Just something worth fighting for.

ok. so. can i just say, yes. i am a dork. i can be obsessive. i can spend way too much time thinking about something thats on my mind. and yes. i'm kinda into harry potter. so, this is something that is going to be a flippin epic item of my year. so obviously, i just have to post the trailer. even if it may not make you happy like it does me. :)

It's hot outside, let me go swimming in your eyes.

urban outfitters is just one of those stores...filled with awesomeness.

So yesterday, i spent a night in Sacramento and went to pretty much the biggest mall ever. it was pretty cool ;) got some awesome clothes too, maybe i will post about them sometime...in the near future? found the most amazing cargo pants/skinny jeans...i'm pretty excited. and ate amazing food, including literally the smallest taco i have ever seen and also...a midget muffin. :D it was adorable. also, i found out that my mom can be pretty spastic at times...driving, for instance, and that she has a pretty mean right hook {she stabbed me in the eye by accident...of course}. also, i found a hamburger phone! it was amazing, it was pretty much exactly like the one from Juno. i sort of loved it, nerd that i am. leave it to Urban Outfitters to have a hambuger phone hehe. aand i got to listen to my favorite radio station ever! the one that only plays in Sacramento, {94.7 FM if you're curious :)} so i forced everyone to listen to it for pretty much two days straight. anyways, that has been my last 24 hours. also i'm looking forward to the fair tomorrow with mi amiga, should be really fun :D
anyways hope you're enjoying the warm weather {FINALLY!} as much as i am ;)
over and outt.
xx
{emma}

sing us a song, and we'll sing it back to you.

not completely sure why i love this picture. all i know is that i do. aand, shes wearing doc martens!! therefore im pretty much jealous.

so the past few days have been relatively interesting, i spent the day in napa with my mom and brother just walking around and looking in stores, and we saw despicable me, which was actually pretty good. the minions were the best part ;) i saw this awesome clothing store, i wanted to go in but we were running out of time so we had to run. no music store though, thats direly {wondering if that's a word} needed. anyways then me and three of mi amigos went and saw salt, which i dont know if i was just like half asleep or something but i am still trying to figure out. hopefully i was just half asleep, cause otherwise i would feel semi pathetic. but it was pretty good though, it was one of those movies that i kept predicting and then pretty much the total opposite would happen, which is awesome. those are the best type of movies.

then today i helped at my neighbors' garge sale. got a cool ying yang ring and some earrings i'm going to see if i can bend into a necklace. this one guy was talking about losing good grip as you get older and he was saying 'we're just not geckos anymore.' i don't know why but i sort of love this for some unknown reason. it just sort of stuck in my brain and has been going in circles in my mind all day...don't ask. because i have no clue.
anyway that has been my last 24 hours ;) i have been attempting a paul mccartney concert post for a few days now but the video wont load, so i dont know. hopefully it'll be up in a few days!

also...one of the best. songs. EVER is my heart, by paramore {of course}...its been stuck in my head for 3 days straight so far. if you haven't already, give it a listen when you can. i love. ;)

till later <3

xx

{emma}

A million hours left to think of you and think of that.

whoa. long time no blog. the 4th seems like a looong time ago, i dont know why. how does time pass so quickly anyway?
ok so one of the totally awesome things i have done since then is...i saw paul mccartney in concert! yep. paul Freakin mccartney ;) he totally kicked ass too. it was really amazing, he was such a cool person, and he played a ton of beatles songs and they sounded so. amazing. anyway so that was preeeetty cool. and so now i am even more obsessed with the beatles than i was.
and some other current in love withs:
doc martens {i found the sweetest pair on ebay, they were black with sort of retro-y flowers on them...wanted them so bad but they went for like $200.} but i'm still looking. ;)
Aerosmith, just got one of their greatest hits cds and i'm sort of in love. also...whoever reads this you should listen to dream on when you get a chance, i love that song.
duck tape, not sure why. {yes i'm aware its actually DUCT tape, but that kinda ruined it when i found out it had nothing to do with a duck.}
hmm. the other night i pulled an all nighter with some friends and at like three in the morning when we were doing coke shots we saw this thing in the sky and we were like ufo!! it was weird it hovered for a little and then it slooowly moved towards us, flew right over us. then yesterday there was ufos in china...inneresting. hehe. aaaand. me and one of my friends wrote a song called...the pegacorn. we've pretty much decided we are going to be famous for it. ;) anyway, just thought i'd put that out there. we, are. very. special.

ok, so whoever ends up reading this, just comment if you have any, but any music suggestions? because i am in some serious need of new music right now. right now im in a led zeppelin/nirvana/beatles/third eye blind phase, but i know like all the words. so.

ok so, i am now bored with this post, so...sorry. i wish i had this really long list of awesome stuff that happened to me, but sadly. my life is not very interesting. so i just talk about...nothing. oh well.

oh! ok so if you are bored or need some good music {in my opinion} look up our last night. its sorta screamo but its really cool...i like. yee anyway thats preeetty much it. its been wayy too long since i've blogged, but...yeah. so i'm going to go and do something interesting, or...not, but yeah anyway. go pack for camping manana, should be cool. i'm excited for kyaking. anyways bye;)

{emma}

p.s. its 11:11!! make a wish ;)

i feel fireworks when i think of you.

well yesterday was...the third of july. which to anyone else who doesnt live here would be like, so? but. we cool hippy people are unique in that we have our fireworks on the...third. it was actually really awesome. went back to my school for the first time in a month, which has felt like alot more than a month, trust me. and saw some people i had {really} missed. i smiled alot, certain things made me so happy. and i absolutely adore that. and the fireworks were sort of amazing. i wish i had taken pictures or a video or something, but even if i had, i think it would have been something that you just have to see for real, because pictures wouldn't do it justice. anyway, it was pretty awesome. then me and two of my friends went to safeway to wait for our rides, and guess what i was labeled? the blondest of the group. how the hell did that happen? i'm almost insulted. one of my friends came home with me to wait for her ride at my house and we were sitting in the kitchen eating cherries, and we needed somewhere to put the pits. so i went and got a bowl, and she was like, its a pit bowl! ...{like pitbull}. it took forever for me to get it, and actually her too. but it was totally perfect. anyway i wish i had more to say, but i don't really. or don't want to put it up here...in case some random stranger stumbles upon my blog. oh and also, i have rediscovered my special talent. i can tie cherry stems in a knot with my tongue. i am so proud, i had totally forgotten about that. you know how people sometimes ask, so what are you like really good at? or something not many people know about you? and now i have something to tell them! i've been able to do it since i was like 8, but anyway. i'm sure no one really cares, but that sort of made me a little happy. among other things.

truth.

alright, well. happy 4th of july. have fun with fireworks. <3

xx

{emma}

This dream is of a carnival

me and two of my friends went to the fair yesterday, it was pretty awesome. i refused to go on any of the upside down rides so i looked like a loser the few times they went on with out me, but then they made me go on...wait for it...the zipper. it was freakin awesome. it was better but sort of scarier when you shut your eyes cause you cant see, but it was so much fun. pretty sweet.

anyway, thats all, i am crazy excited for a potentially awesome weekend with one of my close friends, you know who you are <3

au revoir.
xx
{emma}

Millenium Theater

ani difranco is so totally awesome. just listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIR19K0Kizk&feature=related

There's so many things i wish i had said, but now it's too late.

exeryone who sees this thinks its me, apparently...how does this look at all like me?? i mean im flattered i guess, but she looks nothing like me... oh well. just had to put something here to explain why i put it up here in the first place. so here it is.

so this week has been sort of amazing. i am out of school. finally! but you know what depresses me, because i know its completely twisted? im sort of glad that summer's short. i mean really, what the hells wrong with me? i dont know a single person ever who agrees. i do have a reason though, to see...someone. so. my friends still make fun of me though, no matter how much i try and justify my reasons.
also, i had a freakin fantastic last three days. so. thursday was my last day of school, i had to get through a math final, but orchestra was really...kind of fun. then after school i got five bucks from my pe teacher, then we all went downtown and pretty much just hung out, got food, free cookies, looked at wallets, i bought a tea, which no one else understands why i like tea, got green tea starbucks and smoothies, almost commited the act of trespassing, {haha, arent we such rebels?}, had an interesting time trying to keep earphones in our ears while walking on the highway, and i dunno...it was just awesome. then a few of us had to go play at the senior graduation, which was so loooooooooonnnnggggg. but me and one of my amazingest friends pretty much just talked most of the time so it was still fun. i have a question for anyone who ever reads this and if you have an answer just comment, have you ever heard of throwing tortillas at a graduation? or is that just my weird school? cause i swear to god there were like tortillas flying. everywhere. even some of the teachers were throwing them. i was so confused. and then...i didnt get to say goodbye.

isnt this totally sweet? this is actually my picture, i'm so proud :) i know its kida really cheesy but i found the idea on this website and i had to try it...isnt it kind of awesome?

so i borrowed my mom's phone because mine broke again and i was texting a bit on it and then i got home and...heres the convo...{i'm just going to try this out :) }
mi madre: you havent been texting on my phone right?
me: um. maybe. ?
mm: like how much?
me: um. not too much, like...20 texts. {i even rounded down, it was more like 24.}
mm: you're kidding right?
me: no...not so much.
mm: well my plan doesnt cover texts so youre probably going to have to pay for some of them...
me: k how much?
mm: i think like 2 bucks a text.
me: shit :0
haha yeh i dunno how well that whole dialogo thing really worked but oh well...it was sorta fun! anyway yeah, i am now officially in major debt. oh!!! by the way, i got an ipod!!! i mean i already have one but i had way too much music and i couldnt fit it all on so i got a classic, its pretty cool. its just black, but yeah. im happy :)
so...what else is new? hm... haha ok so i found out i got a C on my math final and a C- on my science final. which sort of depresses me and is also sort of ironic, because i thought i actually did ok. but now im really scared to find out how i did on my social studies because i literally BSed like half of it. my fingers are crossed though...

i love strawberries. so. freakin. much.

another highlight of my week: so we had our last pe class, which is a highlight all in itself, but we were playing ultimate frisbee {dont laugh} and the guys on our team were totally making fun of me and my friends and we were just kind of not caring but my pe teacher gestures me over to her and says emma, you need to tell them to shut the fxxk up, use bigger words!! big words are good!! tell them, i am asking you to!! so i actually did later, but i dont think they heard me. or maybe one of them did he just probably thought he heard wrong...dumbass. anyway that totally made my day.
so...anyway so then yesterday me and two of my friends had another sleepover, i made them come with me to this beatles tribute thing at this vintage clothing store right by my house at night, we showed up and we didnt know anybody so we walked downtown and then came back, said hi, then left and saw a movie. i was pretty sad, actually. and i felt really lame too. but anyway... we saw letter to juliet. it was...good. it was sweet but it was so totally cheesy, oh my god. i was cracking up in all the wrong parts. my friend kept looking over at me and i was laughing so hard i started crying except she thought i was reallycrying, and she was like emma, its not that sad. the guy in it was so akward though. it was totally awesome though, there were like two other people in the whole theater.

anyway, that has been my past few days, i'm in love with summer so far. but i'm also sad.

well...this was a dissapointment. i guess i wasnt really expecting anything, that would have been unreal. but i was wishing. maybe i didnt stay long enough for the wish to come true, who knows. i can dream, right?

anyway, i think thats pretty much it!!

oh by the way, all the pictures are actually mine this time, the picture of the girl is a picture of a picture i got from a really good seller on ebay, so i cant take credit for the actual picture. the picture of the picture though is mine...sorry i'm being so confusing.

bye.

{emma}

ps. i'm in love with this...and i can totally smell the summer<3

Always Thinking

this is basically one of my favorite pictures. p.s. there might be copyright on this, it IS NOT MINE. but i love it, so i'm 'featuring' it.

the rain reminds me of thousands of pieces of glass falling from the sky. i love the rain, when i can be inside and warm. or i'm in the mood to be wet.
well...hm. oh, i got a camera :) its awesome...and its purple which just makes it that much better. its so nice having my own camera again, now i can finally start taking pictures. i found the coolest website...http://vi.sualize.us/ just look at it theres some of the awesomest photography.

aaand i got a led zeppelin tshirt!! its pretty sweet, its just black and its got the swan song on it. fingers crossed it'll fit.

so last friday i had a sub teacher who told us he was woody allen...best. sub. ever. basically i spent the entire class listening to him tell people about music, and bob marley in concert, and the history of raggae and lots of other stuff.

so i am now officially taking voice lessons!! im so excited, we found an awesome voice teacher right close to my house and right downtown, shes crazy nice and she plays guitar too so she said she could help me and teach me more stuff, because i've sort of run into a brick wall with my guitar playing. i know chords, but thats basically it... anyway and she said she'd help me get into venues when i'm ready to play live or in front of people at some point. she was really nice, and she has the coolest house. no joke...i want a house just like that. actually, i havent taken a lesson yet, but i met with her and my first lesson is in about a week. i'm so excited!!

mkay, well thats about all the news i can think of right now, i'm sure there's more but my brother is bothering me to give him the computer so i must end this. anyway, later.

xx

{emma}

Song: Skinny Love ~ Bon Iver

Pulling Back The Pieces

just a random photograph that is actually mine, barely none of them on here are, but its one i took that i actually like enough to post. :)

whoa, long time no blog! i havent actually had a lot of time in the past few days, but here i am now. so on saturday had the CMEA fest for orchestra, let me say this again, on SATURDAY, which was kind of uncalled for but it wasnt that bad i guess. it was weird being at school when it wasnt school. anyway, we went to mario carillo high to play, and honestly the only problem i had with the whole thing was the fact that we had to wear dresses, and let me just say, it might not have been so bad if, 1., it was not a floor - length black velvet dress, and 2., it was not extremely hot out and in the room where we played. anyway, though, we did superiorly {or however you say that} so that was awesome :D certain things made me smile, too, which i love so much. happyhappy... anyway then i went to a party/old class get together collaboration type thing afterwards which was really cool because i got to see a bunch of people i havent seen for a while and i had actually missed alot :) i had a lot of social timethis weekend which was fantabulous {i heard that word at school today and i think its sort of cool}. every time i say social i think of social distortion now, {isnt that such an amazing band name?} because my dad was talking about on of their concerts that he went to, which i know is entirely random and a definite stretch but its the way my mind works i suppose. i came up with the coolest band name the other day but i cant remeber it now, which makes me sad. it was something like knotted rampage or something, blue rampage maybe? anyway.... speaking of musica concerts we got U2 tickets but, sadly, i cannot go, mainly because they cost a small fortune. but its actually ok, although i will be sad to miss that because i think its going to be a totally awesome concert, because 1., me and my mom are going to do something else fun instead, 2., i have hired my brother to film the whole concert {theorhetically, i doubt his camera has that much memory, but the best parts}, and 3., i am going to see Paramore and Tegan and Sara in september so its not like i am going without no concert at all. i absolutely CANNOT wait for that, it is one of the reasons i want summer to pass. i am almost considering buying a calendar just so i can circle the date like a trillion times with lipstick or something memorable, but i think that might be slightly over obsessive. if i had a calendar already though i would... anyway. hmmm...oh!! i found my purple sweater on ebay!!! i am sooooo happy!! its the one that i wore like all the time until i got robbed, and not only was like all my stuff stolen, but my sweater, jeans and converse were too, and also one of my favorite necklaces my amazing friend gave me for my bday. :( however i had managed to replace everything, ipod, phone {sort of...more on that later}, etc, except my sweater, and now i found it!! see, i originally got it on ebay, so it had that awesome gently worn in/used feeling about it, and so i kept looking for it on ebay but i could never find it, but now i have, and the best part? i won it for $2.50...apparently it was a $54 new sweater, and its still with tags and everything. :DDD those are multiply happy faces by the way :D perhaps i will post a picture of it when i get it. maybe... well...what else new has happened? hm. actually, i think i am going to chop this in half because i can tell this is going to be a Really long post, i will post the other half as soon as i write it. so until a few minutes.

xoxo

{emma}

Scarlett

We got a new guitar! so happy :) its so pretty, my dad got it off Craigslist. its a Yamaha, but its a red label Yamaha, which means its pretty old...like 30 or 40 yrs. which makes it even cooler. it sounds really bright and happy and the pegs are all old looking and vintagy. i love. I think i'm gonna name her scarlett probably, because my other one is named indigo. so, slighty nerdy yes i know to name it, but that's who i am. :D anyway...i didn't actually end up blogging yesterday, whatdya know?! actually it was more because nothing interesting happened...i cleaned my room, did math homework, and such. and this morning i forced myself to play my violin for school. joy joy. it actually wasn't that bad, but i would rather play guitar.

anyway, then, guess what, i had to go over and feed the swans and the other aminals {yes i meant to spell it that way, i love how it sounds when you say it...try it :) } and i ended up spending probably an hour with my brother in the Rain...ah yes the rain. we had to dodge the swans and then...i actually don't know what took us that long. hm. the swan dodging took more time than you think though. for further notice, the umbrellas worked spectacularly for warding them off! anyway, it was actually kind of fun in the end. after i got out of the wet and looked back on it. but my shoes were so soaked i almost considered walking across their creek instead of taking the long way round, because it wouldnt have made much of a difference. i would have had a really interesting {not in a good way} time if my brother hadnt been there...he was kind and brave enough to be the bait/defense/offense. thankfully, he didnt seem to mind the rain that much. i can always count on him to be sunny happy, even when its gray outside. okay i'm sounding pathetically poetic. so.

so tomorrows school. i cant decide if i'm dissapointed about that or not. i guess i'm neutral. not such a bad place to be, i guess. and, we have star testing on tuesday/wednesday, and yeah that sorta sucks but we get to go to school at 9:50!!! as opposed to 7:35, like normal. so happy!

ok, well, remember how i said i was putting off homework, which included lord of the rings? yeah well...now i have to go do that. at least its raining though so i'm not wishing i could be outside. anyway, enjoy the rain.

{emma}

Song: Emergency ~ Paramore

step outside the summertime is waiting. no silence can make you stay.

In Days Like These

well...its official. i've become obsessive. but thats just me i guess. well as you might be able to tell yesterday i had multiple doses of ice cream, which was awesome. and i found a pair of skinny jeans, which was also awesome. for clarification...i found the skinny jeans in a used clothing store...not in like a dumpster or something. just clarifying. and also, i spent most of the day with my awesome friend shani downtown. it was awesome. do you notice how i'm saying awesome alot? its because i'm just really...awesome. haha, NO. actually, its because i'm just really really tired. but, well, i just woke up. so this is a mystery to me. so last night my brother finally got to see his april fools trick pay off...he filled some beer bottles with coffee and soap and put them in the fridge for my dad to find...his expression was freakin priceless. and now apparently its war.


this is a totally random picture from anthropologie, but i like it, so here it is. and plus i havent posted a picture in a while, and posts are sorta boring without...

i am also in the process of writing a new song. its actually kind of cool; kind of indieish to me...i would post the lyrics on here but i'm paranoid because technically even though i wrote them and theyre mine someone could totally rip me off cause i dont have copyrights. probably not though cause its not like theyre really really good lyrics or anything, but still. so. until further notice i'm going to hold onto them. but anyway. enough about that...
well my break is halfway over already. which is incredibly depressing. for those of you who dont know me i'm the type of person who starts freaking out and getting all nostalgic when any break is anywhere past halfway done. so like right about....now. ahh the sun. i love it so much. and i cant wait for summer :D except {and because of this every single one of my friends thinks theres something wrong with me} i sort of like going to school. again, i dont like the idea of school, but i like seeing/meeting people. and seeing them every single day. and highschool's so much better than middle/elementary school. really. but anyway. and i'm going to have my brother teach me how to play bass over the summer, which should be awesome. i already know how to play some stuff...like the total basics. and i can pretty much read bass clef. and i think we're going to get an acoustic electric bass, so that should be easier to learn on than a stand up. i'm just excited for summer!!
well i have a feeling this is going to be a really long post, so now i'm going to end it. and also i've sort of run out of random irrelevant unimportant things to talk about. so goodbye for now.

{emma}



Song: Soil, Soil ~ Tegan and Sara

Are You Happy Now? Yes, Yes I Am.

i'm going to see Paramore!!! i'm SO happy/excited, you have no idea :) i can't wait. we just bought the tickets this morning, and suprisingly, they were extemely cheap...like $35 each. which for Paramore is pretty cheap. i'm so happy!! i dont usually write with this many exclamation marks, i promise, so this is how happy i am. i cant wait till September. joyfulness all around. except, i have tons of homework. ugh....mostly math. i guess its my penance for dozing while babysitting last night instead of doing homework. i never actually fell asleep, but i kept like closing my eyes and then jolting awake again...i swear someone should have filmed it or something i probably looked like an idiot. it was weird though, i kept hearing little tapping noises...it wasnt exactly scary, but it was sort of odd... i guess it was prbably just one of their animals. so yesterday, i was sitting in the car at Whole Foods {i didnt want to get out of the car cause my hair was soaked cause we both went and got haircuts} waiting for my madre and i saw this guy outside sitting on a bench and all i could think of was: oompaloompa...however you spell that. you know, the little guys from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? he didnt have like green hair or anything, he just sort of had a certain look... not in a bad way, really. whatever, i'm going to move onto a different subject now. because i think i'm being overly random. but thats just me. so its just one week until spring break, i cant wait for that either. we are going to monterrey for a few days, which should be awesome. hopefully its not raining though, because that could cast a depressing *aura* on the whole thing. i think we're going to go kyaking though, not with our kyak, but still; if we went in the bay it would be totally cool. and honestly, probably the thing i'm looking most forward to is this ice cream shoppe down there: its really good ice cream and they have this thing where theres one size thats like if you can eat it you dont have to pay...not that i would ever get that but still...for some reason that factor makes me like the place more. :) ok, well, i'm being called to eat breakfast, so farewell for now.

{emma}

Song: I Will Not Bow ~ Breaking Benjamin

Future Awesomeness

hello. so, ok, i know i'm posting within like 12 hours of my last post, but i promise i wont be this obsessive as time goes on...hopefully. its just the newness of it, and its pretty freaking cool. so i have news: so my parents (mostly my mom) have decided to go to europe, not this summer but probably next summer, which means...Greece!!! i'm so excited its not even funny. i think if i like it there i might live there for a year or so or be a foreign exchange student. it might be a slight problem though because with all this hot weather we've been having i've decided i'm not really into it, i mean you cant even wear jeans without basically dying. and i'm not liking that. so...

but then again i could live right on the coast where there's all those awesome rainbow colored houses (-->) and then i could just swim whenever i wanted :) it would be so freaking awesome. i really want to live in Portland and Seattle too though, so i might be doing a fair amount of traveling...which honestly? would be TOTALLY ok by me. other future awesomeness is that we (being me and mi familia) are going to see U2 in concert in May, and guess whos opening for them?? ...the Fray! its gonna be so cool, we just better find tickets or we cant go...obviously. i'm not like a diehard fan of U2, but i think one of their concerts would be pretty {epic} to see. {sorry, its the only word i could think of, but yes, i'm not really into when people say that to describe like...EVERYTHING.} anyway... and the fray, of course, will always be awesome to see. so yee...not much else interesting to blog about. it sounds really dull...blog. (haha wow i accidentally just wrote bog and had to change it.) see? the names no good. i mean come on, they could have totally come up with a better name, the...blogger creating...people? anyway, until...soon,

{emma}