points of my day...blah blah blah

we'll start out with the low point of the day and work our way up.

low point of the day :

• having to wake up SUPER early. i'm not such a big fan of that. i like my sleep. but that's okay. 
• also spilling coffee sludge on my pants when i took out the garbage. nast.

medium point of the day (yes, you can have a medium point of your day) :

• having a quiet break and eating a pretzel brioche with strawberry rhubarb jam. i felt pretty happy about that. 

weird point of the day :

• watching dual survival episodes...i'm not a super huge fan of that show, but i just keep watching it. why i don't change the channel, i don't know.

productive point of the day :

• tying over 200 tfl bows with isaac. (i tried to find a photo of a tfl bow...but all that came up were photos of london? weird. anyway, it's a fancy bow that we use on special orders and they're complicated. so it was way cool that we did so many in not so much time.)

high points of the day (there were multiple) :

• receiving a reno keychain from my coworker beth (seriously, so sweet of her!) 
• seeing apple (stephanie graham) and her family
• getting all of our special orders DONE
• everyone was happy today 
• and. AND. in napa i was going to target for some stuff and then decided last minute to stop at the outlets. and i found the j crew factory outlet and not only were they having a MAJOR sale, they gave me 15% off for being a student. BOOM. 
• and the morgan's invited me over for blts tonight. YUM. 
• and being complimented on my hair by the anne taylor loft employee (i'll tell you my secret, lady. it's called "not showering" haha).

and that, so far, has been my day.

in which i will make you very jealous that you don't live in the napa valley

because sometimes you're just driving down the road, listening to some good tunes, and you see this.

it had been raining the clouds were just beginning to clear up.

naturally i pulled over, turned on the hazards, and jumped out of the car to get some shots with the camera.

ridiculous.

note: all photos are completely unedited and i'm not even lying.

glorious: a phrase which here cannot even begin to describe the napa valley.

the weather finger

dear readers.

i would like to tell you the story of my weather finger because it is currently killing me.

it's a little story that goes like this:

once upon a time, sydney and her two friends, chloe and sasha, were in charge of decorations for the homecoming dance their senior year of high school. we had gathered old dance decorations together and loaded them into the back of sasha's blue prius, where they stayed in the sweltering 100 degree weather for about three days. on friday during our leadership class, we got the bags out of the car and began to sort through them on the lawn outside of the classroom. we were confused as we looked through the decorations because they smelled like pee. it didn't make sense. at least, not until we found the family of mice. we pulled some gossamer out of one of the trash bags and suddenly a little family of mice (who had survived in sasha's car in 100 degrees for three days?!) fell out and were all around my feet. there was much screaming, as i remember, and mice darting in all directions. chloe, in a valiant effort to save me from said family of mice, grabbed my left hand to pull me away. but she only grabbed my index finger. i felt no snap, heard no cracks, i just knew something bad had happened. but i put off looking at my finger until later. one of the mice had run into the classroom, wreaking havoc. of course i had to help find it. but...at that point, i wasn't really able to because all i knew was that my finger was not so happy and neither was i. i refused to look at it until the mouse was located. once it was, i looked down and saw that my finger was about 12 times its normal size...and turning pretty shades of green and purple. and i remember thinking "well, that one's broken." so i got an ice pack from the front office, called my mom, and we went to the hospital. my xrays revealed that my knuckle was indeed broken, in fact, a small piece of it had chipped right off. it healed back, don't worry. now i have a funny little bump on my knuckle. and it aches whenever there is a storm coming. that's not so bad, though, because now i have my very own weather finger.

except sometimes it's faulty and i'm not sure if there's a storm coming or it's just being silly.

so look out, all you california people. a storm may or may not be coming in the near future 

(but my iphone tells me there isn't).

you pickled my funny bone

this is my family. we enjoy word play, the letter 'p,' and group messaging on our iphones.

[the following conversation is between me, my mom, dad, aunt carrie, uncle mike, and cousin mark]

¿why?

i am sitting on my couch.

eating watermelon.

watching the bachelorette.

what has my life come to?? 

oh, and ps...

I HAVE TAN LINES AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

pablo the toad and other adventures

i don't really even know what to blog about. but...it's been a while, so here i am! what's happened in the past week and a half...i don't even know. a lot?

i stole some gnomes (and a lizard and pig thing) with my friend zach who just got home from his mission.

we took them from a friend's house, don't worry. and we returned them, of course...

at the dog park

scaring all the little kids

frye's printing

eating tacos

we also got tortas at one of the taco trucks in napa.

i played ultimate frisbee with the singles ward. and ate pizza.

nate made a good pass even on crutches

nate and jill

hahaha best photo of the night. nate and i just watching the frisbee while everyone else is actually playing.

dominoes

gosh, i love that maddy cope girl and her man pants.

i made 200 baby cupcakes with michelle for cammie and jake's reception.

my after-school cookie from michelle :)

bucket list : eat teddy grahams dipped in confetti frosting. he's in a little jacuzzi.

italian buttercreammmmmm

'cakes!

it was cupcake central. wilton got their math wrong hahaha!

so many cupcakes. out our ears cupcakes.

i helped set up for the reception and was in charge of the dessert table. it turned out pretty well, i think!

cammie and jacob had teacups as gifts. super cute idea.

dessert table, minus some of the chocolate cupcakes, and minus the wedding cake.

i partied a little too hard with steph at the reception. with martinelli's people! martinelli's!

we drank an entire bottle and it was awesome.

i colored in steph's driveway just like old times.

It's ROYGBIV, right? Oops. I think I went back to blue. Now it's ROYGBIB." -ZWag

i went to the beach with the mutzes and the easley's before cammie and jake moved to hawaii.

leaping on the beach

i look like a mountain goat

i tell cammie she is the sunshine of my life. she tells me she loves me and kisses my cheek. it's a good friendship we've got going.

love this couple.

i got locked in the pigeon cage at zach's house.

the pidges didn't like me very much.

i played mini golf and caught a toad named pablo with steph, zach, and nate. it's so fun to have friends home from their missions.

 

zach's golf ball hit mine and i got...well not a hole in one, but i got it in 2 hits.

pablo the toad

and i've worked. lots of work and some babysitting, too.

it's been a good week and a half.