9:04 AM
Oh wow. I haven't updated this in... FOREVER!
I could have swarn I had updated since I got to school! But I guess not =( I'll have to post pictures of my apartment later... cause I'm not home right now to take them. But soon!
The drive with dad went really well! I think we only had a few tiffs the whole time, which is really good! The drive went really smoothly: no major car issues, or getting lost. We averaged about 10 hours a day and got there in three days.
We left thursday morning driving a decent day to Omaha, Nebraska. We stayed the night with my Aunt Sally and Uncle Gary in their lovely home. =) I've always really liked it there, so it was a nice stop along the way. Sort of transitioning out of being at home and into being away. It was a nice stay, we went and got Chinese food with Gary and Sally and my cousin Elizabeth, got a good nights sleep and left the next day at a decent time. We headed through Iowa, through Chicago and into Indiana. We ended up staing in a hotel JUST inside Michigan (literally about 20 feet into the state) because of Notre Dame being in South Bend it was hard to find a place to stay. The next day we went back into Indiana, Ohio, PA and into New York! We got in on Saturday afternoon and stayed in a town just outside Buffalo. Dad and I spent the night relaxing and just wondering around the town (Which was 100% under construcion on all the roads and sidewalks... which actually made this pretty diffictult) Come sunday we spent our morning in Niagra Falls, dad and I brought out Passports so we got to see it from both sides. =) it was really beautiful, SOOOOOO much water! That afternoon we drove into Rochester and checked dad into his hotel. We hung out for a while, and then I was actually able to move some of my stuff into my apartment early because one of my roommates was being an Orientation Advisor and got to move in early. (Shhhhh! Don't tell!) I don't think I really broke any rules though, i wasn't like OFFICIALLY moved in or anything. haha. Dad left tuesday and we spent all the time in between moving and getting organized. It took us FOREVER to get our apartment organized, but it's finally pretty much done! HOORAY!
So far classes have been good, I'm taking a pretty light load this quarter because I got out of taking 2D design with my AP photography credit from high school. Everyone else is taking 2D this quarter and next... but I couldn't find anything else I wanted to fit into my schedule so I'm just taking one less class. =( I felt sorta bad about it... but I truly COULD NOT find another class to fit into my schedule. It was quite the bummer. However I've got a new job! And hopefuly I'll be able to pick up one more shift eventually... I'm working at a place called the RITZ on campus. I have a bunch of friends who work there (Lorin, my roommate -and a future student manager there- Frank -Lorin's bf-, Ben, Jake... etc.) It's another food service job, but it's a lot better than Gracie's. And I don't have to close!! =D I didn't hate Gracie's, but it's nice to be somewhere new.
My schedule is sorta terrible, just timing wise. I have the EXACT opposite schedule of EVERYONE. Both Ben and my roommates. So most of the time I'm IN my apartment, I'm alone. It sucks. I have a decent schedule Monday: 12-2 anthropology, 2-4 photo. ... and then it gets bad.
Tuesday: 10:30-1:20 work, 6-11pm photo lab. <--- Yeah. That's FIVE hours. At night.
Wednesday: 12-2 anthropology, 4:30-close work, 8-10 History and Aesthetic of Photography.
Thursday: 10:30-1:30 work, 7-10 photo crit.
Friday: 9-10 Career Seminar, 10-12 History and Aesthetic of photography.
I LOVE my photo class because there are some great people in there and the professor is AMAZING. I just wish that I could actually SEE my roommates from time to time. And Ben quite literally has a break EVERY time I have class, and I have class EVERY time he has a break. It is the megga suck. If you will.
Other than that I've just been workin' on classes and trying to get stuff done.
I got fish yesterday! I'm so excited. They're awesome.
I'll post pictures of them later!
This post has been long enough! Seeya!
(and I didn't proof read this one... so sorry if it's weird. Too tired to deal witht that right now.)
8:21 AM
Gah. My toes are FREEZING! For august it has been WAY too cold. It monsooned for 3 days... which included and EXTREME temperature drop. We're talking down to about 40 degrees... in august. Even for Colorado that's a little extreme. The mountains looked beautiful with a fresh coating of snow though. =) So that was nice.
I saw my brother's new home! He's living a duplex on the edge of Fort Collins, (or at least the edge of the bigger city) it's sort of near the Football Stadium and the reservoir. It was a neat little house, two floors, with a really nice yard in back. He had a HUGEEEEEEEE closet in his bedroom. I'm excessively envious. Ben has a big closet in his new apartment, I guess, too. Why do all the people with NO clothing have huge closets? It's a cruel cruel trick of the world...
Lorin and I? Yes... we have... I think... one small closet to somehow split between the two of us! Unfair.
Anywho... I've been packing packing packing and i'm pretty much ALL done... finally! There are 4 times a year where i'm always like... "I have too much CRAP!" However, considering I'm fitting EVERYTHING into my car. I'd say I'm okay.
It's gonna be a LONG drive, with my dad. It can go one of two ways: We can get along really well and it'll be awesome. Or... we will NOT get along and it'll be sorta miserable. It'll probably be a bit of both, but i'm very excited for my apartment!
I am, additionally... REALLY sad to leave home. I cried for a while last night. It's just always hard being so far away... I always seem to feel this mix of guilt for leaving my parents, and even some regret about things I miss out on when I'm not home. But this is part of growing up I guess... and ROC is the right place for me. It is difficult to be so far away, if something bad happens it's not like I can just drive home in an afternoon or a day. Or even overnight...
I think Kelsie is here to pick me up!
Off on the road tomorrow!
I'll try to blog and keep you updated!
8:45 PM
I got my wisdom teeth removed today, I was REALLY REALLY nervous. However, I was sort of tired to begin with and as the anesthesia woman said "we keep it strong" about the nitrus oxide (laughing gas) so by the time that stuff was on me for about a minute I was ready to pass out without the anesthesia. I have no idea when she even put the stuff into the I.V. The last thing I remember is the doctor coming in and greeting me, me saying something stupid in attempt to be funny and thus prove that I wasn't hopped up on something that made me unaware that anything had to do with me. It was something along the lines of; "How are you?"
"I don't belong to this world anymore..."
"You don't belong in this world?" Baffled, I'm sure.
Realizing I wasn't funny... "No... I'm just... floating around."
And then I woke up without my knees working.
I really felt fine, a little spacey, it hurt a bit... but other than my inability to walk I was fine.
All I could taste was blood. Lots and lots of blood. It was really gross to have all this blood just floating around in your mouth. I had gauze on the holes, and had to bite down to get the bleeding to stop... but they were soaked.
As soon as I got home and started cleaning up, I saw the blood and some deep primitive fascination with blood kicked in and I HAD to take pictures of the events. I dug out my camera and a memory card that wasn't full and started shooting. The entire time my mom was just trying to get medication inside me. I think she was completely horrified I was documenting it. However, she wishes she could watch whenever she gets surgery so... I guess we all have our things. I for one have NO interest in seeing my insides... ever.
I spent my afternoon creating dyptics while floating on vicodin and awkwardly eaten pudding. I personally enjoy them, and there's blood involved so I'm sure I can find SOMEONE who agrees.
They're on my flickr.
But here they are as well, for your convenience:
Lots of blood.
Medication.
Cleaning up.
The teeth! ... and more blood.
I've also been trying to take pictures of myself every hour to monitor swelling etc, and just to see how I entertain myself. I missed a few hours tonight, but I'm doing what I can. haha. I haven't really gotten very swollen so far... only my lips got all Angelina Jole on my ass. Hopefully it'll stay that way... but we'll see!
15 days till I leave to school!
10:37 AM
Well...
I sure haven't posted in a long time.
So far this summer... Costa Rica. Which was amazing.
Then some boring time which consisted of me working, and not climbing and hanging out with friends from time to time.
Now... Ben is visiting! HOORAY! I missed him so much, it's been so amazing to have him around. It was really surreal for the first maybe... ten minutes. It just felt very strange... it's a hard thing to explain, sort of like having really harsh daja vous to the point that nothing feels quite real. However, after those ten minutes... it's just been great. He seems to get along with my parents. Which, of course, is very good.
So far we haven't done much. He spent the first day loitering with me at work. I felt sort of bad, I'm sure it was VERY boring for him. haha. =/ After we went climbing for a bit at Ute Valley. It's a neat area. It was a little frustrating for me considering I haven't really been climbing, butit wasn't too bad. (with the exception of showering and being nearly unable to wash my hair because of my hands hurting... hooray soap!)
Today Ben opted to stay home for most of my shift. But he's gonna bring me lunch and then hang out for a while. <3 what a nice boy!
And after that... the day is sort of mystery! So we'll see what it holds!
We're also planning a camping/climbing trip which should be greattttt fun. =D
More soon! (hopefully)
Ben and I after our last climb in Vedauwoo, WY. It was raining so we had to call it a day early, sadly. But we had a lot of fun. We climbed a multi-pitch route on the rock behind us. Meaning one person leads, putting gear into the rock as they go up... and the other person belays. Then when the person leading gets to a belay ledge where they can hook themselves into the rock and belay you from above as you climb and clean all the gear out of the rock. And then when you get to the ledge, you hook in. And they climb... the process continues till you're done! It was a lot of fun, we were there for two days but I wish we could have stayed longer. I'm definitely going back. We also climbed a multi-pitch at Garden of the Gods the day he left. We got up at 6:00 am and got in the car by 6:30 to make sure we'd have time to climb it and get him to his flight. It was a great end to the trip, and it was sort of fun to have a peanut gallery since it was a pretty easy, but REALLY fun climb.
Cute boy at Garden of the Gods. <3
My mom took some pictures of us the day he left, they're really cute. =) He seemed to hit it off with my parents. I think my dad still is sort of standoff-ish with the whole "serious boyfriend" thing, but they got along well. My mom really liked him though, which is great, cause I do too!
We both cried at the airport. Not TOO long till I get to see him again, I'll be at school about a week before he will. I miss him SO much, but it's also exciting to know I get to see him so soon again. We went way too long between leaving for summer and seeing each other, it got hard for a little while. However, in retrospect there was really only one week that was REALLY hard. Which is a really good sign I think.
1:30 PM
Summer life has been interesting. I actually haven't seen my friends much, which is sort of a bummer.
Molly was out of town until recently, now that she's back I've been hanging out with her a lot more. Kelsie has sort of dropped off the face of the planet cause she's taking classes in boulder. Joy is really busy too, so I've been on my own a lot. Everyone else I'll just see now and then.
Climbing has been completely miserable. I didn't like the gym near my house, but my parents didn't want me to go to the other gym. So I have thus been not climbing at all. It really sucks. I also don't know anyone to go climbing with, so my climbing has been limited to bouldering. I got my crash pad today though, so hopefully i'll be able to at least salvage a bit of the summer. We'll see. =/
Lianna is coming in two days!! I'm really excited to see her. She's here for a week, we're gonna do the usual colorado stuff. I'll take her to the top of Pikes Peak on the cog, and then spend the evening in town. Also Garden of the Gods and some camping. It'll be cool. And then ben comes in 15 days!! I'm very very very very very excited!!! He's only staying for about a week and a half, but I haven't seen him in a little over six weeks and it'll only be about a month till I see him again. He is gonna miss my birthday though =( Cause he and carter will be driving back from California. We'll see though, hopefully i'll be able to do something fun with my roommates. I haven't had very coheseve or good birthday's for a few years. So we'll see...
That's about it for now. I have to work on the fourth, which really sucks. But such is life.
Love to all.
