birthday & candles (not on a cake)

I'm right on the brink of my Golden birthday.

This day means everything to me. I will be 22 years old on March 22.

21 never meant shit to me.

22 is what I've been waiting for.

All the 11 multiples really; 22, 33, 44, 55, 66....

I feel like it is going to be the best year yet.

2010 has already been very, very good to me.

I feel like 22 is a beautiful number to BE.

Eric has been too good to me this birthday and needless to say I have some AWESOME concerts coming up! (passion pit, modest mouse, & THOM YORKE!) and a new navigation/radio unit in my car which now allows the music to flow from the iPhone through the car speakers. What a nice contrast to burning 1000 CDS.

But in the midst of the "golden-ness" is the redecorating of Eric's casa. It was a mere 3 weeks ago when we decided that me moving in here was going to be a top notch idea. One we still share. In my excitement and madness to create something of our own, I've been running to Target and other "home-y" kind of stores and spending away my paychecks. I have learned that I'm a bit of a candle addict. Target has these awesome candles by Illume. They come in really funky tins and have that earthy sweet scent to them, really unique. I think its nice when a candle can be used as part of decor.

Also, a love/hate relationship has started to form between me and the wonderful store called Anthropologie. Talk about amazing everything in that store, but talk about amazingly overpriced. Its sad, but its a way to muster up ideas and then...go to Target or Ikea to get something close, heh.

Along with the random candles and wall decor we've been putting around everywhere, we have also got the paint up on the walls and the carpet has been ordered! Things have been really coming along and I'm so excited. The process of making it our "own" is going better than we expected. All in all it looks like Target, Menards, Ikea, & Home Goods will be getting/has gotten their fair share from us!

Let's mention my "cool girlfriend award" for being in love with the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. I have always loved video games since I first had an Atari in my room at the age of four. My brother was always bringing home game systems and new games and I always had free time to play them (in between a competitive skating career...) So now I've snagged my a guy who likes a little x-box here and there and he found a girl who loves to annihilate the assholes over live. Of course, I cannot toot my own horn-- I've only been at the game for a week, but I find myself staying up into the night to play.

I have to mention a fun little knick knack that Eric received from his boss;

They are called Bucky Balls. They are these crazy little magnetic balls and you can make all these different things out of them...

I hope you all are enjoying spring! The weather has been so wacky, but I look forward to the consistent 80 degree weather!

For now...I AM GOLDEN!

weird fishes.

weird fishes/arpeggi. absolutely beautiful.

Random thought: It has always amused me that when one eats something too spicy, instead of grabbing water to easy the spice, milk would be the better bet. Ick, I wouldn't enjoy the combination and probably opt for the water anyways.

Today was pretty okay. I got up a tad earlier(7:57) than usual (8:33)--which by the way shocks me, I used to be up at 4:45am no problem and hit the gym. Now I have to sleep in atleast till 7:45 to be functioning right. C'est la vie. I went over to Neuqua to give my first talk around 9:30. I wish we were not in the LMC classroom. It totally threw me off. Normally we are in a big forum room and everything is better in there; lighting, the mood, and the setting. It's a great presentation room. Today the room made everyone uneasy it seemed. Presentations went okay. I got some good response/questions from the kids. I enjoy that. I gave four presentations total. Normally I give two or three, but I enjoyed it and didn't mind the additional class. I always know what I really want to focus on by the third time I present. I always make my rounds to see my old teachers/people I know after I present. I bopped in to see Mrs. Harner (Meredith's mom) and Schutz (Mrs. Schutzenhofer). I am so glad I did. I really like her and enjoy talking to her whenever I bop in after my talks. Hopefully we'll grab lunch soon--that would be neat. I came home and took a long walk while conversing with Gina via telephone. Good talk and walk for sure. Portillo's beef sandwiches and frenchy fries for dinner! Yum! What a treat. We hardly ever eat things like that in the house so it's fun when we do. It was a perfect day to do it with the rain.

After dinner I had to make my way over to Trader Joes to pick up some yogurt, fruit, and other tidbits (including chocolate covered bing cherries and black licorice scotty dogs!). But the best buy of the night were my hydrangeas! I love them and have declared them my new favourite flowers. They are a light blue/cream color. They look lovely in my room. Then I took another walk. Like I said, I love instability, so I love to be outside when it's not raining, but favourable for a tornado. How exciting!

Tomorrow is day dos of the new job. I will be fully prepared with a big meal before I skedattle off to work. Starve I will not! ha ha. Hopefully I will just be filing in the cookies like the other day, I'd like to really get that down before moving on. We shall see! The girls I work with are super talented. They are so efficient. I too, will progress and become that good, it just takes time. I'm a perfectionist with these damn cookies though. I always take a lot of time to make sure what others receive looks perfect (scarves I make, baked goods, meals, etc). That's a good thing. YAY! Skating tomororw. I went on Monday, but I can't wait to go again. I just need to regain my composure. No lesson tomorrow. Takes pressure off. I anticipate what tomorrow may bring.

OOOO! HEAVY RAIN! HOW EXCITING! :) :) huge squall lines moving all across the midwest like a belt. The radar is going crazy with red blobs (supercells, a few). One supercell produced 13 tornadoes! I know the storm has weakened a bit since it hit Illinois, but I'm not sure if it has produced any nadoes on this side of the border. There were some gnarly tornadoes earlier in OK and Missouri. I look forward to see what they will rank them. Based on damage I saw briefly on weather channel I'd say EF-2 or EF-3. Probably the latter. But then again, I don't really know anything when it comes to weather. ha ha.

this is beautiful people!

I have to admit though, being in fear of your property all summer is hardly fun. Again, I do not know why people choose to live in "tornado alley". Oh well. To each their own.

Currently, I'm a fan of:

1) This hilarious clip Matthew sent me today. You cannot just watch it once. 

2) Blogging!

3) This is fun for awhile! It will get you groovin.

4) Sudoku. Just breaking that in...

5) Wanting to make this recipe!

6) I LOVE this song. (press play on the top right)

I must be off to bed now. Muy tired. The slumber shall be supurb. I can actually listen to real thunderstorms instead of listening to recorded ones on my ipod. ha ha.

Europe, start steeping your morning tea,

America, time to hit the hay! Get your beauty sleep and drink a lot of water tomorrow!

-Tessaroobop.

"You on a personal call, Rick?"

Rick is always causing problems. Always.

Instead of reading before I go to bed, I opted to blog before bed. I suppose this is the best way to do it. I, however, am not a lucky duck who gets to write all cozy up in bed, I have to schlump downstairs (no laptop--sadness) but the day might have been "blogworthy" enough to come down for. Real entry comes now:

Let's start this off with how BEYOND excited I am for our weather tomorrow. Thunderstorms and hail are expected to roll in tonight which leads into tomorrow having the perfect setup for severe weather. YAY! Instability is fabulous. Sunny weather has its place, but work at a place where sunny/perfect/clear sky days mean hours of hell, you will learn to favour the rain. However, I have always favoured bad weather. As a small girl I ALWAYS had a random bag of shit in the basement "just in case" a tornado would hit. All the things that were "most important" in my life as a 8 year old. Good times. It was probably filled with markers and other odds & ends. Remember those fake cameras we had as kids (born in 1986+?) and you would put in that flat paper disk thing with small pictures and you would put it in and look through the binocular kind of things and press the button down and the pictures would change. WHAT WERE THOSE CALLED?! I always had those discs with me as a kid in my purses. How odd now that I think about it! (I'm still odd).

So enough of that. I had my final today. Whatever, it will be dropped. Then I had work at three thirty. If someone might have asked me how work went I would have said, "Ask me a different question." I enjoyed it except for the fact I full heartedly thought I was going to get out of there at nine pm. The time I was told I was going to work. I ended up walking out at 11:20. This would have been fine, but I just didn't expect it and did not eat from 1-11:30. Except for a Valencia orange. (mmm Whole Foods produce is the best!) Once you start decorating, you really get drawn into it and become engrossed, you don't want to get out of the groove just to go eat. By the end of the night you feel like you are going to fall over. Note to self; start eating big lunch before job. It's super repititious. I did a ton of fill ins on cookies (links to some of the ones I decorated) today (for me atleast) There's a lot of small things I need to learn, but I feel I did okay for my first time. My fingers hurt. A lot. Unfortunately Mango-Brie quesadillas didn't happen due to my hold up at work. Oh well. Another night. I didn't even get to have a Tanqueray and tonic--empty stomach + me + driving + low gin tolerance = not good. I went for the chopped salad. Meh. A drunk man struck up small talk with Matthew and I. That was cool. Wish we could have chatted with him more. I get a kick out of that.

Tomorrow should make me happy because it will be raining! But also because I go to Neuqua to talk to the kids about my eating disorder that I had back in high school. My teacher had me sophomore year when I was healthy and junior year when I was really sick, so he saw the contrast. I go twice a year to talk to 3-4 classes of high schoolers. It's a lot of fun and they are always pretty interested (mostly the girls--ha ha poor boys!) I hope it goes well! Gotta be up at eight! Better hit the hay!

OOO Europe! You early birds you! Good morning!

America's nightcrawlers--have a good night!

-Tessa