ten years is a really long time

Today I was at home making a slow recovery from worst headache in recorded history. It struck around 4 pm yesterday and my head still hurts. So needless to say I used this as an opportune moment to not go to school. Anyway, I was going to get a head start on my spanish essay yesterday (not really) but my headache knocked me out for a few hours so I had to write the whole thing today. It was using the future and it was about what we will be doing in ten year or diez años, however you want to spin it. But then I was thinking in ten year I will be 26! That is so old. Then I realized that ten years ago I was six. I hadn't even read Harry Potter yet (that wouldn't be until that summer). Then it struck me that ten years is a really long time. Like a super long time. Especially for me in my transitional teen years, each year makes a really big difference. Like a 23 year old could totally date a 26 year old and it wouldn't be that weird. But it would be the weirdest thing in the world for  13 year old to date a 16 year old. Ew, that it just really gross. But I guess age means less the older you get. I mean what is the difference between 60 and 70? Maybe you can't bend your knees or something, but honestly not really any difference. At least to me it's not, your knees mean a whole lot more to than to me.
This eventually led to some thoughts about ten years as a decade. As we are entering the second year of our new decade that is the first new decade of our fledgling new century, I was taking a moment to reflect back on our years of 00-09. And so far all I can say is that we all did a really good job of totally messing it up, a lot. But soon enough, I assume, we will forget about our misfortunes (or just generalize them like "the great depression" or "world war II time when there was a lot of people having babies and wearing full skirts that stopped right before their knees" or "hippies") and start to focus on the fashion.
Because of course, if anyone mentions the 60s you think of



you think of twiggy, because she was the only fashionable person in the 60s. actually ever. okay, maybe not.

 or when you think of the 80s


you think of this really weird collage thing

It is funny to think in the century that most of us were born in, well anyone reading this who is over 11, has had such significant fashion changes. Let me explain.
The 1900s were the beginning of the end of "The Victorian Era" so everyone was still dressing like this


and not smiling in pictures. but then again if your butcher and bar were in the same building, would you be smiling?

 now we skip forward 90 years, which could in fact, be someone's life span and this is what we end up with this:

living in Beverly Hills might have influenced this

When did this all happen? (Around the same time "shower gel" and "body wash" became two different things?) Well, I am just interested in seeing what we will actually be wearing in 10 years. Hopefully it will never return to corsets or denim on denim and that terrible vest.
Cheers,
Cayla

I object!

so... cayla's last post has officially confirmed that she is insane. about 98% of the time, she is like this:

anyways, this week was my first week of school. all my classes are pretty average, all english & art history (zzzzzzz) but I randomly decided to take a law class. to my surprise, it is very interesting and goes by faster than any of my other classes. also, carrying around the textbook makes me feel very official.

don't lie, it's legit. but I have to say, on the first day of class I was a little intimidated. I'm probably the youngest person in the class, and definitely the only sorority girl ( and also one out of the only three girls). my teacher was a lawyer for a million huge firms, and taught law school for the last 50 years.
basically, I felt like elle woods.

harvard, here I come ?! 

I promised myself I'd be in bed early tonight, but I got sucked into jersey shore. so typical!

cheers,

lauren

do dogs understand concepts like chairs?

Today I got really ambitious and decided to take Pebble outside to make her go to the bathroom. After Pebble throughly sniffed every inch surronding our crockpot which was simmering our future dinner, she wobbled over to the grass to further smell around. While I was waiting, I struggled to slide myself into one of those wooden, beach, boardwalky chairs that we have on our porch.


it was like this



As I scratched my legs, bonked my head, grasped for life in the chair and Pebble stared obliviously at me, a thought hit. Does Pebble understand that I am slowly dying in a chair? Does she understnad that this contraption is for sitting? I finally pulled myself out of the chair and continued to ponder whether or not Pebble knew I was sitting in a chair. Then another thought came up, which had nothing to do with what I was thinking about before. What if people think I'm weird? To be honest, this is not the first time I have thought this, I know that I am definitely a little strange, but I just have a feeling that this year everyone is always acting like I am being completely strange all the time. I got a new seat in spanish this semester and I always feel like everyone is looking at me. See, our room is split up into two halfs so we are facing one another. I don't really feel like explaining it so you throughly understand so I just made you an illustration:

it's really small, but I honestly can't get it to work

and yes all of our desks are semi-circular/almost square. It promotes creativity. But anyways, I just always have this feeling that everyone on the other side is totally looking at me. And it's freaking me out. I'm really concerned. Bth then again, everyone in my Spanish class is completely insane, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

I'm still not sure about the whole chair thing.

Cheers,

Cayla

SPRING BREAK

spring semester starts next tuesday, which means it's time to start fabricating spring break plans. with so many opportunities, you just have to make sure you pick the right place for the right price. sydney and I have a few ideas of what we want to do, and then of course I got creative while looking for flights and thought of a few extra places I want to stop by. here's the top contenders:

atlanta. my cousin just moved there and I've been dying to visit her. it's pretty, it's exciting, it's southern. there's lots of fun things to do, like the huge aquarium with the whale sharks (see cayla's post) and the coca-cola factory. plus we'd have a place to stay and wouldn't have to pay for a hotel or navigate a city on our own.

new orleans. it's been almost two years since I've been there and it's killing me! it's like going to a different country, or spending a week in just new orleans square in disneyland. there's so many things to do and things to see. unfortunately we'd have to find a place to stay and probably love it so much we wouldn't come back.

boston. another one of my favorite places, and where sydney's never been. there's lots of things to see and shopping shopping shopping! it will most likely still be extremely freezing, and plus we all know I probably shouldn't go back to boston for a while anyways.

surprisingly, the cheapest plane tickets are to boston, which is the longest flight. I guess they're probably wondering who would want to go there in the middle of march. I suppose we could always go to chicago as well since my dad will be either moving that week or already there.

nice & chilly. of course, if we find ourselves low on funds we can always just head south of the border. 

considering I've never been to mexico, it probably wouldn't be the worst idea, but everyone and their mother will be down there. still, we aren't going to be getting any kind of tan in boston or chicago. which reminds me, I need to make a passport appointment if I want to do anything exciting in my life.

I'm going to continue looking for good vacation spots while drinking some coffee and watching the food network. maybe I need another week off before school starts again.

cheers,

lauren

oh hey blog

so Cayla called me out on never updating this thing, but to be honest not much has happened in my life recently that is worth updating about. right now I'm sitting on the couch with tiny pebble while she is shivering even though she's wrapped up in a blanket. so far 2011 (all three days of it) has been aMaZiNg. remember when it was sO cOoL to type like tHaT? LoL. really now though, I have a feeling that 2011 is going to be even better than 2010, which was a pretty amazing year in itself. I also realized I have never posted a pic of our newest family member, bode.

look at that little man! isn't he precious, and he finally is beginning to warm up to me about 3 months after I got him. he's very soft and very cute and very smelly. 

I guess another important thing that has happened is yesterday was cayla's little baby's birthday. I say that just because it makes her uncomfortable, of course I'm talking about jonnie from the buried life.

it took me forever to find that picture. anyways, in honor of little jonnie & mostly because I really wanted cake, we created this:

if you're wondering, it was as delicious as it looks. yay jonnie penn, and yes we did say cheers while eating the cake. right now a commercial for that child fund program just came on the tv telling me all about hungry little kids in third world countries. they are sad commercials, but they always just remind me of the dane cook where he talks about magoogoo. classsic. alright, pebble & I are going to finish watching extreme makeover: home edition. she's getting teary-eyed already.

cheers,

lauren 

_edit: a few weeks after posting the pic of jonnie's bday cake to the buried life's facebook (oh come on, you'd do it too), I noticed a few people had liked it. in honest curiosity, I decided to find out who had liked it.

that is extremely small, but if you are so inclined to click on it to get a better and larger view, you will see that BEN liked the picture. along with a bunch of other people whose names I blurred out because I have no idea who they are. also, if you live under a rock, this is ben:

also obviously from tbl, dressed up as cristiano rinaldo when they tried to sneak into the playboy mansion, and is dating whitney port, who I think has the most unfortunate bikini body I've ever seen. but that's just an opinion.

ANYWAY, hooray for the buried lie acknowledging our existence. CHEERS

first post of 2011!!!

we had champagne. we had fireworks. we had a video camera.
the champagne was really nice, the fireworks were illegal and none of the videos are viewable.
but I guess that's cool, I just really hate champagne.
apparently we should not be updating it right now. lauren thinks we are going to get arrested.

whatever, this is us, the first picture of 2011

not that bad. we've been playing just dance 2 all night, so we were all sweaty
but I'm not supposed to tell you that because lauren wants everyone to think she was at a party. it's amateur night anyway.

Cheers to 2011!!!
lauren and cayla