Yesterday, I woke up really late but then I went to the gym and worked out on the elyptical for 30 minutes per my trainers orders and then did some stretching. My flexibility has deteriorated dramatically and my trainer STILL says I'm too flexible. That is where we will agree to disagree I believe! After going to the gym I came home and went grocery shopping for Mom. I got a lot of cheese... I ALWAYS get a lot of cheese... my family likes cheese.
After I got back home I worked on the pillows I've been working on. And I FINISHED them! After Mom fixed the stupid sewing machine which needed oiling. Anyway, I finished my last square pillow and then finished a cheery little round one that I love. You can see them all (as well as other projects I completed this summer) online in my "Look What I Made!" photo album on facebook.com. I am VERY happy with them!
I also got a work offer (finally) at the theater. It will probably be very boring but it's better than trying to desperately fit in as well as control myself in other matters at the church picnic tonight. Besides there's my dad's work picnic to try to have fun at tomorrow. Believe me when I say that it's hard to have lots of fun when there's no one your age to relate too. Both at the church and at the work picnics there will be LOTS of children. Little ones. They're fun but sometimes enough is enough, you want someone your age who's going through your same experiences to talk to.
I don't want to finish on that irritatingly negative note so I'm going to try for something positive... ::effort::
I leave for UO in 22 days!!!
Oh! And I'm pretty much have everything packed! Glad I won't have to do a rush job later!
Love!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Back to Spain
As for Spain... I'm probably going to find it difficult to relay everything in chronological order. But I will tell you the highlights!
Okay so Valencia. We got back to the dock just fine but we couldn't dock where we usually did because the fishing boats were already there! So we enroached on the fisherman's corner where some locals were fishing. They just kinda stared at us stupidly and one guy got rather irritated because we were scaring all the fish away with our frantic paddling. Side Note: after we got to the dock the yacht let us go and we had to paddle the rest of the day. The crew pulled out two tiny paddles and so the rest of us chipped in with various flippers! It was sooo fun! EVERYONE was cracking up.
So anyway, we got to the dock with all the professional fishermen on their boats staring at us with smirks on their faces. They creeped me out a little...
We eventually got home and had dinner in the hotel that night. I was exhausted. Then at the table this pain started in my back I had to leave in order to not make a scene. I was crying and it hurt and then, it just went away. Very confusing. S.C.U.B.A. is a very stressful sport. I'm always trying to suppress a little creature in my brain who's saying YOU CAN'T SURVIVE UNDERWATER YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! and then it's just hard on your body unless you do it all the time. You can also tend to forget about sunscreen... So, I blame the pain on S.C.U.B.A. This also better explains my exhaustion, it was both mental and physical. EXHAUSTED.
What doesn't help is that the Spanish do not believe in short dinners. It's more like 3 hour long dinners. Sometimes it's nice but not all the time.
While we were in Valencia V had her birthday! The presents were relatively small and silly mostly she got her presents when she got home... C still hasn't given her one... :P. And Mom and Dad gave her a 6 week trip to Spain. Need I say more?
We went to an aquarium/aviary place that was very nice. The fish areas often had tunnels that you could go into and have fish to both sides and above you. Here are some pictures. The very blue one is one where I'm looking up.
Later that day, around six, we went to a BEAUTIFUL zoo-like place. It was a park and there were animals in it but everything was designed in a way that didn't scream "CAGES!!!" The lions and gorrilla's were closed off behind tall stone structures that had windows in them but there were no bars anywhere. There was a gorgeous pair of leopards one regular colored one black they were also more securely closed off. But you could go into the areas for the lemurs and the aviary. Everything was open sky, except for the flighted birds. There were some hilariously solemn pelicans looking at a cow of some kind.
It was HOT though. At both the aquarium and ESPECIALLY at the Bioparc. Bioparc was completely outside so you couldn't get out of the sun very easily. I was dripping sweat which doesn't happen very often!
This was our last day in Valencia actually. That night we tried paella. I didn't really like it much. Kinda oily and I didn't want seafood and the game bird one had little bones in it. I was also probably dehydrated. Doesn't make for a happy K!
The next morning we're headed for Barcelona! Our last city in Spain. We have rooms in a little hotel called the Ritz of Barcelona or somesuch. The bathtubs were HUGE. With water jets and bubble squirters and so on. It had a bath faucet, a regular shower head, as well as a large waterfall shower head located in the ceiling. Craziness! We had a large living room and two rooms. There were 6 flatscreen T.V.'s in that suite. It was mostly because usually that one suite was usually two suites and there was a folding wall that could cut down the center. Still! SIX. I don't think we turned any of them on... :p
That night we kinda wandered around the block looking for a place to eat. We came across this place called The Buddha Restaurant. It was a little fancier then we were dressed but we trooped on in. We were the only people there really because we were eating "early" around 9:30 P.M. It was delicious! It had a whole variety of foods. Sushi, Indian, French, Spanish, basically everything and it was all delicious. We liked it so much we determined to come back again on our last night in Barcelona. C asked for a Shirley Temple and what she got was nothing like any Shirley Temple I've ever seen!
But guess what! It was amazing. It was served in a martini glass and was light frosty pink. It was cute lookin. See above!
You, Lucy, are probably running out of time to read this! So, I'm going to tell you about the last few days in Spain on a later date! Hopefully, I won't take too long.
Love to all!
K
Okay so Valencia. We got back to the dock just fine but we couldn't dock where we usually did because the fishing boats were already there! So we enroached on the fisherman's corner where some locals were fishing. They just kinda stared at us stupidly and one guy got rather irritated because we were scaring all the fish away with our frantic paddling. Side Note: after we got to the dock the yacht let us go and we had to paddle the rest of the day. The crew pulled out two tiny paddles and so the rest of us chipped in with various flippers! It was sooo fun! EVERYONE was cracking up.
So anyway, we got to the dock with all the professional fishermen on their boats staring at us with smirks on their faces. They creeped me out a little...
We eventually got home and had dinner in the hotel that night. I was exhausted. Then at the table this pain started in my back I had to leave in order to not make a scene. I was crying and it hurt and then, it just went away. Very confusing. S.C.U.B.A. is a very stressful sport. I'm always trying to suppress a little creature in my brain who's saying YOU CAN'T SURVIVE UNDERWATER YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! and then it's just hard on your body unless you do it all the time. You can also tend to forget about sunscreen... So, I blame the pain on S.C.U.B.A. This also better explains my exhaustion, it was both mental and physical. EXHAUSTED.
What doesn't help is that the Spanish do not believe in short dinners. It's more like 3 hour long dinners. Sometimes it's nice but not all the time.
While we were in Valencia V had her birthday! The presents were relatively small and silly mostly she got her presents when she got home... C still hasn't given her one... :P. And Mom and Dad gave her a 6 week trip to Spain. Need I say more?
We went to an aquarium/aviary place that was very nice. The fish areas often had tunnels that you could go into and have fish to both sides and above you. Here are some pictures. The very blue one is one where I'm looking up.
Later that day, around six, we went to a BEAUTIFUL zoo-like place. It was a park and there were animals in it but everything was designed in a way that didn't scream "CAGES!!!" The lions and gorrilla's were closed off behind tall stone structures that had windows in them but there were no bars anywhere. There was a gorgeous pair of leopards one regular colored one black they were also more securely closed off. But you could go into the areas for the lemurs and the aviary. Everything was open sky, except for the flighted birds. There were some hilariously solemn pelicans looking at a cow of some kind.
It was HOT though. At both the aquarium and ESPECIALLY at the Bioparc. Bioparc was completely outside so you couldn't get out of the sun very easily. I was dripping sweat which doesn't happen very often!
This was our last day in Valencia actually. That night we tried paella. I didn't really like it much. Kinda oily and I didn't want seafood and the game bird one had little bones in it. I was also probably dehydrated. Doesn't make for a happy K!
The next morning we're headed for Barcelona! Our last city in Spain. We have rooms in a little hotel called the Ritz of Barcelona or somesuch. The bathtubs were HUGE. With water jets and bubble squirters and so on. It had a bath faucet, a regular shower head, as well as a large waterfall shower head located in the ceiling. Craziness! We had a large living room and two rooms. There were 6 flatscreen T.V.'s in that suite. It was mostly because usually that one suite was usually two suites and there was a folding wall that could cut down the center. Still! SIX. I don't think we turned any of them on... :p
That night we kinda wandered around the block looking for a place to eat. We came across this place called The Buddha Restaurant. It was a little fancier then we were dressed but we trooped on in. We were the only people there really because we were eating "early" around 9:30 P.M. It was delicious! It had a whole variety of foods. Sushi, Indian, French, Spanish, basically everything and it was all delicious. We liked it so much we determined to come back again on our last night in Barcelona. C asked for a Shirley Temple and what she got was nothing like any Shirley Temple I've ever seen!
But guess what! It was amazing. It was served in a martini glass and was light frosty pink. It was cute lookin. See above!You, Lucy, are probably running out of time to read this! So, I'm going to tell you about the last few days in Spain on a later date! Hopefully, I won't take too long.
Love to all!
K
Pillows and Apple Pie
Hello beautiful people!
I've been having a quite nice couple of days. I've been taking care of my mother for the past week. She got knee surgery last Tuesday and has trouble getting things from around the house. She also tripped the other day and twisted her knee which definitely didn't help matters at all. She's also bored and becomes quite unhappy at times. I can sympathize and I do. I also try to make her laugh at least once a day.
The past few days chores have not been getting done so when I came downstairs at 11:30 this morning and saw Sunday's breakfast dishes on the table I just went into a cleaning frenzy! Cleaned the kitchen and cleared the table picked up dishes from around the house. I washed my weeks of dirty laundry, made myself and my mother lunch. Then I invited a friend over and we made spicy apple pie, which was DELICIOUS if I do say so myself. I'm making apple chips from the leftover filling. Then I made turkey-noodle soup for dinner!
Making things makes me feel very accomplished and keeps me from getting bored. I've been making various things the past few days. I've made dinner most nights for the past few days. I've FINALLY edited the dancejam video footage from before I left UO over six months ago. I have made six placemats and one pillow cover. I'm in the process of making another one and then I have plans for one more! The material I'm using always makes me smile. One is a soft mellow yellow faux suede and the other is a striped cotton. The stripes are coral red, green, and a similar yellow to the suede on a white background. Very cheery and ideal for brightening up a little rented apartment!
I've been building up my recipe's and writing down the one's I know I like in my little cookbook.
I've started packing boxes for shipping to my relatives in Oregon. Sorting through what I'm taking and what I'm not taking. It's three weeks now! Then I'm going to what is closest to home nowadays.
Much Love,
K
I've been having a quite nice couple of days. I've been taking care of my mother for the past week. She got knee surgery last Tuesday and has trouble getting things from around the house. She also tripped the other day and twisted her knee which definitely didn't help matters at all. She's also bored and becomes quite unhappy at times. I can sympathize and I do. I also try to make her laugh at least once a day.
The past few days chores have not been getting done so when I came downstairs at 11:30 this morning and saw Sunday's breakfast dishes on the table I just went into a cleaning frenzy! Cleaned the kitchen and cleared the table picked up dishes from around the house. I washed my weeks of dirty laundry, made myself and my mother lunch. Then I invited a friend over and we made spicy apple pie, which was DELICIOUS if I do say so myself. I'm making apple chips from the leftover filling. Then I made turkey-noodle soup for dinner!
Making things makes me feel very accomplished and keeps me from getting bored. I've been making various things the past few days. I've made dinner most nights for the past few days. I've FINALLY edited the dancejam video footage from before I left UO over six months ago. I have made six placemats and one pillow cover. I'm in the process of making another one and then I have plans for one more! The material I'm using always makes me smile. One is a soft mellow yellow faux suede and the other is a striped cotton. The stripes are coral red, green, and a similar yellow to the suede on a white background. Very cheery and ideal for brightening up a little rented apartment!
I've been building up my recipe's and writing down the one's I know I like in my little cookbook.
I've started packing boxes for shipping to my relatives in Oregon. Sorting through what I'm taking and what I'm not taking. It's three weeks now! Then I'm going to what is closest to home nowadays.
Much Love,
K
Friday, August 14, 2009
AAAAAND we're back!
Hey peeps, I am a irresponsible person who doesn't keep up with posts. Bad me. Kinda like pictures of me... posts sometimes don't often happen. :P
So, where I left off I believe was with the boat sputtering. FUN TIMES. Basically, the boat had run out of gas. What was hilarious was that it was the owner of the S.C.U.B.A. shop driving the boat and the day before he had told everybody in the shop that there was NO excuse for running out of gas. They were all laughing at him now! So, one guy started pumping the tank (pumping a pump in order to get the dregs of gas) and we putted along a little more. About a mile off shore we were completely out of gas. So we hailed a yacht! It is illegal by international law to ignore a cry for from a boat so they turned about and came back. We got tied on and inhaled diesel fumes all the way back! Awesome. I also took pictures... proof you might say, blackmail... ;P
The funny thing was that the captain then took all his employees out for a drink to convince them not to tell his girlfriend/wife because it turns out that not so long ago he had chewed her out for running out of gas and if she found out there'd be hell to pay on his part!
Our driver who had known the captain for awhile almost offered me money for my photos... not quite... but he would have!
So, where I left off I believe was with the boat sputtering. FUN TIMES. Basically, the boat had run out of gas. What was hilarious was that it was the owner of the S.C.U.B.A. shop driving the boat and the day before he had told everybody in the shop that there was NO excuse for running out of gas. They were all laughing at him now! So, one guy started pumping the tank (pumping a pump in order to get the dregs of gas) and we putted along a little more. About a mile off shore we were completely out of gas. So we hailed a yacht! It is illegal by international law to ignore a cry for from a boat so they turned about and came back. We got tied on and inhaled diesel fumes all the way back! Awesome. I also took pictures... proof you might say, blackmail... ;P
The funny thing was that the captain then took all his employees out for a drink to convince them not to tell his girlfriend/wife because it turns out that not so long ago he had chewed her out for running out of gas and if she found out there'd be hell to pay on his part!
Our driver who had known the captain for awhile almost offered me money for my photos... not quite... but he would have!
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