I do live! and I have been experiencing! Excuses suck and mine is hard to believe, so I'll move ahead and share my latest new experiences.
I'm not going to go over every weekend I missed, but I am going to go back two:
Two weekends ago I got to go on a road trip with two of my very best friends which was chalk full of new experiences. I got to see a new city, do new things in a city I have already been, and I got to see a Drum Core Internation Finals event live, another one for the bucket list! To list all of the experiences of this trip would take forever, so I'm going to move on to:
Last weekend! I started college! and college marching band! and living in a dorm! and meeting new people from all walks of life! Needless to say, it's been exciting, but I have come to miss my family and my friends who went off to different schools (like both of the ones listed above :( )but I'm learning lots! and at least I can come home on weekends!
This last Friday (Saturday morning), I got to experience the ever fun 3AM fire scare. I hadn't even been asleep half an hour when I hear a voice over out PA system saying "An emergency has been reported, please evacuate the building." So I climb out of bed, throw on shoes, and grab my keys, mumbling curses all the way. We waited outside for an hour because some drunk idiot thought it would be fun to make it snow with a fire extingusher, but I got to meet tons of people from my dorm that I had never met before, including a poor chap that happened to be getting in the shower when the alarms went off. He had to stay out in the cold in nothing but a towel. My other favorite story came from my friend Hannah (name changed to prevent embarassment)and Sarah (name changed) who brought back our other friend Michael (name also changed) to the dorm completely trashed. They dropped him off at his floor's bathroom (in nothing but his boxers mind you)so he could throw up and decided to get a pizza delivered, and were waiting for it when the alarms went off. They evacuated, remembering Michael, and went in to get him. During all this, their pizza was delivered. So Hannah and Sarah took their pizza to Hannah's car, leaving Michael half-naked and still throwing up on the sidewalk. Sad but funny :) If I ever make a college movie, that's going in!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Keep Austin Weird
Yesterday I returned from the family vacation from hell. My extended family feeds off drama like no ones business, but hey, it's over and I've experienced LOTS.
1. City Life. First off, I got to meet a real life prostitute. She was stumbling drunk around our hallway for a good half hour before her client came and got her. She was very amiable, and horrendously funny, but I'm sure that was the alcohol talking. Second, I saw a homeless person steal a lit cigarette from my cousin who was holding it outside the passenger window of the car. "I would have given him a fresh one if he had just asked," she later said. Finally, not so funny, I saw an innocent pedestrian get assaulted by three guys who weren't too much older than me. In the middle of a busy street no less. Granted, it was great to see my mom throw the car in park and yell "GET THE FUCK OFF HIM!" and see them run for their hides, but they beat him up really bad. I was really shaken up afterwards, and I wasn't even the one assaulted. My same cousin who lost her cigarette said gang violence typically doesn't occur in Austin, so let's hope it doesn't.
2. Austin itself. There is a lake straight damn in the middle of Austin, and we got to take a dinner cruise and see the largest metro population of bats in existence. There is one bridge that houses almost a million and a half of them, and people line this bridge before the sun even sets. When it's dark, the bats come out in swarms and it is a sight to behold. I'm not seriously going to count this, but I got lost with my father and ended up driving on all four of the highways that go through Austin. I'm also gonna state how frustrating it is when you're trying to find something in that town, because almost all the streets are one way, so if you miss it, you have to make a massive circle to come back to it. Also I got to swim in a Texas swimming hole. It was pretty awesome and very cold.
3. Random stuff. I got to drive a segway, which is a lot easier than you think it would be. I also got to experience drinking chocolate, which is the most fantastic thing I have ever had in my life. AND BREAKFAST TACOS! Everywhere had breakfast tacos, some places 24 hours a day. And finally there was four British soccer teams staying in our hotel :) That made for some fun times, especially when the world cup game rolled around.
And that was my Austin week. Grand isn't it?
1. City Life. First off, I got to meet a real life prostitute. She was stumbling drunk around our hallway for a good half hour before her client came and got her. She was very amiable, and horrendously funny, but I'm sure that was the alcohol talking. Second, I saw a homeless person steal a lit cigarette from my cousin who was holding it outside the passenger window of the car. "I would have given him a fresh one if he had just asked," she later said. Finally, not so funny, I saw an innocent pedestrian get assaulted by three guys who weren't too much older than me. In the middle of a busy street no less. Granted, it was great to see my mom throw the car in park and yell "GET THE FUCK OFF HIM!" and see them run for their hides, but they beat him up really bad. I was really shaken up afterwards, and I wasn't even the one assaulted. My same cousin who lost her cigarette said gang violence typically doesn't occur in Austin, so let's hope it doesn't.
2. Austin itself. There is a lake straight damn in the middle of Austin, and we got to take a dinner cruise and see the largest metro population of bats in existence. There is one bridge that houses almost a million and a half of them, and people line this bridge before the sun even sets. When it's dark, the bats come out in swarms and it is a sight to behold. I'm not seriously going to count this, but I got lost with my father and ended up driving on all four of the highways that go through Austin. I'm also gonna state how frustrating it is when you're trying to find something in that town, because almost all the streets are one way, so if you miss it, you have to make a massive circle to come back to it. Also I got to swim in a Texas swimming hole. It was pretty awesome and very cold.
3. Random stuff. I got to drive a segway, which is a lot easier than you think it would be. I also got to experience drinking chocolate, which is the most fantastic thing I have ever had in my life. AND BREAKFAST TACOS! Everywhere had breakfast tacos, some places 24 hours a day. And finally there was four British soccer teams staying in our hotel :) That made for some fun times, especially when the world cup game rolled around.
And that was my Austin week. Grand isn't it?
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"Practically Perfect" except not at all...
Last week, I had to cover for my sister. She is a Nanny for three kids: a 13 year old, an 11 year old, and a 9 year old. This new experience made me never want to reproduce. These children were god awful, threw fits over just about everything and nothing, and loved to scream and stomp. This new experience will be short, because I don't care to relive it XD Looking back, I'm sure these kids are not every child out there (I've watched some pretty sweet kids over the years), this just showed me how truly AWFUL kids can be. But hey, that's people right?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Spinning and Cherries and Soccer, OH MY!
Well, I have three new experiences for this past weekend. Maybe I was hoping to make up for my two past epic-failure weekends (they weren't for lack of trying I promise!)
New experience #1: I'm learning to spin yarn!
It was always something I thought would be cool to learn, but I never had the tools. Then my friend Marci Blank lent me EVERYTHING I would ever need to make yarn! I'm SO EXCITED to get good at it!
New experience #2: I learned how to pit cherries with a hairpin.
I know it sounds kind of weird, but I was amazed. Mama is obsessed with cherries, and Dad got to pick a whole bucket of 'em last Friday morning. We never had a cherry picker, I've come to learn, because my Mom during her childhood learned how to pit them with hairpins so she could eat them right off the trees. It went really fast between the two of us. Here's maybe a fourth of our harvest:
New experience #3: I watched the USA vs. England World Cup game.
This was a VERY new experience (I never really used to watch sports), and the United States hadn't played England since the 1950 World Cup. Everyone was amazed the United States won the game in 1950 (I thought it was interesting that the winning goal was scored by a Haitian), and this years game was exciting to watch. It was a 1-1 tie, but hey, for us that's a win!
New experience #1: I'm learning to spin yarn!
It was always something I thought would be cool to learn, but I never had the tools. Then my friend Marci Blank lent me EVERYTHING I would ever need to make yarn! I'm SO EXCITED to get good at it!
New experience #2: I learned how to pit cherries with a hairpin.
I know it sounds kind of weird, but I was amazed. Mama is obsessed with cherries, and Dad got to pick a whole bucket of 'em last Friday morning. We never had a cherry picker, I've come to learn, because my Mom during her childhood learned how to pit them with hairpins so she could eat them right off the trees. It went really fast between the two of us. Here's maybe a fourth of our harvest:
New experience #3: I watched the USA vs. England World Cup game.
This was a VERY new experience (I never really used to watch sports), and the United States hadn't played England since the 1950 World Cup. Everyone was amazed the United States won the game in 1950 (I thought it was interesting that the winning goal was scored by a Haitian), and this years game was exciting to watch. It was a 1-1 tie, but hey, for us that's a win!
Monday, May 24, 2010
One Month Later...
So I again failed to keep this up. I want to say right now this act was concious and it was not for lack of new exerpiences. I just graduated high school this month...
So every waking moment was spent preparing for the actual ceremony, attending partys, and making presents.
Which meant no time for blogging :(
But I'm here now! And now that the bulk of the chaos is over I promise to be better! and it's summer! Which means for more fun experiences!
Anyway, back to my new experiences for the past four weekends:
I went to my senior prom wearing a dress I crocheted, and that was a grand old time. I stayed up all night on a school night after the midnight primere of Iron Man 2. I graduated high school and had a graduation party (which was too much fun). I became a guide for Chacha. I even set a new record for myself: I spent 14 straight hours crocheting. I was trying to finish a blanket in time from my friends graduation party XD
and that pretty much wraps it up. Until next weekend!
So every waking moment was spent preparing for the actual ceremony, attending partys, and making presents.
Which meant no time for blogging :(
But I'm here now! And now that the bulk of the chaos is over I promise to be better! and it's summer! Which means for more fun experiences!
Anyway, back to my new experiences for the past four weekends:
I went to my senior prom wearing a dress I crocheted, and that was a grand old time. I stayed up all night on a school night after the midnight primere of Iron Man 2. I graduated high school and had a graduation party (which was too much fun). I became a guide for Chacha. I even set a new record for myself: I spent 14 straight hours crocheting. I was trying to finish a blanket in time from my friends graduation party XD
and that pretty much wraps it up. Until next weekend!
Monday, April 26, 2010
That's right Ladies and Gentlemen, two for the price of one!
Okay, so I obviously failed to make a post last week. It wasn't even that I didn't have a new experience. My excuse will be that I was waiting on pictures, but I'm sure my utter laziness and massive "To Crochet" list had something to do with it too. However! I shall make up for it! I will just use one post for two weekends!
So, first off, last weekend:
I got to be in charge of the children's section of the Blue Springs Health and Wellness Fair. It sounds like a vast undertaking, but all I really had to do was round up some volunteers and test out some kites. The day of the actual fair I helped watch blow up moon bounces and I got to do a little face paint. All in all, the day was a marvelous success in spite of how sleep deprived all the female volunteers were, and I got to see a paramedic run around with a kite and a nun try to sneak a popcorn bag under her habit. Priceless.
All the volunteers were wonderful, a big shout out/thank you to all of you!
And this past weekend:
To be honest, that same bit of crazy crocheting prevented me from doing anything too adventurous on the actual "Saturday Sunday" weekend. I got to go to a fancy smancy restaurant for my father's birthday, but other than that nothing too new to speak of. But then! A horrible craving for Tad's had me in Lawrence and a good friend recommended Crilla's. Oh....my....goodness.... did we have fun. We saw everything from Velcro enabled bed spreads to genitalia shaped cookware XD and then of course we had to go to the back room to look at the movies and the books. I got to learn a lot about my friends through this experience...kinda weird, but bonding is bonding. Then a creepy old man walked in, and, we were out of there. It was too much fun... SO worth the trip.
And that's that! I promise I won't slack off again for a while!
So, first off, last weekend:
I got to be in charge of the children's section of the Blue Springs Health and Wellness Fair. It sounds like a vast undertaking, but all I really had to do was round up some volunteers and test out some kites. The day of the actual fair I helped watch blow up moon bounces and I got to do a little face paint. All in all, the day was a marvelous success in spite of how sleep deprived all the female volunteers were, and I got to see a paramedic run around with a kite and a nun try to sneak a popcorn bag under her habit. Priceless.
All the volunteers were wonderful, a big shout out/thank you to all of you!
And this past weekend:
To be honest, that same bit of crazy crocheting prevented me from doing anything too adventurous on the actual "Saturday Sunday" weekend. I got to go to a fancy smancy restaurant for my father's birthday, but other than that nothing too new to speak of. But then! A horrible craving for Tad's had me in Lawrence and a good friend recommended Crilla's. Oh....my....goodness.... did we have fun. We saw everything from Velcro enabled bed spreads to genitalia shaped cookware XD and then of course we had to go to the back room to look at the movies and the books. I got to learn a lot about my friends through this experience...kinda weird, but bonding is bonding. Then a creepy old man walked in, and, we were out of there. It was too much fun... SO worth the trip.
And that's that! I promise I won't slack off again for a while!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
TECHNOLOGY!
So, this weekend I've had TWO new experiences! Two for the price of one! They are, however, somewhat related.
As I did turn 18 last week, I realised this morning I had not yet registered to vote. Needless to say, I was a little intimidated. I thought it would be this long, arduous process, but it turned out to be easier than I thought:
Step 1. Google "register to vote Kansas"
Step 2. Click first link
Step 3. Give the computer your name, address, drive license number, sex, and party affiliation
Step 4. Print for your records
The entire process took me all of five minutes :) and now I have nifty piece of paper that shows my eligibility to vote in the state of Kansas.
My next experience was something that I never was that interested to do, but as all of my company of this weekend pushed me to do so, I caved.
I got a Twitter...
and I'm not hooked yet
I'll give it some more time and start following more people/things to reap the full benefit, but if I were to judge right now I'm not that impressed.
At least I can say I was involved in all major forms of social networking in my time...
As I did turn 18 last week, I realised this morning I had not yet registered to vote. Needless to say, I was a little intimidated. I thought it would be this long, arduous process, but it turned out to be easier than I thought:
Step 1. Google "register to vote Kansas"
Step 2. Click first link
Step 3. Give the computer your name, address, drive license number, sex, and party affiliation
Step 4. Print for your records
The entire process took me all of five minutes :) and now I have nifty piece of paper that shows my eligibility to vote in the state of Kansas.
My next experience was something that I never was that interested to do, but as all of my company of this weekend pushed me to do so, I caved.
I got a Twitter...
and I'm not hooked yet
I'll give it some more time and start following more people/things to reap the full benefit, but if I were to judge right now I'm not that impressed.
At least I can say I was involved in all major forms of social networking in my time...
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