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Today was kind of a rough day. I kind of want to go to sleep and forget it ever happened. But then that would be forgetting the good parts as well and I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath-water. But what was nice was after a not-so-great evening, I was able to come home to this... * Note the curtains my mom made me the last time she visited ** Note the foot-rest I'm currently using as a chair for my desk haha This desk was made out of palettes by my friend Curtis. I basically gave him the dimensions I wanted it, asked that it have a cubby area to place my computer accessories and asked that it be the same finish as the coffee table I had him make me earlier this year. And voila! He delivered it late last night and I have been organizing my workspace, its all quite new to me so whenever I come in the room it is like a mini present for me each time. Let's hope tomorrow goes better. Goodnight my beautiful readers.

I tried to post yesterday but due to  the internets being completely stupid  technical difficulties , I was unable to talk to you. I missed you. Anyways,  a couple days ago, which would be Sunday, was a day of sweets and gardening. On the way to church (where I got spiritually-falcon-punched-in-the-adam's-apple as the Farrems and I like to call it) we stopped for donuts. Now we didn't go to DH Co. or anything but it wasn't terrible. Went to church. Following the service we went to Bru's Wiffle , where I proceeded to eat chocolate waffles smothered in maple syrup. Joy and I then said our goodbyes to Farrems as she had to go to work. As we were winding down from a rather busy day, I was thinking of how I could spruce up our front porch area since it looks pretty janky. So we went to our local hardware store and bought 2 box planters ( I wanted wood ones but they were ultra expensive and the wooden ones that were more affordable weren't deep enough and would...

I was going to post yesterday but since we drove through the night and I didn't get home till 7:30am, yesterday was pretty much as wash. So I thought I would about the last couple days and then blog about today tomorrow. Ca va? Our last day in Tucson we decided to go on a mini hike up the little mountain (I believe it is called Mount Lemon, but I could just be making that up.) We saw the city from that vantage point, we saw succulents, creeks, dung beetles, trees and ants battling it out. Beautiful would be an understatement. We also went out to eat at a local burger place, and had a game night on campus. I'm posting these pictures from my new computer and I don't have any editing programs on here yet so they will be single pictures sans words or putting two together or a grid or circles or whatnot. Pure unadulterated photography.  Last Tucson lunch Amazing burger View of the city The creek These cacti are so large I coul...

Today I was on campus promoting the evening service by handing out Otter Pops and flyers. I ate the most amazing fish taco at a local Mexican restaurant with the gang. Taken with my phone...not the best picture but it gives you an idea of what it looked like. We had an outstanding service this evening and followed that up with hangout time in this little square called the University Park. Since I didn't really get a lot of pictures of the promoting and Mexican food eating, I made sure I got some shots of the park at the end. Though most of them were a little too shaky (its dark and I used my knee as a tripod) to share. Tonight was a cooler yet humid evening, which was quite the break from the past couple days where the temperature has been in the triple digits. There was a small fountain in the center and restaurants surrounding on all sides. One of the restaurants is a Mediterranean restaurant and were playing Arabic pop music, which is my personal fave.  Toda...

I went to bed really late last night getting some designs done, so I opted out of doing any post last night since I had to be up early-ish this morning. So in lieu of an actual post I will leave you with this really cool and inspiring video about invisible bike helmets. Its like fancy elevator music, only the elevator music is more interesting than the actual destination.

Last night when we got it in it was pitch black darkness and we weren't really able to see what the layout was around us. So it was quite the shock this morning when I opened the front door to this scene. Today was hot. When I say hot I mean really hot. As in I needed to do several coats of sunblock, I was branded by the seat belt in the car when I got in, it looked like I was in a wet-tee-shirt-contest-gone-wrong and I could have wrung out my tee shirt by the end of the afternoon. You can't really tell but we are melting in this picture. haha Due to the extreme heat they planned our ultimate frisbee game for the evening, after the sun goes down. It just so happened that there was also a wonderful thunderstorm that accompanied the night. It cooled everything down and created mini lakes everywhere. I didn't play frisbee, I just cheered from the sidelines, chatted it up with some of my new friends and played with Faith, the director's daughter.  We...

Started our roadtrip off right with donuts from Miss Donuts. Our journey from Los Angeles to Tucson began at 11:30 this morning. There are five of us in total, and we are going to Tucson to help promote Chi Alpha on the campus of A of U for the week. It is quite honestly a very beautiful drive, hot but beautiful. There was no altering to the color of any of these photos. Beautiful. We made a couple stops on the way. One at a gas station that had pretty slim "pickin's" and the other at a rather robust gas station full of attractions. For example the claw game with more incentives than just the usual plush animal. We also stopped for dinner at a place called Long Wong's, where they sell hot-wings and rice dishes. It was a gamble and definitely an experience. This is their awesome table cloth up close. Love it. When we got back on the road we drove through something that is referred to as a "haboob" (ok, take...