rockin' the lite brite t-shirt

silly shades

trying to grin

My experience with Bell's Palsy...

early voting

Today i ate at Sonic...

Voted (once) at the Mesa County Fairgrounds Early Voting center.

And just had to show off my new haircut (and the fact that i actually got a sticker this time).

fair time

Mesa County Fair 2010

continuing a trend

Lincoln Home, pictures can be found at my Flickr (of course).

oh my swollen toes!

Oxy Moronic Park

More often referred to as the park outside the National Museum of the US Air Force, at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton, OH.

Now that makes perfect sense.

i also don't remember things being quite so orange...

this was a rather holey rocket

oh, you get the idea

Arlington National Cemetery Visitor Center

the U.S. Capitol

ante-random shoes

at a Sonic, somewhere between Little Rock and Birmingham

party food

really?

a little messy, but oh so good

i can't help myself

Driving home from a visit to the May's Brown's, i do believe.

Elitch Gardens

Homeschool day at the former Six Flags (as well as Band Day, apparently). I was surprised to see how many pairs of Converse were in attendance.  Warning:  image intense.

waiting to pick up Katie

from Science

and from Violin lesson

i love my new Converse!

love my new dress, too

look what i bought today

more carnage

This week, i fell down not once, but twice. The first time my tire got stuck in a rut at the bottom of a hill, and i scraped my left knee. The second time, i was really tired, and near the end of the ride, and my brakes locked up halfway down a hill. I skidded a bit, and the result is a scrape on my right calf. As you can see, last week's injury is still healing.



ETA: i had to show off my carnage on Sunday to my sister Katie's friends. Cassie said that my legs are "so muscular." Made me feel good. (: Not much else anyone said to me that day did. ):

first blood

Yeah, i am pretty sure that i was the first person to bleed in my mountain biking class: today was our first time on the trail. My best guess is that when my bike started falling over (and i planted my foot) is that the pedal connected with my calf. The stinging pain lasted for an hour, the adrenaline for about forty-five minutes, and last i checked the wound is still oozing slightly. It gushed pretty good when i tried to wipe it off, which wasn't the most sanitary thing to do because i had gotten gas right before class, put some oil in the engine, waited five minutes for the bathroom to be vacated so i could wash my hands and empty my bladder, and ended up leaving so i wouldn't be late for class (i was still a bit late, but not the last to arrive). The class didn't go well, it was hot (mid-90's), the adrenaline made me nervous, and i'm behind on the learning curve, unfortunately. On a completely different note, why do my legs look so trim in real life, but not on film/flash card? Beware! It's a little gory:







ETA: The manager at the Bike Shop said that it looked like my leg connected with the chain ring, which is actually what i thought had happened, while my teacher had said that it looked like the pedal. I especially liked the spirals, but they faded after one day.

just a comparison

Got a new camera, images should be incoming, but first...