(133) Kick back

Today was a really relaxing day.

woke up at 9:30

drank coffee

listened to music

unloaded/loaded the dishwasher

mom made breakfast

ate with dad at the kitchen table

spent time outside

went on my computer

spent more time outside with my parents and the animals in our backyard

Velcro on her leash getting ready to roll herself across the deck

Chewy the tortoise 

Monarch caterpillar 

(flowering) Blackberry bush with a bee

Frank

Later dad and i went to ganahl lumber and to my work

(i had to check my schedule. I don't work this next week. This means i don't work again until july...if i even get scheduled during the one week i am back)

While in the backyard, later on, we heard crash, screech, crash, (the sounds, not the words) in the distance. me and dad went for a walk to investigate. It sounded like a really bad accident that involved multiple cars. It turned out that there were only two cars involved. Nobody was injured. One of the cars was up on the sidewalk. They got hit and really skid. I think the second crash was it going up on the curb.

After that adventure I spent time being artsy and listening to music in my room

Makeshift desk in front of the window for a cool breeze

 I started sketching on my linoleum block (carve it and make prints)...it will be a print eventually

Design 1:

 part of design 1:

 Redesigned:

 Close ups:

 I came across this big fellow crawling on my floor.

Unfortunately i had to put an end to it. I felt kind of bad for him/her/it.

After the drawing was done i moved onto collage-ing, or at least cutting out words from magazines.

It is for my New Zealand Journal.

At 6, I turned the tv on for the first time that day.

ate dinner

at 8:40 erin came over and then we went to her house to take the last of her things to the apartment.

we all hung out there for quite awhile and got things set up.

I got home at about 12:30ish give or take some time.

Here is today's outfit:

Hairdo:

(97) Really, saturday?

It is after 1 a.m. so I am going to keep this as short as possible so that i can go to sleep.

morning: (10-12)

coffee...spilled it all over the deck-my hand spassed out or something.

sat outside on the pond deck with mom and Velcro(on a leash)

shower

Afternoon: (12-3:30)

lunch...left over spaghetti

one tree hill...several episodes

Easy A

loaded the dishwasher

got ready for work

left for work

Evening/night/early morning: (4-12:40)

Work

My shift was going really well. It seemed like we would be able to finish everything up early. At 10:22 a woman walked in saying she had a party of 20 people coming. We close at 10:30. Our manager made us take them even though they wouldn't be seated til after closing. Me and Ann were not thrilled about this. They weren't seated until 10:45 at the earliest. Oh and it ended up being over 25 people. 

They left around 11:45. Me, Ann, and Tyler finished cleaning and closing up the place. We finished a little after 12:30. Way too late to be at work and it was about an hour later than when we expected to leave.

So that was my day and night.

Happy Easter.

He is risen!

(96) Twofer

Twofer: an abbreviation for a two for one. The title of this blog meaning two days in one post.

Yesterday i chose to go to sleep at a reasonable hour (10pm) so that meant me sacrificing my blog time.

Its probably a good thing i didn't do a post yesterday cause i was in a really bad mood. Mainly i was brooding about one of my classes and a ridiculous time consuming assignment.

Here is a brief synopsis of what happened yesterday.

I skipped my 9:30 class- so i got an extra hour of sleep and then spent 3 hours working on a computer assignment. I went to class at 1:30 and found out that my strong angry emotions were shared by many of my classmates. Basically we all can't stand this class. But i felt so much better after venting and finding out that i was receiving higher scores than other people.

Later in the evening my parents and i walked over to the park. 

Here are our findings:

Great Horned Owl

Nest with one of the Babies

Feathers

Cute Squirrel

Squirrel on the move

Owl's meal, or what is left of it

Some kind of bird foot

It had interesting webbing and was rather large

Today is a new day and it was so much better than yesterday.

I volunteered from 8-12am at the Intercommunity Care Center in Long Beach. 

"Intercommunity Care Center is a 147 bed Skilled Nursing Facility which specializes in providing care to the confused, wandering, geriatric person."

What I didn't realize is that they care for people who are functioning well enough not to be in a psychiatric ward. It was a very good and interesting experience. 

I went home after 12 and was exhausted. I made some guacamole and ate it for lunch. at 1:30 Dad drove me to school. I was dreading having to be there for a few hours. When i got to class I found out that only one group was doing presentations today. I was expecting at least 2 groups. I was out of class a little bit before 3. I caught the bus shortly after arriving at the bus stop. I got home and rested. I ended up taking a nice long nap. I woke up to Velcro trying to eat my hair. (she is so weird...and she doesn't give up easily-i had to pin her down, push her away, and eventually kick her out of my room.) Around 6 i got dressed for church. 7PM was a wonderful good friday service at church. Afterwards we picked up groceries at trader joe's. We headed home and mom made spaghetti and italian sausage. It was so wonderful to hang out in the kitchen with the family.

The rest of the night was spent relaxing and watching tv and playing with the crazy cat.

What a wonderful Friday.

(83) Productive friday

Today i was planning to observe at the preschool on campus. I got there early so i grabbed something to eat and hung out in the lounge until 9am.

I went to the building and found out the center was having an open house. No kids were there to observe. FAIL. So i waited around until 10am when class was going to start. I went to the earlier class instead of going at 2pm.

I got out of class at 12 and went to the gym for 30 minutes.

around 1 mom came and picked me up on her way home from work. Instead of going straight home i decided it would be a good idea to run some errands.

I went to the credit union and closed my account-i didn't use it anymore.

me and mom went to lunch and i got to enjoy a slice of strawberry pie-my favorite.

We stopped by the house so that i could pick up money to be deposited.

We went to the bank and i ended up depositing over $4,000. I've been holding out on myself.

around 4 i laid down on the couch and fell asleep. I didn't wake up until 7:30. Clearly its been an exhausting week. 

At 8pm the whole family gathered up baskets of dirty laundry and went to the laundromat.

We ended up using 10 washers and 3 huge dryers to get the laundry done. We finished around 9:45- all of the laundry was folded and in baskets for each person. 

I spent the rest of the night hanging out with my parents and Velcro.

I ended my night by YouTubing new zealand videos and watching ones on the different places im going and activities i will get to do.

(49) Mish Mash of Stuff

 NEW OBSESSION:

Adele

Photo Catch Up:

(these are photos i meant to post throughout the week but forgot to)

Sunday:

Velcro trying to get the birds

Monday:

Ice....Dad used a spatula-us so cal ppl are not prepared for ice

View from school of the snowy mountains

if you look closely you can see the mountains

Tuesday:

Tuesday morning, after the sun came out: 6:30ish

Friday:

Today:

-Me and my pale self spent some time outside in the warm air studying. (I sat in the shade- i knew my skin wouldn't be able to handle the sun)
-I blasted Adele for hours.
-Continued studying inside while watching the movie An Education.

-I made rice crispy treats for John and Jeff's birthday hangout.
-OH My Passport came. The photo is awful but at least I can travel the world and those people can see that i don't really look like my photo.
-Noticed a weird spike in my blog stats. If you are reading my blog, FOLLOW It.

(44) The simple, funny things in life

My morning started off with me going in the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and my dad telling me "your clothes don't match." i replied, "i know they're just pajamas so it doesn't matter." He explained, "its not very often that i am able to tell you that, so i had to say it." The things my dad tells me just crack me up sometimes. Even yesterday he had me chuckling when he said "your pony tail looks cute." I don't think he has ever said my hair looked "cute" let alone something as basic as a pony tail.

Anyways, i got dressed and of course was matching or at least coordinating.

I got all of the reading done at school that needed to be finished today. I had an easy day of classes and came home to a very friendly cat.

Velcro decided i was the perfect place to sit and then proceeded to lick me

she semi settled in but it wasn't working for me.

finally almost comfortable

Both of us completely settled in

 A little while later i headed downstairs and watched some tv. Then i went grocery shopping with mom. After that i worked more on my study guide and finished a homework assignment. Then it was time for dinner (homemade mac n cheese and cabbage with turkey sausage, and a glass of wine)

I watched the Bachelor and now its time to go to bed.

I am going to attempt to get plenty of sleep so that i can stay awake during my test tomorrow.