Next Stop: Forks, WA.

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Guys, I am off to Forks in less than 48 hours. I am compiling a packing list, and so far, so good. Things on it:

National Geographic (1 issue)
Montana Sky (our book club book)
Garlic
NYTimes Crossword book
Sunglasses
Wooden stake
Camera, camera charger
Phone, phone charger
iPod, charger
Hat/Gloves/Boots/Scarf/Coat
Silver bullets
Clothes for 2 nights, 2 days
Pajamas
Toiletries
Love letters to Edward, Jacob

I think I’m ready to start packing. Anything I’m missing?

Things I am planning on doing in Forks?

Take photos
Look for vampires, werewolves
Pretend I’m Bella
Giggle
Eat lots of food
Grill
Warm up by a fireplace
Cuddle
Read
Sleep
S t r e t c h o u t
Climb a tree
Do a crossword
Cook eggs and maybe some bacon
Eat chocolate
Look at the stars
Smell. For five minutes. The Earth, the trees, the damp air, everything.
Run on the beach
Giggle.
Enjoy life.

Focus on the purple.

This week, B and C’s friend K was in town. She got a fortune to focus on the purple. I figured it could carry over to me, so I am focusing.

In an effort to focus harder, I’ve painted my toes purple, and dyed my hair. Not purple though. I have my limits.

As seen in the picture, you can hardly tell:

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But you know what? I can tell. You know why? I have no more gray hairs. At 22, I think this is an accomplishment.

Exciting things:

1. I am going to see Stephen Hawking tonight.

2.  I am a letter away from being registered to vote in Cali, and in a few weeks I am taking the driving test so I can be a Cali driver’s license holder.

3.  This weekend I am going on girl’s retreat to Washington (state), and I’ll get to see my beloved Kiki. Who I miss like whoa.

4. I have recently started reading celebrity gossip. It makes me a little giddy. That’s good for stress. I know it.

5. I have been drinking more tea. Overall, this is a good day.

Things I've learned about myself.

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I have friends in town this week. And I have learned the following things:

1. I need 8 hours of sleep a night, and if I don’t get it, I am exhausted and tired and cranky.

2. I love to rock climb, beach or no beach.

3. I love the ocean, and sandwiches with chick peas and avocado.

4. I want to live on a street called Citrus.

5. I love yoga.

6. Nature is my soul.

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5 Good Things.

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Everyone has bad days. Days they wish they were on the beach in a fabulous hat with a friend to tell their woes to. Sometimes these are Mondays. Sometimes not. Today is a Monday. And a tired day. Not a terrible day, just a tired day.

When I have bad days, my friend K always makes me tell her 5 good things. She’s not here, she’s being a snow bunny somewhere and drinking cocoa. So I am here to tell you the 5 good things, to make myself realize that tired days can be good days, too.

1. I can see blue sky out of my office window, which means the weather is finally clearing up.

2. I have friends in town, who I love, and they are amazing and wonderful and I am so glad I get to see them.

3. It is almost March. Which is almost Spring. Which is wonderful.

4. Jeff is finally feeling better after having a pinched nerve for a few days. We can now both rest easy.

5. I have a job, and a house, and a steady source of income, and a partner. That’s almost five in itself.

Dream Post 5: Pickle factory?

I swear, they get weirder and weirder.

I was in a square that looked like Stars Hollow (from Gilmore Girls) but it was Boston or somewhere simliar. I was walking and ran into Barb, my coworker. She and I walked for a bit, and chatted, ending up in a video store. The video store was having a wicked sale on Disney movies, and I was very excited because Disney movies go back into the vault, which is stupid, and I wanted to get any ones I had missed. But as Barb and I looked, we realized that all the videos they had were Little Mermaid, which we both already owned. So we left, singing the tunes of Little Mermaid, and I picked her up and carried her (piggy back style) to my dorm (the LB, as we called it.) It was a different building, looked much older, but it WAS the LB. Anyways, so we were going in, but there was a really long line to sign in, because apparently it was the first weekend of school and everyone had guests. So I went up to the check in counter, where Jeff was sitting reading a magazine. I yelled at him, because he should have been helping the other person checking people in, and then I skipped the line because I was a RA. So then Barb and I were joined by Cor, one of my friends from NOT college. She and I and Barb got into this elevator that probably could have held 20 people but was more of a room–with its own bathroom off to one side. A bathroom. In the elevator. So we rode the elevator to the third floor, but apparently I had pushed the wrong floor button, so when the doors opened we were overlooking a pickle factory. Like, a big room flooded with pickle juice and pickles floating on the top. To the right hand side of the floor there was another building within the bigger factory building, and you could see a library inside. It must have been where Cor’s room actually was, so we were aiming for there. But suddenly Cor was on a pulley system with me, and I had to try to swing her back into the elevator. We tried for a bit, but I wasn’t paying that much attention and I was eating something, so she got annoyed and swung herself up to a beam above the elevator. Once there, my high school choir teacher whisked her away with promise of getting her to the correct room. Then Barb and I were back in the elevator. And we woke up.

WHAT?! I am weird.

Things: 1. Jeff had mentioned to me how he hates when cashiers don’t jump in to help check out people when grocery stores are busy. 2. Cor mentioned she wanted to go rock climbing, AND she hates pickles…

That’s all I got.