Seven Songs

Tagged by cuileann.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.

(Look! Instead of a daily song... seven! Ha, to make up for the week I missed... >.> Blog post to follow the list of music-magic.)

1. "Save" - The Rocket Summer

2. "Porch Songs" - Chris Pureka

3. "The Gladdest Thing" - Deb Talan (no youtube link! o.o Drop me a comment if you want to give the song a listen, it's great.)

4. "Goodnight And Go" - Imogen Heap

5. "Deathbed" - Relient K

6. Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros (the band is from Iceland, hence the lyrics not being in English. But the song title means "hopping into puddles". :])

7. Back In Your Head - Tegan and Sara

Enjoy! Oh, and Angie and Patrice, now its your turn!

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Okay, actual blog-post time.

I'm really missing home. It's ridiculous. It doesn't even make sense because I'm traveling with my family. It's a little better this week now that we're staying in a house (my "uncle and aunt's" ...we're Filipino, it's a long story, hence the quote marks.) and we're back in the US. I'm not sure what it was about Vancouver, but I didn't really like it all that much. Maybe because we were staying in a sketchy hotel (called the Cassandra Hotel, if you can believe it. Honestly, you would think it would be cooler... o.~), I dunno. But I'm glad to be a little closer to home now. I'm also missing the ship, too, and all my cruise peeps. We're all trying to find each other on Facebook, though, so that's always fun. =)

Not quite sure what we're going to be doing tomorrow; we're about an hour or so out of Seattle. Hopefully we're just going to sleep in or something.

Anyway, until tomorrow then. Night! =D

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I want...

...To go home. Really, really badly. I swear, I've never been this homesick in my whole effing life. Scratch that: I've never been homesick. Ever. Gah, wtf... I hate traveling in a huge group like this. >.<

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Hundred

My hundreth post! Impossible! o.o The song is by The Fray.

I'm in Vancouver right now, and currently operating on 4 hours of sleep because of last night. Oh, last night... I didn't really think I got particularly close to anyone over the past week on the cruise, but I'm missing my group. A lot. And I'm also missing home even more. It sucks, being in this massive hole of missing people. Argh. Well, thank the gods for Facebook, right?

Jessica is currently breathing down my neck ("Am not! I'm breathing on your arm.") to get online as well, so I think I'll go. I need to shower and get ready for bed, anyway. No picture today, either, I haven't gotten around to emptying my camera's memory card in a while. Don't worry, a full load of pictures from Alaska, Vancouver, and ultimately Seattle (and Forks of Twilight fame! EEE!) shall find their way on here via Photobucket link once I get home.

Adios for now, amigos. =)

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Twilight

The song is one of my favorites by Vanessa Carlton.

We went to Denali National Park yesterday; on the way back to the hotel, I saw this picture in real life. =D There was actually a full one in the sky, the bright one on the left; I'll try and manipulate the two pictures I took of it (it was way too big to fit in the frame) and see if I can't make it into one big picture later.

I thought Denali was a disappointment. We left the hotel too late, and once we got there we didn't even walk around and see anything aside from the Visitor's Center. It wasn't very fun. We didn't see any animals, either.

Oh well. Just means I have to go back sometime, heh.

We head off to the ship for our week-long cruise later this morning. But first, we're going to this place in Anchorage called Earthquake Park to try and see some Beluga Whales. I hope we actually see some, the little buggers are so cute.

Anyway, I should probably head off now, I still need to stuff a few things into my suitcase before we leave. This shall be the last post until next week, unless I find a way to hack into some free internet somehow.

Hope you enjoyed the picture, and also this upcoming week! =D

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Daylight Robbery

Good morning!

No link, the user removed all the vids! o.o But it's more Imogen Heap, mwehehehe.

I'm in Alaska, and it's absolutely amazing here! I'm having difficulty just finding one outstanding picture from yesterday to post in this entry, so maybe I'll have to settle for two. Or three.

Anyway, the reason I picked the song I did (other than it being by Imogen Heap, and thus awesome and addicting) is because of the strange sun cycles up here. It's like Alaska stole all the sunlight from everywhere else and kept it burning. Seriously, I've been up past midnight both nights so far, and I have yet to see the stars. And it's not just because of the cloud-cover, either.

We were flying here from Seattle (we left at 9 and the sun was just setting! Crazy.) and it was the trippiest thing ever, because it never got dark. It was like we were chasing daylight. We landed around 11:30, and there was still no sign of the sun leaving, even though the clouds did diminish the light. I don't even know if it got dark at all.

Yesterday we did some sight-seeing, and drove roughly 3 hours from where we're staying in Anchorage to Kenai Fjords National Park. We hung around Seward for a bit, and then we drove to see a glacier! The hike to get there wasn't so bad, but it did take a long time because my grandparents are with us and we had to help them along.

There it is. The picture doesn't really show much of the pretty blue, but you can see tinges of it there around the holes and cracks in the middle.

It's so beautiful and green here; such a change for me, Southern Californian that I am, hahaha!

Oh! And we saw a moose as we were driving back to the hotel last night! I took a few pictures, but the uploader on this thing is so annoying and screws up my format, so I'll just include it en masse when I put them up on Photobucket for you guys to take a look at within the next few weeks. =D

Enjoy your day!

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Last Post to be Made in California for the Next 2 Weeks!

No song, I'm too tired to think of a good one. Go listen to something by The Beatles or Switchfoot. =)

I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon! So psyched. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and get them up online as soon as possible, if you're interested in seeing them. (I'm taking lappy with me; I think I'd probably die without it. >.>) Maybe I'll even pick one outstanding one each day and post it with my blog post, which I'm hoping to keep regularly (except for the week I'm actually going to be on the ship, since they apparently charge internet by the minute. Yikes.)

Anyway, I'm out. Peace!

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