Take me away. July 26, 2008

So it has been a while since I have posted anything and for that I am truly sorry. It has been a crazy couple of days – I traveled to Fire Island with some of the family, soaked up the sun, and managed to fall off of a hammock and bruise my tailbone and elbow as well as getting a giant rash/chafing thing on my upper thigh. Needless to say it was a successful trip.

Speaking of trips…I just watched Under The Tuscan Sun and if there is any movie that makes me want to go to another country and just experience some crazy things and not be afraid of being on my own, this is it. 

I have always had this want and need to go to a foreign country and live there and feel the land. Ask my parents, family, friends…I am, well I guess you could say…I’m obsessed with it for some reason. I do not know why. It is not like I haven’t traveled around the world. I have been to plenty of places – Ireland, Scotland, England, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand to name a few but now that I am older I want to go back to these places, drink lots of wine and have wonderful flings or meet the man of my dreams. (Either one will do really! )

I think I have this aching in my soul to just get away because I would love to gain some more independence. Really just go out and explore the world on my own. It sounds extremely frightening to me but I think it would do me well. 

I really wanted to study abroad a semester in England or Ireland or somewhere in that vicinity. But seeing as though it would cost my parents and I a fortune right now I am going to put that trip on hold. A lot of my friends are going to London and to Ireland and I can’t help but be jealous.

However, I know my day will come and all I can do is just enjoy what I have going on right now. I mean I’m 19, single, I have an amazing family and some pretty sweet friends and college starts up again in less then a month. I think I am doing alright.

For now I will just keep dreaming of the wonderful place I will eventually get to where I will be confident, beautiful, and ready for some European loving. After all, it is going to take a few years to control myself to the point where I do not fall apart as soon as I hear an accent. For some reason, I am thinking that could be pretty important at some point.

“Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come. ”

-Under the Tuscan Sun…how inspiring is this quote?

I probably over-packed July 16, 2008

My Aunt Gabby from Malibu, CA, is renting a cottage on Fire Island for two weeks so my Dad, my sister Noelle, her boyfriend Paul, her boyfriend’s son Brady and I have decided to take a car ride down there for a few days to visit. It is about an 8 and a half hour drive and needless to say it should be an interesting but fun car ride. I definitely packed way too much but hey, you never know what you might need on an island, right?

 

For those of you who do not know where Fire Island is, it is located right near Long Island and you have to take a ferry to get to it. Pretty fancy, huh? It should be a pretty relaxing weekend with the ocean, the sand, the fact that we could all possibly die from a hurricane in a matter of days….but, honestly, it should be fabulous.  

 

Not much to say today besides the fact that I look forward to spending a few baby-sitting-free days on the beach sipping some drinks and reading some good books. I have to say I wish my mom could be there with us enjoying the sunshine as well but she is playing Cinderella for the weekend as she would say and is staying home with the grams. THANKS MOM!

Hope everyone has a great weekend and gets to relax a little and take some time off from life!

 

OH and I was told by my dad today that if bees disappeared off the planet we would die in about four years without them. Basically we are screwed since they seem to be disappearing more frequently….so go save some honey bees people!

“You are too picky” July 16, 2008

My 92-year-old grandmother — Maga as we like to call her — has lived with us since I was a little girl. She is still very much with it and having lived a lot longer than I have, she gives pretty good advice. This past Sunday I went downstairs to her little “apartment” and sat down to talk with her because it had been a while. I told her about the party I went to on Friday and about baby-sitting earlier that day. She asked me how this summer had been for me, and I said, ‘oh you know, it’s been OK. There have not been too many guys but oh well.’

Her reply was almost immediate. She said, ‘well you know Brielle, you are too picky.’

‘Now…I don’t know about that,’ was my first response. But as I sat back and listened to what she said I think maybe she was telling the truth. I have had boyfriends over the years but nothing has ever lasted very long because I always find a fault or they just end up being jerks. Although I haven’t had great luck in this department you can’t say I haven’t tried!

I think I know what I like… but I’m still trying to figure out exactly what that is. Every time I meet someone new I have this list of things in my mind with little checkboxes that I check off. Are they sport-hunters? Are they homophobic? Are they overly religious?

I can’t help it — I just do not want to date a homophobic, right-wing Bush lover who thinks God is the answer to life and that killing animals for fun is AWESOME. Clearly I’m not into homophobic, freakly religious, republican men who hunt. Is that a problem? I mean no offense to anybody who is into that, it is just NOT for me.

My grandma brought up the fact that I once dumped a guy because he hunted. OK so the hunting did NOT turn me on but I mean maybe I just did not feel it or maybe the image of him pulling out a rifle and killing a poor little beautiful deer was just not appetizing to me. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a die-hard vegetarian or anything but at least we eat the food that is killed. Hunting for sport drives me INSANE.

Anyway, I am getting off topic. Is being picky the reason why I have not found someone yet? Who knows? Yes, I am only nineteen — almost twenty years old — but I’d like to find something close to what my brother, sister, and parents have. They have love and I want it! But I guess I am just not ready to lower my standards to find it.

Honestly, I am really not THAT picky. I mean I just want a tall, dark, handsome guy who is funny, sensitive, loves animals, could dress up as a woman if needed (you would have to know my family…), is on the liberal side of things and would not mind a non-religious life (I’ll accept relatively benign if he’s drop-dead gorgeous). Oh, and if you could throw in an accent there (preferably Irish, Scottish, or English), that would be fabulous.

I mean am I really that picky? Is that too much to ask?

August Rush = Fabulous July 14, 2008

So my parents and I were bored last night and decided to buy a movie on the T.V. My mom and I have been dying to see August Rush and we decided on it. 

Long story short, August Rush is about an orphaned boy who uses his music talent to find his birth parents. Sounds confusing, maybe a bit corny, but it is one of the best movies we have seen in a long time.

I definitely recommend watching this movie if you are in the mood for a dramatic, yet heart-warming film filled with music. It is totally family-friendly and Freddie Highmore, the boy who plays the orphan boy, will break your heart with his little smile and dimples. Not to mention for all you ladies out there whose knees wobble upon hearing an accent, Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the Irish heartthrob who will keep you wanting more. I know that I have a serious addiction with accents and I fell in love with him within the first five minutes.  Oh, oh, and we cannot forget Keri Russell who is the lead actress in the film and did a fabulous job as well.

The movie intertwines the sadness of the situation with the joys of what music can bring. Since my whole family is made up of music lovers, this was perfect for us. Everything that was said about music in the film we could relate to which made it that much better. My mom, dad, and I were all crying by the end and we cannot wait to see it again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426931/

 

Check out the link above to find out more about August Rush.

I hope everyone had a great monday – Mine is just about to get better as I am going out for some sushi tonight with my cousin. Nothing makes me feel better then some california rolls and some shrimp tempura…and maybe some ice cream in there as well!

Starting out with the truth about me… July 14, 2008

Well after a lovely introduction from my wonderful sister, minus the part about her being cooler (which is SO not true), I’m writing my first post. 

My Dad has been trying to get me to start a blog for oh god…who knows how long and with a little push, well a big push from my sister by creating this site here I am!

Honestly, I am not really sure what to write about – do I speak about all the stuff I’ve learned in the short 19 (almost 20!) years I have lived on the planet? Should I spill everything I’ve been through over the last year and a half? I guess we’ll have to see how this goes and what I feel comfortable exposing to the world wide web and everyone within it. All I know is the last year and a half of my life I have experienced some of the craziest, most fun, ridiculous, scary, and life changing-moments of my life. 

I’ll truthfully speak about my experiences. I am just about to be a junior in college and god knows I’ve experienced far more then my share of heartbreak, horror, anguish but also fun, crazy nights, and friendship throughout the last two years. College is a fantastic thing to write about because it really changes your life in so many ways. It has definitely done that for me – both good and bad changes. But I also just want to write about my life in general and that I intend to do wholeheartedly.

The last thing I have to say is….Thank you to my beautiful, and pretty cool sister for creating this for me. She’s a wonderful blogger herself and I am honored for her to have even thought of me starting one.

So tune in, enjoy – I promise things will get exciting…I mean honestly…I go to college in Buffalo, NY for god sakes. Things are bound to happen…;)