Well that lasted long *facepalm*

My 30 day boot camp lasted a week. *sigh* It just was too much, especially since I had no one to hold me accountable... But it was a good run and a good lesson.

State Fair

Mom and I went to the State Fair, and had a blast as always. The first thing we did was get her this large, woven hat... I was a little jealous. It looked better than mine. :-) And MUCH better than the pink grandma hats she was first looking at..... Close call on that one! Anyway...
We love checking out all the little vendors and seeing what they have to sell...though she tends to be more inclined to buy than I am. But it's still a lot of fun.

Me, "I'm excited about my dresses..."
Mom, "I'm excited about my mop!"

Discovery Park

I took an adventure to Discovery Park this past week....and boy was in an adventure! I hiked around and discovered lots of little paths off of the main trail. And at one point, nearly ran FACE FIRST into a spider, chillin' on a huge person sized web. Scared the crap out of me just from the surprise factor: seemingly nothing being in the path, to all-of-the-sudden something right in your face. Of course....it didn't help that the spiders look deadly.....I have no idea if they were, they just LOOKED like their bite would do horrible things to you.

Taking this picture was all kinds of hilariously scary

Composing!

I also started composing an arrangement of "More Than Words"... it's just in it's beginning stages, but it's nice to be back into it, and feeling more momentum around music and composing.

Birthday #1

There are a bunch of birthdays all taking place. Jess had his last week, and then Steph a few days later... And Scott's is next week... then Cody and Gwen and I'm sure more people I can't think of right now.
But Jess had the most inspiring birthday ever. I show up and ask if he figured out what he wanted to do for the day. And his reply? He wanted to get organize, clean the bathroom, fix up his room, and plan out the year. He wanted to start off the next year right, basically. It was SO incredibly inspiring. There's so much more to say, but I'm passing out as I write this... I got him some stones for this journey, and that is a whole story in and of itself. And we went to Costco and some vegan place for dinner (which was AMAZING...gluten and dairy free!), and then cleaned the bathroom in a major way. Best birthday ever, I'd say.