Rainy Days

It started raining yesterday, raining hard. I generally love the rain. Rain and fog are my two favorite types of weather. However, it tends to be much more enjoyable when there's the possibility of a heater and a warm shower after running through the torrential downpour all day. That possibility was not available this weekend. There was a break in a water main yesterday and our whole building is out of hot water and heat until tomorrow! I decided to take a cold shower and just try and convince myself that the water was really warm, but it didn't work. It was not a fun experience, but it definitely made me appreciate hot showers a lot more than I used to!! I got to wake up this morning and hear thunder and see lightning... it was wonderful! I wouldn't be opposed to this weather lasting all week.... I just want a hot shower back.

Interterm is over

School starts tomorrow. I can't believe it. I'm not ready. I thought I had like, 2 more weeks of nothing to do???

It's January!!

And I can't believe it. The year went by so slowly at times, but when I look back on it I realize that it went by a lot more quickly than I thought at the time. But I guess that's the way it always is, isn't it? I have all of my grades except for one posted, and the one I need is in sign language and I'm nervous about it. Mostly just because I know the professor didn't get my last assignment because he never responded to my emails. If that seriously affects my grade then I'm going to be really bothered and I'll probably have words (or signs?) with some people.

Christmas and New Years were both wonderful. I was able to be home for 2 weeks, and that hadn't happened in over a year. It was wonderful to be able to catch up with people and just relax a lot. I got sick at the end of my trip which put a slight damper on things, but it could have been worse.

Last week I went to San Jose with my friend Karin to visit my old roommate Rachelle. We had so much fun! We went to San Francisco on Thursday and it was amazing! Our family went there probably about 10 years ago and I barely remember it, so it all felt new to me. We had so much fun just talking and walking around and looking at stuff. Rachelle and Karin are both going to Washington, D.C. this next semester, and I'm really going to miss them. I'm excited to hear about all of their stories though!

This break is going to be pretty laid back for me, and I'm planning on just catching up on my reading, I think I want to reread Lord of the Rings and probably Harry Potter. It's nice to think that I have a few more weeks of nothing in particular planned!!

Recent pictures.

This was when Robert and I went to Disneyland for the Family Holiday Party.  We had a blast!

<-- LaRae and I at Steamer's Jazz Cafe for Erin's 21st birthday celebration.

This was my date for our GYRAD, David.  We were superheroes and our color was orange.


This was when Karin (left) and Rachelle (center) and I went to Disneyland the day before we all left school.

5 Semesters Down

Ahhhh!!!  I'm closer to graduating than I am to the beginning of college!!  That thought is really scary, but at the same time, it's exciting.  But this next semester so many things are going to change.  My roommate for the last two semesters is going to Washington, D.C. to study abroad, with Karin, who lives across the hall with Erin.  It's going to be an interesting transition. 

I'm leaving for home in 8 hours, and this time I get to be there for 2 weeks!  It's been so long since I've been able to go home for that long.  Angenette and I are going to go Christmas shopping, and I'm going to shoot with John and Robert, and just hang out with people, read, and relax.  School doesn't start until January 26th, so after I come back down to school I'm going to just relax and work, and I could not be more excited.  I just want to read and write and run, and that's it.  And I'm going to rearrange my room and get rid of a bunch of stuff I don't need.  It's going to be amazing.

Happy Hands Club

Tonight my ASL teacher wants our class to perform in night chapel (After Dark), so we're going to sign two songs: Joy to the World and Silent Night.  I feel like Napoleon Dynamite.

Home Again

I got to come home for the first time in almost 3 months!  Angenette's birthday is on Halloween, so I knew I would be coming home this weekend, but I thought it would be the usual arriving Saturday-morning-at-3am and leaving-Sunday-night-at-9pm routine.  Then Christine and I talked and she said that she was going to come up and surprise Ange, and she would probably be coming up Thursday night.  That sounded great to me because then I could have a full two days to see the people I really wanted to see, do the things I really wanted to do, and I wouldn't be completely exhausted!  Well, Christine decided she was way too excited to get home to wait until Thursday, so she made the executive decision to drive up on Wednesday night.  This meant that I would have to skip two classes on Thursday, but the itch for the foggy weather was too much, so Christine, her roommate Alex, and I arrived in Los Osos early Thursday morning.  

It has been a wonderful weekend so far!  On Thursday I spent most of the day in San Luis with my mom, shopping for Angenette's birthday.  We didn't end up buying much, but we were able to spend several wonderful hours together just talking and having a great time.  I don't remember the last time I was able to spend that much quality time with my mom, and I enjoyed it so much.  I miss my mom so much when I'm gone so it was great to be able to spend that time with her.  It meant a lot to both of us.

Later on Thursday night my friend Miquela (we worked together at Pizza Solo in summer of '07) came and met me downtown and we had dinner at Pizza Solo (thanks, Rebekah!!) and then walked through Farmer's Market for a while.  It was MADNESS.  I don't know if I have ever seen so many people.  Half of them were carrying signs either for or against Prop 8 and yelling.  Then there were all the families with little kids all dressed up (SO adorable!!) and all the adults that were dressed up (masks freak me out...).  The whole thing just seemed so surreal... I had never been downtown during the Halloween trick or treat thing so it was completely new to me!  Imagine that... living in a place for 17 years and then when I come home on a college break I experience something new.  Crazy.

On Halloween (today) I got to go to lunch with John (former owner of Subway, where I worked for two years) and Amy (former manager of said Subway).  I hadn't seen either of them in far too long, so it was wonderful to be able to catch up with them.  We had a great lunch at Cornerview ... Restaurant?  Bakery?  I'm not quite sure of the exact name.  Then Cristen came and met me and Amy downtown and we all searched for Halloween costumes because they wanted to go out later.  Amy found some stuff and then she left while Cristen enjoyed reading some books over at Barnes and Noble.

Cristen and I ended up going out to eat with some of her friends at The Clubhouse in SLO.  We were all dressed up and had a fairly good time.  Cristen and I got a little tired so we left early, and then when Cristen and Amy and a few others decided to stay out later I opted out and went home.  I enjoyed watching last night's episode of "The Office" with Robert, and all I have left to do is go to sleep in Kathrene's wonderfully comfortable bed! 

What a relaxing weekend!

(I wish I had pictures to post, but in my hurry to leave I left my camera in my room!  I'll be missing it all weekend. :( :( :(  )