people watching.

I like to people watch.

I don't mind when the hostess at a restaurant tells us, 'the wait will be 45 minutes'. That means 45 minutes I get to people watch.

I'm so amused with the way people interact with each other. Or the people who don't interact at all. I like to hear the things people choose for topic of their conversation. Seeing different mannerisms. Hearing different laughs. Observing the way parents handle their children (or don't pay attention to them at all).

It's so entertaining how different we all are as individuals yet we are still similar as humans. I hope that makes sense.

I always wonder too what these people were doing before they were here. Or what they are doing after. If they are happy. Lonley. Sad. Going through a mid-life crisis. Missing someone. We are surrounded by people everyday that we will never know anything about!

and i quote

so many people enter and leave your life.

hundreds of thousands of people.

you have to keep the door open,

so they can come in.

but it also means

you have to let them go. 

 

extremely loud & incredibly close

jonathan safran foer

 

bits of my weekend.

i wish this was my agenda for the day.

Sadly, it's the opposite.

to collage or not to collage.

I go through phases.

I go through food phases, clothes phases, music phases, hair phases, reading phases... you get the picture.

Well, one of my phases once upon a time (around 8th to 10th grade) was making collages. I would flip through magazines for countless hours cutting and ripping out cute letters, pretty outfits, fun words, photos of odds and ends etc.

When I was done rummaging, the place I created my first collage was my closet door. It was the first time I felt like I had expressed myself that really reflected my thoughts and showed a little bit about me. And it made me feel proud. I couldn't let it end there, before I knew it I was making collages on all my school notebooks, my walls, I even made some picture frames out of them. I keep kicking myself for not taking pictures or anything of my creations.

I've been having a rather strong itch lately to do something new to our apartment here on R Street. Being the restless, fickle person I am, I can't let anything stay the same for too long. In fact, it drives me CRAZY to have anything the same for long periods of time. My plan is to somehow create some collages that look decent for a wall hanging and/or picture frame without looking so 'teenager' ish. It will really add the touch to our home that I'm looking for. I'm actually pretty excited to start this project. If I wasn't so exhausted from the weekend and comfy on our couch, I would try to squeeze out an ounce of energy to do a happy dance.

music this summer in salt lake.

Salt Lake hit the jackpot this summer for concerts. Each week I get the newspaper, City Weekly and I was browsing through the Live From Salt Lake section and wow.

 We are going to have a busy summer with all of our concert attending. Here is a few of the many in the line up:

Friday June 18 - Josh Ritter
Saturday June 19 - Cake
Wednesday June 23 - BACKSTREET BOYS!!
Thursday July 8 - Modest Mouse
Sunday July 11 - Brandi Carlile
Tuesday July 13 - Paul McCartney
Saturday July 17 - Ben Folds
Monday July 19 - Kings of Leon
Wednesday July 21 - 311
Sunday August 15 - The Swell Season
Friday August 20 - Norah Jones
Thursday August 26 - She & Him
Monday September 6 - KC & The Sunshine Band

That is a pretty incredible list. We hope we get to cross off all of those on our list. As sad as we are to admit, we have missed the boat to Paul McCartney. Aside from being sold out, the cheapest tickets we found were about 80  bucks.

ps. Don't act like you're not jealous about the  Backstreet Boys.

five question friday.

It's not Friday anymore. It's 1AM on Saturday, but to me it's still Friday. I saw this over at this blog. I enjoy reading other blogger's lists, but I never fancied participating myself. But hey, it's late, i'm bored, and you better believe I'm going to do it. Take that!

1. What do you think makes a good friend, or friendship?

Trust. The ability to be yourself without feeling uncomfortable. Being a better friend in return. Able to tease and goof around. This is going to sound cheesy, but sometimes I like cheese... A friend is someone who walks in, when everyone else walks out.

2. What is the last thing you bought & later regretted?

Hm. I rarely regret my purchases because I tend to take my time contemplating if I need it and all the ways I am going to benefit. I am going to have to go with a light pink ruffle camisole from Wet Seal with tiny black polka dots. Sounds adorable? Sounds cute? Well, as it turns out, I can make it look like a maternity top. No exchanges allowed. Booo!

3. Have you ever had a prank played on you?

Always. I am the person who looks up at the ceiling when people tell me they wrote gullible on the ceiling. Also, I play jokes on people all the time and they have to seek their revenge somehow.

4. What is your favorite theme park?

Great America in San Francisco.

5. Have you ever seen someone else give birth?

Nope. Nope. Nope. No, no, no. If you know me, you know that anything with birth, labor, nursing, makes me uncomfortable. I am working on this.

kaleena and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Bad days and weekend seem to be my thing lately. If you come to my blog and there is a radio silence, just know that I am somewhere probably trying not to get eaten alive or fighting off something fierce. Thursday was the only redeeming thing about this week, and for that, I am grateful for Thursdays. Last night we were supposed to go to the Chalk Art Festival at the Gateway... but noooooo, some lady had to take over and made a poor attempt to do improvised blues singing. All of her songs were based on her being from Louisiana. Ten bucks says she is from Park City... or even Ogden. Her awkard stage presence only allowed us to watch for about fifteen minutes. By awkward stage presence, I mean bare foot and clapping in the bass players direction. A guy standing next to us, asked me to take a picture of him with the stage in the background with his iPhone. Thanks to my lack of knowing the iPhone technology I ruined the picture taking by pushing the one and only button the phone had and opened a brand new menu. Oops.

Today is Friday. ENOUGH SAID.

sometimes i suggest music.

Right before my iPod decided to kill itself, I was scrounging for some new music. I had an 80 GB iPod with 65 GB taken and yes, I was still painfully bored of my iPod's music. Judging from the last statement, you can probably have what some like to call 'music ADD'. I did enjoy what I had, very much, but everyone loves new music every now and then.

If you are on the prowl for something new to listen to on your drive, while working or when you are taking it easy, I suggest Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home.

Also, this song isn't new to me, but it's been on my top three as of late.
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

bits of my weekend.

hat trick.

Remember this post? Well thanks to my skill in thrift and bargain shopping, I was able to find two hats for seven bucks! TWO HATS FOR SEVEN BUCKS. I tried to pick ones out that I could pretty much wear with anything. Personally, I like the tan one better.

must.. sleep.. to.. function..

(I hope you read the title to this post as if a zombie was saying it). You know that feeling when you are laying in your soft bed in the morning, cozy in your blankets, you open your eyes, take a deep breath in and go 'aaaaahhhhhh' and feel completely relaxed and refreshed from a great nights sleep? Yeah, that hasn't happened to me in about two weeks. I wake up with my back feeling like I was lugging heavy luggage uphill, laid a couple ton of bricks then rolled down a gravel hill. Thus, making my neck just as painful. It feels awfully stiff and kinked. I don't even have dreams anymore so the time I sleep isn't worth it! Honestly, I wake up feeling more exhausted than I did before I slept. It's funny to me how stressful and exhausting sleep can be.

I've started to see how this lack of comfortable and effect sleep is effecting me. People have had to deal with the super stressed version of Kaleena. So I did some research of my favorite search engine, Google.

Tips for a better night sleep:

1.Go to bed and get up at about the same time every day, even on the weekends.
2. Don't eat or drink large amounts before bedtime. 
3.Avoid nicotine, caffeine and alcohol in the evening. 
4. Exercise regularly.
5.Make your bedroom cool, dark, quiet and comfortable. 
6.Start a relaxing bedtime routine
7. Avoid watching TV, eating, and discussing emotional issues in bed.

I'm going to give these a try. I'm not too hopeful... considering I already do everything on this list. Cheers to a better night sleep. 

Also, if anyone has tips of their own, or has any experiences they had similar to this, please share! I need some help. Some serious help.

behold! charlie chows.

If you are ever in Salt Lake City, and for some reason you can only choose one place to eat, you need to choose Charlie Chows. Especially if you love Chinese food. Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm. Any other Charlie Chow take out night, I would get Seasame Chicken but today I said no and I went ahead and tried the Lemon Chicken. Awesome choice by me. Delish. Steve gets the Imperial Chicken, it's their most spicy dish. We usually share our food so the love gets shared.

Something awful happened last night. I knew this day would have to come. My three year old iPod finally bit the dust. It was on shuffle on  my way home from the grocery store last night, (I admit, Eminem came on and I didn't change it) and I went to press pause and nothing. So I think, try turning up the volume, nothing. Go through Artists, nothing. Reset it, NOTHING!! It betrayed me for the last time.

While at work, being the productive employee that I am, I was hopefully searching Google to see if there were any alternatives to saving my iPod's life, and lucky for me... there was!! I just need to hook it up to iTunes and restore it. Which means all my music will be deleted. I feel like I'm about to perform open heart surgery on the thing. Wish me luck. *deep breath* Here goes.

take that, lunch stealers!

Has anyone ever had their lunch stolen? Gone to the fridge to get your sandwich and it's not there, even when your name was CLEARLY on it? Well don't stress any longer! What we have here is an anti-theft sandwich baggie. It comes with green markings to make it look like there is mold on it... so when the sandwich is in there, it looks like a gross, repulsive, moldy sandwich! Yum. What a genious and thoughtful idea. I'm jealous I didn't think of it before. It's things like this that makes me think, seriously, how did I not think of this.

it's officially june...

as well as my birthday month! Twenty-four days left until I am finally twenty-one. I should probably get on some fun birthday plans before it's too late. Guess what? I finally found a headband that doesn't make my head feel it's being pinched together so tightly it might pop or cause some serious damage behind my ears.Did anyone else have an especially lame Tuesday besides me?