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2010Four Months Left
Goodbye Miss, Hello Mrs.
Days two forty – two forty seven
I am so proud. Will and Kat were visiting during this time period and I still managed to take a second and take a photo, and it wasn’t a duplicate from a post I already shared!! YES.
On day 240 we worked a garage sale to help family, and this is actually a silly photo because we were just taking this so I could see what the pearls looked like while on since we didn’t have a mirror. This is also about the time that I should have applied more sunscreen to avoid burning. Oh, if I could turn back time.
A cute little key chain nabbed from the garage sale.
When I come back from swimming I don’t really feel like doing my hair again. So up it goes.
Okay, so I guess you can’t really see here, and I thought you’d be able to since it’s in my hands, but this is perhaps the biggest strawberry I’ve ever seen. And I ate it. With glee. Also, (watch as I lose a ton of readers in the next few minutes) I’ve been told this resembles Twilight, which made me cringe a little. It’s not that I hate Twilight; I just don’t see what all the fuss is about. I tried to read the first book several years ago but I got maybe fifteen pages in and couldn’t finish it because it read like a poorly written fan-fiction, and boy oh boy, I’ve read enough of those in my years, let me tell you.
Japanese market goodies.
Peach (桃) drink! Mmm, delicious.
Will wrote a beautiful thank you letter in calligraphy with a wax seal and stamp (of his Chinese name). I seriously sat there for two minutes trying to carefully open it so the seal wouldn’t break.
Good morning, 6 am. Tom and I have started rising at 5 am. We like getting up early because we feel like we get more accomplished during the day. A few things have kept us up late, and getting up every single day has been a challenge, but after a while it will become like second nature.
meagan
ooooh i love t&t supermarket! i wish there was one in my city.
Heather
You found that camera key chain at a garage sale?! That’s so cool!!
I wish I could be an early riser, but we have just always been such night owls in this house. I wake up way too late! I wish I could get up earlier, but I know I would just think, “Why?? Sleep a little more!!” haha.
Sara
I don’t leave myself any time to argue, when I hear the old jazz altos start singing, I am sitting up and trying my darnedest to open my eyes. As I’m sitting up my brain goes, “Warm bed?” But then I make myself stand up and brew the kettle, and by then it is too late.
Ashling
Oh gosh. I’ll have to wake up by 6am at the latest, starting tomorrow. If I want extra time in the mornings, it’ll have to be more like 5am. We’ll see how that goes ^_^; Also, that strawberry looks enormous!
Sara
Ooh, we could be five am risers together! You’ve always been an earlier riser than me, though. Today I beat the sunrise! That never happens!
Kym
And no, I don’t understand the obsessive nature that Twlight fans have. Now Harry Potter, that is my cup of tea.
Sara
Haha, it’s strange how big things seem to become now a days. I can’t seem to think of what was so “huge” in our time in high school. Perhaps I’m just forgetting?
Kym
Harry Potter was actually really big back then sweetie. Though I didn’t get into it until after I graduated.
Other then that, I don’t remember anything being big other then anime.
Kym
I get up at 2:30 am to be to work by 4:00 am. It has not become second nature yet. I try going to bed, on a good day, by 9:00 pm. I’d love to go to bed at 6:00 pm.
Sara
2:30 am to rise?! OK, you win. I don’t think I’d like that very much, and I don’t know if that could ever become second nature.
Kym
It hasn’t become second nature yet. I don’t think it will.
BTW, I meant to tell you that you look beautiful. I love your outfits.
Kim
Oh man. I get up at 4:30 AM most days for work, and if I could grab you by the shoulders and shake you while screaming, “ARE YOU MAD?! SLEEP IN WHILE YOU CAN!” I would! Haha
Seriously though, I’m totally with you– while I dread waking up so early for WORK, I have always been a morning person even on my days off for the same reasons. Sleeping in feels nice once in a while, but most of the time I just feel like I wasted half my day!
Also… You hit the nail on the head with Twilight. I read the whole series, and all four books reek of fanfic. It’s like fanfic for the masses– people who fanfic would appeal to, but normally would never read that kind of trash, or even know the meaning of the word.
Sara
I used to looove to sleep in, and like you said, on occasion you need it. But today I was thinking about what to have for dinner and it was only 10am! It felt great, because I could goof around and watch Friends with Tom and then start working at 9 and still feel like I’ve had plenty of play time.
It’s like fanfic for the masses– people who fanfic would appeal to, but normally would never read that kind of trash, or even know the meaning of the word.
BINGO. Haha.
Though, to be fair, I’ve read some really good fan fiction in my day. Some even better than the original. My sister just told me about this great sci-fi writer who started out writing Star Trek fan fiction and then changed so much and added so many new things she just ended up writing her own stories. And now she has maybe 13+ books! It can work out for some… just apparently not for all.
Ines
I love waking up as early as I could. Especially around 5-6am during wintertime when every tone outside is sort of muted, blue-ish.. creating a very pleasant but a bit moody atmosphere..
Sara
I am kind of excited (blasphemy!) winter already for exactly that reason! I can’t wait for some good winter photos.