We Will Become Silhouettes

My family is a little too much like this family in The Postal Service's video.
We make our own jam, we eat fruit leathers like no ones business, we all go for hikes or bike rides, we have picnics on the top of mountains, we bring our own food (specifically fruit and veg) everywhere. My dad tucks in his shirts, all the time. My mom makes clothes for us. We have the exact fruit dryer as they have...

the similarity is hilarious.

knee

So I haven't been able to run since sunday because my knee has been killing me. I ran twice yesterday, and felt decent. But couldn't even manage 3 miles today...I am a very UNhappy camper.

and of coarse this happens the day right after I had 2 runs, and was very looking forward to my second run. I think this means I am slightly crazy.

Merry Christmas!

Buddy got her own pile of presents! And even one from Toby!We got a ginormous tree this year!






Completely late, but I haven't had time to really write. I'm not even sure what I was so busy doing, to be completely honest.
But it was a nice christmas. I wasn't really in the mood for Christmas, like I feel I was in last year. I think last year me and the Waco Fam did more christmas oriented things. Or I just spend a whole lot more time with Jacob, who totally got me in the Christmas mood last year.
These pictures helped get me in the mood.

I'm so excited for Natalie to come back!

I missed her this semester! I can't wait for the days and days of girl time we will have! The boys are great, but I realized I need some girl time every once and a while.
And she is an art major! so I hopefully will get to spend lots of time with her in class!!!! And we can have our healthy dinners or granola making parties!
She is also the bravest girl I know. She had her hair dreaded into gorgeous long big dreads, and then cut them off after a while, and is completely rocking the pixie cut she has! Girls who can pull off short hair cuts are my heros! because I totally want one!

my family has become total california hippies without knowing it

After living in California for 13 and 1/2 years, my family has turned away from our East-coastness completely and fully embraced the life of California granola.
There are many reasons and examples I could say as to show this. I'll go with something that happened today. We all went to see Sherlock Holmes (excellent movie!!!!) as a family, and instead of buying food at the theater (partly because it is outrageously expensive, but mostly because it is super unhealthy) we all brought fruit to the movie. Pears, apples, and even grapefruit for robbie. =)
While the other movie goers were munchly loudly on popcorn and candy, slurping down sugar ladened soft drinks; we sipped on water in our refillable water bottles and ate our fruit.
We also have our own orcherid and garden, that most of our summer dinners come from. We eat very little meat, and even less non-organic food products. Very little products with artificial ingredients can be found in our house.
I do love this about my family.

One reason I love being home...

...the trails by our house. They make running sooooo pleasant, and enjoyable. I love running amidst the vineyards and hills. I never realized how beautiful Livermore was until I moved to Waco. I also appreciate how easy and safe it is to run here, as opposed to Waco.

Italian Market Pasta...

My grandma and grandpa flew in from Philly yesterday, and they brought with them freshly made pasta from the Italian Market. It was the most fantastic pasta I have had since being in Italy in 2000.

We just had a party with our West Coast family (which is a family we know from my dad's work partner). I love this family. Every single one of them!

Also I am all done Christmas shopping and making. If that makes sense. I made most of the christmas presents this year. They are easy and I figure I love homemade gifts more than anything else, so ya...

night with my favorite girls

We saw a horrible rendition of the Nutcracker, but it was nice to spend some time with my two favorite girls. And little kids played alot of the parts, like the mice! Sooo insanely cute!

Also buddy is loving being home, she isn't super fond of Toby but she loves her time outside and getting to be around lots of people.

I went for an awful run today...it hurt bad.

The end of Science

I am done with Science as of today. I am all done taking stupid science classes! Oh the joy, of being an art major!

Walking out of that Bio final, was so glorious! I failed it terribly but I am done with it! And I am done with Chem !

Oh the Glory, of being done!

Our War

We battled last night. Our weapons were balls, empty soda cans and bottles, sweatshirts, a banana, febreeze, airsoft gun (ben), a container of dressing, spatula, make-shift pizza box shields, knifes, and anything else we deemed necessary. I have not laughed that hard in a long time. Ben fell to the ground gracefully and slowly, landing on the trash can, which was hilarious. We kept switching the teams up, but it was fantastic!

Dorian Gray

How in the heck did I miss Dorian Gray the new movie?!?!

My favorite book, with Ben Barnes as Dorian and Freaking COLIN FIRTH as Lord Henry! Directed by Oliver Parker, who directed the other Wilde plays to movies!

Gosh I need to see this as quickly as possible!

there have been lots of good movies this year

This year might be my favorite year for movies. So far I have seen:

Startrek

Wolverine

Julie and Julia

The Ugly Truth

Fantastic Mr Fox *

Inglorious Bastards *

The Men Who Stare at Goats

500 Days of Summer*

The Hangover

The Proposal

The International
9

Bride Wars

Where the Wild things Are

Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Public Enemies

17 Again

Confessions of a Shopaholic

DUplicity

He's Just Not That Into You *

Up

I Love You Man

Taken

The ones with the stars are some of my favorite movies.

One's I am dying to see:

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

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Good job 2009 movies, all were excellent!

maybe some days I like to write my own love story...

let's sleep in a pile every night...

It was gangster movie night last night. We feel alseep after first watching Bottle Rocket (not a gangster movie I know), but during Public enemys. It was a big family sleep over. It was so fun! Dan slept sang, ryan mumbled a little and snored like crazy, and Connor...haha well it was a battle to keep his arms and legs off me.

I love this family!

First Snow Fall

Yesterday, we had our first snow fall of the season. It started at noon, and lasted for about an hour. It was super fantastic! The flakes were big, and stuck to our noses and face and hair!

Thursday night dinners at Jasons

I have been very down and out this week. Going out to dinner with the xc girls at jasons was a good pick me up.

Christmas on 5th street was alright, I wasn't expecting to find something I found there.

But Anyways. Ben Rector was entertaining, charming, and super talented. The petting zoo saw some action. The donkey kicked a sheep. And we got a family picture by the christmas tree!

Royal

The Royal Tenenbaums....my new favorite movie. Wed Anderson did a fantastic job writing and directing this one. The casting director also got the perfect people for the different characters. I like Anderson's films, they are always creative. I especially like this one, because the different family members are so outrageous, and I like that the family is disfunctional. Everything comes together in the end, which I don't really like. I like movies that are not predictable and not everyone ends up together and happy, it seems more like real life to me I guess.

i hate going home

i really do, for so many reasons. I like Waco and my life here, I wish I could just always be here. Last summer was the last summer I ll go home, I need to find other places to live.

spaghetti butt

buddy jumped on my spaghetti plate today. As punishment I washed her off in the shower, because she has sauce all over her legs, side, and butt. She still smells like spaghetti.

Mi Casa

Ryan, Conner, and Jacob all go to the same Mi Casa on tuesday nights. So Ben and I decided to start having our own Mi Casa, and Ben's place. It has really bonded us. We normally talk, drink tea, and watch a movie.

Last night's Mi Casa was exceptional. We made dinner, had Kristyn over, and talked about religion. It was a perfect last Mi Casa for us.

Hopefully next semester we can do it again, or join a real Mi Casa group.

first double digit run

Saturday was my first double digit run ever! I am so proud of myself, actually I have never been prouder of myself.

The run itself was fantastic! 5:30 in the morning, 55 degrees, rain...perfect running weather.

My history of running:

The first 9 years of my life it was something I did during playing, or as a mode of transportation.

The next 6 years it was something I did because my parents and cross country and track coaches made me.

The next 5 years it was something that was part of soccer practice and games. But normally I avoided doing at all costs, or tried it on the rare occasion.

The past few months I have been determined through countless side cramps, leg cramps, charlie horses, and breathless workouts to try my hardest for once to be decent at running. This was one of the few things in my life I have always wanted to be good at but never have. I was so determined to be good at. I have worked hard at it, and now I am somewhat decent.

Now I am at the point, only crazy people like my brother are at, where I enjoy it. My body was so tired and sore from the 10 miles, but yesterday something deep down in me wanted to run again. Today all I could think about was getting out of class so I could go for a run.

...something is wrong with me, I am starting to become that crazy runner type. I can say I love it.

Hello Dolly!

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I love musicals, always have, always will.

I remember Hello Dolly being of the handful of movies we had in Switzerland, and I did really like it as a kid. I was wanting to watch it super bad, so the other day I bought that (and Shakespeare in Love) on itunes.

Anyways, it is a darling movie! Barbara Striesand is phenomenal! She is such a fantastic singer. Michael Crawford is hilarious. He is so awkward, and silly and makes Cornelius a lovable character.

Being a good mom (to buddy) and a good friend, but bad student

So I have been a better mom (to my darling rabbit) and a better friend than I have been a student in the past few weeks.

I need to change this, at least the student part. I work hard, but I don't work to the point where I stress myself out. Someone very wise told me to not worry about grades but really learning the material. I took this to heart. And I am learning in all of my classes, and not worrying about knowing in well enough to make an A on the next test. Hopefully next semster I work harder, which I sure will be the case because I won't have four science classes, and classes that actually interest me.

Buddy is not the ordinary rabbit. She has become extremely attached and affectionate to me. I read somewhere that rabbits are social animals and make friends for life. (As I am typing this Bud is sprinting and jumping around my room, apartment, and bed as fast as she can) I now leave her out of her cage whenever I am home, and sometimes when I am not. This includes night time, which would not be a problem if she now thinks my bed is hers. She sleeps next to me, but when she is not sleeping she enjoys chewing on my hair, licking my face, ears, neck, digging and rearranging my blankets, jumping on my tummy to alternate sides of the bed (this can last for 10 min straight, with no break). Anyways, I love her very much, but she does not leave me alone, she just follows me everywhere, and tried to play when I do hw in bed.

My new favorite person is Caitlin! We had dinner, and I adore her! She is the coolest, and most awesomest person ever!

Also church was good, it was fun to hang out with everyone . =) Last Hub of the semester, and we roasted marshmellows!

I spent all morning playing housewife

I spent the morning grocery shopping and cooking. It's a good way to spend any morning.

I also spent it watching the latest episode of Desperate Housewives. One of my favorite shows! =)

ps. everyone thinks Desperate Housewives is a terrible show, but it is really good. I used to think it was just about skanky, bored, rich housewives; but it has some good values in it, and it is hilarious. I know the show is way to dramatic, and cheesy but it is entertaining and i really love the characters. Lynette and Gabby are my favorites! They are the two strongest wives and really love their family, they will stick up for them and not take crap from anyone. If you have time, you should watch it.

A perfect morning to the end of a good week

The last two hours of my night time sleep consisted of on and off snuggling with Buddy and on and off dozing off.  She gets so snuggly in the morning! And I absolutely love it! 

Then I ate my hearty English breakfast on the floor with her as she ate hers. Can't get enough good quality time with Bud Bud!

Got a good parking spot on campus! 

Found out Angels and Airwaves is coming out with a movie! 

GOod morning. =) 

I like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly.

Nothing better than a day filled with the song "Fireflies" by Owl City, feasting on cupcakes from Common Grounds, and thinking way too indepthly about Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest. 

I'd like to get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lighting bugs, As they tried to teach me how to dance. 

Raspberries and Fear and Loathing

Had a delicious dessert, while watching one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. 

Fantastic night, to a fantastic day (I skipped my one class I had today). 

The Marshmallow test

I loved and will always love marshmallows! I remember when I was a kid and we brought back marshmallows from American and for dessert my mom let us had three. They were the biggest treat in the entire world! We would sometimes squish them together in our fingers and make "taffy" which was also good. But the fluffliness of the marshmallow is such a key point in its deliciousness. I feel like if I was part of this test, I'd be the kid eating it when she is still talking to me. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW1vpz1ybo

Bear Downs

A successful night! We had so much fun! It was nice to be on a team again, and cheer for each other! I was the anchor and it was a fabulous time!

This week....

This week has seemed crazy but it has some pretty monumental life changing decisions. I am no longer a Nutrition major, I am a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in photography. No idea if I will stay Photography or switch to Painting, either way I am now looking forward to the rest of my school, not in dread like I was when I was a Nutrition major, looking forward to my future of chem and bio.

Bear Downs is tonight! 

I like to see that Buddy has realized she needed to have some incentive in her life. Today her tasks inculded moving her boxes around our room, and making a load of noise while doing it. She is still working on her blanket project in the living room. I am very unsure of what she wants to accomplish by that. 

Also I bought myself an orchid. The water instructions are three ice cubes once a week. I think I can keep this guy alive! 

Romans 13:8

"Do not owe people anything, except always owe love to each other..."

There can never be enough love in this world, and we can never love each other too much. I like to think Love is the real true message of "Christianity". I hate saying what I believe is a religion, because there is such a  negative connotation to religion, and I hate religion. But my faith is based on Jesus' Love, and if he lives in us His divine Love is in us and can flow out of us to others. Loving Him and others is why I was put on this earth, and what I strive for everyday, even though sometimes I fail. 

BU Homecoming

I realized I had some Homecoming pictures on my camera that needed posting. The bonfire was not as impressive as last year's, but the fireworks were amazing and unexpected! I didn't really go to the Parade or the game, and I was barely at the bonfire. We just had more important things to do this year I guess...