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pictures from hiking! (thanks to laurel's fab camera)

multnomah falls, horsetails falls, raul and i at the top of the mountain, the bridge to horsetails falls, pretty pretty oregon. 

today i felt anxious all day. for no reason. i need medication or something. 

i took a nice long nap and woke up sweating because it's so hot but it was raining. it smelled really good. i'm sure i'll get sick of the rain in the winter but random summer thunderstorms are so nice. 

nano told me not to worry about my money problems and that if it came down to it the other roommates could pick up my rent for me. its a kind thought but i know my roommates are worse off than me. jerry already owes everyone money from last month. in any case i know everything'll be fine. 

we sang 'amazing grace' in church this morning. i was really happy. 

if i met a genie and i got three wishes i'd first wish for permanent emotional stability. that every day i would wake up know that i would feel normal all day every day. then with the other wishes i'd probably wish for the end of the mass production of meat and a lifetime supply of french fries and ranch. simple enough. i hate with all my heart that i can't control my emotions. i'm so helpless and its pathetic. 

either way, now i'm watching 'once' with raul and listening to the rain. it really is beautiful here. 

keighty

tasty falls.

on day two of our extravagant vacation weekend we went to multnomah falls. we thought it would be all hiky but it was disneyland. it was a beautiful waterfall though. we got a lot of pictures. but we ended up going past the main fall and hiking for 2.5 hours along the colombia river toward horsetails falls. so magical and good. on the way though we stopped at 'tasty falls' appropriately named by me as that is where we stopped to drink. i followed the girl scout rules of drinking only running water and to catch it running off a rock. it was sooo good. so cold and clear and delicious! especially since it was 97 today. it was real mountain spring water...not from a water bottle. at horsetails we drank the water too. it was the best ever. it was a rushing river that would send you flying off the cliff if you fell in, so were careful to not...fall in that is. 

after that we headed back and realized we'd have to walk another 2.5 hours to get home and we were quite tuckered. so we decided to hike down to the road and walk back to where our car was. at first it was fine because it was shaded but then it got sooo hot and there was no where for us to walk so we walked on the side of this bridge and prayed that cars wouldn't hit us. it was scary and so very hot. but we finally made it. i was so dirty and sunburned but it was a beautiful day. 

after coming home i was quite fatigued and laid down in the hallway because i was too dirty to lay on my bed. then i took a shower and went to my room where i found a wonderful* surprise. i got a bill for $473 from northwestern hospital saying that i have to pay them for my emergency room visit..... from march...when i lived in chicago and was under the insurance of the school....and after i already got a statement saying the school paid for everything. when it rains it pours. i understand today that i'll never be on top again. there's no possible way for me to ever save money and i'll live paycheck to paycheck until i die. but there are things to be grateful for. i do have a job, i do have income (however small it is), i have wonderful** roommates, i live in beautiful portland, i'm having a great time, i've never gone hungry. things could be worse, i know. i just get mad at insurance companies. i think they're just looking for me because they know i'll just cry and pay them. money is so messy. i wish i could barter for food. 

*not wonderful at all. 

** actually very wonderful.

speaking of bartering ....

www.peoples.coop.org

i'm into this. i'm also into the chinese food that the boys are bringing home. life is not so bad if you have chinese food. 

keighty

beach slapped

we went to the beach today. we realized that without school life is vacation everyday with a little bit of work sometimes. we went to cannon beach. it's far away, like an hour and a half. not like the 30 minute drive in so-cal, but there's no 55 traffic on the way home here. and it's a beautiful drive. so so many trees. it's just a little two lane road with millions of giant trees on either side then suddenly you're in the west coast equivalent of cape cod. adorable beach town with a lot of blonde rich people. while we were at the beach we saw the kennedy family and played 'walcott' by vampire weekend because it talks about cape cod. also it wasn't the kennedys, clearly. just a blonde fam with a collie dog. it was super windy at the beach...yes, more windy than chicago. but it was warm and nice and besides eating sand we ate so so much food. laurel's picnic basket was perfect.

the laurel got tired and we packed up and left to walk around the town. we saw all the cute beachy-kitschy stores. then we found a pub-ish place with really great ales. and good french fries. it seems like that's all we eat lately. beer and french fries. well, we did that twice, but a lot more than never. 

i got a call from the billing/collections department at chic. damn, they are ruthless and horrible. i've paid them $200 and they keep calling. i left a mean message though and hopefully they'll call me back, or there'll be a lot more of those. i can be tough.

i'm hella sunburned and tired. 

today was a good day. day one of 'three day weekend extravaganza'

keighty

portlandia...

thus far...

i've moved to portland and got a job working with babies... i'm waiting on a kindergarten teaching job. if it get it then i can decorate my own classroom. that is too much. 

recently i've been looking at pictures of people i used to know. i had a lot of hot friends....have? either way they're hot. there was a picture of laurel and i at saphora trying on makeup. i had shiny green lips and looked like a robot. i've changed too much. 

i have the best roommates. which one's my fav? it switches, depending on who's buying the ice cream. 

keighty