Monday

Kaitlin.

Found this little ditty on Kaitlin's computer. Love her so much.

Back.

Finally flew home to California this morning after traveling from Savannah to Birmingham to Dallas. Long few days.

I am sooooo excited to be with my family all summer long and to soak up the beauty of sunny California. Speaking of, today the 30+ degree weather difference got the best of me and even though it was only in the low 70's in Newport, I was literally shivering. I guess it will take me a few days to acclimate to the "cold" weather.

Although I am so happy to be home, it was so weird coming back to a new house today. Even though this place is beautiful and all of our furniture is the same, I had a mini breakdown when I had to ask the question "Where is my room?" Ah, moving. No matter how many times I do it, the emotions involved always take me by surprise.

Tomorrow I am so excited to unpack my room (something I honestly love to do) and go to lunch with the world's best Casey Page.

Birmingham or Bust

Heading to Birmingham, AL. Thunder cats: go!

Porch Me.

Frankly, I don't even know if we have a porch at our new house, but if we do, that is where you can find me for the next 3 months because, I don't know if you caught this yesterday, but I am officially done with school.

We spent the whole day finishing up our classes (the rest of the girls had classes today) and moving the the rest of our shtuff to the house. Long day. And when it was all said and done, we were so sweaty and stinky and gross, so we decided to jump in the pool in our neighboring dorm building and it FELT. SO. GOOD. Oh my gosh. I never knew I could feel such sweet relief after such a hot day!

Anyway, we are now off to dinner to stuff our little tummies.

To Quote Kaitlin Patton:

DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE.

I turned in my last final tonight at 5 after a monumentous day signing the lease at our beautiful new home!

To celebrate, I give you the only song that is appropriate for the next 30 days.

**Fun fact: Linda Patton knows every word to this song. I dare you to ask her to sing it. She will.

**Fun fact 2: My nickname to some is "Juj." Juj rhymes with June. Some may say I am well endowed. The joke "Juj is busting out all over" is not as original as you think it is.

Light Fixture

Usually, I don't like to put up my work on my blog/facebook/whatever because I feel like it's real real annoying. BUT! I spent a buttload of time on the lamp (my 3D final) and I'm super happy with the way it turned out. So, I figured I'd break my own rule and show pictures of the process of making the lamp.

Ok. Step 1. After googling about 30 videos of how to make crocheted flowers, I finally found one that made any sort of sense to me from this lady with ridiculously painted finger nails and a British accent. Each flower took about 6 or 7 minutes to make (depending on how focused I was).

After crocheting ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FLOWERS (and wanting to kill myself), I began to individually tie each flower together with thread to make rows. Eventually, it equalled out to be four rows. And then it would fell apart. So I did it again. Ok. It worked.

Then, I made a hoop with aluminum armature wire (a 3D design staple) and wrapped it with yarn. After that was done, I tied the sheet of flowers to the hoop to make the lamp shade.

Finally, I attached a light chord that I bought at Home Depot and hung it up. Umm... did I mention that earlier this weekend, I put the light socket together wrong and accidentally blew a fuse out that resulted in the whole floor's power going out? Because I did. Oops.

So, I plugged that bad boy in and here it is! In all it's thready glory.

I'm going to try and hang it up in my new house. We'll see how that one goes. Hopefully I don't blow out Savannah's power. Finger's crossed.

Baby Roommates

I found this last night in the hollows of my computer and it made Claire and I laugh for a good 20 minutes. I think it was an outtake from when I did all of those "Getting to Know You" videos. Funny how much we've learned about each other since then. We've replayed this about 100 times since.

I think finals is making everything hilarious right now.

I'm leaving in about 2 minutes to take my art history final. Eeek. I hate tests.

After that, I still have to finish my self-portrait, but I'm done with everything scary!!!

Yay!