Train-Stop Karaoke!

Have you guys ever had a song hit you so hard with nostalgia and soul and memories and shit that you just GO FOR IT? And I mean really go for it when you start singing?

Yea, that is EXACTLY what happened last week.

So there we were, me, Fergie, and Tay, driving home from practice. One again (this seems to have become quite normal for us now) we are having throwback jam sessions. Our Pandora station has been 2000s Hip Hop for about 3 weeks now. Do we have shame? Absolutely... not. In fact, it's our new favorite. Which, apparently, is a problem or even scary to some folk.

We pull up to this train stop and had to wait for about 10 minutes there. We are seriously singing and dancing out the car windows to, wait for it.....
Bye Bye Bye. An NSYNC* classic.

Y'all know it's goin' down.

Sure enough, we're getting it on with our skills and a van pulls up next to us. Keep in mind, we ALL have our windows down and we are ALL singing at the top of our lungs while dancing (which probably looked more like we were trying to shake bugs off our arms, legs, and hair, but who the heck cares!?).

We don't think too much of it at first as that one song ends. We know the van is there, we just don't really mind. Then, that one song comes on. No one can resist this song, at least for the first verse and chorus.
A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton.

Oh yea baby!

So that's when we notice the hipster Jesus guy. Who is now hanging out the window of the van next to us with a look that can only be described as fear with a dash of possibly awe. Naturally, we all start cracking up, but we keep Jammin because, come on, it's THE SONG.

I kid you freakin' not, I swear I saw a camera flash. It was the most hilarious 10 minutes of my life at that train stop.

All I could say after we rolled our windows back up, crossed the tracks, and continued our drive home was, "Can you guys just imagine the story he's going to tell his friends and family?".

Anyway, what I want to say is, aside from this being absolutely hilarious (no, it seriously was, oh my god), is this:

Don't let fear of being judged stop you from doing something you love. I love my girls Tay and Fergie, and I love my road trips with them, especially when we're all singing our hearts and throats out like we were. I wasn't afraid of what the guy next to us thought because I was so in the moment. That's what life should be. It's hard not to worry, not to think "well shit, what am I even doing with my life" because EVERYONE has had those thoughts! But when you take life by moments like these, the kind that make you life, it makes it ok. Take baby steps, do what you love, and let your roads unfold. Be the one who freaks out hipster Jesus at a train-stop, make others around you question who you are and how you could be so fearless because you're just so in that moment.

Love you all, sorry that was so cheesy and inspirational and junk, but I hope you guys liked it!
Write again tomorrow!

With Love,
Florence 🌻

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Hello everyone!

It has been ages and ages and I'm so sorry! As you can tell by the title, it has been a crazy week; in fact, a crazy couple of weeks. Literally. Our play is next weekend, I am freaking out, ohmygod.

I kept telling myself I would write another post, but I just didn't get around to it! For now, how about I just post this tiny little apology and hope that you guys will still read my posts!

Love you all!
- F

Twist, Twist, Twist, Twist, Quesadilla, Hot Sauce!

I tried to be clever by changing the words from Hairspray... if you caught that, kudos!

Today started so slowly at work, and I was sleepy most of the morning. This girl was up all night trying to fix a fancy new DVD/Blu-ray player with a 2007 flat screen that's already verging on death. Exaggeration? It really actually isnt.
My roommate, Carly Rae and I, spent close to 2 and a half hours working this stupid thing.
Did we get it to work? Yes. Would I do it again? Hell to the nah.

Back to today! Because of last night's dvd player endeavors, I was pretty sleepy this morning. So I get up and go to work and my best friend Jay-Z (who's actually a girl, but she said that's what she wanted to be called, so that's what she is) and I probably shouldn't work together! We get far too hyper and distracted and laugh at practically everything, but I don't care because I love her and she makes time go by a bit faster.

Later on, I actually got lucky enough to get off my shift early, so I go to my parents and get everything together, get gas, and head out to get Tay and Fergie.

Right off the bat, we're all in kinda "meh" moods. (I blame this on the weather which was gloomy today) Rainy days are usually my thing though, just people were being lame.
Lucky for me, I had a Playlist of the w975, which I reserve for road trips and cloudy/rainy days.

After we were all piled in, we drove the hour drive to our practice and we sang a bit, but mostly we talked. Tay and I were having some throwbacks, both good and bad, and just plain memories out into the cloudy skies, laughing and huffing and being the strange people we are! (Fergie was busy writing almost the whole way there, so she was shockingly quiet...)

We finally make it with 30 minutes to spare, so we head for a Taco Bell. What do we order? Cinnamon Twists, quesadillas, and (for me) a couple of soft tacos. The lady we spoke to and who took ou order was hella cool and didn't charge Tay for her cinnamon twists! But we were all laughing because I used a fake name for my order and then we were laughing because we're just dumb and Fergie was saying she was getting turned on by how Tay was eating her twists!
I also may have made a joke about entering Taylor because there's a city named Taylor that we passed into so... I was bad about that.
Then, Tay decided to be brave and try a twist with a little dab of mild taco bell sauce. Fergie and I totes thought she was crazy, but she dove right in!
Surprisingly, it's a pretty good combination! Almost like sweet and sour chip things or something like that...
Definitely give that a try next time you guys are at a Taco bell! It was pretty good!

We made it to practice a little late, but in the end, we had a fairly smooth run-through of both plays and got out of practice about 15 minutes early.

Have any of you guys ever tried a weird food or made a crude joke like we did? Comment below, I'd love to hear about them and have a few laughs!

I'll probably be writing again later today or tomorrow, so keep a look out!

With Love,
Florence 🌻

I've Been to the Year 2000...

Hello everyone, my name is Florence!
(Yes, as in Florence + the Machine)

I'm here to talk about my life and all its ups and downs in a place where I feel I can be myself and not have to worry about people casting their negativity down on my poor, unfortunate soul... just kidding.
But really, this is going to be my safe zone.

So, as you're all probably wondering about why I've named the title what it is, let's just say, me and my girls had a throwback Tuesday.

I'm involved in this one play about Grecian women who take over Congress (pretty badass in my opinion). Usually, on our way to practice my two best friends and I jam out to Broadway/Musical stuff. Yes, we're those kinds of nerds.

Slight introduction here:

Taylor - she's a major theater nerd, lives her life through plays and musicals and broadways, and has a very adorable sense of style. She's been a very good friend of mine for a long time and we love to share our writings with one another. She can also be quite sassy and doesn't take crap from hardly anyone! She has a beautiful, almost Anna Kendrick type voice, and I love her to pieces.

Fergie - this girl gets DOWN. She's loads of fun and is as self-confident as she is loyal. Not only does she NEVER take crap from any one person, but she's got some acting talent and a great sense of humor. She's also not afraid to have some road-rage moments, which has rubbed off on Taylor and just added fuel to my own fires... hahaha!

Anyway, this time on our way to practice, we jammed out to music from the early 2000's. Needless to say, it was hella awesome and I took many endless snapchats of our ridiculousness. We're talkin' OLD stuff for people like me who were born in the early 90's and had classic pop songs and clubbin' songs when we were Jr. High Schoolers! It was so fun and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but with my girls and just singing at the top of our lungs, not too many cares except for a good time.

This is also why I've decided that, to keep personal lives a bit more private, I've given us all aliases after musicians (mostly pop artists because that's the mood we were in and, trust me, the ones I've picked totally fit).

Moving onto play practice now. We pull in, no one suspects a thing and then.... BAM! In we walk, in all our glory, slow walkin' and flipping our smooth silky hair out of our faces... looking like goddesses...

Nah, I'm just kidding! Usually we pull in and run inside because it's freezing outside and if we don't hurry, our boobs might freeze off. No one wants that. And, we tend to have our hair in ponytails, braids, or buns by now because, who has time to look nice? One, maybe two of us sometimes do, but not always...

Anyway! So, we make ourselves comfortable and in comes Mr. Funny Diva himself: Joe. Now, I'm talking Joe Jonas because not only is he cute, but he KNOWS he's cute, which makes him dangerous. I can't say I'm entirely actually attracted to him though, I have my own man. But the other girls... I dunno, I just don't think they can help themselves. Especially Fergie; I tend to see her sharpening her little steak knife in the corner.
(Ok, that sounded bad, but it's just an inside joke, really!)
Also, this guy is hilarious. He does great in comical theater and it makes it hard for us to keep a straight face most times! I cat say how many snapchats I've taken of this guy just making a fool of himself! It's the greatest!

Now Joe makes his way over and starts Hella flirting with Fergie. She's all giggles and smiles while me and Taylor look on in slight worry. We know that Joe tends to be a major flirt and then says he isn't and continues his girl hopping. I'm not entirely involved because, again, I'm taken, but he definitely flirts with Taylor. I don't know what it is about us 3 that he finds so fascinating but, apparently we're gorgeous or something! Oh wait... just kidding. (Not really, we're actually smokin' hot)
Joe is sweet and all, but he honestly reminds me of too many past boys I've had to deal with. And really, who doesn't like a funny guy?

Hahaha but really, I'm not sure where I'm going with this. Consider it an introduction to what the rest of this blog will be about. I have to get going or I'll be late to work, but hang in there! I'll be posting again tomorrow with new stories and new people to introduce to you!

With Love,
Florence🌻