Random...

~How is it that I am drinking two to three times the amount of water I used to and I am so much more thirsty now??

*I primed and painted my parents fence this weekend. It was a big job and it wasn't fun, but they helped me out on Sunday and we got the job done. Now I have spending money for Europe!!!

~I had a lunch today that reminded me of my Grandpa. He used to have the same breakfast and lunch for years!! I mean 10-15 years!!! I guess you could say he was a creature of habit....

*I started packing and I don't leave until Friday!! That must mean I really am growing up if I don't procrastinate so much anymore.....

~I talked to my friend Krista last week, I just love talking to her, but she used a word I had to look up Dictionary.com. I have had to look up 3 words that Krista has used during the course of our friendship and we have been friends just a short time now. Good work Krista!!!

One Week and Counting...

Well it is official it is one week before I leave for London to join part of my family for a vacation of a lifetime! As the time nears I am getting more and more excited!! I think that this trip will prove to be memorable to say the least!! Thankfully my flight and length of travel is no where near my previous trip to South Africa, and I will have two friends/cousins to meet me at the airport!

While I am gone I am going to miss some great things going on here in Oregon!! First I am going to miss the kickball tournament and end of season party that happens the weekend I leave. Second I am going to miss a Jack Johnson concert that I got my friends tickets to go see (I will be there in spirit!)

Although I am missing some pretty great things, I know that I will experience some truely amazing time with my family, I will visit some fantastic countries that I have wanted to see, and travel in style in one of the nicest rooms on the ship, aswell as the newest and biggest ship in the fleet!! I will FINALLY be going to London, which is something I have wanted to do most of my life!!! So all in all I think I am making out okay even though I will miss a few things happening here. Sometimes you just can't do everything.......


** Side Note: My kickball team kicked tale last night!!! We beat one of the best teams in the league and didn't even blink (ok the last inning got a little close but we owned the whole game)!!! I think I am going to sign up for fall ball, and get to play in the mud a couple times. Then it will be game on again for next summer!!! Our last game is Thrusday. I am kind of sad because it has been more fun than I could have imagined!!!

Hello August!

Well it is adios to to July and hello to August!! July has proved to be a great month, and I am hopefully that August will be just as good if not better. Kickball is wrapping up only 2 more games after tonight, and I am only 2 weeks away from leaving on my trip to Northern Europe. This trip is highly anticipated and should prove to be interesting. I am lucky enough to be going with my family, which is really my first trip traveling with family outside of immediate family members, should be fun!! I am still hoping to get up to the zoo before I leave for my trip but we will see if that works out. I can't believe after almost 18 months of talking about this trip and things going back and forth, in about 14 days we will be descending upon the great city of London, and then we are headed out from there!!!

I stopped at the local farmers market yesterday and bought more fruit than any one person probably ever should. I do plan on eating all the great stuff I got, but I may end up needing to freeze some of the blueberries. So needless to say I am on a bit of a fruit frenzy right now (see picture in previous post) and I just can't believe how good they all taste!! It makes me sad to think that in a couple weeks it will all be gone, and I will have to wait another year before the summer fruit season is upon us.

Thanks to all those who made July a great month, I am looking forward to August!!!

Yummy

As I sit here dining on my fresh locally grown giant blackberries, and blueberries I can't help but fall in love with the Oregon summer all over again!! We have the BEST berries in the world here, and I get to enjoy them all!!!!!!

The Dark Knight

Oh man, I just had to jump on the blogger this morning and tell everyone how awesome my night was last night. I had my kickball game last night, we lost, but I made one and a half awesome catches!!! We stuck around for the second game to watch and support our teammates who were umping the second game. So we do our usual thing after the game, drinks, food, and fun. But last night was different because everyone was talking about going and seeing The Dark Knight at the 12:15 showing and the smaller local theater. My Brother and I being ever the skeptical optimists decided to go at 11:30 not really believing that there would be a theater in the world that didn't have a line around it and sold out for this movie on opening night. We were pleasantly surprised and very wrong!!! Not only did we get in to an almost empty theater when we arrived at 11:30 but I got in for, shall we say, less than market value!!! So I rolled in to bed this morning at 4:00am and was actually on time to work at 8:30, not to shabby!!!

So about the movie, amazing. The movie totally lives up to the hype, and all I can say about Heath Ledgers performance of the Joker is that you will NOT be disappointed, it was great, a bit long when you are in an old theater with no A/C but it was GREAT and well worth the complete exhaustion and emotion roller coaster I am destined to be on from lack of sleep!!! Thank you to all those guys that talked me into staying in Portland and checking out the movie, it will go down as one of those nights that reminds me to go with the flow and live it up!!!!

Kick Ball!!!

Oh man I have joined a kickball league in Portland and it is 100% awesomeness!!! It includes a little bit of athletic ability, lots of teamwork and camaraderie, and even more BEER!!! We can even drink ON the field!!! So far we have a 2-2 record which for an almost entirely rookie team (with exception to our capitan) is not to shabby!!! If you are ever in Portland on a Thursday come check us out! This Saturday is our mid-season mixer, it is going to be awesome.....




I have also enclosed some pics from our outings at the bar!!!

It is so much fun even the pregnant girls get down!!!

The team (part of it atleast) after our first game, by this time we didn't care that we lost!!

Fruits & Veggies vs. Meat & Pies

Well as some of you may already know I have decided to do a 3 day strict fruit and veggie detox. After three days I can start implementing fish, brown rice, and oatmeal. After that I can start introducing things as I want them. I just felt that my diet wasn't what it should be and it was time to change things up and clean things out. So currently I am in day two!!! I am experiencing a few head aches which my Doctor warned me about, but also a lot of food cravings!!! Mostly I am craving sushi probably because I know I am going to go hit that up as soon as I can eat fish!!! But I was looking at my netflix movie list and read about a movie that had Kevin Bacon in it, so I started craving bacon, this morning I woke up craving a big hunk of cheese!! Don't get me wrong I am enjoying the fruits & veggies (eating a delicious pear right now) but they are not what I would consider a meal. For dinner last night I had a plum, and a bowl of edemame, and for dessert was watermelon, a delicious meal and thanks to the nalgene of water I drank with it I was full. I am hoping that the cravings will start to subside once I can eat more proteins and whole wheats. So I just have to remind myself, only one more day to go!!!