Happy Halloween Sterrrlingggg

Because Amy and Kristin constantly refer to their middle school halloween play, anytime I hear "happy halloween" I think of them adding sterling at the end. Anyways, Halloween is a fun time. This past Friday we celebrated with a little halloween p-a-r-t-y? (cuz we got to) and I just wanted to share with you a picture of some beautiful beauty queens....
that would be "miss match", "miss guided", "miss behaved", "miss fit", "miss treated", "miss-tress", and "miss informed"
I'm not sure if it is clear, but i am miss match-as in fire starter- yea that got old explaing it 87 times..... come on ppl if i was miss matched i would have gotten a lot crazier with the colors.

repeat thursday

Another week is winding to a close and I am once again shocked at how fast it happens. I don't understand time. My little brain can not keep up.

Speaking of up, I finally got my down booties this week. After scouring the earth to find some, I finally ordered some online that were on sale, thenn I found some at EMS the next day, whattttttt? Anyways, a week later I had a pair on my feet and a smile on my face.

Also, it was kind of convenient that the night that i was out shopping and did not make it home in time for the office or grey's anatomy they showed repeats of both.

TICK

so if the last 4 days were a sandwich, it would be a ridiculous on sweet-bread. a-k-a friday and monday we did shellfishing and the weekend was a blend of bizarre events. i will elaborate...
friday the house went to p-town for some birthday celebrations (big ups to l.nichols and one called peaches). we went to governor bradfords which was a sweet mix of drag queen karaoke upstairs and lively dancing downstairs. i, always being the responsible one, was the designated driver, so after our good time i drove my ppl home. .... run in with the cops ensued, got a nice lil moving violation which i will protest fa sho... but the best part is that i got home and partook in 20 minutes sleep then had to drive to connecticut "the next morning". hartford marathon was the name of the game for the day. it was my first marathon experience, spectator of course... so anyways, i wish i could explain this better but the day was crazy and laura, becca and i basically used the car as a hotel room and squated in the civic center for meals while eric ran. goodtimes.

Sunday was a different story.. it included normal sleeping and activities but was especial because i went to liz clarks play with carolyn and we ended up seeing infamous.. GOOOOOD movie. i loved it.

thennnnn there was today, lets see, it started off pretty sweet, i learned to use "hog ties" and fixed up some stuff, or at least i thought i was.. rooster later told me i was doing it wrong, whatev minor detail... then i got to powerwash, still exciting... then i picked a fight with some barnicles and lost, still pumped about life, it's cool. later on i was working on moving oyster trays and tripped on a cynderblock and totally went in the water... the ulimate leaky waders. yat first it was refreshing, then i was freezing.

moral of the story is, i love shellfishing group service projects and weirdo weekends.

Hey, is that my parrot?!

The week is flyyyying. Just came off two sweet days at the test center. It's so strange I can't remember anything I did yesterday? All i remember is that I swept and mopped at the end of the day... Today, however, was much more memorable because I got to do some things by myself such as take the dissolved oxygen readings from a bunch of the systems. I also got to do something else, which i don't even know how to explain so i will not try. Yeaaa the language that is spoken at this place is not like a foreign language, it is a foreign language. When I finally fully understand what is going on, I am buying myself a sweet gift... perhaps a nice pair of down booties? Wellll I am planning on getting those anyways, so maybe something else...

AAA-CHOO

Right now I am mentally preparing myself to cope with the fact that when I wake up tomorrow morning I WILL have a cold- I can feeel it. And I want so badly for a miracle to occur so that I won't have to deal with this silliness. Seriously, what is the cold? It's just obnoxious and the worst is that I can not handle having a cold and I whine the whole time, hence this post.... Sweeet

Aside from that, the weekend was funnnnnn. I worked at an energy fair, I got to see my best friendsss, I saw my fam. Andddd it don't get much better. Last night was highly entertaining and I think that it ending with the most insane sneezing fit I have ever witnessed made it THAT much better.

Today I was unsuccessful at 1. buying black clothing friendly sneakers - i have only brown sneakers at the moment - and 2. buying a jacket for the chilliness that has been happening. I never really wear jackets? I have been entertaining the idea for some time, and now i'm pretty much forced to make it happen since i lost my sweet sweet black vest somewhere on PC's campus last semester.....

What have I been up to for work you ask? Well I mentioned the energy fair which was a good time until i accidentally somehow unleashed the fury of an older gentleman who did not want me to start organizing things for clean-up, yeaaaa. Friday we winterized some gardens --it was almost back breaking labor, lots of shovelling and pulling weeds. I loved it. During the day I grabbed the PI - poison ivy for those not hip to the lingo - by accident and so in a few days this should prove or disprove my immunity to the oozing mess of a good time.

brown thumb

today i started working at my individual placement. IPs are designed to function like internships and are 2 days a week.

i arrived 15 minutes early this morning -- surprising yes-- and got right to work planting walnuts. yeaaa not what i expected either. not to fear though, i was able to get into other things soon after. some of it was smelly and unpleasant, but overall i enjoyed the day. there are some nice folks working there and they helped me out allllll day which was sweet of them. i asked my usual number of questions... they handled it well.

it's a pretty sweet facility, there aren't many around apparently. it's right near some military place so crazy planes are taking off all the time. they are reaaaaaaally close and sometimes scary, but neato.

back to walnuts... apparently they have a henna like substance in their makeup which stains the skin. while i was planting them i of course had gloves on. buttttttttt i guess there was a hole in the thumb so nowwwww i have a brown thumb. i was told this stuff stays on the skin for about 30 days, so if you see me in the next month, please don't hate on me or call me poop thumb. thanks!