lost in the path....

Something about this photo I really like... I'm not sure what it is. It's just a little artsy I guess. I took this photo one handed with K. holding my other hand, walking back to the car when we were in D.C. Go check out all the pictures I finally finished uploading! ^_^

p.s. flickr automatically rotated all my vertical pictures.... i <3 flickr

The Shamrock

Shamrock = Harp + Smithwick's + Guinness Stout

The Colonial Tavern makes this and the Shepherd's Pie a little piece of heaven. I hear the foam from the beer glass was pretty good too.

I looked so happy

I'm back

I had a really awesome weekend. Tons of pictures to upload and such. Now I have to unpack, clean, and get ready for school.

green

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Originally uploaded by odrini

Finally finished uploading my Vancouver/Victoria pictures. Enjoy ^_^

tomorrow

I come home.

Got 3 grades already. Looks good. 2 left. 1 is at least a B, the other... I'll be happy when I pass. I don't find out until the 30th. Great. Starting class again on the 4th. Don't care to buy books until I really have to this time. I used like half of it this past semester. One of them was shrink wrapped till the very end... and they didn't even buy it back. Waste of money. I'll get it when I need it. 6 week sessions are going to be awesome. Get things over with very quickly. Instructors in the summer are usually a little more lax. Love it. Get it done... get it done...

Just checked my accounts and remembered.... I got paid this weekend! Yay! That brings me joy. I was able to put more money in my vacation fund before I left. Didn't spend any of it this weekend because I was traveling with company. I do plan to save enough to take a trip in August. Where to you ask? Well that depends on if I have a host... on the east coast... *hint hint* I do need to plan early, because I want to get a ticket off of my dad's mileages. Want to save as much as I can. I've never taken a trip by myself. Driving 3 hours by myself up and down the coast doesn't count. Anyway... that's a ways away.

Starting new habits when I get home. The whole move about more and eat less thing. I'll be fully in charge of my dining habits for at least a while. Trying to shop for clothes in Chinese malls are kind of depressing. Get myself to fit into it.... by August? lol.... I have a lot of deadlines. I guess I had to take myself one habit at a time. Organization, financial, now health and weight.

Other projects to start when I get home. Clean the storages and house plus make "living space" in the house. Yup. That is all. Nothing too fancy... just a lot of work.

Anyway... I should go rest... early flight tomorrow....

Orange Mocha Frappuccino

If you didn't get my title, go watch Zoolander. I'll be happy to lend you my copy. I walked pass a Starbucks tonight, and they had Orange Mocha. I almost walked into a door when I saw that. Which would be fairly embarrassing since it was a glass door in a trendy Chinese mall in Richmond... just south of Vancouver....

By the way... I'm out of town. I would share some pictures, but I forgot my 4-pin USB cable. I'll load them up later. I haven't even filled 1 card yet, and am still on my first battery. I suppose I could have done a lot better.

The weather is really nice up here. Warmer then I thought it would be. Which means just a hoodie is enough. My regular attire.

Hotel bed covers kills me. Some of you know I'm allergic to cheap detergent. I put block on my face, it's not sunburn, it's allergies. Looks like somebody ran some sand paper across my face.

I need to learn how to take a relaxing vacation. I think my legs are going to be too strained. I'm going to walk the rain forest tomorrow.

I feel so disconnect. I haven't touched my phone in 3 days. Lord help me. I have this anxiety. I'm not sure if it's from the lack of cellular radiation or something else. I'm just hit with a sense of dread once in a while.

Thank God I can still check my email... when the connection decides to work...

Finally got the in room network to work at 1:30 am... probably should sleep...

straight trippin

Going to Vancouver and Victoria for a few days right after finals. I haven't been up there for years. I'm excited because I have my new camera. Havne't really thought up where to go yet though, destinations wise. Found a castle, museum and such. Really want to do outdoorsy stuff. That's the whole reason to get out to the Pacific North West right? The whole great outdoors thing. I want to do maybe one museum, if even. Something that talks about the natural history of the region.

Ok I found a site that sells a tour card, I've been using the list to look for the actual attractions -- See Vancouver & Beyond

Some sites that caught my eye:
http://www.where.ca/vancouver/
http://www.tourismvancouver.com/visitors/
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/MainSite/default.aspx
http://www.capbridge.com/explore_vancouver_park/vancouver_bc_attraction.html
http://www.hellsgateairtram.com/index.html
http://www.vanaqua.org/home/
http://www.vancouverchinesegarden.com/index.htm
http://www.craigdarrochcastle.com/
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/

Yeah I know, kind of random. Not everything I saw, and not everything I will go. Just stuff that caught my eye.

I'm thinking I should get a camera backpack too when I pick up the rest of the filters. I'll look it up tomorrow at work.

p.s. I'm doing pretty good with picking song names for categories... haha...