i have new hair.

so, after a year of being THIS.........


as of three o'clock this afternoon, i am THIS.......

what the WORLD?! i brought the fringe back, too. i'm kinda sad about the lack of redness in myhair, even though i've had it for a long time now. actually, i wasn't sad until i saw that picture up there. that made me sad. i was a jenny lewis, i'm now a zooey deschanel. please someone out there tell me that they uunderstand that reference.

disneyland photos.

this is not the disneyland post i wanted to do. but nothing is going my way lately, so... i'm just going to have to deal with it. i'm only able to upload one picture at a time and it's taking too long. so for now.... this is it. i'm a little sad b/c i had this whole plan of how i was gonna do this blog and this is just.... nothing like what i wanted.

my albums of the year.

at the end of every year i make my top 11 lists for movies and music. (why eleven? because it's one more than ten.) since i still have a few movies to see before i can make an accurate movie list, i thought i'd post my album list to hold you over. i have to note that this year wasn't a great one for music, and i'm kinda sad about my list. but here it is anyways, the best of the worst, in no particular order:

artist: katy perry.

album: one of the boys.

favorite track(s): "i'm still breathing", "lost", "thinking of you".

artist: tilly and the wall.

album: o.

favorite track(s): "pot kettle black", "beat control", "tall tall grass".

artist: the killers.

album: day and age.

favorite track(s): "human", "the world we live in".

artist: jenny lewis.

album: acid tongue.

favorite tracks: "black sand", "pretty bird", "trying my best to love you".

artist: copeland.

album: you are my sunshine.

favorite tracks: "chin up", "should you return", "the day i lost my voice", "strange and unprepared".

artist: lady gaga.

album: the fame.

favorite tracks: "just dance","paparazzi","paper gangster","boys boys boys".

arist: a fine frenzy.

album: one cell in the sea.

favorite tracks: "whisper", "ashes and wine", "lifesize", "last of days", "near to you".

artist: britney spears.

album: circus.

favorite tracks: "out from under", "broken glass", "unusual you", "circus".

artist: the weepies.

album: hideaway.

favorite tracks: "wish i could forget", "hideaway", "all this beauty".

artist: death cab for cutie.

album: narrow stairs.

favorite tracks: "the ice is getting thinner", "bixby canyon bridge", "your new twin size bed".

artist: the jonas brothers.

album: a little bit longer.

favorite tracks: "burnin' up", "shelf", "lovebug", "sorry", "tonight".

santa, come back!

...because i NEED these:

curse MARC JACOBS and his ability to capture my heart with his creations!!

loved this movie.

i don't really know why. i just did.

p.s. i'm a failure on account of the lack of disneyland pics adorning this blog.

merry christmas, gabrielle.

my gift to you this year comes in the form of my hair being shorn. oh, and i'll play you a tune on my guitar.

love, robert*

*obviously fictitious, but you can imagine if it wasn't.

p.s. i have 500 pics from disneyland. i really desperately want to post them but it's taking me a while to sort through them all. hopefully i can go through them and have them up by next week. at least before the new year!

HAPPY CHRIMBO!

I think that it's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective.

so, it's "winter", which in arizona means i can wear a hoodie without sweating for 27 minutes in the morning, and that the cacti now have little twinkling lights on them. it also means i am broke as a (not funny) joke, and that i am tired bc it is dark in the morning when i have to be awake. but it also means good things too, like christmas music and christmas lights and hot chocolate and time with family and scarves and hats and sweaters.

how about this... if i had a time machine, i would rewind my life five years, which means i would be in december of 2003 and working at MAC right now. it also means that i would be like 35 lbs heavier and blonde and hating myself... because that's what i did in 2003. 2003-2004 were like my worst years emotionally. so why do i want to go back? good question. because, i could let my 19 yr old self in on a little secret... it's not that bad. seriously, and it can get worse. i really really miss my friends from that time period. and i hardly see any of them anymore. am i just thinking of one in particular? probably. right now it just seems like my brain is ramen noodles, all soggy and mooshy and i just don't know what to say about where i am in life right now. i suppose i am just severely nostalgic.

i am on a quest for a hoodie that has fur in the hood part of it. i had one of these, but it was too short on me, so i am now forever looking for a longer one. I WANT ONE SO BAD! please help.

also, i would like for my eye shadow not to crease. am i reaching for the stars on that one?

i am obsessed with the following cds: lady gaga, the ting tings, the killers, britney spears, kanye west, and jsut for fun, i am jamming on some old death cab for cutie tunes. man, i love that band.

another item i am on a quest for: shoes, black with high heels. just fyi.

and i also need a mate. you know, an "other half", a player two for when i play nintendo, some cheese for my maccaroni. i feel like bridget jones: "i need a boyfriend!", but i want one, dang it. i can't help it, i just do. i've decided not to fight it any longer. i'm just going to admit that, yes, i am human and yes, i get lonely. whatcha gonna do?

i was supposed to read today but i got no reading done. minus 500 for me. now i must finish up work and head home so i can lay in bed and mope and listen to records. wa hoo.

goodbye, joe jonas.

joe, you're getting the boot....

(doesn't he look a little sad?)


courtesy of THIS guy:

swoon and sigh, robert pattinson quite literally has come out of nowhere.

and simply because i am fond of hats...

maybe it's because i'm not married, or because i don't have kids of my own... maybe it's because it's the holidays and i've found myself a bit lonely... maybe it's because i don't go on many dates, i spend my days working and my nights running or watching buffy the vampire slayer or listening to depressing music on my record player... or maybe it's just because i'm human and this kid can charm the pants off you. literally, guys, my JOE JONAS SWEAT PANTS are going the way of the buffalo i.e. in the closet with my leonardo dicaprio poster from '97, my david boreanaz poster from '98, my 'nsync glossy 8x10 collectible photos from '99 (along with hundreds of magazine clippings, videos, posters, trading cards, t-shirts, etc... cut me some slack, i loved them clear through 2002), my justin timberlake memorabilia from '03, my adam brody clipping from entertainment weekly magazine in '04, and my teeny tiny zac efron photo from earlier this fall that i "borrowed" (stole? woops!) from a magazine at work. i've been doing pretty well the past, what, three years? (i think it was during that time that i occupied my time with real boys?) anyways, that maybe explains why i have the specific horn now for three boys who don't even exist in my universe. but, darn it, they sure are fun to look at! and you know what else is weird? they never ignore my text messages. hmmmmmm.......