Just some things I love.

So instead of posting about the day's (or previous days') instances and happenings, I figured I would post about some of the things I love that I do not get to enjoy as often as I would like. These hings range from doing something, eating something, having something and even being with someone. There is no order to these things, they are just as I think of them.

Okay so the first thing that I love that came to mind is reading! I love to read but even though technically I have time to read every now and then, I tend not to either because I do not have a book around that I haven't read yet or I choose not to due to the type of reader I am. I like to waste a whole day on a book and never stop. It aggravates me to have to start and stop every few chapters and then continue on the next day-- I want to be submerged in the story!! 

The next thing that I love is a person. She has been my best friend since I was 9 and she moved away when I was 11. Yet, even though she was hundreds of miles away and we wouldn't get to talk to each other often (before cell phones really) we still acted like we were next door neighbors when we did finally get to hang out. My Audrey, I miss you! Audrey is now living in Pennsylvania and its been over 4 years since I seen her. It makes me so sad to think of all the experiences in my life that would have been that much more amazing if she were around. I just hope that sometime soon, I get to see her again and act like little kids. I love you sister!

Wow, I just realized if I go over EVERYTHING this will be a extremely long post so maybe I will talk about just a few more things...

So then of course I must mention all the family that I love but do not get to see nearly as often as I would like-- first being my father. He lives in Dallas and works really hard to make his family's lives easier but with that work comes time away from his family which I know is hard on him. I am glad that this past Christmas we got to spend some quality time together and have some good talks that really brought us closer together. I love you Dad. To all the rest of my family, both on my mom's side and my dad's-- I miss you so much! You have no idea! Kris has been lucky enough to have his whole family right there in the same town all his life. I wish that I could have had that but I know that you all would love me just the same no matter how far apart we are. I miss you and hope to see you soon.

(There are of course many more people than in these photos but then that would be a lot of photos!)

Now, to get less mushy and more superficial-- SWIMMING! I love swimming, I love feeling weightless and yet so powerful at the same time. I used to be a freaking fish when we had a pool in our backyard but now, I can count on one hand the number of times I have been swimming in the past few years. I would go to a public pool but I don't know, its not the same once you are an adult and germ-conscious. I attempted to swim in the pool at CSUEB but its only open publicly from like 2-4 and I always have classes right then. I want to be thin and fit again but swimming is the only workout I truly love...all the rest just feel like too much work. I know, I should stop being a lazy bum and just go run or something but its hard when your days off are few and far between. Does someone want to come build a pool in my backyard? Please? I will give you a dollar!

Okay, what else?  Well of course there are a million more things but this is on the verge (or already is-- not sure,) of boring so maybe I will just stop. Hopefully my next post will have something more exciting to talk about. Anyway, if you feel left out because I did not mention you in some fashion throughout this post-- don't because I am mentioning you now! I love you! I miss you! Unless I do not know you at all...then...uhhh.... hey! How ya doin'? Okay, well have a wonderful day everyone. Be safe and enjoy life!

I love warmth!

   So I am back from camping. I am currently bundled up under blankets, enjoying my warm room and a solid roof and four walls keeping me from the rain. It was very wet and very very cold out at the ranch but we still had a lot of fun. The ranch belongs to Kris' old manager and her husband: Karrie and Vern. They are amazingly sweet people who are like another set of parents to anyone they meet. We went shooting and ate a lot. We had a lot of fun conversations and enjoyed the fresh air. The highlight of the trip were the exploding targets that one of Kris' old coworkers brought-- there were three in total but this one was the best video in my opinion (Pardon some of the language haha... it was quite an explosion.):

   This is the second time Kris and I went up to the ranch and it was also the second time I made cheesecake to bring but this time I made two! I made a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake and a resses one. They turned out pretty good if I do say so myself and the fact that it was all gone in a very short time means the others must agree.

The rest of the photos from the trip and the other explosion videos will be on my facebook soon.

   I also wanted to put on here that my next quarter will be starting next week and it is going to be a tough one. I also have to buy a car within the next two weeks which will be super hard because my funds are limited so finding something that runs well and is less than 10 years old and is under 100,000 miles is hard but I am sure I will find something. 

   Okay well I will post more tomorrow but I have to get ready for work now. Oh, but before I go I just wanted to say that I am sorry for the loss of my great uncle Leo, my grandmother's brother in law and my father's uncle. He lost a battle with cancer and even though I did not really know him, I know he was very loved by my family and he will be missed.

I hope all is well with you and your family. Love and cherish one another.

Being sick serves no purpose now!

    Remember when you were young and being sick meant: no school, mom taking care of you and all the cartoons you want? Yeah, well now that I am an old fart, being sick only means that I still have to go to work, just feel horrible while doing so, or else I will get paid nothing! If I do stay home, mom doesn't need to take care of me because I am a "big girl" although, every now and then she will try. And we do not have T.V anymore so there are no cartoons to watch! What is the point??? GRRRRR! Okay, I am done. So I just have a cold but it is knocking me on my butt and I just want it to go away. I am supposed to go camping this weekend with Kris and some friends but if I am sick the whole time (and it might very well be raining the whole time we are camping as well) then that would just suck horribly. Oh well, we shall see how it goes. 

   So by popular demand (being Aubrey) I am going to show some pics of my nail designs that I have been doing lately. Now, they aren't anything to be amazed by-- my nails are short and I am not any sort of artist but they make me happy. So, here they are!

The last one is a pattern I am going to try when my nails get longer! Yay!

    Okay, so what else? Oh, I am done with classes! I got an A in my Renaissance Humanism class which is amazing because that class was intense. I am pretty sure I will have an A in my Women's Health class and for my Ethnic Writer's course...no less than a B I am sure. It would be an A but I had the worst Writer's Block of my life during midterms so the essay I wrote was just awful. I have always been great at writing essays and that one was a C paper at best-- just very very bad for me. I am glad this quarter is over. I did mostly online classes this time around and I can't wait to get back to the in-person classes. 

   Okay well this will be my last post for a few days. I am going to be in Redding, camping in the wet, cold mud while coughing my lungs out. Woo hoo! I hope you all are healthy and happy!

Adios amigos!

I am an Addict...

    It is true, I am addicted to painting my nails. I think the fumes are starting to eat at my brain but I do not care! I love cute nails! Okay, so that is not how I was thinking I was going to start my second post but I put off writing this just so I could spend the last 3 hours doing several different designs on my nails-- all in all, it is better to let you know now that I am insane. Okay, so what I really wanted to talk about (or one of the things) is how proud I am of Kristopher! He just got an interview with the Kaiser school and for all of you that do not know, he has been trying to get this far for years. He is so smart and will be such a great radiographer someday! He deserves this chance and I just hope that the interview goes well!

   Anyway, I will not spend this whole post talking about him this time around. I want to talk about some other things going on in my life. Some of you know that I am working with a deaf/ autistic boy-- working on his speech, motor skills and social interaction. He is a sweet little guy but he can drive me crazy sometimes. He just discovered how to mock people, so now whenever I am telling him to do something, he repeats it (in his way) back to me in a high pitched voice and then laughs hysterically. I cannot get anything done when he is like that! My job is to improve his skills, not become a punchline...but to him, I am! I just hope his parents see that I am trying and that this new development isn't a result of my efforts, its just him being a little 5 year old boy. In any case, he is cute and I drew this picture of him while he was taking his nap...you would never guess there are horns hiding under that hair sometimes haha!

I haven't drawn people in a long time so the whole image is a bit flat, but in any case, I thought it was okay. Another thing that has started happening (again) is my obsession with sign language. While working with a deaf little boy, my signing has gotten a lot clearer then it has been in the past. I realized that I need to start going to some deaf events. I need to meet some deaf people, make some deaf friends and really submerge myself into the culture. Many people do not realize that there is a deaf culture, none the less that it is so diverse and cherished among deaf people. If you have never seen someone signing, or signing a song then you are missing out. There is something magical about that language to me and I can't wait to really throw myself back into it. I am taking ASL 2 in the spring-- which technically I have already taken but I just want a refresher course. ASL is my second true passion beyond writing-- its a true way to use your voice.

   Let's see, what else? Since my last post, there are so many little things throughout the day that I think "Hey! I should write about that!" but now that I am actually sitting here, writing about random things, I cannot think of the other, supposedly interesting things. Oh well, the only thing that is coming to my random-- fume eaten mind is the poetry contests I am entered in. One contest is for my school and there are cash prizes: the other contest is not really a contest per-say, but a chance to get published in a literary journal.  I am hoping that at least one will work out because lately, I feel like I have been slacking on my writing which is another reason why I wanted to start this blog. I get so wrapped up in work and the day to day assignments that I let my creativity fall through the cracks. So, keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck! I need it!

Okay...another long post. I will stop it now. I hope everyone who reads this is not bored to tears-- if so, sorry! I will try and remember my more interesting topics next time. Bye bye for now!

   

    

Let us begin...

Well, hello all, or few, or one, maybe even none. My name is Arynn not Ree Ree, but I am Ree Ree to some. My little sister began to call me that when she was about two years old and it just stuck. Anyway, I am not sure what to write about in the first post. Do I start with a little history? A lot of history? At the risk of getting too personal or even too depressing, I think I will just keep the past in the past for the most part. As for now, lets just do a quick refresher on the past few years or so: I am a 24 year old student at California State University East Bay. I am majoring in English with a minor in Creative Writing (please do not hold high expectations for spelling and grammar due to this fact-- I am in school, meaning I am still learning). I DO NOT want to be a teacher however, if it came down to it, I suppose I would teach if I had to
    Beyond school, I do not do much  else other than work and hang out with my boyfriend. Speaking of my boyfriend-- let me speak of my boyfriend! His name is Kris, or when I am mad at him-- KRISTOPHER!!!! He is amazing and wonderful and hilarious. We have been dating for over four years now, which is amazing because it truly feels like its been only a few wonderful moments. Being his girlfriend is effortless because he makes it so. We met in a rather odd way because it was not like we were looking for each other or anyone for that matter. Some of you who read this believe we met in a different way then we actually did-- for that little lie, I apologize. Kris and I met online, not at school. When we originally began talking to one-another, meeting people online was still pretty taboo and when we actually did meet in person and began to date-- the bad reputation was still there. Now however, that feeling towards the internet has changed enough to where I can be honest. Just know that I never intended to be mean or make anyone feel that they were untrustworthy, I just wanted to know that things would go well for Kris and me before I let people tell me of the potential weak points. 

      So on that note, the truth: I was on Myspace just before we moved to northern CA, trying to find out what kind of people populated my soon-to-be place of residence. The browse option of Myspace gave me quite an array of characters-- most of which were a bit intimidating. Every woman was making some kissy-face with the camera angled down to show her boobs; and every man was shirtless with tattoos of guns and naked women adorning his stomach-- except for one. The first person in the list of thousands was the last person online at the time. Here was this picture of a man-- face slightly hidden under a black fedora, dressed in a black shirt and pants with a white tie-- leaning back in a chair looking just oh-so cool. I though I need to check this guy out. So I clicked on the cool picture and found quite an assembly of interesting things, I will not go over them all but suffice it to say, some of them were hilarious. Having a bad day that particular day-- I sent the cool fedora dude a message saying "You do not know me but your profile made me laugh so, thank you" and that was it. He wrote back basically saying "You're welcome" and from there, we exchanged messages for months. When I finally moved up to where he was, we decided to meet. Afraid that he could be an axe murderer, I met him in a park with tons of people around. Long story short-- he was not a murderer. He was amazing and he still is.

     Okay, wow...that took up waaayyy more time than I was expecting so, I will let this be the end of the first post. I suppose if there is any particular thing you may want to know, just ask. If not, then I will just write. So...ummm.... Fin.