Lovely day

I just spent a lovely day in the park (well a couple of parks) with Hernaldo. As mentioned previously, I got an SLR camera and wanted to take it out for a spin today.

After bumming around the house and watching Princesas, we finally got out of the house. Went down to the Riverfront Park in Sewickley and played on the big train and walked around. I got some beautiful pictures and I can't wait to learn even more stuff to do with my awesome camera. I especially can't wait to use it in Prague.

My pictures look so artsy and came out so gorgeous, I just can't get over it. It helped that I had an absolutely adorable model (most pictures are of Hernaldo:).


Another weekend went by where I got no packing done at all.

Sigh...

Early Morning Lisa

I like when people have really clever remarks. Therefore I will put one here.

(during a discussion of the funny names that wedding colors have)
Me: My dress for Shannon's wedding is "espresso". The other color she's using is sky blue, which probably isn't called "sky blue" anymore.
Lisa: Yeah, it probably has a much fancier name.
Me: Periwinkle...
Lisa: I don't know, that's still pretty standard.
Me: Yes, it was very crayola of me to say that. You know, I knew every color in the 96-crayons box. I heard there are more colors now, though.
Lisa: Yeah, you're really dating yourself by mentioning that.

Hahaha... I love that we can determine someone's age by number of crayons in their Crayola box. The people who had 8 colors are probably dead by now...

Prahupdate

Things are taking longer than expected... and I am feeling frustrated.

Especially since I bought my first REAL camera tonight - sure I've had point-and-shoots before, but tonight I bought an SLR camera with changeable lens. I literally have no idea how to use it, but it's been a long time that I've wanted to get into photography, and I think now that I'll be starting this journey and seeing way more of the world in the next 3 years or so than I have thus far in my whole life, it is time to get better at recording it.

It's a big manual, but I think I can do it...


Sadly I don't really have any other news to report. Work is okay, I'm finally done with training as of today (for a while, anyway). No, scratch that, I have to do another certification tomorrow. I had one today but it was easy and enjoyable because Beliza is smart. I can't say that tomorrow's won't be smart, because I have not met the guy for more than about 30 seconds on his first day. Oh well.

It is pouring like crazy here, I haven't seen this much rain in at least a year. I live on a hill and it was like a river flowing down. There were little fountains splashing at least several inches up in the air where the water hit into a pile of rubble or a rock or car tires.

I'm loving it, provided it stops before I have to go to work tomorrow.. I hate going to work in the rain.

Okay, that's all.

Amazon.com purchases

Today I bought the following movies on Amazon.com:

- Princesas
- Nueva Yol I & III
- Willy Wonka (the original, not the remake)
- La mujer de los dos (a really cheesy mexican movie starring Los Temerarios. Sadly, I have already seen this movie three times)


I am super excited about all of these.

No news is good news...?

Nothing new to update... I just hate not updating at all.

I am getting really eager to just get out of here. Waiting is hard. I'll be sad to leave everyone of course.. but all these "stress-related" things keep happening to me. The funny thing is I don't *feel* stressed, but all this stuff that's going on with me, people say is all stress-related.

I already wrote about how I'm dropping everything, but now I have this horrible jaw pain. I mentioned it to a few people, my dentist included, and they all said, "You are probably clenching your jaw or grinding your teeth at night." WTF, I've never done that in my life. Who starts a habit like that at age 26? I asked, why would that happen out of nowhere?
"Probably stress."

Well I'll be damned.

Other than horrible shots of pain in my jaw when I move it a certain way, life is pretty good. I think that all this stuff will magically disappear once I'm there and settled.

Here's hoping. :)

Step 1

Today is step 1 of the Praha Preparation. I am going to clean out my closet.

Usually I end up keeping things because I think, "Someday I might wear this." But today I get to say, "Am I going to pack this? No? It's getting pitched." (or rather, given to Goodwill). I think it will make throwing things away a lot easier, because if I'm not willing to pack it, it's not worth keeping.

I watched a really great movie today called Bella. Highly recommended.

Time to start.. :( I hate work on weekends.

Just a little add-on to my last post...

Don't get me wrong, despite the fact that all of that might have come off as complaining, I really meant it as more of a funny anecdote. I'm in quite a good mood :) It's been pretty hard to get me down lately.

And THAT is a nice feeling.