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Danielle
05 June 2007 @ 01:20 pm
I find it funny how much life can suck but be completely wonderful at the same time.

I'm going on day 5 of this migraine, and that isn't fun. I've stopped eating because it doesn't stay with me anyway and it has become a waste of time. My new medication doesn't work very well, but I'm getting over it.

Other than that, life is good. Great actually.

I love my new house. I love looking out my windows and seeing deer in the backyard, hummingbirds everywhere, bunnies, and turtles. Oh shit, turtles. We live on turtle mecca, I'm sure of it. We've counted at least 27 turtles that have scattered around our property to lay their eggs for the season. We've also had one disgruntled snapping turtle the size of a cookie sheet out there as well. Our crazy German neighbor took it back to "state land" to get it out of our pond for us though. He's quite the character. He owns a Chinese Fighting Cock. Tell me that isn't a little bit strange...
I love that you can see every star in the sky at night, unlike down in Warren where you could see 3 if you were lucky. I love that the big dipper is always above our house too.
I love living close to Great Lakes Crossing and a Target at the same time.

I also am still completely in love with Nathan, if it's possible, I love him more everyday. We will be celebrating our one year anniversary on June 24. I don't know what I would do without him. I also love the fact that he has made this his second home and that he comes up here every weekend to stay with me. I have a feeling that when I get my apartment this fall, he will be a resident there just as much as I will be. We're going to his cousin's wedding next weekend and I can't wait. We're going to look so cute together it will be mildly sickening.

I do unfortunately miss the friends that still live down in Warren. If anybody wants to come visit. Leave me a message. It would be super fun... :)
 
 
Current Mood: loved
 
 
Danielle
31 March 2007 @ 04:21 pm
Life has been really good lately, and I'm hoping that saying that doesn't jinx it.

Went and saw an amazing concert last night, Sufjan Stevens at the tiny auditorium at Calvin College. We were about five rows from the front and it was incredible.
We had an awesome road trip to get to Grand Rapids and I love my boyfriend even more now. Except for the fact that he snores like no other.

We have sold our house and today... WE BOUGHT OUR NEW ONE!

It's brand new. Beautiful. Huge! We have a pond. It's not far from Great Lakes Crossing and a Target. So, I'm a happy duck. Now, it's time to focus on my apartment hunting and that makes me even more excited.


I wish it would get warm again so that life could be the definition of perfection.
:)
 
 
Danielle
19 February 2007 @ 11:27 am
Well folks, it's semi official.
Our house has been sold and I will no longer be a resident of Warren, Mi.
(Well, after Easter anyways.)
It's sad. Selling my childhood home has made me really sentimental lately. Packing everything into boxes has made me take a good, hard look at all of the items that I've accumulated throughout my life. I've thrown most of it away.
My mom is extremely torn up about this whole thing. She is convinced that this is what her and my dad want, and by that I mean especially my dad, but she still cries when she looks at a wall or puts something in a box. I feel bad for her. I know that her new, gigantic house, way out in some distant township should ease her pain though.
Next year I'll move into my own place. Nikki will be living with me, but I will, for the first time, be some place that is decorated by me, paid for by me, and where no adults live whatsoever. It's exciting. I can't wait to decorate it and live there. IKEA has been calling my name for some time, and when school is over, we will become acquainted with one another.

For now, I will continue to do what I have been doing. Going out in extremely cold weather to school. Not studying for anything. Packing. Hanging out with my amazing boyfriend. Sleeping. It's quite a life if you ask me.
 
 
Current Mood: cold
 
 
Danielle
18 August 2006 @ 12:08 am
Yes.
Excitement.
Happy.

More good times with my love. But they all are, so I don't know what I'm talking about... duh.

Tonight, he bought us tickets to go see The Fray. October 19.

I cannot wait!

He is too good to me and I don't know how I deserve it....
 
 
Current Mood: content
 
 
Danielle
16 August 2006 @ 10:33 pm
I am so happy sometimes I have to pinch myself.

It's like he knows when I'm upset, and he'll send me a message telling me that he's thinking about me or something else that's cute that makes me smile...

Today, I sent him one telling him how pissed my dad made me, and he sent me back one telling me to go outside. so I do. and he gets out of his car with the prettiest gerber daisies. it was amazing. he's amazing...


Work is ehh... but whatevs. it's work.

School is going to be ok... I'm kind of excited.

That's life. and it's good..


except now because I have a migraine.
 
 
Current Mood: ecstatic
 
 
Danielle
02 August 2006 @ 03:11 pm
I'm so proud of myself!

I went to the store today and then I made one of Paula Dean's recipes.

Maggie's Chocolate Brownies.
It's brownies, but then there's a frosting to it.... with mini marshmellows in it. It's pretty to even look at. I don't want to cut it and destroy it. Making things homemade takes so long, but it's so worth it!


Tonight is going to be fun.
Movie night with Nate.
V for Vendetta. (we bought it yesterday)
Titanic. I had to buy the delux dvd box set! it was cheap. and it says the movie has an alternate ending. I was so intruged, what was I supposed to do?!

Mongolian tonight for dinner with the family I think too. This should be good...


Oh. and my Dad's Uncle from Minnesota, my Great Uncle died last night too... poor Beno...
 
 
Current Mood: exhausted, in a good way.
Current Music: iTunes on random...
 
 
Danielle
25 July 2006 @ 07:56 pm
Well, I haven't updated in forever. So here it goes, a quick recap of my life.

Went to WSU orientation and I think I'm going to love it down there. So, we'll see :D

Hallmark. Work, ugh. I love my job, when people there aren't assholes. Which is about 50-50. or maybe 75-25...

Nathan and I just had our one month. It's great. I'm happy.

That's about all I do. Work... so...





How is everyone else?
 
 
Current Mood: crazy
 
 
Danielle
14 April 2006 @ 11:34 am

Uh. So I think today should be changed to "Bad Friday" instead of "Good Friday"

because....



TODAY IS REV. JOSEPH MICHAEL HERPERS BIRTHDAY! 

what a day this will turn out to be.
but. happy birthday lova!

 
 
Current Mood: pensive
 
 
Danielle
28 March 2006 @ 02:56 pm
So, yesterday was pretty damn amazing.
(Minus my head feeling like it was going to explode all day long.)

Coney, good. Hanging out with a group of random guys I don't know, weird, but good. Keri Dane and Mike, hilarious and good. The only thing that would have made it better would have been Brittany, but that day will come dear.

Today though, lots of things were making me really pissed off. I don't know. I just need to relax. For real, if I don't, I know where I'm going to end up and I don't want that. But, just for once, I would like to understand people's train of thought. What the fuck... come on.

I'm just glad that I have gotten to hang out with Keri and Brittany lately. I never realized how much I actually am madly in love with them. Everyone should get themselves a pair like them, because they will make you feel a lot better all the time...

So. Friday. Can't wait. That's just what I'll focus on. :)
 
 
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: the patron saint of fakes and liars
 
 
Danielle
14 March 2006 @ 07:32 pm

so there's that little beauty of a song, and then there's this. and i don't doubt that they do this too. because it's the south...


I said I'd do it Stac and I did. My ode to country music being at it's best... My my how the times change in the music world. None of that good stuff from when I was a wee child... Those were the good times.
 
 
Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: good music
 
 
Danielle
11 March 2006 @ 10:11 pm
Benton Kentucky is a hoppin town ladies and gents.

There's a billboard out on the road that says, Save the Future, BREASTFEED. Yes, that's right, that's what it says....

We ate at Patti's tonight. Cheesesticks the size of full dinner plates. Mmmm. Our waiter, Nolan, was sweet as hell too. We're moving down here so we can marry him. I told him I never got a birthday cake for my birthday, so he brought me out a little cherry cheesecake tart with a candle in it and people sang to me. :) He's cute.

I'm going to put pictures on here when we get home. If the indian sitting in a bathtub in the restroom wasn't good enough, the GIANT GIANT Jesus in sticking out of the ground certainly deserves it's praise.


There are cows everywhere. Bison everywhere. Wild dogs everywhere. Hillbillies everywhere. At least everyone in their cars wave to you. No one knows you, but they will wave at you. It's cute.


BED TIME! Because there isn't anything to do down here. There's even a time change here. It's an hour earlier than it is at home. It's crazy... but I'm always sleepy... So, peace out kids. Have fun. God's speed. Benton loves you.


Bork and Markel out.
 
 
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Country. Rap will get you shot down here...
 
 
Danielle
09 March 2006 @ 10:24 pm
Well. We're off. Stacy, Mommy M, and me. Tomorrow morning. At 6:30. AM.

We're gettin lucky in Kentucky...

Or at least we're eating giant cheese sticks in Kentucky...

We'll be back on Monday, so... miss us until then.






and. p.s.
was it just me... or was everyone on Eisenhower's student council taking drugs?
NO ONE is that crazy perky at that time in the morning...
 
 
Current Mood: tired
 
 
Danielle
06 March 2006 @ 11:58 am
So.. wanna know who got their song played on 89x last night?


Oh yeah, it was Search the City!!


I'm so so so proud of Jimmy and the boys...

Not only were they on the radio, but they're also featured artists on this website:
http://fleeingthescene.com/
This is a little snippet of what they had to say about them:
Search The City
One of the most talked-about unsigned bands, Michigan's Search the City plays a catchy brand of pop-rock similar to bands like Anberlin and Acceptance.

Check em out there, or you can check out their website:
http://www.camera-kid.com/searchthecity/


Oh yeah... ONE MORE DAY, ONE MORE DAY!
I'm excited as you can tell, but I know it isn't going to be anything overly special...
 
 
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: What else? Streetlights-STC
 
 
Danielle
04 March 2006 @ 10:59 pm
Can I re-ask Keri's previous question...

WTF is up with people being dick's lately?

I too am just wondering...
 
 
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Let Go- Frou Frou
 
 
Danielle
25 February 2006 @ 05:51 pm
So, I love my job.

It's fun, easy, and not stressful, unlike big boy's.

We get paid to stand around and do... I don't want to say nothing, but majority nothing. We help some people, cash some people out... and walk around. Looking at cards. So...

Me and April, the other girl that was hired with me, just look at each other a lot and laugh, because this job is insane... Our boss is insane. She's amazing though, I love her! They're greek (could have fooled me...) so they have crazy middle names. Her name is Pauline Aphrodite. Hm...
 
 
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Such Great Heights- Iron & Wine
 
 
Danielle
21 February 2006 @ 04:35 pm

                                                                      jukebox xromance: cause i'm bored off me ass
                                                                      Aquagirl307: do you turn irish when you're bored?

In case you all don't know... that's reason 421 why I love Keri. 
She's my girlfriend for a reason ya know...

I needed yesterday. I love Keri to death and I don't know why we hadn't hung out sooner, but we did last night and it was amazing. We drove around forever because we didn't know what to do. 

We street raced and she taught me the proper protocol of turning on your hazards when you win. We won once... but the second time wasn't such a success. Doing almost 100 down schoenherr... you can have the win dude... and then he turned his hazards on!! It made my life!!

Then the beautiful BLT joined us for some hanging-out-in-the-van-in-front-of-eric's-house time. We had some fun talks. and also, Quesa Tatters are amazing. 

Tonight should prove to be equally as amazing. The beautiful Melinda Duda will grace me with her company and we're going out for some food. Then BLT and myself are going to Jack's show. Brittany's gonna get some booty... lol. ;)

 
 
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: head automatica
 
 
Danielle
18 February 2006 @ 11:11 pm
Even though it was cold as a bitch today, it was the best one i've had in a while.
It was 13 degrees this afternoon.
Stacy came over and we went and got food and watched season one Grey's Anatomy.
I got that biotch for 17.99 on sale at Target. Amazing...

Then, hung out tonight.
It was one of the best times that i've had in a while.
Reasons like that are why Stacy was made to be my best friend.

Life is pretty solid right now.
I like it.
I know it won't stay like this, but i'm going to bask in this moment while it lasts.
However long that may be...
 
 
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Don't Panic- Coldplay
 
 
Danielle
17 February 2006 @ 07:07 pm

Guess who's a working girl again!

That's right, it's me. 
I am now a proud employee at Hallmark.
The Hoover 11 store to be exact.
I'm going through training next week and I'm pretty excited about the entire situation. I was afraid that I would be working with a bunch of old women and stuff, but they also hired another girl today who's a junior and then there are also a bunch of other girls in their teens and 20's there. Not that I'll be working with them all the time... but still. The job seems really fun, making card displays for the different seasons, cashier, CLEANING AND STRAIGHTENING THINGS (just what I'm good at..) 


Plus, I'm really excited about Winter Break! Hell yes a week off...

 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
Danielle
06 February 2006 @ 06:34 pm
I'm excited, the JC Application for Tahoe is up!!


Chances are slim to none that I will get picked, but if I did, it would make my life. I swear, I would love it! So, I hope hope hope that I get picked, but, like I said, slim to none.



The damn doctor needs to get a clue about what's up with these headaches. I don't have a medical degree and I know just about as much as her. Seriously, this cannot happen. These cannot continue to occur the way they do, it's ridiculous. For sure.
 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
Danielle
29 January 2006 @ 12:33 am
So... I guess by "party it up," what I really meant to say was... get lost in Detroit.


I don't think I've ever had such a fun/scary time before.
Potholes.
Wrong way on one way streets.
Wrong freeway.
Complete confusion.
The Bridge.
Closed Streets.

Then we came home and Channel Four mocked us by showing us the place we were trying to get to. Go figure...

Dane Cook was on SNL again. I knew it was a rerun and had watched it before, but I totally watched it again. Because I love him...
 
 
Current Mood: sleepy