Haaaappy Birthday to the greatest man I know! 51 years old today, my dad Leif Jay Erickson. Everything about him makes me happy and inspires me to try to be the best person I can be. He is my friend, my father, my protector, my mentor, my therapist, and so much more! I could never thank him enough for everything he has done for me and my sweet mother and siblings. I love you bucket loads, Dad. HBD.

In high school my dad's nickname was "Organic." Why? Well because he was so wild of course!!

I want my dog back.

My parents are great.

Thank you Alex, the best search party member of last night! Luh you baby.

Kidnapped.

Set list snag. Immature, I know.

Sometimes when you get home from a show at 3 AM practically pulling your hair out because you've fallen so deeply in lust for the lead singer and/or drummer... that's when dreams really come into play. Thank you sub-conscious for taking care of me last night. And thank you STRFKR for a reeeally great show.

Starf*cker - Julius
Starf*cker - Florida
Starf*cker - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I get chills when I watch this video.

Phoenix!! Tonight w/ Neon Indian :)

Called to Serve! California, San Fernando mission. Spanish speaking. MTC date Jan 5th! :)

Mission call. It's here.

Bathtimes.

Uncle Brian and little cousin Scarlet. At our Erickson family reunion Scarlet didn't let go of Sebastian almost the entire night. I can't tell who's cuter.

Dass my baby loves. Puppy talk. So unattractive.

Pictures from India fest 2009. Bummer I wasn't able to make it this year.

Today I'm grateful for my family, friends, Claire especially, Sebastian, a clean kitchen floor, nutella, my great ward, my backlit keyboard, naps, my bed, cute house, home teachers, great music, friends that help me find great music, cute boys at church, and ohh the list goes on.

Claire: "Uhhh... B-Money's in our backyard.."

Story of my life!

(mp3) Eternal Summers - A Salty Salute
(mp3) Delorean - Real Love
(mp3) Museum of Bella Artes - Who Do You Love
(mp3) Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time
(mp3) Sufjan Stevens - Too Much
(mp3) Sufjan Stevens - I Walked

Sebastian is sleeping over at Jared's tonight and I'm really sad! It's so weird! I love that little fur ball. I hate to say it but I'm gonna miss our 5 AM bathroom run where I go outside half naked and hope no one sees me.

(mp3) Warpaint - Undertow

Take-out has become my greatest joy.

I had 6 dreams last night where I got my mission call. Here are the 6 places I was called: Singapore, Devo speaking (In the letter it said "this is a language spoken by somewhere between 500 and 9 friends"). Spain, English speaking. Paraguay. My mind is drawing a blank on the other 3. But that's dreams for ya... Cross your fingers I get it tomorrow cause I can't take this anymore!

(mp3) Vampire Weekend - I'm Going Down (Springsteen Cover)
(mp3) Owen Pallett - A Man With No Ankles
(mp3) Small Black - Photojournalist

Mission call on Wednesday?

You have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw—but at the first words a gulf yawns between you, and you realize that this landscape means something totally different to him, that he is pursuing an alien vision and cares nothing for the ineffable suggestion by which you are transported . . . All the things that have deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it—tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest—if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself—you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.' We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want . . . which we shall still desire on our deathbeds . . . Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

From C.S.Lewis's The Problem of Pain

Sehnsucht. Life longings.

(mp3)The Naked & Famous - Young Blood
(mp3)The Transplant Mix

Grandma Ann. My idol.

Mission backpack?

'This is also why I don't like dogs," she said, poo-laden shoe in hand.

I didn't know there was even a first reason..

New dreamcatcher to keep the ghost out of my room. I don't mind him much except for all the coming and going at night.

This encounter may or may not have influenced my Jack-Chi decision.