posting gets away from you

ok, yeah, so turns out, I have a life, and it is just to busy to fill up these posts. or perhaps not busy enough.

point is, it is almost Thanksgiving - my favorite holiday of the year - and I am so ready for it!

I havent seen my parents in forever, and my cousins and aunts and uncles, and grandma, and cousins once removed in longer.

the canasta cards are coming out, and if you can't handle an ass-whooping, then stay out of the room

(this is the big talk of an over confident person, intent on winning, but mostly likely breaking even)

anywho, I figure you all have lost track of me so lets update.

this is the most recent pic of me. so as you can see, I am healthy and happy and ready for turkey!

More Futon Madness!

we finally had a futon party!! woo woo!

at one point we had five girls on our futon. we are awesome!




notice that the futon now has a cover, compliments of Kim's grandma, and we have hung up my flags behind it!

of course, other covers for the futon are always welcome.

we have named the futon: Futoshi. we name all of our big pieces of furniture. the fridge is stella, the microwave is frank, and kim's coffee maker is simon.

we have Futon!!

classes are moving right along, the work load somehow is no longer overbearing, and the jobs are running smoothly.

the big news this week is that Kim and I got a futon!!! woo woo!

we have named it Futoshi Futon (since it is a japanese word), for those of you that don't know how my roommate and I operate, we have a refigerator named Stella, and a coffee maker named Simon. it makes us feel like a big ole family.

here are the pictures of our new bundle of joy!

school days

well, classes back in Phoenix aren't nearly as cool as classes in England, but...I will survive.

this is definitely going to be the semester of keeping up. keeping up with work, with brian, oh, and with classes. yeah, seems most of my classes have pretty regular work...like daily work. blah.

also, my new sign lang teacher is great! she is very energetic and happy. however, she is a bad speller. I didnt know you could be deaf and a bad speller. so much is fingerspelled in the language. it will be interesting.

my history of food class is looking interesting as well, no real food eating until the end. but we will learn all about the change from hunter gatherer to agriculture. it is a class I think my dad would enjoy.

my management class is taking itself way too seriously for being for nonmajors, but overall I think it will be helpful.

my social psych class is with my old psych 101 prof, whom I really enjoy, and I think that will be a fascinating class.

eng 301 is internet, and just going to be a constant pain. my midterm is to write a 13 sentence essay using all the types of sentences in a specific order. for instance: declarative, then conjunctive, then parenthetical, then semicolon, then colon. and our choice for topics range from being on a secret spy mission to being on an elevator with a pregnant lady in labor. there is the chance for creativity for sure, but it is still ridiculously structured.

we had a freak rain storm yesterday evening, and it poured! but woe alas, grandma is in cottonwood, so I couldn't call her during the storm. what good will it be when she is permanently in a different weather pattern? it seems my parents are the only hold outs from the cottonwood magnetic field.

I only had one class today, but it is noon, and I am off to go work at both my jobs today for the next 11 hours! woot.

huh...

now that I am home, and have no new places to explore...I seem to be much too busy to blog much.

that is my fault. sorry.

more scotland pictures have yet to be blogged.

I am camping this weekend. maybe the next saga of tripto will begin, and there will be new pics of a new adventure.

or not. I have learned to make no promises.

so far this summer has been very exciting! (by summer I mean the time since I got back from england)

I have moved up to phoenix, I am working like crazy at the honors college. I am being all grown up with my roomie barbara, and finally getting some quality time with brian. (definitely caught up on my movie watching)

I also got to go up to cottonwood for the weekend. I love doing that! I love my family. I got to see all the babies, and play some wicked canasta with the cousins. we played with some cards that I found at windsor palace. and they were supercool! gilded edges and everything. way fun.

I also discovered the shuttle that goes from phoenix to cottonwood! why had I not thought of this before!?!? it is such a convenient way to get my canasta fix! there is bound to be some utilization of that.

Finally!

ok, some Ireland pictures!

this is where I lived. University College in Dublin




and a real skeleton key to lock my room!!



did a hop on hop off tour of dublin and saw Christchurch, the Guinness factory, and St. Patrick's Cathedral





Dublin city view, Irish countryside, and Bunratty Castle (aka tourist trap)






Cliffs of Moher! along the western coast of Ireland











the Burren, it is a barren land of limestone that was exposed after a glacier melted, and through the years, the water has made the rock very porous.







Irish Sea from Dublin Bay




Day trip to Glendalough. there is a church, a graveyard, and an Irish round tower at Glendalough and is one of the earliest sites of christianity









this post is sufficiently long

you must hate me

here you all must think that because I am home I will have more time to post pictures.

ha!

actually I just moved back up to phoenix and didn't get my computer hooked up until today. so sorry. especially because I will be seeing some of you this weekend! yay!

ok, I am way behind in pictures so we are just going to post them like crazy now. starting with the ones I had burned on a disc (and nearly lost) in Dublin. these go way back, starting with my day trip to Rochester and Leeds Castle which I think I had showed you already. anyhoo...

since then I saw Windsor Palace




they have a changing of the guard as well! only it is much easier to see







then I went to Regent's park in london





and took some nice close up pictures that I like for Screensavers.








Tower of London!!

our beefeater guide ken. he lives at the tower! how cool is he?!






ok, that finishes England pictures, because we went to the tower of london on our last day. next comes Ireland!