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reasons to smile // archer is the shit

by ameena on August 21, 2011 · 2 comments

in reasons to smile

This week’s reasons to smile:

adele. I think I’m in love. When 21 came out in February it just spoke to my soul and I could not stop listening to it (like many of you I am sure). When tickets went on sale a couple of weeks later we were ALL over that. After months of waiting the big day finally arrived in May. Just as we were about to leave my house for the concert I got a phone call that the show had been postponed. Oh the heartbreak! Well, six months later I am happy to say that I finally saw her live and HOLY SHIT BALLS. She is the absolute best. I wish it never had to end.

the danger zone. I’ve decided to name my fantasy football team the danger zone due to my love for Archer. When shit gets really intense I plan on changing my picture to Tom Cruise as Maverick. You guys, I have so got this. Everyone should just pay me the prize money now.

wednesday night. first of all, the night started off at the Red Iguana. You guys, The Red Iguana is home to the best mexican food in all of Salt Lake City. It speaks to my stomach. The enchilada sauce is to die for. During dinner we decided it was of the utmost importance that we see the Glee movie immediately. Unfortunately, we had an hour and a half to kill between the ending of dinner and the beginning of our movie. As it turns out, an hour and a half is just enough time to stop by the ol’ tattoo parlor and still make it in time for the movie. Sadly, the tattoo was not mine. BUT I’M GETTING CLOSER. Also, Glee movie was everything I wanted it to be. And by that I totally mean all I wanted was for Artie to sing Safety Dance AND THEN HE DID. Oh and also, the Tiny Asian Baby Warbler. You’re welcome.

football. I went to my kid brother’s football game friday night. I don’t know how many times I referenced Friday Night Lights during that two hour game, but I’m pretty sure it was close to 2,000. It’s just when your brother is the Varsity Quarterback and he has a pretty amazing game and you still find yourself missing Coach Taylor and the gang and you’re still not able to get yourself to finish the final season because it’s just too sad to say goodbye – things get a little emotional. Did I mention my brother did amazing? ‘Cause he did.

your kind words. This week I received a lot of compliments on my blog. It was hard not to let it get to me. It seriously means SO much to me. I feel like I struggled for a really long time with finding my voice and figuring out what I wanted out of this whole experience and it just feels so nice that you all care. Thank you so so much.

the internet. I just really appreciate people like Katherine for making videos like this and Pham for his always encouraging words and general badassery, oh and all the people in this video who remind you just how amazing the internet is at making the geographical distance between us disappear in order to be there for one another. lovelovelove.

Some more of my favorite internet finds: 

I have a mad crush on the bride in this photoshoot. Yowza.

I cannot stop listening to the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat soundtrack. I just wish I had known about the Donny Osmond version sooner.

Some amazing tips on peaceful roommate living.

Zen at Play.

Ragtime renditions of Mario, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. Amazing.

Oh and, papaya salad, “If Gmail worked like Twitter, I would favorite the shit out of that email.” – Nicole, sushi dates, homes with rock climbing walls and halfpipes in the basement, adele, police conventions, my job, clean room!, my roommates (i think great things are in store for us), musical pandora stations, my red hair, rooftop parties, summer nights, and hikes that end at breathtaking water falls. 

Yeah, this week was pretty great.

Now tomorrow – school! ugh.

something in the water

by ameena on August 12, 2011 · 1 comment

in music

I want an excuse to sing this song:

or actually I just want this:

Dear Darren Criss,

I’ll wear the dress if you wear the tie.

Love sincerely,

Ameena

stage fright, soul searching, and some of my current loves

by ameena on June 29, 2011 · 2 comments

in blogging about blogging, random musings

It is so typical me to launch a whole new grown-up blog and then go MIA for a couple of weeks. You see, I seem to have developed a serious stage fright. I have thrown myself on to this whole new stage with sparkly lights and a better sound system and now I’m not entirely sure what is supposed to happen next. It’s kinda like how April Rhodes has never been successful on Broadway and now she  suddenly thinks she can just create an entirely self-centered show because Mr. Shuester told her she should (Although when April Rhodes was once technically Glinda the Good I think she can get away with it).

What I am trying to say is that this new blog and I are still getting to know one another. I’m still trying to figure out just exactly what kind of relationship we ought to have. I mean – are we in the friends zone? Do we get to be friends with benefits? Can I trust it with all my deepest, darkest secrets? Or should I keep it completely professional? Are we still testing the waters? Should I keep all conversation light-hearted and completely non-serious? Or should I just close my eyes, jump in whole-heartedly and blog like no one is reading?

These are the kinds of things we are trying to figure out.

Even though I have been suffering tremendous, stage-fright-induced, bloggers block, I have had several post ideas floating around in my head for the past couple of weeks. However these topics all seem to be incredibly overwhelming and involve a whole lotta introspection. Something I have always been slightly afraid of and not particularly good at.

But I have decided that it is my new goal to try and improve on these things.

Until then here are some of my recent musings and obsessions because when you are avoiding serious soul-searching self-examination you tend to spend your time thinking about a whole lot of random shit.

Like, I have become crazy amounts of obsessed with podcasts as of late. I find them to be such a refreshing break from the same ol’ songs I have had on repeat since the beginning of time. Some of my current favorites include: The BS Report, HomeFries, and This American Life. But I am desperately looking for new suggestions as I am still kinda new to this whole thing. What Podcasts do you love to listen to?

It kind of blows me away how deeply I have fallen for running. I am in deep smit y’all. I pretty much spend a good amount of my days talking about running, emailing about running, reading about running, and actually doing some running (Oh and thanks to Nicole I have now been watching videos on running, too). Even though my knees have been going all “fuck this we didn’t sign up for a half-marathon” on me I refuse to be stopped. I think the most exciting part is that every single time I go for a run it becomes the furthest I have ever run in my life. Today I made it a whole mile and half! Baby steps.

Over this past week I have fallen in love with two different men. Both of which induced serious existential self-reflection (it was necessary despite my desire to avoid it at all costs). The first lucky recipient of my affection? One of the customers I served this past weekend. You guys! He was the most perfect, amazing single dad of all time. He was just sitting there with his perfectly polite and adorable son, being all perfectly perfect and then suddenly BAM I was in love. And then I found myself asking questions like: am I ready to be a mom? Could my first child be not my own? Is it possible to overdose on adorableness? Am I really this creepy? Because, well, this was serious you guys. I’m not entirely sure if it was my fear of all the self-reflection that was happening or my fear of becoming a mother so soon, but I decided to take one for the team and let this one go. But he just might forever be the one who got away.

The second lucky recipient of my affection in all his 300 pound glory is a gorilla named Husani. When I first met Husani he was up on his might perch eating some cardboard, he appeared completely disinterested in our arrival (playing hard to get, so typical) so we moved on to the orangutans. When I looked back over at his room, he was standing right up against the glass watching us. I don’t even know how to describe this, but we could actually see him thinking. It was almost eerie in a way to see the intelligence and human-like qualities of this primate. As we continued to watch and interact with him I found myself falling harder and harder for this big hairy angry-looking man. I could have honestly spent hours with him. Meeting Husani was truly one of those moments in which you begin to question your place in the Universe and wonder just how different Husani and yourself actually are. I then spent a decent amount of brain power trying to figure out what I would need to change about my education plan in order to make it so that I can spend all my days taking care of elephants and gorillas and orangutans and giraffes and penguins.

Wouldn’t that be the life?