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so a while back... picture 137, i had finished a baby blanket for my older brother's baby. well, we're just waiting for the baby to get here. the doctors told them mid-september then pushed it back to late september. there's today and tomorrow left of september and so far, no baby yet.

anyway, when we came back from our trip and were driving home from phoenix, we stopped in gallup and had lunch with him and his family. we were talking about the baby and he mentioned something about how the doctors still weren't sure if it was a girl or not. i noticed his girlfriend looked down when he mentioned it and didn't contribute anything to the conversation. i think he was grasping at straws because he wanted another boy. i don't think he'd know what to do with a daughter.

so anyway, he was saying how he didn't want to have anything pink for her if it was a girl and how he was going to set up screening at the door and not allow anything pink in the house. at this point i was like "oh crap." the blanket that i had made was mostly pink.

so when we got home, i started on another blanket. finished it yesterday. it's so pretty and the colors work ot perfectly. it's a darker pink- almost a fuschia, and white, and soft yellow. i think this would be a little more appropriate for them.

i should have taken a picture of the blanket but i thought the bag was super cute.



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this sucks. the button popped off from my black flats. just last week, the identical white pair did the same thing. and those are the shoes i wear all the time! boooo!

johnathan took me shoe shopping the day after this happened but i didnt want another pair. well.... i do but i dont want to have to look for them. i think i'm just being lazy but these were already broken in. i cant wear them without the button across it because they just flop off my feet.

ugh.



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it's been raining here lately. it's all starting to dry up though. boo! but i heard on the news last night that there's a cold front moving down from canada which should bring some more moisture to us. not much since it's an el nina season but some thundershowers.

anyway, more proof that those rascally raccoons are still looking for a free handout. not here anymore, suckas!



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i was up on campus the other day for rehearsals. orginally, these rehearsals were suppose to be monday mornings. in all the years that i've been in dance comotion, i've never had rehearsals on the weekend. but i really wanted to be in this dance and if it meant driving up to durango on saturday mornings, then so be it.

anyway, i was leaving rehearsals when i saw this van. isn't that interesting? i mean, forget for the moment that it's grafitti and look at it as art. some artist put the time and effort into putting this on his canvas- which happened to be a van. 



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college football season is here. the only reason why i know this is because my dad bought this ridiculous red cowboy hat for it. if you, by some very rare chance, didn't know, my dad is a nebraska huskers fan. he played football for the university of nebraska when he was in college. he actually went to one of the bowls, too!

anyway, on top of seeing him wear his bright red cowboy hat out in public, he has his tv blaring the football game. just in case i already didn't know it's football season. 

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aww yes, cinnamon rolls. they were alright. we usually get cinnamon rolls from albertson's in farmington when they have like a six pack for a buck. they haven't had any the few times we've been there lately. we ended up getting it out of a pillsbury thing this time around.

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so it's gonna be the 5th week of classes already! i cant believe that! then it's 9 more weeks and the semester is over.

school, this second time around, feels so different from the first time. i dont think that it's the school that's so much different than it is me. is it becuase i'm more mature, more grown up? *scoff* probably not but it's something that's different and i'm thinking it's something to do with me.

aaaaanyway, it rained so much yesterday. it was gorgeous and it smelled soooooo good. colorado is so pretty when it rains. being on campus is like being in a different world.

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so johnathan was bringing in groceries for my dad. well... he attempted to bring in groceries from the trunk of my dad's car. what really happened was be broke the key off in the lock. so he was outside forever trying to get into the trunk cuz my dad has some frozen foods back there. he was like tearing the back seat apart like a raccoon in search of trash!

i went outside to help but it was getting pretty physical out there and i started to head back in when i noticed this lone moth sitting just as pretty as you please by the porch light.

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i love it when it rains. no matter the season!



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we got this spoon when we were in cardiff, wales. i guess wales is pretty well known for their love spoons. the story is that back in the day, when a man wanted to court a woman, he carved her a spoon. depending on how big the spoon was and how intracately carved showed how much he was interested in courting her. if the woman accepted his spoon when he offered it to her, they pretty much got married after that.

there were some really huge spoons and some very awesome ones. we chose this one because the horseshoe of course represents luck but also happiness. the two hearts mean we feel the same about eachothre and they beat in tune. the celtic knot means 'forever' and unending happiness.



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there was this old truck show going on across the river yesterday and today. i'd forgotten about it yesterday and we slept practically the whole day away today. we got there just before everyone was leaving. johnathan is like obsessed with the old ford apaches. i know he wants one really bad. there was one for sale a few weeks ago. the guy wanted so much for it or a trade on a motorcycle. i think if we had a motorcycle johnathan would have thrown it at the man and taken off with the truck.

anyway, this was my fav pic of them all today. i like to think it was more or less the atmosphere of the truck show.

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we were digging through the closet to get my clarinet out. i dont know why but my instrument popped into my head the other day and i just felt like i should start practicing on it again. it's not as hard as i remember it being.

anyway, we found a couple of stuffed animals. tons from valentine's day. it seems like johnathan has bought me a stuffed animal every v-day.

this little guy is my favorite though. i had just gotten two of my wisdom teeth pulled and johnathan was taking me home. we had to stop at walmart to get the pain med prescription filled. i was out of it still (i didn't have a very good reaction to the anasthetic) and passed out in the car. he found this little pink lamb while waiting for the meds. this little guy helped me through all the throwing up and nastiness. ugh, it was miserable and so gross. even now it makes my tummy feel yucky thinking about it.

i was so into the gatorade rain strawberry kiwi then. johnathan bought me a few bottles to comfort me. i drank it but after i healed up i could not drink it again. every time i tasted it, i started gagging. guess it reminded me too much of that time.

johnathan asked me if i was going to give my lamb-y to our baby when we have one. hell no. lamb-y is MINE!

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look at this cool guy. it was parked next to me as i was leaving campus. not everyone is born to be wild but this definitely was.

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we have a bunch of deer that live down here with us. they wonder back and forth between ours and our neighbor's property. anyway, me and roxy were in the kitchen making dinner when we heard noise coming in through the window from the backyard. we looked and it was a baby and mama deer. i grabbed my camera and we headed outside but dang roxy made so much noise she scared them off.

i happened to glance up and saw the leaves changing. not only that but the sun was setting and it made the leaves look like they were on fire. it was gorgeous and only happened for like less than a minute. so lucky to have been there to see it. if i had been even 30 seconds later, i would have missed it!

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i guess i can't ignore it anymore. fall is arriving. fall is okay. winter... BOOOOO!

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so the "candyman" jazz piece i'm in requires that we dance in heels. nice. the downside: i haven't worn heels since may. since i've been back in school, i've been opting for comfort over fashion. it's been flats and sneakers for me lately. these would normally be no problem. except a few weeks ago a wore a pair of my lowest heels and my feet were aching like a mofo that night! i couldn't believe it! and those were the heels i wore to work when i knew i'd be doing a lot fo walking!

my mission is to get my feet used to heels again.

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i took soooo many pictures on our trip, it's ridiculous! i'm still working on getting them into a photo album. since they don't make albums large enough to hold all the pictures i took and i didn't want to have like 5 different albums, i got one of those albums with the sticky pages and you can set your own pictures in them.

it's taking me way too long to get it all done.

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at auditions for dance comotion. i got into every piece that i auditioned for. soooo super excited for it. i'm doing my bellydance piece, i'm also in a modern contemporary piece, a sassy jazz piece to christina aguilera's "candyman". i'm also doing a jazz class with san juan college that does a free performance in november.

i'm so excited for this semester full of dance!

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as we were getting ready to head into town, i snapped a quick pic of the feather hanging off my review mirror in my truck.

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i got out of class and was walking back allllll the way across campus to my car when i saw this. i can't believe this is already happening! NOOOOO! don't leave me summer!! i neeeeed you.

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this was at a choreographer's meeting for dance comotion. i'm choreographing again this semester but i have a really good friend who is an amazing dancer helping me co-choreograph. i'm also in several other piece which i'm totally ecstatic about!

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okay, so i was being super lazy this night that i couldn't be bothered to take a picture of anything but what was right in front of me. it's not even a very good picture to speak of. i mean, it's a little out of focus and whatnot but... that was me that night.

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i'm taking business stats this semester. two hours of business stats followed directly by two hours of financial accounting. i also have a three hour legal environments of business class. can you say dry?

anyway, both my stats and my accounting class required a graphing calculator that i had to go spend $80 on one. this was the most fun it afforded me...

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ugh, so my computer got a virus. several, in fact. i have no one to blame but myself! the anti-virus software that was installed in my computer ended in may and i didn't buy another one. i thought about it on several occasions but just didnt do it. i paid for it. one hundred times over, i paid for it.

i had to take my computer to bestbuy geek squad and they had it for about two weeks. they removed 9 virus's from it. then one of the memory rams failed and they had to replace that. my computer is a whole lot faster but for $300 total it better compete with nasa, damn it!

anyway, that's why i hadn't updated in 2 weeks. i have an anti-virus software installed now, so hopefully we're all good. learned my lesson the hard way. spend $20 on anti-virus software for the year or get a couple of really damaging virus's in a couple of months that require $300 to fix.

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i think this is the only gnome i have in our yard. i had to make it a happy gnome and i was lucky enough to find one reading! most gnomes i find are a little on the creepy side.

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so right after i got my "johnathan" tattoo, i wanted to go right back and get another one! i gave it almost a year to think about what i wanted and where i wanted my next tattoo. i didn't want to have tattoo-er's regret like i've semi-had with my very first one.

my advice for getting a tattoo: know exactly what you want before even stepping foot in a tattoo parlor. with my first tattoo, all i wanted was a tattoo. so i went with a friend to the place in aztec n picked it out right on the spot. i didn't have time to re-think it becuase they did it right there on the spot.

there are times when i almost wish i didn't get it (it's the chinese character for "love" on my spine in the middle of my back). only because i could have used that space in another way. i only plan on getting tattoos on my back where i can cover them up. i have nothing against full sleeve tattoos, in fact, i love them. but i plan on working in an environment that requires professionalism. not that you can't be professional and still have tattoos but lots of places still frown upon that. i think it's starting to change but it's changing too slowly for me.

anyway, here are my new tattoos. the two sparrows represent "love" and "freedom". together they represent for me having the ultimate freedom in being secure in the love you share with someone.

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i got this fairy when we were in york, england. we were browsing around in a few shops down shambles street when i saw this.

and as you all know, i love fairies and had to have it. we bought so much stuff on vacation that it was a pain to pack it all up and bring it back. our last night in london, we realized that we were gonna need another bag. i wanted to just get one of the big bags they sell to tourists at the souvenirs shop but johnathan vetoed that idea. instead, we wondered up and down all these streets near our hotel trying to find a duffel bag type thing. we ended up in this hardware shop and got ripped off on an electrician's bag. johnathan put all his clothes in the electrician's bag and we put our souvenirs in his duffel bag.

he said he'd use the bag when we got home but i have an inkling it's just sitting in the shed now.

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i knew when we went to ireland that i wanted something nice, like a piece of jewelry. i didn't know exactly what i wanted but i knew i'd know when i saw it.

i think we were in dublin, strolling down one of the pedestrian street full of shops when i saw this in a window. actually, there was a whole set- the necklace, ring, and earrings. i ended up getting the ring and necklace. they only had a small size ring that fit on my pinky and a larger one that fit on my middle finger. i don't wear rings on either finger but i opted for the larger one.

i dropped it off at the jewelers the other day to have it sized down. picked it up today. omg, i love it soooooo much! ♥ it's sterling silver, the green stone is connemara marble which is only found in western ireland. it's surrounded by marquisite and is so gorgeous i can't believe i found it!

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so kmart had some pretty garden stuff this year. i hate to say this but kmart is probably more expensive than walmart now. now i have to wait all summer and into the beginning of fall before they're garden stuff gets marked down enough on clearance for me to spend the money on it.

found this for $8, the orginal price was $30.

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so i had to go to walmart and pick up a calculator for school. i was walking through the parking lot when i saw this navajo grandma trying to get out of the backseat of a car. she was having trouble so i stopped and helped her. i was helping her get out of the car the same way i used to help my grandma. she was holding my hand for a while to steady herself and i swear her hand felt just like my grandma's.

in that moment, out of nowhere it hit me. i missed my grandma so much it hurt. i started to tear up and i couldnt have spoken to save my life. she didn't say anything and i didn't say anything. she steadied herself and i walked away. i was in such a fog for the next 20 minutes, i have no idea what i did.

i got home and started emptying out jewelry boxes and came across these necklaces. my grandma gave me these when i was still a teenager. i've never worn them because they were too important to me to ruin.