california ho!

so mitch & i left utah around 10am or something . and about 1 hour into our trip his CD player broke. HAHAHA. 10 hour drive with nothing but shitty radio & AM updates on the blizzard & road conditions. basically it showed us that we can entertain ourselves & each other pretty well for 10 hours. plus it took us longer since we had to drive thru TWO blizzards!

blizzard #1

i will admit that a couple of times i felt like screaming because mitch took it upon himself to be the vocal entertainment on the drive since the CD player was caput... not saying his singing is bad.. but his choice of songs were just .. oh my god. haha. we played 20 questions. and ate bad food. and hit the back of a car because the road was icey ... best part was the guy didnt care at all and there was zero damage. we win! and we didnt get pulled over at all ! (thanks to my handy dandy radar detector) and we made it thru both blizzards easy peasy.

this is the passenger side of the car after both blizzards -

the front of the car is to the right. serious!

so much ice was hanging off the car we had to kick off.

and we arrived safely in freezing cold Reno for the night and made ourselves cozy at the Hyatt Place ... easily my favorite hotel i've ever stayed in and i HIGHLY recommend it to everyone. plus it smells so delicious i wish my perfume smelled like the Hyatt . you think i'm kidding but i'm not.

so anyways we will be in california today by 10 or 11 . and then the real fun shall begin. im happy mitch came with me on this trip. and i cant wait to blog about this fun little family adventure when it's all over. but i also cant wait to get back to utah.

super slacking

i've been such a slacker here in the blog world! sorry!
not like anyone reads my junk anyway. but still.
sooo not much is new....

just packing my bags for a trip to UTAH!

then when i get back from utah next monday i have a busy rest of the month... mayas 21st bday is on friday at her & gabes house , its gonna be so fun. then i have a wedding to shoot on saturday. thennnn on the 25th i have my surgery.

i'm stoked for another year in Tahoe for the 4th of July. last years 4th was super hilarious and crazy ... brooke & i went to tahoe to her friends house on the lake and it was just some wild weird party and we walked out into the lake to watch fireworks. i love & miss my brooke! ah! '
then on july 5th... BRENT COMES HOME! i havent seen him for a year .. i miss the guts out of him.

tomorrow i am going to the lagoon (2nd picture down below) for a swim & tan sesh with audra. jackie would come... but she missed her flight back from florida. haha. i miss jackie. i miss all my friends.

lets get summer started

here are some good photos to get your summer time vibe flowin :

palockpanir

i cant believe its supposed to rain until wednesday. what the heck?

luckily LA will be clear and warm ... cant wait for that trip seriously. this week is going to go by so slow i just know it.. painful ! tay & i are gonna laugh so much. we already discussed it.

mitch & i are going to have piña coladas on the beach. wish that was tomorrow... it is so needed. in bathing suits... hahahaha.

i hope i remember to take pictures on my trip tho. i ALWAYS forget. other people take photos but i always forget to use my camera. which is stupid. its a nikon d300s ... how could i forget to use something like that? im ridic.

here is me today. a picture i took for someone.... no make up because it was my day off. . never happening again because i have such pathetic eyelashes. maybe i should paint my wall the way it looks in this picture. it looks dank! ... all green and faded... i wonder why it even looks that way.

aaannnddd here is payton in the shirt i sent her
with the origami flower i sent her.. so cute.

& ... i've gotten back into wizarding :

i've been away for a while, here is why

as you all know i've been away in utah for the past week , it was a good but exhausting time. i really miss it and i am torn between utah & california. i think i want to move back. but it doesn't seem logical sometimes. i have to think a lot about it . because i really miss and love all my friends there. we will see when the time comes. i'm not going to post up all the photos at once, but here are some randoms i like a lot. i cant wait for simon to post up the ones from his camera and nicole too. they both got good photos! i miss everyone already. especially my sammer & nicole. sigh.

Kodak 400 BW CN, Contax 645, 80mm f2.0, no photoshop
- taken by ryan muirhead


jozef made us cut onions for dinner ... he made us cry.
my makeup was everywhere haha!


me at Tony Caputos looking at the amazing foods & sweets. (300s, 400w)


carly & macy at jake garns photowork shop - taken with my d300s!



this is my favorite photo of a human being i've ever taken & it was all an accident. this is maddie, one of the models at the workshop. my iso wasn't high enough, this is what came out! i LOVE it. i tried it in b&w too, but the color version is the original i didn't even have to edit it.. YES!


this is jack - my best lokes baby boy . he is so funny & cute to hang out with.


this is train tracks. i spent some time here & watched two big trains roll past slowly. it was amazing. i really like trains a lot


good bye utah. this reminded me of the alps but a lot smaller.


we stopped by a tiny little town to take pictures. this is me


the tiny town had a herd of stray cats that were super cute... i wanted all of them


this is the last photo i took with my camera on the trip.

home -

here i am back home . its nice. its like i never left which is always so weird. my cat is all over me she missed me so much. i love her..

so it was a fun trip. parts. we went to the mystery spot yesterday. it was very cool - google it then go to santa cruz & go to it. but its so pretty around there. so green. bri's hut is up past it and its so cool. totally round & strange and all solar powered. its an interesting way to live.

san luis was BEAUTIFUL. oh my gosh. it was so green and just amazing. i wish i had a camera that could have taken photographs of it.. but i didn't . looks like i'll just have to go back.. at first i really wasn't that into slo. i mean i thought it was beautiful and thats that but i actually really love it. i like how there is stuff to do but its just chill, its not all crazy & busy. its just a focused town. i was thinking of going to cal poly (if at all possible) to get my bachelors. next year of course. i just got my camera working today which sucks. i wish i could have taken photos along the trip. i hope it works this time. ryan showed me how to do it right. he has an olympus like mine but his has a flash. cool! ryan is my new .. friend. i think we have one photo together or something. thats all. hes really nice. he is an art major, he does AMAZING art. thats enough on him. i wont go further. for now. um what else.. well i guess thats all that matters. the beach was nice today i dropped my phone in the ocean but it works and nothing happened. weird. good luck.

san luis obispo

here i am .. in slo. i'm at kevin, adam & wades apartment on kevins mac. i've been taking photos of myself and laughing. jackie & tiffany are downtown. i didn't really feel like walking around in the cold. i'm a bummer, what can i say. oh well. tonight we might go bowling. oh yeah its RAINING here today. sucks. i wish it wasn't. tomorrow night we go back to santa cruz. that'll be nice. but really i can't wait to be home in my own bed with my kitten.. who i miss a lot. cal poly is a really pretty place.. i better go find tiffany and jackie.

bucket

some people just aren't very interesting to listen to. or very interesting in general. i'm glad i am. or at least i'd like to think so. nah, i know i am.

i stole my neighbors ice chest because i'm a snake. i'm giving it back when i'm done tho. i left a note. i already packed up most of my stuff into the car. because i'm that excited. i could just do it tomorrow but... why not do it now? kylee is watching my little angel anouk while i'm gone. anouk is going to miss me so much i know it. i got her fancy feast turkey feast in gravy for her to eat on thanksgiving. i love my cat alright.

i'm hungry

i get so bored sitting at home all the time. i get home from watching theo & mary jane and then...

i do NOTHING. now that i have cable tv & internet, i will most likely become fat or something.

i'm going back to California on July 30th and driving to Huntington Beach on august 1st & staying there till the 5th. and then i'm flying back on the 7th. me tiffany &jackie are driving. little road trip. they always make me drive. i'm the better driver out of us three.

i'm on the phone with trey right now.