I just finished cleaning the whole apartment, it took me 3 hours. I do a little cleaning every week, but the place needed a good cleaning. I even did the ceiling fans because they were all dusty and it was disgusting, now my nose itches. (It could be the boogers though.) Sometimes I wish we didn’t have Krissy, (the dog) I HATE dog hair it grosses me out how it gets all over the place. I emptied out the vacuum before I started vacuuming, and by the time I was done it was overfilled with dog hair! I vacuum every week too. Besides, Krissy is annoying…she’s obsessive compulsive and has to follow James and I where ever we go. James being the dork he is made up a song about it to the melody of “Downtown.” “KRIIIISY obsessive compulsive dog, KRIIISY She’s always watchin’ me.” Making up songs is fun.

Doesn’t my living room look sparkley clean…? No? Ok. Do you love the huge television like overtaking the room?

I hate how our apartment is so dull and boring with the empty walls. The only room that has stuff on the walls is the office and it’s all of the boyfriend’s sport memorabilia. I want to decorate, but I figure we’re not planning on staying here long anyway so the white walls will have to do. If I was going to decorate I would hang up canvas art like this, I also like paintings of people like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. The next time I decorate my bathroom instead of doing Hello Kitty I would like to do a sort vintage look. I think it would be more grown up and appropriate, the Hello Kitty is cute but I can always do that again when I have kids in 20 years. I love the vintage Vogue art at Bed Bath & Beyond!! I would love to browse through a copy of Vogue that old… there is always evilbay!

I’m hungry…I haven’t ate since 2pm? Yeah…there is no food here and I have $10 dollars. I need to go back to work, I don’t want to but I need to start racking in the phat cash again. (Yeah, right.) I need to look for a different job but it takes forever to find one down here, I think it’s because it’s so overpopulated. Plus, I have my classes so I’ll probably just stay at the job I’m at. Phooey.

xoxo, Crystal

I’ve been following American Idol this season, before I never really cared to watch it because I hate jumping on the bandwagon. I used to only watch the try outs because I find them hilarious. The boyfriend always tells me that I should try out for the show, I’ve thought about it at the most for 10 seconds but I don’t think I ever will. I’ve loved singing ever since I was young, when I was 11 years old I auditioned for a high school production of Music Man, I was extremely nervous because I had to sing and read a few lines in front of about 30 people - I ended up getting a part. After a couple weeks of practice I ended up quitting, I haven’t a clue why but I think it had something to do with my stage fright.

When I was in choir through out high school we used to have a performance day where we had to sing something… I remember always pairing up with some one else just so I wouldn’t have to do it by myself. It was such a shame, because when I was singing with another person I knew I would over power their vocals so I wouldn’t sing to my full potential. No one ever knew the voice I had until later on in life.

I’m not saying I’m a great or extraordinary singer but I do sing well. When my mother and uncle heard a recording I did on the computer they didn’t even think it was me singing! I would say I have more of a classical voice…like a Disney voice! You can watch this video to kinda hear what I sound like.

The thing I don’t like about Idol is how mean Simon can be, sure he makes it entertaining and I laugh at how big of a jerk he is but I wouldn’t want to be the person he’s criticizing. Another thing I wouldn’t want is to be The American Idol. If I had a shot at singing professionally I would want to be on Broadway or something of the sort. I wouldn’t want to be a singer who wins a contest and has all her decisions made for her, only to be dropped from the record label if I didn’t end up racking in the cash. I don’t think I could sing in front of millions of people either, I don’t mind singing in front of a couple people or someone I’m closed to (James) but I always end up getting nervous in front of a lot of people, even if it’s just karaoke.

My favorite contestants on Idol this season are Ramiele Malubay and David Archuleta. They both have such mature voices for their ages.

I know, I know…this post was so back and fourth - sorry!

xoxo, Crystal

Ah! Ma, I’m scared!

Why do I always have to be home alone in severe thunderstorms? It wouldn’t be so bad if Florida had basements, and I didn’t live on the second story in an apartment building. Now, I know why I kinda miss the winter; it was a nice break from storms and tornado watches. Thankfully, it’s not that bad outside or I wouldn’t be sitting here typing to myself, but there is a tornado watch until 11pm. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I only have had to go through storms and no hurricanes since I’ve moved here in 2006.

I went to go to one of my favorite local thrift stores today and it was closed. No!!! They made the space into some kind of health place by the way it looked. I liked that store because it was small and not ever busy (probably why it closed) and it benefited animals. I need to find some better thrift stores, I can never find anything good at the ones around my city, the stuff is always crap. It could be because is Port Richey is redneckville.

Since the thrift store was closed I went to Walgreens to browse. I ended up buying clear nail polish, batteries for my camera, a Mr. Goodbar, and a $3.99 cookbook. The cookbook was a great deal for $3.99, it’s a hard cover book and has a bunch of traditional recipes, I really want to bake a pie!

This storm is starting to go crazy, I need to get away from the huge windows before my ass gets struck by lightening!

xoxo, Crystal