09.16.2010 - Day 20/365
Good night.
09.16.2010 - Day 20/365
Good night.
09.14.2010 - Day 18/365
Annie brought over a box of sugar-high-goodness & left it in my fridge for me to find when I got home.
09.13.2010 - Day 17/365
I got home from SF this morning at around 1am. I didn’t get much sleep last night (or the night before) & I am BEAT.
Not only am I a bit on the tired side, but holy hell was I hungry!
Anybody that knows me knows i can put garlic on almost anything and eat it. I experimented w/toasted garlic on top of wheat angel hair (in addition to raw garlic IN the sauce) & soy Italian sausage…I THINK that’s what I made (I inhaled it so fast).
Anyhow, this mess of goodness will definitely need to be repeated.
09.12.2010 - Day 16/365
Mini vegan cupcakes at the 15th annual chocolate festival. Stopped by to get some sun, chocolate & full bellies before heading on a jet plane back home.
09.11.2010 - Day 15/365
Learned, and saw, a bit of acro-yoga today. Really, some amazing stuff.
I need to look into this.
09.10.2010 - Day 14/365
Flying up to SF tonight. Kind of scares me I’m flying around 9.11.
Send good vibes, people!
09.09.2010 - Day 13/365
i couldn’t wait to get home to this face, today. for whatever reason, i missed her more than usual.
09.08.2010 - Day 12/365
so i’ve, somehow, become a mosquito buffet. i woke up with 2 bites on my face, one on my wrist and another on my left shoulder. so, being the hypochondriac that i can be, i was worried about bedbugs (though my bed is only about 3 yrs new). i spent a good part of my afternoon vacuuming my entire room, proceeded to get on my hands & knees and used the brush attachment then finally switched that attachment out and repeated with the vacuum-tube-thingy. i repeated this 3x’s.
after all of that, i went online to see the differences between bedbug bites & mosquito bites…yeah, i have mosquito bites…
in other news, annie & i found one of our hatch-ling-butterflies injured on the ground with a hurt wing. he could fly a little bit but couldn’t get much air. we were able to help him get out of harm’s way and gave him a plate of sugar water for him to re-cooperate (hoping it was butterfly-steroid).
i hope he makes it ok.
lastly, i really haven’t been feeling myself lately. let me preface this by saying, i’m not normally a “depressed” person. matter of fact, i’m usually bouncing off the walls. but lately, i am just under a lot of pressure and on top of that, my surroundings sometime affect me. it might sound “hippie-esque” but i love being surrounded by positive energies. i feed off of people. i’ve been surrounded by some really “challenging” energies from, what feels like, every direction. it’s getting harder and harder to manage. i’m quickly learning how exhausting it is to keep everything in and to keep a smile on my face to others. ironically, while my “everything-is-fine” face is showing, my chest bone is screaming “can you hear me?!”
anyway, this uncomfortable feeling is a good thing. as i was venting to bri, i was reminded change is growth. so, i have to try my best to just…welcome it and except it, (though it was not easy to do this at 1am in morning). being under stress is not pretty.
ps: krissana reminded me, today, i need to open my mouth more often.
![09.07.2010 - Day 11/365
this is how my day is starting, (as if i could afford this [in worst case scenario])…
…more to follow…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8dt4uKKk61qdt1f8o1_500.jpg)
09.07.2010 - Day 11/365
this is how my day is starting, (as if i could afford this [in worst case scenario])…
…more to follow…
09.06.2010 - Day 10/365
Happy Labor Day! i was out running errands (ie: picking up toilet paper) & decided i wanted to bbq today. so, while i stopped off to grab some cat food for Harley & some butt-wipes for the humans, i saw an inexpensive charcoal bbq grill & decided to picked that up too.
a GREAT idea! erin, annie & i proceeded to barbecue and enjoyed a really great lunch; finishing off with some dark chocolate truffle (organic)!
the process of the grill:
tah-dah!
09.05.2010 - Day 9/365
i learned how to change my own oil today, (no wise cracks). brent came over and he showed me where everything was located under the car and what i needed to do. i liked that i had a hands-on learning experience. changing one’s oil is so easy, i think most people should learn. alternately, it makes me hate the oil change places even more for trying to rip everyone off.
i was able to change my oil, my oil filter, checked my air filter and all other liquids in my car…all for a fraction of the cost.
today sucked more than most days. i sat here trying to work on my budget & finances (which is stressful in itself), to get what i need to get in place for future plans. but my mom decided it was a good idea to give me a guilt trip, yell at me and say some really shitting things all because i wanted to learn to do something on my own - change my oil.
we argued and i was so confused because, ever since i could remember, she told me to always fend for myself and never depend on anyone. i was so excited to share with her what i was learning. to my surprise, she wasn’t happy. instead, she told me to not come over today and didn’t want to see me. extreme much? still confused, i talked to her hours later and finally go to the bottom of why she was so bent out of shape.
when i was younger, my father almost got trapped under a car doing an oil change. so she was worried about me. why couldn’t she just say that?! i had to help her figure out her emotions. heavy.
09.04.2010 - Day 8/365
randall came over & we went to the international food festival at the Circle in Orange. there, we met up with t, m & b. we made about 3 rounds there and ate so much…you know, the kind of “too full” that it hurts to breathe? and of course, i still wanted a froyo on the way home.
i have to ride my bike to run errands all day, tomorrow, to burn off all i ate…that’s the plan, at least. maybe i’ll do a bike-cam tomorrow.
side note: fresh watermelon w/plain froyo = delicious.
09.03.2010 - Day 7/365
You’d think, with all these self-help / motivational books, i’d get it all by now.
and yes, that is a “bottoming” book you see. what?! i care to learn.
09.02.2010 - Day 6/365
It was an, emotionally, rough day.
amongst other things, bri is in FL visiting her family and i really missed her today. life seems so much easier to handle when she’s around.
whiny-whine-whine.
09.01.2010 - Day 5/365
there are multiple cocoons outside of my apartment (if you look closely, you can see some of the others along the wall). i saw this little guy crawl to claim his spot, as a caterpillar. this is him, today. he’s beautiful.
