you night owl, you.

Hey, you.

I hope all is well. I am writing to you at the late..or early hour of 1:04 am. Oh well. There have been later and earlier nights. Today has been pretty okay, pretty much a blur and that's what I like. I got up this morning and looked forward to skating because I knew Meagan was going to be there (she's a girl i met at skating and we skate together). She is away at school most of the year so it was fun to catch up on what's going on with her and skate like old times where we dispense advice and ideas on new things to try. I love skating with all i have except those times when i hate it with all I have. You know how it goes...

After work came a short period of time to hang out before work which was to take place at 2pm (which turned into 3:15) ha ha. It was a good shift, we had fun (mostly Ambre and I). At first I did not want to be there. The more time off you have, the more time you want off. I still blame that cruise in 5th grade that we took that ended my skating career. We took 2 weeks off from skating and I did not really want to go back. So I didn't. DEPRESSING OR WHAT?! Oh well, it was for the best. I needed a life outside of skating so I could express my experiences through movements. Good times, huh?! So great..this paragraph got dominated by skating..let's try again.

So work turned out to be pretty okay. I tried Five Guys for the first time. It moved right next to Jamba a few weeks ago (we all held out for the longest time to find out what it was going to be). It has been really popular and a lot of people like it. I normally would not get fast foodish kinda things..but I was intrigued. I strayed from the common choice of a burger and fries and opted for the grilled cheese (cheese in any form is great). It was really good! So whatev. I will forego the guilt. Caitlyn came over to hang out for a bit after work. We always have a really chill time. We were enthralled with the Electric Sheep! She made me 2 mix CDS (I made her 2 last week) so we were playing them and convinced that they were going to the music. For those of you who don't know what Electric Sheep are..You need to go to that site and download it because it is quiiittteee groovy. Anywho..I'll have to do research to see if the waves of music have anything to do with the shapes that discomboble and reunite themselves upon your screen.

So..let's get down to it people; summer is in the air. Time to embrace it. For me, naturally i'll put away those "bitchy/superclassy" clothes (which I LOVE BY THE WAY..but they have their place) and pull out the handmade tie dyes and floyd/zeppelin shirts and start crankin "the drive" aka 97.1 fm. It's a natural thing for me every summer. The dead in the winter is depressing. You should be walking/playing/dancing around enjoying nature and life when you listen to the dead, Phish, Rusted Root, etc. Of course i listen to them year round, but prefer it more in the summer, where everything is really alive; to plants/trees, people, the air, and the summer spirit. So hello long flowy skirts, moccasins, wavy sun-dried hair, and bare-baked tops! I am so excited for it and really felt it today. It hit me, 6 days after my final class that all I had to worry about was work. You will be able to hear those flip flops flapping along downtown Naperville's most popular streets. The college kids are invading and everyone wants a piece of the night air. Get ready!

Things for you to do this summer:

1) Equip yourself with Grateful Dead's American Beauty

2) Buy a Hammock!

3) Take a long bike ride each day. Or a walk

4) Drink tons of water! ;)

5) Forget the tanning oil. Go for sunblock.

Things on MY to do list for summer:

1) spend a whole day eating nothing but a lollypop that is as big as my head. (sad how this is the first goal I thought of and at the top ofmy list.. ha ha)

2) more doubles! a triple maybe?!

3) get awesome at making cookies

4) make that paper!

5) being outside everyday

Notttt bad. Tomorrow = work at 2--cookies. I am excited; I love this job. i wonder what i'll be doing! YAY! Welp, have a good night all! I wish I was residing in Europe! Oh well. Soon enough!

-Tessarooney.

what a grad day it is!

HILARIOUS CLIP!

You know how sometimes you hear a song that makes you really sad comes on, but you don't change it because you want to feel sad at that moment. It releases something inside of you. It is remarkable to me how big of an impact music has, it's amazing. How it has such an effect on your mood and has the ability to change your persepective about something just by hearing it at a certain moment. I love pandora and I loved it way before iphones were even made and it became the "hottest ap" for your cellular device of choice. It's a music genome project and you can save certain bands you like and Radiohead of course and it will literally match it with music that sounds similair to it based on vocals, beats, instruments, etc. It's all i've been rocking to on my new laptop lately (which I am so thrilled about). I was actually starting to get worried, beleive it or not-- that I was going to run out of great music to listen to. I have heard all Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, etc etc. Mostly not creating any new tunes. Of course, in retrospect, I really don't have anything to worry about. There is so much good music out there and I have not even cracked the surface. Again, I must pay tribute to my downloading I had in the past. It served me well and supplied me with great music. Oh well. I need more mixes from people!

So alas, I will talk about what the day was all about. My mother's graduation from Benedictine University. It was long, but not uncomfortable. It was a proud day indeed. She received her masters in Clinical Psychology. Not easy stuff, folks. My brother came as well as my grandpa and grandma. 

Brother, Mom, and I

HA Ha, my dad and my mom :)

We ended up going to Greek Islands (see!--told you I love it!) and it was fantastic as usual. Now I'm just at home bummin around. I think I am going to go on a bikeride soon and then Danielle and I will go on a walk tonight since we are hanging out.

Last night Matthew and I hung out. We ended up going to House Of Emperor, downtown naperville, got bubbletea (honeydew lychee), went to the hookah bar, and then met up with Jesse at the Hilton. The oddest and strangest thing happened. When I walked in to the Hilton I saw all these familiar faces and realized a girl I went to high school with (and her husband to be) were getting married. How odd! I was somewhat friends with her all through high school, but it was just so random. I also ran into a guy I used to work with years ago a Domino's Pizza. Just odd running into people you hardly ever see or show up to find out people you know just got married. Hm. At the hookah bar, Matthew and I were talking about how even though there is such a big difference from country to country (sometimes it feels like another world) and there is so much in the world, that we are still just a small round mass floating about in outer space. It is just so odd to think that we are really in a huge bubble called earth. Everything feels weird when you think about it that way. Thinking about how we are so small in comparison to so much around us. I like getting into conversations about things like that. Breaking down how we function and how we fit strategically into the living world.

Anywho, enough rambling. I should take that bikeride!

-tessa

I shall leave you with a video of my mom getting her diploma.

THERE IS SCREAMING! BEWARE! HA HA HA

discombobulated!

Aloha

There are currently 3 good songs I'm really enjoying at this very point in time (they change ALL the time) Click to hear the song.

1) Starlight by MUSE (on their harp album especially)

2) L'amour est un Oiseau Rebelle remixed by Gorillaz by Gorillaz (this is bizarre-I love it)

3) Grey Street by Dave Matthews Band. I feel this band is odd because it is almost cool to either hate them or love them.  I think they are really talented as a whole and produce good work. I really think this song was written about/for me sometimes, ha ha. I love when a song is so relative. But then again, Everything is relative. I love it. This is a GREAT version.

& one more song I will love until the day I die..I've loved it for years and years:

OPHELIA by NATALIE MERCHANT. The link to the first is the original recorded song found on the album Ophelia recorded in 1998. The second link is to her performing it live, which she does so well. I would kill to see Natalie Merchant-she is so talented and her voice is so unique. If Natalie Merchant and Radiohead toured together, I'd cut off my limbs to see that show. But I mind as well cut of an arm to go see Phish considering the tickets are $150 dollars. They are very talented though. I am not sure why they are that expensive, of course it's their reunion show, but The Grateful Dead was only $90 even. Go figure. But even then so we are going to be camping out in Indiana for three days. It should be a really great time. I am so excited that Matthew is coming. Full of friendly people! --what a great environment.

So Mother's Day went really well. I got up early, cleaned up the house, headed to Trader Joes and got 3 different bouquets of flowers, Callalilly (mom's fave), a normal arrangement, and some yellow tulips. I had gotten her some unique  chocolate bars at Le Chocolat last night and a chocolate mousse truffle. Then I put flowers in different rooms and chocolates everywhere.I also made her favorite dinner which consisted of cilantro/lime rice (same as you'd find at chipotle),  honey/cilantro/jalapeño chicken and spinach sauteed with nutttmeeggg (ha ha Matt). It was good. Everyone was happy. Then for dessert I had prepared chocolate chip cookies with a tad of peppermint extract and lemon zest. They were fab. I took a long bike ride after we had an early dinner at 3:45. Linner? I realized I never think about riding a bike when I'm riding it. Same as driving. I asked my mom to go bike  riding and she said "No, then I'd have to mentally prepare myself." ha ha. I am always aware that I am operating a car/bike, but my mind wanders a lot. I'm sure this happens to everyone. Needless to say I thought of a bike clip... Ah..the old days. I used to love that movie. When I came home, I watched Gossip Girl with my mom. That show is so juicy and sneaky. I love it. I fell in love with the books in high school though. I told everyone to read them. They are so easy to get into and a quick read, plus it was a great way to learn more about designers.

I am going to have to buckle down and start studying for sociology. I have no motivation considering I could fail this test and it wouldn't even matter since he drops our lowest test grade and I've gotten good grades on both the other ones, but whatever, I shall attempt for the A and get even higher points. Managable. 50 questions. 50 points. Easy Cheezy

Last night ended up to be great. We hit up Red Mango (It's that mochi, I'm telling you!--it hooks you in) after our phenom chipotle. It's remarkable, I didn't actually finish it this time. It was ginormous! Then we went to the hookah bar for awhile, but I was just not in the mood to be out and about anymore so we headed home, grabbed another bottle of champagne, and watched South Park. Ha ha. I enjoyed it though. I love coming home from a nice night out and just relaxing. However, I should be starting sociology. Have a delightful night and have yourself a laugh.

 Funny movie clip! (includes my fave bike clip ever!) ha ha ha ha!

-Tessaroobop