all the things that i miss dearly in this season named fall

changing leaves,
the crunch crunch crunch sound when you walk
scarves and sweatshirts
bundling
soups
apple cider (both hot and cold)

pumpkins
boots
gathering in living rooms watching new seasons of favorite shows
apple cranberry bread
the clear crisp cold air
new classes school supplies etc (I'm sure i will not be missing this one as time goes on)

one week (plus a day) anniversary

As of today it is officially a week and a day since i made the drive down to mi casa arizona. And as a memory of this anniversary here are some pictures that were taken on the last few nights in belli and the drive down.

































As of today it is officially a week and a day since i made the drive down to mi casa arizona. And as a memory of this anniversary here are some pictures that were taken on the last night in belli and the drive down.

watching batman is the same as

avoiding packing and cleaning, and all things related to departing this wonderful wonderful place I've come to call home over the past 4 years. I really do need to get started. Maybe if I had a really cool suitcase I'd have more incentive to put things in it.




Instead I'm sitting on the couch rewriting the words to 'leavin' on a jet plane' with claire and sara
"None of my bags are packed
I'm not ready to go
I'm sitting here- on our living room floor
I'd hate to get up- and bid this place goodbye
But the job market sucks
and its cocktail time..."
Then it got sucky so we stopped until we got to the part where it goes...
"So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
cause Im leavin' in a ford escape
I know Ill be back again"
Then we got weepy and had to stop and started watching our batman marathon again.

hehehehe

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thanks

for the adventures

for the laughs
for the college experience
for the support
for the love
for the memories
for the future

belli bar crawl

this was a very very successful night.

got a phone number
got news of a job opening at a place where a bffworks
gave a phone number
flirted lots
bar crawled it
went to royal upstairs
had a sociological discussion with a boy at a bar
realized he was trying to justify paying for world of warcraft.
walked home.
left my soon to be new roomie on the couch with a boy she like
got a promise for breakfast out tomorrow morning.
watching wimbelton
putting clothes on hangers
decided tomorrow is a nothing day (other than filling out a job app)

because the unknown is a mear 30 days away...

I figured a Grey's Anatomy quote would sum up my new perspective on the future pretty well...

"We spend our whole lives worrying about the future
planning for the future
trying to predict the future - as if figuring it out will cushion the blow.
But the future is always changing.
The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes.
But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself.
The future is never the way we imagined it."

for now all I can hope for is an amazing first (and hopefully not last) summer in the place that I have called my home for the past 4 years.

A summer where hopefully by the end of I will have read some amazing books, learned more about life and love, enjoyed the pacific northwest at a time where I've heard it is at its most beautiful, and maybe (if the mood strikes me) point myself in the slight direction as to where I'm headed in life.

I know for now that this friends of the children organization that I applied to is something that I want to pursue and if I don't get it with them I am going to try and find another organization that does the same essential goal, and hopefully there will be more of them around.
But for now... I am excited for the next 3 months that are ahead of me... of my family visiting the places and people that I have come to love, of graduating, a pure Washington summer, of the unknown.

crispy glazed crunchy sweet

Jack Kerouac said it best.

"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything and at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing."

i love my mad to be anything friends.

freakin' vampires.

sun spot

I'm sitting on the porch right now enjoying the last of the summer sun, relaxing and listening to the new G.C.H album... which by the way rocks my world, petting the neighborhood cat patches. I registered for classes this morning and am realizing how quickly these past 3 years have come and gone. This is the last of the 4... then its time to hit the real world... no more sitting on the porch reading at 2 in the afternoon on a Thursday still in sweats with no desire to do anything else... but this.

I'm going to enjoy it while I still can.

people- places- things

amazing places.







amazing people.







amazing things.