Mub's Books

I have come to the realization that I have not had the best attitude about certain aspects in my life. For some reason, everything affects me deeply and I cannot seem to get out of this funk. They just keep piling onto one another until I am to the point where I just want to scream. All it takes is one minute of stepping outside to look in (and maybe a slap in the face) and suddenly it’s another perspective on things. We all need to have some perspective on life’s little trifles once in a while, but you start to forget when those same trifles just keep coming at you and you have no chance at a refreshing point of view. I tried this attitude adjustment before a few months back already. I was always frustrated about something for some reason and finally I thought it was time to appreciate what I had. I seemed to have forgotten that again and can only see things in a pessimistic way. No matter what happens or what someone tells me, everything sucks. Life, relationships, growing up, every...

I am horrible at keeping up with this. I blame school. And work. And myself. Note to self: stop being lame. Okay…so anyway, here is what’s been going on lately: Last September, I got hired at Starbucks close to Mom’s office and everything has been great. I work with awesome people, I get to meet and talk to awesome people, and I have learned how to make all of these drinks that people love, including myself. I have gotten much more adventurous than I used to be back in high school. I used to get a hazelnut white mocha, but now it’s too sweet for me. I still can’t drink coffee with flavor or sweetener, but I just bought a French press to try the all the coffee we sell. I’m learning little by little. We went back to New York in October for a week and were able to see some things that we missed before. We visited Ellis Island, walked across Ground Zero and saw the new memorial, saw the first act of Don Giovanni at the Met, had some yummy pizza in Brooklyn, and walked across the Broo...

I’m sure most of you know that the final installment of Harry Potter was released this past Friday and if you didn’t know, then it’s probably time you stopped living under that little rock of yours. I was able to see it twice the night it came out and I will admit that I sobbed uncontrollably for the last half of the movie. I thought that I would be prepared to finally let it go and move on after it all ended, but I just can’t do it. I spent most of yesterday watching YouTube videos involving featurettes and behind the scenes stuff and reading character bios on the Harry Potter Wiki page. I already want to see it again and bawl my eyes out like the sap that I am. Eventually I’d like to read through all of the books again, but I have way too many books on my list as it is. For years, I’ve been trekking through the Chronicles of Narnia series and I am determined to finish it one of these days. It’s not that they are difficult to read, they just start out a bit slow and I am easily dist...

Was interesting, to say the least. It was filled so much ridiculousness and absurdity, I can’t even describe it. To start off, I must explain that my mom and her boyfriend had taken a trip to Chicago to spend some time with her siblings so I had the house all to myself…and Tiggher. Calvin spent the weekend at the lake with his family and I knew I would be stuck at home alone with nothing to do, so I decided to make the most of it and put together a massive party/sleepover for a bunch of my friends. Friday night was fairly basic with pizza, channel surfing, and my two friends crashing on the sofa bed. Saturday, however, is a completely different story. It had been brought to my attention that it was my good friend James’ birthday and since all he had planned on doing that day was play video games with his brother, I decided to throw him the most ridiculous party in existence. I went to the store, accompanied by Danielle, Lauren, and Ben, and we bought snacks and soda, balloons and stre...

Keeping up a blog was more difficult than I thought. However, I am starting to take writing a bit more seriously so I’m thinking it’d be a good idea to make more of a commitment to this. I recently had a talk with a former English professor at St. Louis University and after looking at some of my work, he told me that I should go talk to someone at UMSL about transferring and becoming an English major. I still haven’t figured out what I could do with that degree, but I’m sure taking classes will help me get a better idea of what I want to do and what I’m capable of doing. I really enjoy creative writing and such, but I’m just not that creative. Hopefully my classes will help me find better ways of brainstorming and finding stories in everyday things. I think from now on I would like to continue my blog with random thoughts and inquiries that come to mind just for kicks. I feel like the people I hang out with now help me come up with more interesting things to think about; they’re quite...

After snooping around on Emma Watson’s (Hermione from Harry Potter) IMDb page, I found out that she appeared in the music video with the British indie band One Night Only. It’s rumored that she’s dating the lead singer, but apparently they’re just good friends. Anyway, I looked up the video and it’s actually pretty cute. They do this whole “Lady and the Tramp” theme where the girl is alone and lost in the big city and the guy finds her and takes her out. Not only is the video real cute, but the song is fantastic. A lot of the lyrics are similar to each other, but it’s still good and has an awesome beat. Every time I hear it, it makes me think of New York, which makes me sad. I miss it so much! I think it’d be great to live in New York and have a little apartment close to Times Square, but I doubt that’ll ever happen. It’s nice to dream, though. ♥

So this weekend, I went to a Ludo concert in Columbia with my brother and sister-in-law. It was on the Mizzou campus, so we were surrounded by all these new college kids and I ended up seeing a few people there from my high school and even someone from one of the Parkway schools. You know you’re from St. Louis when the question about which high school you went to pops up. The two opening acts were FDR’s Revenge and Without a Face. The first was mostly rock/funk and the second was a guy on an acoustic guitar. They both had tons of energy and their music was really fun to listen to. The second guy had really clever and funny songs like “Lactose Intolerance” and a song about hardcore drugs. Finally, Ludo came on and just shined with energy. Except for their new songs on their upcoming album, I was happy to discover I knew the words to most of their songs. Their new album Prepare the Preparations is coming out in September and I am definitely buying it, and you should, too. After the ...