Showing posts with label longday. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Rambling...

I've come to realize that I'm not a very good blogger. 
I haven't written since last Wednesday!! In the beginning I said that I wanted to write daily haha. I never thought it'd be so hard to actually keep up with. I'm going to try & be better, post little things here & there, instead of having to post a lot & catch up with the past week & a half... 

Soo last Thursday Tanner & I saw "The Purge!" 
I tried to find more people to go watch it, but everyone was being so lame! My friend Alexa was too afraid to go see it haha... 

But T&I were super exited to go see it because the previews had built it up to be this amazing suspenseful movie about killing & crime & people coming after you... 
We saw the movie with our friend Mark, who like me, thought it was a good movie, but Tanner didn't seem to like it as much. He said it was predictable & not as scary as he had expected it to be. 
I thought The Purge was awesome! People coming after you is one of the things that scares the shit out of me, so I was freaking out the entire time. I love being scared & so I recommend this movie a lot! 

The next day I worked all day & T went surfing, I think... I can't really remember what he did. Maybe one day he'll actually write in here & he'll tell you himself. 
Friday night I discovered a great new game: Cards against Humanity. It's Apples to Apples, but for adults. I love it!! 

T&I met up with some friends at a little kick back later that night. 
On Saturday, I worked again, which means Tanner was probably surfing... After that, we went to a BBQ at Amy's in Huntington with some of our favorite people. While we were there, we started talking about 4th of July & how awesome last year was. Amy's neighborhood has a block party every year & last year was the 1st time I went & I had the best time! The neighbors had SO many fireworks, it was insane!! Somehow the topic came up again & Tanner decided we needed more fireworks this year. So I suggested taking a quick road trip to Vegas & he said yes! A couple of people pitched in & we planned to go for a quick, 1 day trip on Wednesday. 

Sunday, T, Lily & I went to the dog park in Laguna. I wanted to stop by the lumber yard to pick up some scrap wood for a new craft I'm working on, but it was closed :( 
We went to Bruegger's & Juice it Up for a quick lunch...
I wore my new shoes & matched with the pups! 
Later that day, we went over to the Bell's house & the boys went surfing, while Natalie, Amy & I went to Ikea to look for a couple of things for my new apartment. 
My high school colors were black & teal & white & a little grey, & after being surrounded by that for 4 years, I've become obsessed with all things teal! 
Turns out Ikea is just as obsessed with teal as I am. Everywhere I looked I saw teal, mixed with grey, tan, greens, white.... So cute!!

                                             
We spent such a long time walking around & falling in love with cute little things. 
Here's what I ended up getting: a set of white plates, 4 teal cups, silverware, a teal pillowcase & a strainer. It was nice&reasonably priced for a poor college student! I'm exited to do something cute to the plates & silverware. I'm sure I can find something crafty & simple to do on the best website in the world, aka Pinterest. 

On Monday, I worked again & it was a great day! Not too busy, not too slow, with plenty of puppies & kitties to brighten up my day. I got home & my brother, Jeremy, surprised me with my favorite Yogurtland! 
T came over & we went in the jacuzzi, went to bed & called it a day. 

On Tuesday, I decided hill repeats sounded like a great idea.. 
 

That's me after my 1st hill, still smiling.. but by the 15 one I can assure you, I wasn't smiling all that much haha. I went to the gym after & worked on arms for a bit. Afterwards, I went to Tanner's to say hi & he trapped me under a table while he cleaned. 
My butt & boobs were too big to slide out from under it & it was WAY too heavy to lift up. 
After about 10 minutes of being tickled & tortured, I got super-human strength, pushed the table off & was finally free!! T is such a dork, but my best friend at the end of the day & even though we do silly things, I wouldn't have it any other way. He makes me happy & keeps me entertained. 
He left to go to work & I took a nap with Lil at home. Later that night we hung out with some friends & did hookah at Mark's. 

We were supposed to go to sleep early on Tuesday night because our plan was to leave for Nevada at 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Buuut, that didn't really happen... I stayed up watching episodes of my new obsession, House M.D. & T was too exited to go to sleep, so he laid in bed until it was time to go. 
We picked Jayden up at 4 a.m. & he slept the whole way there...
The sky was so pretty that morning, this picture doesn't do it justice! 
After 4 1/2 hours, we finally made it to Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza. 
It took us about 2 hours to run around, pick the best deals & spend $450 on fireworks. 
We needed multiple carts to carry all that we bought! 
 

 
 It ended up being really fun & we got some free stuff for spending so much money! Since fireworks are illegal in California, we had to hide them in duffle bags & under the seats in order to cross back across the Nevada-Cali border. We felt like smugglers haha I was so scared of getting caught. 
 

 After the firework shop, we drove to Jayden's aunt's house, which ended up being only about 20 minutes off the strip. She was so sweet & gave us lunch, let us spend all day in her pool & take a nap in her nice air-conditioned house. T& I really needed that nap, because we hadn't slept at all !!
After napping, we headed to the strip. The boys had never been so they were exited to see the hotels & shows. We had a yummy & much needed dinner at Chipotle.
T&Jayden loved the Viva Las Vegas Belagio show! It was so fun & the water mist felt so nice since it was 110 degrees out!! 
We drove home at around 10 pm. We were SO tired! We had to take a sleeping break at around 1 & got woken up by some weird couple screaming at each other at the gas station parking lot in Apple Valley. I drove home from there & finally made it back at around 2:40 am! 
We went home & crashed! 
I woke up at 8 am the next day (Thursday) & got ready for work. During my lunch break, I went over to T's & we sorted/counted the fireworks we got. 
Turns out we got waayy more than we originally thought we would. We're so ready for 4th of July!!
At work, I unfortunately had to shave Lily because of her allergies again :(
I feel so bad for my little pup because she's so allergic to everything, is constantly scratching & getting hot spots. Dr. Walter put her on Prednisone & it seems to be helping, but Lily is peeing & eating like a freaking horse!! 
This is her half shaved... I'd post a picture of the final haircut but I'm too embarrassed haha. I am by no means  a groomer & it doesn't help that Lily is so wiggly. 
After T&I got off work, I stayed home & slept, as I was exhausted from the road trip, but he & the boys hung out. I'm not exactly sure what they did, but maybe T will let us know one of these days when he actually gets on here! 

On Friday, T& the guys went surfing & caught some great waves from what I was told. While they were there, I worked & when I got home from work my mom told me that Lily had been stung by a bee! I obviously freaked out. After all, I'm a crazy dog lady & Lily is like my baby! Buuut luckily, Lily ended up being alright, I took care of her that night & she didn't have too bad of a reaction to the sting. 

Once Lily was taken care of, I met up with Tanner at our friend Tyler's birthday party. 
The party was so much fun! Construction workers were working down the street that night & they turned the power off at like 10 p.m! Haha everyone freaked out at first, but in the end it made for a really awesome night. 
We had to improvise & use our phones for lights when taking pictures. 

Yesterday, I had work again & the day went by pretty fast! One of our clients brought us over a new birdie, who Pat, the best office manager ever, named Stevie. So now we have Kevin & Stevie! Which is really funny since the doctors' husband's names are Kevin & Steve. 
The birdies were really loud all day but everyone loved them during vax clinic, even Dr. Tuz! 
After work, T&I picked up Avalon & we went over to Tyler's house again. 
 

The power was on this time & it was a fun, mellow night...
Well, mellow until I found these pictures on my phone!! 
At some point during the night, I thought it'd be a good idea to take cute pictures with the dog, Whiskey, but I guess she didn't really like the pictures so much. 
 

When I looked back at my phone later that night I almost died! 
Lol Whiskey looks so pissed & of course I had no idea at the time. 

So finally, today, Sunday sunday hasn't been all that exiting. 
It's father's day, but we don't really celebrate in my house. 
Lily & I have been hanging out, listening to my favorite John Mayer Pandora playlist, painting all day & we'll see if anything exiting happens tonight. 

I hope everyone has a great day today, & most importantly, I really hope everyone truly appreciates their dads today. Make sure they know how much you love them. 


Monday, June 3, 2013

Catching up...

So this week was a little busy for me...
Monday morning I went to a little goodbye breakfast for my friend Aley. She is a missionary & is now serving an 18 month mission in San Antonio Texas! 
It was so good to see these gorgeous girls again!!
All of us have gone on very different paths since high school, 
so it's always nice to get together and catch up. 

After the breakfast, I went home and began to clean.
This semester my school schedule was crazy hard & very time consuming...
I spent wayy too many time doing homework, studying, staying up late, and doing basically everything except for cleaning my room. Soo eventually I realized that my room had slowly grown into an incredibly large mess. 
I told myself I had to clean it as soon as summer began & before my grandma, Vicky, came to stay with us. I started cleaning Monday & didn't finish until Saturday night! 
I sorted through old clothes, organized crafting materials, folded laundry, got rid of junk, vacuumed, washed the carpets, my bedding, etc.

All this cleaning drove me crazy at times, so I gladly took many breaks.
On Wednesday, my Stand Up Paddle-boarding break was awesome!!
 My friend, Domi, & I rented 2 SUPs at Doheny beach for only $15!
The boards were SO heavy & we couldn't carry them from the rental shop to the beach... but this super nice man gladly put them on top of his car and drove them down for us!
 Once we were in the water, it was great! 
 Standing up wasn't hard at all & the paddling wasn't tiering!
 The water was so warm & the waves made the whole experience so much fun!
I really recommend trying this during summer! It's cheap, easy to plan & so much fun!
I love having the GoPro & being able to take it in the water!
Tanner & I take our cameras everywhere, from kayaking, to snowboarding, to the pool & beach, etc. They always take great pictures & the waterproof & shockproof casings are awesome!

My cleaning breaks were the best part of the week! It was just so crazy how much I had to do to get my room looking back to normal... but I'm finished now & couldn't be happier!! 
I'm bummed I didn't take a picture of the before/after look of the room, but honestly, after a week of crazy cleaning, taking pictures was the last thing on my mind. 

One thing that has been on my mind however, is UCSD. 
AHH I am so excited to go in the fall! It's all I can talk about. I keep thinking of crafts for my new apartment, food that I'll make, how I'll organize my school supplies...
I'm so excited that on Thursday I even went to the store & found some cute little things I'd love to have in my new home. It was a good break from all the cleaning & I honestly cannot wait to see what next year is like! 

One of the last things on my To-Do list today before I picked up Vicky, was to give Lily a bath. 
& boy was Lily excited...


You can practically feel the joy through these pictures, right? Haha poor Lil. 

 Once the bath was done, I grabbed myself a super healthy breakfast & got on the road!
I drove down to my aunt's house in Carlsbad, to meet up with her family, my grandma & my other aunt. Since my grandma is quite possibly the best grandma out there, I can't tell you how happy I was to see her! We had lunch, went to a baseball game & at the end of the day, Vicky & I headed home.

Some close family friends were waiting for us & we had a welcome dinner for Vicky. I got to spend time with this little cutie, who absolutely loved the balloons! 

Perhaps my most favorite part of the day, besides seeing Vicky of course, was being surprised by this postcard when I went to check my mailbox for the 1st time in 2 weeks. 
(like I said, I've been way too busy to do little things like that lately haha)

My best friend, Sam Lobo, sent it to me for my birthday all the way from Kona, where she's studying at the University of Nations to become a missionary. 
It made my day to see this & it was totally unexpected since my birthday was 2 weeks ago haha!
I guess I should start getting the mail more often...

Overall this week was a long one, but a nice one all in all.
Even though the cleaning days were awful, the nights out at the end of each day made up for the awfulness (& the 7 terrifying spiders I found in my room). 
This perfect summer bliss, the hot days & warm nights, kickbacks, jacuzzis, cuddling, & not having to do anything serious everyday is something I enjoy & can definitely get used to. 
I can't wait to see what happens next week. 

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Issues

Hi friends!
Today was hectic. 
As my first official day of summer, I'd hoped that nothing but amazing things would happen today. Buuut, I unfortunately set my hopes a little too high & I had so many issues throughout the day. 
It all started this morning, when I found my adorable puppy scratching like crazy.

Unfortunately, she's very allergic to fleas, & grass, & pollen, & dust, & a whole lot of other crap. Yet again, my poor puppy had chewed & scratched herself raw all over her body & was in so much pain! Thankfully, I work at an animal hospital, so I took her to work with me hoping that the doctor could get her all healed up. 
That's when issue #2 came up: my possible kidney infection. Ugh! I was miserable the entire day at work!! Never have I ever been so glad to see pain pills & antibiotics in my life! I'm hoping that by treating the symptoms early, I'll be able to fight it off & not end up half-dead for a week,
like the last time. 
So back to Lily... On my lunch break I decided to give her a medicated bath to soothe her skin. It was all going well until freaking Tanner texted me "hi." That one word made me take my phone from its's dry & safe place in my purse, to the underwater dangers of the mop water by the bathtub. I don't even know how it happened. One minute it was in my pocket, the next it was sinking to the bottom of the dirty old mop water. Hence issue #3: my water damaged iPhone.
I finished her bath, rushed home & searched everywhere for rice... but of course with my luck, there was none. So there I was, in my kitchen, worried about my stupid phone, when all of the sudden I spotted the tiny bag of brown rice sitting on top of the coffee machine. This little bag was given to me 6 years ago, in the 8th grade, when I finished running the L.A. Marathon.
All these years my mom has refused to let any one of us throw it away; she always said it had a purpose. I always thought she was crazy, but boy was she right! This bag of rice saved my phone! It's been sitting in there all day now & everything except for the home button seems to be working just fine! YAY
The rest of the day was busy with appointments, what seemed to be endless amount of client phone calls, random beeping & slurs from Siri coming from the little bag of rice surrounding my phone.

In the end, I guess it all turned out alright.
& after a long day at work I got to spend time with my most favorite boy!

We ate at a yummy little place called Waba Grill, where we laughed about our day, forgot about the little "issues" & were just happy to be together.
Now that I think about it, maybe it wasn't all that hectic. After all, it was just the first day & things can only go up from here.