Did it!

we both did actually...

i refuse to lie. there were some tears shed and some
major sibling bonding time.

and after I got the most amazing gift...,
(thanks dad... gee I might be spoiled just a bit)
i put it to use immediately...

foto by meg

foto by meg

maybe if i hadn't
hacked my hair off
just days prior to gradumation,
then i would look as hot in my cap as as this chick.

(a moment to view the 8in shorter-haired me... and no- I am not counting that 3lb weight loss...)

(this last week, rob took me to this awesome frozen yogurty place... num. This is to see the hair though- needed it.)

back to fun pictures...

foto by meg

foto by meg

foto by meg

stay tuned for more... (i did post a few on my foto blog though...)

oh- and today marks the day I am starting my healthy track...
which means i may have some ddp withdrawal headaches soon...
stay tuned on that too. cause i know you'll all want to know- i will update the weight loss each week. barf.

don't you worry- my brand new freaking cute swimsuit
from shade® is hanging on my wall... just in case i forget...

I am an insomniac....

I suck at sleeping.
That's all there is to it.

It is an art, and I have no talent.


To elaborate, let me give you a run down that may or may not occur often:


1- Come home from something tiring....like say a show or rehearsal, my hair looks like Cher and I have uncharacteristically pink cheeks

2- I have lost maybe five pounds being a mascot all night, but decide on liquid instead of food (because it is after 8, and I am not allowed).

3- DDP in hand, I help the girls watch the end of "While You Were Sleeping..." and giggle all the way through...

4- Then I decide that whatever homework I have can wait till tomorrow- so it does- and I "hit the sheets" (whatever that means...) Time: 11:30

5- Then it begins. Usually it is about an hour of rolling around until I realize that my caffeinated beverage was a bad idea. I try tensing up and letting go, counting back from 100, telling every part of my body that I can name to relax....(which doesn't take long) it doesn't matter-my body is high maintenance and refuses to get comfortable! I get jealous of the lady with no arms because at least she can lay any way she wants... her arms don't interrupt her sleep! I want to cut arm wedges in my foam bed to sleep on my side... They strangle me in my sleep!

6- Then there is the hair battle: too much is a bad thing. Can't stay up or I am rolling over a wod, can't keep it down cause I will get strangled and not be able to breathe, so I decide a side braid will do. Though it is so kinky it is in a huge, ugly, uncomfortable wod too... truly a wet and straight braid is best- but I didn't want to take a shower... I will just have to take another tomorrow!

7- So... it starts on my side and then after realizing my body is unhappy with me in its current state, I finally go to my stomach- which defeats the purpose of having one of those fancy pillows...

8- At something like but not necessarily 1:00 or so, I finally fall asleep.

9- Wake up at 3:00, on the nose, to relieve the large cup of liquid I downed at 11.... (I always wake up exactly on the hour...really weird. Since I was a kid I have been waking up every hour on Christmas morning...on the hour....I know- trippy.)

and the process begins again...