i found glasses!!

...to drink from, ha. no, but seriously i am so excited. my future roommate has dishes and now i have glasses, we're all set. haha well maybe not all set, but this discovery made me super pumped about moving. it's getting close too. i mean i'm leaving for chicago in a week and before i know it, we'll be on the road out west. so crazy.


on a totally different note, and because i love pictures...here's an awesome picture from camp.

i cut my hair.

i cut my hair. it's really short, so i hope they can actually make a wig for someone who needs it.

seriously, it's short.

soundtrack of my life.

wow. my last post was only two days ago, this is a first. but i had something to say, and i finally realized that this is the point of a blog. to write stuff you just want to say and it doesn't really matter who reads it, you just want to say it.

anyway, i was walking yesterday listening to music. pretty typical i guess, but i started thinking about how awesome it would be if life actually had a soundtrack. you know like in the movies or on tv when a character is in deep thought about something, staring out the window and some unknown band with a thought provoking song starts playing. life would be so much more dramatic i guess. maybe that's not a good thing. but as i was walking yesterday listening to my own soundtrack i thought it would be pretty cool if i were a character on tv. maybe i've been watching too much one tree hill and listening to bon iver a little to often. who knows.

also. a little while back i started working on a soundtrack of my life. i kind of forgot about it, but i'm pretty sure i should get back on that. you should try it too. it's pretty cool to look back and figure out which songs have been influential in your own life as time passes by.

home...

two weeks down, two to go.

to do: buy a car, get insurance, look for a job, pack up my room, visit with old friends, watch Alias season 3 (i love women who kick butt)... seems like a lot to do, but the time still feels slow. i hate being home by myself all day. i think that's the hard part about coming home in a time of transition. it's not a vacation for me, so i'm not really relaxed; and my parents are working all day, so i'm hanging out alone.

needless to say, i'm so ready for california. don't get my wrong, i'm totally nervous about all the logistics i need to figure out when i get there...but how exciting it is to be starting a new chapter in my life. and hey, i won't be translucently white this winter, if that's not exciting i don't know what is!

"i love it!"

my fourth summer at camp is over. so crazy. i can't imagine what a summer will be like not being there. but, it's time to move on, all good things must come to an end, right? and these days i'm trying not to be too nostalgic, because sometimes i forget to live in the now.

but i had a great summer with my TLCs. they were amazing and i miss them already. thankfully they took pictures to document the summer, because i didn't...

so here are the kids...
and their leaders... ha. oh, and do take notice that it's actually rob's fingernails that are pink...

yup, it actually happened.

so, erikka is married. yup my friend from freshman year is MARRIED!! ahhh. so great. my mind is having a hard time comprehending it though. haha. but i tend to be like that. i have to say things out loud so many times, and even then i don't think it actually sinks in. haha. so if you see me in the near future i may say something like "oh my gosh, erikka is married. i can't believe it!"... a few times while i'm in your presence.

in other news, the toast went well...nerves and all :)

back to camp tonight to start another summer.

goodbye to chicago for a while...

holy heat!

i don't know if you're supposed to blog about the weather...but it's so hot here. i feel like i'm slowly melting away into nothing. it's gross. and i couldn't sleep, boo.