meh

that's all i feel like saying;

meh.

another week, another weekend;

meh.

shower, laundry, essays, cleaning;

meh.

getting no response, having no clue;

meh.

meh.

meh.

meh.

ameritrip

two days and i saw so much;

new york city's lady liberty,

philadelphia's independance hall,

chicago's sears tower and

denver's grey-green mountains.

my weekend adventure was just that,

an absolute adventure.

flying standby to popular destinations

resulted in much waiting and not knowing,

but also ended in a side trip to chicago's

rogers park to crash at a friend's apartment.

although i hate to say it, it's really so very true;

even more than visiting and catching up,

i loved the traveling, like i always have.

perhaps it helped i was traveling with friends,

or that new york fell upon fresh eyes,

but new york was certainly the highlight of my trip.

from times square to central park to just walking around,

(i've only ever been in manhatten),

there aren't many parts of the city i don't like.

i even navigated without a map. and i got around like a local.

it's easy, really; 'streets' run east to west, with numbers that

help locate them, southern streets are lower numbers,

northern streets are higher ones.

Avenues run north to south, with lower numbered avenues

being to the west, getting higher as you walk east.

everything is in a grid pattern, except broadway,

but it does what it wants.

philadelphia, denver or chicago do not have such

practical street naming practices, unfortunately.

my room is still an absolute wreck with my luggage

and all, but i'm being productive regardless, so it's ok.

i also would like to inform you that i didn't take any pictures.

at all. the whole entire trip.

i pulled out my camera on the bus trip to new york,

and decided that instead of trying to take pictures

to remember everything about it, to catch the right shot,

to line things up and make sure eyes are open,

i was just going to enjoy every moment of it,

with my mental camera rolling every instant.

it was really, surprisingly, so nice to not worry

about taking the perfect pictures of everything.

added bonus?: i didn't look like a tourist.

especially without my map.

hopefully i'll be able to keep up my traveling escapades,

but with my college student budget, we'll see how it goes.

i'm certainly looking forward to ohio, though,

i hear lola really misses me.

I think I talk to you best when I sing...

I sing about almost everything.

- Manchester Orchestra

i decided i don't care much for the word 'should.'

and that i'm not blogging as much as i need to be.

but, there are several exciting updates, and i know for a fact

that a big reason i didn't blog last sunday was due to my lack of news.

update #1: in less than 96 hours, i'll be here: philadelphia. i'm going to visit Nabil and i honestly couldn't be more excited. i love cities and old campuses, so hanging out in philadelphia will be so neat, especially with him.

update #2: in less than 72 hours, i'll get to see dad! he has work in salt lake city, a coworker in golden, and me in fort collins. not only will i get to see him, which will be great since he didn't fly out to colorado with us when i moved out, but he's also going to take me to the airport, because we'll both be flying out the same morning, which is so much better than having to take a boring old shuttle. plus this means i miss school thursday and friday. double win.

update #3: in less than 144 hours, i'll be here: new york city. only a two hour bus ride from philadelphia, it's probably, hands down, one of my favorite places. Nabil has never been before, either, which means I get to introduce him to the magic of the city that never sleeps. we were able to get crazy cheap bus tickets too, so it won't be too bad on our college student budgets. i for sure want to visit times square and central park. even though i've been to new york city two other times, we have somehow managed to never make it to the famed park. so hopefully we'll get time to visit there, times square and wherever else we may end up. i'm going to try really hard to not make this a spending money kind of trip because, number one, i don't have a lot to spend and number two, i'm not flying to the east coast to spend my time in stores with nabil, but rather take everything in, because while fort collins and denver are certainly large cities, they pale in comparison to nyc. i'm really stoaked.

update #4: since i'm a nice person, i decided to buy myself some new snowboarding gear for my birthday, which just so happens to be tomorrow. i ended up scoring a burton winter jacket,

snowpants that look like jeans, a sweater, a hat, and a thermal shirt and pants for under $130. how's that for bargain shopping? since i know mom will ask for pictures anyway, i just beat her to the punch. so bam, pictures! i didn't take one of my snowpants because i had already put them away where i store things and it wasn't worth my hassle. but, i love the coat and the crazy thermal pants are super comfortable!

update #5: i think i'm beginning to develop martha stewart syndrome. i have always enjoyed crafting, making things, being creative, or just messing around, but in the last 48 hours, i've painted an alligator, decoupaged a frame, decoupaged a notebook, and am planning on making some killer stationary/cards. wooo. here are pictures, because i like pictures. and i've got this neat bracelet, two actually, that's just a friendship bracelet with neat designs and whatnot. it's made out of several different colors and is pretty intricate, and i've met a few people who know how to make them, so hopefully i'll be making bracelets soon too! haha, crafting was honestly all i did on friday night, besides go to michael's to buy craft supplies. best friday night i've had in a while.

update #6: i believe i am out of updates. classes are going alright, nothing too crazy, and snow should be here before i know it. i'm crazy excited, but nervous too because i haven't been out on the snow in a pretty long time. but things are going good and i'm in great spirits because of my quickly approaching adventure. also, the mountain's trees don't change colors during the fall. the leaves just tease us and get yellow tips and then the leaves fall to the ground, so an east coast visit will be so great to see what a real fall looks like, once again. i wont be posting next sunday, as i'll be gone, but hopefully i'll be able to put pictures up for you from new york city and philadelphia later that week.