Spring break day 2

Ahhh.... My Tuesday of spring break part 2 was very......WORTHLESS. Actually, I did spend a whole bunch of hours at the library applying to school districts (my top 1 actually).I feel like maybe all seniors need a week to just apply for jobs, especially in this economy. Other than that, I just enjoyed beautiful Harrisonburg! It was a very relaxing day.

However, I was able to cross off one thing on my bucket list-the pub. Oh boy was that fun! It was my 3rd time going and last time going, I basically felt like a local. The first time I went to the pub I left cause it was too smokey and it hurt my tummy. The second time I went to the pub I was the only sober person in the arena. The last and best time I went to the pub was last night and boy did I think I was the best singer/dancer there, haha! I had the greatest people around me and I was in my prime! I wish I could go every Tuesday from now on, however, it is closed.... RIP. Above is a picture of me and two of my soul sisters. xox

Spring break day 1

So today was my first day of spring break 2010 part 2! Yes, I am hanging out in Harrisonburg doing NOTHING this whole week. While it would probably be very boring to most people, I am having a blast! I have nothing to do and am trying to love ever second of it because I probably will never be able to do this again!

This morning when I woke up at the crack of dawn, I wrote a to-do list of really stupid little things that I needed to get done (get ink, send letters, run, sing happy birthday to featherhead, get new profile picture..etc). For the first time ever I got EVERYTHING on my to do list done!!

So the ink.... I sent away for ink on ebay the other day ($18) because the ink in Target was $50. Not knowing that my ink was going to come in full out color coded ink bottles, with needles and measurement bottles to inject the ink, I thought I was buying smart. HELL NO! This was one of the hardest tasks of the day. I had to first drill holes in my previous ink cartridges, inject the ink by color into the holes and then figure out how it all worked!! I ended up doing all of the injections and going to a local ink supply store to get help of installing the ink back into the printer. They told me to put it in how it came and hold down the stop button for 5 seconds....who would have thought?! FOUR HOURS LATER....CHECK PLUS!

For the happy birthday part...I was able to make my roommate featherhead a nice hat to wear this afternoon. I think she enjoyed it. It was her birthday so I wanted to make her feel special, because she is! She was stuck inside doing her resume on her birthday....boooo...but she made it all worth it last night... But as you can see from the picture above, she looks beautiful, especially with the picnik help I got on the side with the spring time flowers, bahahaha.

For my profile pic, I thought to use my new school picture!!! I actually did not have a digital copy of the picture, so I thought to myself....may as well try and take the scanner on, considering I did personally inject the ink! WALLA!! I scanned my first thing ever!! Hehe, hope y'all like it!

So today I got a whole lot of things done and learned a bunch of new real life tools. Maybe every college kid needs 2 spring breaks (one in Mancun and one in Harrisonburg)!!!

Wine Tasting, CHECK-March 28 2010

Today I got to cross off one thing on my bucket list (BTW Jessica Lee is now in on the list as well). Anyways, my house and I went to the Cross Keys Vineyard. Although it was the ugliest day out, it was still so much fun to visit! This vineyard was my first vineyard to ever go to. It was about 20 minutes away from Harrisonburg (down 33). We sat down at a long table and they served us 7 different wines. Beth asked if we were allowed to bring some appetizers while we taste the wines and they said sure! Little did they know how much we were going to bring. We brought hot dogs, cheese cake, cheese, candy, lots of crackers and pretzels! In a way they were probably glad because we were counter acting the alcohol with all the food, ha ha.

We started off with a white chardonnay and moved towards the reds. It was really cool to see what types of wines go with the different foods! My favorite wine was the first one we tasted, a 2008 chardonnay. This delightful wine was barrel-fermented in new and used French oak for nine months. It is pale straw in color with a bouquet of apple, flowers, honey and vanilla. Apparently it is a perfect complement to semi-soft cheeses or seafood and roasted poultry dishes. I guess crab would be perfect for this wine...

After we all bought our bottle of wine (mine is the one in the picture), Meg asked if we could buy the wine glasses we tasted the wines in. They told us that we could have them for free! I don't know if this is something that Cross Keys vineyards does, but it was really nice! I hope that every vineyard I go wine tasting at allows me to take the glass, it would be a fun collectable! I can't wait to come back to this vineyard when it is nicer out!!

HOLLA!!

Hey guys!

I am not even sure if this is actually working cause I am so bad at technology, but I thought I may as well try anyways! So as many of you may already know, I am just about to graduate from JMU this May! I am so excited, scared, nervous and yadayadayada....everyone goes through it!

Oddly enough I hardly have school or school work, I don't do that much physical activity anymore and I get really bored on a hourly basis. So I thought to help my mind, I would start blogging! I feel very relaxed when I take pictures and write, so I thought whats better than this?!

Over the next month, my goal is to take a few pictures a day to document my last few weeks at JMU and write about them! I am going to try and do everything here in one month, kinda like a bucket list! So for any of you alum, if you have any suggestions please give me some ideas. Hope y'all find this interesting, if not, at least it will give me something to do! HOLLA xox

JMU BUCKET LIST

Get a shirt from- Jays, Clines, Daves in one day

Camp up at Redish Knob for a sun set and sun rise

Go to a hometown BBQ

Buy something from the farmers market on a Tuesday or Sat downtown

Do the 5k loop run

Get Chennelos Cheesy Bread pizza ONE MORE TIME!

Go to the quary

Road trip through the mountains to West VA

Go to blue hole

Pick Strawberries

Go wild at El Charros

Go to my 2nd and last Pub night!

Wine tasting

Sit on 460 Masons roof with my roommates

Stay up all night

Sleep past 9AM

Do one last underwater in godwin pool and LOVE THE FEELING OF IT!

Go to a block party

Drink during the day

Senior Pictures by the lovely Allison Keel

Get a job

Sleep over in Stonegates Nancicca's room