Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - As Tall As Cliffs

First Day of Wrestling!!

Today was so much fun! I did not think I would make it to practice but I did. I went to bed at 2 am, woke up at 5 am to finish a paper and went to bed at 8 am. I woke up at 4 pm, fed my dog, the chickens and rabbits, showered and got ready for practice. I grabbed an apple on the way out. I got there early and just got to hang out before almost dying. I thought I would be in some kind of good shape because I've been eating better, running, working out and skating a little bit. Boy was I wrong! Just the running for warm-ups got me rethinking deciding to wrestle. My chest and nasal passages are still super congested, so I was a having a super hard time breathing anyway. Halfway through practice I got super lightheaded and dizzy and realized the only thing that I'd had for more than 24 hours, was an apple and 2 liters of water. Next time, I'll make sure I get more to eat before going to wrestle for two hours! I ended up sweating through 2 shirts and my hoodie! My ankle is the size of an orange, my back hurts, and I'm starting to get wrestler's forehead. It was insane. I'm going to be unbelievably sore tomorrow and I wouldn't have it any other way!
I realized a few things at practice:
1. I need to work on speed. Cutting weight and getting back into shape will help that.
2. I need to work on takedowns. Drilling them will help that.
3. I need to work on getting used to wrestling 6 minutes. Drilling, running more, cutting weight, getting back into shape will help that.
4. I need to get stronger. I'm going to have to start lifting hard again. Iron biceps, here I come! Hehee!

Best dinner after practice! Gluten free pasta, vegan cheese, and handfuls...no, a MOUNTAIN of spinach! Nom. Nom. Nom. The spinach is definitely the best part!

Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss

What color are his eyes?
I don't know he's always wearing shades.
Is he tall?
Well, I gotta look up.
Yeah, but I hear he's bad.
Eh, he's good bad, but he's not evil.
Tell me more. Tell me more.
Big bulky sweaters to match his eyes.
Dirty finger nails. Oh boy, what a prize.
Tight tepid pants, high above his shoes.
He's always lookin' like he got the blues.
And when I see him in the street,
my heart takes a leap
and skips a beat.
I walk right up to him,
give him a great big kiss, mwahh.
Tell him that I love him,
tell him that I care,
tell him that I'll always be there.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Simple Girl

She's a simple girl.
She's governed by simple pleasures.
She wont ever let you meet her family,
but she'll show you pictures.

She's a simple girl
and she's got simple emotions.
She wont ever let you in,
but she wants to keep you in her corner.

I'm always looking for some kind of sadness,
something more than this.

She's a simple girl
and she's got simple feelings.
No one ever let her know that she could get it out her heart, now.

The Ramones - Chainsaw

Wrestling Season Begins

Wrestling season has officially begun! Practice starts Monday. I can't wait to start wrestling again! I've missed coming home all sweaty and exhausted. I've missed that feeling of being completely sore and barely being able to move. I've missed working out in a hot wrestling room wearing 3 t-shirts and a hoodie. It sounds weird, but I miss having cotton mouth after a long practice. It just means I worked hard and had a good practice. I've missed the drilling and the running and the feeling of lacing up my wrestling shoes and stepping onto the mat. The only thing I'm not really looking foward to is cutting weight. I've never really had to cut weight to compete and this year I feel like I have to if I want to do well. I'm not competing until March, but I need to make 105 by the end of December, so I can worry less about cutting weight and worry more about technique and getting stronger.

Favorite snack until I cut to 105.

I like this video. It's really cool.

Being sick has it's ups!

Due to being sick this last week, I've had the opportunity to watch alot of movies. I saw the new Twilight (twice) and almost cried both times, which is kind of embarassing. Watched the Outsiders and cried when Johnny died. Watched Juno, the old version of The Bad News Bears, 4 Gilmore Girls Discs, 8 Crazy Nights, and Going the Distance (which I also ended up crying for). I'm getting better now. No more sore throat or headache and I think I'm actually starting to get hungry! I haven't eaten in two days, which is insane! Another up to being sick is getting alot of sleep. Thanksgiving day I slept all day except for the few hours that I went to my uncle's house. Yesterday I also slept all day and today I slept until 2 in the afternoon. I think I'm good on sleep until the end of this semester!

Lesley Gore - It's My Party

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -

Darlin' I'm drunk and everything I have loved has turned to stone

Tallest Man on Earth

A friend last summer reluctantly introduced me to The Tallest Man on Earth, and as much as I said I wouldn't end up listening to him, I did. Whoops! Muh bad! Ha I love his music. For a few weeks after I got home from camp, I would fall asleep every night listening to him. It was honestly the only thing that would knock me out so I could get a few hours of sleep. Not to say his music puts me to sleep! Quite the contrary, it livens me up. It makes me kinda sad sometimes, but for the most part it's a happy kind of sad. Its hard to explain and I don't really feel like trying. Anyway...Out of these three songs, my favorite one is the middle one. They're all good, but The Gardener is really, really good. It starts at about 3:07. I've listened to it so many times. I love the lyrics. I know it sounds dumb, but I pretty much melt when I listen to this song. Favorite line? There are a few. But my all time favorite is, "So I could stay the king you see in your eyes, babe. In your eyes, babe."

Neil Sedaka - Oh Carol

I am but a fool

blah blah blah

Today, for a second, I realized I really miss being in Arizona. I was only there for two weeks in my entire life, but it was super fun and I realized I really, really miss it. I smelled cigarette smoke today and I instantly felt like I was there. It was super weird. I miss the feeling of being in Arizona. I miss how the heat feels. I miss the night time summer heat. It's different than Florida heat. It's hard to explain, but Florida heat is sticky, and blah and feels different. It feels weird. Arizona heat feels better somehow. It's like a cozy blanket, sorta? I miss how stuff smells in Arizona. Arizona smells hot. Also hard to explain...The air just smells different there. It feels harder to breathe, kinda. But easier at the same time? Time feels different too. Days feel longer. It feels like you can get way more stuff done in a day. I don't even know what the crap I am saying... Guhh...Basically... I miss it.

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

And it ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe
I'm on the dark side of the road.
But I wish there was something you would do or say
to try and make me change my mind and stay

I currently have the worst migrane known to man. It feels like someone is taking a hammer and pounding it against the side of my head. I've never had a headache this bad before in my life!

Josh Turner - Would You Go With Me

When I was a junior in high school my wrestling coach had this song as his ring tone. Everytime his phone would ring, this would play and it got to the point where I memorized all the words, but didn't know what the song was or who sang it, but I loved it. Every bus trip to tournaments I'd ask him to play it and he eventually just burned me a cd. I went to the library today and saw the CD and had to get it.

If I gave you my hand would you take it
and make me the happiest man in the world?
If I told you my heart couldn't beat one more minute without you girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea,
help me tie up the ends of a dream?
I gotta know would you go with me.
I love you so, so would you go with me?

Paul Anka - Diana

LMFAO - Saxy and I Know It

This has been the theme song for this past week. You have to listen to it full blast to get the full effect. In the car too. With the windows rolled down. And you have to dance like a fool.

Mister Heavenly - Pineapple Girl

Three months down. Six more to go. 

The Drums - Money

I want to buy you something, but I don't have any money.

My morning workout

Lately I've been working on getting back into shape and losing weight in case I can wrestle this winter. I've been eating better (except for today where I had cookies for every meal) and working out quite a bit. This is my morning routine.
1. Jog around the block
2. Stretches
3. 3 sets of 10 8-count push-ups
4. 50 sit-ups
5. 50 lunge jumps
6. 100 squats
7. 50 bicep curls with weight
8. 3 sets of 10 lateral raises
9. 100 calf raises
10.50 dead lifts

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

I was raised up believing
I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Unique in each way you can see

And now after some thinking
I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Serving something beyond me

But I don't, I don't know what that will be
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

What's my name, what's my station
Oh just tell me what I should do
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
That would do such injustice to you

Or bow down and be grateful
And say "Sure take all that you see"
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
And determine my future for me

And I don't, I don't know who to believe
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

If I know only one thing
It's that every thing that I see
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Often I barely can speak

Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
And I can't keep it to myself
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Why should I wait for anyone else?

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
I'll come back to you someday soon myself

If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm raw
If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

And you would wait tables
And soon run the store

Gold hair in the sunlight
My light in the dawn
If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

Someday I'll be
Like the man on the screen

Givers

I really like the Givers. I started listening to them a couple weeks ago. I like all the song they plkay in this video, especially the first one. Its called Meantime. It's really good. My favorite part of the song is from 3:00 to like 4:12. I really like the flute part.

I like..

Falling asleep with my legs hanging off the bed.
Falling asleep on the floor
Taking naps outside in my hammock
Sunny, warm days with bright blue skies
Eating cantaloupe that is super sweet
Sitting by the lake and watching ducks run around
Hanging out with kids that couldn't give a crap about anything but having fun
Getting good grades
Talking and laughing with friends
Being happy

Dr. Dog - The Rabbit, The Bat and The Reindeer

And I'll be dreaming of the day the dream died
Uh huh
No sticks, no stones could break my bones like you can

Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling

That summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life.

The Dicks - Lifetime Problems

The Dead Milkmen - The Puking Song

Lorena sized banana!

Fiona Apple - Criminal

Fiona Apple - Used to Love Him

Patti Smith - Words of Love (Buddy Holly Cover)

I love my juicer!!

I bought a juicer a couple weeks ago! This baby makes it so I can drink fresh juice all day, every day! Today I made pineapple juice!! So delicious!

Nom nom...or should I say sip, sip!?



Pretty productive day!

1. Went to school.
2. Went to lakeside
3. Registered for next semester
4. Did some homework
5. Took a nap.
6. Drank some green juice
7. Went to Vans
8. Got a gnarly stomach ache
9. Puked all over my front yard
10. Doing homework and watching Seinfeld.

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

Save for a motorcycle or save for camp next summer? Decisions, decisions...

"I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be."

Started doing yoga and I realized my balance sucks! No wonder I'm always falling and tripping!

"If you don't fall in love you can't get hurt."
"Yeah, but it sure is lonely all by yourself."

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia

Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

"I'm not the wallowing type of girl."

The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

John Prine - In Spite Ourselves

In spite of ourselves, we'll end up sitting on a rainbow.

Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions

Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat

Rancid - Olympia WA

Set on posts for the next few days!

Mapping out my week.

Today: Went to Lakeside for a short morning sesh. It was super fun! No one was there! The cement is super smooth and perfect! Now I'm doing homework/procrastinating. In about an hour I have to go to school to buy a book from this guy and then I'm off to Whole Foods for some fruit and then Metro for an evening sesh, which'll probably be cut a little short because the guy that owns it always closes early, but it'll give me a chance to get home early, do homework and actually get sleep before school tomorrow.

Wednesday: School from 7-noon. Laundry. Whole foods for some fruit. Vans til 10ish.

Thursday: I want to go to Tampa. Maybe. If not then Lakeside it is. Then I will try to do all my homework for all my classes for the rest of the semester. I have the complete syllabus for my Government class, so I can read through all the chapters, post all discussion responses and do all the quizzes. I can write my essay for Composition and do my speech for Speech class. I can also read the chapters for the last two modules in Sociology.

Friday: Work from 11 til whenever they need me. Then homework.

Saturday: Work. Homework.

Sunday: Work. Homework.

Monday: School from 7-12. Lakeside skatepark if it doesn't rain. Metro if it does. Homework.

Skating, school, and work make my weeks go by super fast!! It's great! Before I know it, it'll be summer again!

Dr. Dog - The World May Never Know

How can it be that a fish in the sea can feel like it's completely alone? The world may never know.