Cotton candy skies

Mean old rain

The battle of good and evil!

Glory Glory Hallejuah!

At AiPH, Summer Quarter is the unique time when the quarter is only 10 weeks long, but all the classes are 20 minutes longer to make up for the missed week. It's done to help the admissions staff deal with the influx of new students that come in at the start of the fall quarter. Any other quarter morning classes begin at 8, but during the summer they begin at 7:35. And so this morning was my last morning that I have to leave the house at 6:30. At least until next summer. Hopefully. God only knows what will happen in the next year. Regardless, it was a glorious morning. I got done my morning class by 8 and retreated back to my apartment to cuddle with my dog. That was possibly even more glorious than that morning sky. The perks of living closer were finally utilized and it was... you guessed it... glorious!

Another day, another $5 dollars.

Twosday, ya'll.

Lindenwold, I'm home

Weren't no tornado here.

Happy Birthday America, the Beautiful!

For a majority of my young life, my family has gone down to my aunt's house to celebrate the 4th of July. But in recent years, for whatever reason, we haven't been doing it. Since I'm moving on Saturday and my parents are potentially moving before the next 4th of July, I was glad my mother decided we should go down this year. It was just me and her that went down with my father meeting us for a while after he got done work, but it was nice regardless. My two cousins both have kids now. My eldest cousin had quite a little brood between his own kids, step kids, and friends of kids so the pool was pretty full and there was a lot of madness going on. Definitely got me thinking about the dumb stuff that we used to do when we were little. Also got me wondering if you could still go through the little secret passage from the backyard to the front through the crack between the buildings. I didn't check though. I'm just that lazy. After dinner was made and eaten, my mom and I took a walk down by the ocean. It was SO pretty! I took a zillion photos! That may be a slight exaggeration. But, really, I could have. I love clouds and I love colors and it was just so, so beautiful. These pictures do not do it justice!

Eventually the sun went all the way down and we made our way back to the house to prepare ourselves for the fireworks display. It was a pretty good show. It was long! Way longer than usual! It was sweet! If that's the last 4th of July fireworks display I bare witness to in Wildwood (I doubt it will be) I'm glad it was that one. It was sweet. Thanks Coca-Cola!

Don't build me up just to knock me down

In my quest to find a Wawa within walking distance of my school, I discovered something else I've been dying for in the city; I found a sweet spot to sit! I had a lovely Wawa lunch/dinner while sitting on what could be described as a bench across from the Comcast Building. It's clear that the building is beautiful from afar, but I found it was even more beautiful when I was close up. It's so shiny that from the right angle it seems to become part of the sky. I'm the type of person that walks down the street looking up at all the buildings. No matter how many times I've walked down the road, I still love to look up at the interesting architecture of the city. There are not very many pretty buildings where I grew up so I never get tired of the old and new buildings that Philadelphia has to offer. If you haven't done it, do it! Look up!

Something about late nights and thunderstorms

A photo of the sky that's not from my bedroom window! I'd be amazed if anyone could guess where I took this, actually.

Nobody's buying anybody

Today was sort of George Harrison's Birthday. Sort of. In an interview he said that he was born right before midnight on the 24th, but they put the 25th on his birth certificate. So, legally, today was his birthday. But not. Hm. I suppose he celebrated on the 24th then maybe? Weird. I don't know. Either way, thought of George today anyway!

Also went to the movies and saw a movie. It was a pretty good movie. In the movie, two federal marshals went to an island to find a missing patient of insane asylum. And then.... I told you so, I told you so, I told you. Go check it out if you can!

This isn't what the indians and the pilgrims did

My windshield wipers decided not to function and thus caused me to miss my first class. Due to this, I had to drive up to the train in rush hour traffic. But it wasn't so bad because it made it a lot easier to find a parking spot and I got a lovely picture of the sun setting. A sight I rarely see from the train platform. Then I got to draw a naked man's feet for three hours.


ps. And at midnight, someone turned 26....

No, you don't know me.

I probably have about 35 versions of this same picture. I love all the different shades and variations of the clouds and the sky. It's never the same, but it's so beautiful. This is the view from my window. But in the next few months, maybe it'll be a different view! More on that later! Hopefully not too much later though. Hm. I shouldn't be counting my chickens before they've hatched...

Another snow post

All these snow posts must be getting pretty tired. Well, get used to them. It seems they're not going anywhere fast!

This is called foreshadowing....

My crazy feet

Due to an abnormal amount of horrendous feet and toe cramps the night before, my feet were tight and sore and I wasn't too stoked about going to class. My mother talked to a doctor friend of hers about my feet woes and told me later on that this kind of thing was not normal for someone my age. I've been frequently plagued by various toe cramps here and there, but normally after I eat a few bananas, I'm back to normal. This week, I've eaten a banana everyday and had the worst cramps in my feet of my life. And I also heard it was due to dehydration, but I was definitely not dehydrated. The latest theory is that they're possibly caused by exhaustion. That could be true. It's hard to say since they're essentially a medical mystery to a certain degree. There just seems to be a slew of theories. I guess you run through the list and find out what works. Well, we're taking the advice of a doctor and trying out the tonic water cure. Tonic water has quinine in it which is used for a multitude of things, but most importantly for leg cramping. The problem with this cute? Tonic water tastes disgusting! Ugh. In my opinion it's horrible. My mother thought I was crazy, but it was such a struggle for me to drink a glass of it. I tried to do a Michael Scott cure and add sugar to it, but it didn't dissolve and didn't help much. Splenda next time. ;) Anyway, fingers crossed that this works! Mind over crampage!

ps. I blame the swine flu vaccine. maybe it didn't directly cause my cramps, but I've definitely felt exhausted since getting it... so... you tell me if there's any correlation!

There are angels in the clouds...

I guess I can see why some people say the heavens are in the clouds. Yeah, I can see that.

That's my pleasure

Fridays off are beautiful.

Lions and tigers and bears oh snow!

Started snowing and kept snowing and snowing and snowing until there was so much snow that the puppies couldn't go off the porch, I couldn't leave the house, and I lost ten Kohl's bucks. And really, that's the real tragedy here. Damn you, snow! You owe me $10!

This day in New York has beat me

What a prettiful sky! It definitely beat out the photo I had of Nathan with the mini tacos after he had all of those Zimas. I mean, that was a pretty classic and hilarious photo considering HOW smashed Nathan was, but look at that sky! I guess I'll just hold onto this photo of Nathan as blackmail... muahahahahahah