My love affair with sleep.

December 15, 2008 By 1 Comment

Yes. You heard correctly. I am having an affair with sleep. While it is something valued, it is something I never get enough of. Lowe’s in particular likes to get in the way of my happiness as much as possible. Clearly they are jealous that I love sleep so much, and attempt to choose that over their hum drum services each time. I find it slightly maddening that Lowe’s likes to do everything so damn early. I bought my washer and dryer from home depot, and the time they chose to install it was in the afternoon. Everytime I order something from Lowe’s, they’re like “OH!!! You’re a student! It’s the middle of the week! Why don’t I come at 8 am!” and I’m like “Ummm…. well is there anything later?” Then they’re like “OH. Wellll, we CAN do 11.” So I’m like “YES! 11 it is.”

7:45 AM

Cell Phone: *ring ring* I am here to disturb your peace!

Me: “errr ughhhh yarrr” *wakes up*

Cell Phone: ‘HELLLOoOOooOOOO!!! This is DAN from LOWES!!!’
Me: ‘ummm HI? Is it already 11?”
Cell Phone: ‘NO!!! It’s 7:45!’
Me: ‘Oh? Well I’m scheduled for 11″
Cell Phone: ‘It’s 7:45! Lowe’s specifically gave me a detailed instruction manual saying that Selena can not sleep, along with a FAQ and trouble shooter to reference in the event that she tries.

Me: ‘Oh, really? They must have given you the wrong manual. Mine says that I do not do any sort of activity in the morning that requires consciousness before 11 AM”

Cell Phone: ‘I would like to do your installation now.”

Me: ‘Ugh okay, I’m already awake now… how far away are you?’

Cell Phone: ‘I’m riiiiight around the corner! I can be there in one minute!”

Me: ‘NO! come back at 11.’ *click*

This occured about 3 weeks ago. He did, begrudgingly, come later in the day. I think he tried to be spiteful by saying “well, I’m busy later so I probably can’t get there until after 11. *rubs in face*” and I say “GOOD! the later the better.” Now, it is another day, it is 9:30 am and I am wide awake because Mr. big bad Lowe’s man had decided to come at 8 o clock. After going to sleep at 2:30. (Me, not the Lowe’s guy. As much as it might tickle me to know his oh so interesting schedule, I do not. Although,… if I DID I could probably harass him at 3 am, or an hour earlier from whatever time he decides to wake up so he knows how it feels. Unfortunately I would not have anything fun or necessary to install so this time I would merely be disturbing his peace.)

I don’t know HOW the Lowe’s guy is SO cheery in the mornings. I wish I could be like that. Instead, you will hear the following if you try to wake me up when I am not ready: “YARRRR! *snarf* whaaaaaat? NO! SLEEP! *gurgle*”

Do not question why I sound like a pirate/attack dog/blonde/angry lady early in the morning. That’s just how it is. Deal with it. Shane has learned to plan accordingly by either giving me Rum and gold, a cookie, bubbles or .. umm whatever is it that makes angry ladies happy. *insert object here*. Of course, the more logical thing to do would be to give me coffee. Give me a cup of coffee and I’m all sunshine and flowers and “HIIII!! GOOOOOOOOOOOD morning!” (Not sunflowers though, I will never be as happy in the morning as that one yoga teacher. He likes to scoop them up. I vote we let him and stand clear). I suspect the Lowe’s guy might have had an extreme amount of caffeine. I am jealous. I never told you who I was having my affair ON.. and that is coffee. How I love coffee.

Anyway, back on track- He also told me his daughter was thinking about going to law school and changed her mind because Law eats your babies. Yes, he went there. Yes, Jenna and I go there all the time. I guess we aren’t the only ones.

I am exhausted. I am supposed to go riding today but I don’t think I can.. I’m way too tired and I have to get everything ready to go back home. As I had said before- YAY for 20 hour road trips!

There is nothing more that I could possibly want other than to go back to bed right now. But I am some kind of malfunctioned young adult who cannot nap, nor go back to sleep once I am awake. It sucks big time. Therefore I find myself writing early in the morning while the boyfriend is in class. Oh class. How I remember you. I used to loooove naps. Evidently they don’t love me back anymore. They are too mad at my love affair with sleep.

PS: I went ice skating this weekend for my first time (Well, I think it was my first time. That’s still up in the air)
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I am proud of myself because I did not fall. Even though I was clinging to shane when Michael Jackson’s “beat it” song came on , and I almost threw him off balance. But really! I did good! My mission of keeping all my fingers was a major success. This weekend I also think that I realized I am allergic to scallops. It was a sad, sad day.

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It's like tae kwon do on crack!

October 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Can I first start by saying that I think I’m extremely in shape. A little background information on me is [which i'm sure you all know] I’ve been horse riding since I was 8 as well as spent 3 of those horse riding years doing tae kwon do with it. I got right up to a black belt and then we moved to Europe. I chose to not continue there. I still ride a couple of times a week, I go to the gym, 150 situps when I  go etc.

Evidently none of that is good preparation for a good old fashioned ass kicking through kickboxing. I went in there only after eating cereal and drinking coffee, because the Pilates class I took on campus wasn’t too streneous, and I figured I could float right through it. Boy was I wrong. We started by running around the gym and doing jumps and kick backs every few feet. Then we wheeled out our punching bags (which is a workout in and of itself) and proceeded to spend the next 50 minutes beating the crap out of it. I must say, I had the best form, because obviously I spent years doing the same exact kicks. While some people were falling to the wayside and stumbling, I was attacking. At the speed of light. WHAT NOW?! I have never felt such a high in my life. I always get a high-rush from riding, where I feel like I’m floating. It’s extremely euphoric and I thought nothing can top that. Until I tried this.

I….LOVE it.

By the time it hit the half hour mark I wasn’t even euphoric anymore. It was like I had an ocean rushing through my veins. (The ocean is my other euphoric place, so you can see why I used that comparison). Good god I am in love.

I’ll be back there friday. Hopefully this time I won’t have sweat pouring off my face and I’ll eat a better breakfast than a bowl of cereal and coffee.

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A little photojournalism of my current adventures

July 19, 2008 By 1 Comment

My dad is in the hospital- to start out- so excuse me for not writing lately. I haven’t particularly been in the mood because I’m worried about him. If everyone could wish the best for him then that would be awesome.

I did want to write a little something though. I went out trail riding with Julie, her husband and some of her friends the other day. I did this with a sprained ankle mind you, because I’m dumb and don’t understand what the word “rest” means. Lol. The trail ride was fun… god the florida heat is so humid. Sickly humid. I ate and drank lots of water before I went but I was literally dying by the time we were done. Not to mention Fancy worked herself up into a sweat about an hour in. She was being a tad bit bratty though.

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It was alot of fun because I haven’t went trail riding in forever, and it’s hard to find people who trail ride without riding western, because I don’t like western all that much. There were a few awfully cute turtles along the way, alone with some weird looking bugs that had 5 inch long wings and thoraxes. Extremely scary. Aside from that, and the heat trying to kill me, it was extremely pleasant.

For the 4th of July we had some friends from Miami stay with us. It was really fun. We spent the weekend relaxing, hanging out and celebrating. We went down to city walk and wandered to the Hard Rock Cafe to see the fireworks. They were beaaaautiful.. yet short, because we failed to get there on time. We went on a mission/adventure for fireworks, and we even had our own (Which chris proceeded to abruptly light and toss out the car window at any given time) that we were dying to play with. After toiling through the busy and jam packed drive-in parking garage (not that there’s any other way to get into a parking garage except driving) we just got the the little river thing in time to see about 5 minutes of fireworks. The journey and the dinner beforehand were fun, so I guess that’s all that matters.

Then we met some people who were visiting from Ireland. They were fun to drink and hang out with until the girl decided to book it and be a weirdo, leaving her boyfriend behind. Therefore he took off after her, and we never got a chance to get their numbers for the glorious beach/surfing trip we attempted to plan the next morning. Oh well. After we got home, we proceeded to jump the gate to the pool, where I sprained my ankle. Funny though, I didn’t feel the effects until a week later… and it took that long to swell. It’s better now though.

And on another note, my cute little subjects, the ducks, were shot again. This time I managed to get the babies as grown ups. If you saw my last set of pictures, there were some little itty bitty cute and fluffy ducklings following their mom. Now they’re grown up and ADORABLE! All the pictures are in my flickr, and I was kind of too lazy to edit any of them except three… but here’s a taste of them.

Click the one below, it’s really big and pretty but I have a feeling wordpress is gonna chop off the side of it. If you click it (or any of the pictures for that matter) they’ll open in a new window.

ANNNND in this one below, it looked like one duck is attempting to kill the other via beak, but they’re really just pruning eachother.

aaand I’ll throw in one more. LOOK! CUTENESS PADDLING IN THE WATER!

Enjoy :) and wish the best for my dad please.

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