in a direction of his own choosing (as opposed to just letting things happen), and I’m so proud of him!  Even if a ton of people could just comment I think it would make him feel great and help him keep going.

That’s all I can think of right now.  Here is my challenge for ya’ll.  We should all try to post at least twice a month.  It doesn’t have to be long, I just want to know about your lives!  If you write poetry, share some of what you’re working on, I would love to read it.  If you have taken some bad ass pictures, put them up!  Label your posts with your name.  Next, COMMENT so we know that we are all lovin’ on one another and in one another’s lives.  If this isn’t your thing, no worries and no pressure!  :)  Finally, I have something I would like to know.  I did this with the roomies before they left Chicago.  Try to describe your New Year’s adventure in a single word or phrase each day and comment on this post with your words.  Mine are as follows:

Dec 29^th: Muffed UP!

Dec 30^th: Shoppin’

Dec 31^st: 4 Locos

Dec 1^st: Fuckin’ cold!

Dec 2^nd: xoxo

5.       I’m already missing my family quite a bit (see the picture below!  Aren’t they perdy?!).  If you are living near your family, make sure and give them a hug for me!  And then hug yourself and that one is to you from me!