This is what I've been up to lately, and I have got a whole wedding of pictures left to work on! For more, go to my flicrk :) (That will load flickriver, a cool page that just galleries all my flickr images for me haha).
I am in the back of my mom’s car and I’m so short that I can see my feet without looking for them. My dad is driving, and I feel my breakfast arguing with my tummy. We are heading south to my Auntie’s house in Kelso, WA. The road down, highway 101, is twisty and turny, and my hair starts to stick to my hot face. My mom is telling my dad to slow down because I’m turning green, and, “you remember what happened on 101 the last time.” I look at my reflection in the window, and I am red, not green, what is mom talking about? But the trees whoosh by in green and brown so fast that I look back over at my feet, leaving behind the small bit of fog my hot breath had made on the window. My tennis shoes with Velcro, my socks, my stretch pants with flowers, my fingers, my long, fuzzy hair, resting all around me, my pink wind-breaker... I try to think about these things and not my tummy. The car slows down, but continues to rumble. I sway back and forth with the ride, and I must be falling asleep.
Bits and pieces of this memory stick in my head just the way the hair stuck to my face. Each time I begin to get motion sickness, the sultry feeling in my mouth, my clammy face, my breakfast trying to convince my stomach that their relationship is worth a second chance… these things all rush back to me. I remember that I fogged the window because my hair had stuck to that, too, briefly. I learned that day how my dad drives so fast, but he will slow down for his baby girl. I fight for the front whenever I know the road would be twisty. Either that, or I’m the one driving.
(This was written for my nonfiction class. What do you think? Click a check box below!)
So, I finished Spring Quarter 2011 today.
WOO!! That's me, being excited. Yep. Haha!
So, in other news, the weather has been actually pretty warm. Les took me with him on his car run he went on with 360.
That photo was taken from Les's car, so obviously Les's car isn't in the picture haha. We drove down to Rosario beach in Anacortes, Wa. We didn't know too many people there, but it was fun anyway. It was a potluck, so we brought chicken salad (which I had cleverly moved from the deli container to a tupperware just before we left) and chips. I would have made something, if I had known in time that it was a pot luck and that I was going. But it was more spontaneous than that! Which is always fun anyway, haha!
We played frisbee in the sun, and we got crazy sunburned! (It's funny that it's sunburned not sunburnt but food gets burnt not burned.)
Photo by Oliver Acidera
The warm weather has also given us plenty of chances to open the door and let air into the house, which really makes the animals excited. The only reason I really wanted to tell you that is cuz I wanna show you this super cute picture!
Ok, I think I'll check out of this blog on that note. Thanks for reading!! Please check a box below!!
We ended up going all the way to Raptor Ridge which was really cool regardless of being super sweaty and it taking an hour or so to get there!! I even ran a lot of the way up! :)
Then of course we had to go back down, which wasn't too bad, except I'm a bit scared of going down. Since it's steep up hill the whole way up, that means I walked pretty much the whole way back. This might seem backwards to some people. However. We all have our fears, and I just happen to be afraid of running down a trail when there's a bluff on the side and I tend to trip walking. Haha.
Here's Amy (left) and me (right) at the top of Raptor Ridge.
After that, and taking the guys to the highland games, I took a long shower and got dressed. I had to go to campus and work on some homework with my awesome friend Ali. I felt really good, though slightly overwhelmed, about my accomplishment that morning. About our accomplishment as a team, too. Amy and I have come a long way since we started. I kinda felt like jumping and dancing up there, but it was making the ladies nervous that I stood close to the edge, so I figured they might put me on a leash if I tried anything like that! LOL!
I snapped a picture of me when I got home, all proud of myself. That smile's kinda been there on and off all day long. Have a good rest of your weekend everybody!
