(CNN) -- The day after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Peru, killing at least 400 people and injuring 1,500, residents of one hard-hit city yelled "Help us! Help us!" as President Alan Garcia toured the area.

Garcia, who traveled the 260 kilometers (160 miles) southeast of Lima in a helicopter Thursday, said arrangements were being made ( Read more... )

I thought i'd take a break from my book to make a spot of tea. I'm to that point in the book where i'm clearly not going to be able to call it a night, but i've still got a hundred pages left and my eyes were fading. soooo i got a couple of my wishes today! i met up with olia after work today for some STARBUCKS ACTION. as much as i mock it, i miss ( Read more... )

okay help. i need hiking. i need pool time. i need northfork. i need camping. i need picnics. i need water fights. i need country drives. i need concerts. i need coffee dates. i need summer. stat.

p.s. the word need is starting to chicken.

hahahaha. you gotta hand it to country, they write songs like it is. this guy is clearly confussed, as all guys are. we gotta give them credit for loving us though. but i can advise this song with the wise words of another country song: "when she gets home she'll start to cry, when she says "i'm sorry" say "SO AM I" (*cough*youstubornassjustsayyou' ( Read more... )

well hello my beautiful friends! ahhh, the sun is finally sticking around. sorry mich :( by sticking around i mean yesterday and today. which served well for the last of the my dad's company picnics! They have one every Christmas and summer, and i don't know if we've ever missed a summer one, maybe a couple christmas'. I can still vividly remember ( Read more... )

and they say you can't learn anything from cartoons. Seby jumped the fence again, but this time, i was ready. i took my book and big hunk of meatloaf out on the front porch, sat down, and wafted the smell out into the neighborhood. Seby was back before i could even finish the chapter. I'm reading a novel about a woman who's husband tried to murder ( Read more... )

alright, i feel like this is probably the BEST group of people to ask this of. what are your book recommendations? Like absolute must-read, you-can-not-go-another-day-of-your-life-without-reading-this-book-Laur books. Fiction, non-fiction, american classic, eastern translation, i don't care. Just what are your favorite classic classic books. I'm ( Read more... )

i just got in from taking a new camera out for a test drive, i didn't even realize how late it was! and i only stopped because i ran out of battery.  it was a GORGEOUS night. i got to the spot  a little past sunset,  and it wasn't the best one i've ever seen, but  i don't think there's such thing as a bad sunset. But the real magic happened when ( Read more... )

it's one thing to not have access to a computer and have to deal with a Facebook-less life, but having a computer with an active internet connection that basically just flips me the finger whenever i try to access Facebook is just degrading ( Read more... )

uuuuh, can't go to sleep, just saw the best movie EVER! woah woah woah, getting ahead of myself. but definitely by the best diRECtor ever. i swear, when that car morphed into a camaro...it was the closest i've come to feeling the way i did the first time i layed eyes on that charcoal Ferrari Marinello 575 in Bad Boys 2. i need a special laura ( Read more... )