So we as washingtonians were surpirsed when for a few days the temperature came out of freezing mode and the sun was out and shoooot i even saw some flip flops but, much to our dismay within 48 hours our weather went back to normal.
I feel that our little valley came to life in those two days. I saw people walking their dogs, couples were running together and kids didnt seem to mind walking home from school that day. It was like the people that came out of noah's ark for the first time. They just stood their in amazement wondering what to do. It made everyone excited for the spring and summer months ahead and it was like God was giving us a little break in the middle of our long winter to remind people what lies before us.
For me, i need to get use to the sun. If im going to get use to the Arizona sun 24\7 than i better love every minute of washington's mild summers. I can not wait til i can just wear shorts all the time and not have to worry about bringing a jacket or sweatshirt for later. I am so ready for a change!
I am ready to be on my own and be in a new environment and im ready to be with new people! I am ready for the next chapter of my life to begin....
so stay tuned :)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
the day after
The day after valentines day is somewhat like the day after prom or the money after new years. Its just a regular day.
All this hype is put into OMG what are we gonna do and what are you going to get me and than heaven forbid you dont have a loved one to share the special day with, we wouldnt want that person to feel left out, now would we.
I came to this realization yesterday as i was eating fondu in a tent in my living room, Valentines day is not just about spending time and giving and receiving gifts, its about the actual rememberance of love. Whether you are single or not, everyone has loved someone, whether it be your father, mother, girlfriend or boyfriend everyone knows what love feels like. All you need is love the beatles once wrote but, i feel that it is what makes the world go around.
Christ died for our sins because he loves us. My father married my mother because he loves her. My mother takes care of her mother because she loves her. Why not have a day to remember and focus on that feeling. Society today has made Valentine's day a day for presents and mushy-gushy PDA couples to be allowed in public but, i think that in the beginning it was more than that. It was about that feeling that you get when someone you love walks into a room, or making something hand made for you mom and see her face light up or the feeling you get when you successfully pull off a great surprise. Valentines day is not about getting cards or the cutest teddy bear alive,which i got, its about knowing that there is an emotion that can over take your body and make you feel like you have never felt before.
So in regards to the fact that i am madly in love, i can say that i had the best valentines day ever because not only do i have the greatest boyfriend ever, i also recognized that Valentines day is about all of us and how we love the feeling of love in every form that it comes. <3
All this hype is put into OMG what are we gonna do and what are you going to get me and than heaven forbid you dont have a loved one to share the special day with, we wouldnt want that person to feel left out, now would we.
I came to this realization yesterday as i was eating fondu in a tent in my living room, Valentines day is not just about spending time and giving and receiving gifts, its about the actual rememberance of love. Whether you are single or not, everyone has loved someone, whether it be your father, mother, girlfriend or boyfriend everyone knows what love feels like. All you need is love the beatles once wrote but, i feel that it is what makes the world go around.
Christ died for our sins because he loves us. My father married my mother because he loves her. My mother takes care of her mother because she loves her. Why not have a day to remember and focus on that feeling. Society today has made Valentine's day a day for presents and mushy-gushy PDA couples to be allowed in public but, i think that in the beginning it was more than that. It was about that feeling that you get when someone you love walks into a room, or making something hand made for you mom and see her face light up or the feeling you get when you successfully pull off a great surprise. Valentines day is not about getting cards or the cutest teddy bear alive,which i got, its about knowing that there is an emotion that can over take your body and make you feel like you have never felt before.
So in regards to the fact that i am madly in love, i can say that i had the best valentines day ever because not only do i have the greatest boyfriend ever, i also recognized that Valentines day is about all of us and how we love the feeling of love in every form that it comes. <3
Friday, February 5, 2010
Gym attire
On my Quest for Greatness I am stuck in a mediocre, minimum wage job picking up sweaty towels from the guys that spend all their time checking their biceps out in the mirror and grunting for others to know just how much they are trying not to poop their pants.
I have been an athlete for most of my life and i can say that i have spent a good portion of my life in the gym. During this time i have paid little to no attention to what i was wearing. As long as i could move in it and it was comfortable i would just throw it on and go work out with the team or just put in the Ipod and try to escape by myself.
Now that i work at a gym i seem to have a different perspective on gym attire now. It seems to me that even though you are inside a place where you are trying to improve your outer appearance, you must have a already great body to not be judged in the gym. Sad but true. New year's resolutions around the world are to get fit and to get in better shape but, where do you do that? If you are over weight you cant work out at a gym for fear of being judged that you are fat. And god knows you cant just go run on the street for another fear of people honking and yelling crude things at the fat jiggling on you. Its a catch 22 if i have ever seen one.
Hanging out with a few high school boys the other night ( no questions please) after they got back from the gym to them debating which girl was the hottest. They than admited to first going to work out,( the grunting, bicep flexing boys that i refered to) and secondly going to see what kind of girls were there. Now i thought to myself how many times have i been in the gym on the bike or tread mill and just running and not knowing who was around me? Are you telling me that basketball shorts and your father's go army shirt is not sexy? Your telling me that i have to go to the gym and look cute and thin and sweat in a way that it is just glistening and not pouring out of every pore of my body? This is crazy!
How are people suppose to go to the gym to lose weight and get that rockin bod, if everytime they go they get looks and stares? I than came up with one thought: Girls that go to the gym must have high confidence levels.
So after years of making fun of the girls that run on the treadmills with huge hoop earrings and their hair flowing behind them as they try and pretend that their legs arent going to fall off, maybe they are the ones that have the right idea. Maybe those are the girls that go to the gym just to go after one of those grunting, hormone raging men?
So after that informative night i now have to go and buy tight fitting yoga pants, clevage bearing work out shirts (wtf are those) and shoes that always look brand new and show off my shiny, freshly tanned legs.
I have now come to a new idea: I dont care that much :)
I have been an athlete for most of my life and i can say that i have spent a good portion of my life in the gym. During this time i have paid little to no attention to what i was wearing. As long as i could move in it and it was comfortable i would just throw it on and go work out with the team or just put in the Ipod and try to escape by myself.
Now that i work at a gym i seem to have a different perspective on gym attire now. It seems to me that even though you are inside a place where you are trying to improve your outer appearance, you must have a already great body to not be judged in the gym. Sad but true. New year's resolutions around the world are to get fit and to get in better shape but, where do you do that? If you are over weight you cant work out at a gym for fear of being judged that you are fat. And god knows you cant just go run on the street for another fear of people honking and yelling crude things at the fat jiggling on you. Its a catch 22 if i have ever seen one.
Hanging out with a few high school boys the other night ( no questions please) after they got back from the gym to them debating which girl was the hottest. They than admited to first going to work out,( the grunting, bicep flexing boys that i refered to) and secondly going to see what kind of girls were there. Now i thought to myself how many times have i been in the gym on the bike or tread mill and just running and not knowing who was around me? Are you telling me that basketball shorts and your father's go army shirt is not sexy? Your telling me that i have to go to the gym and look cute and thin and sweat in a way that it is just glistening and not pouring out of every pore of my body? This is crazy!
How are people suppose to go to the gym to lose weight and get that rockin bod, if everytime they go they get looks and stares? I than came up with one thought: Girls that go to the gym must have high confidence levels.
So after years of making fun of the girls that run on the treadmills with huge hoop earrings and their hair flowing behind them as they try and pretend that their legs arent going to fall off, maybe they are the ones that have the right idea. Maybe those are the girls that go to the gym just to go after one of those grunting, hormone raging men?
So after that informative night i now have to go and buy tight fitting yoga pants, clevage bearing work out shirts (wtf are those) and shoes that always look brand new and show off my shiny, freshly tanned legs.
I have now come to a new idea: I dont care that much :)
Monday, February 1, 2010
wake up in the morning
Wake up in the morning feeling like P didddy? absolutely not.
When it comes to a girl's hair some may say that it defines them, which may seem shallow but when you think about it, your hair tells a great deal about you.
lets take me for example.
I like to think that i have some control over my shoulder length dark brown hair but everyday it seems that i have less and less. God knows how much money i have spent over equipment trying to straighten, curl, crimp, wave and dye my hair in order to make it that perfect symbol of what i want people to take me as.
My sister has long golden blonde hair and i watch as she spends hours straightening and re straightening and than hair spraying it into place so that she can walk out the door and impress the puyallup valley at the beauty that her hair portrays.
Me on the other hand, i have given up. I would wake up 2 hours early for school just to make sure that every hair was in place so that when i stepped into that prison of a school kids would think that i magically just woke up that morning looking like that. I swear my hair has a mind of its own, and god bless the freaking weather to where i get my hair to finally get what i want it to do and than POOF i walk outside and of course its raining. RUINED!
I think that now more than ever my hair is just a reflection of me. I wake up in the morning and just go with the flow, if i try to straighten and crimp and perfect it, it only rebels against me more. what is the point of me waking up 2 hours before a class to perfect something that was never meant to perfect? I give a huge high five for my sister who has great hair but as for me, i prefer to wake up in the morning and try to minimize the mufasa, bed head look that currently defines me.
When it comes to a girl's hair some may say that it defines them, which may seem shallow but when you think about it, your hair tells a great deal about you.
lets take me for example.
I like to think that i have some control over my shoulder length dark brown hair but everyday it seems that i have less and less. God knows how much money i have spent over equipment trying to straighten, curl, crimp, wave and dye my hair in order to make it that perfect symbol of what i want people to take me as.
My sister has long golden blonde hair and i watch as she spends hours straightening and re straightening and than hair spraying it into place so that she can walk out the door and impress the puyallup valley at the beauty that her hair portrays.
Me on the other hand, i have given up. I would wake up 2 hours early for school just to make sure that every hair was in place so that when i stepped into that prison of a school kids would think that i magically just woke up that morning looking like that. I swear my hair has a mind of its own, and god bless the freaking weather to where i get my hair to finally get what i want it to do and than POOF i walk outside and of course its raining. RUINED!
I think that now more than ever my hair is just a reflection of me. I wake up in the morning and just go with the flow, if i try to straighten and crimp and perfect it, it only rebels against me more. what is the point of me waking up 2 hours before a class to perfect something that was never meant to perfect? I give a huge high five for my sister who has great hair but as for me, i prefer to wake up in the morning and try to minimize the mufasa, bed head look that currently defines me.
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