gray clouds...smiling at me

a few days ago it rained through the morning.

i woke up today to gray clouds and blowing leaves...

in some odd way,

the cool air and sense of fall make me miss DC in october...

i miss the hour-long metro ride to school in my cowgirl boots...

trampling over sun-stained leaves that look painted on the brick walkways...

even sitting inside and hearing the wind whistle tugs at me...

it makes me think of the housefronts and all of the cute kids there.

it is funny that it's been 2 full years and i still miss my brief stint as an

"east coast girl"



this makes me want to get some pumpkins and liven up the place.

at very least its time for some snickers mix.

stat.

um..... what?

what the h, gmail?

another reason to smile today...

this is giving me all kinds of dc memories...

(its a new one! and the first time i've seen it in az!)


[happy tuesday!]

know how i know it snowed? my google theme...

on saturday, i checked my email that looked like this...


then i went outside to verify.

and it was right!!! i have never been more excited to see snow...
maybe its cause it doesn't seem as cold as utah and it doesn't snow as much..
so you can have time to enjoy it rather than live the 3 months in a vitamin d-depression...

it hasn't snowed since. and now i am sad about it.
arizona doesn't have snow... like ever. boo.

Virginia is for lovers?

oh really? i have qualms with that statement:

#1 - what makes YOU the expert on the matter... huh? huh?
i guess i am not really sure who would even know enough about virginia to think that all lovers would love virginia...?
or even that love happens here anyway...
maybe you should check the stats on how many people come here to love more freely to get out of the tyranny that is running rampant in their own state?
what if only YOU, random college kid shirt designer man,
just thought it would be "funny"?

#2 - and how can this place be called "home of the lovers", when everyone seems to whip out their alaskan snow gear when it is 53° outside?! sorry... now, maybe i did just come from utah where 40° means snow... but that does not warrant this kind of behavior....
nor does it prove that any of you know how to be lovers...

wusses...

[and this comes, with love, from a true Arizonan)


end scene.

space heaters, comma, the surrounding two inches of

welcome to the east coast.
welcome to cool, windy weather on the 12th floor of an apartment building.
welcome to centralized heating/air conditioning.

yeah—meaning: we don't get heat until enough people tell some guy in charge that our faces are getting frozen to the walls of his building.

they gave our apartment 3 "space" heaters last week because these arizonans were dying of death and because charles, the doorman, really loves us chicks from the byu. the heaters were real cute and all... they may have heated the surrounding insects.

this has been us:



thankfully, this week they turned on the heat.
us west-coasters thank you, phantom man with the say so.
and now can welcome you to our warm and once again happy abode.

thanks for ordering my sunshine mom...

remember when it was sunny and beautiful yesterday?

and then how today the sky wept in provo...

{lametown}

all i could think of was my poor dying tulips all over campus...

anyway... the birthday was mostly uneventful except for an

a{freakin}mazing dark chocolate cake that my roommate made...

and calls and notes from cute people i love...

other than that, i am older-- and not a hint wiser for it.

~happy humpday~

still FREAKIN excited...

that's why.

oh, and because being with family is 

so much better than chillin in p-town.


and dear angie-
i am not being as healthy this week as i wish i could be.
i will try to blame it on rob's schedule... or lack of.
when family gets here this weekend i am graduating and eating steak. period.


oh- did i have a rockin voice lesson today with ROB's voice teacher?
yes.
did i get to lay-out and get some real Vitamin D?
yes.
am i halfway through a phenom book that i will tell you all about the second i am done?
yes.
am i getting more sleep than i will ever in a long time?
yes.
am i more glad today that families are forever?
uh, yeah.