this weekend, i had a fun little getaway to sarah's house with her to visit her family and meet up with brittany. during highschool, i used to spend a lot of weekends at their house, so it was so much fun to do things like back in the day. on saturday afternoon, we were in des moines taking advantage of the 50th anniversary celebration at b&e meats and getting free tri-tip sandwiches when we heard that robin williams was filming a new movie up at the huge scary masonic lodge on the hill. being the curious ladies we are, sonya drove sarah, leah and i up there to take a little peak. as we were looking through the window, we saw some crew wheeling around various film equipment and got excited! a man was walking by and opened the door for us. . . "are you girls here to be extras?" ... "yes?!" ... "oh, you're in the wrong part of the building, right this way"...
long story short, we got to be extras in a new movie called dear lemon lima. it is a coming of age story about a girl who wins a scholarship to a prep school or something... we got to dress up in prep school uniforms, complete with knee high socks. : ) we even got to have hannah and brittany come join us.

i will say, it was quite the interesting experience. many of the extras acted as though they should have been the stars . . . taking their little background action a little too seriously. one girl even brought her headshot and carried it around. ridiculous. anyway, quite a random but very fun experience.

recently, i was introduced to polyvore.com and didn't think i'd be interested. i am obsessed. since i've finished reading the twilight series, i have a lot of time to dink around on the internet and have found these little collages to be quite entertaining. here are a few of my first projects...

i hate writing. hate hate hate it. one gift i was most definitely not blessed with. i am seething as i write my personal statement to the university of washington because nothing is coming out the way i'd like. it's not cute. it's not clever. it just sounds stupid.

this is just a means to vent.
i probably won't let anyone read it either, don't be offended.
i'll show you something else creative.

my writing is terrible. DRATS.

isn't it funny i have a blog at all?

hawaii thus far has been a dream. 

highlights include:

snorkeling

swimming

all day happy hour

the beach

80+ degrees

deep delicious tans

finishing twilight in 2 days

reading new moon even faster

starting eclipse on the beach

relaxation

pineapple express

silly tourists . . . 

this has been such a wonderful time for unwinding and rebooting. evan and i are here with evan's parents, bob and machelle and his sister emily. i am really sad to come home, i love the sun too much. evan and i have had some conversations about the possibility of living on oahu. (they have the biggest cities.) we've been to the big island (2 christmas' ago) and now maui. both are really cool in different ways, but i think oahu would be the place to live if you were considering moving. we probably won't since i have a little more school to finish but it's a fun idea. i do miss everyone back home and am a little excited not to be so hot all the time. 

ps. i am going to be a vampire for halloween in honor of the cullen family. anyone who has read the twilight saga knows what i'm talking about...