Of fire & rain

The weather has been turbulent in recent days and I love it.
The cold sting of the wind, the beat of rain on my face and neck. It thrills me.
Rain is one of my favorite things.
People either hate it or love it. And I can honestly confess that I love it.

Think of the first rain of the season.
The earth seems to beg for it and rejoice when it comes. I feel like everything around me becomes excited when the first drops fall. The rain gives back life.
That's what I love about it.
The day after a good rain is glorious to me as well.
The sky has been washed clean, the soil is rich and colors seem to explode.
The world is vibrant and breathes clear.

There's nothing like a good rain.

Party's over folks

My holidays were a amazing! How was your's?

My sister Vanessa from Austin, Tx and her boyfriend Ryan flew out and have been staying with us. My brother Ben drove from Calabasas, my aunt fmor Washington made her way down and my cousin Meryl from Las Vegas came out.

I love having all of the family together.

My uncle and his fiance came as well with her daughter, Bri. And of course, in tow, was baby cousin Brooklyn Nicole who will be able to join in the festivities as soon as she's born in February. It was the first time I saw Kelly since she found out she was pregnant and she's just about ready to have Brooklyn. Just a little bit longer to wait. I'm so excited.

AS we do every year, my family did secret santa and white elephant gifts. We actually, didn't have a typical Christmas this year. We celebrate the 29th instead of the traditional 25th.
Why you ask? My aunt and my cousin from Vegas coudn't make it out till then and because they were a part of the Secret Santa we had to wait for them. I didn't mind at all. It felt like Christmas all the same.

Unfortunately I have no pictures to share....poo. I didn't have my camera on hand. But I found some pictures on the gifts I got.

Ryan was my secret santa and boy did he spoil me.

He got me a Lauren-Vintage Hobo clutch


a lovely Round About Roxy scarf
And I got a ton of Bare Minerals eye make up from Ryan. So pretty. love them <3

School started today. I'm taking an online math class for winter session. yay....

ta-ta for now loveys

Holy Geez...

Is it already the end of the semester?

Unbe-freakin-lievable!

I have five finals this week
monday- Intro to journalism final
Geology lecture
Tuesday-Geology lab
Wednesday- Political Science(American Goverment) paper is due
Friday- Mass media final

sweet yea? NOT

I want this week to be over and done!
After this week though, the crazy does not end.
Saturday- work, go to house of location for bridal shower ( I helped plan a bridal shower for my Tawney whos getting married in May) try on bridemaid dress, bake for bridal shower
Sunday- work, get food for bridal shower, set up for bridal shower, bridal shower, clean after shower, then church)

Yay!
I think it would be nice being a planner for parties and such. Planning the bridal shower was actually kinda fun! It was funny that I ended up doing it cause Im not the maid of honor. But she goes to school in Washinton and it seemed logical to ask the other bridesmaid who is local (me).
I deisigned the invites, planned a menu, making two desserts for the shower and am doing a veggie tray.

I dont want to do the normal veggie tray, I want to try somethign different. any suggestions?

OK.....write now I should be studying for tomorrow mornings final but here I am wasting precious brain cramming time!

Ta-da my dears!

Ages

It has been ages since I have written.

I have super busy with school, work and life in general.
I am loving my new job! It's chill and I have made good friends with my co-workers. God has blessed me so.
The best part about my job is making drinks. It is a blast and a breeze. It was the most intimidating part when I started.
Next week they'll have me work a shift ALONE. They've had me working with another person but I suppose they feel ready to set me free. I'm nervous but excited.

Hope your Thanksgiving was awesome.
Mine was fantastic! My family and I went to San Diego and spent the holiday with my dad's brother and his family and friends. I was so beat after that day. We left my house at around 6 a.m. Thursday and literally cooked, cleaned and what not till dinner was done at 4 p.m. But so worth the hard work and wait. The traditional Thanksgiving dinner was delectable. Then the dessert spread was outrageous!
Pumpkin pie, Cinnamon apple parfait, carrot cake, chocolate/ walnut cookie bar, and lastly a chocolate flan cake.
I seriously thought I wouldn't eat for a week.
Now that the holiday is over, it's back to reality.
I have two stories to revise, 5 pages to design, a paper to write, and a research paper to revise. Thankfully its not all due monday. but It all needs to be done by wednesday.

My Buble Bubble

I can't get enough of sweet Michael Buble. Not only does he have a voice that will make any girl's heart take flight but he looks so charming and is probably a blast and a lot fun to be with. He is one of those people I'd love to be friends with.

New song from his latest album Crazy Love. Seriously one of the cutest songs and videos ever. I have it on repeat on Youtube for I do not own the album but want to. He's so precious at 1:20.

One of the greatest covers ever done. He sounds better than Maroon 5, I think.

He does Frank Sinatra so well.

Bean Bean

I'm employed now! I'm a barista at a local shop!
I'm super excited. I start tomorrow. Wish me luck!

I've become Super busy within like a day. As features editor of my campus paper, I have stories to edit, assist. editors to track down so they can turn in stories, pages to design and so on and so forth. Also classes have tackled me with tons of work.
Now I actually have work to go work at. It's all come to me so suddenly. No time to ease into into and become accustomed.
So, it the way of life I suppose.

Purest

THEE CUTEST PROPOSAL EVER!
The before the proposal, the proposal, the post-proposal and people's reactions!
SO COOL!