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Hola!

Today has been a GREAT day! I am really enjoying the drastic turn around that I've had in the past 2 months. Ask me how life was a two months ago and I would have just shaken my head in disgust/disappointment. I was stuggling in a class where the subject was one of my favorite things in the world. I'm sure you all guessed it!.. Meteorology. I wasn't skating how I wanted to, and i just felt stressed and irresponsible all the time. Now that the weather is warming my bones I am a lot happier and more relieved. My parents were on my back about taking summer classes. They want me to get my degree. So do I. More so than anyone else, I want my degree. It is odd because when the summer is here and I'm free of all things academic, i want to be studying and learning. But NO way was I falling for that summer school trap again. I cannot spend 3 hours inside a classroom in the summertime. No way. I tried before and dropped all my classes (oops). Needless to say...I'm happy. Sorry I couldn't just cut to the chase.

Danielle came by around 10:45 and we took an hour long bike ride and followed it with frisbee. We are getting damn good. My mom announced to me that she planned on buying me 3D chalk. (that look on the little girls face will most likely mimick mine.) I am beyond stoked. I've been pumping myself up about getting sidewalk chalk but I have not done it yet. So I hope she starts her search sooner than later. (PS mom; if you're reading check Target, Toys R us, or like..Meijer? ha ha). I got ready and headed to work. Cookies! I loved it. I decorated a ton of baby cookies. I like doing these the least. I don't hate them as much as I used to. The bib always looks like shit. And the bottles. Good god. But I love this bouquet. So all is good at work and I really like the people I work with. I'm so lucky to have landed it. Thanks again, Matthew! :) I have to note right now that Lupe Fiasco on Pandora is great. Great hip-hop/rap tunes for sure.

5 Fave stations right now on Pandora:

1) Smoke City

2) Beck

3) Radiohead

4) Led Zeppelin

5) Lupe Fiasco

So after work, Matthew scooped me up and we went to the hookah bar for a quick smoke and parted ways. It's a bummer getting out of work so late sometimes, but I don't mind. I will enjoy the money later and the cookie job does not bother me at all. I love going. My hand is in some real bad pain though. I'm nervous for my right hand in my future. Arthritis for sure. How sad :(

I'm about to throw down five more... Things I am REALLY diggin at the moment:

1) pandora pandora pandora.

2) Electric Sheep. You have to download it, people! You will thank me forever! It provokes me to read the book "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" I am so curious. It is the story that the screen saver was based on. It is made to keep mutating itself before your eyes. You can also control in some way how the sheep will move and create your own images. 

3) My improved frisbee game

4) My new job

5) Goodwill

That is a phenomenal list. I am happy with that. Tomorrow may or may not equate to hell. If you have read my previous post, you may have read that sunny days mean bad days at Jamba Juice. Tomorrow is expected to reach a high of 83 degrees farenheit. Damnit. Oh and you can cue the sunny skies as well. Thank god it is a Wednesday and not a Friday. Sometimes you literally feel like you have served EVERYONE in Naperville. It's lame. Anywho that is at 2-cl. I can barely skate this week. It sucks, but next week i can so it's okay. I work everyday this week. Tomorrow Jamba, Thursday/Friday cookies, Saturday I open Jamba. It's all good. MAKIN PAPER! 

OH! Big NEWS! I got my new shipment of tea! They are fantastic! I got Lemon Vanilla white tea, Japanese Cherry green tea, and Peaches & Cream green tea. They are great. I LOVE Teagschwendner's aroma collections. I even told the delivery man how happy I was that he delievered the box full of my fabulous tea! (luckily, i caught him as I was pulling into my driveway).

Check out this crazycoolness! Enjoy and SLEEP tight!

-tessa

you night owl, you.

Hey, you.

I hope all is well. I am writing to you at the late..or early hour of 1:04 am. Oh well. There have been later and earlier nights. Today has been pretty okay, pretty much a blur and that's what I like. I got up this morning and looked forward to skating because I knew Meagan was going to be there (she's a girl i met at skating and we skate together). She is away at school most of the year so it was fun to catch up on what's going on with her and skate like old times where we dispense advice and ideas on new things to try. I love skating with all i have except those times when i hate it with all I have. You know how it goes...

After work came a short period of time to hang out before work which was to take place at 2pm (which turned into 3:15) ha ha. It was a good shift, we had fun (mostly Ambre and I). At first I did not want to be there. The more time off you have, the more time you want off. I still blame that cruise in 5th grade that we took that ended my skating career. We took 2 weeks off from skating and I did not really want to go back. So I didn't. DEPRESSING OR WHAT?! Oh well, it was for the best. I needed a life outside of skating so I could express my experiences through movements. Good times, huh?! So great..this paragraph got dominated by skating..let's try again.

So work turned out to be pretty okay. I tried Five Guys for the first time. It moved right next to Jamba a few weeks ago (we all held out for the longest time to find out what it was going to be). It has been really popular and a lot of people like it. I normally would not get fast foodish kinda things..but I was intrigued. I strayed from the common choice of a burger and fries and opted for the grilled cheese (cheese in any form is great). It was really good! So whatev. I will forego the guilt. Caitlyn came over to hang out for a bit after work. We always have a really chill time. We were enthralled with the Electric Sheep! She made me 2 mix CDS (I made her 2 last week) so we were playing them and convinced that they were going to the music. For those of you who don't know what Electric Sheep are..You need to go to that site and download it because it is quiiittteee groovy. Anywho..I'll have to do research to see if the waves of music have anything to do with the shapes that discomboble and reunite themselves upon your screen.

So..let's get down to it people; summer is in the air. Time to embrace it. For me, naturally i'll put away those "bitchy/superclassy" clothes (which I LOVE BY THE WAY..but they have their place) and pull out the handmade tie dyes and floyd/zeppelin shirts and start crankin "the drive" aka 97.1 fm. It's a natural thing for me every summer. The dead in the winter is depressing. You should be walking/playing/dancing around enjoying nature and life when you listen to the dead, Phish, Rusted Root, etc. Of course i listen to them year round, but prefer it more in the summer, where everything is really alive; to plants/trees, people, the air, and the summer spirit. So hello long flowy skirts, moccasins, wavy sun-dried hair, and bare-baked tops! I am so excited for it and really felt it today. It hit me, 6 days after my final class that all I had to worry about was work. You will be able to hear those flip flops flapping along downtown Naperville's most popular streets. The college kids are invading and everyone wants a piece of the night air. Get ready!

Things for you to do this summer:

1) Equip yourself with Grateful Dead's American Beauty

2) Buy a Hammock!

3) Take a long bike ride each day. Or a walk

4) Drink tons of water! ;)

5) Forget the tanning oil. Go for sunblock.

Things on MY to do list for summer:

1) spend a whole day eating nothing but a lollypop that is as big as my head. (sad how this is the first goal I thought of and at the top ofmy list.. ha ha)

2) more doubles! a triple maybe?!

3) get awesome at making cookies

4) make that paper!

5) being outside everyday

Notttt bad. Tomorrow = work at 2--cookies. I am excited; I love this job. i wonder what i'll be doing! YAY! Welp, have a good night all! I wish I was residing in Europe! Oh well. Soon enough!

-Tessarooney.