the bright side of ugly

Just came back from the mall. Mom drove me and Norah all the way out to Cary Town Center because they have a delia's and an Aeropostale there. I need new clothes for school as nothing fits anymore. Nothing fits in the store either. I hate it. I hate it when things don't fit but I guess it's cool. I got this really cute applique denim skirt from delia's which is very cool. I also tried on this realy cute boho skirt at American Eagle which was very cool but very expensive. $40 so Mom said No. We can wait till it goes on sale. But thats ok. Then we had Chick-fil-a for lunch. It's so fried and nasty but it was that or Burger King.

My parents are watching this dumb show on the boob tube about these gamblers losing all their money in Las Vegas. And yet they are still smiling (the dumb people in the show). I can't tell what the point of the show is... I hate casion's... smoky and disgusting drunk people walking around with beers and thinking they're going to win lots of money when really they are doing the equivalent of throwing it into the trash can.

I'm so bored. I think I'm going to visit Harris Teeter avec mon pere. Au revoir!

Posted by hayley at Saturday, July 30, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

I don't know why I keep bother updating this blog when no one's reading it. Maybe I think that someone will get a wildhair up their butt and glance at it once in a while. Most likely not though. We picked Norah up today from camp in Asheville. Or shall I say Hendersonville aka hickville and home of the largest Walmart known to man. It's good to have her home but I still kind of feel bad that I missed all of camp. Whatever. I can't help it. The car ride was really long and boring... especially since Norah was watching Pride and Prejudice on my computer (which I brought along for me but watched half yesterday in the car on the way west and she wasn't caught up and I didn't want to rewatch the first half) and all I had to read was the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which gets progressively weirder as I go on. Now we're just chilling. Norah's in the shower washing off 4 weeks worth of dirt and Dad is reading the new Harry Potter book (which Norah also started in the car and happily closed it as we stopped for lunch "I'm on page 10!"). Mom is messing around on the internet. Or as much messing around as an adult can do on the internet without playing dumb games or searching random things on google. This means she is looking at airline tickets even though we have not planned another trip until we go to Kiawah in a couple weeks. Apparently they are having a sale. It would be really cool to go somewhere for a weekend. I haven't been home for a weekend in 2 weeks... first we went to New York City and then last weekend I was in Fort Lauderdale and now I just came back from Asheville even though it's Friday and doesn't really count. It was nice just getting away for a little while though. Anything is better than sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.

My hands are really sweaty from typing. My hands are always so sweaty it's really gross.

When we got to Bluestar and went to Norah's cabin to get her she wasn't there. Her stuff was all stacked neatly under her bed and her counsler was there and she was like "oh yeah, Norah went to say goodbye to one of the other girls with one of the other girls. she shoud be back in a second." and so while we waited Mom and Dad loaded the bags into the trunk and I went to the bathroom. Because I had a lot of cranberry juice to drink at breakfast and there is no bathroom between the hotel we stayed at and the camp. And I heard her come in to the cabin. I was washing my hands. and a second later she's suddenly in the bathroom giving me a hug and crying and touching my hair. And it made me feel really good. Like someone actually missed me. I missed her too but I didn't notice how much until we actually got her. It was just really quiet without her hanging around. Whatever.

Posted by hayley at Friday, July 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

I am so terribly out of shape. It's not even funny. I'm working again at my mom's office today and after I finished my lunch I ran downstairs to get my mom some cookies out of the vending machine (conveniently located on the basement floor when my mother works on the fourth floor that's really the second floor because the basement is first floor and all the numbers are messed up but whatever) and it took me like 10 minutes to get my breath back. I should join a health club like the Wellness Center at Meadowmont but I am way too lazy. Besides its not like I have any transportation or way to get there. There's a fitness club in Timberlyne too... right by my house. I think once school (and gym) starts back up again we'll do workouts everyday for like an hour and maybe I'll get some muscle tone. Maybe not. Weight-bearing exercises are good for me though.

I should really get back to work sorting video-tapes. I worked on it this morning and logged and finished all of the grade 6's but there are still grade 8's to start. I really don't feel like it though. I know I should help, there's no reason for me not to. After all, I'm here and there's work to be done and I'm just chilling, updating my blog and playing sims. on my computer. I told Susan (the lady my mom works with that I'm sorting videotapes and cd's for) I would get back to work after lunch but now I think I've decided I'm too lazy. There's something that comes with lunch that makes you slow down a little bit and not want to get back to whatever you were doing. Or at least that's how I always feel after I eat lunch.

I just finished this book yesterday... The Rise and Fall of a Tenth Grade Social Climber. It was kind of good but I stayed up really late reading it... like until 11:00 and I don't know why. It wasn't Harry Potter or anything and not even that good. No meaning. Not that Harry Potter really has any meaning either... it's just sort of comfort food. The girls in the book had such horrible values, or shall I say lack of them. They cut half their classes everyday and instead spent their time getting high and drinking various liquors in the bathroom and low-class Mexican bars. They were all supposed to be high-class girls too. Members of the uber-rich upper class of New York City. Their parents were all famous diplomats, lawyers, and a Martha Stewart look-a-like and yet they were still trashy. Even with the Armani sweaters etc. one of the girls shoplifted. Even though her parents were bazillionaires and she had enough to pay for it... And the dumbest part of the whole book? At the beginning the main character makes a bet with her ex-bff that she (the new girl) can make it into the cool girl clique by winter break and get invited on their beach-vacation or whatever. And then she spends the entire book accomplishing this feat while keeping a journal that she is constantly making nasty comments about these girls in. Then when she pisses the ex-bff off he gets a hold of the journal and posts it online where the cool girls all see it and immediately turn on her. Then ex-bff feels bad and has the new girl (not so new anymore) post an apology letter on the same site so she can get all her friends back. And so she does and they invite her on the trip. Talk about shallow. Low morals can we aim lower? Sometimes I wonder how these type of books get published. For girls like me I guess. Who read them and wonder as they are reading them why they picked it up in the first place. And also for the shallow girls that like to read those books and set the characters as their role models yada yada. Only those girls don't read books. They just go out and do the same things that the girls in the book do. Without any prompts. But obviously it's still important enough for me to write half a page about it. Or I'm pathetically bored eough to write and entire half page about it... Your cup can be half full or half empty...

Ew. I just came back from the bathroom (because I drank an entire bottle of water at lunch and therefore insured that I would be visiting the cubicle periodically for the rest of the afternoon) and in the toilet someone had left their bloody tampon and it was all puffed up and swollen from being left in the bowl for so long. Why can't people just flush their waste? No one wants to see it and it isn't that hard to just press the lever with your foot or hand or muscle of choice. whatever. I always feel really guilty and disgusting when I leave the stall without flushing... which I never do unless the flush is broken and the pot won't flush. But even then what else can you do? Scoop it out with your hand. No. Simply close the door beind you and wish that you had picked a different stall. Also commit the broken toilet to memory because if you are me and drink 10 glasses of water a day chances are that you will be back within the hour and you wouldn't want to make the same mistake twice. Not that you could because you would know as the waste is still in there from the last time you used it. Wow that was way too much detail right there. Whatever. I'm a loser... get over it.

Posted by hayley at Thursday, July 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

another hot day in north carolina. i think the high was at least 101 today but in some areas it feels like 112 because of the humidity. it's horrible. like being a rotisserie chicken every time you step outside. thank g-d for air conditioning!! i spent the day at my moms work again. it's kind of boring but today we ordered in the loop for lunch which was fabulous even though i had the loop for dinner last night too. the loop is always so good. the fries there are yummy and hot and they melt in your mouth. yummy! now my mom and i are just waiting for my dad to get home so we can eat dinner which is done. roast chicken and portabello mushroom risotto.

mom is watching the boob-tube while i blog (i can now multi-task and blog and watch at the same time thanks to the new wireless internet inmy house lol. just what i need another reason not to get up and move). hgtv some terribly boring show about people redoing their bathroom or living room or porch or whatever. i hate this show but its ok because im not watching. but obviously i am because i just narrated it. she was watching rachel ray before on the food channel. her show is called 30 minute meals and she makes an entire meal in 30 minutes (obviously hence the name!). i just like her because she makes all the food on the show... doesn't make 1 cake and pull a preprepared one out of the oven. i think today she was making portabello mushroom steaks which was pretty nasty i think. why not just eat a steak? i guess for vegatarians but the only kind of mushrooms i really like are the ones that come in chicken marsala ;-).

i can't beleive that it's already time to pick up norah from camp. we're driving to asheville tomorrow night to get her and picking her up friday morning. the four weeks she was gone went by so fast. its going to be kind of weird when she gets home... talking about camp all the time. but i can't blame her i mean that's all she's experienced for 4 weeks. i just hope she didn't pick up any nasty habits from her cabinmates. like saying a really annoying word all the time. or turned into a jap (i.e. jewish american princess for the camp-vocabularily challenged). which she already was... but a low class jap. me too. maybe she'll come back all obsessed with juicy. but probably not. i just don't know what to expect its so weird. i do know this. she'll want wendy's on the way back from camp (its a tradition... camp food sucks and those french fries taste so good... you're going home, you've got a hot shower coming and some real food lol. at least thats how i always feel when i come home from camp...) and chinese for dinner. which she's unlikely to get due to my current situation. perhaps mom will get her to settle for oiishi's instead... its just as good and probably healthier because they cook everything all the way and don't use any cat meat. also they have the BEST shrimp dumplings there. they are ust so good!

dad should be home really soon. i gotta go help put dinner on the table. ttfn. to the nonexistent people reading this that is...

Posted by hayley at Wednesday, July 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

so yesterday's flight was luckily uneventful. the plane even left the airport on time which was a definate plus because i thought it would be delayed due to weather, an afternoon thunderstorm is nearly always brewing here or in florida. i had expected it to be very hot down in fort lauderdale and it was but it was actually cooler there then it is here. low 90's verus today it was supposed to be 101 and feel like 112. it was in the newspaper and on the radio that one is supposed to avoid being outside in this heat. even the constructuon men building houses in my neighborhood had to stop. i guess they've had the past few days off because i haven't heard anybanging from over there.

florida was really weird. it put me in such a morbid mood. we went to visit my g.g. who is 98 and very old. she just moved into an assisted living facility and is having a tough time adjusting. everyone there is just waiting to die it is one of the most depressing places. almost like the blood cancer ward at the hospital. though those kids haven't just given up and are waiting to die like these people that ward is always a sad place to visit. anyway so the home is just very old people who are all just waiting to die. it made me really depressed the whole time. there was a lady having her birthday party while we were there. she was turning 101. i don't think i want to make it to 101. i don't think i will... not many people do but maybe by the time i'm that old there will be all sorts of treatments to make you live longer. so that was that. we saw my aunt and uncle from california while we were there too... they met us. also my great-aunt and great-uncle who live in fort laudderdale. we did dinner with them on saturday and sunday. saturday we went to this great fish place and i had scallops (i love scallops!!!) and then on sunday we went to the outback which is always pretty good (steak and mashed potatoes lol).

now i'm hanging out at mom's work chilling and working for service learning hours and pizza. i organized and dated all these cd's... there was like 10 boxes of them. that was very tedious but i got a yummy chanello's pizza for lunch and 3 service hours to go on my highschool transcript. i don't know how some of the interns in my mom's office do it. it must be horrible just organizizng and filing and labeling all day 5 days a week for 3 months. i think i would die.

later have an orthodontist appointment. i didn't wear my headgear and so she is going to wire my jaw shut (probably) and it will suck. i don't even want to know. like the mother in finding neverland... i'll take their drugs and put on the anesthesia mask but i don't think i want to know what metal objects they're wiring inside my mouth. i hope it won't set the metal detectors off at the airport. that would be horrible. but i guess the brackets didn't last weekend so maybe the wire won't either. my poor mouth. my poor poor mouth. but at least she doesn't have to worry about me sneaking popcorn anymore. that is on the no-no high fiber list. i have been banned by dr. kim to ever touch it again. in modeation.

hmm... there was supposed to be a thank-you party today sometime at my mom's work with cake and ice cream but it is 3:14 and i see nothing. oh well maybe tomorrow. i'm sure i'll be back. unless mom manages to take tomorrow off and then i'm supposed to go school shopping in cary. oggi girl is having a sale and delia's too. we were supposed to go on thursday but the kid she was working with didn't show today and he wants to come on thursday when his cousins leave which is fine. going in search of the goodies...

Posted by hayley at Tuesday, July 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

yes here it is... my last day of cfs camp and instead of making the best possible use of the tools at hand i am updating my blog which i can do at any old time. listening to blink-182 on mon ipod. i love this album. take off your pants and shirt. i've been trying to listen to other stuff all week but when it comes down to it i just love it. it is definately the best.

i was reading the new harry potter book last night. i got to exactly the middle... chapter 15. i'm such a geek when it comes to harry potter. i don't even know why i like it. it's such an easy read and you wait so long for it (2 years to be exact...) and then you read it and you're like hmm and then a week later you're done and waiting for the next one. i guess its more of a comfort thing than of anything else. i don't know. i really disliked the fifth book... it was like harry potter was looking to be special but now in the middle of #6 there are constant referals to arguments and things that happened in the fifth book which i don't remember. i mean it was 2 summers ago that i read it. i'll have to go back and skim through it. at least #6 doesn't have the beginning story chapter like all the others. that gets a little old. my mom says that the books should come with like a bookmark timeline to remind you of all the previous things that happened but you don't have to read it if you don't want to. this is probably a good idea because when you skip that first reiterating chapter in the book you are also likely to miss something j.k. rowling slips in there that will become important later... at the "oh moment" when it all comes together in the second to last chapter including a lengthy chat between dumbledore and harry. that's another thing about the harry potter books that bugs me... they all follow the same format! it's annoying but proves the comfort thing... you know what to expect. grr... the last thing that's annoying about #6 (and also a little bit in #5) is that j.k. rowling tries to develop relationships between the characters. why does she need to add in that hermione asks ron to the yuletide dinner or whatever? or that harry feels a frisson when watching ginny. it's turning the book into a twisted triangle of love and if i wanted to read about that i would (and i do read that crap half the time). she should definately stick to talking about harry potter because twisted triangles of love are not her strong point. though i still think it would be pretty funny if hermione started sleeping around and got pregnant with one twin harry's and the other ron's. like on passions (a soap opera that norah and i like to watch in the summer for those that actually have something better to do then sit around and watch passions and dawson's creek and other crud like that) when ethan had an affair with theresa and she was pregnant with his baby and also his and gwen's baby due to some mixup at the hospital. then when one baby died they fought over the other one and it was funny.

blink-182 is finished. now i'm listening to simple plan. no pads, no helmets, just balls. another old album but new to me... i just got it in new york city.

i guess the attacks yesterday in london were only attempts and not fufilled. thats good. i think 1 person injured? i don't know. the authorities are still not letting a lot of details out and keeping the whole thing hush hush. it makes me really sad that people think they need to resort to bombings and violence to get the message across. what makes me even sadder is that it sort of works. i mean. i don't know what i mean. it's hard to explain.

leaving for florida tomorrow so the nonexoistent people reading this shouldn't expect another entry until monday or tuesday... whenever we end up getting back because i'm not too optimistic about the weather. we have an afternoon flight home on monday and afternoon t-storms down here (and there) are an often occurance. i expect an afternoon of waiting around in the airport and an early morning flight back tuesday. i don't know. at least i'll have my harry potter book to read (and reread if it gets that bad i gues) and the fort lauderdale airport has lots of stores and frappes and stuff. or it should. don't all airports?

Posted by hayley at Friday, July 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

here again today... early morning waiting for this web design camp to start. listening to my ipod. i downloaded coldplay onto it last night. i really like them. they're like a mellow blink-182. maybe i'll get their new album along with the simple plan one later because my mom said she might take me. if she's not too tired. i don't know after camp i get home and i'm like now what? let's do something! yesterday she took me to northgate to go shopping at aeropostale. i got some really cute fall clothes. a khaki skirt, tan bermuda boy shorts, a brown boho skirt, and these 2 really cute sweaters. i can't wait until its cold enough to wear them lol. i also got a pink tanktop at old navy to go with the brown boho skirt. i hate old navy. nothing in the girls section is very cute... all glitter and plastic pictures. i don't fit into the women's though like everyone else. even amy can squeeze into an xxs. not me. hayley the eternal size 12. though i suppose thats better than being an eternal size 12+. i should be a 14 this summer but am not. turning 14. my birthday is in a little over a month. ditto school because that starts up the day after. should be fun. not.

yesterday afternoon i had the worst headache. it was horrible. i took a tylenol because even though ibuprofen/advil is better i'm not allowed to take it anymore because of my stomach. so the tylenol was like expired because no one uses tylenol in my house so we don't buy any and it was just really bad. i hope i don't get another one today because i also had the same type of headache when i was in new york but i thought it was a sinus thing because of all the bad smells and smoke in new york city. pick up some tylenol at the store along with the acne pads. very important acne pads before my face breaks out like a pizza. a steroid induced pizza.

this morning coming to camp my mom had npr on and i heard there was another bombing on the underground in london. that really sucks. exactly 2 weeks from the first one. and all the suicide bombers the last time turned out to be english guys... right? there weren't any details yet but i'm sure we'll be hearing about it later. and hearing about it and hearing about it. as we should because all the bombings should really stop. i remember 9/11 and the state of panic it put the country into. i also remember the bombings in madrid last summer. those were bad. all this bombing. can't we be mature adults and solve this issue with our words not your hands? use your words not your hands to solve problems. didn't we all learn this as small children? i know my parents preached it to me.

my parents still plan on going to fort lauderdale on saturday. my mom made reservations at the hotel and for a car and everything. the trip is going to be so weird. my 98 year old g.g. (great-grandmother) just moved into assissted living out of her appartment and so we're going to sort through her stuff (she couldn't take everything i guess) with my great-aunt and my uncle and aunt who are flying all the way out from california (they're staying less time then we are though its really weird. they're coming on sunday morning and leaving the same time monday afternoon as us. all the way out from california for an overnight??). we're not even going to be down there for very long, barely 48 hours. i'm not even supposed to be there. should be at camp but whatever. i'm not. it will just be weird. really weird. at least there's lots of yummy food in florida. so much seafood. muscles, clams, scallops, shrimp, she-crab soup, snow crab, lobster. everything! omg i love seafood!

maybe it was a bad idea to listen to the entire coldplay album. it's making me feel very mellow and relaxy and also bored and angry. and frustrated that i have to fix the dumb flash movie because i only have 2 days left with all the stuff and equipment here and who knows the next time i'll have an oppurtunity like this and i'm wasting it and feeling the pressure and i hate it. it's all coldplays fault. time to switch music but i don't really feel like listening to anything else. in fact i think i'll just stop writing this because no one's reading it anyway...

Posted by hayley at Thursday, July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

i've just discovered my ipod. i mean i've had it since last september but just last week i've really discovered it. just that in new york city everywhere you go you see people walking around with their ipods and mp3 players and stuff. on the subway, the street, the grocery store, starbucks, the park, jogging, biking, roller blading... anywhere! and i thought well if they can why can't i? why not? i mean i have it... so i did. everyday this week i've brought it with me to cfs camp and listened to it during odd moments. walking to the computer lab in the morning when i first get here, during snack, lunch, and waiting for my mom to pick me up in the sweaty afternoons. in fact i've got it on right now. dixie chicks but a second ago it was yellowcard and before that blink-182 because it's on shuffle. 223 songs and i've been listening for 30 minutes and have only made it through 7 of them. oh it's changed... dave matthews band. my dad likes to listen to them. i have kind of weird taste in music. i don't think i have anything new new on here... mostly songs and hits from 2002-2004. whatever. not like it matters. i do want to get the new simple plan album though. and the black eyed peas. maybe dad will take me to barnes and nobles today after camp.

last night there was a really violent storm while i was trying to sleep. it seemed to go on forever. the lightning was so bright it lit up my whole room every few minutes and the thunder was like BOOM BOOM BOOM. it stayed over my house for a looong time. i love thunderstorms in the summer. i just love feeling safe inside while the storm rages outside. i felt so cozy last night in my bed. i hugged the pillow and the sheet and listened to the thunder and was just like enjoyinh it i guess. in my old house we had a screened-in porch outside connected to the deck and i liked to go out there during the thunderstorms. especially when it was raining really hard and just like pouring buckets down from the sky. the water torrent down the roof in like a sheet off of the gutter and it would form this veil thing around the room. our backyard was sort of a hill so the porch and deck were like way high off the ground. there was a flight of stairs that lead from the deck to the ground and so when you were on the porch you were way high up. level with the middle part of the trees and the birds. the trees would sway in the wind and the lightning would crack and it was so pretty. i have a screened-in porch in my new house too but it's not way high off the ground like the other one, and it leaks so the effect is just not the same. i think that's the only thing i miss about my old house. the screened-in porch thunderstorm experience.

admist all this thundering last night a had 2 really really weird dreams. first i dreamed that i was in the car with mom and we were in a parking garage waiting to pull into a spot and rachel bilson and adam brody from the o.c. were driving by in this beat up old blue car and i was looking at them. this creepy guy was chasing them and trying to get their autogrpahs or something. then we were waiting at the elevator and suddenly mom and i were all alone and we were stuck in this parking garage place but with rachel bilson and adam brody. and i got their autograph which was weird because i would probably not ask if i saw them on a street and it was really weird. then my second dream was equally as strange. i dreamed that it was marit's birthday and i went to her house to deliver her birthday present from last year that i never ended up giving her (on moms suggestion) and it was in a brown harris teeter bag and i just wanted to put it in the mailbaox but we got to her house and they were having a party and so mom wanted to go in and i was like fine but only for a second. there was this big cake with a 4 on it outside in the front yard and the theme of the party was like fourth of july/america/USA pride. which was weird because her birthday is not july 4 it is july 29(though i think her brothers birthday is... don't ask my why i even know her birthday i just remember everybody's birthday) and we went inside and her house had been replaced by like this store thing and you could pick out little trinkets and make a hat. and mom wanted to make one and i was like no lets leave im not even friends with her anymore! and then my mom was like well ok but be sure to tell her mom thank you for having this nice party and i was like "well i kind of wasn't invited int he first place" but she made me do it and then we left or i woke up. all in all it was a strange night for dreams. weird lightning induced dreams...

i feel really bad that i'm at this camp with all the equipment to make flash movies and i'm writing emails to norah and updating my blog. i'd love to make another movie but it's kind of frustrating when you can't get it to look totally perfect or exactly the way i want it to. also i have no more ideas. something about meatballs maybe? i don't even know. it's so boring and slow absolutely nothing is happening. bored. bored. bored. lets see what i can come up with and be productive...

Posted by hayley at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

back from new york city two nights ago and being bored at this web design camp thing again (dont want to start working on my flash movie yet because i will later and then i'll just get frustrated from doing it too long). here are the highlights (not in order of best-of but in how early i thought of them)
1. waiting 6 hours in rdu on wednesday because the flight was delayed and delayed and delayed like 4 times because of inclement weather. and at first they were like well if we can get onto the plane in 20 minutes we should be ok but we couldnt move fast enough and so the flight ended up getting cancelled and so we left first thing thursday morning which wasn't so bad because we only had to wait in the morning for like 45 minutes and we got to my uncle's appartment at like 9:30 so we still had time to go to all the places.
2. the moma had the best chocolate croissant at the espresso bar. it was like buttery and yummy and then we went to the architechture and design exhibit and the pirasso and cezane traveling thing that was in. then we went to carnegie deli with my uncle jeff for lunch and they have such huge sandwiches there. no one ever finishes. you have to wonder what happens to all the leftovers. good pickings for the homeless guys out on the street? waste of food. then my aunt hannah who works at teenpeople gave us a tour even though she was on deadline for the next day and i got to raid the beauty closet and get free makeup and stuff which is always a plus. a cd too this time... simple plan but not the new one so maybe i'll pick that up at barnes and noble for the trip to florida on saturday. the black eyed peas album too because, why not. i still have like $100 to spend there a year after my bat mitzvah...
3. then on friday we saw the frick house which was a gorgeous house but i started feeling sick in the middle of looking at all the paintings and there were like these guys standing in all the rooms in fancy coats and when i tried to sit down they were like no. so it kind of ruined it for me but it was still such a pretty house. the ceilings and walls and furniture. so intricate and beautiful! there was also this cool courtyard in the middle of the house with like a pond. it was white marble and green plants and the burbling fountain, it was just gorgeous! then mom and i navigated the city and made our way down to soho which was pretty cool and there was this one cool indian shop and i almost bought a tunic but it was like $35 and i was going to feel horrible if i got it and it just sat in my drawer. pretty cute though. i wish we had stores like that in chapel hill but we don't.
4. while in chicago a few weeks ago i made the pleasant discovery of frappechinos and so everywhere you go in new york there's a starbucks or a dean and deluca on like every cornere. we didn't get any starbucks but had dean and deluca's mocha frappe's twice. they are so expensive though! like $4.50 for a large at rockerfeller center (we walked there too after visiting teenpeople) and at the gigantic dean and delucas in soho it was $5.00 which made mom pretty mad that it should be more expensive at one place and not the other. also at the dean and delucas in soho they ran out of ice and so the lady behind the counter was trying to take it out of the food which was GROSS but then they found some but they did it so fast and hurridily (we had been waiting) that it wasn't as good as the one at rockerfeller center. ah well.
5. finally on saturday we saw wicked in the theater district which was awesome. **my first broadway show** it was really good. i've been wanting to see it ever since i heard the soundtrack way back in sunday school carpool with mia (she's moved to illinois now). then i got hooked and read the book last summer and then this summer i got to see it!
6. after wicked walked around times square and went into the mtv store (where they film trl but they weren't filming because it was saturday and trl is in las vegas this summer anyway) and i got this really really cute messenger bag. then i went to buy it and the lady behind the counter said it was named for like lindsey lohan and when she came to trl for the launch she expected special treatment because "she's so great" and then the people outside were like so what... and she didnt get any. which is actually pretty funny.
6. the flight home was ok. we were only delayed about an hour or so which wasn't so bad i guess. you never know with the summer weather. dad said it thundered and rained really hard at home.
7. i hate the way it smells in new york. i just felt so dirty on the subway and like walking in the street after touching something in a store. dirty dirty dirty. i would get back to my uncles appartment and just like wash my hands for a few minutes because it was so disgusting. the smells too. getting off the airplane in rdu it smelled better already and i was just like yesssssssss!
8. didn't really do anything yesterday. went to camp. started a flash movie. got a letter from norah who reminded me once again to get her some makeup at teenpeople! i swear she doesnt care about anything else!
9. i dont have anything else to say and i think we're going out to break soon so i think i will stop. especially since no one is reading this because no one is home except for me!!!!

Posted by hayley at Tuesday, July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

waiting to start the web design class at cfs... so while i cannot think up anything else to put on my homepage and while other kids are playing games i will update my blog because i wont have anytime to do it later because i gotta pack for new york (yay leaving tomorrow!! excited excited) new york is going to be very fun. my aunt hannah is on a deadline so we (my mom and i) won't be able to visit her at teenpeople (usually a highlight... you get to see all the contest stuff [got my picture taken the last time with orlando bloom's costume from pirates of the caribbean... it was really heavy!] and meet the main editor and all of the sectional ones too... visit the beauty closet and also the music lady who gets to go to all the concerts and write about them. she gave me some cool cd's last time [mandy moore and something corporate even though i don't have it anymore because i gave it to renee]) but its cool. we're gonna go to soho and walk around and visit all the artsy stores so gotta bring my birks lol. also the art museum probably and we might go see wicked which would be very very cool. but the tickets are really expensive they're like $200 a person and it's kind of late to book them but i don't know. of course the maina attraction in nyc (aside from visiting with my family up there and my baby [guess he's not really a baby anymore because he's turning 4 in november but whatever] cousin who is sooo cute) is the FOOD! so many yummy things to eat. dim sum and zabars and fresh french pastries on sunday morning that are still hot from the bakery and those huge white and black cookies from one of those classic jewish bakeries on the lower east side and real new york bagels and huge pizza slices and yummy pasta. we always eat lots of takeout! every night. zabars too is like right down the street from their appartment... you can walk there. there was this cool israeli market a few blocks down too but one day they went to buy stuff and it was closed. isnt it weird how stuff can just close like that? like one day it was open and the next day it was closed. very weird. anyway you can tell im really really excited!!! a weird thing happened yesterday at this cfs camp. (still waiting for the last 2 kids to get here so we can start and go outside "settle in" [aka downtime...]) i was eating my lunch at the table very nicely minding my own buisness and there was this group of like rising seventh graders to my left and they were eating and chatting and stuff and one of them is like standing around the table and he pulls out his juicebox and begins to nurse it. so he comes over to me and takes his straw wrapper and dumps it in my lunchbox (??) whats up with that? didn't this kid have any social skills or manners? it was really weird and when i told amy about it she said he liked me (where does amy get this stuff) but then she hung up because she could not tear herself away from a friends rerun. its cool. it was still a weird thing for that kid to do though. did he expect me to throw it away for him? or maybe he though that since it kind of matched my straw wrapper i just wouldn't notice and throw it away for him. but we are at cfs and most of the kids at this camp (i think) go here during the year too so shouldn't he be all eco friendly and know about trash cans and stuff? i dont know w/e gg the class is starting.

Posted by hayley at Tuesday, July 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

wow... i haven't posted in like a week but thats ok because i know no one is reading this anyway. was a cit all week at the JCC camp which was ok i guess. the little kids are so cute. next week im taking a web design workshop at cfs so maybe i'll learn some neat-o trick to make my blog look extra cool lol. the people were so excited when i called to sign up. another girl in web design w00t whopee lol. also going to new york city next weekend to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousin who is turning 4 in november. very cute lol. i love visiting new york city. my aunt works at teenpeople so im going to go take a tour of her office which is always fun and includes goodies... free cd's and makeup. food is good there too. we always eat lotsa takeout while we're there. after that more camp then florida and then home to hang out and chill. everyone is going somewhere. rebecca's in seattle. barbara's at band camp. amy's leacing for grp next week. anna ruth is leaving for grand tour of north america tomorrow. norah's at camp. hayley is stuck here. only not because im going to florida and new york and then the beach but thats ok. i don't have anything else to say. going to a movie at the carolina theater later. also maybe picking up my puma's at the puma store **yay** because 2 pairs of sneakers are not enough for me. there is nothing more to say.

Posted by hayley at Saturday, July 09, 2005 | Permalink | Comments

i was opening a bottle of tums and i scratched my hand on the tinfoil. and its like this mambo cut on my poor palm and it hurts really bad so i cant type. ouchies!

Posted by hayley at Saturday, July 02, 2005 | Permalink | Comments