im going to move to nashville after i move to LA

hmmm where to begin- i've been in nashville for 2 weeks --its 40 degrees below zero windchill in minnesota right now which is why next week when i get back from nashville i am driving to california and living there- not forever, just for a while cuz i've always dreamed of it! perfect world i pay off my school loans, get sweet jobs, and buy a pt cruiser convertible and jam a burned cd i will call 'my long awaited cruiser mix' with all my favorite songs on it, while cruising down by the beach with the top down with lauren my friend from minnesota who lives out in LA already. not so perfect world i run out of money and live in a palm tree. i already have a room i rented lined up for when i get there - living with 3 other girls in an apartment- one girl rented out the living room which makes rent really affordable for us especially for cali! (its so spendy there) living rooms are over-rated anyway. since im not there for the month of january i rented out my room for the month to a boy named christian who is sleeping on a white couch in my room that i found on craigslist (the only piece of furniture i've had delivered to my room so far).

at my friend allie's house right now- this is how i met her -- i was on facebook one day (year ago?) and got a message from a girl named allie that was like ... " hi jason its allie i met you on a cruise lets be friends on facebook " i was like sorry this is lenay not jason you have the wrong facebook but ill be your friend anyway haha-- and then i realized that it really was jasons facebook because he forgot to sign out and i thought i was on mine but i was not and i was like woops and wrote her back and said woops and the next time i was in nashville my friend aaron was like hey im at starbucks with a girl allie who says she knows you from facebook -- so i went and met them at starbucks ha! year passes by, i call her and was like hey allie i like writing songs on the guitar do you like singing? she said yes. do you speak spanish? she said yes. ok if i drive to nashville wanna sing songs with me in spanish and make a cd? sure. so i drove to nashville but we decided to screw the spanish and just sing english--so i guess u could say we are starting a band and its actually turning out really good! i even brought my friend/photographer/myspace designer/sara with me from minnesota to help get things started-- we are recording 4 songs for a demo- we've been working with a producer all week and have been filming a lot of it- im leaving tomorrow but since we are not quite done with recording he has a studio in LA too so allie can keep finishing her parts in nashville here and then when he heads out to LA next i'll be out there by then and ill finish my parts there, its just a fun kinda side project ive wanted to do for a while- we'll see if anything ever comes out of it- but either way its just fun to say we did it!

giraffe update

oh and that large giraffe statue i got my parents i accidently left at the hotel when i flew out!! but i actually ended going back to canada a few weeks later so i grabbed it-- k giraffe update now its happy in my parents living room

jenny lives in a garage and we slept in it once

me, liz, and jenny, have matching little star tattoos on our left feet. (we all went to university of minnesota duluth) its just funny cuz when we used to have pancakes at jenny's in duluth we had drawn out our life dream of all living on the same culdasac when we grew up, and be neighbors, with a tunnel from each of our houses going underground and leading in the middle of the culdasac to a secret underground hang-out room that we wouldnt tell anybody about! our culdasac had a lot of stars decorating it, liz had a pool, jenny had horses, and i had four-wheelers, so we could all share each others toys. and a fountain in the middle of the culdasac with a reverse mirror bottom so we could see through it in our secret room below but nobody could see down! it was all drawn on a piece of notebook paper and we made copies for us 3-- jenny really wanted two weeping willows so i drew those in for her too, we called our neighborhood 'suenos' which means dreams in spanish, and we wanted to name our street that and get our own street sign!!

but now we all graduated-- jenny moved to be a math teacher/gymnastics couch to middle of no where minnesota, liz is moving to chicago today to pursue chemical engineering, i am moving somewhere far far away in a few weeks but dont feel like saying right now (still in the u.s.), the other week, liz and i decided to go visit jenny in the middle of nowhere so we drove 3 hours and met her at her house- which is actually someones attempt at building a garage but decided to fix it up into a house instead- cuz its a box haha, jenny lives in a very pretty box, its really nice though, with a kitchen and bathroom, bedrooms and stuff but the shape on the outside is so funny, its right on a lake, and we slept over, made pancakes, watched 3 movies (one being stardust and i swear i saw that falling star girl in the mn airport the other day haha i shoulda kept her and got special powers) then we decided to go frolic on the frozen lake with her little white dog-- it was sooo fun!! we were sliding around this random ice-house and some guys truck out there and me and liz kept jumping on the cracks as hard as we could

dont read this blog mom and dad

this is random but i bought my parents their christmas gift yesterday its a rather large wooden statue of a girrafe (i just texted my mom "dont read my blog it talks about your xmas present") but its perfect cuz its from africa or something (they were missionaries in the congo for 3 years and my sister and i were born there and i had malaria i am ok now) so i had to carry this large wooden giraffe (comes up to my belly button) around toronto last night for a bit and ill have to fly with it back home tomorrow as a carry on

also when i studied abroad in south america-- the family i stayed with in peru had kids my age and one (renato) is working abroad in minnesota for a year to learn english and he gets there tomorrow and he is bringing inka cola mmm so good (pop that tastes like bubble gum and its yellow they only have it in peru and i think colorado maybe?) so thats cool and im driving a silver car this week but i keep trying to get in other silver cars first thinking its the right one which brings us back to that time in middle school when i went grocery shopping with my childhood bff leah and her fam and they had a van so i walk out of the grocery store and into the van and buckle up and look up to find the family who's van i just walked into all like who are you? whoops wrong family :)

berry the homeless guy is picky when it comes to sweaters

yesterday i parked in down-town toronto and was gunna check out muchmusic (canada mtv) just to see what it was like) and on the way there i stopped to use the bathroom at this smoothie store--  a girl working there named jacquie (from south africa) was like here i'll show you around toronto! i was like sweet! so i told her id go to muchmusic and then come back after she got off work-- went to muchmusic and it was cool and on my way back i heard 'lenay!' i was like who do i know in toronto and it was chrissy and angie helping out with revolve tour and we are just friends on facebook and never met in person ha! so that was super random so then us and jacquie from the smoothie shop drove around toronto and laid in huge clothes bin at a huge thrift store and then we were like lets each buy a 4.99$ sweatshirt and give them to homeless guys cuz its effing cold outside! then the thrift store was obviously closing cuz they shut off all the lights and we were like we can not see and my 4.99 sweater rung up as 7.99 cuz supposedly mine had a hood?! so mad just kidding kinda- first homeless man we see looks like a walking sleeping bag (he was walking in a sleeping bag), jacquie was like.. don? and he was like ... jacquie?! and then they hugged! it was so random!! turns out jacquie used to work at starbucks and hand out the extra sandwiches at the end of the night to homeless people including him and so he took a sweatshirt, his story: flew to toronto years ago to go to his sister's funeral (she committed suicide cuz her boyfriend beat her) and then just decided to stay and be homeless. next homeless guy Berry didnt want my sweatshirt (even with the hood!) cuz he didnt like green he only wanted angies. gave mine to a homeless guy named buck-- who suspiciously looks like an older buck the camera guy-- and one homeless guy named guy didnt want one -- then me and jacquie went out around town to skateboarding/art parties and then had a slumber party at my hotel and woke up for the free breakfast in the morning just as they were putting it away at 10am and we were like WAIT!!!! and they gave us bagels and there was a kid little hockey league or something staying there cuz a bunch of 10 yr olds and their parents were eating looking at us and i was like hi im lenay and this is jacquie and they said hi and then i asked them a few questions but they stopped answering them so we just laughed and ate our bagels and then went upstairs and jumped on the beds holding any loose appliance we found around the hotel room and took a lot of facebook pictures :) 

i do bad things don't judge me

k after europe i went to washington, stayed with a red bull sbm girl and her roommates till jason got there and went on the revolve tour with him for the weekend then we went to hawaii with 9 people from tour for a week for fun which was warm and wonderful and a lot of rainbows and then went to portland the next weekend for revolve tour again, and then i went home to MN for a week and now i'm in canada for a week and going back to MN this sunday where i will be for the holidays yay i get to be home for more than 5 days!! and my sister who lives in florida is coming back for christmas too which is thooper. i am not a horrible person but i did 2 bad things.... that i am thinking about right now.... we drove to canada first of all and at a toll near chicago it wanted exact change and all i had was foreign currency from europe so i just kept throwing in euros or pounds or whatever until it registered some as u.s. coins and let me through... thats bad thing number one... bad thing number two happened this summer i just cant remember if i blogged about it or not, i was in LA eating ice-cream with london (from MN but moved to LA and brandon and robb (red bull LA friends) and we got our icecream but then i decided i didnt like mine so i ''accidently dropped it'' on the ground so when they replaced it i just got a new flavor... ill update you if i do anything else bad.

im sitting in an airport come sit by me

some old man (airport layover in germany) just came up to me very bluntly and kindly and made small talk about what i spilled on my arm (i was rubbing of my I'm FROM USA i had written on my arm from the concert night before cuz i dont want ppl to think im doing that normally) and then he said that im more than welcome to come to washington with him-- didnt want to tell him i was actually heading there too luckily i havent seen him yet again and the guy i sat next to on the plane today i wasnt planning on talking to but then we got food and i was curious as to whether he was guna eat his cake so i made small talk until he gave me his cake haha

i found this blog on my computer and i dont know if i ever posted it!! so here it is... kinda random, from a few months ago!:::::: "this always happens to me! whenever I use the handicap stall in the bathroom I come out and there's someone in a wheelchair waiting and its super awkward like they are like why are you in my stall and I'm like I'm just greedy and wanted a lot of space agh!!! anyway. ok funny story i went to a restaurant last night and after food everyone was just kinda standing around in circles of friends, chatting on the patio and my friend nick was like hey lenay that's cute it almost looks like you're back to back with the random man standing behind you in his own circle of friends. so then my circle dared me to kinda lean on his back and see if he noticed, so i leaned to rest my weight on him haha and his circle shifted away from us. so then we shifted over too and i kept leaning and about 5 minutes later he turned around and was like hey you are leaning on me and i was like oh really? sorry my back was probably just being lazy and i didnt realize it! then i got embarrassed and blamed nick for daring me, and then i told them to go watch a video of me and my friend liz rolling around target on my site www.lenay.tv and then they told me they all worked at target and then i was like uhhh"