Night Owling

Seeing as it's summer and I generally don't have to be up at any certain time in the mornings, my 'natural' sleeping habits have kicked in.  To summarize: given the choice I'd probably be nocturnal.  I don't really have an explanation for it.  It's just that once it's night time I suddenly feel very awake, and I won't end up sleeping until I can't keep my eyes open for another second.

I think one of the reasons I love night time so much is that it's just more fun.  Take last night, for example.  It was the last night of my family's annual beach trip, and we all decided it would be a good idea to have a dance party after dinner.  Dinner was at 9:30.

So after we finished eating, we plugged my cousin's ipod with all his DJing music on there, and had ourselves a dance party.  And towards the end, in the mix with all the techno club dance remix songs, American Pie by Don McLean started playing.  That song, in case you didn't know, is one of the most classic 'everyone knows it and wants to sing along' songs ever.  And sure enough, we all stood around the kitchen and started to sing.  Only two of us didn't know the lyrics: my eight year old cousin (excusable) and my twenty one year old cousin (I know, right?)  So he (my cousin) decided to just watch me sing the song and repeat what I said a second later.  It was pretty comical, I really wish I had a video.  But long story short, our family dance party lasted until one in the morning.  I love those guys.

And now for tonight!  Around nine I got back from a trip to the mall with my friend, and I bought a new shirt that wasn't a tshirt.  I know, I can't believe it either.  Not to fill my blog with incessant girly ramblings, but it's grey and white striped and it has this flower lace thing in the back and a v-neck and its gathered in the middle and its so pretty!  Okay, I'm done.  And (this is even harder to believe than the non tshirt) I bought a dress.  I don't really want to describe it too much, but if you've ever seen 500 Days of Summer, it looks like something Summer would wear.  Kind of floral-ey and old fashioned looking.  I really like it.

Then, after the mall and a nice cup of chocolate frozen yogurt with yogurt chips (I'm being detail-oriented tonight I guess!) I came home, plopped down in front of the computer and went on to youtube to listen to a disco song that had been in my head for the better part of three hours.  (Saturday Night Fever by the Beegees.) And a little bar at the top of youtube informed me that My Morning Jacket, one of my dads random alternative rock bands he likes, was playing a live concert being streamed to youtube.  So I told him, and clicked on the link myself, and then found another live concert they were hiding deep in the throes of youtube, which was COLDPLAY, which is pretty much my favorite band ever.  And that's how I've spent the last hour or two.  Just lying here on my bed, watching the magic of Coldplay and Chris Martin.

All in all, I'd say it's been a good couple of sleepless nights.  And August isn't over yet, I'm sure there are plenty more to come.  <3

PS. In other news, I got into pottermore!  I was on vacation this week and it didn't really work for me to wake up at 3 am on the first day to join, because I would have woken up all of my sleeping family members.  But I got in on the fourth day.  I'll keep you posted on what happens when I finally get to start.  All I have now is an account and when I sign in I get a page that says "Congrats! We'll email you when you finally get to do stuff!"