Before/After.... Minus the After

I guess my little apartment is not photogenic. It looks small and ugly in photos. Here is the "before"...

First Night In My New Apartment....

Very strange. Creeks and stomping. Let's just get the horrible stuff out of the way. The neighbors above me have a dog that must have parvo by the way it drags it's body around the floor and I saw the owner of the dog get out of the car today and he stomped the lawn and up the front stairs. Which explains the loud thumps at night.

But at least it's not haunted! Other than that, the floors creek, the smoke filters through our vents and I now have a creepy middle age man who wants to holla at me the minute Michael and I break up. Watch out baby, he almost won my heart today when he coughed cookies on my face as he asked about where I am from.

Now that the venting is done... the apartment is shaping up. We have food. We have locks and we have beds! But we don't have anything to do. So Martin kept me company tonight while I put away books, clothes and artwork.

I can't wait for school to start.

Tomorrow night we are going to go out and explore the city. Many free events on Fridays and I can't wait to go see some more of this city.

And I am going to find a job in T-minus one week.

I really miss everyone in California and you are all on my minds.

On the Road Again....

It feels like I have spent the last month traveling all over the state and country. Frogmans in South Dakota, San Fransisco and Kansas City all within a month. It's pretty tiring but beautiful none the less. The best way to learn about your country is to go out and experience it. But I would recomment avoiding New Mexico because it's lame.



The weather is absolutely insane! There are never storms in California so it's shocking that people carry umbrellas around with them in August. Casie was amazing and drove through a severe thunder/lightening storm! It took us one day, two hotels and a couple of tourist traps longer than we thought to get here but we made it!

Goodbye Party!

Thank you for everyone who came to my going away party. I wouldn't have had it any other way. Friends, family and my friends who are family. It really means the world to me that everyone came and said goodbye.

Home Sweet Home...

It is almost that time! I am ready to go and then again I have nothing lined up and too many people to visit before I go.

Surprise Party

Casie easily fooled me into showing up to the bar for what I thought was a normal night. It actually made me realize how much I am going to miss my friends, which you always know you are going to miss them, I just didn't know how much.





Thanks you to everyone who came out to celebrate.