mommy + daughter = BFF's

i have the best mom in the entire world. she is so wonderful and i love her so much. she came to visit me this weekend and we had the most fun ever. we stayed at a hotel and got rocky mountain hot stone massages and pedicures. we shopped, had room service, and watched gilmore girls. and we also watched the cu boulder football players that were staying at our hotel. but still it was like the best weekend ever. i miss my mommy very much now. cant wait till christmas!

11/11/11

three years today is supposed to be my potential wedding date. ever since i was young i always wished on the clock at 11:11 and since those days 11/11/11 has always been the planned day of my wedding. back then this year was like ten years away so it seemed like a lifetime but now looking at the date and seeing that it is three years away im not so sure that this will be the planned date anymore... sorry for those of you who had your save the date cards. i mean you can keep hoping but i feel the chances are going to be very slim. sorry..

as for the current life i made it back from vegas. i had the best time ever. i got to hang out with aarons mom and sister and we had so much fun together. we got to watch anne of green gables and anne of avonlea which were both amazing. we also ate lots of food so for the next two weeks (or until i am back there again for thanksgiving) i have moderated my food portions to be a much smaller amount.

my body is still in quite a bit of pain from my accident. my hand is more bruised and swollen since it happened and my body still continues to ache. i cant write for because the brace my hand is in prevents it so i have been typing every single class assignment. i am also on muscle relaxants. at first these made me a little loopy and very relaxed but i think my body has started to adjust to them so i am a little more calm when under the influence.

i also got into the university of colorado at boulder which i am very excited about. my only worry besides packing up and moving to a whole new town meeting new people and starting college all over again is the liberal-ness. the few majors that i am interested in taking from there will all be taught very biased-ly which i am not too comfortable with so i am thinking that maybe i should chose a major which could not be too biased like communication or art history, haha, but this is not what im really interested in. actually boulder doesnt even have my major or global studies, but for the time being i will survive. ok my hand is super sore from typing so im going to goooo.

happy 11/11 and sorry about the future wedding plans!

gonna sell my car and go to vegas

i made it to las vegas and i just had the most wonderful night of sleep. currently i am laying in aarons sisters bed who is away at college, and it is excellent. the eleven hour drive yesterday was long but surprisingly not too uncomfortable. my new muscle relaxing medicine made me sleep most of the way (even with my mouth open and drooling at times) but it helped. i also wore a heating pad that strapped around my lower back which made me feel like i was wearing body shapers and trying to control my chub. we stopped at cracker barrel in st. george where we got a huge and delicious meal of biscuits, gravy, jam, eggs, bacon, and grits for only 13 dollars. it was a winner. we got to his home about an hour or so later. his mom and dad welcomed us. we all talked for a while which was so nice and no where near as awkward as last time. this morning aaron came in and said goodbye at like 650 because he was leaving for his class. that is actually the reason why we are here. he is taking a three day AMGA (american mountain guide association) course on single pitch rock climbing. he has class from 8-5 for the next three days so i am going to be enjoying some lovely time with his family.. his mom has planned for us to watch anne of green gables and avonlea (i dont even know how to spell that one). and sunday is aarons birthday so a bunch of his extended family is going to come for dinner. i dont know what i got myself into! but as for now things are good.

and if obama is elected you will support palin for vp

most of you im sure have already heard about my accident so maybe i will write about it later since i only have the typing use of my left hand currently. so i just wanted to post one last thing about the election.

obama supporters really for mccain

anger

im just going to vent.

scenario: me in bed taking a nap because i got 5 hours of sleep last night

lynsey walks in "hey can i open the blinds to let some light in here?

me: uhhh sure

i fall asleep and have been sleeping for about half an hour

she comes in and leaves our door open to our bedroom where everyone else is out and around our apartment being loud. she sits in bed, opens her computer, turns on the music pretty loud.

i wake up from this, and try and doze back off which i do.

lynsey's friend karen comes in "ohh hey lynsey how are you" clearly i am asleep in my bed they sit down and have a conversation.

karen asks about lynseys paper and lynsey says ohh we can talk later. then a few minutes later she is like ohh well we can just talk about it now.

i lay there for a minute, and ten cant stand it anymore.

i get out of bed grab my computer.

lynsey: "ohh sorry we woke you up" karen "ohh yeah sorry" i walk out

lynsey: "ohh do you think you could shut the door behind you.

i slam it. righteously pissed.

this is not the first time it has happened, this is about the tenth or eleventh, always when im napping or going to sleep. but usually it involves her turning on a light, turning on her music, and having friends over in our tiny bedroom while im sleeping. FREAKING GO IN THE LIVING ROOM. its huge, spacious, be as loud as you want for all i care. leave me alone!

i know i should have probably confronted her the first time. you think shed get the point after i wake up and storm out of our room frustrated ten different times. i just dont care anymore. just a month and then some. i have to survive.

to sit by the hottie or to not sit by the hottie

im in arizona now and it is hot hot hot. the plane ride here was good but i had an interesting thought. it was one of those planes where you get to chose where you sit in order of boarding by letter group. i walked on the plane and most seats full except middle seats. now here is the strangest process. you walk down the aisle evaluating each person you see to decide if they are worthy of sitting next to. are they old and smelly? do they have a crying child? are they a bit overweight? are they middle aged and talkative? are they young and attractive perhaps? and if you think hes attractive does he think that you are attractive? would that just be awkward the whole plane ride. hmmmm and even though you are evaluating people they are evaluating you right back. even as i sat i watched each person hoping that certain people didnt sit next to me.

in the end i sat between an older woman and a sorority girl. it was a silent flight but it went by rather quickly.

The Cup

Im sitting in the only open seat I could find in a crowed coffee shop on Pearl Street in Boulder. The "paradoxical mix of left-leaning politcally-correct environmentalism and yuppiedom" how much do you love that last word? Its the only place I could find with wireless internet so I compromised. Apparently I picked a bad seat. The entire time I have been sitting here I have been dive bombed by dangerous flies. There are about 6 of them that are flying around in circles around this little area and the girl across from me and the man beside me and I have been desperately trying to swat them away. So far, no use. I came here to study for midterms and instead I am being attacked by flies.

But other than that the day has been good. I love having my alone days. I got home this morning and packed up my stuff that I would need to study for the day. I drove over to boulder and went to the campus. I sat in the shade beneath a beautiful big tree but it was windy and millions of leaves kept falling on me so I decided to head for the library. Here I felt like a real student studying at a table, even though I had such a problem trying to find the entrance. But once there I accomplished a lot. Is it strange to go study and hang out by yourself at a university that you dont even go to? Gosh Im such a poser. After that I came over to the cafe where I have been since and am enjoying studying at my leisure. Just because im lacking friends right now doesnt mean its bad to hang out by myself. Im making the most of it. I just wish these flies would go away.

what sound does an elk make?

Yesterday Aaron and I drove up to Longs Peak and Estes Park. They are about an hour north but yesterday was the perfect day for it. The weather warmed up a little and it was a blue sky. We drove up the mountain to the Longs Peak trail head and walked around that area for a bit. It was so full of trees and a beautiful view. From there we drove down a little to get a better view of Longs Peak and the "Diamond" Face as they call it.

After this we drove on to the little mountain town of Estes Park. A complete tourist community but it is still pretty and kind of like downtown Anchorage, lots of t-shirt stores. We wanted to find a local spot to eat. So where else would the locals go in this tiny town. Well McDonalds of course. While leaving here this family came out and started pointing at my license plate and yelling and talking. They looked as if they wanted to ask me questions so we drove away as fast as possible. Why is Alaska still so mysterious to people? We are not a foreign country okay....

So from here we drove a bit and then saw a group of people gathered watching a huge herd of Elk on the golf course. We parked and joined them. Elk make the strangest sound. It sounds like either a bird, a dying cow, or a screaming child. We walked along a pretty trail covered in leaves and then by the reservoir with the bluest water ive seen in a while. On our way back to the car we stopped to watch the elk one more time. Here we learned that it was mating season... The one head hancho elk would spot a fine lady, keep her in sight, slowly sneak along behind her, and then try and mount her before she had time to get away. A few of them bolted but we did have the chance to watch him find his match. I was grossed out as were some of the families around me, so we left and laughed about it all the way back to the car.

So what sound does an ELK really make?

ohh and one more thing

just because i thoroughly enjoy SNL Weekend Updates pre-election

check it out

Blog Makeover

Round three, lets see if I can keep it up this time. I added some different colors so I figured it might help me stay a little bit more interested. So on a blog I suppose I'm allowed to say what I want and comment on what I want and analyze what I want how I want. Well here is an article that I read from the Anchorage Daily News about the target that just opened which I found extremely disturbing and Im sure any of you who live in a state that have target will agree with me that it is slightly disturbing. Im starting to worry about the fate of my fellow alaskans.



Long wait is over for Alaska Target shoppers

After trial opening for VIPs, two stores open today

By JULIA O'MALLEY
jomalley@adn.com

Published: October 7th, 2008 10:39 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:12 PM

What is it about Target, that everyday Outside shopping fixture, with its acres of parking, wide aisles and discount swank, that makes Anchorage people freak out?
Is it the knock-off snakeskin handbags? The Chihuahua-sized Halloween costumes? The mod bottles of environmentally friendly, lavender-scented toilet scrub?

There were no real answers Tuesday night as the first batch of VIP shoppers flooded into the chain's new east-side store, only awe. For the first few minutes most people -- they were a group made up of specially invited community members and relatives of employees -- pushed their apple-red carts empty as Alaska band Pamyua played tribal funk from a spot cleared out near kidswear.

"It was like they were giving it away for free, how excited I was," said Deirdre Cronin, running her hand down the soft cotton of a little girl's shirt. At first she couldn't decide what to buy, there was just too much to take in.

"But I'm over that," she said, gesturing to a blouse and pair of jeans in her cart.

Before 6, as a giant Target-red hot-air balloon inflated in the parking lot, the much anticipated retailer cracked opened its doors to an eager, shivering crowd. The store and its Wasilla counterpart officially opens this morning at 8. Long lines and crowds are expected.
Before the shoppers came inside the perfectly organized, untouched Anchorage store Tuesday night, the "team members," as salespeople are called, did a few warm-up cheers in their red shirts embroidered with Alaska flags and Target bull's-eye logos. A manager yelled, "You want to ask them what?"

In unison, they called back: "Can I help you find something?"

The store is 172,000 square feet (about four acres), parked on what was once woods off the Glenn Highway near Bartlett High School. Between 350 and 400 employees have been hired to work there.

Tuesday's shoppers strolled by little tables stocked with appetizers -- meatballs near the shoes, tiny desserts by the detergent aisle, "Targetinis" (a mix of sparkling cider and pomegranate syrup) by baby accessories. Each would leave with a swag bag decorated with Target-logo salmon and containing a stuffed Target dog wearing a kuspuk. At one point, someone in the band started singing "We be shoppin', we be shoppin,' " to the tune of Bob Marley's "Jammin."

Is it risky to open a new store just as the national economy is sinking, when consumer confidence is down and people seem to be shopping less and saving their cash? No, said Brie Heath, a public relations person in from Minnesota, who surveyed the sea of customers. The store has low prices, making it attractive to shoppers when budgets are tight. Their stylishness helps them draw customers over the competition, she said.

Linda Thompson walked with purpose to frozen foods. She was in the market for beef enchiladas, she said. And kale in a can. You can't get that anywhere.

"We've been waiting forever," she said.

Debbie Boland, a little breathless, stood at the head of a line for a Nintendo Wii, holding a slick "Wii Fit" used for workout video games. It was the newness that people wanted; they wanted different things to buy, she explained.

There was something validating about having another major chain store, many shoppers said. As if a Target made Alaska less remote somehow. As if being able to buy what people Outside could buy shortened the distance between here and there. As if, somehow, access to stylish discount housewares meant the city had arrived.

"It's huge for Alaska," Boland said, just as another shopper, sipping a Targetini, rolled by.



Target has VIP's now? "We be shoppin" Targetini? Come on....

Beautiful View!

Today was my first day of school. I moved into my new apartment on thursday (YES I am no longer homeless!) I am living on campus with some girls I lived near last year. They are all very sweet, very caucasian, and very blonde, so as for now i fit in. there are six of us living here in this little three bedroom, two bathroom apartment, with a large combined living room, kitchen, and patio. But by far we have the best view on campus. This comes from being on the third floor, which moving in was the biggest leg work out of my life, but i think it will help to keep me in shape this year. i am in the small back bedroom, which may sound miserable, but it is the one with the best view. Right now I just woke up and was able to watch the sun set beautifully behind the mountains. I can see over the foothills and even on to some of the snowy peaks. Its great. I live with a girl named lynsey. Initially I was worried about rooming with her, but so far things have been going well. I had four classes today which all went well. Most of my classes are global studies and history. They seem kind of difficult, but ill hope for the best. most of all i am looking forward to my french class. yay. tomorrow i just have one which will be nice. So as for now i have a mandatory floor meeting. now ill get a chance to meet everyone i live around. so hopefully that will be good. more updates later. love love

TOO MUCH

so long without writing, so much to say, so much has happened, so much alaska, so much sun burn, so much tom petty, so many people at school. i dont want to write about it all now. school starts monday. thats all for now. love love

homeless

the last few days have been quite the experience. i moved out of my campus apartment on monday and have been couch hopping for the last two nights. i put most of my stuff in storage and have only what i need, some clothes, two books, and some bathroom stuff, in the back of my car. all of my housing stuff for the fall, all of my options, have fallen through, leaving me homeless the last few nights, and also when i return in the fall unless i work something out asap. nothing seems to be working in my favor though. one night i was able to stay in my friend shannas guest bedroom. that was nice, they served me dinner and were very hospitable. in return i clean more than i left, leave a nice note, and maybe even some flowers, then disappearing before they arrive home from work. it happened today again when i stayed on my friend nicoles futon. they were very nice and even let me go out and use the apartment complex pool. it was very refreshing. the next morning i cleaned and left before they came home. during the day well yesterday i went to school and used the computers in the student union so that i could play spider solitaire. and today i am at the press because they have free wireless which i have not had access to because in the homes i stayed at they didnt have it. so now im just relaxing eating my blueberry bagel and drinking my large iced soy yerba mate and writing about my boring life of couch surfing. one thing im really interested in trying out, just for one night, is the Boulder International Hostel (http://www.boulderhostel.com) ive never stayed in a hostel but after reading about it, it sounds great and a fun community for a night or two. the only thing is that you must be an out of colorado resident which works perfect for me. maybe someday when i have someone who will go with me i will stay there for a night and make up an amazing story of my travels. but as for now im in the coffee shop for the next few hours until aaron will take me to the airport to fly home where i will be homeless no longer!!!!!!!!!!!!

being grown up is hard

living in colorado this summer on my own while not going to school has been difficult yet eye opening. ive learned a lot about living, working, going about ways to find money when you seem to have none, and ive also learned how to cook (i know, cooking is a pretty big deal). i feel that ive come a long way and its forced me to grow up in some ways a little faster.

now with the fall semester just around the corner and trying to decide what to do or where to go with my life, ive learned to make decisions, which is something that im not very good at doing. im working on becoming a part time student, enrolling in the community college as well as ccu, and then trying to decide if i will fully transfer in the spring. along with this change it has brought about the opportunity to live off campus and not have a meal plan which will save me (and by me i mean parents) somewhere around 6,000 dollars im thinking. let me tell you, trying to find an apartment is tricky. im sure most of you know this because you are all older than me, but still. my main goal is to find a place with someone i already know, so we will see if that option goes through or not. as a part time student i can still live on campus and just pay rent month to month, but im not to anxious about staying on campus.

in the fall i hope to learn more about money (and by learn i mean make) and budget more, and be able to spend more of my own money than my parents. i also plan to ride a bike a little bit more than drive until the wretched gas prices go down. so growing up isnt all that enjoyable, but at least im still having fun down here. i guess thats what really matters. i will be home in 13 days and counting.

a sun came

my life is a jumble. i cant wait to come home. only two and a half weeks of work left and then ill be back in the great state i call home. hopefully this trip will be filled with some trail running, nice bike rides, rock climbing, and hopefully a camping trip. after being there a week i will leave with laura and her family for washington where we will see tom petty in concert. yay. then hopefully we will go on a short back packing trip. yay. then a few days later we will see jack johnson in concert. yay. from there i will return back to colorado just a few days before school starts. here is where it becomes messy.

i think i will only be a part time student at ccu and take other classes at red rocks community college. all of this is for the purpose of getting into my dream school in boulder. by being a part time student that gives me the opportunity to live off campus which would save me about a thousand dollars not to mention the fifteen hundred that would normally be spent on a ridiculous meal plan. so it would be the most amazing thing if i could find some girls to share a place with off campus. i can only hope. but as for now i have a lot to do to get this all in place. tomorrow i will go to red rocks and talk with an adviser, then i need to talk with my ccu adviser, and then i also emailed a cu adviser for alaska and hopefully i will meet with her soon. so thats my life for now. hopefully everything will get done soon. thats about it.

aching back and apple cinnamon cheerios

After a fun long weekend with family in colordao and a road trip to utah, i have finally made it to las vegas.

It was nice to have my family visit me in colorado. We spent a few nice days together; we explored golden, bolder, and celebrated the fourth of july with an excellent dinner. we got to do just about everything on my list so i was excited with how that time went.

Then my mom, aaron, and i left to drive to salt lake city. We decided about half an hour before we left for aaron to come along but now i am very glad that he did. We drove 8 hours until we finally arrived in salt lake around 10 at night. The next few days were fun seeing all of my wonderful family. The highlights of the trip: rock climbing in Big Cottonwood Canyon, "The Junkyard", and the Salt Lake. Rock climbing was exciting and fun, my first utah climb on a slick, smooth, flat piece of granite crack. It was exciting. The Junkyard was ridiculous. As you can assume it was my mom who really wanted to go but we had fun. It would have been better if it hadnt been 90 degree sun beating down on us. There were literally 60 acres of metal junk. We decided it looked like the end of the world as we were the only ones wandering through this desolate place. As for the Salt Lake, Aaron and I drove out to Antelope Island which is in the middle of the lake. We thought it would be exciting but it was just nasty. There were enormous yellow spiders, miles of foot deep hot sand, crusty salty sand, and once we finally reached the water we were attacked by millions of tiny gnats, which gave us just enough time to snap a picture and race back to the car to get off the island as fast as possible. it was something that everyone needs to experience, but once and only one.

Mom decided to fly back to alaska from salt lake, aaron and i dont have to work for a few more days so we extended our trip and drove to vegas to visit his family. It was about a 5-6 hour drive and when we got here it was 112 degrees. I dont know how i will survive this weekend but lets hope I will. His family is nice but im nervous so you know how it is. We are just hanging out here, no major plans and we will just see how it goes. thats all for now.

the most epic night of summer

It all started when Aaron and I got some matte and decided to go for a drive. I didnt know wher we were headed because I just told him that I wanted to go somewhere pretty. I didnt know the adventure that I was in for.

We drove I-70 West To Everwood (Evergreen?) Here we exited and stated the 36 mile drive up to Echo Lake. We got there early evening and it was so beautiful. It looked exactly like home in Alaska. The lake was glistening and cool and the trees were a shade of beautiful dark green. There were a few people fishing so we decided to get out and walk around the lake. We stepped out of the car and the temperature was at least 20 degrees colder and my original 85 degreen outfit was not suiting the 65 degrees. But the day was beautiful in itself. We walked through the trees and over roots on a worn dirt path. The sun shone down and it was a perfect moment. We made out way around the lake and back to the car.

We drove a little ways to the lodge and got some food before we started our drive up Mt. Evans. We paid ten dollars for our pass and stated the gentle mountain drive. This is the only fourteener in colorado that you can drive to the top of and is also the highest road in north america. The drive had a lot of trees and until we passed the treeline and then there was just dry green grass mixed with rock. On the way up Aaron killed a ground squirrel. My heart broke and I wanted to cry. There it was just sitting all perky in the middle of the road having a pleasant look around. I saw him and just thought to myself how cute he was. Next thing I know it was smashed and flattened beneath the tires of his enormous ford expedition. RIP ground squirrel.

We stopped when we came to a little pull off about half way up. There was another lake and we saw the perfect big wall off in the distance. We got out of the car and walked to the edge to check it out. It was beautiful. The rock around us just looked to solid and pure. We didnt stay long at this point because a fierce thunder storm was rolling in. The sky grew very dark and before even getting back into the car we saw some huge bolts off behind the big wall and listened to the thunder echo among the alpine walls. We raced back to the car and continued our drive up--just getting closer and closer to the angry clouds.

The bolts looked bigger and the thunder sounded closer. My stomach started to become anxious, nervous, and sick. Partly due to the altitude, and partly due to the storm. The view from the drive was indescribable. We have no pictures because we always seem to forget our camera at the most important times. We made it to the summit and parked. There was a shaggy haired mountain goat that looked like it belonged somewhere foreign in the Himalayas but not in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. There were also a couple stone buildings which looked pretty neat. As we stepped out of the car to get a better look with the storm growing to be right over us, these three old men sitting in the truck next to us rolled down there windows and yelled out, "You should probably get back in your car. We have an electrical engineer in the car and he said that our car antenna is ringing and so that is not a good sign." In my mind all I heard was "you are going to get struck by lightening and die so get back in the car ASAP." So we (and by we I mean I) rushed back into the car and shut and locked the door. We sat there for a while watching the enormous lightening storm that was going on directly in front of us and feeling the thunder shake our car. We moved to another spot for a better view just a little ways up the road. The lightening just seemed to grow bigger and closer. It was hitting the ridge directly across from us at our level. One time after it struck I saw a huge red flash at the contact spot and it was incredible.

The storm started to calm down so we pulled out our backgammon board, which was our original purpose of the "short" drive in the first place. We played a quick game just to say that we have played backgammon at 14,000 feet and then started the drive back down the mountain which was just as beautiful as the way up. I didnt enjoy it as much though mainly because I had to pee so badly. The drive was so amazing. We had the perfect music of new coldplay and some sigur ros. It was seriously in the top 5 best drives of my entire life and one of the most epic night of summer hands down.

my new friend

gobbledigook

I think I have not spent quite as much time blogging because the writing in Romania just about wore me out. But with the special request of my family I would love to fill you all in on my life.

So far since I have been home I have just spent most of my time working and not doing much of anything. The first two weeks back I was working 35-40 hour weeks when normally I should have only been working 20 but my boss wanted to "catch me up" so thankfully I am back to my expected 20 hour weeks which is much more relaxing. I also am picking up a second job babysitting a little 6 year old boy named Cap. I got this job from a girl I work with who doesnt have time to work with them anymore. I havent started working yet but I met with the mom and the boy and he is very fun with a huge imagination. I cant wait. This week at work has been busy. I have finally started to figure out what my position is. "Customer Care" --i take care of the people who use our campus for the summer. I help them with their odds and ends. So it hasnt been so bad. But it has definitely been a huge learning experience with the boss I am under....

One recent problem we have had on campus.. Well there are about 12 of us who work for summer conferencing. We live in three apartments on a bottom floor right next to each other. There are two rooms of girls and one room of guys. So one day my friend Adam woke up with about thirty bug bites on his back and legs. Then the next day our friend Tyler woke up with some bites. Adam was lucky enough to grab his camera and snatch a picture of this little creature that turned out to be a...BED BUG. dun dun dun. Im convinced that Adam brought them back from India where he has just been on a trip for the past month. The boys had to move everything out of their rooms and do laundry for every piece of clothing they own. People came and cleaned out the rooms and did inspections and such before the boys could move back in. In the meantime, at our weekly meeting we got to watch an informational video about bed bugs that they would normally show to hotel housekeepers. So we learned that you can spot bed bugs because they hide and dark places on the bed and they can also leave blood stains on the mattress, which lead to the best line in the movie, "Check the mattress for blood stains, but note, this is not always due to bed bugs." That was really the best part... But now the situation is taken care of. The mattresses were thrown away and hopefully things are good.

What else has been going on in my life. I got a library card yesterday! I was pretty excited by that. It makes me feel pretty mature and on my own. There has also been lots of thunder and lightening, which if you dont know, is one of the worst things in the world to me and my biggest fear. I dont know if this is because I grew up without it, but everytime it rolls around (which is quite frequently in colorado) I get very anxious. My breathing gets tense and my heart feels abnormal. So the last few afternoons have been rather rough on me. I have been doing a fair share of rock climbing. I am getting better I know because I have been trying harder routes and really pushing myself. Im tired of being stuck on the same level. So that has been nice. I have also been trying to do a lot of reading in my free time. I dont really have many friends here. I have kaylan and breezy but they are pretty busy with their own lives. So then there is some of the people I live with who are nice but I dont see too often because we have different schedules. So you know how it goes. Therefore, I am having fun with some reading. This afternoon I laid In the grass and read a book in the sun. I just finished. It was called Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and I liked it a lot. I dont know whats next on my list. Im thinking Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, Ive heard some good things so Im rather excited. They clouds are rolling in and the thunder is in the distance so I should probably get off the grass and back inside where it is safe.

xoxoxo

summer

i made it home alive. it was a long trip (a day and a half i think) with lots of delays but we finally made it to denver. the last few days have been crazy. ive been jet lagged, so im only sleeping 4-5 hours a night, and i am also having stomach problems. I cant eat anything without getting a sharp pain. today i went to the doctor and they gave me some medication and so hopefully that will start to cure me and i can eat again soon. i am craving certain foods so badly.

i started working yesterday also for summer conferencing. it has been, lets see, thrilling........ i sit, yesterday i played cards and dominoes, and that was pretty exciting. i guess some days are more busy than others, but it varies. thats about it for now. i really want to eat and thats all i can say.