running fools

i love summer. i'm not sure if i've informed you all of that fact yet but it's true. i think i'd be okay if it wanted to stay summer forever. 

usually i have that feeling that my internal organs are going to melt away when i step outside but the windows are wide open and it actually feels a little coolish. on top of that i get to wake up at 7 something every morning and go to the gym-- this is a habit i started on last summer, gave up for the school year and started again july 1st. fortunately for me, my mom has been going for two years or more so she can drag my tired butt out of bed every morning. once i get there though it's wonderful, in fact today i made it a record 5.86 (yeah, we're getting technical) miles on the elliptical up from my 4 miles all of the other days of the week. yay. now i'm turning down a particularly fun adventure to the maryland souvenir store to pick up things to take to china for sarah and mom (who are leaving on monday morning). 

so what am i going to do for a whole week with the house ALL to myself (until around 6 pm when dad gets home...). that is yet to be determined. however nana has given me some excellent ideas... so stay tuned...

i feel icky

i feel ickyyyy oh so ickyyy i feel ickyy and stuffy and grosssss.

[sung to the tune of i feel pretty from anger management]

my allergies have decided to explode this week which has resulted in a yucky feeling me. it started out last friday when i felt a little funny and had a headache. since then every morning that i wake up (which is every morning :P) i feel progressively worse. it's wonderful!... not. i won't go into details of anything but basically it feels like someone has put wine corks in all of my airways and ears and then stuffed cotton balls in. it's a really great feeling that your head is going to explode. 

in non-gross news, i've been enjoying spring break week one here in rochester. we technically have finals this week but my artistic lifestyle just doesn't believe in those things so i get to relax. for all art classes we had "finals" last week which consisted of final projects and an in class critique. i've just been hanging around mostly, i'm currently working on a flash movie but it's teaching myself how to use it and making it at the same time so i can't promise any spectacular results. yesterday i ended up going to the gym at 8 in the morning. it was so cool to be working out and see a blizzard completely surrounding the building.. cools ya down :) after the gym i went out to lunch with dave and ashley before going to work. ended up working 2 hours longer than i thought because of all of the mail coming in but thats okay it means i dont have to go in today. yesterday after work ashley and i decided to go out to dinner to red robin! and see twilight at the dollar movie theater :) 

Scanning My Life Away: My Love for Digital Cameras.

Yesterday my dad and I went out and purchased a scanner.. guess what fun thing I got to do today?! SCAN. Yes, that's right. I'm scanning ALL of our photos in from forever ago, everything from before we were born to baby pictures of sarah & I and right up until we got a digital camera. Phew. That's a lot of pictures. I've been scanning since 9:10 this morning with only a 1 hour break...

Speaking of 9:10 this morning... okay so Alison slept over last night and we decided that it would be a good idea to go to the gym in the morning before Alison went to work. Set the alarm for 6:30. Well, that time rolled around... and then 7, 7:30, 8... you get the idea.. Finally ended up waking up at 9:05.. oops she was supposed to be at work at 9. :) I think our main problem was that we were sleeping in Sarah's bed (she's at Penn State for a volleyball camp with my mom). For those of you who might not know, Sarah's bed is giant and poofy and deliciously comfy so Alison and I take full advantage of it everytime she's away. Luckily afterall these shenanigans Alison got off to work only a few minutes late and everything was okay and we ended up going to the gym at 2 instead. Supposedly you're able to lift your own weight?? Our main reason for going to the gym was to test this theory out. Let me just tell you right now, neither one of us is even CLOSE to benching our weight. It's rather unfortunate that I did not have a camera at this particular moment in time because it would have made for some great pictures. Oh well.

In conclusion, I LOVE DIGITAL CAMERAS because they load right to the computer, I need to learn how to wake up to my alarm before August and I am incapable of benching my body weight. I'd say it's been a successful day.