Monday, June 29, 2009

Flying high

Finally! They are here!
My belated debriefing of my trip to the East Coast.
As you may know, I went to Connecticut in May for my cousin Alyssa's graduation from the Coast Guard Academy.
And I have for you here pictures from my travels to Connecticut!
Shot from the airplane. Sweet.



They call this the "parade." Its a drill where the stand with their company and they present the colors and fire the cannons! Its really cool to watch.



Alyssa with her mom and brother Bradley at graduation. She is now Ensign Alyssa Van Delden!



The graduation ceremony. The Secretary of Homeland Security was their speaker.




Got to see my cousin, Christine's baby, Devin. SOO adorable and soo happy.





Took a train to the Big Apple!
You don't realize how crazy it is until you're there. And you literally have to walk everywhere.
This is Times Square.
Saw the huge Toys R' Us store
Trump Tower.
Went to Tiffany Co.
Fifth Avenue.



Visited the Famous Central Park. Another place you don't realize the hugeness of size. But it definitely grand!



Drove to Boston with my cousin Pierre and Brad and sister Ingrid. I'm pretty sure I definitely want to live here. All of the buildings are brick and there's a lovely harbor.



*(from left) Bradley, me, Pierre at the harbor in Boston!




Made a stop in New Haven and fell in love with Yale. If I'm going to grad school, it would be here or NYU. Vanessa almost went here....<3



I'm pretty sure this is the Sterling Memorial library at Yale. There is gorgeous architecture here. There's a hallway in this library that had pillars so intricately carved I could study them forever. Oh, and the stain glass windows! Drool...



Our last visit for the trip was Newport, Rhode Island. We did the mansion walk. If you have never heard of this, there's a path you can walk long the cliff in Newport and along these cliffs are huge, amazing, stunning mansions. NAY! Castles!



This house left me breathless. For sure my favorite from the ones I was able to see. We didn't do the whole walk because its actually really long and it started to rain. I was awestruck when I saw this house. First off, it had a gorgeous tall rod-ironed fence for an entrance with brick pillars. There was a perfectly tended to garden and shrubs surround the perimeter of the property. Oh to be wealthy...


Well, that concludes a summary of my trip to the east coast. Very much in love with it. My kinda environment. I loved that all the houses on the eastern coast were so different and seemed to hold a piece of our country's history in its very foundation, unlike the cookie-cutter houses here in California. :(

I'd love to go back soon and spend more time in New York and Boston and visit the surroundings states. Hope you enjoyed and again my apologies for taking so long to post these.



Thursday, June 25, 2009

Legacy that will NEVER die



Honestly, I'm still in shock and disbelief.

I never thought Michael Jackson would die in this decade or the next 3 at least. It is such a tragedy.


The King Of Pop,
however, will never die completely. He lives continuously through his music and the incredible dance moves he created. He will be at every wedding reception, proms and club.
My prayers are with his loved ones.


STOMP on de replay

I adore this song
Update:
SO the monster on my eye is almost gone. A very speedy recovery considering these things could take forever to heal since there isn't much blood flow to the bottom of the eye, thus decreasing a quick recovery time. According to my doctor(very awesome guy), he said my immune system has been fighting my allergies to cats for so long with out me knowing it, that its slowing becoming weak making it harder for it to fight ailments.
As a result, the cats are completely banned from my room and have made a progressive tranistion to being full outside cats to the exception that they eat and drink in our weight room via kitty door. I can't even touch them for a long time.
I hate that I can't do that. I love my kittys so much and didn't even know I was allergic to them until about a year ago. But my rehabilitation has been eased by a few days away from the house when I went on vacation and now I'm staying at aunt's because I'm housesitting for her. She's in Alaska taking my cousin Alyssa, from the Coast Guard, up there. Alyssa just graduated and is now stationed in Kodiak for the next two years.
I also had some blood work done while at the doctor's and found that I'm slightly anemic, am low in phosphorus and my cholesterol is VERY low. He wants my cholesterol to go up a bit to help my anemia and that means eating FATTIER FOODS! yay! haha
Fatty foods in a healthy sense, which includes more meat( which I don't eat much of), dark greens like spinach and broccoli, and oils. For phosphorus, I'm taking calcium magnesium and something he made. They are awful tasting stuff. BLECH...
But I'm glad I finally have a answer to so many years of infliction. Just avoid that cats and take care of my immune system. :)

PS I am now 20 and I feel I'm not ready to let go of my teen years. My excuse for reckless behavior has gone.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Pour 'em out and pop 'em

11 pills before bed + twice already today, being taken since Sunday (3x throughout the day)= 99 pills consumed.
I do not have a drug problem.
I have either a stye or a chalazion on my eye. Its pretty much a clogged eyelash follicle or pore. It is pretty gnarly. I'll spare you looking at a picture of it. I have had it since....(backtracking)...last wed or thursday. And it seems to persist and ruin my self-esteem and ability to want to go out in public.
For treatment, I resolved to home remedies My dad got the whole family hooked on homeopathic medicine so we do all we can to stay away from common practice medicine and use things such as herbs and vitamins to solve our health woes.
When, I first got this "mutation", as I like to call it, I used stye eyedrops and diluted echinacea that i rubbed around my eye with a Q-tip. I moved to putting a warm compressant on it every now and again. That didn't seem to do much so I stopped. I also took echinacea and golden seal in capsule form. I stopped using the echinacea on my eye and used some drops my sister got from our doctor for the cataract-thing on her eye to lubricate it and keep it from irritating the rest of her eye. I had to stop the drops all together either saturday or sunday because my eye felt like I had been swimming in a swimming pool charged with chlorine.
During all of this the growth on my eye has gotten bigger, redder, and kinda hard.
If this is grossing you out, I encourage you to not read any further.
It is on my bottom lid, along my lash line. Tonight, the figure of it is that of those miniture jawbreaker candies but not the tiny ones...one up them.
SUnday, my dad advised me to take a bunch of supplements to help fight this thing.
Bromagest for something. Allergy max, which has some natural antibiotics in it, Boswellia for pain, yes there is some burning and hurting, vitamin d for something, vitamin c for obviously reasons, vitamin e to help digest all of these pills smoothly, an inflammatory mix to ease the inflammation and a bunch of other stuff.
heres my nightly ritual
1. as done throughout the day, put warm compressant on eye for a few minutes
2. get pills out
3. mix vitamin c powder and inflammation tonic together
4. take all of 11 pills with tonic
5. rest easy
It seems to help I guess, the mass isn't any bigger and seems to be coming to the end of its eternal course (oxymoron?).
But I am going to our homeopathic doctor tomorrow to see what he thinks and to see if he can speed up the process being that I have to go to my sister's HS grad on thursday and EVERYONE i know will be there.

wish me luck and speedy recovery.
a toast to ur own health

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Taste the Rainbow!!


I almost peed my pants when I saw this! I got so excited and think its absolutely AWESOME!!!
Two Words:
RAINBOW CAKE

check it out

Saturday, June 6, 2009

I'm in LOVE!!

I have found some amazing blogs and my search for the most awesome isn't over.

I love fashion and design:
this is Molly and Lauren's Blog. I went to high school with these fashion lovers. Love this.































I love this girl's style.




For those who don't know me. I f-ing love baking and anything that has to do with baking. I love the artistry and sweet loving that goes into it:

SO, I'm not vegan but this girl makes being a vegan look delish!!




















Just love this site














I couldn't have said it better myself


I think cupcakes are one of the cutest and sweetest things invented


And lastly,
I secretly want to be a wedding planner. But this girl has it all made out just from learning experience. Nessa, found her and I'm sure is taking some notes ;)

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Our time was short but Epic

so Jaden is gone. I woke up this morning to some very loud chirping. i though it was the birds outside btu nope it was sweet lil Jaden. so i opened his box and tried to give him water...nothing
tried to give him some millet...nothing. But he tried to jump out of the box.
I decided to take him out in my backyard and see what he was doing....he hopped right out of the box and explored around, chirping while he did. Seemed like he was calling for help cause when i went to put him back in the box and screeched and squacked and threatened to bite me. He held his mouth agape...in a defensive position. I decided to leave him but keep an eye..in case i needed to intervene on his behalf. He stayed still unless i backed away from him. Then he would come out from hiding, hopping, chirping.

I discovered he is a mocking bird. Cause I heard another, more mature chirp while he called. An adult mocking bird flew over, looking for him, or wondering where his chirp was coming from. Jaden kept close to the house walls...and the adult wouldnt come near the house. SO they were left waiting for the other. I slowly increased my distance between myself and Jaden, hoping that if i was far away he and the adult would find each other and be on their way. I ended up back in the house and before I knew it I couldnt find Jaden.....

SO thats that. I will miss his little angry face

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Not so different




This is Jaden. I found him today at my aunt's house. Well, actually her dog Dixie found him. But I saved him and have taken him home to care for him. He's definitely not a baby baby bird but he looks pretty young still. He let me pick him up no fuss or mess (by mess i mean poo). He's sleeping in my room in a shoe box and a lil bed made of a flet scarf I cut for him. :)
I gave him water and put some bird seed in his box.


If hasn't eaten any by the morning, Ill have to force feed him or go to the pet store to buy meal worms....mmmmm

OH the memories I had as a child. We rescued a bird when i was little. The legendary Buttercup. The baby bird who would jump on the edge o the basket once it was opened, excitingly waiting for her meal, hand-fed to her. The flying lessons........oh baby

So, my new project, so to speak, raising a baby bird :) I can feel my maternal instinct kicking in...haha

Monday, June 1, 2009

Picking up

I realize i havent posted pictured form my recent adventure but Im doing some editing on them to make them look a bit cooler. I feel like lots has happened since I have returned to home base. For one, I have been able to hang out with my friends who are out for he summer! thank Jesus. I have been in dire need of social interaction with people I have history with!! yes!
I had a picnic with my girls, Tawney, Alissa, and Brooke last week.
Saturday, I went ice skating with Andrew and Tawney. Gosh that was something. I haven' t ice skated much in my life. 3 times tops. I was sooo freaked out when i stepped out onto the ice. My dear friends had to hand hold me for a while so I wouldnt accidentally kill myself. But by the end I was by myself, able to skate and go kinda fast. It was seriously like learning how to walk. I felt so retarded. haha
Last Night, I played softball with my young adults group at church and that was a lot of fun! it was just a crazy night and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Today, My mom and I picked Ingrid up from school and took her to Kola radio station ( 99.9 fm) where she picked up her $1000 prize check. She won a contest where she had to take a picture in front of the Ontario Auto Center sign with a creative spin. It was such a cute picture.
It seems that prize winning runs in the family. You wouldn't believe how many times my mom has won a random selection contest or raffle. RIDICULOUS. Ingrid inherited the luck I suppose.
Classes are almost over and, I know everyone says this, I CANT WAIT. I seriously can't though. Not only cause I'll have the freedom and sweetness of summer but I don't have to go to my classes anymore. I mean, they were so boring for me this semester. They were just too easy. I feel like i haven't learned anything new this semester. But Im super excited for the fall schedule. I plan on making it as exciting and as challenging as ever!

Well, just an update and a reminder I'm still alive and kicking it! haha I will edit pics quickly and post soon!! THATS A PROMISE!!

also, I really want to start up some sewing projects. My sister, nessa, challenged me to to the fat fabric swap thing. I think Im gonna do it. Although I dont really know how to quilt but I will teach myself. yay!
ill be posting soon! have a super fantastic day!!