University of Oregon v. Washington Football Game + K + Oakland Trip

In early October, Sarah's boyfriend surprised her and broke up with her after almost 5 years together. They had moved to Oregon together from Arkansas and were very serious about their relationship. It was really difficult and very dramatic and has continued to be a big hot mess. They had just gotten themselves certified as partners (or whatever) through the University so they could both get football tickets in the student section and for this first game we needed his help to get Sarah in the stadium. It was really awkard and weird.

I think we had tailgated at K's house along with another friend of Ks- we'll call him K2. When we started to walk to the game, Sarah realized she had left her football ticket at my house in Springfield- a good 15 minute drive! We had all been drinking so K2 drove us back to Springfield and then back to K's house and then we walked to the game. K and I got really silly and horsed around the whole walk to the game, wrestling and jumping on each other and really just behaving like children. (Which was of course fun!)

K2 disappeared at some point, and Sarah got tired and decided to go home. That left just K and I. We went to the Moda Center, and ended up holding hands... There was a lot of touching and put my legs in his lap- it was just a lot of heavy duty flirting.


Unfortunately, I made some poor choices about not eating enough, and drinking too much and for the first time in 10 years, I got really sick. K took me back to his house and I laid on the floor while he patted my back for a long time. Then I ended up in the bathroom- sick- for hours. This was a REALLY bad idea on my part because I had to leave for the airport at 3am!

K was really worried and he and his roommates sat around and tried to figure out what to do with me and they each took turns checking on me, getting me water, and holding my hair back! It was gross. Truly, I felt like a teenager. I think Sarah and her boyfriend had a big triggering effect on me because this quarter in particular we have gone out alot and really just been kids. Which has been fun! But also has consequences too! I've been lucky to be around people who care about me and make sure I'm good!

Around midnight, K decided he needed to take me home, so he put me in my car, drove me to Springfield, tucked me into bed, took care of my animals and charged my phone. When my phone turned back on, he set a billion alarms on it to make sure I would wake up in time to leave. Then he paid for a cab ride home! Just before 3am he called and made sure I had gotten up with my alarm. It was very sweet.

I made it to the airport on time, and flew to California for a wedding. It was only a 3 hour wedding, and because I had been so sick, I wasn't hung over at all. In fact, I felt great! I had a great day in the Bay and flew back that night. It was a crazy 24 hours, but I felt so cared about, and had fun at all of the activities of the day!

 I made my first trip to Miette, which was wonderful!

A little worse for the wear (and lost my glasses, so I'm wearing an old rx here!) but alive!

Home to Sacramento

In October I had two weddings in one weekend, and also had some time to kill! On the day I flew in, I went and visited my old apartment from college, and also got a pedicure at the nail salon across the street that my friends and I used to go to all the time. I saw a ton of friends that weekend doing shoots, and stayed with my friend Colette, which was wonderful and I was so grateful to not have to sleep in my car! It shouldn't be a big deal to have your friend sleep on your couch to save some money (I'm $65k in deep for school... I can't afford a hotel. I'm sleeping in my car or on someone's couch). For some reason I had a lot of trouble finding a couch to sleep on. Some friends have little babies, so of course I didn't ask them, and others said they didn't have time for me to stay... With Colette, it was wonderful because she just laid a blanket on the couch and a pillow and left me the code to her front door. A couple of trips I never saw her or her husband at all- I would just leave treats for them on the kitchen counter from weddings, or I brought donuts from Vooddoo Donut once too. We'd text and I'd let her know when I was coming and going but mostly never even saw them. Because we didn't get to visit I specifically made plans to come in early so we could hang out and talk. But truly, I was SO SO SO grateful to Colette and her family to opening their home to me! With a lot of my trips I flew in really late one day, was up before 5am for shoots or traveling to a wedding, and then flew home after the wedding. Or flew in very early, and out very early. My trips were very brief, but it was so good to have somewhere to stay!

 The tree that bloomed beautiful flowers and smelled like poop!

Pie in the Sky, Harvest Festival 5k (#13 of 14)

Race #13 of our 14 in 2014 Race Series. Time: 39:53

 We did this last 5k race up in Salem, near my mom's house in Silverton! It was a nice flat course and I felt great! The ony sucky part was doing that last 100 yards or so over grass- it was bumpy and uneven and I couldn't sprint to the finish because I was afraid of falling and twisting an ankle! It was dumb! We had told my mom where we were racing but she didn't realize until afterwards how close we were so she zipped over to say hi and we checked out the pie store. It was good to see her and fun!

 We also got a free handheld pie as part of our race package! Our favorite races are ones that have food!!!

 My "pie in the sky!"

University of Oregon v. Arizona Football Game

This was such a horrible game. Terrible calls, and Oregon somehow lost to an UNRANKED team! Argh! Awful! It also took us like 45 minutes to get into the stadium because the lines were so long. I went to the game with K, and some of his friends. I also ran into Sarah later, and got very excited so we took pictures!

Poisony Ivy

In August I went to Washington DC and Virgina for a wedding and for some photo shoots! I ended up staying with some wonderful friends and going out and playing with my cameras! At some point in one of these adventures in the woods, I somehow covered myself in Poison Ivy, It started out on my ankles, and then I spread secondary infections all over my body over the next month. It was really confusing at first because they thought I had chiggers... but then after I was examined by 4 separate doctors, they decided that no, I'm just super allergic to poison ivy.  I have some light scars still (it's now December as I'm blogging this), but it's mostly all gone.



For your viewing pleasure...

 It started with what looked like big bites, and very minor.

 Then it got crazy itchy...

 Then this happened.

 Then it got weepy.

 THEN IT TURNED INTO THIS.

 Then, I somehow rubbed the oil on my seatbelt, and spread it across my chest too. It perfecty lined up with my seatbelt strap!

 My legs finally started to heal!

 And then one day I was scratching my side and realized that I can spread it some more! Where the back of my shirt rides up in the car and the seatbelt brushes against my back... then it spread across my torso!

It was really bad, obviously and I was on meds forever. (Like 6 weeks of prednisone)

I have very light scars on my feet and sides but they are continuing to fade!