Happy November!

ahhhh November, nice to see you again... I think.


Fall at the beach! (Early October)


Low sun & plenty of beach combing



November has historically (in my lifetime) been one of the best months due to the many days off from school, Thanksgiving (who doesn't love a holiday centered around food/family/friends?) and my birthday! woot! Not that I have anything exciting planned, at all really, but I'm allowed to be excited. Also, I do kind of groove on "falling back" It's much too dark at 7am lately and it's starting to ruin my mornings a bit.


A boat seen in the Redondo Beach Harbor. I especially love the long tentacle! More on that in a later post...

Halloween was more of a "let's see what I can get done" type day. I brought a hammer. Who knew that would allow me to get so much done! Curtains were put up, art was hung, certain wibbly wobbly kleen kanteens were fixed. Well wishes were also sent to my brother for his birthday!

While these are not the best shots ever of my apartment I wanted to highlight the awesomeness of the turquoise room! I guess I just tend to gravitate towards it. My mom had the famed robin's egg blue custom mixed at Fred Meyers forever ago and since then it has been creeping into my life. It's quite lovely isn't it? Design is mine post on aqua. We can expand on some dream living here. This house was also featured in the April/May 2010 issue of ReadyMade. Yes, Charlie Harper really is that awesome, and this explains why the displays in Fossil always get me a bit. If I had it my way I would paint, but really the latte is pretty pleasant .


Next on the list, fixing the lighting in the other half of my living room. But here is a (terrible) shot of my brothers art, framed and displayed! It was done on wood veneers, with (I think) various papers, masking tapes, the beloved sharpies and probably mod podge.


More beaching! this time in November




Wind party! & a new, messed up hair cut (thanks gusting wind). I promise my bangs look much better than the above displayed and I'm pretty pleased with the look. Gone are the days of my grown out bob mullet and in with the straight bangs and clean sleek long bob! I should really invest in getting my hair cut more than every 6 months. I'll attribute it to my bad combo of busy busy work stuff and laziness in my off time.

wait... what?

Summer has officially whipped by this year. We had a late start in the garden, little sun and warmth in June along with some insanely rainy days, a whirlwind July with conferences, summer camp i.e., kid herding and attempting to finish stuff for this project/job I've been working on. Now that is is almost September (wait. what??!) I have a non tan, been lap swimming twice (thankfully in the local outdoor pool) and only a smidgen of produce from the garden.

In that time curtip also bought a newer car, packed up and made the big move to the LA area. It has been funny describing where stuff is while he has never been there before, but now lives there and I have been there oodles of times and I'm not there. obviously. I'd have a tan. So be prepared for about 6 posts to cover my absence over the last month or so. Onwards!

grads & pears

A pear for Hillary of is there life on mars. A dear old friend like her needs a crafty pear to help with projects aplenty, to remember hillarious summer memories like falling in the hammock on hard apples, dogs with bad fruit additions and permanent tan lines from the trusty red lifeguarding suits. Thinking about it 1) reminds me about how pale I've been since I've moved to the coast, 2) how badly I could go for a fresh off the tree pear, 3) how much I miss that lady!

This was from that awesome heather baily pattern

Curti P is donezo!! wooooo! so is that skirt I started on eons ago... also, note the brazil jersey. World Cup anyone?? He even included a plug for his favorite team in the "what I've done and will be doing/thank you they read aloud when they called him up.


The rescue charlie brown lei complements of a Monday graduation. He said he still really liked it though.


Successful creep on Kaleo!! Congrats to you too!


The unit


My prize for being the supportive girlfriend for the five years: a beau and a token of gratitude.

Human Phys is not the easiest of majors and pretty competitive with the intensity of pre-med kids. It called for lots of food, beer, friends & family to celebrate. He'll be continuing with prosthetics and orthotics somewhere much warmer come August. Congrats!!

I know I know it's been a while, but things are generally crazy as usual. Settling in has been nice in the new place, but a few boxes remain unpacked/undecided and a few frames remain on the floors. They are starting to become fixtures in the sparsely decorated flat. I'm also slowly figuring out what exactly my new job is. It's fun and challenging, but I'm really excited to start piloting the education modules we are putting together. I'm working with some fabulous teachers :)

Here are a few updates with photos:
New plants from an very large spider plant that found a new home in my mom's library. I got it during my freshman year of college.

I love this place!



My new $20 dollar chair!


Okay so the flowers have come... where is the normally pleasant weather???


Eugene in the Spring! Curtis got a new place as well. I love the little tiny stove and general man presence. The floral couch remains but will get a slip cover soon or make a move to the donation center.




My first setting for a piloted field trip! The essence of this project is that each coastal watershed education module/unit for the project has a meaningful field experience. We are going to do some marsh plant surveys, exploration of the tideflats through digging, water sampling and looking at some flora/fauna. The sixes river pops out just north of cape blanco so we will be doing some wrack line exploration as well. When I was there a few weeks ago not only was it beautiful but we found subtidal sponges, spruce cones, neat rocks, algae and of course plastic. All in all an interesting exploration of a local small estuary of Oregon that can hopefully shape any estuary field trip in Oregon along with a student field journal and corresponding classroom activities.

Obviously I could talk for a long time about the project's aspirations :) But for now I have pretty photos.




A little trip to Bandon on the same day with lots of heavy winds, poking, photography and watching some awkward windsurfing with southerly winds.
I love these sunglasses!


my dad going out for that sweet "double dip"

love this kid & photobooth

senioritis...

is a bitch. let's be honest. i'm so close and yet so far away from friday morning. so in the mean time i'm quickly putting together a playlist to get me through this crap.

if you have not heard this song yet i highly suggest it: Lark (Ruff and Jam remix) - Au Revoir Simone off the reverse migration album...

and for other kicks: you push, i'll go by baby dayliner. two words: vodka soda.

and other favorites like arcade fire (which got me through the summer of physics), broken social scene, beck (modern guilt), MGMT, menomena... and whatever else i think of.

new stuffs soon... promise

Soo since this place completely kicks main campus out of the water with the exception of
1: the downstairs portion of the bookstore with lovely art supplies,
2: barry's good cheap coffee,
3: my lovely people who I dearly miss and
4: trader joes/good & non creepy bars/mcminnies.

With that said I've been keeping myself busy with a ton load of good times including hiking/biking/tidepooling/beaching/fieldtriping almost everyday, and working at the little sweet oimb library. I of course have had time to take photos (uber loads), but since its past 11 and i've got invert all day tomorrow here are a few good ones...

the view of the bay down the road on a sunny morning before class

the perks of having 24/7 access to the invert lab and having mad chalkboard skills

more to come and loves from charleston :^)

Celebratory post final pints

Okay, so I've officially made it...!!! not only is it spring, but classes are over at last.

I've survived winter term and to top it off went to mcminnies for a celebratory burger (firm of course) and pint. And now due to my lack of sleep these last few nights am rather tired and at work. Nap time? haha I probably could though... it's rather quiet.

Obama is on campus too! so that's exciting, but I'm doubting I'll get in due to work and the lines that are growing exponentially. So tonight whether it is obama or more celebratory pints, it will be a good, homework free, night! :D then on to packing tomorrow... wahoo!!

fabulous procrastination

It seems over the last many terms, I've gotten really good at it. Especially now since wine is generally included. Anywho I'll see if I can get this going while I'm off at OIMB doing fieldwork, crafting, photographing, environmental educating, and maybe the occasional field journaling.

I took this last week whilst at home with new cameraIt feels warm...

love to you all,