my pink life, mi vida rosada

Ahhh, the annual pumpkin carving. Except for the first time, at my house. And an ever changing guest list. And no real idea how many people are coming. And really, that makes it pretty hard to know how many pumpkins to provide, to those sweet sweet people coming over for carving. And coming over meant, in many cases, driving more than an hour and a half to get to my house, and just for the one night (although invited for longer than that!). In the end, we bought 17 pumpkins for the 13 people who came over. Someone didn't carve though, because we still have 7 untouched pumpkins this morning. Exactly how that happened, I'm not sure.... So now I have 7 extra pumpkins, and absolutely zero desire to take the back where they came from and ask about their pumpkin return policy on the day before Halloween. Really? I think the demand is going down and that they won't really want them back. My wallet, though, after only two of the 11 who should have paid for their pumpkin a...

Pensé que estuviera dando una hora de tutoria, pero por suerte revise mi telefono para ver un mensaje diciendo que la niña no necesita ayuda otra vez esta semana y que si me necesita, me llamará en el futuro. Estoy un poco triste que no me necesita, por la perdida de plata, pero desde la primera vez que me junté con ella, pensé que solamente necesitaba estudiar un poco más, y no necesitaba tanto a mi ayuda. También recibí una llamada de mi mamá, que ella no iba a ir a la clase de yoga que normalmente asistemos juntas, y decidí que no iba a ir yo otra vez sin ella, siendo que me quedé despierta una hora más tarde que normalmente me acuesto y anduve todo el día con mañas hoy. Decidí, en vez de ir a yoga, pasar a la biblioteca. Busqué algunos libros de autores que por suerte leí la última vez que fui a la playa (antes que este fin de semana) y me puse a ver "The biggest loser" cuando llegué a la casa. La conejita se acurrucó conmigo en el sillón mientras lo veía y disfruté ...

It's mid October, and fall break at the local university, so even though I'm only peripherally a student there, I am on fall break with some friends. Well, it ends today. I'm back at the beach for a brief vacation with the girls...Only by some funny error of planning, half of the group came and left a day early. So the three of us who ran the 5K together had a fun night yesterday -- shopping, eating German apple pancakes, and drinking woo woos. I also took fall break the weekend before -- visiting a college friend and her little family, to help unpack, organize, and paint parts of their new home. It was great to see an old friend and talk and paint and be productive in someone else's home, and to see her parents (somehow we almost always manage to visit each other's parents), and to go to a farmers market and IKEA. Oh, IKEA. How you tempt me. I had volunteered to simply stop by and pick up a couple things that hadn't fit in my friend's car, and on my ...