I bet you 5 bucks you missed me.

So tomorrow it will have officially been 2 months since I last posted! Crazy how fast time can fly.

What's happened since I left, you may ask? Condensed version:

1. School ended, I got decent grades. I went back to NC... with MUCH effort, but I finally made it.
2. I made it back to Brevard with NO snow.
3. Snow storm.....
4. Christmas Eve with the whole family.
5. Christmas. Snow storm. Very quiet, relaxing, and wonderful.

Gotta love Carhartt :)

6. New Years in Washington, D.C. with old roomie, Sarah, and her sister Jen (who used to live in SF). Great time, spray tan, wonderful food, partied, hung out with a girl all night that no one knew was deaf, saw awesome Aunt & Uncle, delicious coffee, drove back to Brevard.

Sarah and I after Midnight on New Years!

Sarah was Paparazzi on the Metro

 7. Forest run.
8. Cielito's, Square Root, Jordan Street and a time or two in Dugan's.

Cute :) Square Root.

Cielito's for Grandes, food, and birthday Mariachi band fun

9. Icy hike.

Lauren is in the red jacket.

Ice, Ice baby

10. Snow storm. Yes, again.

Empty shelves in produce section at Ingles

We got like 6 inches in 2 hours.

Bubble butt car covered in snow

11. Brews Cruise. Cool Bus. Cool people. Asheville. GOOD BEER. Dead battery. Push bus. More good beer. Shake weight. New battery. Sleep.

The Cool Bus crew

The inner workings of The Cool Bus

Pisgah Brewery Beer

Trying to charge it...   

Push!

12. Little office work here and there.
13. Charleston with Mom and Lauren. Seafood :) Sea shells. No sand dollars :( Starfish, pier, bridge.

Just beachy

Pier

Starfish

Cooper Bridge

 14. Eye doc (no Rx change- first time since 1st grade!), regular doc: yay for good health!
15. Lots of work at the office, train one lady, she left, train another lady.
16. Date night at The Admiral (best food ever)
17. Fly back to SF, much better than the other way. See Tahoe and Yosemite (waterfall and all) from plane window.
18. Mist, clouds, rain, chilly.
19. Settle in- still no roommate! I love having my own room.
20. Take classes. Rework schedule. Settle in to new schedule. Find out I need more equipment.
21. Lunch with Kim!
22. SUNSHINE!!!! ALL WEEK!

LOVE LOVE LOVE the weather!

23. Coffee with my new friend, Heath. Then Twin Peaks, Full House park, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, and Yerba Buena Island.

Heath falling off the mountain

I went to save him ;)

View of the city from Twin Peaks

FULL HOUSE! *cue sappy music "everywhere you look...."*

Coit Tower

View from Yerba Buena Island... that is the Bay Bridge

Downtown and a very sad, broken pier

Downtown

24. Janna is in town!! Hung out at Ritz-Carlton. Lots of wine, lots of cheese, lots of conversation. Very fun time.

Me & Janna!

25. More class, lunch with Janna, more class.
26. Realize my bank account is disappearing, apply to MANY jobs. Hope for calls back.
27. Homework.
28. Hopefully more homework done this weekend.
29. Adventure with Kim this weekend somewhere!
30. Ahhh Netflix. :D

Sorry, no posts for a while...

Basically, I have only 3 days of work off in the next 2 weeks and SO MUCH to do for finals. So I hope everyone has a Merry Christmahanaquanzika and a Happy New Year!! I hope to see everyone at when I'm home in 13 days!

Love, E

Miss me?

Hello Lovelies. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I got to head on over to Las Vegas and hang with my aunt and uncle that live there. I had a great time, mostly because I was nowhere near The Strip. That is just not my thing. Anyway, on my trip, I got to go to Zion National Park with my aunt. It was SO gorgeous! I have way too many images to post on here, so take a look at my photo album, on Facebook instead: click here.

So I am back to classes and everything is going well. I finally got some papers back from teachers and my Photo History teacher liked my redo midterm much better, so hopefully my overall grade in that class will get better. I start back at work for a marathon run before I head out on the 18th. Basically, I have either class, work or both every day except 2 days until I leave. Luckily, it's usually one or the other and the latest it lasts is 9 pm anyway.

Nothing strange to report yet... then again I only got back Monday night. I'll let you know if anything weird happens :) For now, it's time for me to get some homework done. See you NC people so very soon!!!

Field Trip Fun

Today I had a field trip. I cannot begin to tell you how young those words makes me sound. "Field Trip." lol 'Hi. I'm 6 years old and going on a field trip... no my mom didn't sign my permission slip.'

Anyway, my class went to the City Hall and looked at a couple of photography exhibits there. That building is so beautiful. There is gold leaf accents everywhere inside and out. I got a bunch of pictures inside, but not much outside. I will have to go back on my own and take some more pictures. It was a pretty good day.

gorgeous staircase inside City Hall

looking up into the dome

scale model of the City Hall

head that fell off a statue during the 1906 earthquake and was somehow found at Knots Berry Farm... seriously

replica of part of the Golden Gate Bridge

front side of the City Hall replica

heart art- the artist blurred it, not me

side of dome/window

dome

aww ;)

even the lights were gold :)

awesome details

pretty entrance. Luckily you can't see the metal detectors we walked through to get in.

top of staircase

there were faces everywhere.

So the funny part was walking home. First, I had a guy just about accidentally put his cigarette out on my leg as he passed. He was holding it in his hand down by his side and wasn't about to move out of the way of any other pedestrian in his way. Luckily, I move fast. Second, I had a lady (another person that didn't care about other people walking) ram me with her yoga mat as she passed me. Last, I saw a homeless man, with his dog, eating Starbucks ice cream. Can you blame the guy for having good taste? 

I'm a week out from heading to Vegas for turkey day (33 days to NC). I am trying to hang on. I really need someone to come see me soon (hint, hint, hint...). I'm getting anxious for the trip. I want it to happen NOW. Someone distracting me from my countdown would be great. A girl can hope and dream.

Well, I'm off to find something on Netflix to watch. Cross your fingers that my internet is fast enough to play it. Night lovelies.

The Dream Queen, at your service.

Well I have been quite the opposite of my last post, thank God. Luckily my sleepless nights only happened twice, and now I am on the other side of the spectrum sleeping really, really hard. The kind of sleep where I wake up with a wrinkly face, puffy eyes, and my hair completely covering my face. It's adorable, let me tell you. Luckily, after my (and everyone else's) hours have been cut, I got an extra day thrown in for work because someone was sick. All this work and school are kicking my butt and knocking me out. I love sleep mostly because of my crazy dreams. They get weirder as the moon gets fuller too. Which is exactly why I am confused about my overly-strange dreams lately. Oh well, free entertainment... who needs reality television?


Now that were are 10 days into November (12 days till Vegas & 39 to NC- yes I am still counting down), I have noticed Christmas decorations EVERYWHERE. They even started assembling a very large Christmas tree in Union Square Park.

Kinda dark, but the arm lifts have 2 guys and a huge stack of branches for this big tree

My life has been pretty boring these days. Same old thing... school, work, sleep, the occasional crazy person wandering in the streets of SF. The other night I saw a lady that had 3 inch thick thighs... she literally looked like she was walking on toothpicks. It was the creepiest thing ever. I wanted to offer her some of the snacks I had in my purse, but I don't think she would have understood me...

Ok a few more random pics:

Classy lady right here.

Thankful for large open floors for homework nights.

Turkey baskets held hostage with bubble wrap. I was surprised too...

Even though I had class and one day's worth of work from both jobs, I will be continuing with my remote office job this evening. I have a lot of homework for my full day off tomorrow. Night people.

Screw you, insomnia.

So I find myself awake, after midnight... which isn't too bad, I suppose. I just know that I am not in the least bit tired. I have been working on my online class and am almost done with it for this week. I have probably checked my phone 80 million times just to see if anyone had said anything to me the whole time I have been studying. Of course they haven't, I just checked it 5 seconds ago! Hhhhh.... If anyone is awake out there, please say hi. I know you all are probably either asleep or actually out on your Saturday night. Me? I did laundry and homework to fill up my fun-filled weekends. SO READY FOR A BREAK. I suck at new cities on my own. I should have dragged someone along with me. Or at least picked a closer city. Now I know.

I might be all hyped up because I had extra coffee this afternoon, which normally does nothing to me. I also went on a run this morning and walked to Fisherman's Wharf and back. It could be a natural high. What do you think?

I attempted to re-write my essay for the Photo History class, but got so annoyed that I just left my apartment. I think that all of these small annoyances I have had lately haven't helped with winning points with my roommate. She seems irritated every time I speak to her and she goes to take a nap pretty much every time I enter the room. I'm gone a lot for work and class now. I'm probably just paranoid. I definitely miss having my own room. Sharing that small space with another girl is HARD. I don't recommend it. 

Alright. I'll at least post some pictures from my walk today. I need a pick-me-up.

Sexy 'stache

They were working on painting this as I walked by.

One word: Yikes.

I needed a little indulgence to try and perk me up. So this was my dinner:

Top right & around: fresh mozz, brie, pomegranate seeds, chevre goat cheese, granny smith apple, aged blue, pepperoni, smoked gouda, garlic asiago bread, and garlic hummus in the center with some white wine on the side. :)

Well... I'm going to try and watch a movie that I have seen a million times to knock me out. Send a message if you want. I'll probably answer instantly. ;)