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Wednesday, 16 April 2008

  • Writing in this about a year or so since I last hit this blog up

    A lot happens in a year and I'm not gonna go into all the happiness and heartbreaks. I could write a book if I started on that. I really dont wanna write a book tho. I'll simply tell you I got married about ten months ago. All the other major life events I'd prefer to keep to myself. Believe it or not I think I might be a private person afterall. I really only blog about life issues that are on the very surface. Anything deeper than that and I feel embarressed or something. I'll just tell ya if I know I can tell ya. Anyway, I don't know what moved me to write in this all the sudden. I guess to get out my plans and a few thoughts about right now.

    So, Collison and I have a house in champaign on 6th Street off University Avenue. I've been stuggling to move all our stuff there in the last week or two. It is a really old house but i like it. There will also be more space for our puppy, Dinah, to run around. There is also a yard for her and thats cool. I also like that it is within walking distance to campus if we feel really motivated so there will be no more worrying about drinking and driving and the man bringin us down.

    I really like my dog Dinah. Collison got her for me for Valentines Day. Shes sleeping in a duffle bag right next to me on the floor. I dunno why, she just really likes the damn duffle bag. I always wanted a little dog. She is the cutest best pet ever.

    Even though we just got this house in Champaign I think Collison and I might move to Los Angeles for the summer. Its not for sure but if he gets this internship hes been interviewing for then they will pay to move us out to LA. I'll probably look for a part time job while I'm out there so I can make a little extra money myself and work on my art too so I can build up a collection to put online. I started a painting a few weeks ago. I was getting a lot accomplished with it until we started the move into our house. Since then I've fallen off the horse I guess you could say. My dog got ahold of my blue oil paint the other day and dyed her face blue. It was really funny. random, but true.

    I'm hoping in the fall I can possibly start cosmetology school. I would really like that. I just got see how other things play out first I guess. I could graduate for that right when collison finishes grad school and then we could go off and explore the world like we do. No strings longer attached to this godforsaken college town. I used to really love Champaign but just like most things I am now bored with it. I'm just ready to go off and try new things and learn some stuff out of college. I'm so over that. Life is pretty up in the air right now but everything seems to work out splendidly in the end no matter what.

    This year has been really really good overall. A lot of emotional stuff has happened that has been a big life distraction but in the end things worked out. I've traveled all over this year with my best friend and learned to be more honest with my family and a little more true to myself when it comes to what I want to do with my life.

    I've missed my friends a lot this year though after all that has happened and feel like I've let them down. I really do miss them but I just havent been there due to other serious issues. I hope I haven't lost em and I have a chance to make it up to some of them some time.

    I think Collison and I are gonna spend some time in Vegas this June. Especially if we are living in LA. I want to renew our vows with Elvis again. I also want to have a better dress to wear this time. I love Vegas so much. I could live there someday.

    Well, I've gone on enough and my ass hurts from sitting on the floor of this apartment (we moved the furniture to the damn house) I'm gonna take a shower and get ready to go out. I think I want to get wine or cocktails somewhere. Ko Fusion sounds good. I could kill some sushi right about now.

    Mother fuck. Its not even 1 in the afternoon. Well thats bullshit. You have to at least wait til five if you wanna get plastered with your meal. Afterall, its only Wed. 

Saturday, 12 May 2007

  • I've blown this beast off for awhile. Oh xanga, I have missed you so much. So readers(if there are any), you have missed a lot. I got really angry at my sorority and dropped out. Thats a good story. I didn't like all the rules and expectations and decided to bounce. So did Nicole. Fuck that shit. Wed rather live in our apartment and go G.D.I. The partying was unlike any kind of partying you could ever elsewhere from being in the sorority, but sometimes sacrifices must be made. And really, nikko and i are practically alcoholics. I doubt we need them to help us in our drinking ventures, we got that ish' covered.

    Also on another I have decided that I will not be going back to Quad Cities this summer. The thought of a summer with my parents and having to find a job there was too much to bear. Also, the commute from my house in Aledo all the way to Rocktown everyday is a complete waste of resources and money. Fuck that. So anyway, I opted to find a job here in Champaign. I'm going to be working as a research assistant for the maize genome project. Basically, we are going to be crossing strains of mutant corn DNA with typical corn DNA and the end product will be that we made some awesome teenage mutant ninja turtle corn to grow. I'm pretty excited about it. I actually ended up switching majors this semester. Ya, yall prolly missed out on that too. So anyway, I'm  a natural resources and environmental science major. I'm so fuckin pumped about it. I love my major now. I hated my major before. I loved art, but hated the curriculum and arrogant artists and wannabes i was surrounded by. Art is something I have to create on my own time and under my own regulations. Things felt so constricted at times I wasn't sure why the hell I was even doing it. So ya, I want to keep up on art cuz it is a passion of mine, but so are environmental issues. Now I feel like i am getting the best of both worlds.

    So yea, I got this sweet job for the summer and its fulltime, but that means I had to find a place to live. It was an ordeal because there were so many places to pick from and I'm terrible at making decisions. I thouroughly enjoyed apartment shopping for the summer though. I hope I'm rich enough someday that I can make realestate a hobby of mine seriously because I absofuckinlutely love shopping for homes and looking at houses and apartments. I get it from my moms side of the family. They love that bullshit too. I found a great apartment in Urbana the other day and signed the lease on it. It is unlike most other campus apartments that are all exactly the same and very commercial. Its this older looking brick building waaaaaaaay down on Green street in a more residential neighborhood. The whole place looks worn and used to the point that it is an endearing quality that made me want it even more. The apartment is in the basement of this brick building and the place it huge. I dunno, I'm just so pumped because the place is so me. I went and picked up the keys for the place this morning and I'm movin in tonite. Hopefully I do alright livin' by myself. At least I know that I have fabulous people to come and visit me this summer so I will have good company on the weekends. My bf, matt lives like 45 minutes away so im sure ill see him enough and im not worried. Then I know Ryan, Andrew, Nicole, Jen and Carissa will all be in Champaign too at different points in the summer as well. I'm so looking forward to that shit. Also Chief is staying here for the summer and we can party together as well.

    Anyway, I'm either gonna start packing again or simply go back to bed. I can't decide. Either way, peace out.

Friday, 09 March 2007

  • so nicole and i decided to move out of the sorority and into an apartment next year. we went out apartment shopping and found a fly ass one on top of the bookstore across the street from our favorite bars and its right off of green street. everyday i will wake up in the morning walk out onto the street to go to class and see Cly's smiling at me. thats fucking beautiful. We are going to have a wine rack in our kitchen too. Its gonna be so fly.

     

    Sixth street on top of T.I.S., here we come.

Wednesday, 28 February 2007

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    Last night at Kam's I rode a mechanical bull while wearing John Legenderfers white sox jersey. haha, so foolish. We had a sports exchange at Kam's last nite with Tau Kappa Epsilon, but I dont own anything related to sports so my beloved pledge child, john let me hit up his jersey. What a lovely greek family I have. haha. Anyway, I rode a mechanical bull and I got thrown off. It was awesome. I played the ultimate game of taps with tables lined up across the entire bar. It was a taps marathon.

    Unofficial is this Friday. Andrew Pauli might come. It is gonna be fucking amazing. I might buy him an Unofficial shirt too if I can find any for sale at Teshirt.

    I applied into the college of communications but now Im thinking of applying into the college of agriculture. I mean, i dont like farming, but then I could major in natural resources and environmental sciences. That would be rad. I'm excited.

    Everything is so crazy right now and chaotic. I have to find a car at some point today so nicole and i can drive to Sigma Pi and tell them we are coaching their broomball team. We also are gonna go to the mall too I think. It should be fucking awesome even though I'm too poor for this bullshit.

     

    Anyway, I gotta bounce out. I got a wicked crazy day ahead of me. As usual. I'm so busy with important obligations but i blow them off for what id rather do. I think thats important anyway, it makes me happy so i have to do it. What a lovely way to think.

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