Thank Goodness.

things have been going up since the first football game. i cant even explain how upset i was at our offensive line when we played BYU. the games are still fun (even when it was raining) and i have enjoyed seeing some friends that i dont see very often. im still worried about miami this saturday though! scream loud and proud callie!

i cannot wait until the next home game! laura will be here!!!!!!

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Autumn...

...is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

last friday morning on my drive to school there were a bunch of smashed pumpkins covering a small part of the highway. i usually dont like smashed pumpkins, but this time it made me happy. happy because it reminded me that it is almost my favorite month. october! dont get me wrong, i love the summer and the spring (definitely not the winter. i think i only own two long sleeved shirts) but there is something about october that i just find refreshing.


here are a few reasons why i love the coming month...

i just love the smell of the crisp air and the sound of leaves crunching under your feet.

i love how i can wear my hair down and not have it make me feel one hundred times hotter.

i love how it brings me back to my childhood when i would make extravagant leaf homes using chicken wire so that they could have a ceiling and walls and how i would be comfortable sitting inside my creation all day with my pet ducks.

i love halloween. the candy. the costumes. i long for an excuse to still trick-or-treat.

i love carving pumpkins.

i love it when the leaves begin to change color.

i love how i will soon be wearing my toms everyday.

i love being able to have every door and window open to let the natural breeze blow through.

i love burning oils and candles that have fall/winter scents because they warm up any space. anything spiced, cinnamon, pumpkin or even a mixture of them. my favorite right now is called spice market.

edit: tracy reminded me, how did i ever forget? its also my birthday! and who doesnt love their birthday?!

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I Really Do

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i saw this image and just knew that it was about callie!
at this very moment. callie is almost a princess. working in the magical world of disney world. surrounded by princes and princesses. one prince is with her all the time! i think the only thing she needs is a princess dress. if i had to pick which disney princess callie would be, i would choose cinderella. i dont know why. callie would never get chores done. even if she really wanted to go to a ball. and i dont think she would like mice and rats following her around, even if they were helpful enough to make a dress for her. but there is still something that strongly tugs at me saying that callie is cinderella. i just cant place my finger on it.

if callie and i lived together, i wouldnt mind living in a room exactly like this one. it feels very magical to me. i like magical things.

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Some Things I Want To Do

sometimes i feel like i dream too much. im not talking about sleep dreaming. (although the other night i had what felt like thousands of dreams. one of which i was able to fly into the rings of saturn. it was pretty amazing.) im talking about daydreaming. or having dreams/desires to do things or live in ways that may or may not be possible. at times i also find myself wondering if it would have been wiser of me to go into a field that embraces dreaming and creativity more. maybe thats why i like pediatrics. nothing is set in stone and you have to experiment a lot. or at least do research to find out what other people have experimented with that achieved positive results. random fact: i dont enjoy using only one side of my brain. anyway, here are some things that i have been dreaming of. when i found these images on i just knew i needed to make them become real. and not just a posing of real. i mean a truly real and amazing experience. an ethereal experience. (one of my new favorite words)

when i was younger i went to kanakuk. that is the only time i have slept in a teepee. i think it would be fun to make one out of sheets in the backyard and have tribal dances, play musical beer bottles or really just do whatever fancies us at the time. will it happen? i sure hope so. just once this cold front goes away. sleeping outside when its 50 degrees sounds miserable to me. and yes, i feel that costumes must be involved.

does this just not look magical? i love it. one day i may try and recreate.

images via weheartit

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Quarter Of A Century

brad and kelly are now 25! well, kelly will be later this week. i cant believe that it was two years ago that we made brad a seven years til 30 cake and that now, in less than a month and a half, it will be my seven years til 30! wow. time flies.

kelly came down for celebrations and we had so much fun! seriously. brad needs to find his camera cord. i think i took some amazing photos! and brad did too. im just clearly not a model.

i made two desserts for this celebration. oreo dots and pomegranate squares. both were very delish!

remember when i tried to make bite sized desserts back in august? well, i made them again. this time they were oreo dots and they came out much better! i feel like i could be proud displaying this batch.

i could have presented these in a better way, but i was enjoying eating too much.
after the game, brad, kelly and i went to eat the yummiest food ever at tarahumaras! we stuffed our faces soo much that kelly and i thought we were going to vomit for an extended amount of time and had to take a nap to try and "work it off". after our nap, brad woke us up at about 11:20, we were still so stuffed that we couldnt even bring ourselves to put even the tiniest cocktail into our stomachs before we ventured out to opies.

opies was a bit weird this time, but still lots of fun! we walked in and one of the bouncers kept asking us where everyone else was. i dont think any of us recognized him, but he sure recognized us! he seemed a bit disappointed that we only brought four people. after he pointed it out to us, we were a bit disappointed as well. but we made the best of it, and hit the dance floor! brad didnt even knock a drink all over someone this time! there was also no one on the disco side. it was us and this other guy who was dancing with himself. dancing robot type of dances like i have never seen before. we even missed thriller! the dj kept talking to us about it. we contemplated trying to get the rap side to play it, but for some reason decided against that idea. also, opie kept sticking his tongue out at me. i was very confused and unsure what he meant by that gesture. he didnt do it to anyone else.is it sad that everyone thought we were really drunk when in reality we hadnt had a drink since dinner and therefore were completely sober? i like to think that we are just fun.

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Alice In Wonderland

i am extremely extremely excited about the tim burton alice in wonderland! i was browsing we heart it and came across this cute little guy and it made me even more excited!i have also been planning on being the caterpillar from alice in wonderland for halloween so it made me want to try and get some awesome ideas for my costume. unfortunately, nothing seemed to be very inspiring to me and i still have the same ideas in my mind that i started out with. not that it is a bad thing, i have just been having a hard time thinking more outside of the box for this endeavor.

however, there were a few things that i found that made me extraordinarily happy that i would love to share with you. i feel like these images inspired me, just not in the area of my costume. an exception to that would be this first image. its still a bit inspiring in the costume area as well.

everyone needs a bit of sparkle in their life.

i have been keeping my eyes open for beautiful and colorful bottles i could use as vases. i just wish i had somewhere to put them!

i love decorating.

for those of you who didnt know, i absolutely love balloons (although im not really enjoying the latex smell that is filling the halls of school this week because of rush week)! one of my dreams is to float away holding a bunch of them. and for this reason, brig told me i needed to see up. i did see it, and i must say, she was very right! it was filled with three of my all time favorite things for the entire movie! 1. floating away by balloons (beautifully colored ones). 2. the amazonian jungle 3. beautiful exotic birds (the one in the movie reminded me of a colorful version of the lesser florican)

if anyone wants to play with bubbles with me sometime, i have quite a few bottles/containers (whatever you want to call them) in my closet just waiting to be enjoyed!

i love each and every one of these things. my goal is to incorporate them into my life more. i think its very possible.

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Willow Trees

do you like them? i think they can be really magical and filled with endless possibilities!





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Seat Positions

we have designated seats in brads car. we didnt plan for this to happen. it just kind of became. this was realized based on these two pictures. one being taken while going home after a party and one being when we were heading to the warren to see final destination 3D. (i wouldnt recommend that movie. it freaks me out when sharp objects fly into my face.)

yes, she did fishhook him.

and that is one of the infamous ogie dogs/any animal that you desire.

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Dark Chocolate

remember when i talked about how tracy and i really want to try those dark chocolate reeses? well, we still have yet to do so! i feel like target is hating on my junk food desires because they didnt even have jalapeno cheetos when i went the other day! i mean seriously, cristina cant be the one who brings the yummy snacks everyday! and speaking of wanting those reeses, here is our saddness that we cant find them.

but we are still happy because we have so much fun all the time!
we also made it to the last twilight series show a few weekends ago. it was very enjoyable.

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Creations!

i feel like i have been extremely behind in blogging, so here are some creations that i have made in the past few weeks! i am very excited about each of them! lets start from first to last...

about a bit over a year ago when i bought my vegan cupcake book, i told cristina that i really wanted to start a cupcake club. it would start with just the two of us and then we would open it up to others once we decided what day would work the best for us and figured out more of the details. well, one of the details was that we needed shirts! i mean, what kind of club doesnt have shirts?!!? needless to say, a shirt company will obviously not print only two shirts, so the project was put on the backburner for quite some time. thanks to tracys creativeness with felt, i figured out the perfect idea for our club shirts! here is one of them. i made one for me and one for cristina and i still have another design to make for each of us. now all we have to do is wait for endo to be over so that we will have time to bake!

i have been wanting to make a fabric ball and knot necklace since before the end of finals. well, i finally made one! and right in time for football season! now, all we have to do is get our offensive line to learn how to play football. seriously, what happened to them, besides all the guys with experience leaving?!

i also made my first skirt ever and plan on wearing it for the football game tomorrow! it is supposed to rain so i cant decide if i should still wear it. but i think i will because i am so excited about it! and what would i wear if i didnt wear it? jeans in the rain...not a fun experience. my oklahoma t shirt dress......the same as the skirt. my other red dress with white on the top and a black band on the bottom....the same as the skirt. so the options are: my skirt that i love and really want to wear, or my very short victorias secret "athletic?" shorts. i think i will be going with my skirt. im glad that it has some pink in it. that way i can get away with wearing my chacos by claiming that they match. i hope this skirt brings some luck! (it looks kind of strange in this picture because its wet. i decided to hand wash it in order to avoid the possibility of the red color choosing to bleed onto my white shirt in the rain. hopefully i will have a picture to post of me wearing it!)

and yes. i am still working on my towel wrap! i have been using it for the past week or so, i just need to add a few finishing touches before i show it to you! these touches involve making buttons, which takes me forever since im not a clay master like carolyn and tracy. therefore, i have been putting it off a bit....and studying diabetes a lot this past week. i must also say, im glad my grades agree!

i have also decided to participate in this letter exchange that i told tracy about! i think all of yall should too because it will be a lot of fun!

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The Last Tastes Of Summer

yes. these are the lasts pictures of the day that i took and they are very long awaited! in fact, so long awaited that i will post the dates with them. or at least the first one so that there is a reference point.

a large part of me very much misses doing pictures of the day. i started doing it to document my new rainbow and to help appreciate every small moment of every day and to not take things for granted. i feel like doing it really helped me out a lot. it especially made me truly enjoy just being. i talked about this earlier in the summer. i think my camera is glad that im not doing it though because now it doesnt die all the time or run out of memory. (goal in the next few weeks is to back up all my pictures so i can delete them off my camera. feel free to purchase me an external hard drive. it would make things so much easier and more reliable!)

friday august 21

never. again.

saturday august 22

tracy, brad and i went to eat sushi! tracy was very awkward with the waiter and tried to explain why he had to refill her glass all the time by forcefully saying that her mouth is on fire. she then realized how awkward she was being and then became more awkward by hiding in her arm while finishing her sentence. he was also walking away. completely unaware that she was talking to him.

we did a photoshoot before opies. mainly because tracy and i decided to do "fish" eye makeup including fake eyelashes.

we also tried to slack our face while shaking to get funny pictures. none of us were very good.

brad was pretty good though!

some great dancing times!

sunday august 23tracy doing a great job mowing the lawn!

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Why Cant I Breathe?!

dont worry, i can breathe fine. who you should be worried about is callie. this is a legitimate question she asks herself on, im assuming, a regular basis. and by regular basis, i mean throughout the day. every day.

before callie left for florida she came down to norman for her last day in norman celebration filled with pink elephant and the library, of course. while in the car, callie began singing michael jackson and talking about her intense obsession. it was at this moment i truly realized how obsessed she really is. one of her goals is to sound exactly like michael jackson while singing his songs, including the little uhs and screams and any other side noise he makes. attempting this makes her unable to breathe. she found this out one day while singing and realizing that she couldnt breathe. after asking herself "why cant i breathe?" she realized it was because she really isnt michael jackson! hahaha maybe one day, callie, you will be able to sing and dance just like michael jackson! (and right now i am picturing that video of callie dancing in tie dye with a drink in her hand while on the cruise)

i also need to say, on the way to gawk at the beautiful night sky a few weeks ago, brig, tracy and i sang man in the mirror. callie, i am sorry to say, i think tracy is michael jackson. she can even breathe while singing! hahahha

i know this picture isnt completely related. but it kind of looks like callie cant breathe because she is so scared of me. maybe its me eating her tail. or maybe its actually because she thinks that i have more michael jackson skills. haha

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Its Football Time in OOOklahoma!!!!!

and i cant even tell you how excited i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOMER SOONER!

i just wish all my loves were here to enjoy it with me.


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Get Funky.

last night tracy and i went to our first funk dance class. from the moment i walked in the door, the teacher looked at me like i was going to be "that" white girl. the one who cant do anything. and he was right. and i was right. because i knew that i was going to be awful before i even walked in. he just kept giving me these looks like, come on white girl. and then he would start counting things and be like "alright, i will count for those who need it" "one ee and uh two ee and uh..." and i know it was always about me! i mean, it was fun. but i think it will be more fun when i improve. i cant explain how awful i am haha! but im sure most of yall know that i am not a rap dancer.

here is a picture of the class that i took from the studio websitelook how intense he is!!!! i feel like an embarrassment to even be standing in the same room. oh well, i think i will improve as the classes go on. my goal for next class (two weeks from now) is to practice with tracy and come back and be so improved that he can only respond with "you go white girl!" haha well see what happens.

i also really want to take tap classes. that is what i originally wanted to take, but it didnt fit in tracys schedule. my goal is to find some cheap tap shoes before class on thursday. i just think it will be more fun to actually take a class that i have some sort of talent in. or at least i did back in the day when i took dance.

on another note, i finally finished reading god delusion! took me long enough! i agree with some things that he says, but a lot of the time i dont like how pushy he is with trying to get his point across. its almost like he is talking down to the reader like they never would have had these thoughts themselves had they not read the book, which is definitely not true for some of his points. i also feel like he is a bit of an extremist in some views, which was expected, it just got annoying sometimes. i really enjoyed reading the parts that involved evolution the most. maybe one day i will finally get around to reading the selfish gene! we will see. right now im moving on to harry potter 2!

tracy and i will be giving plasma for the first time later today so that i can afford buying a bike and dance classes. im a bit nervous and hope that im not too anemic. my anemia issue may just be in my head. hopefully i wont pass out. wish me luck!

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