more pixxx from when my mom came to visit and other things

MY NEW HOME

my bb

pink flamingos at the LA zoo~*~*~

TR4V3LL1N8

my mom luvs ~the grove~

better watch out for those smiling cacti hey dude

being in outer space basically

letter 2 all ppl here

dear california,

i was feeling homesick so i brought a little piece of louisiana 2 u~*~*~

ur welcome 4 the 107 degree temper@ures last wknd.

xoxo lizzie

fit auggie 2k11 part deux

salads are gr8, veggies are gr8, but SOME OF US (myself and patrick wheeler included) just want to eat candy and/or ice cream all the time. this is usually fine, except that during the month of august, AS YOU'LL RECALL, i'm trying to sort of eat healthier-ish.

healthy f00d, u make me feel g00d. u give me energie. u give me lyfe.

here is a non-definitive list of foods that taste like candy but are actually healthy:

this very well may be the most delicious new thing i've discovered. APPLESAUCE IN A POUCH. mixed with bananas!! just like eating baby food mmmmmm

everyone knows that whole foods has grilled pineapple during the summer

the top one tastes like snickers

the middle one tastes like mounds

the bottom one doesn't have a comparable candy bar but it still tastes like candy

forgive my shallow depth of field, this bottle says "real coconut water + pulp"

pulp is just another way of saying there's pieces of coconut floating around inside.

the brand is taste nirvana, y'all. i've tried tons of types of coconut water and this is the best.

the lid says "happiness in a bottle" but they meant to write CANDY. common spelling error.

++bonus++ to the left of that bottle is mint and honey sweet leaf tea aka the official drink of summer.

cya

fit auggie 2k11

everyone knows that august is the month for ~GETTING IN SHAPE~ and ~EATING HEALTHY~

it's the end of the summer and there's tons of fun wayz 2 stay active during the hottest month of the year~*~*~*~*~

(duh, andrew dost is the official inventor of fit auggie but i am an avid follower of this beneficial month-long celebration of being FIT.)

one way you can stay in shape is by never driving your car and only walking everywhere. riding a bike would suffice also but i left mine in shrevelaaaaa.

walking in california is easy because the weather is only mildly hot, although it would be considerably more difficult in louisiana where you can't walk down the street without becoming drenched in sweat. although sweating is not necessarily a bad thing, as proven in the episode of boy meets world where cory has to lose weight to get in the lower wrestling division so he doesn't have to wrestle against vader's son so he sits in the sauna and gets sweaty on purpose y'all. i don't know maybe that never happened. i may be combining two episodes or even two shows.

what i'm trying to say is that sweating is good, taking walks is good, exercising is good for the body and mind and soul. everyone knows that.

my mom got me this EXCELLENT book when she visited me:

it tells you all the raddest places to take walks. so far i've seen TWO frank lloyd wright houses~*~

also it has parks and historical landmarks and tons of good restaurants and PEACEFUL ESCAPES.

also the walks are kind of long so it counts as exercising, especially if you wear tennis shoes.

another gr8 way to stay fit during the summer is by swimming. in louisiana i had a pool in my yard which was perfect for doing "WATER OLYMPICS" aka swimming laps using only arms or only legs, or running in circles and creating whirlpools and trying to swim against the currents. i've tried doing the same here a few times at my apartment pool but this usually deters me:

(so proud to have taken this picture. cr33p)

yet another way to participate in fit auggie is by taking a boxing class!!!!!111

i did this today y'all. for real.

i almost cried/died, but i loved it and want to go back. want to get my own gloves that aren't drenched in other ppls sweat. want to become a famous female boxer. want to spar with tons of ppl and win.

also i can't do any pushups at all :o(**** so trying to do them with a giant rubber band around my wrists was impossible.

also a week ago i took a salsa dancing class.

THERE ARE MILLIONZ OF WAYZ 2 B FIT.

<3 fit auggie 4ever

"life is strange y'all" an essay on the strangeness of life

this all started two nights ago.

what began as a normal evening spent eating delicious hummus and mozzarella balls (who knew those were even good!?!) and watching one particular prime-time crime drama gradually transitioned into some of the very oddest hours of my life, maybe. i don't know, i can't think of anything comparable right now.

this is what usually happens when i have to work an opening shift the next morning, PLEASE PREPARE YOURSELVES TO READ SOMETHING VERY EXCITING: i get ready for bed early-ish and then i read or watch dawson's creek until i'm tired. then i go to sleep. shocking, i know.

but since i'm house/dog-sitting for loulu~*~, my routine was a little disrupted. that's fine, no problem there. i'm a perfectly adaptable human being.

i tried to go to sleep with exactly 6 hours before i needed to be awake in the morning. EVERYONE KNOWS that six hours of sleep is adequate for normal, cognitive functioning.

little did i know, sleeping with a bulldog in the bed with you does NOT allow for a night of uninterrupted sleep. but like i said y'all, i'm adaptable, and was able to get comfortable in spite of the snoring, twitching, kicking 60-pound mass of cuteness next to me.

unfortunately, after trying to fall asleep to no avail for 2 hours, a search helicopter began to circle DIRECTLY ABOVE ME for at least 40 minutes. after about 30 minutes and near insanity, i blindly fumbled my way downstairs to get my earplugs.

by the time i got back into bed i was wide awake. y'all are probably familiar with this scenario: you have to get up early and you only have x amount of hours to sleep. as x decreases, panic sets in, which in turn makes you less likely to fall asleep. "if i fall asleep RIGHT NOW i can get x hours!"... "ok if i fall asleep NOW i can get x-1 hours" ... etc.

this has happened to me tonssss of times, but usually around 2am i pass out from exhaustion.

NOT LAST NIGHT THOUGH XXXXX, my brain had other plans.

i tried alllll the tricks. putting thoughts in boxes, writing things down, counting backwards from 100.

i probably started at 100 about 7 million times and never once made it all the way to 1 without my mind wandering and losing count.

basically what i've spent like 20 paragraphs trying to say is:

I STAYED AWAKE ALL NIGHT WITHOUT EVEN ONE MINUTE OF SLEEP.

and because of this, i spent the next day in a surreal state of being.

and because of this, crayyyzay things kept happening to me allll day:

1. i had to take darling loulu for a walk before i went to work, and it was still dark outside. i wasn't concerned for my safety because i was within 3 feet of a vicious guard bulldog.

unfortunately i was unable to inform loulu of her protective position, and she cowered in fear at a lone man wearing a shirt that said "FUCK" standing directly outside the apartment. i tried to pull her leash so she'd keep walking, but she stood firmly planted in the grass, gazing at the man with an absolutely terrified expression. thanks loulu.

2. after surviving the encounter with man #1, i drove to work and parked my car in the parking garage at work (still dark outside y'all, basically no one is awake yet). i was just getting my hello kitty lunch box out of my backpack, the usual,

then i turn to exit my vehicle and A MAN WITH A BLEEDING HEAD IS STANDING INCHES FROM ME.

clearly shocked and very confused, i opened my door slowly. just for the record, even though i've seen zillions of criminal minds episodes and also the movie urban legend so of course i am knowledgeable of the stereotypical murderer "help me please i'm in trouble" ploy. i still opened my door anyway. so if ever i am murdered and the FBI supervisory special agents are trying to profile the unsub who killed me and someone is like, lizzie isn't stupid y'all, she'd never _______ someone she didn't know!

proof right there that i would in fact open my door for a man with a bleeding head. sorry mom and dad.

the man, who barely spoke english, was trying to explain his situation. at first i thought he said he got hit by a car, but then i understood the word "gate" and i still don't know why he was telling me any of this or what he expected me to do. i think my last words to him were "uh. that sucksssss, i'm sorry" and i practically sprinted to work (while doing the wolverine of course)

3. while at work, STRANGE THINGS KEPT HAPPENING. mostly in the form of customers being even more weird than usual.

first there was the guy who ordered like 239857w pastries and showed me and my coworker pictures of his wife and asked us to guess her age, and also insisted that my mom had a facebook and i just didn't know about it. also he kept making bets with us and losing.

then also the guy who left his HOLY BIBLE WORD SEARCH BOOK accidentally and i looked through it and all the words were crossed out except the word "ass" was circled. then i saw that he wrote at the top of the word searches things like: "only 8 minutes!" and "yea!" and the date and times that he completed them. so i saw him sitting across at the bus stop in his neon pink shirt and jesus lanyard so i went outside and waved his book and yelled "EXCUSE ME IS THIS YOURZ" and he ran in front of traffic to get it back.

i hope these details suffice for you guyz to believe me that i had a weird day~*~

also i went to a pie cooking contest but had to leave before even eating pie.

also i took ***night-time sleep aid*** last night in order to avoid a repeat of the previous night. and i was trying to write this blog~*~ but i couldn't because my fingers couldn't type. i felt like a zombie 4 real.

hope y'all r living normal lives l8ly~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hope no men with bleeding heads approach y'all's cars at 5am.

an applicable inspirational quote for all y'all to read:

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

-john krakauer~*~

the most coveted vehicle in weho

bErT jAmEs and eRiC what is going on here.

everytime i see these notes on my windshield i think i have a parking ticket~~~

MERCURY, STOP IT

lizzie's guide to living on your own

STEP THREE:

when you live alone, it's perfectly acceptable to stay up really late watching 2½ episodes of criminal minds and then give yourself regrettable asymmetrical bangs.

astrology 4ever

nothing

fb2k11

A PRETTY LAME GAME

y'all when i was in hs, my friends would choke each other to pass out on purpose and they were like "THIS IS FUN LIZZIE YOU SHOULD TRY IT. COME ON JUST THIS ONCE"

but i was like "i don't know you guys... it doesn't seem like such a good idea... seems kind of dangerous... i don't really particularly enjoy passing out... it kind of feels like dying..."

but they were like "OMG YOU PASSED OUT FOR LIKE A FULL MINUTE LOL" "OMG I DID? IT ONLY FELT LIKE ONE SECOND LOL! OMG I WAS DREAMING! OMG I WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN"

but as a cautious teenager (a rare breed), i never tried it anyway even though it was SO MUCH FUN.

well believe it or not, i JUST watched a crim minds ep where tEEnS were playing ~*~the choking game~*~ with each other and DYING.

dr. spencer reid called it "a pretty lame game" and everyone knows that he's a genius who solves all the crimes with his superior intelligence.

looks like i was right all along. no surprise there.

crim mindz

if y'all were wondering how much i've been watching criminal minds lately, i'd say an average of two episodes per day

jimmy eat world at huntington beach

Y'ALL, yesterday i made the WISE decision to drive to huntington beach for a free jimmy eat world concert at the US open of surfing~*~

i had a lovely time sitting in traffic and missing the entire first half of the show.

then finally when i did get there i had no idea where i was going so i just followed the hordes of pedestrians. people were STARING and i can only attribute this to the fact that i was wearing regular clothing and not just a t-shirt with neon-colored bikini bottoms. then one guy came up to me and said "are those tights?" as if he had never seen tights before in real life. (but y'all it gets chilly on the beach, i was not in the wrong)

after walking ohhh i don't know 24952342 blocks, and trudging 9328457 miles through the sand, i approached the stage from which the delightful sounds of my second or possibly third favorite band were resonating. a wave of excitement rushed over me... are these THOUSANDS OF PPL all die-hard jimmy eat world fans like myself!?! oh no, i was mistaken, these are just surfer bros who only know "the middle" circa high school dayz 2001.

i tried to make my way towards the stage but this was clearly NOT HAPPENING, so eventually i just gave up and walked to the back where i could hear very well but not see at all. i DID however catch a glimpse of the back of jim adkins' head for 0.125 seconds. it was glorious.

soon i learned that i was standing in the area where the event staff/security took the ppl who were being "rowdy" or "causing prblms" or "bEiNg VioLeNt". i had the privilege of seeing tonnns of bros getting handcuffed and ~*~resisting arrest~*~ while listening to gr8 tunez~~~ like 23 and goodbye sky harbour. luv those songz y'all.

right before i left, i saw a cute opossum riding on a guy's shoulder. and everyone knows that opossums love jimmy eat world.

my favorite part of the evening was getting lost on the way home after my phone had died so i couldn't even call anyone to direct me home and i couldn't even ask for directions because all i saw was an abandoned train station. i was unaware that such deserted areas existed around here. luckily i was able to follow my trusty compass in the right direction until i found the interstate aka FREEWAY.

y'all. i had to open at work this morning so i have the rest of the day to do whatever i want~~

i haven't decided if i should do something productive or just watch criminal minds all day. both sound appealing.

cya

b+w

hope u guyz luv these pix~*~

SEW LA

can't even believe i forgot to show you guys this bag i sewed at my first ever sewing class!

clearly i chose the most beautiful fabric

i really am quite the prodigal seamstress~

can't w8 2 make tons of gr8 itemz

oMGG (get it? lololol)

y'all i don't even LIKE television, much less prime-time hour-long dramas, much less crime scene/lawyer/detective shows in which outrageous conclusions are drawn from very little information in a very short time period.

but i HAVE watched 4 episodes of criminal minds in the past week just because matthew gray gubler is such a TOTAL FOX.

luv u dr. spencer reid~

u r a qt

getting so old y'all

since i am now 25 years and 6 days old (ANCIENT), i've been spending a lot of time figuring out what type of old lady i want to become.

here are my options:

the hippest old lady who wears awesome non-old-lady thingz~

an unlikely outcome but there's no telling what the years will bring

i'll take it as a positive sign that i already had this image saved on my computer

da gurlz~

highly probable

right now i'm leaning towards option A, but who knows. i do still have a few years before i need to decide