new blog...

moved here...just because.

oh what a week...

This is how I've felt this week.

It hasn't been good.

I hate getting in arguments with people and everyone picks a side to be on.

I don't like feeling against people and I don't like feeling that people are against me.

But that's just how it is for right now.

ugh.

Orlando Bloom is in Durham!!

Filming a movie called Main Street. They have been filming in the area around my office and several people have seen him and even worked out in the same gym with him!

I can't wait until this movie come out! So cool for good ole D-Town!

i don't understand why...

Why do people (unc fans) hate Greg Paulus SO much?? I do not get this. They use to all hate J.J. Redick, which I also didn't really understand either but he was monstrously talented (and very cute!) and I guess people don't like that very much. Is it because he plays for Duke? People LOVE to hate Duke. Yesterday one of my friends on Facebook status update was "loves to hate Greg Paulus." This person is not from North Carolina and didn't not attend UNC so why all the hating??? Maybe because he excelled in two sports and people are jealous? He was a highly recruited quarterback coming out of high school but choose to play basketball instead. Now he is considering playing a year of football at Michigan. Don't how that works but I say good for him!

I don't what anyone says,

I heart you Greg Paulus.

i love it...

when something small makes you smile the rest of the day.

I wish this would happen to me

I love this!! The Sound of Music is one of my all-time favorites. I'm pretty sure I can recite the entire movie and sing all of the songs.

Goods things on a Tuesday

1. Lunches with my Mom and Carrie. I love being able to get lunch with friends during the week! It just makes the day so much better.

2. The Lonely 1 by Wilco. Sort of obsessed with this song. It's so lovely, sweet and sad.

3. Getting this email notification from- "Matt made you an administrator of the event "Viva La Mia Las Vegas Bday". Thanks Matty.

4. Carrie's book idea. She found out a little nugget of info over the weekend that would honestly be a really good book and movie. We were trying to cast the movie over lunch.

5. Thunderstorm washing away the pollen.

the bad thing about spring

dear pollen,

please go away. you are hurting my head

and not letting me open the windows in the nice weather.

please go away.

-a

cutest thing

i would like to have this on my dining room table.

(found here)

i hate today

i was avoiding seeing anything related to this all day.

yuck.

yuck.

yuck.

it's baaack!!

Carrie: The Hills or college basketball?? Hmmm, I wonder which one I'll be watching??

just remembering

i think this was my favorite part of my birthday. posing on the red steps in times square. it was so unbelievably cold but carrie, courtney and i had so much fun acting like america's next top model posing all over those steps.

i think he sounds like jack black.

to me, adam lambert from american idol, sounds like Jack Black. everyone else seems to love him but i just hear Jack Black.

missing

(found here)

new office

the view from my new desk in the new office

this week is bananas...

itinerary for this week:

monday: start packing desk for friday office move

go home early, finish packing for DC trip

drive with carrie to DC

tuesday: hang in DC

BRITNEY concert with the girls!

wednesday: drive back to NC

thursday: finish office packing

watch duke v. villinova game @ 9:57 (why?!?! must it be SOOO late!!)

friday: somehow wake-up and go to office 'retreat' thing somewhere on campus that i am totally unfamiliar with and must show up on time

whoa.

DUKE 2009 ACC CHAMPS!!!

congratulations to my boys!!

i love you

GERALD HENDERSON!!

JON SCHEYER!!

KYLE SINGLER!!

worse pick-up line ever...

actual conversation from last night

random dude: have you ever taken a test?

me: yeah.

random dude: cause i'm a good test to take.

me: wha??

random dude: can i have your number?

me: no.

Learned something new today

GPOYW = Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday! a funny weekly picture of yourself. shot by you or someone else. used by blogger e.g. tumblr. can also be shot on other days, but posted only on wednesdays

apparently this is more of a tumblr thing but whatevs blogspot can do it too.

KITTENS!!

um, k...

this guy twittered while someone was breaking into his house...

yeah.

don't you just love drew barrymore??

“ i get out of bed with a spring in my step like, i’m going to fuckin’ rock this day … i’m going to make people happy. here i go."
— drew barrymore (new mantra)

(via lovepuppy)

mark and olly

kind of obsessed with this show.

it's so fascinating! mark and olly find these very remote and very isolated tribes and live with them for months and learn how to live like the tribe.

definitely worth watching

comes on sunday nights @ 10 on the travel channel

she's just so fabulous

this is what SJP should look like

(found here)

why...

i don't know who Emma Stone is or why glamour magazine tried to make her look like Carrie Bradshaw but...it did not go well.

yikes.

somewhere carrie charters is cringing.

a reason to have twitter...

if only to read Shaq's. You really couldn't make this up if you tried...

THE_REAL_SHAQAt firehouse subs, dat turkey on wheat wit extra mayo is gooder dan a mug, lolabout 4 hours ago from TwitterBerry

believe

I believe in pink,

I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

I believe in kissing,

kissing a lot.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day

and I believe in miracles.

- Audrey Hepburn

snow day!

my backyard.

go west single gals...

you can't really see this very well but the orange dots represent large populations of single women and the blue dots represent large population of single men.

who knew there were so many single men west of the Mississippi?

(found here)

two things i liked today

1. Covers of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" theme. I had no idea this would make a nice little folk song. I think the 5th one down is my favorite with the guy and girl in the airport.

2. Gawker noticed that the GOP response to President Obama's speech last night sounded an awful lot like Kenneth the page.

this is why i don't like you JLH...

Dear Jennifer Love Hewitt,

YOU ARE NOT AUDREY HEPBURN!!!

Not even close.

Please for the love of God stop this.

xoxo,

April

oscars!

i love watching the oscars even though i haven't seen many of the nominated movies. i usually try to see all of the best picture movies. so dorky.

this is so painfully true

i came across this very funny (and very true) observation about guys Facebook pictures.

although i think the same could definitely be said about girls.

girls facebook pictures are usually:

1. trying to be cute taking a picture of myself

2. out with the girls picture

3. the wedding picture

4. picture with boyfriend or husband

5. picture of or with their kids

5a. preggers picture

6. on vacation bikini picture

7. picture of or with pet

did i miss any??

*isn't this picture SUCH a perfect example??

please excuse the unc-ness but it was just too perfect not to use

hair inspiration- just call me kate

day 4 of dealing with my new and unexpectedly short hair...

i've been trying to find gals who rock the short(ish) hair and all i could really think of was

Katie Holmes-which didn't really help for some reason

BUT then i remembered Kate Lanphear!

she's obviously super cool and has short hair

she makes me feel alittle better about my do

i have to stop pouting about this, i'm starting to annoy myself

o...m...g...

i have no hair.

sad.com

things that made laugh today inspite of my duke-lost-to-unc fueled horrible mood:

gchat with courtney-

Court: dude, I will fight her over tyler

me: i will vomit and disown you both.

Court: I won't really marry Tyler- he looks confused too often

me: hahaha

Court: and he is beyon my max height

me: i hate him

Email from my mom this morning:

Hi Ape, What a game. Also, our unc fans here asked me first thing this morning"What do you think of UNC now?" I said i disliked them greatly, and their coach.

love ya bitches

found here

my new favorite website...

deezer.com lets you make playlists without downloading.

it's sort of like pandora.com but you can choose the songs.

i was hoping there was something like this out there.

mine is basically a greatest hits of ryan adams and coldplay.

highly recommend it!

*update: okay...so this is a cool site until it kept stopping and going to this porn-ish site. um, not cool. just an fyi if you're listening at work and half naked girls suddenly pop up.*

chop, chop!

I think I will be stealing this haircut in the very near future.

happy (early) valentine's day...

ryan adams style

i would gladly share a heart-shaped pizza with ryan for v-day.

he's releasing an EP of some of his love songs next tuesday.

called...extra cheese.

awesome.

fancy pinatas!

these are so pretty!

seems sad to smash them up

i love liz lemon

my new motto

very good idea

w...t...f?!?!?!?!

"They shouldn't forget this loss," Krzyzewski said. "This is as bad as you can play."

"It was 40 minutes of them dominating," Krzyzewski said. "They just kicked our butts."

Duke 47, Clemson 74

holy crap.

courtney's birthday

cupcakes. streamers. pink. purple. iced tea cocktails. more cupcakes. creepy kids from the secret garden. chinese food. lots of driving.

Just a thought...

"This recession just bought everyone an extra two years of the single life. SAVOR IT. Carpe diem my loves."

-found via dabagirls

this might just be my new favorite jam

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

i think 09 might just be the best year ever...

i'm going to see mr. bourdain in february!!

can't even tell you how excited i am.

i love him.

that hat is fierce!

how amazing was aretha's hat during the inauguration?!?

loved. it.

and i love it on ellen.

snow day!

it was pretty while it lasted.