i love the movie almost famous and i finally got to watch it. the soundtrack is not too shabby either. and when i say that, i mean that it's totally awesome.

plus, i love the rain. it's so much fun to listen to and stand in. it's been storming off and on all day and earlier julianne and i decided to go out and stand in it. it was so much fun. to hear it hitting my umbrella and splashing my bare feet. nothing is more antural than that. unless, of course, you don't have an ubrella but i didn't want to get my glasses wet.

enjoying the weather.
- corrie

agape fun.

tonite was the agape festival here in greenville and it was a total blast! none of my friends who weren't working wanted to go, so i ended up heading down by myself. fortuantely, i have a lot of friends and i knew someone would be down there. i ended up finding a friend and his sister who i hung out with most of the evening. skillet was playing when i arrived, and we found a nice prime spot where we could see the band, and see everyone coming in and leaving the main stage area. we walked around a bit later and i saw the majority of my friends who were working. while the speaker was speaking i met up with a couple of my track buddies and we ended up spending the rest of the evening together. the best part of the nite came when the david crowder band came on. they were awesome. i'd heard of them before but i'd never listened to them, and so i'm really glad that i went tonite to see them. it sprinkled a little bit during the show, but it only made it better. i'm so glad i went!

so... this may seem a little backwards but one of the things that i wanted for my birthday was a yellow beach crusier bike. yep, that's right, i wanted a bike for my 21st birthday. i am very excited about my bike and i can't wait to ride it. now i leave you with a picture of it.


stoked
- corrie

birthday bashness.

well... i'm officially 21 now. and my birthday is basically over. it's been a blast. here are some memories, in picture and poem format, to leave it with. thank you and goodnite.

CORRIE'S BIRTHDAY POEM
by christine hoagland

April 27th is your special day.
you are extraordinary in your own unique way.

to illinois from california you came.
we know sometimes its hard for you to keep sane.

some facts about you: you like the color yellow.
the sheets on your bed are blue, including your pillow.

you are known on campus as the girl with the big sunglasses.
you are also known as the girl who always skips her classes.

women have equal rights according to you.
you also have a big green dodge truck that is fairly new.

you are the best hammer thrower we have ever met.
you could most likely kick our ass - we'll take that bet.

flip flops on your feet are your favorite thing.
you also enjoy crazy jewlery and bling bling.

one thing's for sure, you are a woman after God's own heart.
you know who you are and you are extremely smart.

although you are far far away from CA
know that we love you and we will be there for you all the way!

Happy 21st Birthday!

that is probably one of the coolest things anyone has done for me for my birthday and she wrote that in class. it totally fits.

a visual representation of my birthday.

dinner at tgifriday's

everyone but mary (who took the picture) at dinner

present time!
dessert at cold stone!

my desk (ignore the mess, that's normal, think yellow)
cake .1 - from parents

cake .2 - made by julianne

i just found this picture amusing.
(l-r) beast, justin, richard, mary, and christine (on floor)

tis all. i hope you enjoyed my birthday as much as i did!

another year older
- corrie

exhaustedly excited (a very long entry)

i have been so incredibly busy over the last 3 days that i sometimes feel i haven't had any time to think. of course, i allow myself to think more than i probably should, so it's not too bad that i lost a little thinking time. the real problem is that over the last 3 days i've been extremely stressed. i don't get stressed, so when i do, i don't always know how to deal. i'm beginning to recover from the stress, only for it to build up again with a ton of work left to do before the semester is over. but lets move on.

i'm really looking forward to tomorrow because, not only is it my birthday, but! i don't have anything due, and i can relax. yes, i did say that it is my birthday. i will be 21 years old. the big 2-1. even tho i don't have anything due tomorrow, it is still a busy day and there is very little time to celebrate so we went out tonite in celebration. it was a lot of fun. 8 girls and myself went to fairview heights to TGIFriday's for dinner, followed by dessert at cold stone creamery in shiloh. dinner was a ton of fun, we took lots of pictures, ate some good grub, i received some sweet gifts, and shared a lot of laughter. (sidenote: i LOVE laughing. i love laughing at myself, jokes, and others.) one of the most embarassing things however happened before we left for dinner. my roomies had been very sneeky and purchased a crown for me and made me a sash to wear that was yellow and said "it's my 21st birthday!" by the end of the evening i had embrased it, but i was weary early on. cold stone was after fridays, and was an adventure all by itself. i was very excited because they had my favorite ice cream, oatmeal cookie batter, with which i got grahm cracker pie crust mixed in. 4 of the others had never been there before, so they had an extra fun time with it. most of us didn't finish our ice cream, but it's really the adventure, not the result, that matters. then we came back to greenville and it was over, but it was perfect. tomororw i'll add pictures, and post my birthday poem written by my roommate christine. it was perfect.

some fun facts about me that directly and indirectly concern my birthday. after 27 hours of labor i was born on april 27th and 7:27am in santa barbara, california. in case you couldn't already see the trend 27 has been quite the number for me. so, whenever i see the number 27 i get a little supersticious. tonite at cold stones, my ice cream was $4.27, which i felt appropriate. the moral of this is that i really like the number 27.

breaking news: i just got one of the coolest gifts ever from my friend julianne who lives down the hall and will be my roommate next year. she made me (yes i said made) a strawberry ice cream cake. it is probably one of the coolest homemade gifts i've ever received. i'm very excited about it. too bad i ate too much earlier to be able to enjoy it now.

moving on to some random thoughts.

the other nite i was thinking about my "hole" that is actually my bed, and i remembered back to the first day that i was here at greenville and moving in. our room was totally different now from how we orignianlly set it up. i could have cared less what my area looked like or how it was set up as long as i had a corner that i could go and hide in if i needed to get away. (being an only child i was worried about living with 3 other people for the first time. i handled it well, and have had only a few issues.) so, i just had to laugh that i finally, with 2 weeks left before i leave, got that hole that i'd wanted at the beginning of the year. the perfect way to round it all out really.

annoying moment from after our return home tonite. so, i was sitting here in my hole surfing the internet, and just relaxing. christine had left the room to go hang out with beast and forgotten to close the door. a couple of girls were hanging out talking loudly in the lounge. that was annoying enough, but then they started talking about how it had been 6 months, and i was confused but trying to ignore. not long went by before i heard why the 6 months were so significant. one of the girls had gone 6 months without dating. the girl who she was talking to said, "how did it feel to go through 6 months with no dating?" and then a little later the same girl said "you made it!" like it was some huge accomplishment. people go far longer without dating anyone and they survive every day! why such a big reaction over 6 mere months? for some girls i realize that it is unheard of to go 6 months without dating anyone, but i just find it lame. there is no other word to describe it other than lame; pure and simple. story. i have gone my whole life up to this point without dating anyone. this has not been by choice, but it's how it is. it's something that i'm constantly trying to not be frusterated with, and optimistic about. i believe that one day i will meet someone who is so great that all this time that has gone by will no longer matter because i've found the right person without having "to go around kissing a bunch of losers" along the way. (if you don't know what movie that's from, please, ask.) 6 months is nothing. and if you are sad 'cause your boyfriend of a week just broke up with you, and it'll only take you another 2 weeks to find someone new, in my opinion you can just shove it.

that is all for now. i've had some fun times and mean thoughts and all in all it's been a good day. birthday pictures and poem to come tomorrow, with a full recount of my birthday. oh happy day!

tired but happy
- corrie

i love my bed.

all i really want to do at the moment, or the last few days really, is be where i'm most comfortable. at this point in time that is my bed. just last week i discovered an outlet behind it, so i am able to plug in and keep my computer here, which helps where i want to be immensely. i really don't want to leave here, it's semi quiet and secluded from the rest of my room where my roommates spend most of their time. also, it's fun to be hidden from everyone who comes to our room. if i don't want to see them, i don't have to. somewhat rude/mean, but i'm in the mood to be this way.

here is the real reason that i wanted to make a post today. yesterday was an extremely long day consisting of getting only 5 hours of sleep, spending all day in the sun at a track meet, and spending my evening alone in search of almost famous, which i have still yet to acquire. (the midwest seems to be lacking this one classic movie.) anyway, finally at around 2am this morning i layed my head down to sleep, with my ipod playing. i knew that i would fall asleep with my music on but i had no idea it would end up like it was. after having two odd dreams (the last thing i remember from the second is throwing my keys down on the table in my room), i woke myself up to prevent knocking over something that i was pushing with my foot. it took me a minute to realize what i was pushing on. it turned out to be my roommate's laundry basket. now that i was awake i shifted in bed and tried to think about how i got to where i was. doesn't seem to be a difficult task, right? well, it was. i had been so tired that once i fell asleep i was out and hadn't moved all nite. it took me a good 5 minutes to realize that i'd fallen asleep with my music on, and taken off my headphones in the middle of the nite. i eventually remembered that i had been on the internet talking with my friend, then journaled, put my music , and fell asleep. my ipod and headphones were still in bed with me, so i dropped them on the floor, and tried to get comfortable and fall back asleep. i succeeded in my attempt to sleep more, but still find it odd that it took me so long to remember what i did last nite. i have never experienced anything like that before, and i can't believe that a mere lack of sleep did it to me.

so... that was my story. odd and interesting, or at least to me. i realize that it took me a long time to tell it. maybe i'll elaborate on my thoughts about that another time. for now all i have to say is context.

another thing before i finish, the negative of being on my bed doing everything is that when people want to see me they come back here and start talking and don't leave. it makes it very difficult to actually get things done. now that i've been left alone enough i am done.

stuck in my ways
- corrie

the beginning...

i'm attempting to expand my horizons, and this is where i am to begin, i suppose. by having a blog and attempting to post regularly. my mind has been doing so much thinking lately i need a place to get it out, and my journal isn't sufficient.

i'll begin with a little explanation of a few things i suppose. lets begin with "yellowmoonlite". it is my screen name for just about everything, unless its from before my senior year of high school. it began as a simple attempt to come up with a far cooler aim name than my previous one. (mxchick27 or something like that.) i was chatting online with my friend mike and asking him to give me suggestions. he was failing miserably when it came to me. yellow, because that's my favorite color; moon, because i love the moon, it is beyond beautiful and i believe the man in the moon to actually be a friend of mine; and lite, because, well... i just liked the sound and the spelling. nothing brilliant, but an improvement that i have embraced. i actually have a touch light that is in the shape of a moon and is yellow, but this came after the screen name.

next, i'd like to explain the title for my blog. i decided to create this in the spur of the moment, and when the step came to create a title for this little thing i plan on doing i was stuck. i went over a few different titles in my head, most of them lacking pretty much anything. i then began to think about one of my favorite bands, tonic, and the lyrics from one of my favorite songs by them, "sugar." so i went to a convenient lyrics website and looked up the lyrics. "where my sunshine grows" is the last line in the first verse and it seemed perfect. and i still believe it to be.

i suppose that will be all for now. i am excited about this new thing that i am trying, and hope to have the ambition to continue it.

'tis all for now. goodnite.

- a hopeful corrie