Too Many Stare Downs Between the Sun and the Moon

Like. Honestly. I'm just done...

I'M SORRY FOR MY FAILURE!!!! The one week Jen does exceptionally well and has an amazing week I fail so hard.... So for that, I am sorry!

But anyway this week was good....

Let's be real, I don't even remember it.... All I really remember is that I went to the Seattle Sounders game last night (Soccer). It was actually kind of cool. I mean, other than the fact that it was cold and Seattle-ites apparently don't believe in sitting. It was fun though because we kind of took seats that we weren't supposed to. Also, like, Sounders fans are crazy. They all went super ham. It actually felt kind of like a cult. Like, they all knew the same chants and they all did these same hand gestures. It was odd, but kind of fun at the same time. 

At the end of the game, Jaime was able to get a jersey signed by her favorite soccer player (Landon Donovan). While it wasn't like super exciting for me, I totally know that feeling. Getting to meet someone whom you admire and adore and have only seen through the internet or TV for so long. It made me really excited about live events. Also, on Friday, it was W Day. Which was half for Homecoming at my school and half as a school birthday party. But for one of the events, they had a band perform. I had never heard them before, but they were really really good. Their name is Pickwick. And it was awesome. I love going to concerts and seeing people perform live. There's nothing better then seeing someone who is passionate about something do that something that they are passionate about. 

Then after the performance I was able to go up to them and meet them and buy a CD. I even had them all sign it. It made me really excited for the 3 concerts that I'm going to in the next few months (One of which is next Tuesday and it's honestly going to be one of the best days of my life). 

Yeah, so I'm just kind of stoking on life. And then this Friday starts NaNoEdMo for me. It's time for me to sit down and edit this novel that has been in the making for 3 years. I'm excited though. Even though it's not a good book, I will finally be able to say I'm completely done with it. Kind of. 

Okay, I need to go to sleep so I hopefully don't sleep through my classes again. 

Hopefully next week I won't fail again like this week. 

Why This Week Was Awesome: 

Books Read: 6 

Times Eaten At Chipotle: 9 (It was a good week)

Song Stuck In My Head:

Dear Tomorrow

Hello all. Each day is a new day and a fresh start. But when you keep failing to start anew, it can get frustrating. Nevertheless, you have to keep going right?

So, no matter how many times I say I will be better, and no matter how many times I fail at being better, it does not mean that I have to stop telling myself to be better. 

So here I go again: I will be better. And I will start right now:

This week was pretty slow in the office, so I could not help but be homesick a lot. You know those times when you're just "I want to go home. I want my own bed. I want to be in my own room"? Yeah, that kind of homesick. There are times though when I am quite proud to say that I feel fine, not homesick at all. Yesterday, Max, who is visiting from Baltimore, met up with me and Guthrie for a crepes breakfast and then we walked to the Museum of American History, and then to the Old Post Office Tower (awesome view of the city from its tower!). And when we said goodbye to Max, Guthrie and I took the metro to Rosslyn in Virginia, and as we were walking on the bridge from Rosslyn to Georgetown, we saw a lone kayaker on the Potomac River below us. And Guthrie said, "Let's go kayaking. Now."

Okay, so I had mentioned to him that I wanted to kayak on the Potomac sometime and also pedal boat on the Tidal Basin. Our chance to pedal boat has passed because the company doesn't rent pedal boats past Columbus Day since, you know, it is getting cold here. But there were still kayakers when we were making our way to Georgetown yesterday. But see, when Guthrie spontaneously wanted to kayak right then and there, the problem was that I was not mentally prepared for it. I can't swim, let alone float. I don't want to die. 

I was complaining all the way down as we walked to the canal and to the boathouse. I was complaining as we requested for a double kayak and as we put our stuff in a locker and as we put life vests on and grabbed paddles and got in the kayak (Guthrie in the back and me in the front). I complained even more as we pushed off and started paddling. I was scared and I was getting wet and I did not want to capsize and I hated it whenever Guthrie tried to rock the kayak. But I did it and oh my God, it was fun. I mean, I was terrified the entire time. But it was so much fun. We rented the kayak for an hour and in that hour, we kayaked through a total of three bridges completely around Roosevelt island. Like, if you click here, we started at Key Bridge Boathouse (I marked it on the map), and then we kayaked southwest direction toward the island, went all the way around the island and then back to the boathouse. Like. What even. Never did I think I would do that. Granted, Guthrie did a lot of the paddling, but, hey I helped, too...

Then we went to dinner then we went to see a blackbox theater play by Woody Allen and it was hilarious. Great Saturday!

And today, Guthrie and I got tickets to the White House Garden Viewing! So we were able to go on the grounds (not the actual inside the White House), and see the kitchen garden and the West Wing up close and the outside of the Oval Office and such. Fun times!

See I was better. Let us keep this going!

Fair warning, November is coming up folks so don't expect anything big for our blogs because, yep, we are writing (well, trying to) novels!

Tootles y'all!

Risks Taken: 59 (kayaking!)
Books Read Since Graduation: 10 
Thank You Notes Written: 21 (SA!)

I'm Tryin' to Sleep

I'm sorry about that guys! I was honestly going to blog on monday, but then everything changed when the sickness attacked. Ha ha but yeah. I would tell you about that week but I can't even remember at this point.

Oh, there was the dumpster diving!.... And then some other stuff. Honestly, nope, this is gonna be the lame one. Too bad. Come back Sunday for the good stuff. Yup. That's what's happening here.

Why This Week Was Awesome:  

Books Read: 6 

Times Eaten At Chipotle: 6!

Song Stuck In My Head: 

More Ashamed!

Even more ashamed! I am sorry! Gahhhhh
My life is in the not-so-together phase right now, as it has been for the last two years or so...

October 27 Add-On:
This needs to end.

Ashamed

So I fell asleep....is that a crime? Gahhh....be back later!

Octover 27 Add-On:
I don't even know anymore.

...Too Rare To Die

Hey guys!

So, like, I went out of the country for the first time yesterday. And while that was a really fun time, I think I'm not gonna talk about that today. 

I totes have kind of talked about something like this before, but honestly who remembers that? You know how in Dragon Ball Z, or like other animes or just shows in general I guess, there are like different sagas or story arcs I guess you could say. So like, it goes from like the Freeza Saga to the Android Saga to the Cell Saga then the Boo Saga? Well, I feel like I'm in one right now. I mean, I actually have gone back and made chapter titles for different points in my life, but specifically the past few months have been like an era in my life. 

The interesting thing about this Saga though is that it's been very music driven and the things around me have conformed to that. I guess it all kind of started in the spring when I heard the new Fall Out Boy album and I became kind of obsessed with it. It kind of evolved from there when I I found out that I would be going to the concert and then I started to listen to all Fall Out Boy music. Then I discovered Twenty One Pilots and everything was perfect. 

That was like all my summer. Then the concert. And now the new Panic! album and a kind of new Fall Out Boy album. What makes it so this Saga is evolving is the fact that I'm going to the Twenty One Pilots concert in November and the Panic! concert in January. 

The reason why this is so big for me is because that was kind of my life. Like, everyday driving over the summer I would blast the same songs and sing them at the top of my lungs. I just, I don't know. I can't anymore. When I think about this summer and the crazy fun things I did, I can't help but think about "Young Volcanos" or "Migraine" or countless others. This fall is going to be full of "This is Gospel"s and "All the Boys"s and so on. 

This also relates to a quote that I talked about a few weeks ago. 
"I wish there was a way to know that you were in the good old days before you've actually left them." 
It's kind of the same in this situation in that, you know, you don't know that a period of your life is happening until it has happened. And I guess all that we can do until then is enjoy whatever life you're living in now because you don't know when it's gonna end. 

Okay, I'm satisfied. 

Times Eaten At Chipotle: 5

Why This Week Was Awesome: Canada? Music? Life? All of the above. 

Books Read: 6 

Song Stuck In My Head: Let me live my life. Just one yesterday.

Too Weird To Live...

Hey guys!

I literally almost forgot about you. Which is bad. It's because I just spent the past like 4 hours on my math homework. And you all know that I love math, but this one was just a little blegh at times. But alas, I'm done and I'm exhausted. This was my first full week of school and it was already jam packed. This year looks like it's gonna be pretty great though, so I am excited. Today it was warm and stuff so Jaime and I went exploring a little bit around Olympia, which is always a fun time. 

Yesterday, we went to a haunted farm place. We went there last year too and I really really like it. They put a lot of work into it and it's really good quality. Good times.

I'm sorry, I'm just really tired, but this week was good! Yis. 

Times Eaten At Chipotle: 4

Why This Week Was Awesome: Getting out there

Books Read: 6 

Song Stuck In My Head:

I AM REALLY FULL

My belly is full of dimsum and it demands that I sleep now...the kanak calls me to bed...
I will come back to this later...

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October 7 ADD-ON!

Herro everyone. Right now, I am in my pajamas in my dorm lobby, with a Starbucks tumbler of hot green tea, my laptop, and Kendall's book. Originally, Guthrie and I planned to meet up at Dupont to bus over to visit the National Cathedral and then have late lunch at Ben's Chili Bowl at U Street after. BUT! There is supposed to be a storm today. It has been cloudy and overcast all morning and it is now raining lightly. EVEN MORE BUT! There is a thunderstorm watch until 5pm. Yikes!

Anyway, the past week of shutdown has been kinda eventful-ish. Tuesday I did laundry and some stuff I had been meaning to do but couldn't really get. Then on Wednesday, Guthrie and I went on an adventure to Renwick Chapel, Oak Hill Cemetery, Good Stuff Eatery, Arlington Cemetery, Iwo Jima Memorial (which was closed off because of shutdown but hey, we rebels yo), the Pentagon and the Pentagon Memorial, and then Gravelly Point. Yeps. I came home really sick because of how long our day was and I was dehydrated. No throwing up though! I spent Thursday and Friday in the library at Catholic University working on my paper and such. Then on Saturday, I went to Columbia Heights, went to Starbucks and tried their new Ethiopia blend (YUM!) while reading Don't Stop Running and then went to get groceries. I went out for dim sum at Chinatown yesterday and also movies with office people (we watched Rush).

And now I am just chilling for today, waiting out that storm yo. If I am not back at work by Wednesday, Guthrie and I will do the Cathedral-Chili outing then.

Okay, tootles y'all!

Risks Taken: 58
Books Read Since Graduation: 10 
Thank You Notes Written: 20 (Just wrote three)