hair today gone tomorrow

Your wish is my command. Here are some hair pics. Before and after. I am close to the least photogenic person in the world so theres that. The last pic is from tonight and I am tired and have no makeup on. Also insert other excuses here too.

before

after

no idea what I'm doing with my mouth here...

this week

Got through mid-terms.

Convinced myself I will fail out of grad school. then did ok on my mid term. ha.

Threw up close to a billion times Tuesday night.

Ate weird purple rice from my fabulous friend Suzie.

Secured people to stay with in Paris and Rome.

Fought with my cat.*

Went to a 7-11 where, no joke, a man named Apu worked behind the counter.

Cut off all my hair. very fast. very dramatic.

Learned about spray wax for hair. who knew?

Bought some polish and painted my nails. pink. more like clear pink.

Had soup at a sports bar. watched AZ v UCLA. by myself.

Doing a 5k tomorrow.

Playing piano at a womens event for my church tomorrow.

*one of the many things she decided to do was to swat my brownie off the table onto the floor. when I bent over to pick it up and place it in the kitchen, she then laid down right on top of my mid-term review, and when I tried to get it out from under her she decided to swipe at me. She is normally sweet and wonderful...

sorry posts have been a little sparse. they'll get more frequent now that school as slowed back down a little bit.

isn't this a pretty picture?

Changin'

It was time for a change of the main blog picture. Isn't this faucet picture cool? I stole it from One Lucky Fish blog. I could make up something about how its a symbol of all the gushing I do on this blog or something but its not. Its just a cool picture that captures my eye, sort of like this funny kitty picture.



I'm in the mood for change I guess. I like to think of other people's lives and wonder what it would be like to be them. Not celebrities or anything, I like to think of people I know or want to know. I have some good friends who eat all things organic. They only use fresh everything and go to the market about every other day. I feel really fancy and chef-like when I use fresh stuff. When I drive by huge amazing houses I wonder about the people inside. What are they like? What do they do for a living? I think the same thing when I see someone with a lot of property or someone who lives far from town. My husband and I play this game when we go out. We choose someone and watch them for a little while and then guess what they do for a living and where they live and what their family situation is like. "She is a director of marketing for a big travel agency. She is divorced and has two grown children and she lives outside of New York City." Most times we will go ask them after we explain our game. Turns out she was the regional head of sales for Honey Baked Ham and she was married and had one teenage son and lived in Denver. We have a bit of improvement I suppose but sometimes we are spot on. (by sometimes I mean, twice we were right about more than one thing...ha). Anyway, sometimes I just crave change. I think I'd like to be a bit more spontaneous. Yeah, spontaneous sounds nice.

good list bad list

Things I'm not doing well:

1. keeping my car out of the automotive shop

2. getting appropriate amounts of sleep

3. remembering details and dates and names

4. keeping my goals

5. couchsurfing in Europe

6. getting cat's collar back on

7. putting away my clothes

8. being motivated in school right now

9. helping plan our Europe trip

10. losing some chub

11. gardening

12. getting my camera fixed

Things I'm doing well:

1. procrastinating

2. eating chocolate

3. coming up with excuses to avoid all responsibilities in my life but then doing them anyway at the last moment

Hey but on a truly exciting and happy note, my first crocus bloomed yesterday! That little bloom gives me so much hope. Spring! Please Spring come quick!

Escape

Isn't this a wonderful photo? I think its enchanting. Today I'm dreaming of walking through this gate and exploring the woods and seeing some beautiful deer drinking from a misty stream. Thats a nice thought. Wouldn't it be fabulous to own property you could actually explore on?

Weekend

WOW! What a weekend. A baby shower, a buying of shoes for Europe :), hanging out with the family, oh and helping DELIVER A BABY! Say wha? Yeah, a dear friend of mine asked me to help do counter pressure during labor and I was thrilled to oblige. I had intended on just assisting in the beginning but when the baby arrived 18 minutes after we showed up to the hospital I was more than slightly involved. She was on her side and I was helping hold her legs up and leaning into them so she had something from which to push against. May I just say it was one of the more incredible experiences of my life. I want to at least finish my graduate degree before we start having children but this has seriously altered my laughable life schedule. It was amazing.
(amazing - jem)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecdVEtYIK8
(amazing - kanye west) ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=4uMc0eF_sm8&v=i5vL8lgNEBA

And don't worry about my feet. The shoes are great and I've got the Super Feet inserts. Its all good.

Europe

Its official. We are going to Europe in May! Actually April 30 - May 23rd to be exact. I will probably be posting periodically about all the details of the trip, especially when we return home. We finally nailed down all the places we are going last night. We have tickets for the bullet train from London to Paris as well. It goes 190mph. Thats some sort of crazy fast. Like to see Superman be faster than that train. Shah. Anyway, the list of cities goes thus: London, Paris, Versailles, Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Interlaken, Gimmelwald, Vernazza, Florence, Civita di Bagnoregio, Rome, Venice, Innsbruck, Fussen, Berchtesgaden, and Munich. Mostly in that order. We considered adding Prague but the logistics didn't quite fit. We decided to cut Mont St Michel (sad) because again it just didn't quite fit with the route and the logistics of getting to and fro at that point will probably be more stress than, well I was going to say than its worth but its definitely worth it. We just can't make it work this trip. Maybe next year.


And if you're wondering about the house...we are going to do an appraisal in late March or early April. We will try to refy and if we can't we'll just pay extra principal. Hopefully in two years it will all pan out. I've got Europe on my mind so I'm no longer worrying about the house. Ha.