I'm back. (Still haven't unpacked)

School starts Monday. (I think)

I stayed in bed all day. (It was awesome)

Best news yet: I'm no longer crazy super broke! (Just regular grad student broke now)

So I'm in Jackson Hole, Wyoming visiting my Grandpa, aunt, uncle, and my aunt's neice...i have no idea how i'm related to her....cousin in law? sorta?? anyway, we have been having a blast. the hotel we were staying in came with different accomodations than expedia promised, so instead of a one room with 2 beds, i talked us into a 3 bedroom ski chalet with full kitchen and a king bed in each room, for the same price - oh yea, and jacuzzi bath tub included. :) crazy how far a smile and 2 years of debate will get ya.

we went and saw yellowstone and grand teton national parks - gorgeous, and we have seen buffalo (5 ft from the car...window's rolled up!), moose, candian geese, swans, and elk, but sadly no beavers or bears. :*(

we went kayacking on my inflatable kayacks from walmart, and today it started raining and then hailing while we were out! it was crazy! i was like 'ow, ow OW!!!' as the hail fell and i thought it would pop the kayack but i couldn't run under the trees because i thought it would lightening and that is not the place to be in a storm, and the water was too cold to sit floating in it. gosh, it was a dramatic, but fun day!

the only reason i'm awake is because i don't get home (san antonio) until 10:30pm on tue, and i was planning on driving to bryan the following afternoon, but i realized i have a violin lesson wed morning.....poop! so i had to jump online to confirm it. its true....my choice is either call tomorrow and cancel (never goes well...so i'll fret all night and not really sleep well), or after driving  5 hours to salt lake city utah, tomorrow, drive home to bryan that night and get in after 2am and wake up for the lesson crappy and not practiced, and miss possibly seeing manda and kim (if there's not a drug luncheon) and harpreet for lunch. aaak! i'm supposed to be on vacation. stupid real world!

anyway i was just thinking (while 1/2 asleep before the violin thing came to my conciousness)...that movie with robin williams about the people with the chip implanted in their head so at their death someone called a cutter will piece their life together, but that person will see all the bad things the dead person did.....golly that was a sad depressing wierd movie. what was it called though? a comment with the answer may let me sleep tonight.

since i've been gone, i read the summons and skipping christmas by john grissom. funny how good the first book was and crappy the latter one was - you never can tell with him anymore.....sad. i'm starting the chamber. hopefully  it will be decent. i like how the more grissoms i read, i start to recognize recurring characters - especially in the summons: the king of torts rich lawyer, the crazy divorce lawyer in clanton, the diner lady, .....fun!

bottom line....suddenly sleepless over stupid violin, but having a great time in WY. oh oh oh and i tried 2 new foods: lamb chops (aww it makes me think of the puppet now) and buffalo. night!

Yes...that's me drinking beer from a ladel with the big bottle next to it. I was bottling it while in Canada :) yea! the things i learned, eh?

this week has been huge. i got my motorcycle license over the weekend, so i can legally (and physically) drive one now. oddly enough i ended up with a date with the instructor. funny.

i finally got my fan fixed from when manda and kim came to visit (and broke it....). it took forever cuz it's a 12 ft ceiling so i decided to hire someone to do it, then decided i wanted a remote so i ended up doing it myself. ooohhh well.

oh i got rid of my home line, so don't call it. we swiched to cable internet and got rid of the digital. so sad...saving a few bucks though.

oh oh oh! i forgot! Lindsey moved in with me! She's renting my last room! it's super exciting. she just got a job at my favorite midweek bar. it's only going to be for a few months to make a few bucks...but i'll take what i can get. way fun!

life it good. i hope ya'll are all doing great too. oh one i forgot to say, i've taken a few violin lessons. it's fun. very different. i think i want to try the flute next, and maybe then the saxaphone. bye!

So I have been in Canada for 10 days or so now, and it's been so much fun. really has. I have got my fill of babies - except now my favorite babies are like 7 years old! I have babysat them once a year since they were born...they're huge! Still super cute though. Here's all the babies I've played with (my cousin's kids): Kennedy, Chandler, Chris, Scott, Kyle, Erica, Brett, Brandon, Clara, Miles, Isabella, Eli, Patrick, Colby, Alyssa, Keegan, Jayden, Mitchell, yup...that's all. cute, huh? The only cousin's baby I didn't see was chad's baby xavier, and that's because he lives out in B.C. (west).

but i was here for a wedding...not visiting babies. and it was super fun. here the drinking age is lower so linds got to drink too. it was beautiful and i love spending time with my cousins - they're so much fun. this week of party after party really makes you want to move here. tonight is a surprise 50th for my mom....i think there's only been 1 day without a party here, and that was the day after the wedding so everyone could recover!

oh oh oh at the wedding (and the day before) i taught most of  my family the cotton eyed joe, how to 2step and boot scooting boogie...and the song that goes dun nun nun nun nun na! ...yea we don't know the name of it...and we did them at the wedding, adn my family was so cute watching they're feet and counting the steps...yea, it was like a little piece of texas! :)

well talk to you soon, being called for teh next party!

ps i started harry potter last monday - the day i was travelling here....and finished it the same day - great book!

so my butt hurts...i have been sitting on it for like 3 weeks straight writing my stupid thesis. sleeping ocassionally and going out here and there..... but seriously, my butt hurts. guhhh!

So I've been talking to a few friends that I hadn't in a while, and I'm like, 'oh by the way, i got a dog!' and they're like, 'i know...i saw pics your mom sent'. First of all, why is my mom sending pictures of MY dog, and why to my friends!?!! Oh Oh Oh, and then why didn't she tell me she was doing this!? like i wouldn't find out!???! i'm sooo confused!

So I just spent my saturday (the entire day) watching the 4400 marathon (i had never seen any of them before today) and loading every cd I own on my second memory harddrive thingy....almost 100 cd's and it takes up only 3.75 gb....what's teh point in have an 80 gig harddrive?? I'll never fill it up! it literally took all day though. you may be thinking that i lost a day, but i really don't think so....every now and again i love having a completely pointless, get nothing accomplished, kind of a day. especially since this is the first weekend i spent at home in months.

random thoughts...we tried out the hot tub while studying the other night and played 'i never' which is normally a drinking game, but was still fun when there was no consequences. end of random thought.

bottom line: happy bunny's thought of the day: 'hi, cram it!' (thanks kristine).