wow... it's been a long time since my last post...!! (not really, 9 days to be exact... :)
so... i am home now, and just started classes yesterday. and let me tell you- it was a long day. LONG day. :/ yuck.
this semester i have to get up earlier than i ever have in college- 6:30am. crazyness. reason being? i start class at 8am, so i have to leave at 7:30... :/ then, after my 8am class, i have a one hour break, then a 10:10 class till 11:05, then a 4(ish) hour break until 3:00pm. at that time, i start a 3 hr class... which is english, so that makes it even harder to sit through. so, when all is said and done on mondays, i will have started class at 8am, and i will be finished at 6pm... yikes. :/
but let me tell you about wednesdays... which are gonna KILL me. i start at the same time with my 8am class, have one hour free, go to my 10:10 class until 11:05... and then... i have two hours for a break, and at 1:15pm i start my 3 hr bio lab... and then get a break until 6pm, when i go to public speaking, which is also a 3 hr class. so on wednesdays, i'm done at 9pm... NINE. that's ridiculous. :P
anyways... enough about class! and next time i'll try to post sooner rather than later! :D

so... recap of the past few days... :)
saturday... woke up around 7am or something- had breakfast, showered, and waited for jacki to get up. once we were all ready, we left for shane's (jacki's bf) house. he lives on venice beach... not just near it, no... he lives in a condo pretty much on the beach. they have such a beautiful view of the ocean, it's incredible. :) so after parking, we walked down venice beach a ways. it was really cool! there were all these different street performers and such. for example, there was one man who had a bunch of broken glass and shane said that he (the guy) was going to jump/step on the glass... we kept walking though, i couldn't even think about it... :/ yikes! we ended up going to aardvark's, which is a funky secondhand clothing store with outrageous clothes... along with some everyday stuff- it was a lot of fun! jacki and shane tried on some wacky outfits! (i got pictures! :) then we walked back to shane's to meet robert, another one of their friends. we went back to aardvark's for a while, and then decided to go see avatar. we went to the 4pm showing... in 3d! it was awesome! long, but great movie! the effects and everything were beautiful! afterwards we went to mrs. fields and got cookies! then we headed back to shane's and walked over to gabby's from there. it's a mediterranean restaurant, and thier chicken salad that i got was huge! i have never seen so much chicken in one salad! :) then we headed home! fun day!
yesterday barb and i went shopping on 3rd street promanade. today i (just!) got to meet robbie's bandmates!
well all for now!!

come together... right now... over me... :)

soooooo... yesterday morning, barb and i went to the los angeles flower mart, though we got a little lost along the way! ;) it was really fun... there were so many flowers! i got lots of pictures... and barb bought a few bouquets of flowers for really good deals! there was also a crafty kind of warehouse kind of thing. they had all sorts of vases, ribbon, flowers, everything!
after we got back home, i spent a ridiculous amount of time sitting at the kitchen table making a gingerbread house... and when barb got home from her meeting, she flipped out (kinda!) because she liked it so much!
then last night we had mexican that john brought home... delicous!
now- i'm watching across the universe (the beatles musical) while barb is at her meeting. it's a really good movie!

the sun is shining in the sky...

...there ain't a cloud in sight, it stopped raining, everybody's into playing, and don't you know, it's a beautiful new day, heyyyy!!! runnin' down the avenue, see how the sun shines brightly, in the city on the streets where once was pity ...mr. blue sky is living here today, heyyyy!!
~mr. blue sky~

(i'm on the train, i'll publish this when I can!!)

~12:42pm (pst)~
So, as I said... I'm on the train right now, on my way up to Los Angeles! The train left Solana Beach at 11:24am, and I'm due to arrive at the LAX station at around 1:35pm... In about 50 minutes.
Yesterday after I went to the market, I went back to Caran's apt., and then we went back together. We got some produce, ate fish (smoked marlin) tacos, and watched the live musician. The woman playing guitar and singing was Lisa Campbell... She was singing all different songs (not just 1 genre, etc...), like she sang Jason Mraz's I'm Yours, some Otis Redding, and some Dixie Chicks! She was really good! After that, we walked down Girard Avenue again (we had done that Saturday, too) and walked all around down by the beach, and Prospect Street. We went to Coldstone, and Lucy, where I got a turquoise cottony sweater thing that's really comfy!! I paid just over $15 with tax. It was origionally $88!! I'm so excited about it, it's so soft! After walking around all day, I was beat!
This morning, I slept the latest I have since I've been here... 7:00am!!! That's 10:00 back home!! Both other mornings I woke up at 5am pst... Yuck! So now I'm on the train! :)

flyin' high... :)

so here i am, up however many ft in the air... about an hour (or even less!) away from san diego! ...and i'm pooped. :P i'm ready to walk, for one thing- it's been like 5 hrs. (not including the 30 seconds i walked up the aisle and back... ha!) i got to the airport at around 1:30pm, checked in, went through security, etc... then right as i was getting ready to board, a girl getting on the same flight asked me if i went to blacksburg, and of course i told her i had. truth is, i recognized her... it was lauren billingsley. we came to the conclusion that we had known each other as kids, and that our parents were probably friends. turns out, she was on her way out of the country for the semester... i keep forgetting where, but it's somewhere in eastern europe and it starts with a b. :) i'll remember it sooner or later! ;) it was cool to talk to her, though! we talked for a bit after we got off in dc, too!
i'm really hoping i have wifi while in cali, because i want to be able to post this asap!
also, i just started reading 'the last song' by nicholas sparks... i'm already on like the hundredth page or so... it's a great book so far! another thing i've done on the plane is i started to knit a black scarf. it's the pattern i got from barb for christmas in 2007... and i'm making it out of the same wool/yarn that i made all those hats out of last year or so. it's a super chunky yarn, so it'll be good! and then i'm going to edge it with something! :)
10:17pm est / 7:17pm pst - another half an hour or so left in the flight... :/ guess i should probably set all my clocks to pst now! geez- it feels like i've been on this plane for days! :P i really shouldn't complain though- it's been a really smooth flight, there have even been times where i sort of forgot we were in the air! there have been a few very minor rough spots though... but, i guess that's to be expected! :)

tomorrow, tomorrow... i love ya, tomorrow... you're only a day away!

so... tomorrow's the day! only problem is... they're calling for snow. :/ not much, but still... it hasn't started yet, though... so that is hopefully a good sign! and- my dad doesn't think it'll do anything, so we'll hope he's right! the thing is, though... that i'm flying roanoke to washington dc, then to san diego... and dc is supposed to get hit harder than us even. yikes! so i'm hoping it won't affect me and my flights. i'm crossing my fingers and toes!
i'm mostly packed, i just need to finish up adding a few things to my suitcase.
yesterday was spent out and about in christiansburg and blacksburg... doing last minute things before i leave, like getting yarn, and picking up a few other things. i left the house at around 11am, and got home around 4pm... might not sound very long, but it sure felt long!
right now i'm sitting at my grandmother's assisted living apt. in christiansburg waiting for my parents so we can leave.
i still need to pick up another skein or two of yarn, and also a book... i'm going to start reading nicholas spark's 'the last song'... erica said it was a great book! and, they're making it into a movie this spring! (starring miley cyrus, which why would i care?! ;P )

today! today is the day! :)

so... today is the day that i decided to start a blog. obviously... it's my first post. :)

about me? my name is erika, and i live in southwest va. i am nineteen, and i still live with my parents. yeah, it can suck sometimes... but i don't have to pay rent. :) my mom threatens me with that sometimes... oh well. :P

what am i doing right now? the biggest loser premiere is on... and i'm watching it! it's probably my favorite show, amy and her family got me hooked on it when i stayed with them for two weeks in boulder, co last january... this is the 4th season i've watched, though- i got the 6th season on itunes last fall.

i also just recently got twitter, but haven't done much with it... i only have 4 followers so far- 2 of which i have never heard of. :)

so, in 3 days, on friday at 11 something a.m. i will board a plane first to d.c. and then continue on to san diego, california! i can't wait! i'm going to visit my aunt in la jolla, which is near san diego. after a weekend with her, i am going to take the train up to los angeles to visit my two cousins and aunt and uncle. then i will take the train back down to san diego/la jolla the next weekend. then i'll fly home (san diego, chicago, roanoke) on the 19th. 

after that- i'll start classes again at new river on the 25th. bleh. :( i only have classes on mwf though, which is great! and most of my classes are with kayla! should be fun! :) my schedule goes as follows:

mwf - bio 102 - 10:10a-11:05a - wynne

w - bio 102 lab - 1:15p-4:15p - wynne

m - eng 242 - 3:00p-6:00p - shelton

mwf - csc 110 - 8:00a-8:55a - faigle

w - cst 100 - 6:00p-9:00p - ____

so... i'll still be able to babysit for david on tuesdays and thursdays! yay... i love that boy! :)

that's all for now- the typing is messing up some... :(