Update on my summer life

Summer is going great so far. The Utah/Idaho Trip kicked butt. I've got so many stories to tell from that trip I wouldn't even know where to start. Basically the usual roadtrip stuff happened like getting the truck stuck and loosing gear out of the bed of the truck. Antonios sleeping bag got run over by a Tahoe but it's still in one piece. Ok, other stuff that happened. Ben fed a bunch of chipmunks and had a crazy hairdo, Chad dropped his ATC from a 400 foot climb and ripped all pants he owned, Mallori said "Hey Bunny" to every bunny we saw and scared us by flipping upside down on a 5.10 fall, Antonio did everything from running around the Provo Movie Theater with a Helmet and acting retarded to loosing to Chad in "War" and then drinking a bowl of warm, grassy beer with ants. We met girls from Maine in Utah that met Tech Buddy Nate Reynolds in Yosemite, California. Derrek, a Tech Graduate, owns a gear shop in Provo and bolted the majority of routes at American Fork, Maple Canyon and Rock Canyon and is featured in the "Urban Climber" Magazine and we met him too. Btw I think we are all moving to Provo. Their mall is super cool cause you can see snowcaped mountains while sitting in the food court. They have climbing within 5 minutes, they have a cool gym and they drive Stretch Minivans. I think that was one of the most hilarious things. An old white Dodge Stretch Caravan is not was you see every day. How we ended up in Idaho I don't really know. I mean I do cause we went climbing at Castlerock and City of Rocks. The Multipitch was really fun. The town Almo on the other hand was just hilarious. It consisted of a General Store, a Tavern, 4 houses and a Doublewide Trailer Bed & Breakfast. It was simply great. After we got back I chilled for a couple of days and now my daily route consist of teaching little kids how to climb at Sports Camp from 8 til 12, then I eat lunch and at 2 I swim at the pool and climb. Then the rest of the day I again just chill. And on weekends I go climbing. I just love summer.

In Utah.....

...on an 11 day climbing trip with Mallori, Chad, Ben and Antonio. This is so gonna rock. I can't wait to finally get on the road. Oh btw in case you need to get a hold of me, try all of the above cause my phone gets super expensive in Utah.
:) Life is great.

So nothing ever happens in Lubbock

Totally not true. After work at about 4 o'clock yesterday I drive home and find the street blocked by a state trooper. I then drive around to approach my house from the other side when I get stopped by this guy pulling a rifle out of his car and telling me that I can't go home cause they are about to raid the house right next to us and it is not safe. So I decide to go climbing since I have nothing better to do. I get to the wall, tell Tim and Chad about the SWAT team at our house and realize that I'm wearing a skirt and thus can't climb (BTW this is why I very rarely wear skirts). I get hungry and therefore decide to get some Lite Bite and then chill at Denis's house. On the way to Lite Bite, I drive past my house and see about 50 cop cars, the entire Lubbock SWAT team and a tank. This entire raiding our neighbors house turned into a stand off, which make me feel just fantastic cause I lived next to these guys since spring break. They have always been weird, owning like 10 cars and working on them at 4am in the morning. Since there wasn't anything I could really do I played baseball with the guys til about 8. This entire ordeal involves me hopping a fence in a skirt and just being the ball girl cause I'm horrendous at baseball. During all of this a storm is moving into Lubbock and making the entire atmosphere erry. We then drive by my house just to find that the stand off is still going on and everybody is just sitting around in lawnchairs drinking beer watching it. Denis and I then go to Chili's to eat and then Denis drags me to Graham's and Brett made me dance two step with him. Needless to say I got my fill of country for about the next year. I then just crashed on their couch and just got home this morning. Crazy Day I would have to say if you add all the tornados into that. I still can't believe that my roommate went to our house last night to find the guys and the girl they arrested sitting in handcuffs on our backporch while the police searced their house and that my house was on TV with the SWAT team running around on our front porch. Crazy, crazy, But anyways, I'm gonna take a shower.

Lubbock Avalanche Article

And....

....the summer has begun. I'm starting it off with an 11 day climbing trip to Utah with some awesome friends. Then I'm just going to be working the little kids rock climbing camp and chilling and going on weekend trips and trying to convince my sister to come up here and visit me. In July I'm just taking on summer class called Nature and Americans. Should be interesting. Then for the August Interim Session I'm going to be in Lake Jackson chilling with family. Ahh this summer is going to be great. Alrighty, I'm gonna watch a movie on a Tuesday night, cause I haven't done that in so long. :)

Random Thoughts

Almost done for the semester. My last final is Tuesday at 7:30
Super excited about our climbing trip to Utah and Colorado.
Listening to a Greek radio station is great.
Don't ever name your child Schmetterling (Butterfly). Every German will bust out laughting when they hear that name.
I'm addicted to chocolate.
I'm not sure if my German genes are a good thing or not. Still being sober after 5 cups of trashcan punch is not normal or is it?
I still love my haircut. :)
My sister totals brand new Corollas and my brother pierces his lip himself. My family is just great.
Summer is gonna be fantastic. I can't wait.
And I'm going to bed cause I gotta study some more.

OPC and SWE rules

Just got back from watching a weird but entertaining movie with OPC staff and my bosses. I still think it's funny how we hang out with our bosses on weekends. It's great I just love the OPC staff. Anyways, SWE Banquet was awesome as well. I love my SWE girls they just crack me up and they all looked super pretty tonite. And yes engineering girls do own high heels and dresses and we do look good in them. ;) All the compliments today about my haircut especially totally rocked my world. It's especially awesome when guys do a double take when you walk in. Friday was awesome as well. It was a long day that started off with me sleeping through my alarm and still making it to class, then chilling at Arbor Day with Claire and OPC and Grassroots people. SWE also won the Most Outstanding Student Organization of the Year, academically, Award at Arbor Day. We seriously rule. Then I saved like a 100 bucks at Mountain Hideaway at their awesome sale. And then it was party at Jason's for his bday. I didn't get home til about 4:30. It was great especially since I found out that I'm a funny drunk. Anyways, since I'm running on about 4 hours of sleep I'm going to bed.

Update

Alrighty time for an update. Life has been great lately. In short this is what happened in the last two weeks.

-Survived two super busy weeks of school etc.
-Girls Night Out at Firewater Cafe was great
-Girls Backpacking in the Guadalupe was great and extremely windy.
-Our screendoor flew off due to the Lubbock wind
-Internshipwise for the summer....I didn't get any. Therefore staying in Lubbock doing summer school and probably working summer sports camp and definitely taking roadtrips
-Grades aren't too good. My "easy A" class turned out to be tougher and thus I currently have a B
-Working on a new soapopera called "The OPC" due to a lot of drama at work concerning "the email"
-Realized that people can fool you very easily into thinking they are someone they are not for example the writer of the infamous email and girls in pink northface fleeces driving a Ford Explorer with a Mountain Hideaway sticker.
-Realized that I love my job and the people I work with. (I'm also considering a career change, so that I have more time to spend outdoors. J/k)
-Other than that everything is the same old, same old and I'm super content and relaxed even though I have another E&M exam on Monday.

Done

Done with all my stuff for the week. Now I finally get to relax for a little bit. Wohoo. Otherwise life has been great. Climbing Rescue last weekend was awesome. I desperately needed to be outdoors even if it was only in the Franklin Mountains which are in the middle of El Paso. But it was sweet anyways. I learned a lot of new stuff about climbing and about people. Okie dokes. I need to make a trip to Wally World. Later :) :) :)

Actually there is no real teaching at all for you to chew on. But not believing in yourself, you pick up your baggage and go around to other people’s houses looking for Zen, looking for Tao, looking for mysteries, looking for awakenings, looking for Buddhas, looking for masters, looking for teachers. You think this is searching for the ultimate and you make this into your religion. But this is like running blindly. The more you run, the farther away you are. You just tire yourself, to what benefit in the end?

FOYAN

Wichitas this weekend. Wohoo

So I'm sitting here in between my classes just ready for all of them to be over. After a busy Monday, Tuesday back from Spring Break I'm now back to chilling. Especially with the Climbing Rescue trip this weekend. I'm really excited, it's going to be pretty sweet. I just hope the weather stays nice. Speaking of trips btw, the Women's Backpacking trip is coming up on April 8th-10th. Chelsea, Erin and I are going to be leading it, so anyone that wants to go on it should sign up at the OPC. It's going to be sweet as well. Anyways, I gotta go to class. Later

Eventful Trip

This time around Amy and I actually had an eventful trip from Houston. Everything goes smoothly except for this one RV that is stuck in a ditch and a bunch of crazy drivers (most of them Tech students) until we hit 84. There Amy's left front tire blows out. Luckily this nice guy stopped and changed the tire for us. He was pretty dang fast too. Anyways, since the maximum speed limit on the donut is somewhere around 60-70ish or so Amy plays it safe and we drive back to Lubbock (the whole 118 miles) going 60. Naturally we get passed by everyone including the 18-wheelers we already passed on I-20. This entire ordeal only makes our total travel time 10 hours instead of 9.5, so it wasn't that dramatic. It still wasn't fun though at least I got a tan on my left arm. The only tan I got all of spring break. Ok, I really have to study for a quiz tomorrow.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection of a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Blah

The end of spring break is approaching. During the last 8 days I did basically......nothing. Isn't that great? Not really cause I hate being lazy. It wasn't even spring break lazy, aka hanging out at the pool or the beach. I spend most of my spring break indoors. Aaaggghhhh and so on (see previous post to know how I feel about that). Ok, to make this otherwise long and rambling post short: I'm not motivated at all right now. I want to blame it on midsemester burn out but that is not the case. I'm doing the bare minimum to get by in my classes. I have two B's in classes I should have A's in. I totally failed my E&M exam before spring break. Blah. My personal life isn't going better either. I'm not gonna elaborate on all of those details cause I simply don't want too. Anyways, I know motivation and discipline is the key for all of this, so I'm just gonna stop talking about this and actually do it. (We'll see how long that will last) To make some more Sauerkrautish comments. My sister got a brand new car. A 2005 Toyota Corolla and it's pretty sweet. So while she get's to drive around Houston in that cool car of hers. I'll be making my trip back to Lubbock in my small, not so sweet but loyal and dependable Nina the Neon tomorrow. Cool thing is, it is now officially mine. I thought I had to share it with my brother once he starts driving or something. But nope, I get to drive it til it falls apart. (Which hopefully won't be too soon. It's already 6 years old. Anyways, I gotta pack some and then hang out with the fam some more. Namaste

Stuck Inside

Aggghhhh, I want to be outdoors so bad but unfortunately I have to do stinking hw over spring break. WTF is up with that. And those stupid people are fixing our screen, so I can't go into the pool. And tomorrow I have to go to Houston, so I can't go to the beach. And this stupid spell checker actually wants to replace the work "Aggghhh" with "Aggie". I never knew the word aggie is actually in a dictionary. Ridiculous. Anyways, I can't wait til I'm done with my hw, so I can go outside and I also can't wait for the Climbing Rescue trip either. I haven't had time to go outdoors in a while. I think I need to change my major or just become a climbing bum. Ok, that was enough venting, let's get started on this stupid physics hw.

Spring Break

So this spring break is definitely the laziest I have ever been. I was gonna write tons of coverletters for internships this morning and instead I changed the template of my blog and surfed the net for a bunch of useless stuff. Blah. Ok, gotta get my motivation back. I'm off to take a shower and finally write those coverletters and maybe even start my physics hw.

Heck Yes...

Wohoo, I can finally climb again or just simply screw up my fingerprints with things like knifes and lighters and superglue...haha j/k. The USCIS accepted my fingerprints......barely. The lady had to roll my left index finger around on the scanner at least 6 times until the machine was finally happy and said "pass" instead of "ridges disconnected". That cool hightech scanner/computer was awesome. Since they only had four of those, my mom got her fingerprints taken the old school way with tons of black ink. It was great. After that my entire family went to Clear Lake to watch my lil bros soccer game. Clear Lake beat them, they just always have been a good team. I also called Julie since she now is down here working for NASA. I think we are going to hang out spring break. After the game we all ate at "Eric's", which is the hotel restaurant at U of H my sister works at. Great food and we also got to meet my sis's Latin Lover. Like Lib she always ends up dating those. Haha, love ya Lib. Then my mom busted and did a face plant on the way back to the car. It was great. I have never seen my mom trip. I just love my family. They are awesome. We have some of the best and funniest conversations and misunderstandings ever. My brother is especially good at those. For example as we are walking to the car....

Alex: Where are we?
Mom: Didn't y'all learn orientiering in boyscouts. What did y'all do all the time?
Alex: Eat beef jerky!

Or while we are talking about my sis's Latin lover and races in general...
Alex: I always wondered why they call black people in the US black cause they have more of a brown skin color, but then I saw a picture in my geography book about Africa and holy shit they are black.

Even though it sounds kinda racist and one probably should have been there it was the funniest thing I have heard in a while. But anyways fact is my family is crazy funny and I love them so much and thus I'm gonna hang out with them some more. Later...

Procrastination

Procrastinating therefore updating this thing again. Update on my fingerprints since everyone just loves hearing this story for the 25th time. 2 more days and I think I'm gonna make it. Unless the Homeland Security Department is superpicky. Anyways as I was surfing the net I came across these pictures today. They are absolutly gorgous, this is why I like snowflakes so much. Cause they are beautiful and unique just like me. Just kidding. I think snowflakes are just amazingly mysterious and beautiful.

Snowflakes

Longest Wall Shift Ever

Today I worked the longest wall shift ever. From 7-10 pm Drew and Scott were the only ones keeping me company. This weekend in general was pretty slow. I got a lot of hw done though and watched a lot of movies. For some reason all of them good love stories. I think I have had my fill of girl nights and girl movies for this month. Just kidding girl's night out are the best and cheesy love stories are too, just sad that they never happen to me. Oh well, my fingertips are doing great in their healing process aided by tons of "Climb On". If that doesn't safe my fingerprints nothing will. I'm really excited to see my family this weekend. I have been missing them like crazy lately. Alrighty, bed time.

About those tricky glass doors

All in all, today was a good day (Better than last night). I slept in (unintentionally), did reasonable on my fluids exam, got some hw done and then worked/chilled at the wall again. Then I stopped by Picantes to get a breakfast burrito and did the most retarded thing ever. I walked up to the door, read the opening times, decided to go in and smacked into the glass panel right next to the door. My excuse: There wasn't anything taped to that panel so it looked like an opening. Of course everyone inside just stared at me. Besides running into that concrete column two weeks ago that was probably the clumsiest and stupidest thing I have done so far. Anyways, going to IHOP with my fav girls Laura and Lib.

Frustrated thus eating chocolate

Today started out great. I finally got to sleep in for the first time in about 2 weeks. Then moving the Casino Night tables was pretty quick and then I chilled at the park and did my hw. After that I went climbing and had fun.......until I got a freaking blister, actually two blisters. Now I normally don't care about blisters, flappers, scrapes and the like. Except for these two since they are on my freaking finger tips. Since I need pretty fingertips for the fingerprints for the homeland security department I can't climb anymore. That means the comp this weekend is not going anymore. :( Depending on how fast this heals I might decide to go to the comp on Friday otherwise I'm just gonna stay in town. So we'll see, I really hope that I have magical skin otherwise I wasted an airplane ticket and delayed our Green Card Process. As y'all can tell I'm pretty frustated that why I took a really long shower with scruby stuff and lotion etc. and I'm eating chocolate to make me feel better.

Life is finally unstressful again...or at least I hope so ;)

The greatest feeling in the world is not having to worry about anything. Naturally I'm super happy right now. I'm done with my exams and all the hw that needed to be done this week. Catching up on about a week of hw is just not fun. But VP was a lot of fun. I keep on getting compliments on my routes and it makes me happy when I see people peel on them, especially when it is guys. ;) I have been beating a lot of them lately and it's just too great when a guy is upset cause a girl flashed a route they took falls on. Anyways, I gotta go to class. And then I'm probably going climbing again. Then hopefully chilling with people I haven't seen in forever. Btw Casino Night is Saturday night at 7. Everyone should come. We have prizes and food and it should be tons of fun at the science spectrum.

So so Day

I can't decide whether today was a good or a bad day. It started off pretty good with a pretty easy statistical and thermal physics exam. Then class was just boring. I didn't get any homework done (or at least not as much as I wanted) then my roommate got into a little collision in front of our house, so she was pretty upset. Then my dad told me that I have to fly into Houston on March 5th which is the week before spring break (during which I'm going home anyway) to get my fingerprints taken for my Green Card. So I'm flying all the way to Houston for a weekend to get my fingerprints taken. Oh and also I have to make sure that I don't get any scratches or cuts on my fingertips cause otherwise they can't do print. Ok, I'm a freaking climber for crying out loud. Ok in case you didn't notice I'm pretty upset. Kinda like Lib, but not for the same reason although I'm not a big fan of vday either. Anyway adding to all of this is my confusion about a certain someone. Ok, back to homework, so I can cry cause I'm freaking stressed, because I only have about a week of homework to catch up on.

Ok, I think I feel better. :) Climbing did put me in a better mood. I totally flashed Tim's yellow 5.10d/5.11. I am awesome. :P