Life is an Adventure, Let Me Tell You

These past couple of days have been flying by!! Seems like just last Monday I was scheming my latest adventures!! So let me tell you about my weekend adventures!

Thursday: I woke up to a warm day (yay!) and by 11am I was off on my Boston/Salem adventure. Took the bus from Amherst to Boston South Station. The T from S.Station to North Station and then the Commuter Rail from N.Station to Salem. The entire trip took 4 hours! But it was soo worth it!!!

I went to Salem for my friend Ashley's very first Drag Show!!! Ashley is a drag King named Jude. Jude was amazing I was like a proud mother!! In high school he was never like this, he would've paid people to leave him alone and now only a couple years later he was in his very first Drag Show!!! YAY JUDE!!

This is a picture of Jude and a friend getting ready for the show. I obviously didn't take many picture of people getting ready because for many of these kids they aren't dressed until they are in full drag. I felt for privileged to be able to be there while many of them got ready and damn those guys know how to dress to impress!! Over all the experience was amazing and I am so glad I went!. Jude's act was totally awesome, he and his two friends were totally stellar! And over all feel completely honored that Jude invited me (I was like the only person he invited to see him in his first ever show!) After the show I met Jude's new girlfriend, who was also in the show, went out to eat with them and some friends and most importantly I saw the house used in HOCUS POCUS!!!!! Sadly I have not photgraphic evidence but I saw it and it was EPIC!!! [bed time 3am]

Friday: up early because Jude had class. Met up with my ex-freshman-roommate JESSIE HOMAN!!! For thse of you who don't know Jessie Homan is the cat's pajamas! She is defiantly one of my favorite people in the whole world who I don't see nearly enough!! I got to see her and Sam who is one of her friends who became my friend...I love friends! We went to Bagel World (oh heaven!!!) then Sam was nice enough to give me a ride to Boston. Then I was on my 4hr adventure back home where I went to work then had a Passover dinner with the roommates!! I hope my grandma is super proud of that fact! [bedtime about 12]


This is me being a smart ass and wishing my family a happy passover while they were all in New Jersey while I was home in NA.

Saturday: Up early and breakfast with the amazing and beautiful Steph Bose!! She's been in DC rockin it's socks off with her awesomeness!! We went to the Lone Wolf for breakfast with our friends molly and then Miss Bose was nice enough to give me a ride home! We chatted and had a fab time then I met up with Hannah and as usual we went everywhere saw everyone and had a blast doing so!! [bedtime 4ish]

Sunday: started out like any lazy sunday aka made myself a HUGE breakfast!!! I took a nap and delightfully woke up to my FAMILY!! it was nice getting to see them even if April was sadly missing and it was only for an hour. But I defiantly needed some amazing may time because I've missed them OODDLES!!!!!!! Then back to Amhert with me.


I promise to put more pictures up from the drag show and the weekend up on Flickr but right now my brain is melting and I need some sleep! Night everyone!!! peace love and hoolahoops!

Oh Jeez

So today I made some tough decisions about my life. It is no secret that I have never been a huge fan of school, this has been going on since elementary school! As a freshman I messed up and failed a class and then again as a freshman I made the quick decision to switch schools this now leaves me 9 credits shy of being on track.

I was going to try and force myself through this next year by taking a million classes and taking class through my summer and winter breaks but today I decided EFF THAT! And with my recent flare up with my dyslexia I realized I just won't be able to. I am going to get over my ego and just do the extra semester it will take for me to graduate without wanting to die.

By taking an extra semester I will be able to enjoy my time here at UMass because despite the fact that school just murders my soul sometimes I do love learning and have met so many great people here. I also thought that with all my friends graduating after the next spring semester I should try and go abroad to finish my college career.

So what are everyone's thoughts and feelings?

As of right now I'm feeling good about my decision, I mean I'll admit my ego is a little bruised about not being able to graduate on time with my friends but life happens. Well it is time for bed. Hopefully this post hasn't been too emo-tastic.

Peace Love and Hoolahoops!!!

Cookies soothe the soul

This weekend has had its ups and downs but it has defiantly ended on a good note! Are you wondering why? Is the anticipation eating you up inside? Can you not stand not knowing why my weekend ended great?....

Yeah thought not hahahaha. BUT I am going to tell you all anyway because I like to pretend that you guys really care about all the boring stuff that fills my time when I'm not doing all my super cool things.

So this morning was super lame (i will spare you all). Dance was amazing! We went over all three dances and everything is really starting to come together! I am soo excited for our performances!!! which reminds me DATES!!
April 24 - dance performance at the relay for life. Not the kind that family will want to come to because it will be kind of late.

May 9 - dance performance at the mullin center. This is the one I hope to see you all at!!!! We're doing two dances.

May 10 - dance performance TBA where. I don't know if this is an open performance because it's for some girls thesis but if it is I would love to see everyone here because we're doing a different dance than from the day before.

Ok, back to what made today end with a bang! So my roommate Carrie and I both had a bit of a roller coster weekend and had a need for something a little sweet. We have no sweets and neither of us were in the mood to leave the comforts of our home sooo we decieded to order in cookies!!! YAY Amherst!!! We ordered cookies from Sugar Jones and dang they were good!!!

YAY COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well homework time. Peace Love and Hoolahoops!

spring is in the air

Spring was in the air but today it seems lost. It's gray and rainy...lame! I guess on the plus side it is still going to be 55 degrees so all is well. Anyway this post is about spring and the exciting things involved with spring!!

April 9th - I'm going to Salem MA to see my friend Ashley's first drag show! YAY ASHLEY! I'm so excited to see her perform, i have no doubt she will be absolutely amazing!

April 17 - FOTC concert in Boston!!!! I love love LOVE Flight of the Conchords plus I'm going with the wonderful Micki!!!! It's going to be a grand adventure!!

April 18 - Hawaiian themed birthday party for an old friend

Later in April I have a dance performance and 2 or 3 in May. DON"T worry I will for sure post the dates when I know them!!!!

I love UMass in the spring/summer (well not the school part) everyone is so fun! All the really creative people seem to emerge from the melted snow and ice!!!
Here are some kids sitting on the roof of their house. They were singing tunes to the passing cars and pedestrians! I manage to get a picture while driving by.

I took this picture yesterday in the garden outside my home. I actually ended up gardening today!! It felt awesome to play in the dirt and make the garden look decent and worth looking at! Gardening also makes you feel better. Today was kind of rough and after getting my hands (and my entire body) dirty I felt so much better. More importantly it felt good to accomplish something didn;t involve a grade or any other school realated bullshit.

The two pictures above of flowers that a wet I took today in the garden. They aren't the best but they make me smile. I'm just soo excited spring is finally here and I can not wait for my summer adventures, which I hope there are many!!!!

Other good news I officially have a babysitting job and today was my frist paid night! I love the family and I am so happy I get a chance to work for them again!!!

Alrighty I am off to do a little adventuring tonight! BEACH PARTY HERE I COME!!!! Have a nice night folks! have fun, party hard and play safe!!

Buon Compleanno Aprile Maggio

Today is my older sister April's birthday!! It's very exciting, I think I love birthdays way too much! So in honor of her birthday here are a couple of pictures (sadly they are from a while ago...thanksgiving if we want to be completely accurate).

This is a picture of April with our second and most adorable cousin Alexis!

And here we are in all our sisterly glory. who knows what that is supposed to mean but don't mind me, I am ill and spitting out giberish! lolz. I would love to write more about my extermly talented and amazing sister but I need a nap. But I pretty sure it is common knowledge how proud I am of my sister and what an amazing young woman she is. I hope in five years when I am where she is I will be as strong, talented and over all awesome-o as she is! Love you April!!! Have an amazing day!!!!!!

Love. Peace. & Hoolahoops

going around doing almost grown up things

This weekend was a little crazy being the first weekend back from Spring Break and all. I can't lie I have been a little behind but only because I have been dreaming about my next big adventure....maybe Cali &/or Utah for my 21????? Who knows??!?!?? lol.

Friday after school and the Gym and I did about a MILLION things, ok ok I did three different things! First I went and saw the Mcdowells!! For those of you who don;t know I babysat for the McDowells when I was in high school. I watched their very newborn Liam from a couple weeks old till he was about a year and a half. Anyway they just moved to Amherst and even more amazing is they live TWO streets down from where I live!!!!!!!!!! Liam is now five and their daughter Matty is two or three. They are both adorable! On top of being the cutest kids I really love their mom! She's is just amazing to be around and I am so glad I get another chance to be able to chat with her on a regular basis.




















Here is Matty painting and washing her Dinos. She is a lot like me. She likes to be hands on, she's artistic and she's basically a wild woman! lol. She loves to run around and do what her heart desires even if it may seem wierd, she depands attention and is very sweet.
Liam is the strong silent type. He is soo very smart and defiantly prefers doing things and building things by himself. He is very sweet and is soo differnt from when I last saw him. I can't wait to be able to get to know him again!

After visiting with the McDowells I went out to eat with some of my older friends! Then after that I went with my housemate Zipper to a very small gathering at our friends house. It is there I met Fernando Torez!!!! He was the most well trained puppy I may have ever seen! He played fetch, knew some comands. He was sooo cute!!!!

Well besides that the weekend has been pretty chill. I had dance and a BBQ yesterday and I had dance and homework today. If you were wondering the BBQ was super fun and I had such a blast!!!!!! But back to reality. I have italian homework to do...blehhhhhh no fun.

ps. I updated my flickr!!! Check it out and feel free to leave me comments!!

spring break, what an adventure!

I realize now I was sorta kinda maybe a little vague about Vegas. So, here is a post to better explain my super adventure!

I stayed at the Palms Hotel which was super nice! We were maybe a half mile off the strip so we did a lot of walking! I didn't mind the walk at all because I walk to and from campus everyday (and I mean EVERY day).Plus, it was always super warm out! So yes in the picture I stayed in the Palms Hotel that is on the right the other one is the Playboy Bunny Palms Hotel. If you wanted to know a little too much information I stayed on the 26th floor! hehe.


So I left for Vegas on Friday the 13th with Hannah and we met up with Jake in the airport. Funny fact: we took a limo to our hotel! You may be thinking super expensive but it was actually cheaper than a cab....because we shared it with three strangers.
(^the strip)
Pretty much we just walked around. We went and visited most of the hotels on the strip. Saturday was Jake's birthday and we also met up with my housemate Zipper (Zach) and his California friends.

Jake returned to Utah on Monday and Hannah and I took our epic walk to the Stratosphere! Now I've already mentioned we were kind of off the strip but when we did walk up were in the middle of everything. We were moments away from most of the coolest hotels, so, when Hannah and I decided to visit the Stratosphere we thought nothing of a "little" walk. DAMN that place was far away!! It was worth is though, I took the picture of the strip there. So we walked all the way there and had to walk ALL the way back.

The return was way cooler because we went and saw a free outside show at the Treasure Island Hotel. It was this really cool pirate show called the Sirens of TI. There was dancing, music, a light show, fire, fireworks and a sinking ship! Way neat! And after that we went and say Cirques du Soleil's LOVE. It was amazing and the music was obviously incredible!


Sorry I'm still being so vague but the whole trip is a blerr, there was just so much excitement and long days with exciting nights. Craziness! Oh but one more interesting thing I feel a should comment on is that yes, I did gamble!! And even more interesting I won some dollars!! Well I won 2.25 which isn't bad. I decieded to not cash in my winnings because not only am I not 21 but I thought I would enjoy it more in my journal where I can giggle about my gambeling adventure. In the end the trip is something i could never forget even if I can't remeber what happened on what day! And it also makes me look forward tp future adventures and endevers!

Well it's time for me to get ready for class. Hope everyone enjoys the beautiful spring weather!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace, Love and Hoolahoops!!