Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wedding!!



My brother got married! I was there! It was amazing and beautiful. Who would've thought my brother would get the perfect wedding? I'm in this photo too! Can you find me?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Lunch of Champions: Beer and Cheese

Dear Friends,
I've been thinking about life. And the more I think about life the more mine gets turned upside down. I make the craziest decisions, but I'm so happy. I'm unconventional in my approach and ambivalent to the norms of good and bad. I therefore see my equally unconventional results in ways my peers describe as "unexpected." I like the way things are going, and I feel great about my future. I feel great knowing you've been an important part of my past and you'll still be there in my future. Miss you tons.
xoxo Claire

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Sleep is Clearly over-rated

Hey you!
So Wednesday I woke up around 10:30 (I had such fitful sleep!) And did homework all day and went to class, followed immediately by a meeting with my advisor, and then I had to rush to work because the meeting went long. I got home about 11 pm and then spent until 9 am the next morning doing homework, then I went to class until 3 pm and I was so tired without a night's sleep. I however didn't go to sleep. I went rock climbing instead. I eventually got to sleep around 12:30 am, making it about 38 hours awake time. 7 hours of sleep and then I had to be back at work! What an exhausting life this is. And I have such a busy day tomorrow too! This week I have to do even more homework because next weekend my brother is getting married!!!!!! FINALLY!!! It's all so very exciting. Also I suspect there are pumpkin pancakes in my future. Which I love. So yay!
kisses kisses
Claire

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

texts from last night

I was reading this website... texts from last night. Have you heard of it? And I read this one and it reminded me of you...

(512): just checked my call log and realized that we talked for 3 mns. what did i say for that long?
(1-512): pretty standard. you have fun last night?
(512): apparently....what exactly does 'pretty standard' mean?
(1-512): typical hot then cold, followed by a death threat.

HAHAHAHA
misses!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Pictures

So I got the cutest shower curtain and curtain hooks! Flowers and Pine Cones!!!!


This is a picture of me at the bachelorette party. I guess this is a variation on the pin the tail on the donkey game. We didn't actually play :(

I really wished I had a cowboy hat in this photo...

Elvis needs boats!

Oh my goodness. So much to tell!!! I started classes and while I like what I'm studying it's a bit lame that I have to read so much. I hate reading. I even have a Swedish novel I'm supposed to read. And its funny and great for my vocab, but such a hassle. Also my new sister-in-law had her bachelorette party in Chicago last weekend. It was an extensive party, and lots of fun with fancy lunch and purse making and a night out on the town. It was also a little bit challenging because it was a bunch of different types of girls all thrown together with alcohol. So there was crying, and drama, but it all turned out okay in the end. Drunk people are drunk! Speaking of getting drunk... I wasn't having the best day last Thursday so I skipped all my classes and then met up with the Swedes and their international buddies for a night of drinking beer. This was a bad idea. Since I stopped drinking I have a very low tolerance now, and it got a bit excessive. I failed to set my alarm for work the next morning, and somehow magically woke up in time to get there, only to realize that I had to leave or I would vomit all over the customers. So bad times. I spent the rest of the day sleeping it off. Boo. Now I have to go back to work and pretend I'm a responsible person, for real. On another note I started rock climbing and I think I'll make this and running more prominent in my life. I'm not very good at rock climbing just yet, because it requires a lot of upper body strength that I just don't have. Also my hands aren't that strong, so gripping the tiny rocks and lifting myself up with them is not so easy. Practice will improve these things. I'm going to a belay clinic on Monday that will encourage me to go climb more often. Wooooo!
kisses kisses!