new apartment

left around 6 am this morning and got to rochester about 1 pm with one stop because i was pretty sure that i was going to pee in my pants. good news, made it to the newest grocery store on time. the car seat appreciated that.

picked up my key & started moving things in. after a few hours of organizing, okay so i'm not ure if it was hours but it was hot & i was rather tired so i have no idea how long it took.

is it possible to be in love with a room? or an apartment? because i think i am. my room is so bug-free and organized and my very OWN. oh yes, did i mention there is a laundry thing in the apartment? excuse me while i go wash one sock.

did i mention that the bed was wrapped in plastic which assures freshness?

it was.

after unpacking i realized that i had not eaten much more than a peach and a few soy crisps all day so i zipped off to wegmans and purchased some tasty protein (yogurt) and dinner (salad bar). so delicious.

more tomorrow.

color palette

Color Wheel bike

birthday celebrations

There has been much celebrating going on around here. My birthday, last Friday, Sarah's birthday this coming Wednesday, school starting (okay i don't think Sarah is celebrating that one), summer, family, etc.

Celebration is only complete with one thing: cake.

I have to admit that this icing didn't make it anywhere but the trash. But we practiced! Two weekends ago Barb and Joe came down and Nana came up from Georgia and we ate delicious food, hung around, waited for the next meal time and then ate again =) Oh yes, and we practiced our icing skills.

And got some icing on my nose...

This past weekend Grandpa and Frances came up from Georgia to spend the weekend. I officially turned 20 while headed down 95 towards the airport. Alison slept over Thursday night and we had a tasty irish soda bread for breakfast. Lunch was wraps & watermelon and dinner was black bean burgers with carrots and pineapple rice. So tasty! Mom even made me a delicious coconut carrot cake for dessert. Yummmm.

Okay, so this whole post was about food. Pictures of the cake to come.

artist series: tara donovan

Tara Donovan

europe & the countdown

One week left of summer -- technically two but only one more in Maryland. For some reason the song that comes to mind when I think about this is Europe's the final countdown.

So far I think the majority of the stuff I need for school has remained contained in nice piles in my room. A few piles, however, resemble something close to a small explosion.

I'm loving summer and deciding what I want to do --or not do-- on a regular basis is quite fantastic. I do have to say that I have a teensy tiny urge to buckle down and do some math homework draw pretty pictures and make macaroni necklace (afterall, that's what graphic design majors do, right?). But I'm sure this too shall pass come the first major homework assignment. My buckling down and studying hard will no longer seem like a good idea.

Hopefully I will come up with some semblance of a normal schedule. My icalendar is currently writhing in pain after I have overloaded the first week back to school. It's used to the occasional "dinner out" or "naptime" but real work and classes? Okay, so I don't really schedule naptimes on my calendar those are more of an impromptu thing.

This whole schedule thing will seem so new and exciting and wear off after a week after unpacking, packing and then moving every 2 to 3 weeks this summer. Seriously, who came up with that bright idea? Yes! Let's pretend to be a nomad and move around as much as possible. Just kidding, it actually kept things interesting. Although it has clearly ruined my attention span.

Dive

the PEN story: part two

comic sans, drop shadows & gradients galore

See the full version at: The Oatmeal

the PEN story

Things to look at

This week has gone by at lightning speed and it appears as though I have run through my prewritten blog posts faster than I thought.

Days are filled with gym going, eating whatever meal is appropriate for the given time, reading, checking up on emails, and, of course, naps. Oh who I am kidding, I should not have used the word "filled"... it took me until 5 pm yesterday to shower and get dressed. And even then I slipped on pj's :)

Sunday night when I got back, Alison came over and we got chinese food for dinner. My parents and Sarah had headed up for another college visit in NY, ironically at the same time I was driving south so we met part way and said hello before continuing on.

Monday I managed to get mostly unpacked-- well, unpacked is a totally relative term here pretty much everything I have is in a box or bag waiting for school. Met up with Liz and went on a walk around Centennial-- it is so ridiculously hot outside even at 5 pm, you would have thought we had just run a marathon. Ate some tasty dinner and finally got to try out a frozen yogurt place in ellicott city.

Sarah and I went to giant yesterday to get ice cream because we were out -shocker- We couldn't decide what to get so we ended up with 5 different kinds.. slightly ridiculous but you know.. Nana is arriving later today and we all know how quickly she goes through ice cream ;)

Less than 3 weeks left of summer break, I'm headed back to Rochester on the 30th of august.

Here's something to check out today: Mila's Daydreams