Good Morning, Son

Meet Rachel Thorpe. We're both wearing planet shirts and we didn't even plan it! She's awesome, seriously so chill. And she's a drummer which is just rad, I've always wanted to be a drummer. She's also a junior girl which is lovely because most of my friends are 1. seniors and are leaving 2. boys. 

Meet Scott Gray. He is one of these seniors boys mentioned above. He's just a good kid. Always making sure I'm OK and always planning something fun. I'm definitely going to miss him.

Meet my mother. Two weeks ago we took a trip into Hollywood and ate at Umami (so gooood) and went to Amoeba. I love her even though I'm not very patient with her.

Meet my newest piece of art.

This was just pretty so I'm throwin it in the mix.

Meet one of my all time favorite songs: Still Fighting It by Ben Folds

(fun fact: I put "and we're still fighting" as my status yesterday because I was listening to this and I just felt like pulling the classic 'put the lyrics to your favorite song as your status' move. I didn't realize how lame "and we're still fighting" sounds haha awkward... It's deleted now don't worry.) 

I Will Never Be Tall

Unlike most of my readers I'm not out of school yet. Still have two weeks...bah. Now is the time when teachers really don't know what to do with their students, and they don't feel like teaching so they just start assigning random projects that are usually pointless. But we're all pushing through. 
Brent taught me how to use photoshop a little bit. Here's what I came up with:

 I'm going to do a lot of things this summer:
*get good at the piano again
*take a letterpress class
*design and print a shirt (with Eliza's help)
*attempt to write and record a song (with Sam's help)
*make friends of course because a lot of mine are leaving me
*go to TONS of concerts
*do sweet chalk art (Lisa Adachi inspired me)
*Learn how to do bokeh photography like Maryn
*GO TO LAKE POWELL- I go through with drawls at this time of year: 1. Boating. Seriously I crave it, I NEED to wakeboard. 2. BYU football
*Trek- even though this will be two summers in a row I'm pretty stoked. I just realized I'm going to be one of the "cool seniors", we'll see if I can actually be cool.
*Girls Camp: They're letting the oldest girls sleep in tents one of the nights, SCORE.
*Have a weekly movie night with a projector in the backyard? I don't know I just made that one up...
*continue Loa's Health Bootcamp-I'm stoked
*drive-ins
*learn how and successfully make a music video
*go to at least 2 food trucks a month
I'm going to have to stop here because honestly this list could go on for quite awhile. I'm a BIG fan of bucket lists, but you should know that by now.

alright off to do my last IP of the year in Art. I've got a weird idea, I hope it works. Song of the Day: Anything I'm Not by Lenka. I will forever and always be a fan of Lenka. At least her first CD, I haven't met her second one yet. She's one of the only girl singers I actually like. Her and Ingrid, and Regina mostly, and there's probably more but those are my 3 for now. anyway have a happy day bye.

marry me bon iver...or just continue to make great music

Sometimes the clouds are just plain awesome and you have to take a picture...even if you are driving.

Sometimes you get your brothers lovely car (SIMBA is his name) and you finally clean it all out and switch his stuff for yours and it feels good. Then sometimes you think you're good at driving the little stick shift but then you stall multiple times in the middle of a busy street and its really scary.

Sometimes your best friend leaves on a mission to Siberia and it hurts. But it feels good cause he's doing what he's supposed to be doing. But still. This picture is weird I know it's pretty funny I think. I look like I wanna fight someone...wait I do. But now that Spencer is gone I don't have anyone that will really fight with me. Ah well

Sometimes you just need to sit in the middle of a garden of pink roses and talk with your best friend about everything. Where no one can see you and you're surrounded by flowers and you can hear the peacocks in the distance.

*sometimes I realize my mood matches the sky perfectly
*sometimes I just can't stop smiling
*sometimes my mind is blown once again by inception...my favorite movie
*sometimes I find really good music that I just can't stop listening to and I don't want to stop and then sometimes it makes me cry and then sometimes it makes me excited and the sometimes I am completely consumed by it. But all the time I just love it.
*sometimes I feel like I can conquer the world and that nothing can hold me down
*sometimes I get excited about the future

My other half

A lot of things have changed since we moved here to the lovely LC. Some really good changes some sad but I'm so thankful for a huge change I've had involving the newly 15 year old Allison Paige. When we lived in Utah Ali and I were never that close, it was usually Spencer and me who did things together and had the inside jokes. Ali and I usually had pretty short patience with each other especially about having to pick her up all the time or stealing each others clothes. My Mom would always tell us, just wait one day you girls will all be good friends like Kelly Misty and I are, we always had the same response, "yeah sure we get it mom." BUT. How the turn tables. Ali is now by my best friend. She truly is, some of you may be skeptical claiming of course, family is always the best friend, but no. Literally she is my best friend.We stick together. I've often said that Utah and California feel like two different lives to me. Ali's the only one that gets them both. She knows how it was, how I was, and how it is now. We sing together, we laugh at and with each other (we think we're hilarious), we make stupid music videos together, we hang out together, we go to lunch together, we live in the second house together, we share friends, we share clothes, we tell each other everything, we get mad at each other but usually not for long, we cry together. I think I'm more myself around her than anyone else. I'm REALLY glad that high school is 9-12 in California cause I can't imagine what this year would have been like without her. She's my safety net we always have each other to lean on. Basically she's fantastic. She's pretty, funny, spazzy, kind, strong, loving, sincere, passionate and smart.

I love you Little One. I'm so excited we still have a whole year of high school left ahead of us. I look up to you a lot, you're so beautiful and brave. Hang in there. Blake girls yeah!

From the archives of Madison's phone

i lied...

Im in love. with spring. Seriously I cant get over how beautiful things are right now. Everything is so green and the flowers, the flowers are so big and bright and incredible and the weather is so warm and everyone's getting tan again and im just happy. I just want to be outside allll the time. Yesterday i took a nap on the tramp in the shade and today i escaped and sat on a bench in a little park by a cute little gazebo surrounded by beautiful flowers and i just spilled my emotions and everything i was thinking into my journal while listening to my favorite songs. It was perfect. Ive been really stressed lately with the massive hoards of homework and the upcoming AP exams (which I just realized today that my stats and language are on the same day haha woo) but not anymore. Life's too good to be stressed.

APRIL 22: A truly great day from start to end. It was Mormon Prom at the Natural History Museum aka Night at the Museum. It was so bomb, and probably my favorite part was the fact that there were free photo-booths. If you know me you know I love photo-booths. I took probably 20 sets, don't even worry.

here's just one for your enjoyment:

APRIL 27-30: Trip to Utah round 2. We got to go to Lala's wedding which was beautiful. It was SUCH a gorgeous day and the flowers at temple square are amazing right now and she looked beautiful and everyone was happy and I was just loving the love. I can't wait to get married in the temple. ALSO I got to go to my favorite place in the world everyday for 3 days straight. I seriously love the Bountiful Temple, it's my temple. 

ALSO. Ali found my wolf earrings yesterday. Shout out to a great sister.