I know, I know....

Ok I'm not going to make any promises anymore, because obviously I have an inability to post every week.

Anyway...
thing that have consumed my time other than blogging:
quilting
Shark Week
Running
being forced to watch hours of TV as part of family bonding.


so lets start with the quilt. I decided last summer I wanted to make a quilt to use on my bed in college rather than the comforter I bought before my freshman year. So i bought fabric but never did anything with it as I had no time during the school year nor the space to do it. So halfway through this summer I decided I would do this and so most of my days the last few weeks and some nights have been filled with countless hours of sewing and redesigning and running to the fabric store when things don't turn out as planned. I still am not finished but I need to be by Monday so i can take it to a quilt shop and have it quilted.

Shark week. I watched two episodes last year and because I have been working on my quilt  I didn't have a chance to watch any episodes live(normal time) So i tivoed all of shark week I mean 40 hours of sharks. I have about 16 hours left to watch but i'm learning so much. Like for example the beaches I grew up going to is  25 miles from the Great White shark hot spot of North America. However there has only been 6 attacks in the beach area that I go to often none being deadly. I also learned that sharks have extra senses that allow them to feel changes in water like you splashing in the water, and that they have the ability to sense electrical impulses like your heart beating and maybe even muscle contractions. and theres a tribe in Africa that uses coconuts on a stick like a rattle to call sharks. It is all really intriguing if you get a chance watch it next year. But the saddest part of it is on average 4 people die from shark attacks globally and yet we kill 40 million in the same amount of time a lot of time just for their fins. It is one of the saddest things. We invade their space and a lot of time shark attacks are just a cause of mistaken identity. Did you know more people are killed by ostriches than sharks each year? yeah, I'm more scared of ostriches than sharks.

Running: I changed my running program because I just wasn't progressing fast enough to make a 5k in october so i found that a running store in my area had a training program for the 10 weeks before a 5k and that's exactly where I am so it was perfect. I have taken 1:40 off my mile in the last week. It's still slow but slow and ready wins the race? or at least finishes it. Oh and I finally bought a pair of real running shoes. It's amazing to have the right shoes to run in.

Forced TV bonding. It sounds bad. but it actually isn't I mean I probably won't stay caught up on these shows once I go back to school but its a way to spend time with my family and that's all that really matters isn't it?

Other things I have a new love for a website called pinterest where you pin things you like on the internet but i don't do a whole lot of pinning really i just look at other peoples pins and repin them but its so interesting the ideas you come up with to do things. It's definitely a creativity stimuli which makes me want to do 400 million projects that I won't have time to do starting two weeks from now. I also have been playing some video games, I guess there isn't much to say about that except i learned that if i'm tired and want to take a nap playing video games for the same amount of time has the same effect as a nap except i don't wake up with the groggy nap headache.

I think thats it for this post. I have a few ideas for another post so maybe another post later tonight or tomorrow, but don't hold your breath because we all know i'm bad at the consistency of blogginh

I'm Sorry.

I first have to start out with an apology. I'm sorry that I broke my promise about posting once a week. I got caught up with preparing to go to Europe, then didn't have internet in Europe and then completely forgot I had a blog afterwards. So from here on out I solemnly swear I will post once a week. 

Now that I got that out of the way, I know have to figure out what I want to talk about. Writing blogs are a lot harder than they sound. A couple topics pop into my head so i'm just going to go with one. 

So as I mentioned in my apology I went to Europe, I actually went on a cruise through the mediterranean. (I will blog about it, when Its not after midnight.) I met a girl on this cruise and we became friends. She posted a video of her playing the piano and singing. I don't know what it was about it but I just instantly wanted to know how to play the piano. I remember as a kid it seemed like everyone I knew had to learn to play the piano. But my parents never made me learn to play and now I regret it. I mentioned at the very beginning of my blog that I am trying to learn the guitar. It's easy for me to learn the chords but strumming seems to be really hard for some reason. I guess the other part of it is between school and all the other things i maybe practice one time a week for 20 minutes. So I need to make a commitment to practice more and maybe even take a few lessons if i'm serious about learning to play the guitar. But now i'm not sure that I really want to learn the guitar. I've always been intrigued by percussion, but I don't think I'm capable of doing one beat with my left hand, a different with my right and move my feet at the same time. I have looked into the cajon, its a percussion instrument that you sit on and play i don't really know that much about it other than it seems easy to play, google it if you want more information. But I really want to learn the piano, I found a really sick keyboard that lights up and teaches you how to play and you can upload song files to it to learn more songs. But the problem is I still haven't learned to play guitar so I feel like I need to learn one instrument before I try to learn another. If you have any information or suggestions on learning how to play an instrument, feel free to comment and give me input. Until then I'll keep attempting to play the guitar.