Tripping down memory lane...

In the past 24 hours two friends posted about their old love of Silverchair so I just had to re-listen to my favorite album of theirs which is not the grungiest of their albums. I was really in love with Neon Ballroom when it was released in 99. It was the perfect background for my senior year and all of the random thoughts/feelings that year brought me. I remember rocking out to this album alone and with friends in my old bedroom. I had a few close friends in high school but I actually loved time alone to just listen to music and think about what I thought at the time were deep and meaningful things. (Looking back I'm sure they were quite trivial). Everynight I ended the day with headphones on listening to one of two things.... either my discman with the newest CD (faves I remember playing the most: Tragic Kingdom, Mellon-Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and Neon Ballroom, STP, Nirvana and Pearl Jam) OR I would listen to recorded X-Factor radio show (I think that's what it was called... Steph maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong) hosted by Jeb the Fish hahaha. I remember hearing bands like the Aquabats on there as well as Violent Femmes and Bowie. Oh and maybe a different show called Out of Order that I could possibly be mixing up. Anyway I recorded those shows because they'd play ska music and other underground stuff I loved but couldn't really find on radio or MTV. I would listen as if I knew of some secret radio show that nobody else at school knew about. I'd crank up the headphones and lay out in the backyard and stare at the stars until I was ready to fall asleep and then I'd listen to the last song or two in bed as I'd drift off. Those are some good high school memories thought they weren't really shared with anyone but myself. I guess that's part of being an only child. I grew up to be more of an introvert and I'm still that way even though my social calendar would say differently. :)

Love Amazon

Beetlejuice in BluRay and VHS of the old cartoon to play at school during our Halloween Party. Awesome.
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October!

I was about to blog but instead got stuck researching ideas for the millions of upcoming events we have in October! Fun themed bride/groom shower, our Annual Halloween/Birthday Party, Disney Halloween Party, downtown for Halloween weekend and then actual Halloween! Oh and go ahead and throw in parent/teacher conference week, state/county observations at school (people in suits sit in while you teach and type everything you say and do so they can analyze it later) and an unfortunate ELD training the afternoon of our Halloween Party! Ugh! It looks like Brad will be stuck doing most of the prep just like last year. Good thing I married a man who is amazing in the kitchen! I have to start planning now because October 15th will be here before I know it and I want to get as much done as I can so that only the food is left for the day of the party. So exciting!!!!

In other news... we went to the local fair and just as I had predicted... it's still lame. I now understand why my parents never bothered to take me when I was a kid. They would always tell me what a waste of money it was but all I heard was how amazing it was from my friends.... I guess they had never been to Disneyland. lol

So excited!!!

Photo Credit

I just purchased our Disney Halloween Party tickets! I'm so excited to experience this AND very excited that we are going with Sara and Chris!! It's official. We've been planning this for a few weeks but now it's a done deal. We already got our costumes the first day the Spirit Store opened and we are ready!

Night night!

Watching my first Netflix Instant Play on the iPad. :] It's so neat!






This movie brings back memories of watching movies in my bedroom when I was a kid. I think I made my parents rent this quite a few times or maybe it was on tv a lot. I feel like I still have every scene memorized. This movie is silly and completely awesome.

Sweet dreams.
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A few screenshots from the iPad:






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Good working in the classroom music.

Had to take a goofball break from this long Monday. Hope you all had a good one! Time to pack up and grab some things at Office Max and Best Buy.

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Quick Update

Check my private blog for today's update.. explains the past few weeks.

http://unjourdanslavie2.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-so-called-life-quick-but-long-update.html?zx=789637893f11c2a5