today was a busy non stop but good day. 740 breakfast w/ my roomate. these too dread head had to be drunk guys came up to me and wanted me to come sit w/ them so i did for a second knowing that any minute i could use the excuse that i have to go to class and not be lying. class from 820-1130. then i ran to hibbs for lunch got my two chicken soft tacos w/ some sour cream and cheese and then met abi at the library. then all 5 of us girls met at the apartment that we are moving into next year and made it official. we are so excited about it and that we dont have to worry about it anymore. its a great awesome place and we each get our own room! so yea then i had to run back to class at 1 and i got out of that early at like 2 and then went to old navy w/ lillian. i got alot of stuff. i was excited. i like that store. even tho i dont like brand names i do like old navy. then after that i went back to the offices of the realtor for my apartment and had to write my check and sign the lease. then i came back to my dorm for a few and went right back out to go eat and then me and vicki went to see my friend erik's band play [pash] at mary washington college. the opening band [the versificator] was really good too. they were all instrumental. very very good. hard to explain their sound tho. pash was really good too. a girl is the lead singer which always rocks. and her voice is really good. i got a lot of cool pictures of them ill put them on my site eventually. and i got pash's 4 song demo that i listened to on the way back to richmond. it is w/out drums but i like it alot still. awesome sound. so yea everyone should come see them play when they come to holy chow in richmond on the 22nd. k time to sleep. mwah

today i had to pee and my bathroom door was locked shut from the inside

the highlight of my day

lillian: (i almost walk into some dude holding a tray full of food) oh sorry!
lauren: dude, that was jason from church.
lillian: oh, i didn't recognize him... he's wearing a different outfit.

so yea this weekend was great. my roomate went to florida on thursday and she comes back tonight. but it was the first weekend that she left this whole semester so i was really excited to just chill and have nobody around for a bit. i was playing my music non stop for once. i got alot of new cds this weekend [thanx to tyler] i got the new ben harper, moby:18, ani difranco: evolve, and the new white stripes cd. so ive been listening to them alot. they are all good. thursday night i just spent in my room reading and spending time w/ the Lord. friday i met w/ sheree, went to lunch, and then later later that night i met up w/ vinny and lillian. we went to starbucks and then bowling. now listen to this. im horrible at bowling and so is vinny ...lillian didnt play. she was our cheerleader. and i was beating vinny the whole time trippling his score at one point in the 6 frame. [15 to 45] and then he decided to get 2 strikes and a spare and he ended up beating me 89 to 65. can you believe that crap. ha. so then we were really cool and didnt want to wait in line just to pay so we went to the other register and made the take our money there and then lillian tried to walk off w/ a stand up sign thing and they yelled at her. we set a genius world record for being the coolest ppl that night. we know everyone wanted to be us. sike. so then after that we went to the canal walk. now that was freaking scarey. if you havent ever been there at night then you should. it was really fun tho. ha. after that we went to bottoms up pizza and got some really good bread tracks and talked about life. did i mention that we were sporting lillians moms woody van the whole night. even cooler. k so saturday lillian and vinny talked me into going to tikvat which is a messianic jew temple. it was actually really cool and interesting. after the service they have free lunch too. always a bonus. next we went to ukrops and i got my tickets for juliana theory concert and evanescence concert. thennn i went home and sat outside and read. i got a pretty awesome tan on ONE side. eek. all good tho. im italian it will balance out eventually. so later that night we had the gathering of the princesses. it was a girls night. we got all dressed up in prom dresses, did eachothers makeup, and decorated the church basement, and had a huge dinner w/ a server and took lots of pictures [which are on my site]. after that i went home and finished reading 'redeeming love' this morning i went to church and then afterwards my parents came to visit me and they took me to lunch and then helped me move some stuff out of my dorm. it was great as always hanging out w/ them. i loved it. then i went to the art museum to get info to write a paper. and now i am suposed to be writing it. becky came over for awhile and i got all her pictures she took on her digital on my comp. [they are on my picture page too now] so yea tomrrow morn im registering for classes and gettin my parking pass for the fall. now i listening to the white stripes and drinkin tea. mwah

the project i have been working on is complete. there is a link to see the pictures to the right on this page. the link says 'fake pictures' go see and tell me what you think. mwah

so im working on this project and it is really gonna be awesome. i went around and took lots of pictures of ppl holding up fake smiles w/ their pointer fingers. and it is all to show that ppl hide their pain behind facades of fake happiness. im going to eventually put the picture series on my picture page but not yet. so i am taking the pictures and printing them out 8x10 and transfering them onto white shirts, cutting them out and sewing them onto the backs of black tshirts and on the front im going to have this song lyric from a mewithoutYou song "she put on happiness like loose dress over pain". so i am doing 6 shirts w/ each a different picture of a girl. i want to continue this project into more projects that go w/ this one. maybe continue to make shirts until i have one for each day of the year. i have alot of pictures of guys w/ the fake smile too. so we will see what i come up with. im just excited about it and its my fav thing ive done in afo so far. so yea. more talk later. mwah

sunday i was in virginia beach. i went to church at my cusins church called virginia beach christian life center. it is a really great church. i love their pastor and they their church alot. it was great seeing my cusins too since i dont get to see them that oftem. after church me and vicky went out to lunch w/ her mom to this place called uncle al's that vicky likes alot. it was pretty good. the best part was the sweet potato fries that i had. mmm i love those. after lunch we went back to vickys and hung out there for awhile i was reading my book [redeeming love] and we were waiting for abi to call us. later we met up w/ her took her to get her stuff and then we drove to norfolk....we were gonna go to the beach and lay out but it ended up being really cold out so that was out so then we planned on goin to norfolk and goin thrifting..that ended up not working out either. b/c all of them were closed sunday and we were goin to go to dumars for dinner and that wasnt open either. ha. so we ended up going to macarther mall ,we went to american eagle and i got these two cute shirts, and bag and a necklace. and i got a free cd w/ it all too. so when we were about to another store we noticed the metals bars were comin down on the store and we soon found out the mall closed at 6. so we were there for about 30 minutes and now had to leave. ha. so then we went to sonics for dinner. that was cool . i had never been there before. you drive up into a parking spot and each spot has an individual togo speaker thing and you press a button, order, and then they bring your food out to you. it rocks. and finally.....what we had been waiting for all weekend...we drove to chesapeake to the waterdeep concert! there was a girl who opened for them her name is katy bowser. she was precious...really cute funny personality and her music was really good. it was just her on an acoustic guitar. and one song w / laurie from waterdeep about coffee. ha it was great. after she played waterdeep came on and they ended up playing for like 2 hours. it was amazing show. they just jammed alot flowin in the spirit and don talked alot about random funny things like he always does. it was awesome. i got some good pictures ill put on my site soon. after the show i got a free poster from this guy who was workin the waterdeep stand and i got the whole band to sign it for me and i met them all too which was really cool. cuz i have only seen them live one other time and that was in kansas city at the conference i went to over xmas break and i didnt get to meet them then. yea so i ended up spending all kinds of money. i got this sweet waterdeep shirt that is dark gray w/ waterdeep written just plainly on the front, i got katy bowsers cd cuz i wanted to support her [and i met her and got her to sign the cd cover] and i got waterdeep's drummer brandons side project bands cd, their band is called pepper shaker. it is an all instrumental cd. it is so so good. im glad i got it. and i got him to sign that too. so yea we didnt end up leaving until 11 which is alot later then we thought we would leave. we got home around 1230 which isnt that late. so yea im gonna go read. mwah

today was a better day in the life of me. i guess its been ruff lately. i duno why. but yea last night i went bike riding at like midnight w/ my friend maggie and that was really cool. she is a fun person to hang out w/. i like riding my bike around. and we talked about God and stuff. today i got up and met up w/ sheree for a bit and talked about life. and then i went to the hibb and it was great i had chicken and pasta and on my way out the desert lady hooked me up w/ a to-go cup full of oreo pie....mmmmm. when i came back me and my suitemate went to river city tatoo b/c she wanted to get her tongue peirced again. and i ended up splurging and buying this 65 dollar organic earings for indonesia that rock so much. then i came back and went and read outside in the sun in the courtyard of my dorm for like an hour. [ i am reading this book called 'redeeming love' by francine rivers. it is really good. it is based out of the book of Hosea in the bible. but the book is a novel. ] so yea i sat out and got some sun [which i want to work on more this summer then last summer. i tan easily so even if i dont try i get tan but i want to get really tan. i know i cant ever beat my sister tho. i did one summer but not anymore now that she works at a tanning bed place. ] after that i came back in my dorm and slept from 4 until 630. then i went to hibbs for dinner and read more of my book . then at 730 i went to annas play w/ all the girls and then we drove out to TGI Fridays for a surprise party for ericas 21st bday. it was a great time and she was really surprised and loved it alot. i was happy for her she deserved it. so we were there pretty late. after that some of us went to walmart [me,lillian, becky, kasmine, daniel and vinny] we had a great time. we were origianally just going there to get tshirt transfer paper for me and then peacing out but we ended up almost gettin kicked out..ha. we were playing w/ bouncy balls and fighting w/ haulk hands and then we were chasing eachother and throwing stuff at eachother like rubber spiders and stuff..ha it was funny. after that lillian dropped me off and i forgot my stuff i got at walmart in her car but ill get it tomorrow. now im home. i took alot of pictures that will probly be on my site soon. i did a whole blur series. aight kids. mwah

i played ping pong today it was fun then the ball fell off the table and it kept rolling and got lost

7 bracelets on my right arm
2 on my left inlcluding my watch

life is hard to understand and live sometimes. i started another blogger so that i can vent in it. but its a secret. i am the only reader...well me and God.
"are you religious? i saw your tatoo," someone asked me that today. man... that sucked. it stinks when ppl only know that i am a christian b/c of my tatoo or b/c of something that i have written in my profile or blogger. i want to live the life..i want ppl to ask me what is different about me. i want ppl to see Jesus in me