christmas eve

Christmas Eve dinner was intense. I'm still full six hours later.

Things I love:
making Christmas gifts
wrapping presents
hanging out with my family
going out with people I have not really been around for a year
catching up with friends
a fridge packed full of free food (pantry too)
and most of all.... a not white Christmas. Beautiful.

Goodbye first full semester of college. You weren't too bad. You went by quickly and quietly.

Dear Winter Semester,
I am looking forward to meeting you. Hopefully we will have some good times together the way I did with Fall Semester. You will be bringing a lot of changes, I am sure. New classes, new home, new experiences. Hopefully these new things will be good things. I'll be seeing you soon.

i like it when animals paint

dress up

The world last week:

Hobbit Halloween:

The world this week:

ELECTIONS. Here is the game of political figure pictionary I played with Becky.

Oh, snow.

the last little while

I rarely update. I should fix that.

Last weekend was my birthday:

my adorable sister came to visit me

























she slept over at my apartment











lana fed us a wonderful breakfast the next morning












later that day....
my roommates sneak attacked me. they suprised me with a weird pig towel and a feather boa.
i am uncertain what these gifts are supposed to imply.

My roommates decorated the apartment with streamers, a banner, and balloons. It looked lovely.

Also - I would just like to say, we have the most attractive apartment around. Honestly. Just take a look.

the day we made a wasabi bird

A bunch of pictures from today.

Hommmeeeee.

My flight home took off at 6:05 Utah time and landed at 11:00 Arizona time.
That's about 6 hours. SIX. It should have been about and hour and fifteen minutes... but a huge monsoon was going on around Phoenix and we couldn't land. We ended up going all the way to the Tucson airport to wait out the storm.

But I eventually made it home.

It's been pretty nice so far. A little different. But nice.

the first post

1. what worries are left?

when sleep seeps in and decides
to swallow you whole.

2. who could have imagined a world like this?

what intricate details are there, hidden in each thing.
where the sky spins according to secret plans. someday
when i can see more clearly, i will understand
why this strange interaction occurs between the stars.

3. palms, fortunes, bells, snow, races, people,
politics, ambition, guitars, strumming, thrumming,
Morse code, lipstick, soft, satin, sheets, white as, ghost,
float, sea foam, mermaids, love, loss,
and found, flounder, fishing, eyeglasses, dock,
deep green, glass bottles, messages, pleas, supplication,
aria, origami, cranes, construction, suspenders, suspension, bridges,
rivers, salmon, Washington, lazy days, warmth, sun in the rocks,
home, heat, butterfly, blending, sunset, tiles,
floors, dust, books, gritty, breakfast, toast, marshmallows, mint,
Christmas, hot chocolate, summer days, bikinis, blinding lights,
flashes, cameras, lenses, glasses, water, beaded condensation, sweat, brow,
fever, mopping, suds, lifting, feet, couches, thermometers, back porches,
rain, gray kitten, smoke, fire, forest, trees, palm