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I would say "Happy Halloween!" but I'm pretty late posting this, and since all the stores have already moved on to Christmas I guess I've missed the boat on that one!

It was a good night, a little drama, but all's well that ends well right? There were some great costumes, a lot of music playing, and some royal trashing of Ben's house. (Quick clean up in the morning, but leaving powdered sugar on the counter was a bad idea!)


Pumpkin Cupcakes I made for Ben's Halloween Party. Topped with fondant pumpkins, devils, "Trick or Treat," "Boo," some random patterns, and Halloween sprinkles! (Also note the vintage party tray thing I got a while back! Love it.)


Amelia Earhart. I look really chubby here =( But my costume was awesome!!


Thiana (Alice from Alice in Wonderland) & Amelia =D


Amelia Earhart & A hobo. (The blood is from a "hobo fight" apparently... don't ask. )
He scared a tiny trick-or-treater though! =/


Jake & Trevor are sort of destructive...


Roommates! =D


I'm sensing a theme here...


Mr. Woody Wood in his ghost costume! (Which he kept on for an impressively long time...)


The ghost and (Kirsten) the Giraffe outside!


By FAR the cutest costume! Courtney & Joanna as Thumper & Flower from Bambi.


Neilson as an 80's pro skater

Hope everyone's Halloween was excellent and you're still getting he sugar tooth sweaters of your teeth!

Invisible Children's Roadies came to RIT for a screening. They all seemed really young this year, but just as knowledgeable and helpful as usual.

On the tour they had been showing The Rescue (IC's big, international event in April) but since everyone at our screening had been to the event we got to watch this amazing movie about Natalie. She was an intern for IC and was the one in charge of the Chicago rescue. Really inspirational and awesome to see some of the behind the scene stuff. Our turn out was kinda low, considering it was the Friday before Halloween and the night of a hockey game.

A boy from Nigeria came to the screening and we had a long discussion. It was incredibly interesting. Hopefully we'll here more from him in the future!

All in all it was good, as always.




They drove up and parked in the middle of campus. RIDICULOUS. It made me laugh.

Two days... and almost finished!
(missing the most crucial two bits though...)



Amelia Earhart Halloween Costume

Today.


It rained. And rained, and rained, and rained...


but...


My little cat discovered how fun big brown bags are! (He thanks Kirsten for leaving it in the Kitchen for him ;) )

(Yellow leaves all over my side yard, out my bedroom window)

Fall is officially in full affect here in Rochster and i'm hopin' and prayin' that it doesn't end anytime soon. We've had a few incredibly nice days, blue sky and all. The cold ones are making me nervous that the gray winter is looming around the corner ready to come sooner than i'd like.


I'll probably never get all the leaves out from under my hood...


My yard! We don't own a rake... I kinda like it that way though. So much color!

The weather was so nice yesterday that I opened Clyde's favorite window and let him watch all the leaves blow around. I left it open when I left cause he was enjoying it so much, and my room wasn't even cold when I got home! Exciting.


Here's what happens when I get 3 packages of things from home and my parents persuade me to open them quickly on the phone with them as a tresure hunt for gifts they hid in them.


Screw up trying to take a picture of my new shirt that I got visiting Thiana's Family this last weekend. This is probably more intersting then the actual picture I got.


Our home is slowly becoming more and more ours. It's nice as our personal touches start going up. There was so much left over by the people who lived her before... it's our turn!

After a LONG blog break I've decided to come back. Welcome to my life.

The weekend before last I went on Adventures with my friend Genevieve. We visited the Strong Museum of Play and a little tea shop/restaurant called La Tea Da. It was incredibly cute, had amazing food, and all these funny hats you could wear =D




Genevieve picking out a hat! =D


Our little table


DELICIOUS salad and tuna melt, and tea! (Note the cute little purple flowers that came with my salad)

We had both always wanted to go to the Strong Museum of Play, so we headed there next...

Weather Woman Genevieve and her Pumpkin.

Future Martha Stewart?

Our version of Mr. Potato Head

SLINKY!

It was really cute and fun, if you have children and are in the area ever I'd HIGHLY suggest bringing your kids there they'd have a BLAST! There's so much to do! (I'd bring hand sanitizer though...haha)

That's all for now, more recent update to come soon! Tonight hopefully!

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.)