party overview: short version

mmk, so basically we ate pizza, rented some movies, didn't go to the beach, ate ice cream, watched no reservations and sydney white, then C and i stayed up and started watching mad money... C fell asleep, i stayed up till almost the end. i went to sleep around 3:30, i think. oh yeah, we also called J around 1:30 or so. he seemed very happy/awake... teehee.
in the morning, we ate lots of waffley foods and whipped cream, and went on a walk, then went to the beach even though it was about 69 degrees and cloudy, and sometimes drizzly. we swam (sort of) for a little bit, then went on the sand. when a very large cloud came, M & M (ha ha) left, and C and i stayed on to run around, make a sand castle/bump, and find 31 clamish things. (we named a few: janice, phillip, jillian, frederick...) then we came back, ate, and sat around and talked for like an hour. we ate yummy brownies and played disney songs on the piano. C and i danced funny in the living room. then i departed and the party was o-v-e-r. lol. spent the rest of the day sort of studying health (MONDAY!!), thinking/worrying about band camps, and going to mass then BWW (loud but good, but smoky. bumper sticker: "i'm only speeding because i have to poop"). yeah, so mature. came back, studied a bit, read breaking dawn. i'm off to bed now, toodles. :)

sleepily yours,
~ r

ehh, is it the morning? dang.

yeah it's 12:13 am (ha ha)... jesse and i watched bourne identity and colbert... funny. except i ate lots of pretzels and now don't feel too super. so i'm verbally abusing J on facebook... an excellent pastime, if i do say so myself. lol.
speaking of J...
there appears to be some sort of... thing. with him and... another unnamed individual (female). more on that, if anything develops...
oh yeah. the YG olympics were today... i won the marshmallow launching from nostril competition, with a record 6'... the only one who came even a little close was J, who was like 2 feet away. A and i won 2nd place in the egg toss, and 1st in the egg race thing. there was also laying-in-puddles-in-the-street-while-it-rained-really-hard thing, which was fun, and sitting on whipped cream balloons, and a GIANT water fight at the end, which involved ice water, buckets, a hose, and stealing a key to sneak over and refill the buckets, only to have me turn around and see everyone looking and me, A, J, and michelle b. that was funny. K and i ended up not running.
ok i'm too tired so i'm outie.
chills,

~ r

oh, the despair...

...of not having a job. or the money that comes from the job, anyway. *sigh* i have a feeling that if i had enough money, i could get everything i wanted, and then i could fully cultivate my personal style... ag. the stress is killing me! (oh, plus band camp + health + yg). yeah. AND i'm trying to decide on my fall hair cut... pressure!
my alarm didn't go off this morning, so i missed the run... but K and i are going to run after the YG olympics thing (woohoo...?) oh well. at any rate, back to the project.

~ r

sucess!

yes, i had a successful shopping trip... albeit a short, fevered power shop experience! it was still great fun, with rewards...
our first stop was forever21, where i would have loved to spend more time but C was in a bit of a hurry, so i ended up getting a cute sweater/shirt top, a brownish tribal scarf, and a white/gold locket necklace... i forget the order, but we went to:
forever21 - top, necklace, scarf
icing - brown knit beret (plus wanted wayfarer glasses, but was sadly running out of cash)
borders - nothing
mrs. fields (yum!!) - 2 fudgey chocolate cookies, a plain choc. chip cookie, and a tiara princess cookie
aeropostale - OWL SWEATER!!!
umm, i think that's it. (we were only there 1 1/2 hours!)
we got some cookies at mrs fields - double chocolate fudge sort of things, which were totally heavenly and completely annihilated any running i did; plus some tiara princessy cookies which were delish. at icing, i got a brown knit beret, and tried on some wayfarer-esque glasses ($12) but i was out of cash at that point, pretty much, (the cashier could tell we were bffs due to our incessant chatter and friendly arguing, which was cool). at aero, i *finally* got my owl sweater, and turned down a blouse which was pretty cute but also about $35... :( oh well. i still need money from the parentals... but with band camp, precamp, health, and all the YG events, i dont know when/if i'll have any more time to shop!! AHHH!!!
after the shopping spree, we headed (very hyperly and excited and girly, lol) to YG... waaaay late. we made an entrance, sort of - i had my scarf and hat on, and C had her green bag (!!) that she got at icing. it was super fun. then A and i ate ice... there was a lot of eye messaging going on between C and matt.... then, at the end, they hugged. (well, M hugged C mostly, but she def. didn't refuse it... plus they were off in the dark for a while, MIA... C came back all out of breath. from "running." then she wanted to go home with him... ag. that girl is soo.... but i love her anyway. :)
*sigh* ok, i think that's about it... it's getting late-ish, and there's a coffee shop run tomorrow. hope carney doesn't make us die again.
ciao!

~ r

long, brutal day ahead of me...

...although some of the brutal is behind me now - the 8 peach mtns we did, plus we took the long way back.
in a word, OW.
so now i'm sitting here thinking about lunch - i'm looking for yogurt of some kind - after which i'll buckle down to either:
A. health project
B. cleaning the bathroom
C. vacuuming my room
or D. hitting the beach again
all those things need to get done today, before i hit briarwood mall with C. hellooo, h&m and f21! i'm so happy. finally, shopping!
ok, well i can't be any longer on here - i have to find a shirt to throw on (which will be hard - most of my stuff's in the laundry. sigh.)
toodles,

~ r

hanging in there...

"there" being the hell that is my health project/study time. AG. i am getting SO SICK of reading about tobacco marketing campaigns and the seemingly millions of laws and regulations made against very specific areas of tobacco ads. i seriously need a smoke. haha, not really. not at all, actually - that's totally disgusting and stupid and flat out gross. but anyway, i counteracted the sheer boredom by watching the last 2 episodes of BNTM and visiting M. we finalized this friday's plans for the super summer blowout-ish thing, and confirmed that she can't go shopping with me & C tomorrow... :( yeah, we're hitting the briarwood mall tomorrow (opting out of youth group - darn, we'll miss the big 'Sign Up For Stuff You Really Don't Want To Do!' shindig. i'm sure we'll survive somehow). i'm going to get a start for my BTS wardrobe... er, fall wardrobe actually. sounds much happier.
i also had a self-shoot today, even though it totally didn't really work at all. here's my product...

so far, i haven't had a chance to run, but i might. plus there's peach mtns tomorrow... yay, right? arrivederci!

~ r

fun en la soliel!

that's 'fun in the sun' for all you non-francais speakers! and yes, i did have lots of FITS today... although the first fun wasn't too sunny... that was running and hanging out with K until about noon... starting at 6:30 AM. yes, that ungodly hour when many people were just entering their third or fourth hours of sleep. we ran about 4 1/2 through many flies - i swear we sprinted about 3/4 a mile just to get away from them, evil things. then we proceeded to get stranded under a tree at the park while it rained. true, we could have walked home even in the rain, but ehh... we just weren't feeling it.
the second half of my day was much sunnier and fun(nier)...
M and i went down to the beach for a few hours, during which we tanned, compared butts, frizzed our hair, covered our toes in sand, got in the water slowly, ran in and jumped a bunch of different ways, ran on the beach, and generally had lots of fun. :)
but alas, now it's time to buckle down on this stupid health project... so it's au revoir pour maitnent!

~ r

on second thought...

perhaps not. colbert isn't on today, i forgot. oops again!
en lieu of that, here's my favorite fall marc by marc look... j'adore the dress, but the feathered hat is scrumptious!!

now it truly is arrivederci,

~ r

back from the homestead

so nothing much to report from my visit to the underworld - that is, western PA - except at a family picnic, about 15 pothead teens got interviewed by the cops for drinking strong liquor and hotboxing (where then keep the windows up and basically make a pot sauna in their car). real smart, these kids. the rest of us were discussing working at the bank, college, and photography.
yeah.
i did get to drive about 3 1/2 hours - to my apprehensive delight and the rest of the family's dismay. i only drove through 2 stop signs and one intersection, and only ONCE was i almost crushed by a tanker truck that swerved out in front of me on the highway going 75 mph... in front of a cop. smart move, buddy. i didn't get any tickets, which is good because we're not sure if my permit is legal in other states. oops!
on the way back, i basically designed and slept. very productive. upon our return, i ran 3 miles (woo hoo) and watched sisterhood/pants and princess diaries 2. actually, i'm off to get a dose of colbert - hilarious, truly hilarious. arrivederci!

~ r

just a short stop...

and not baseball (shiver). these cutoffs are so cute, and with the leggings you can work 'em year-round!
ok, now i'm really gone.

~ r

breaking away

from the tedium of life here... and moving to pennsylvania for the weekend. i'll be driving some of the way, so look out for a green villager headed south on I-96 in an hour.
i won't be able to post from PA, so it's ciao until sunday!

~ r

sunburst dress

ehh, quelle l'enfer... ici est ma robe tres nouveau! mais le photo n'est pas la photo complete...
(ah, what the hell... here's my new dress! but the sketch isn't done yet - the main portion of the sun still needs to be decided quelle color it'll to be))

you like?

~ r