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Oh hello. I am Christina. I'm 26. My favorite things are: writing love on my arms, watching movies, laughing, baking brownies, mac 'n' cheese, taking road trips, Disney, writing, playing Guitar Hero and DDR, milk and cookies, smiling, Audrey Hepburn movies, singing Beatles songs, cheering for the Dallas Cowboys, playing board and card games, reading books, watching General Hospital, dancing, and, most importantly, spending time with my friends.

Quote of the Moment:
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” - Audrey Hepburn

Mood: i'm good.
Music: pretending.




Saturday, May 29, 2010
how long.

so much to write about. so much.

we had last night together, just as friends and i had so much fun. we watched i am legend and talked and it was great.

now i'm on my way to see my sister... or she's like my sister. she lives slightly more than 400 miles away but it feels like 4,000.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
lost.

I spent most of my day watching episodes of Lost. Randy and I are trying to catch up on season six before the series finale on May 23.

So I got up early this morning to finish rewatching season five. Man oh man does that show put me on an emotional rollercoaster. I had always liked Juliet's character but not that much. Today though I was really able to relate to her character. Lost is one of the few tv shows that I watch regularly but that I have never identified with a character. Until today.

I realized how much I am like Juliet. Her parents divorced when she was a young girl. She was intelligent, sophisticated, beautiful, independent and strong. She'd never needed anybody and moved yo the island alone. Then she fell in love with Sawyer, who was hard, stubborn, strong and independent himself. The thing is Juliet made Sawyer a better person and he really needed her, but he didn't really realize it. Then Juliet saw him looking at Kate one day and it hurt her tremendously. She'd always been guarded and didn't give her heart away and when she saw him look at Kate she thought Sawyer didn't truly live her. And she was hurt. Devastated. And she wished she could go back and change everything. Go back to a day when she didn't know him. A time when she was strong, happy and independent without him. Not broken.

And Juliet said, "If I never meet you, then I never have to lose you."

That is exactly how I feel lately.

But we can't change the past and would we really want to if we could?
Friday, May 14, 2010
oh dear.

here we go again.

i snooped and found something i didn't like. so now here i am, upset again.

this hurts so bad. why can't i just let it go?
Thursday, May 13, 2010
coca-cola cupcakes.



i made my mom Coca-Cola cupcakes for Mother's Day. i was a little worried about how they'd turn out but they were great. the cupcakes were all light and fluffy and yummy. they tasted like Coca-Cola, or at least like they had a hint of Coca-Cola, which is my mom's favorite drink in the world. the frosting suggested in the recipe didn't turn out so well. it turned out fine, but when paired with the cupcake, i thought it tasted like too much Coca-Cola and the icing tasted a little too sweet for my liking. so i changed the icing to vanilla and that's what i used for all but one of the cupcakes (the other one was the frosting tester). so they were vanilla coke cupcakes! and, by the way, my mom thought they were delicious!

you want the Coca-Cola cupcakes recipe? of course, you do. here it is. i hope you enjoy it.

Cupcakes (Makes 24 regular cupcakes)

2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups small marshmallows
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup Coca-Cola
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cupcake tin with liners.

In a bowl, sift sugar and flour. Add marshmallows. In saucepan, mix butter, oil, cocoa, and Coca-Cola. Bring to a boil and pour over dry ingredients; blend well. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk just before adding to batter along with eggs and vanilla extract, mixing well. Pour into a lined cupcake pan 2/3's full, and bake 20 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool and then frost.

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
3 tablespoons cocoa
6 tablespoons Coca-Cola
1 box (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

For frosting, combine butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and pour over confectioners' sugar, blending well. Add vanilla extract and pecans. Spread over cupcakes. Serve with a coke!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
bad luck.

I have the worst luck with tires, I would just like to say.

I had anotherrrr flat today!!! I was driving to work going down the street my apartment is on when all of a sudden I heard cuh-clung, cuh-clung, cuh-clung, then a guh-glung and I decided to pull over. I pulled into a neighborhood and noticed that the noise stopped. I almost started driving again but then I thought, "no, no, I'm a gonna get out just to make sure everything's okay." So I get out of the car and lo and behold my back passenger tire was flat, and that thing seriously was not going anywhere. Anywhere.

Let me backtrack for a moment to before I left my apartment this morning. As I got into my car, wearing my black stilettos and feeling pretty, I had a fleeting thought that I should check that tire. You see, it went flat one day last week at work and my friend Courtney changed it and I took it to the tire place and they fixed it at no charge. But then the thought fled and I got in my car and turned on my Taylor Swift and sang about believing that things will change and being strong and girl power and she-rah and then I heard that stupid noise and then my tire was flat. And do you know that I was suddenly not girl power and she-rah. I was helpless.

So I called S. And he came and changed my tire and followed me to the tire place, which I thought was sweet. He cares. Aww yay.

And then the tire place didn't have any of my tires in stock so they wanted to fix my tire. Ok. That tire was coming off the stupid rim... Is that what's it's called? I don't know but I do know it was all just falling to pieces and going guh-glung and I wasn't about to let them put it back on my car. No sir or ma'am. It wasn't gonna happen. So I went to the other tire place and got a new tire. Yays.

Since the accident in September, that makes seven tires. Seven.

Seven.

That's bad luck but that's why they make road hazard warranties. People like me need them. Oh dear.

Maybe this will be the last one for a while.
Maybe.
I hope.
:]
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
boom boom pow.

i am so 3008.
you so 2000 and late.

i like that boom boom pow song. it's been stuck in my head for days. seriously. this is ridiculous. oh well.

holla at ya home girl!

:]
Monday, May 10, 2010
hey! there's an app for that.

by the way, i thought you might like to know there's even an iphone app for blogging. that's how i'm posting this. it's also how i posted muh last post.

isn't technology frightening and wonderful?

funerals.

My friend April's mom died on Saturday. the day before Mother's Day.

First of all, I can't imagine losing my mom. I know I kind of had to think about that some lately but it never became a reality. thank goodness. But I can't imagine what she must be going through right now.

Tonight was the visitation. Me, Nathan, Julie and this woman named Shelly whom I'd never met before went. I left work early and drove to Julie's. She drove the rest of the way. We stayed about 45 minutes at the visitation then drove back. April seemed to be holding up but I'm sure there are a lot of things going on inside. She said she was kind of preparing for it, but that's something I know you can never truly prepare for.

M asked why I was going since I didn't know her mom. I told him I was going to support my friend whom I love and care about, something I'm not so sure he knows that much about. It's times like this when you need your friends most.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
oh happy day.

it's Mother's Day and i am with my mom in Dallas, blogging from a movie theater where we are about to see a sneak preview of Letters to Juliet. i love my mom so much. i made her a Coca-Cola cupcake that she loved. it was light and fluffy and cola flavored. hopefully i'll post a picture of that soon. aww yay!

i hope you and your mom are having a very happy mother's day as well.
Friday, May 7, 2010
such a rebel.

so last night we went to a movie... a midnight showing of Iron Man 2. first i want to say that the movie was badass. awesome special effects, a lot of action and a good storyline. it was even more badass because yours truly was such a badass getting into the theater. mwahahaha.

let me start this story by saying that yesterday was a very long, very busy day. I woke up at 6:15 a.m. to be in Kilgore by 8:30. ugh. then the whole day after that was just busy, busy, busy. i took a break from work at 5:30 but went back later to write a story about prom. woo prom. as i was leaving at 5:30, i asked mr. photographer if he wanted to go to the movie. he said blah blah blah need to balance muh checkbook blah blah blah. at about 8, we were talking and suddenly because his other friends were going, he suddenly decided he was super duper interested so he invited me. big whoop. anyway, so it's about 8 and he's back at the office and i'm leaving.

i get to my car and ... dumdumdum ... my back passenger tire is flat.

airless.
lifeless.
not gonna get me anywhere.
sighs.

so i go back upstairs and straight to M. he says he's not gonna change it cause he has to finish photos blah blah blah. i said i'd wait. he said he didn't feel like it anyway and referred me to his friend who was hangin out downstairs. thank goodness C was there and changed muh tire. yays.

then we're going to the movie and even though we live next door to each other and even though the theater is across town and even though i had a lil ole donut on muh car, we couldn't ride to the movie together.

so then i get to the movie and they're all inside and M is savin me a seat. and I go to the ticket booth and i say, "one for Iron Man 2" and do you know what the twerp said to me?

"i'm sorry. we're sold out."

if they were sold out, why wasn't there a sign saying that? there was no sign. so i called M who told me there were like four empty rows and seats all over the theater. so I walk back to the ticket guy and say, "my friend's in theater 7 and he says there's a bunch of empty rows and seats." and do you know what he said to me? do you?

"those are Internet sales."
i said, "but it's after midnight. they're not here."
and he said, "ma'am we're sold out."

i walked away. then this other dude walked up and was told the exact same thing. grr. so me n this dude start talkin and we start scopin out the inside. then i walked through the front doors, past the ticket taker, into the theater and sat down next to M and no one said anything to me. they didn't even look at me funny. i felt a lil bad but seriously, they weren't sold out and they were lying and i wanted to see the movie. so i walked like i owned that place. such a rebel.

M said, "how'd you get in?"
I said, "through the front doors."