i love summer

There are a thousand reasons why I love summer. My birthday is during the summer (July 30), and so is my dad's birthday!, everyone has a BBQ all the time, mangoes, beach weather, bike riding, just to name a few. I mostly love sitting under trees and reading.



I don't know why but summer/autumn are my tree loving months. I spend so much time just looking up and staring at the trees. While this is true of every semester I've had so far namely in the English Department, I sit on the 4th floor annex and just stare at the trees in the sustainability courtyard. There's something about them that just entrances me.

When I'm not staring at trees I'm grilling meat.



And passing out while watching sunsets.

kitten post

So back in April while my mom was on her trip my brother and I discovered two abandoned kittens living in the closet where we store our water heater.  Brother-sister duo with nothing really in common except their eyes.  We took them in and I treated them like they were my children.  I can't even tell you how much time I sat and researched how to raise kittens.  I've learned more about cats since getting them than I have my entire life. So this is Felix. I named him after Felix the cartoon cat, and partially after Felix Gaeta, my favorite Battlestar Galactica character. Which, retrospectively, was a bad idea, because that guy becomes a total villain after season 3. My bad!

Initially, Felix was a total runt and baby. He needed extra love and care. I had to cuddle him to get him to sleep and stop crying, often putting him under my shirt close to my chest (where it was warmest and quietest). My little baby!




And then there is Chaps. I came up with the name (with the help of my boyfriend) because her legs are colored like she's wearing crotchless chaps! Also she's moo-printed so it reminds me of cowboys. Here's a hasty photo I took of her legs.

 


Dan with Chaps on his head! In case you're wondering, they've chewed off most of those blinds of on both sides now. Anyway it should be noted that Chaps is a really attention needy cat now. She needs to be petted constantly otherwise she starts to act out by knocking stuff over or peeing/pooping everywhere. I'm pretty torn up over the fact that I can't take them with me when I move to Seattle. They're too young yet to travel and I don't even think they could endure the emotional trauma of a plane ride there. Kind of really worried because they both seem to think I'm their mother! Hopefully my mom and brother will be able to care for them.

Anyway I think this post can sum up some pretty key facts about me. 1) I love cats like they are my own children. 2) I am not ashamed of my cat love (anymore).

june.

I haven't been updating because I don't have much to say.

The semester ended. I did okay. Now I'm in summer school. I just keep telling myself "it'll all be over in August" but it feels farther and farther away.

Tomorrow I have two midterms (already!) and I should be studying and writing up notes but instead I've been writing nasty reviews on Yelp and scratching this horrible hives breakout on my thigh.

Anyway, I got a pair of kittens and they're adorable.
I use Dan's old french press nearly every day.
And even though I started wearing gloves at work religiously while working with chemicals, I bite my healthy nails off anyway so they always look jagged and gross.

Meh.

new roll!

here are my faves:

summary of march 2012

So. I didn't post once this past month and there are a lot of reasons why. I'm not going to go into super detail on what happened in the last thirty one days but I'll try and summarize it pretty quickly:

i paid all my credit card debt. i am now saving $700 a month. i got enough money for summer school. but bad news? my hard drive died, and i had no backups. oh, and my ipod died the week before, so i have no music at all. it's been grim. but some other stuff happened, too.

cheeseburger in paradise sucks.

dan and i went to the honolulu festivals, which was a lot of fun!








soul is amazing. chicken and biscuits (covered in gravy!)

bike rides in ewa. check out this brother sister duo!

getting grouchy.




i baked a cheesecake. i even let it sit in the oven for a full six hours and the damned thing still cracked! i'm blaming my lack of four eggs (used three instead). dan mentioned that i didn't mix it well... but everyone else seemed to love it all the same.


bubbies! dan's first time. espresso ice cream in a sugar cone and then raspberry mochi/ choco espresso mochi ice cream! woo!


anyway a lot happened this month and i blame my hard drive dying for the lack of posts. more to come soon, though!