Poi

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So I thought I had lost my poi. I couldn’t find them after I got home and I had no idea where they could possibly be. I found them like two days ago. Yay. I added some sinker weights to them and today was the first time I’ve seriously spun them with the added weight. The movement is exceptionally smooth, but I broke a sweat in three songs. But I was also pushing them to move as fast as they did with lighter weight. So I guess it’s time to adjust the weights to where they’re comfortable but can still carry momentum.

Also, I feel like I’ve lost some of the finesse I was capturing when I spun every day. I’m definitely going to have to go back to spinning every day. I think I need to work on my body movement as well so I break out of the square I find myself moving around in. I litterally stay in a 2ft square. Hahaha. That’s not fun to watch…

But most importantly I need to learn a new move and work on my extensions. The end 🙂

The rest.

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Day – 9 – 10 – 11

Everything else.

Okay, so I’m just going to highlight some things because the details are a blur and I’m sure there are important things I have completely forgotten.

Coheed and Cambria in Portland. Awesome.

My niece got sick, and then I got sick. For 18 hours. On the train. I was puking in the bathroom when we pulled into san jose. I don’t know when I will be riding Amtrak next.

I miss Oregon. I miss my family, my friends, mike, everyone. I guess we’ll see what happens in autumn..

Okay so..

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I didn’t have internet when I got home. And now I have to piece together what happened in the following days from my last article. I failed so miserably at this experiment, it makes me sad.

Day 8

Today is the day we’re finally going to take on our fancy meals for each other. He’s making pulmini which are these delicious meat filled dumpling things you dip in delicious sauce. I decide I’m going to make Baklava.. which I’ve made once before.. and kick ass at it. Haha.

I set up all my shit in the kitchen. Laptop with recipe and music and all the things I need. I’m truckin away, having no issues with the phyllo dough or anything. .. I assemble it.. bake it. I even make the fucking amazing sauce.. which was amazing. It bakes, I pour, I leave it the fuck alone.

End result? I was too scared to pour all the sauce on it and I’m pretty sure I didn’t use enough butter. It was dissapointing at best. Shame on me.

Mike makes dough from scratch, and makes all these dumplings. And they are fucking amazing. Holy shit I need to cook more, it has been far too long. (obviously)

And.. I think we went drinking that night too, but I don’t exactly remember and I don’t have photos to remind me. I failed that day.

K more soon

Days 6 and 7

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Okay, so I’ve been slacking and I know it! I just got back to mike’s house last night so I’ve finally gotten all of my pictures onto my laptop and I will be uploading them soon. I will re-edit my posts to include the links to the galleries.

So, day 6 I get kidnapped by one of my best friends, Jimmy. We head to Alpine Tavern out in bum fuck no where (near my mom’s house) and we start drinking and playing some pool. I see people I haven’t seen in years and proceed to have an excellent time.

After we were done there we drove into Junction City and went to Bugsy’s, and that’s when the serious drinking really started. I was singing Karaoke and making sure I was drinking enough whiskey to not remember what the fuck I was doing. I don’t remember leaving the bar, I don’t remember the drive home, I remember walking into my mom’s house and passing out. Yeah. Day 6 has a lot of holes.

On Day 7 I hung out with my Mom and Olivia all morning. That was awesome. Very good times. Around noon-1pm my really really REALLY old friend Chris came and picked me up from my Mom’s house and we drove down to Monroe to get lunch at the Long Branch Bar and Grill. Chris’s parents owned it back when we both lived in Monroe (read: haven’t seen him in 8 years so it’s been a while)

We start eating like two hours after we get there. The rest of the time we’rejust playing a mean game of catch up and having a few drinks. Mike meets us there around 4 and we had just finished eating. We stay for about another hour then Chris takes off. Mike and I have another drink then head to my house to pick up my shit then go to a mexican food place in Corvallis for some late dinner/margaritas. It is cinco de mayo after all.

So we do that, get home around 10 and decide YEAH WERE GOING TO DRINK WOOO..

We both open a beer, drink maybe half of it, and decide we’d both rather just go to bed. Hahaha.