someday,sarah.

the usual wednesday post.

my valentine's day was actually quite wonderful, thanks for asking. i went to the movies with my friend leah and we saw the vow. the movie was pretty okay. it was based on true events, which made it that much better and that much worse at the same time. i liked it, but it's not my favorite.

moving on.

noisetrade has a new sampler out. 25 love songs.
i don't care if valentine's day was yesterday, go download them anyway. since when do you need it to be valentine's day for you to enjoy a good love song? yeah, since never. plus, noisetrade always has the best samplers. i still listen to their fall sampler on occasion. they sure do know how to pick them. not to mention that there's also lots of NEW music included as well. and, it's free. FREE. so, what are you waiting for?

other new music worth noting, which have no descriptions because i haven't actually purchased them yet due to the fact that i've already spent too much money this week:

the hunger games soundtrack (pre-order)

sugar & the hi lows –– sugar & the hi lows

dave barnes –– white flag (single)

dave barnes –– stories to tell (pre-order)

elenowen –– run (single)

eric hutchinson –– watching you watch him (single)

all of these came out yesterday, with the exception of the eric hutchinson single, which came out last week.

and here's the part where i schedule this to post and then i hide my computer so i won't be tempted to impulsively purchase all of these things. honestly, it wouldn't really be that big of a deal if i did, but i'm trying to exercise some self control here.

but do you see what's on that list?

–– s

lunchtime post.

i was in the shower this morning, washing my hair, when i suddenly realized i forgot to write a post for today. for a second, it felt like my stomach dropped, the same way it does when you walk into class and realize you forgot to write that essay that's due in five minutes. and i started worrying about what i was even going to write about and when i was even going to write it because it's not like i have loads of extra time in the morning. in fact, this morning i was running a bit late because i hit another button on my alarm clock instead of the snooze button and it turned off, but my alarm was still set so i thought it would go off again nine minutes later. but it did not.

and here's the moment when you think to yourself that my life must be pretty easy if all i have to worry about is whether or not i am able to post a blog on time. or, if you're like me, you're thinking that if i tweeted about this, it would no doubt have the hashtag #firstworldproblems.

but really, all of these things ran through my mind in about .7 seconds. and then i started laughing at myself, because the main reason i forgot to write last night was that i was reading catching fire. and it's absolutely ridiculous how much i'm not doing other things just so i can read for a few extra minutes.

the other reason i forgot about writing last night was that i had dinner at T's. (i don't know if i've mentioned it before, but josh and i go to T and lee's every week for dinner and a movie.) so it wasn't like i just sat around reading all night and got absolutely nothing accomplished.

we ate pizza and watched drive, with ryan gosling. honestly, i had no idea what the movie was about, and i heard it was bad, but i still wanted to watch it anyway because, hello, ryan gosling. josh bought it because he wanted to watch it and he buys movies the same way i buy books. for some reason we feel the need to have a new copy. so we watched it and it turns out, drive is not really my kind of movie, what with all the language and blood and exploding heads and all. (i didn't actually see the girl's head explode when she got shot because i closed my eyes, but josh told me it happened.)

i will say this though, ryan gosling is super attractive and i would totally marry him in a second.

–– s

top 10 things you want to know about my weekend.

1. friday night consisted of dinner and a movie at home with my parents and val. we laughed a lot and it was a good time.
2. morning glory was our movie of choice. i thought it was really good, but i couldn't help but think that the book version would be better. i don't think there is a book version though. is there?
3. saturday morning, i spent some quality time on the treadmill. it's embarassing how out of shape i am. i think when i get to the point where i can walk upstairs without feeling winded, then i will blog about my exercise routines. until then, don't judge me.
4. my dad and i hung out for most of the afternoon doing things like shopping at target, discussing my move to nashville, eating at red robin, deciding now would be the best time for me to get a new car, and then actually looking at cars. (and by new, i mean new to me. not new to this year.) it was kind of a spontaneous dad date and so much fun.
5. saturday night was looking like another night in with my parents and extremely loud & incredibly close, which i have been wanting to read for a while now. i decided i should probably get on that since the movie's coming out in eleven days and i plan on seeing it.
6. i ended up at starbucks with leah and abby and we managed to be out of there before they closed. (shocking!) leah needed food, so we decided to move our little party to the wendy's parking lot. LOTS of laughing that night.
7. sunday morning = church. it was so nice to go back after missing two weeks for Christmas and new year's. another reason why holidays on the weekend are a bad idea.
8. sunday afternoon = taking down the Christmas tree and other festive decor. not so fun, but i enjoyed eating the leftover candy canes.
9. also, more reading.
10. sunday night = merge. (merge = what my church calls youth group, which includes youth from ages 12 to 24.) and then a bunch of people went out to eat after and i was considering not going because large groups of people make me anxious, but i went anyway. situations like that are never as overwhelming as i imagine them to be and it turned out to be a lot of fun. so that was a great way to end my weekend.

yeah. i will probably get into the habit of posting top 10 lists to talk about my weekends, unless i have a particularly uneventful weekend and i have the time to write actual paragraphs with transitions and everything.

i hope i post a lot of top 10's.

–– s