Today in Lohans' World

Wow. It's been a really long time

2010-03-27T04:50:00.000-07:00

How sad is it that I just spent the past 3 hours looking back over my entire blog and comments? Hah! Well, to update you all:

I graduated with a degree in technical theatre (specialization in scenic painting and design). I have had no luck as of yet getting a job in the field, the call I got the other day turned out to be less of a job offer (which it definitely sounded like) and more of a "we have an open position and you're kind of being considered." Then they were supposed to call me back the next day and didn't, so I called them and they said they'd hired someone else. Nice!

I make and sell things on Etsy. Check it out! CheekyJakalope.etsy.com
I will also have another shop up with paintings, photography and other wall art available soonish. I just need to figure out the sizing on everything. In the mean time, feel free to check out my online portfolio at Laurahahn.yolasite.com. There you will find what I've been up to the past 5 years at school!

I am in a relationship with an incredible person who supports me in everything I do. I miss him terribly, as we both had to move back in with our parents after graduation to save money. After having lived together for the last (almost) year, it really sucks to have to live apart. It just doesn't seem right!

I might morph this into a 'style' blog of sorts. As in, posting pics of my outfits. Hah! Lame of me, I know. But I like playing dress up, and I'd like to document my cuter outfits so I remember them. And why not share them with others so they might get inspiration from them as well? I can definitely say there won't be much 'fashion' talk, as in high fashion or runway fashion or what's hitting the stores. Cause I just don't care that much. Never bothered with labels and such, don't care if it's high end, low end, Goodwill or Macy's. I get what I like, regardless of where it's from (not expensive is the general rule, though).

That's about all I've got to update! Hope your lives have all led to interesting adventures and wonderful memories!

More to come,

Laura

zombies are sexy

2007-02-12T22:18:00.000-08:00

Watercolor. done for a friend for his bday, cause he <3's zombies

yay for gauges

2006-11-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

so i gauged my ears, and discovered i can wear glow-stick bracelet's as earrings. and i find that pretty awesome. haha!

Tattoo!!!

2006-08-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

so it was done by my friend who's an apprentice. so it isn't perfect. he also turned the image on it's side, and left a leaf out..... i'll get it touched up later though, so it should be alright. and i don't mind that it's turned, i still think it looks good!

tattoo? and new hair!!!

2006-07-25T15:57:00.000-07:00

so, i'm thinking of getting this tattoo
in the center of my back between my
shoulder blades...what do you think?

and here is a lovely transformation of
my hair...haha! i'll miss the blue, i did
love it. i'm sure i'll go back to it some
day. but i wanted a change. my hair
matches my car now. haha...

speaking
of which, here's a pic of that too!

Taste the Rainbow

2006-01-22T23:19:00.000-08:00

happy holidays everyone!!!

2005-12-24T03:50:00.000-08:00

2005-12-23T00:36:00.000-08:00

My hair is blue now. hehe. but in the back, it fades from dark blue at the bottom, to whitish bleached at the top. and then my bangs are dark blue. did it all myself :)

2005-12-09T00:55:00.000-08:00

Me: "I just put an earplug in my belly-button."
Adam: "At least now we can talk in private without your stomach listening."
Haha!

Piercings Anyone?

2005-10-18T15:47:00.000-07:00

so uhh....what do you think?

don't just judge by the fact that you simply don't like piercings or whatever, but tell me what you honestly think of what they look like on me.

Hey look at that! It's been one month exactly!

2005-10-14T12:48:00.000-07:00

damn...only a month? that seems like it was aaaaages ago. meh.

sooo school started back up and i'm currently in history, anthropology, and english. nothing too exciting, but anth is certainly the best.

umm lots of drama has been going on in Laura's life since school started. we'll just leave it at that. it hasn't been so much fun, but i lived through it... though, now i've got a whole new set of drama to go through...we'll see how this all works out. wish me luck, heh.

yeah, so that about sums up all that's gone on. not much.

i'm doing well, got over my sickness and all that, and i'm all healthy and whatnot, so yay for that. ummm i need to get a haircut methinks, and i'm gonna dye it. and i think i want to get a tattoo...but i'm not quite sure. and maybe some snakebites. but again...not quite sure. argh. but i suppose with the piercings it'd be easier to take them out if i didn't like them. but with the tattoo, well, that's pretty permanent. but if i got one, i'd be absolutely sure. so, yeah. i'll maybe post some pics of what i'm thinking. i'd design my own, so, that'd be cool.

anyhoo, that'll about do it. see you in probably another month, oh, unless i post those pics, then it'll be...whenever i do that...

laters, hope you're all having splendid days

Revenge of the Balloons...

2005-09-14T20:55:00.000-07:00

Sean found this video a few months ago while he was here and i always meant to put it up but forgot to. so here it finally is, in all of it's glorious splendor: Billy's Balloon (wait for it to fully load for a smooth show, it's definitely worth the wait)

p.s. croissant sandwiches are delicious...so are various flavors of poptarts (pretty much all except berry ones, and, of course, they must always be untoasted) and homemade snickerdoodle cookies. that is all.

Good News!

2005-09-11T20:22:00.000-07:00

i appear to be on the mend! yesterday (or was it the day before?...meh) my throat started hurting a little less and now i feel almost back to normal. no hurt! (not too much, unless i'm thirsty, then they get dry and do hurt) but the tonsils are still big! wtf?? and i still have a trace of lumpies on my neck, but they too have gone down quite a lot. my ears still get plugged up and then finally pop with an extra big yawn or something, but eh, that's not so bad, they don't really hurt anymore either, it's just annoying. so anyhoo, some minor stings and aches, but overall i'm doing fine. sean even came and visited (no kissing though...it was tough...) and he brought over three movies and we watched them together, aww. so today was quite enjoyable :)

that is all i have to report, have a grand day everyone!

Hey Kids...This post is about gross sickness, just fyi

2005-09-08T11:16:00.000-07:00

So the reason i haven't posted in so long is basically because absolutely nothing has happened. well, of any interest anyway. I've come down with something and feel like such shit i almost think death would be an improvement. the throat is the worst with it's hugely swollen and disgusting looking tonsils, plus the fact that my breath is so foul from the nasties in there it makes me feel ill, along with the monstrous swelling of my lymph nodes (i have about an egg-sized lump on the right side of my neck, and other large ones elsewhere). my nose is entirely stuffed, i can't eat much or i feel ill, i have to keep hydrated but that's incredibly difficult seeing as swallowing makes me want to slit my throat... and it sucks, before the pain was only on the right tonsil, the worse of the two, so the pain was slightly avoidable if i swallowed a certain way. now the pain has moved though, and resides at the very back of my throat, so there's no getting around it. what fuckers, they must've known i was cheating. contrary to popular believe, however, i have not been fatigued at all. i am feeling incredibly restless, want to get out of the house and do stuff, want to kill this fucking pain and get over all of this horribleness. it's AWFUL!!! i can't even sleep at night because swallowing keeps me awake as well as the fact that i am constantly restless. i finally got some sleep last night after taking a ridiculous amount of drugs, more than i thought i could have, but my dad said with this huge of a sickness i could take two acetaminophen every four hours and four ibuprofen every 8 hours and i should take them all at the same time. it does seem to ease my throat a bit, but it only lasts for about the middle 4 hours...takes two for it to actually start working, and then starts to go away two hours before i can take more. it sucks. so yeah, i'm just the most miserable person ever right now. it's been going for almost two weeks now and could go for two more. OMFG...seriously...kill me now.

hope you all are healthy and happy. and never take swallowing pain-free for granted. savor it! when you don't have that luxury your life is HELL! i'm sure you've all had bad sore throats before and know it sucks, but those last about 7-10 days...this lasts 2-4 weeks! sometimes more! aanyhoo, enough of all this icky sick talk... you all have excellent days. get out there and enjoy the weather or whatever opportunities await you.

(update, sept. 9: my tonsils are now covered in black stuff as opposed to the white that was there before. though there is still some white. i have no idea what is going on though, or why it does that. my mouth tastes like death though as well as my breath. this is the most revolting thing ever. the swelling on my neck does appear to have gone down a bit though, hopefully it won't flare back up. *sigh* i want to get over this so bad, ugh.)

(umm...update again, sept. 9, but later in the day: i have just been to the doctors again because my mum flipped out over the black thingy. i have been to the doctors 3 times and every single one of them has been incredibly quick and jumpy and a little too fast to try and diagnose me without taking the time to ask what my symptoms are or check me for the things i complained about....all three docs have told me something different. it is ridiculous. so this last doc said i have an ear infection along with whatever else i have which " *shakes off the idea with a flutter of his hand*" so he looked at my throat and looked away repulsed and then looked back and started scratching at the black thing with one of those giant popsicle sticks...holy shit. OW. so yeah, he seems to think this is a bacterial infection, or maybe that it started out with a virus but that i now have a bacterial infection on top of that...awesome. so he gave me these penicillin pills that are the size of my effing thumb. how the hell am i supposed to swallow those? my throat is already killing me as it is and i've never been good at swallowing pills...so that sucks. and i have to eat them with food or they'll make me feel sick, but eating food already make me feel sick, so that sucks. I AM SO DONE WITH ALL THIS CRAP! JUST GET IT OUT OF ME!!! and i am very upset by the fact that none of these doctors has any effing clue what's going on. they've all said different things, they've all been equally quick to give their "professional" opinion, and i'm just sick of this. why should i trust this doctor over the others? *sigh* i don't know. whatever. i do have an ear infection, so the meds will help with that, but gah, really now, you'd think they could be a little more help in trying to tell me what the fuck is wrong!

New Hair, Woot!

2005-08-23T09:25:00.000-07:00

the other day (thursday or something?) i went over to seattle and met up with the rickster and seany and got my hair dyed...i was also going to get my lip pierced, but have decided to hold off on that for a bit. so, here is the result of my hair-dye:

2005-08-23T09:24:00.001-07:00

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August 11-15: Camping

2005-08-15T23:33:00.000-07:00

i have returned! with many a photo! (omg i'm so annoyed! i got five spam comments! what jerks! blah! so i deleted them). anyhoo, yes, so i went camping for five days with my mum, her bf, and my little bro. we went to the most north-western area of the U.S. you can be in (except, obviously, for Alaska and Hawaii). the place we stayed, Hobuck beach, is in the Makah Indian Reservation. we arrived on thursday. on friday we hiked to Capy Flattery. on saturday we hiked to Shi Shi beach. and on sunday we made the 9.1 mile hike from Ozette, to Cape Alava, to Sand Point and back to Ozette. here is a good map showing all of those places! just look at the farthest northwest point and a little below that.

apparently in the summer there is a fog bank that covers the entire Strait of Juan De Fuca as well as the tip of Washington and down the other coast for quite a ways as well. my mum and roger were there at christmas and said it was gorgeous, sunny, and that they wore shorts and tee's. bah! oh well, mist and fog are awesome...except when you're camping cause it makes everything damp and uncomfortable. ugh.

2005-08-15T23:29:00.000-07:00

while driving through Port Angeles on our way to the campground we spotted these very oddly shaped clouds. giant lines...very strange

2005-08-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

here's the beach we were camping at. the campground was just over a little rise to the left

2005-08-15T23:27:00.000-07:00

there were tooonnnnsss of these shells on the beaches there. i found a single olive shell though, and it was the only one i saw the entire rest of the trip. so that was cool.

2005-08-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

a sea sponge amongst the other washed up sea stuff

2005-08-15T23:25:00.000-07:00

the water and various colors and sizes of sand make for some very nice patterns on the beach. (this is dry, btw, no water's running over it)

2005-08-15T23:23:00.001-07:00

shades of grey

2005-08-15T23:23:00.000-07:00

yes! i got it! he (little bro) was standing there for a few seconds before he moved again and i just thought it was so cool looking! and if you turn your head to the right and squint it kinda looks like a canoe...heh

2005-08-15T23:21:00.001-07:00

the other direction on the beach

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gorgeous beach flowers (kind of look like snap dragons mixed with iris)

This is the beginning of the pics for the Cape Flattery hike

2005-08-15T23:19:00.000-07:00

roots are so cool

2005-08-15T23:16:00.000-07:00

i love the twist of this tree and the little heart-shaped plants on it

2005-08-15T23:15:00.000-07:00

i like the composition on this one. and the trail of shrubbery up the side of this very cool tree.

2005-08-15T23:14:00.000-07:00

mmm yummy mushroom? apparently the bugs like it

2005-08-15T23:13:00.000-07:00

a very cool tree. it had four large branches that went straight up, and they were all about evenly spaced apart. looked like a candle holder.

2005-08-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

the coastline is gorgeous. so many caves and colors. look at the color of that water! (it looks like we're at about eye-level, but we're about 200 ft up and at least a hundred feet away from that first cave side on the far right)

2005-08-15T23:05:00.000-07:00

growing off the side of a cliff. sorry about the fog

2005-08-15T23:04:00.000-07:00

...where sea and sky merge...

2005-08-15T23:03:00.000-07:00

dr. seuss tree?

2005-08-15T23:01:00.000-07:00

here i am, perched precariously on the edge of a very high ledge. but this tree's (which is growing off the side of the cliff) branches created an awesome, flat, net-like weave and i had to have a picture.

2005-08-15T22:58:00.000-07:00

a sea of muscles (all the light purpley grey). just to give you some perspective, i'm at least a hundred feet up, leaning dangerously out over a glorious cliff. woot!

2005-08-15T22:55:00.001-07:00

siamese trees. hehe

This is the beginning of the pics for the Shi Shi Beach hike

2005-08-15T22:55:00.000-07:00

forest puke? nope, it's a bright yellow fungus! yay!

2005-08-15T22:54:00.000-07:00

i don't know what this tree was thinking...

2005-08-15T22:53:00.000-07:00

this park is on an Indian Reservation, so here is an example of them stripping some of the bark off of a cedar tree to use. if you ever walk through a forest and notice a cedar tree with one strangely smooth section and regular bark growing around it, it might have had the same thing done to it

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a nice collage of various shrubbery

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fireweed. this stuff is freaking everywhere in alaska in the summer. it's pretty abundant here as well, but not quite in such force. here is a lovely example of it

2005-08-15T22:47:00.000-07:00

dew from the thick fog

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butterfly bush flower

2005-08-15T22:45:00.001-07:00

mm so lush...it looks like the dampest day ever, but it's just fog and the vegetation is just that incredibly green.

2005-08-15T22:45:00.000-07:00

this is the coolest dead tree..look that the twisting of the bark, and the jaggedyness of the branches. awesome

2005-08-15T22:40:00.001-07:00

these weeds are everywhere, but they certainly aren't one that i'd pull out.

2005-08-15T22:40:00.000-07:00

i like the s-curve of this tree. i just like this picture

2005-08-15T22:39:00.000-07:00

swamp thing! doesn't that branch look like a hand coming out of the skunk cabbage? (hah) and it was in a swampy area too...

2005-08-15T22:37:00.001-07:00

shelf mushroom stump

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an orange fungus

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a rather creepy ghostly face on this tree...

2005-08-15T22:35:00.000-07:00

a ring of moss...iunno, just looked cool

2005-08-15T22:34:00.000-07:00

baby shelf shroomie (about the size of a marshmallow...rather reminiscent in look as well...)

2005-08-15T22:33:00.000-07:00

adult shelf shroomie. (about the size of a dinner plate)

2005-08-15T22:32:00.000-07:00

i took this from below, looking up. you can just barely see spider webs going from leaf to leaf. i just like the shape the leaves make though, like a firework or something

2005-08-15T22:30:00.000-07:00

god i love washington forests...especially when it's so foggy. they're so mysterious and eerie. i lovelovelove it!!!

2005-08-15T22:29:00.000-07:00

as we neared the cliff leading down to the beach we passed an eye patch on a tree...i couldn't not take a picture...arrr...these be treacherous waters, matey

2005-08-15T22:27:00.000-07:00

i couldn't help but think this looked like a sea lion sitting on a rock...anyone else see it or am i just crazy?

2005-08-15T22:26:00.000-07:00

tide pooling

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rough seas

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i looooove the atmosphere in this. and the rock formations are glorious

2005-08-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

i just think this is very peaceful. the movement of the seaweed is calming as well as the soft colors. perdyful

2005-08-15T22:22:00.000-07:00

beautiful royal purple starfish. is that not amazing? look at that color!

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the only picture of me from the whole trip. woot

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an orange starfish (look at all that stuff going on around it! so many colors)

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the little bro found the itty bittiest, teensy tinsiest hermit crab ever!!! sooo cute!

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a red starfish (the rock behind it is so fascinating! look at all that stuff, all the colors, textures. aah so cool)

2005-08-15T22:16:00.000-07:00

look at this color! it's amazing!

2005-08-15T22:15:00.000-07:00

silly starfish. my mum always says she thinks they look they're trying to escape or run away...which is funny as they really don't move much at all...

2005-08-15T22:14:00.000-07:00

i love the colors the different layers create. muscles (purple) and then various seaweeds (yellows and greens) and then the rock (brownish grey, obviously).

2005-08-15T22:12:00.000-07:00

these/this tree was so cool! it had started out as one tree, grown apart, and then grown back together. ...i love nature

This is the beginning of the Ozette triange hike

2005-08-15T22:11:00.000-07:00

all of the trails we went on had large portions of them constructed out of these boardwalks. they were beautiful. especially the older ones like this that had moss growing along the edges.

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a wee little chipmonk. it was great, it was running all over the tree, but right when i took my camera out it stopped and sat there until i was done snapping some pics and then started running about again. hehe

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a nice field with pretty blue flowers

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a glorious shroomie example. this thing was about the size of a dinner plate

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i found a petroglyph! ...or what we hope was a petroglyph...but it might have been fake. we don't know. it wasn't chalk though at least.

2005-08-15T22:03:00.000-07:00

look at these awesome rocks! my mum's theory is that the part that's eroded away was a softer rock (most likely sandstone) and that the harder rock remains behind.

2005-08-15T21:59:00.000-07:00

walking along the beach we saw a load of seals strewn over about 6 or so rocks, as well as a couple splashing around in the water showing off. unfortunately my batteries had already died this day and i was only able to get two pics of them on the rocks before they died again.

Bird On The Beach

2005-08-15T21:53:00.000-07:00

(this is from a few weeks ago) walking back to the car from the beach we spotted a little bird just sitting there on the beach. it seemed incredibly unafraid and kept closing it's eyes (i assume it was just enjoying warming itself in the sun so much it didn't care that we were there)...

2005-08-15T21:51:00.000-07:00

aww so adorable! sleepy little birdy

2005-08-15T21:50:00.000-07:00

hehe *poke*...it just sat there and let us pet it. so cute!

VROOOOMMMMM....

2005-08-01T15:03:00.000-07:00

Get Lohans and Hansy together late at night at a grocery store with awesome carts and this is what you get: Car(t) racing!!!

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Hansy sitting in her race cart

The Wicked Tinkers

2005-08-01T14:49:00.000-07:00

I travelled over to hansy's on tuesday night for the show on wednesday of The Wicked Tinkers. it was glorious, as usual. oh those silly scottish and their fabulous kilts and bagpipes!

2005-08-01T14:48:00.000-07:00

at the beginning of the show it was announced that a "fairy" would be going around collecting money or something. three quarters of the way through the show we see this "fairy" walking around the perimeter of the concert-goers, seeing as she was unable to go between the blankets and chairs. oh glory. it was vastly entertaining.

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The Wicked Tinkers and the crazy dancing lady!!!

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Travis Zumwalt on a Didgeridoo (he had many different ones, this being of about medium size)

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Warren Casey (left) and Keith Jones (right) on percussion and drums.

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Aaron Shaw on the bagpipes

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Tyler Spencer playing TWO didgeridoos! nutty!

Mingo/Hansy/Joe Pics

2005-08-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

So on thursday of my journey across the water Hansy asked if i'd take pictures of her and her horsies. i of course accepted and spent the morning doing just that. the following are the best of the batch.

2005-08-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

MINGO! in all of his adorable/gorgeous/amazing glory

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hah! they look like seperate things. i like this though, it's grand

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cuuuute little joe...with some straw in his hair (he's a miniature horse)

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silly little joe and his silly little fro

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a nice portrait of the two

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OMFG! look at their gorgeous hair together! it's nuts!