shumma

ah summer. how i love thee. it has been decided that i need to live in a place of perpetual summer, a place where i can play and soak up the sun (with proper spf, of course) all day long. two such places?

arizona:

fresh off the plane from the great white north. (note the cute little plane..cuter and littler in real life.)

touristy? yes. lets be honest..who doesn't love a palm tree?

arizona has THE best shopping..can you say outlets?

ginger skin + tanning lotion x prolonged sun exposure= sunburn. (this picture doesn't do it justice..)

this one does. sunburn smiley face, everyone.

things i love about arizona:

1. the heat. it felt like thousands of blow dryers were blowing on you all the time..perfect. it got up to 115 one of the days we were there!

2. the desert. i think its so beautiful! and so different from alberta.

3. the cleanliness! i couldnt believe how clean phoenix and mesa were.

4. the little ninos! mexican children are adorable! especially the one i saw in a leash in the mall. where can i get a nino on a leash?

other pleasing sights include actual mall cops on actual segways giving each other high fives and 5 inch monster bugs crawling on amy's feet..God bless America.

and echo:

lakeside cabin? yes please.

dont worry folks, just friends.

east glacier.


oh just some pretty sweet lookin' clouds.


as fun as this trip was, it didnt go by without regrets:

mistake #1: stopping in browning for a potty break. i wasn't aware that this gem of a town was on a reserve, although i should have clued in when everyone stared at me as i walked to and from the gas station. i'm pretty sure i was the only white person not safely secured in a vehicle within an eighteen mile radius..that was probably the quickest stop i have ever made.

mistake #2: forgoing the sun protectant for the first three days of the trip. my nose became exceedingly red and burnt, therefore emphasizing the largeness thereof..blast.

mistake #3: going to the lake in the first place..because now i never want to leave :(

what to blog about?

things i'm amazed by lately:

-the speed at which my room goes from dirty to clean to dirty again..its pretty remarkable.

-how quickly laundry piles up and groceries disappear.

-my new chi.

-the weather..i kind of like it. i really love thunderstorms :) and when we do have nice weather we appreciate it that much more.

-how easy it is to confuse love and hate.

-my lack of anything good to blog about..

-jared padalecki. also ashton kutcher and bradley cooper's body. mmmm.

-how "decipher reflections" by playradioplay tugs at my heart strings :(

-the rate at which my freckles are multiplying.

-how fast hygiene school is coming! three months!

-how quickly i recovered my social skills..i'm now not suffering from complete social retardation. just partial.

-at the overall lameness of this post. sigh.

from me to me

dear self:

i'll be smarter next time. the extremes i had going on today weren't the best life choice..unhealthy food and a hard workout isn't exactly the best combination. so so sorry.

you are banned from facebook for a week. not that youre addicted or anything..but you get kind of obsessive. and creep-y. as in you creep far too much to be considered normal.

instead of focusing your efforts on others (ahem, facebook), try focusing it on alma. cause you promised you would finish alma by july. better hustle, cause time will fly by!

make it a goal in your life to marry an ashton kutcher lookalike. you know what? i would settle with ashton kutcher. better get on that.

lets make it a goal to buy groceries this week! and possibly focus a little more on laundry and the maintenance of the cleanliness of your room.

keep up with the working out! you're doing great! and remember we want results by the end of the month.

you promised coach hundred percent attendance to practice from now on..don't forget. don't not go.

hang in there. things are tough right now and they'll stay like this for a while until, one day, you'll wake up and realize you don't care anymore, that all of this doesn't make you want to scream and cry and laugh and punch someone in the face all at the same time. you can do it.

love, me

ps- it might be a good idea to stop listening to "i miss you" by blink 182.

feast your eyes

this man makes my heart melt.

hell's kitchen?

in an effort to minimize my expenditures, i have taken to eating breakfast at home, packing lunches and preparing suppertime meals. while preparing my simple meal of chicken breast, green beans, and rice, the following events occurred:

i proceeded to defrost the frozen chicken breast and cook it in a pan. the amount of oil i rationed soon ran out but my chicken continued to merrily sizzle and spit. as i boiled the green beans, the fire alarm starts ringing. apparently my chicken breast began to burn.

how the hell do you turn off a fire alarm?

i raced around my hallways tracking down the alarm while digressing into hysterics. (ps those things are loud. the fire alarm i mean, not my hysterics.) i stared at it for a while, just trying to figure out how to turn it off. i jumped at it and hit it with my finger a couple of times but that didnt do too much. i grabbed a chair from the kitchen, still laughing about the hilarity of this situation. the upper floor of my house still reeks of burning teflon.

how does one all of a sudden suck at cooking? cause its happened to me.

i go through phases of being okay and not okay with all of this break up stuff..guess what phase i'm in now.

check list

completion of gossip girl season one: check.

initiation of season 2 download: check.

cleaning of the room: check.

processing of laundry: check.

first office softball game: check.

getting hit on by softball man: check.

being attacked by hundreds of mosquitoes at rugby practice: check.

playdate with jon tomorrow: check :)

(ps-we're transitioning from lovers to friends..i'll keep you posted. pun intended.)