| simple enough |
[Oct. 13th, 2007|01:22 pm] |
been a super long time. just a few things that i feel like noting at this moment....
i'm leaving for a road trip in less than two hours. this road trip will consist of me, my boyfriend, our crazy ass roommate, and 12 days of insaneness. we're going to visit all of their old buddies from college.... winter park to bozeman, bozeman to spokane, spokane to seattle, seattle all the way back to denver in time for me to catch a flight home for my abuelo's 85th birthday party and south florida for four days. these next two weeks are going to be crazy, i can just feel it! then back to work upon my arrival....new job working for ski patrol (just not on skis!) yay for learning again! i'm gonna be a bad-ass first responder, i tell you whattt.....
life is good. my focus is swayed sometimes and i need to just remember these simple words....
LIVE FOR TODAY.
no idea where tomorrow will bring me, or if tomorrow will even be here, so i just have to live it.
simple rule.
it's all just much easier and much more enjoyable this way... |
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| woah flashback |
[May. 6th, 2007|08:00 pm] |
Ha so apparently it's been about 6 months since I've posted. It's been a crazy winter. I was just reading my posts from last year...it is so funny how life works!
Winter was hard for my body to handle, but I got through it. I just got over 7 weeks of a sinus infection (yuckkkk) but I am feeling great now and am ready for summer to start! I start work tomorrow after three weeks of vacation, so that's going to help my bank account a bit.
Pat and I are still hopping along...he is great and I never realized that you can learn so much about yourself by being in a relationship with someone. Almost a year that we've been dating now! Pretty crazy for the eternally single girl that I used to be! He is on a four day climbing trip after we have been together for 24 hours each day for the past 3 weeks straight, so it's sad that he's gone but at the same time it's always good to take a break from being with someone constantly for that long. I already miss him, though, and he just left an hour ago!
I'm looking into starting to take some prereq's soon so that I can start on my path to a Physical Therapy PhD! I'm going to start working at the clinic in town this summer to see if that's what I'm really interested in doing. I also got a promotion at the resort for the summer, so I'm excited about that! A pay raise, more responsibility, and working 4 10-hour days is going to be sweet! More time to play and hike and camp and everything else. I wish it would stop snowing haha...it snowed ALL DAY today, though, so I'm kind of ready for the warmth...
We shall see how long it takes for me to update this thing again...loving life and I hope that anyone else who reads this is too! |
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| this is my life |
[Dec. 8th, 2006|05:01 pm] |
I have no money besides enough to pay for rent/bills/food.
I don't have flashy new clothes/accessories/electronics.
I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I work outside every day and get paid to play.
I have an amazing boyfriend who I love more than anything in the world.
I have my health.
I have a huge grin on my face day after day.
I hope everyone can be this lucky. |
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| hibbidy dibbidy |
[Nov. 8th, 2006|11:14 am] |
quick hello to the world of LJ...
minnesota: camping was so cold but really awesome. cooking meals over a little camp stove for 5 days really isn't bad but the weather could have been way less sucky. staying with pat's parents was awesome cause they took care of us hardcore: bought us so much stuff, fed us so many meals, and nice people all in all. i'm happy they are coming to WP for christmas so i will at least kind of feel like i am with family since this is my first xmas away from home..
winter park: got back and we had just missed a blizzard. i had to dig out my car cause there was so much snow around it! cara gave me a picture of my car that she took and all you can see is one of my side mirrors and my antenna sticking out- besides that, completely covered in a couple feet of snow. crazy! i've been snowboarding a couple times and that's fun. can't wait for this season to start so i can get a bit better at this snowboarding stuff...also can't wait for the season to start (next wednesday!) so that i can start working and making some money cause not having a paycheck for almost 2 months is really lame.
life: still loving it. i'm pretty sure that i'm going to go to physical therapy school in about 2 years time (well, actually go to a comm. college or something first to take care of some prereqs that i need for pt school) and it will probably be in washington state. crazy, we'll see what happens, but this is all good things. pat is awesome and things are just rocking along with us. crazy that i've only known him for 5 months and i live with him and we talk about a bunch of things to come...but it's not weird at all, which is what i am loving. no holding back, just go for it. hello, life, here i am... |
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| slacker central |
[Oct. 9th, 2006|10:06 am] |
Sure, it's been a long time since I've posted on this thing. I just started stealing internet from my neighbors..so I am sort of connected again, I suppose. It's an overcast day today, hence the reason I'm vegging inside. I am officially out of work for a month in between the seasons, so the lack of a paycheck sort of sucks. But I'm going to Minnesota towards the end of this week for like 2-3 weeks, so that will take my mind off of my lack of funds because I will be getting fed and won't really have to spend any money thanks to Pat's parents. I'm going to meet his padres, go camping in the boundary waters (between Canada and Minnesota = brrrrrr!!), and work a bit for his parents doing odd jobs at their Physical Therapy practice so I can at least make a little flow and try to get a feel for the whole PT thing and see if I actually want to go back to school for that. It'll be an interesting trip overall, and I can't wait!
It's crazy to talk about the "future" with someone. I'm not sure exactly what is going to happen, where I'm going to be in a year's time (Tahoe? Winter Park? we'll see), but I know that it's going so well right now and I just want to keep it going. This is life. It just happens and you just have to let it ride. Sure, I miss everyone in Florida incredibly and I had so many amazing times, but this is where I need to be right now. A year ago I could have never predicted what was to come in the whole year, but it is sweeter than I could have ever imagined.
I. Love. Life. |
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| wow |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|08:51 pm] |
yes, it has been a very long time. i have become more and more distant from technology and more and more close to life and it's beauty. this past summer was a life-changing relevation for me.
i moved in with my boyfriend. i am in love with a boy who is in love with me. i wasn't sure before what this would be like, but now i completely know. better than anything...ever... my first night without him in about 2 months and i miss his warmth incredibly.
flying over the everglades today was interesting. but then i reached the point where i realized i don't want to be in florida- only to see my family and friends. the suburban sprawl is ever expanding and ever sickening. i got off the plane and the air was 10x heavier to breathe in. the rain clouds covered all day. there weren't vast mountains, but instead vast housing developments. even before i landed, i wished i was still in colorado.
opportunities have come and i have let them go, and my life is filled with no regrets because that's just the way it's got to be. i've found the most amazing thing and person in the world in colorado. i'm just living and breathing and taking it all in day by day. yeah, so what i make barely more than 20,000 a year and i don't have an expansive bank account, i am just doing what makes me happy right now. and i can honestly say that i am happier than ever
a great writer/philosopher once said...
follow your bliss
and that's exactly what i intend to do. |
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| warped tour and more |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|10:32 am] |
this weekend was NUTS. first of all, widespread panic was playing to 7,000 people on this stage they set up at our resort. there was such a mass of people on saturday waiting to get in smoking all kinds of shit, drinking all kinds of shit, and peace loving it up for the most part except for the assholes that liked to do stupid shit. needless to say, it was a slow day for those of us who were actually working considering that the sea of people obstructed regular guests from getting to any of our attractions easily.
that night, we hit up the jane base where they were letting people camp out. we had such a badass drum circle going on around the fire, there was sweet live reggae and funk all night, and glow sticks were being broken open and sprayed allowing all of us to look like constellations. i'm sure some of the hippies that were on drugs were having a trippy ass time.
sunday morning, woke up bright and early to go to warped tour. i had the schedule all over my arm and was the navigator of the group. warped tour was a kick ass time. hot as freaking anything and being on a parking lot made it even hotter, so we had to take naps on the grassy knoll towards the end before LTJ came on. i went and watch gym class' acoustic set in the myspace tent and talked to those dudes after..
travis (as i'm walking up to him): "you look soo familiar"
me: "yeah, fbr last year, tampa, partied a couple times.."
travis: "oh right, that night at justin's"
yadda yadda yadda
travis: "you should go back to florida to work.."
me: "yeah i don't know what's going on right now."
talked a bit to some of the other dudes, too, holla...cool guys as usual.
which brings me to my toss up. life has seriously thrown me some mad curve balls these past few months. it's weird to say, but i have a boyfriend out here that is making me not want to go anywhere but where he is. which means winter park for this winter. i guess i'll have to see what happens, but it looks like florida might not be in the extremely near future. i am so grateful for all the opportunities that have been thrown my way, though.
i'm gonna look up plane tickets now for a visit in the near future.. |
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| yeahhhhhhh buddy |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|08:22 am] |
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| | grisman and garcia | ] |
warped tour this weekend!!!!!! :) just throwing that out there- good times. |
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| beautimous |
[Jul. 18th, 2006|09:36 pm] |
wow, i haven't updated in a while. maybe because this is the first night in the past month that i have actually had time to sit down at my computer and wasn't running around crazy or hanging out with pat. madness!
basically, everything is amazing and more. i'm seeing a really awesome guy, enjoying the beauty of summer here, and getting my ass out there and doing a lot of shit. i worked 7 days in a row last week so that i could take 3 days off because pat and i headed down to durango. his parents own a sweet ass condo there so we went on a mini vacay. backpacking with 25 extra pounds on me up 2,000 ft to a total elevation of 12,200 ft. was crazy hard but so rewarding! i wish we had a camera, but the freaking waterfalls, meadows of wildflowers, and pristine lakes that we camped next to were so freaking amazing. loved it. after hiking down the next day, we explored durango and delicious food that night. on the drive back up to winter park, we drove through western colorado which had some sweet views but the temperature got up to 103 degrees..whattttt.. then we met up w/ my old bosses from back home who were in breckenridge at the time and they bought us some dank food for dinner. halibut and king crab mmmmmmm.
so all in all it was a sick weekend. although i do miss everyone so much still, i do believe i took the right turn back in may. yeppers. |
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| wowza |
[Jul. 6th, 2006|10:06 am] |
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| | jack johnson tunes | ] |
i went on a 12 mile hike yesterday with pat since we both finally had the same day off. it took us 5 1/2 hours to get to the top of this mountain where there is a beautiful lake just nestled in there and back down... he said it's just warm up for the hike we'll be doing next weekend when i get to take my mini vacation to durango! 3 days of no work and my hippie guy.. :)
this was totally unexpected but very welcomed. life is looking up for sure. some hard decisions might have to come at the end of this summer, but that is a bit off so i don't have to come to anything yet. although i miss florida and my friends terribly, there might be a change of plans. that seems to be the theme of 2006.
"Fear less, hope more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
hate less, love more;
and all good things are yours."
-Swedish proverb |
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| suckered |
[Jun. 22nd, 2006|10:45 am] |
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| | jason mr to the az- curbside prophet | ] |
life really is beautiful. i've come to realize that more and more as my days go by out here. there is something so incredibly invigorating about being outside and just doing whatever it is that i feel like doing at that moment. who gives a crap that i'm living paycheck to paycheck pretty much (i do need to work on this whole trying to save money thing if i ever want to buy a snowboard and visit florida...thank god for my parents still helping me out w/ some stuff). but i think all that matters right now is that i am happy and i'm just kickin it waiting for the sunset to come each day so i can be left breathless in it's beauty as the light cascades over the mountains. a good sunset, a good pair of eyes looking back at me, a good tune, and a good beer make my days end on the best note.
fuck, i miss the beach, but the mountains are SUCH a good trade. |
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| drop it like it's hot |
[Jun. 21st, 2006|09:09 am] |
i'm not sure where this is going, but all i know is that i'm lovin it. that's pretty much...yep...
today is my saturday! i think i'm gonna go mountain biking! i went on a hike to the top of a mountain yesterday and needless to say, it was amazing. nothing up there but us. and then i slid down some snow on my ass.
colorado is treating me so well right now.
and i do get to go to warped tour! |
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| brrrrrr |
[Jun. 17th, 2006|07:12 pm] |
it's the middle of june and it didn't get above around 50 yesterday and it hailed on and off all day. snowed the night before on parts of the mountain. i was SO COLD yesterday b/c i was completely unprepared for it...i mean, come on- i'm from FLORIDA where it's 95 degrees this time of year. soo crazy!
dates in denver (yummy food and blues bars) are great. nice boys are even more great.
time for a run. gotta get back into this whole "exercising" thing since my sister isn't here anymore and i'm not freaking eating out every night of the week now. |
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| good times had by all |
[Jun. 15th, 2006|03:15 pm] |
today is my "sunday"! i had to drop my sister off at the denver airport at 6 this morning. it was a really awesome week, i'm glad she came up. i just felt bad that i had to be at work from 9-6 saturday through tuesday while she was here, but i think she was all right. yesterday we drove through rocky mountain national park (which is beautiful!) to estes park where we went on a 2-hour horseback trail ride. my ass is still sore. then we drove to boulder, which is an amazing city that i wish i had gone to college at (if i could just have taken all my friends with me, too). then off to denver where we went to the "bodies" exhibit which happens to be here at this time. that was so sweet! really interesting to see all of that stuff. my bank account has taken quite the beating this past week with all of the eating out, but it was worth it! plus, pay day is tomorrow :)
i think i'm going on my first "official" date with pat tonight. that is, of course, after i play ultimate for two hours and get a kick ass workout. i got my heart pumping when i went to the resort today and tried out the trampoline bungee and did a bunch of doubles and one triple back tuck. so awesome. the alpine slide is freaking sweet, too.
this summer is off to a spectacular start. :)
"life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away." |
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| alberto schmalberto |
[Jun. 12th, 2006|09:35 pm] |
oh, how i do not miss being in florida right now.
(the weather is beautiful here)
work is going on just fine; but i'm super excited for my "weekend" to begin on wednesday cause i'm going horseback riding with my sister and then into denver for the night. party thursday night is going to make going back to work on friday kind of hard. this whole days off in the middle of the week thing is going to be prettty interesting.
yep. |
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[Jun. 9th, 2006|10:39 am] |
life is crazy. i know that i've had this established for a while, but this past week is just reinforcing that fact. i'm going to denver tonight to pick up my sister and i'll have great company along the way :)
summer program starts tomorrow!!!! ohhh man |
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| just a thought |
[Jun. 7th, 2006|08:12 pm] |
ornithologist: a person who engages in the study of birds.
didn't know that, now did ya?
my 3 hour coma has come to an end and here i am ready to face a sober ladies night at buckets. woooo!
(sister comes in 2 DAYS!!!!) |
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| giggidy giggidy |
[Jun. 7th, 2006|07:15 am] |
me = slightly smitten
:)
smiles all around. time for worky where i might pass out while learning how to give cpr for the 5th time. |
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| arghy |
[Jun. 4th, 2006|09:30 pm] |
how come it's always when it rains it pours?
i went on a date tonight...although i didn't know it was a date until it was over pretty much haha. it was all right, but i've got friday night boy in mind...ouchers. my life is pretty freaking laughable sometimes. guess i'll just see what happens and go from there, eh? that's probably the motto of my life.
that. is. all.
(i'm still missing florida) |
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| haiduken |
[Jun. 4th, 2006|01:28 am] |
i just realized that i can't go to warped tour this year b/c i can't get off of work that day since it is the same weekend that widespread panic will be having a 2 day fest on our resort = lots of people in town = can't take off that sunday.
this makes me sad. i was looking forward to seeing gch, among others.
:( |
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