I got excited about a giant strawberry inside FAO Schwartz, so I stopped
to play for a little while.
Portland -- 29 & 30
Cousin visiting- Dinner Friday night
visited with Friends
My 21st Birthday -- July 2
My Parents came down for a surprise birthday visit.
They took me and my roommate Laura out for dinner and a drink.
Las Vegas -- July 3 -7
My sister, mom and I drove 18 hours from Corvallis,
OR and met up with my fiancé Karl in Las Vegas, NV (oof, what a
drive) to celebrate my birthday. I had really wanted to go there
because I thought what else is there to do for your 21st birthday but drink
and gamble; the only two things that you couldn't legally do before.
We spent the weekend walking around the casinos and sightseeing.
I got excited about a giant strawberry inside FAO Schwartz, so I stopped
to play for a little while.
Farmer's Market -- every Saturday
daVinci Days -- July 20
daVinci Days is a festival unique to Corvallis,
OR. There are booths, parades, and contests celebrating creativity
in art, technology, and science.
I spent the day with family, saw my grandparents,
uncle and his family, my sister and parents. We saw a kinetic
sculpture parade and race (these are amazing human powered, all-terrain
sculptures -- some are really a work of art). These kinetic sculptures
compete in a race that require them to pedal through "10 miles of
city streets; through 100 feet of deep, thick, sticky mud; down 2 miles
of the Willamette River; across 3000 feet of sun-dried, clay pasture and
over a 100-foot sand trap." What we didn't know about the contest
was that it's broken into different sections over the whole weekend so
we only got to see part of the road race.
We also saw catapult competitions and raced around looking at what
all the booths had to offer. My little cousin, my mom and I even
got to sit down and paint a ceramic tile. daVinci Days was
an event I would love to come back to someday.
My sister Atira and I
Moving Day-- July 21
Laura and I moved to a new apartment. This
one is so much nicer than the other one. It feels more like a home
in one day than the other one did in 5 weeks.
Bought a Car -- July 24th
I bought a used '85 Honda Accord from my neighbor
for my birthday (Happy Birthday to me!) and today I took care of
all the little details so that I could start driving it. I took it
to DEQ (it passed! yeah!) and the DMV to get it registered
and get new plates and stickers. I wanted to get a license plate
that said "mine" on it but to get specialty plates it would have cost an
extra $50 every 2 years, so I thought, naww... forget it, maybe when I
have a really good job and I'm in the middle of a mid life crisis I'll
get it... but in the end I really lucked out because my license plate number
is still really cute: it even rhymes! hehe...
YEA! A car! And it's all MINE! :) Muahahahah!
West Linn Fair -- July 28th
Abducted -- August 2-4th
Laura had left to go on a camping trip with her
boyfriend, and so I was sitting around the house Friday evening not really
knowing what to do and bored out of my mind. Then all of a sudden
there's a knock on my door and it's my sister! She said that she
drove down to kidnap me for the weekend :) ehehe... So I spent
the weekend up in Portland. I made a batch of Marionberry jam and
changed the oil in my car (with the help of Kate). Then on Sunday
I went over to Karl's parent's house. Gayle had told me that Larry
could help me change the fuel filters in my car as long as I bribed him
with a six-pack of Stout. So that's what I did and now my car is
running more smoothly. :) Yea!
Painting a Plate -- August 9th
Laura and I wanted something that we could keep
to remind us of how much fun we had this summer. So we got this idea
to go down to the pottery store and paint a plate for each other.
We spent awhile trying to figure out what to put on our plates. Since
Laura's favorite color is yellow, I finally decided that I was going to
make a lemon plate for her. And since I love fruit, Laura decided
to make a strawberry plate for me. :) After we finished painting
our plates, we left them at the store to get fired. Then a
couple days later we went to go pick them up and take them home.
The plates turned out SO cute that I want to go back and make some more.
:) hehe...
These are our plates
Dentist and Car Check-up -- August 14th
Yea!! No cavities!! But, oh no, my car
needed some serious work done. Sigh. and it's not going to
be cheap. :P phooey, it's too bad that at times like these
I'm not studying to be a mechanic that way I could just do the work myself
and have it be cheaper. hehe...
Home again -- August 17th
Last time I was home for my dentist appointment
and I was at the paint store with my mom and I picked up a paint strip
and joked that if she were to buy this paint color that I would paint the
bathroom. I didn't really expect her to go out and bring home a gallon
of that paint when I came home again even though I liked the color.
But sure enough, she bought it and so I painted. Now the bathroom
is a very pretty light blue with some wispy white clouds painted in the
ceiling.
Lane County Fair -- August 18th
My sister and I drove down to Eugene to go to the
fair with our Aunt, Uncle and little cousins. We spent the afternoon
taking Sawyer around on all of the rides and then walking round looking
at all of the stuff at the fair. After we all got tired, Atira took
me back to Corvallis so that I could get some work done.
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