Nerds and Turkey Day

Thanksgiving was great... I got to see my brother, Adam, who came up from San diego, my mom who came up from Kansas, and my grandma who came down from Canada. The feast was delicious, especially the mashed potatoes (about 75% of which I ate). We all congregated at my mom's friend, Dana's, house along with Dana's two kids and their other halfs, as well as Dana's sister and niece. Overall it was quite a delightful experience (or as my grandma would say, "marvelous!") with good food, good wine, and good company.

Saturday was fully reserved for a wedding, which my whole family attended. Well, the first half of the day was reserved for the time-honored ceremony of getting ready, while the second half was for the actual wedding and reception. The ceremony began with the lovely, "ridding of the stink" excercise, in which hair was washed and the comforting feeling of hot water absorbed. Following shortly after was the "shaping of the eyebrows", of which my mother got plenty of emberrasing pictures. Finally I was instructed, for about the fiftieth time on how to put on make up. Sad? That a 19 year-old girl knows not how to put on her own makeup? Yeah... kinda. I tell you what I can do... I can put on eyeliner by myself. But whenever I do, I end up thinking that it looks too dark, so I slowly rub it away. I think by the time I'm satisfied with how it looks, there really isn't any makeup left on my face. Oh yeah. I got dressed too and on the way to the wedding my mom and I stopped at a nail shop to spoil ourselves. It was so nice... the seat they have you sit in to get a pedicure is also a massage chair, so while I was waiting to have my feet so marvelously attended to I got a nice, relaxing back massage. I highly reccomend it.

So I officially passed the "geek test" in math today. My prof was talking about pi briefly, and wrote on the overhead, "3.14159...". Of course she followed with, "does anybody know any more of pi?" Being the nerd that I am, I audatiously spoke up and my hidden nerdiness with, "...265358979". I think that everybody in the classroom was just thinking, "I mean really... who knows that much of Pi?". I do indeed suspect there to be a few others out there keeping what they really learned in high school math inside: the strip of about 400 numbers of Pi lining their math classrooms. Regardless of how dorky I was, it still would have been a lot cooler to have known about 30 more digits. Then again I'm not Kiersten.

If you want to be a "Pathetic Sea Captain who loves to flick lizards", a "punctual fish stick who loves to eat lanterns", or something like it, check this site out: http://www.auburn.edu/~shephcd/whatyouare.html

Hicksville, USA

In my attempt to obviously do anything but sleep tonight, I came across some interesting facts about my super-hickish state of Washington. I lay these before you... laugh as you will:

Washington State Symbols:

flower: coast rhododendron (1892)
tree: western hemlock (1947)
bird: willow goldfinch (1951)
fish: steelhead trout (1969)
gem: petrified wood (1975)
colors: green and gold (1925)
song: “Washington, My Home” (1959)
folk song: “Roll On Columbia, Roll On” (1987)
dance: square dance (1979)
grass: bluebunch wheatgrass (1989)
insect: blue darner dragonfly (1997)
fossil: Columbian mammoth (1998)
fruit: apple (1989)

The sight of this makes me want to move onto a farm and start pickin' at the banjo, but I guess that really wouldn't be too far of a stretch... considering that you pretty much have to drive south with your windows rolled up and internal air blasting to avoid the smells of rural Washington any further south of Fife. Shew-ee am I sure as heck glad that I's live in the city with all them internal plumbin' and such. But seriously. Don't these attributed state symbols seem a bit out-dated? Not according to the evidence, it's not! I mean really- was square dancing really that popular in 1979?

I guess I did feel a bit better after seeing that Washington isn't completely alone in giving the fine art of square dancing such high honor, and that contrary to popular belief, California's state dance is not the C-walk. I also got a nice chuckle out of the fact that Oregon's state drink is milk and Conneticut's state animal is the spirm whale. Immature? Some may say so.


In other news...

I am most likely moving out of the dorms and into a house with a couple friends next quarter. Freedom sounds so so sweet... and not to mention the extreme reduction in the cost of food- my bank accound is glows at the thought already.

Adam comes home tomorrow!!! (And by tomorrow I mean Thursday)

Patrick and I took a road trip up to Western on Saturday and I got to visit all of my super-awesome friends that I havn't seen FOR-E-VER! It was super sweet, and I even got to go up to Canada for a few hours and have my first legal drinks! Yay for Canada and Friends!

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(1. A giant IHOP pancake in Bellingham. 2. Billy being awesome as always!)

I am now tired and in need of sleep.

Super Duper Soccer Weekend

I guess I'll procrastinate from studying a little more. I wanted to tell everyone about my awesome weekend anyway. I went to OSU (Oregon State University) to play in a soccer tourniment with my club soccer team and we kicked BUTT! I'm serious.. we were soooo good! If you came to any of our games last year (which you probably didn't unless you are a parent of someone on the team) and compared it to our play this year, you wouldn't even guess that it's the same team! We ended up beating OSU 2-0 and U of O 3-1, tying U of Portland 1-1 (but dominating the whole game) , and losing to UC Berkley 0-1 on a fluke goal. I think we for sure dominated the tourniment.

It was especially great because we were the only team without matching uniforms. Granted we did have matching t-shirt uniforms and purple socks, but nothing compared to the University of Oregon team who was given everything by their school including warmups. The reason it was so great is because is always sucks to lose to the ghetto team... and we were the ghetto team! Just because we had to share jerseys during the game due to the fact that we didn't have enough for everyone didn't mean that we weren't organized or that we couldn't play well. Oh well... we were ghetto and it was great.

Of course it wasn't just the soccer that made the weekend great. The girls I got to hang out with are awesome too! We had such a blast just hanging out and being goofy. On the way down I rode with Amber, Sherri and Erin in Erin's car, while most of the rest of the team was in the 12 person UW van. Even though the van left a little bit before us, we got ahead of the van by quite a bit. This was noticed when we called them to find out where they were while plotting to moon them upon passing them. We pretty much spent the next hour pulling situating ourselves to perfectly exute out attack. Unfortunately only about 5 people in the van were awake to see the glorious unvailing of our buttox's, but it was still great.

We arrived at our destination that night to find that our sleeping quarters consisted of a cold field house with 1/16" thick turf, which subbed as our bedding for the night. Though extremely uncomfortable, it was still fun to hang out with everyone and cuddle for body heat. We also went out to thai food and played a bit of Balderdash saturday night, which was fun as well. I think I've made this blog long enough. So I'll leave you with a few fun pictures from the weekend.

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(1. Bellevue, Amberlance, and Kristi. 2. Crazy Hippie. 3. Adrian caught off guard.)

Evil World

The world is out to get me... or at least to keep me on track. In my attempt to take a nap today (or tonight- 6pm) so that I could just be refreshed to study for my physics midterm tomorrow, Dani tried her best to keep me from achieving this simple task. She first started by being really loud and telling James on the phone that she was "just being really loud so that Sybil can't take a nap", followed by a "present" which I refused and received anyway (the song, "wake me up"), and the ever-so-dredded sound of her chair rolling toward my bed, only knowing that she was coming for a last attempt to keep me awake. In the end, I was either successful in making her believe my giggling yells of "I hate you!" or else she just gave up, because I ended up drowning out the sounds of strongbad and homestar and falling asleep. That is, until my alarm clock went off. As usual, I figured that another ten minutes of sleep wouldn't hurt. Unfortunately this time it did... literally. After I hit the snooze button and started laying back down, I started to slide off the side of my bed, frantically looking and reaching for something to grab on to, only to find myself hopelessly on the ground while Dani laughed hysterically at me. If you need a better visualization, Dani took a picture of it, so here you go:



Sad, I know. But I figure that there must have been a reason I fell off, because I woke up more awake after my nap than before.

A Change for the Day

Today was a bit out of the ordinary, but definitely in a good way. I signed up to do a fast-a-thon about a week ago, in which I signed up to fast for a day (today) and the Muslim Student Organization had companies give money to Northwest Harvest for every person who fasted. In essence, I went hungry for a day so that someone else wouldn't have to. They made about $1200 which was said to feed about 2000 small families. It was a great experience- I got to learn a lot about Islam and what Ramadan is about. It was also really fun to see all the students (muslims and non-muslims alike) to come together to break the fast for a common purpose. I wish I could do something like this more often in order remember how lucky and blessed I am to have all that I have. During one of the speeches I also thought about how I wish Christianity had something like this, until the speeker (who must have been reading my mind) reminded me about lent. So I now plan on actually fasting this lent as opposed to giving up something that doesn't help me to recognize the needs of this world, like TV.

I also had a really good time in classes today (especially religion section). We had a worksheet to do comparing and contrasting a passage in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and since I thought a lot about it and really took my time doing the reading last night I had a lot to say and contribute to the class. It's always nice when a prof or TA says "Wow, that's a great point- I didn't even think about it that way" in regard to a less-common point of view. I felt very articulate and able to spit out exactly what I thought (which isn't normal).

Tomorrow I leave for OSU for my soccer tourniment. I can't wait to get to hang out with my team, because my teammates are sooo awesome! It's funny though, because I seem to think that about every soccer team I play on. I think it's just a soccer bond. For instance, pretty much the only thing I miss about high school is my soccer team. Is that normal? Oh well... If I'm crazy and wierd, so be it- somebody's gotta be, right? I also get to hang out with KEITH when I go down to Oregon, so I'm really excited about that too. I havn't been able to go down and see him due mainly to a lack of a car and time. We decided that we are going to eat thai food and see "Ray" which should be great. Oh, how I love my friends!

Election Craziness

Although I claim it to be a waste of time to follow the election predictions and updates as they progress, I can't say much more for myself than the fact that it's 1:39 am and I'm not sleeping, but rather playing facebook and checking up on the elections. So... I guess my opinions on the matter don't count now. Why is it that I become so addicted to things so easily? i.e. Election polls on TV, Facebook, AIM (more last year than this), Anything BUT homework. At least I've stumbled across the amazing "William H. Gates Law Building" containing the most amazing and addicting library EVER. I mean just going in there makes you want to study. However I don't think that is any coincidence- I'm pretty sure it was in the $88 million plan for the building. Whatever. So now you have to come witness the bookshelves that move by pressing a button if you havn't already.




I mean just look at this building... Its amazing!

After learning in my math section today that I need to start going to class again, I rode the 271 home in order to cast my Go Kerry/Boo Bush vote at Sammamish High School. Consider Sammamish is my alma matter, I decided to look at the remodeling and say hi to a few teachers. It was AMAZING. Sammamish High School is absolutely gorgeous! I was fortunate to get to go into the state-of-the-art, multi-million dollar theater while it was still under construction and it was awesome! I probably would have even gone to a play while in high school if that theater was there! After bumming a ride home off of my friend's little brother so that I wouldn't have to walk the extra mile, I grubbed on mini oreos and many other unhealthy goodies and packed my self up to catch the bus back in time for my 6:30 physics lab.

I honestly felt like the biggest hobo ever coming back to school. So picture this: I was wearing my backpack, carrying a soccer bag full of more stuff, carrying a sleeping bag in this nasty sleeping bag sack over my shoulder, and wearing my new Hobo gloves. The only thing that would have made me more of a hobo would have been if I were carrying all of my bags in black plastic bags. I pretty much could have picked a place on campus and slept there for the night- not that this would have been a new thing for UW (hobo's sleeping/walking around campus).

Well its been a long night and CNN still reports that it's all too close to call. So far Bush is ahead 254 to 252 in the electoral votes. Hopefully the remaining states will pull though. WE NEED A REVOLUTION!

Too Long

I know. It's been a while since I've kept my slim audience informed of what's going on in my life. I would sum this past month down to a whole lot of repetition. School, work, soccer, eating, sleeping, and the occational hang out time with the homies. In addition to these day-to-day recurrances, I have thus far successfully made the club soccer team I was on last year again, watched a whole lot of Sex and the City, and spent WAY too much time thinking about boys.

I met with an academic counselor today to make sure I was on the right track and also to figure out some lingering questions. Supposedly I have thus far done a great job planning out my four, possibly five year schedule so that I can complete the following during my undergraduate carreer: major in psychology, possibly double-major or minor in comparitive religion, and fulfill all of my physical therapy prerequisites. Not only that, but if I want to throw in at least a quarter of study abroad, I definitely have some more planning to do. Regarding studying abroad, I spent a few hours the other night looking at programs while I should have been studying for my physics midterm the next day. I went in to my research hoping to find an awesome program in either Chille or Italy, but came out getting my hopes up while planning the end of my next summer in Spain with Dani. Financially it wouldn't be the wisest move, considering it would probably be about twice as expensive to go there for a quarter as it would be to stay here, but for the experience, I think it would be worth it.

Last night The Starting Line and Yellowcard played at the Premier and it was awesome! I must say that punk concerts become less exhilerating with each one I go to, but the music was still great. I only went into the hub of the croud for The Starting Line and made it up to about 4 people back... which isn't bad considering I only started moving my way through the crowd right before they started. It's all about strategy I tell you. I refrained from buying a t-shirt this concert, mainly credited to the fact that I had no money. All in all, it was a good concert, and I am quite impressed that the violinist from Yellowcard can jump and play violin at the same time.

Glagadoo

I have officially declared myself to work too much. bahhh. The night I got back from Kansas City I got a call from Chrissy and found out the I was working at 6:30 the next morning. Not only that, but I worked until 6pm and did that all week. I moved some of my stuff into the dorms last night after watching Sammamish soccer get killed by MI and I almost lost my voice. Tis a little raspy which is good. Ok. I'm sorry that this is the most boring thing you have ever read in your life. I'm about to fall asleep at work, but fortunately I get to walk down to the softball field in t-2 minutes. I'm outie, but come visit in 722 Mcmahon. Peace.

Oh Baby, Oh Baby!

Last couple hours of work for the summer... and then I go back and do more work in Seattle. But thats OK. The point is that I am almost done. Of course, I will miss all of these cool chicks I work with here; Cathi, Debbie, Deb, Susan... I bid thee adeu. I definitely had a good time hanging out and getting to know all of them. I have never really spent this much time with people my parents' age before, but nevertheless it was fun.

At 1AM this morning I was out of breath from getting all of my stuff together and packing most of it up. I know, I know. I am eager to go home, but three days isn't too bad, is it? Oh well. It's a good thing that my mom gave me one of her large suitcases for a small one of mine, because I definitely don't think I would have been able to fit all of my clothes in what I came with. Leaving Seattle I had the intention of barely packing one of the suitcases so for this reason exactly, but stuff kept on piling in and before I knew it all three were almost full. This time I am trying the "roll everything instead of folding it" approach, and I think it's working pretty well. I won't be back on telling you my life stories for at least another 6 days, so bear with me. I'M LEAVING! And I can't wait to see everybody when I get back! Wahoo!

The Pains of Office Work

My ear aches from hearing myself repeat the same message on random customer's answering machines about 50 times too many. I have been attempting to keep myself occupied by reading fellow bloggers' daily accounts. It's actually been pretty entertaining. I have thus far read a great book review on "Life of Pi", which I was supposed to go out and buy by his second paragraph, and read one wedding-happy girl's entire blog about moving to Canada for law school and how she like poofy dresses. I found myself laughing out loud at the familiar description of drooling to food. The recipricants of that cheerful message better be greatful....

Come to think of it, my skills on the phone professionaly have probably decreased dramatically since I've been here. Before Hayley and Deborah left me to go to their fancy schools, we would have to hang up the phone or appologize on answering machines for filling their personal messaging systems with barely-comprehendable reminders for their "pest control service tomorrow". In a state of boredom about a month and a half back, I typed up 'word of encouragement' for all of the people in the office. Posted above this screen now lays Hayley's reminder that "If for any reason you begin to laugh on the phone, remember: hang up, call back and tell them that you had technical difficulties." Ahh, good times.

Only 4 more dreaded phone calls and then I will be free to sit and stare at my buddy list until somebody decides to mosy over to their computer and take their away-message off. Only 4... more!!

New Watch (incase you couldn't tell)

Holla back youngin!

611 - 619

Talking to my future cluster-mate today, I began to realize how lucky I am to have gotten to live with everybody from my cluster last year. A little light went off in my mind revealing to me how great of an opportunity it was to live with such a diverse group of girls. Everybody was in many ways very different but we learned to get over those differences and really focus on the similarities between us, allowing us to have a great time together.

We all spent a decent amount of time together in the cluster, and at times a little too much. In the case of Angie and Shine, I suspect that you came home late and woke up late for a reason- so that you wouldn't have to deal with us. I'm just kidding, but I'm sure you got enough of us (or shall I say me) during the wee hours of 2 and 3AM.

I would think that if we all met on the street randomly, we would all go our seperate ways without even thinking about the possibility of getting along beautifully someday. Fortunately that was not the case. I have learned to appreciate everybody's talents and quirks and I think I have also learned to have more respect for other people's space when they are tired and cranky (Anne). I hope for anyone who reads this that they get the opportunity to live people who have different viewpoints, aspirations, mindsets, and states of mind.

Good Deal

I was looking up watches on Fossil.com and found this one. The stars flash which make it extra awesome, but it was $65. No doubt I was gonna check it out at the fossil store at Bellevue Square when I got back, but Debbie, a woman I work with in the office, told me about Watch Station. They also sell Fossil watches around here, so I checked it out on the website, and not only do they have it, it's on sale! YAYAH! $39 definitely got my attention, so I'm going over there after work to check it out.

Beautiful Sunsets

This is the beautiful sunset I witnessed last night.. I went to my mom's house over the weekend- well, kind of. After driving 400 miles on friday to Topeka, then Wichita and back to Topeka, my mom and I went to KC on Saturday for Hayley's surprise birthday party. It was a lot of fun watching a bunch of 16-year-olds get together and giggle. We held a big car scavanger hunt which I ended up going on. I didn't win, but I did win a big hold in the crotch of my pants from doing a cheer kick.

I come home in 6 days! If anybody feels like sayin hi at the airport, here's the info (I really don't expect to see anyone that night, but I thought I'd post it just incase- my dad is picking me up anyway):
Sunday, Sep 19
Frontier Airlines # 811
7:20 PM

I made a new Webshots site for my pics because my first one was full. If you want to check it out heres the site: http://community.webshots.com/user/sbesheer2. (the first site is the same minust the 2 at the end)

Final word: I HATE MISQUITOS!

2nd Grade Poems

I was driving back from watching UW's Vollyball team kill Arkansas in Wichita yesterday and my mom was telling me about a poem she came across in her studio that I had written in second grade. After reading it today I'm quite impressed with myself and wonder if it was me who it came out of. Here it is.. my art that you can judge for yourself:

The Mystery of the Wonder

God made the world and
God made the sea,
A woman mad a man
Together they made me.

The whole world's a family
Other countries too,
Roses and trees,
People and the marabou.

Houses who are alive
Made green of tree,
Plump feather pillows
Alone just for me.

Pictures hanging on the walls
A meal of teast and jam,
In the forests, waterfalls
Splash! How soaked I am!

11/27/92

Mmmmm... Da Vinci

Ok... So the Da Vinci Code is officially the best book I have ever read. For those of you who know me, I don't read for fun- I barely muster up enough will to read/ skim my text books! This book is sooo awesome that I just sit for 3 hours at a time and turn page after page anticipating what will come next. My butt is usually painfully numb after 2 hours, so I sometimes massage it for about 20 seconds until I have to know what happens next. So you get the point.. its an awesome book and you should read it.

In other news, while I was sitting outside the evil empire (Starbucks) last night reading my super cool book, I got a call from Chrisy, the UW trainer who oversees me for softball. She told me she was it Witchita, KS so I assumed she knew I was only a short 3 hour drive away, but surprisingly enough she didn't until I told her to come visit me in KC. So that was wierd because it's not too often that your school's vollyball team is a few hours away while you are in the middle of the country. I think they're having a tournament there at Wichita State, so I might go and watch on saturday... Gotta represent! You know!

Online Stalkers and Illiterate Go-Fishers

Ok so funny story... so I was playing go fish with Nate on yahoo the other day with this other random illiterate person who persisted to hit on me while we were playing. His english was clearly horrible so I asked him if english was his first language. Confused, he said, "yes, y?" and I then asked him if he was American. Again he responded with a "yes". As hard as it was to believe, he told us that he was 18 and that these "two hot blond chicks forced [him] to have a 3 way with him"- I must remind you that this info was completely voluntary... all we wanted to do is play a simple game of go fish... is that so hard??

I was telling this story to my office manager, Cathi, and she asked me if I was afraid of crazy people stalking me online. Thinking back I probably could be stalked because I gave out too much info while in middle school, but I figure that I'm pretty safe now. So I decided to show Cathi how to use AIM and confirmed with her that people could not stalk her when she used it and that "no, random psycho people [could] not talk to her" if she didn't want them to. After setting up an account for her, I got back to my computer and told Nate to IM her, only to hear her freak out and say, "somebody just talked to me!!". Of course I burst out laughing and told her that I told my friend to IM her. Ahhh, good times...

Right Ear

This is my right ear... the rook is the little one, and the industrial is the bar.

Left Ear

So I finally got all the pieces together to put of this picture of my ear. The earing closest to my head is called a daith, and the one on the side of my ear is called an orbital. Whew!

Gorgeous!

Ok.. So these are officially some of the pretties pictures of Seattle that I've seen. Amazing Seattle, how do I miss thee!

Craziness

Friday night my family and I went to this Italian restaraunt in KC for my Uncle's birthday. Lucky for us we parked and made it inside the restaraunt before the HUGE storm started (about 5 minutes later). Leaving my Uncle had to take off his shoes and socks to get to the car because the street was about 6 inches deep in rain. After finally sprinting to the pulled-up car 8 yards away we took off to see a car turned over on the freeway, and Brush Creek (by the Plaza) turned into a river. We pulled over to the side of the road closest to the 'river' and rolled down the windows so that we could see and hear it better, but when we pulled into the middle lane because the water was getting a little too deep underneath us, a car zoomed by us and sprayed us, soaking the interior of my Uncle's Lexus. That was by far the funniest thing that happened all week.

Hayley's friends came over and we all went outside and played in the rain for about 20 minutes. I hadn't played tunnell tag for about 10 years before then, so that was a lot of fun... not to mention that we had a sliding contest to see how far we could slide head first on her front yard. I must tell you- I felt quite young playing tunnel tag in the rain with a bunch of 16 year olds.

Since I've been here I have seen a tornado, been in a lot of thunder and lightning storms, and been in a flood. I guess this will do if I can't have my washington lakes and oceans.

Delusional

Alex came and visited me last night along with her friend Becky. Amazingly enough they made it from seattle to KC in one and a half days. I don't quite know how they did that, but as much as I insisted they sleep a while before they leave again, they some how mustered up enough crazyness to drive through the night. I am however glad that they decided to take showers and clean themselves-- even though I still found green pen in the wrinkles of Alex's feet. I find that whenever I hang out with Alex and we're both tired, delusion invades my mind. I no longer speak in complete sentences, but rather in an incoherent jumble of words.

Today I am starting the word of the day. I had never heard this word until I came to KC. Here its actually used quite often.. so I am informing all of you non-midwesterners of its meaning so you won't be deprived of this oddly-spelled word.

Word of the Day:
Ornery- (awnry) Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.

Good Morning, Gunter!

So today has been extremely long and boring. I work in the office of an exterminating company, and since the weather has been so spontanious and crazy, there hasn't been a whole lot of business lately. That means that all I do is say, "Good morning" and "Good afternoon Gunter" about 25 times/day, and ramble on with my day-before speech the other half. In case you were wondering how that sounds, here you go:

"Hi this is Gunter Pest Management. I'm just giving you a call to remind you of your pest control appointment/termite contract renewal tomarrow between _ and _. If you have any questions, give us a call at _____."

I bet that that was just the most intriguing and interesting thing you have ever heard in your life. I probably kept you on the edge of your seat. Well you can thank me later for the entertainment.

I'm considering coming home to Bellevue about 3 or 4 days early so that I will be able to hang out with friend before they leave for school (all those Western kids). Plus it will give me a little bit more time to relax and do nothing before school starts. I have a tendency to go straight from one thing to the next... like when school ended. I finished my english portfolio the day before I left for KC. That was for sure stressful.

I might get to hang out with Alex tonight- if she makes it in tonight. Shes driving through town to see me on her way to Virginia (where she goes to school) so I am really excited about that. She will most likely be drained from the day's drive, but thats ok... getting to see her will be awesome enough.

Holy Ears

So last night I decided to finally finish my orbital piercing on the outer rim of my left ear, so I went to the piercing place to find out how large the hoop would be that would go through both holes-- It is definitely NOT small. I think it will grow on me soon enough, but if not, I'll just paifully take it out and put two in its place again. Shortly after returning home from this trip I decided to see if I could get earings through my ear lobes, so like usual, I shoved the post through my ear to clear the hole. In a moment of bright ideas, I decided that I should finally just get a couple of small posts to leave in for a few months until my ears heal with holes in them... as they have been trying to do since I was 8.

While searching the second Kansas City piercing place of the night for possible victims to my ears, I suddenly got another bright idea- 'I should just get the other piercing I've been wanting now so that I don't have to go through two seperate healing processes.' Great idea, right? So I wait 40 minutes for the earing I want to be sterilized and then go on to receive the second most painful piercing I have.

These are a couple of pictures I found on the internet to give you a slight idea as to what my left ear looks like. When I get my USB coord back from my mom for my camera (saturday) I'll put some pictures of my ear up... holla.

Summary

It's really quite amazing how I've had this blog site for about 9 months now and havn't put any posts on at all until today... carazay. I was inspired once reading Brad's blog and being absolutely fascinated by his image-sparking story. I figured that I might as well try to start this considering that I have been posting my daily events on my AIM profile for the past few days.

This morning was the start of yet another horribly ugly day here in Kansas City. Again, I woke up to the sound of pouring rain. As of right now (2:44) its 77 and supposed to get hotter- the sun even broke out.

Last night I went to the KC Chiefs game and had a great time watching them kill the St. Louis Rams. While we were at the stadium there were tornado warning so that was kinda exciting. The whole way back from the game I stuck my head out the window in awe of the amazing lightning storm- I must have watched it for about 2 hours. This weather is awesome!

Xanga transfer

Just transfering my initial Xanga post from May over...

What's up, y'all? Just thought I'd make this blog for all of you who I don't exactly talk to on a regular basis and who might want to get caught up in my life. To tell you the truth... I just wanted to be as cool as all the other kids... Someone once told me, "Your not COOL unless you have a BLOG!" and I guess I just had to trust their word.

Now that you know what's up and my train of thought, I'll tell you a little about myself: I am 5'7", love long walks on the beach, and sitting around watching people play video games. Ahhh... the sweet sound of romance.
For those of you who I havn't talked to in a while, let me get you all caught up... As of sunday afternoon, Dani helped me re-dye my hair to Clairol's #48 "Sable Cove Dark Brown". I did it before (about a month ago), but it unfortunately faded to an ugly brown which I could't tolerate much longer. I figure it will last a lot longer this time since my hair is a lot more damaged. When I get them from Dani, I'll post the before, during and after pics. Good times.

On June 10th I'm flying to Kansas City for the summer to work for my uncle in the family business. I will actually be a fourth-generation employee of Gunter Exterminating. I'm actually pretty excited... I'll have steady hours, get paid descently, get to know my family better, and be closer to my mom. The downside is that I don't get to hang out with my friends this summer. I definitely will miss that. Well, hopefully this will be a growing experience.
Next year I will hopefully be living with my friends Dani and Kate in an appartment, which will be a super good time! Considering we all might just be a little crazy, the three of us together is a good image.