• ✔ The Civil Wars with The Staves - 01/21 HoB
• MUTEMATH - 01/28 HoB
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - 02/21 Granada
• ✔ Radiohead - 03/05 AA Center
• Dr. Dog with GIVERS - 03/11
• ✔ Andrew Bird - 03/15 Majestic Theater
• ✔ Eisley - 04/01 Granada
• ✔ Delta Spirit with WATERS - 04/25 Granada

• The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
• ✔ Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
• Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
• Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
• Michael Jackson - Bad
• ✔ Janet Jackson - Control
• Regina Spektor - Far
• Ellie Goulding - Lights (if one exists)
• Portugal. The Man - Church Mouth
• Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud
• Dawes - s/t
• ✔ Elton John
• Adele - 21
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Bon Iver - s/t
• The Black Keys - Brothers
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• ✔ St. Vincent - Marry Me
• St. Vincent - Actor

• playing dress up
• and dancing while doing so
• long-sleeved shirts and shorts
• gold jewelry
• the look of ombre dyed hair
• vintage camera apps
• cleaning my room in my underwear

Likes

• being silly with Ansley
• visiting Matt at work
• meeting who Matt works with at Starbucks
• Sister, Sister theme song
• pasta
• henna tattoos
• white v-necks
• lady folk
• The Mind Twins page/everything off to a great start
• Ukulady fixed
• waking up wrapped in a quilt

Dislike

• not being able to sleep the night before first day back at school
• Guitar Center card still not used
• getting 4 of the same letter, playing Scrabble
• Direct TV failed when Jean and I wanted t...

Likes

• Open Mic
• strawberry banana smoothies
• first kiss in the rain
• talks with Ansley
• Yogurt Story
• talks with Rose
• seeing old friends at BG's
• making new friends at BG's
• Grant and England playing
• using Grant's guitar
• treadmill and ab crunch time
• used to having my room clean before going to bed
• meeting most of Matt's family
• receiving surprise gifts from Matt's family, Ansley's grandparents and Mario
• friendship bracelets
• Saskia Hamilton by Ben Folds
• Excuses by The Morning Benders

Dislikes

Likes

• HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM
• lunch @ On The Border with family
• STATE FOOTBALL GAME
• <3
• best friends who understand
• my high school = more classy than yours
• Whataburger in the car
• singing old school pop tunes
• free tickets from Abbie's parents
• Sephora make-up
• over-the-shoulder bags from Fossil & Earth Bound
• running through the parking lot, looking for the car
• never felt so great, ever until now.

Dislikes

• still feel like an awful best friend
• we lost, but the winners who still wanted to fight us...

Likes

• Jenny & Johnny
• still in bed, listening to new music on my ipod
• not as cold this morning
• being taught how to make mother's pasta
• I know the secret ingredient!
• solo karaoke sesh
• A Charlie Brown Christmas music
• Beanie Baby talk with Jean

Dislikes

• laptop screen randomly blacking out
• tunacrackers*
• craptacular, all day
• got "prettified" but went nowhere
• study, study, study

Likes

• clothes that smell like my boyfriend
• cuddling
• Stranger than Fiction
• spaghetti
• White Chocolate Mocha lattes
• warm under the covers
• sweet gestures
• JM shirt
• educational cooking show improv
• best friends who are understanding
• smiling big
• down payment for classes!

Dislike

• being deadtired
• chapped lips
• Goodwill, Christmas sweater run = FAIL.
• "shock" moments getting out of a car
• Keeping Up with the Kardashian reruns
• light washed jeans

Likes

• didn't have to do a speech
• last day of full class for the semester
• boyfriend called during my lunch break
• finished most of what I needed on my to do list
• thoughtful texts not related to the conversation
• making one smile
• NutsyBolts.com (basically it's Apples-to-Apples online)

Dislikes

• 3 hour English class t minus 45 minutes
• candy for lunch
• no cash
• wasting printer paper
• chapped lips
• soda machines out of Dr. Pepper

Beginning of party:

• Dads: In the living room watching a sports game drinking beer all shouting and talking together.
• ✔ Moms: In the kitchen cooking, screaming, laughing, talking, chikka-chikkahan-ing together.
• ✔ Younger kids: Running around screaming.
• ✔ Older kids: Upstairs playing video games

End of party:

• ✔ Everyone: Karaoke.
• ✔ Everyone: takes hours saying good bye

Likes

• Tron
• Cora (from Tron Legacy) -- fantasy girl crush
• DAFT PUNK
• rain checks from the movie starting late...FREE MOVIE!!!
• my English class
• seeing Matt today
• possibly taking my mom's old phone (MyTouch 3G)
• college library
• tosino (Filipino food)
• remembering things

Dislikes

• when I am in chatterbox mode
• CHARLIE MCDONALD'S LATEST VLOG!
• people who do not realize that a movie needs to be rolling!
• mother's gone tomorrow-Sun afternoon :(

Likes

• Steinway Hall
• showing Matt Good Records
• made a new friend-ish, Steve (at Steinway)
• Chili's
• ZUKRU
• DOMOS
• Jean's accomplishments on her portfolio
• M&Ms pretzels
• Robert, Rose's dog!
• Sammy, Rose's cat, purring and using me as a scratching post
• seeing Brett on Skype, at Rose's
• everyone from the Zukru with or will eventually be with someone

Dislikes

• being terrible with giving directions
• never going to own a grand piano, or a better one for a longtime

Likes

• On the Border leftovers
• accidental-coincidental sound effects after things being said
• falling in love with my best friend
• in a "Walmart run" kind of mood
• talking to Rose
• Joe's Pasta & Pizza
• "Done meal" LOL.
• DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love
• instant mashed potatoes
• Danskin active pants
• Chula, with a bell collar

Dislikes

• bad Christmas song covers
• loads of laundry to do

Likes

• DONE FOR THE SEMESTER!
• 100 | Speech final
• 97 | Music Lit final
• 91 | English final
• made a few friends, finally
• made a teacher's day
• feeling better
• ABBIE IS HOME!
• Christmas gifts can finally be made with no school for a month!
• naps next to the little Christmas tree
• hearing who made region/going to area
• Band concert, as an audience member
• seeing my junior high band director
• seeing old, familiar faces
• music recommendations
• first mini textfest in a while
• This Will Destroy You

Dislikes

Likes

• creamy tomato soup with shredded cheese
• good song collaborations
• leaving voice messages
• The Snowman, animated film
• the fact it's introduced and narrated by David Bowie
• baking cookies
• Christmas lights downtown
• A Christmas Story
• Birthday buddy and I have the same $9 Target shoes
• The Office marathon with Ans and Andy
• Matt joining our Office marathon

Dislikes

• sore abs
• back to work after this
• drank a soda
• texts that won't send
• bad timing

Likes

• Ansley's here to stay!
• Elf
• Mrs. Dougherty's home cooked meals
• Matt meeting Dad
• Matt meeting Andy
• poppy seed muffins
• Left, Right, Center
• mini Mind Twin performance
• Christmas lights
• $1 Christmas socks
• got to wear my Glee shirt
• knowing people actually read my tweets
• getting tweet replies
• first time in BG's in 2ish weeks

Dislike

• hard work and no praise
• people who won't budge
• annoying contacts
• off brand sweet tea

January

• TWDY

March

• Eisley (Good Records In-Store)

June

• Eisley
• Girl Talk

July

• Foster The People (Good Records In-Store)
• Gorilla V. Bear

August

• Sia

October

• MUTEMATH
• The Naked & Famous

LIKES

• The Rhumb Line LP
• sheer blouses
• Photojojo
• BIG MAMA HALF PRICE BOOKS
• frozen lemonade
• Vinyl collection building up (on #11)
• used my horn for the first time today
• Chick-fil-a
• "Me" Day
• being sick before school?
• being good with my purchases
• ELLIE GOULDING <3
• journal writing at home
• books almost all rented
• being sick-free for about a year
• Hall's Fruit Breezers

DISLIKES

• fail at selling clothes
• hearing about someone else's heartbreak

• don't be in one.

Likes

• RECORDING WITH A MIND TWIN

Likes

• lunar eclipse
• blankets & soda
• Rose & Matt
• 4.0 GPA

Likes

• big sis is graduating today!
• blackout pep rallies
• hip hop one-hit wonders making appearances
• pretending I love those hip-hop one hit wonders
• being with the band > stands
• apparently my high school principal did the stanky leg
• dancing, talking and catching up with marching babies
• morning coffee and toast
• silly Megan
• chilling with Kelsey and Emelio during the pep rally
• MYTHU :)
• Mary and her mini air horn
• MARIO, broski
• Chili's dinner
• meeting Jean's classmates

Likes

• 2/3 of finals over with
• easiest final ever: 10 T/F questions, open book
• complimentary coffee
• thoughtful gifts from English teacher: personalized pens & notepad/bookmark stickys/calendar
• spent half an hour remaking "Hide & Seek" by Imogen Heap
• good hourish spent reading
• Fights Without Fears, listen
• made pasta
• adrenaline rush when performing
• set list made by Brandon
• Gangsta Sam book WILL BE MADE (with help of Sam Miller)
• The Ukuladies (Mind Twin cover band | Matt & Andy)
• strawberry banana smoothies
• pick-me-up hugs

Likes

• Scott Pilgrim
• Date Night
• using my mom's friend's Pentax camera
• Little Caesar's Pizza
• COLD WAR KIDS ARE COMING TO DALLAS
• giving Girl Talk show some thought...
• baked pasta
• MY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM IS GOING TO STATE
• ballerina (lazy) buns

Dislikes

• missing phone calls
• missing Semi-Finals
• frozen feet
• not fit
• no workout routine
• terrible with fitted shirts