A Week In the Life of Sara: Tuesday

Day 2! Alright! It was actually pretty eventful.

8:30 am - Good morning from my new spring bed. I took the flannel sheets off yesterday, and replaced them with jersey.

And good morning to my Vibrams! They need to be washed...

9:00 am - I worked on my to-do list for a bit, adding and checking off.

10:00 am - I got the last ramune gummy at work. Score!

I have to drink my tea from a cup with a lid, as I have a terrible history of spilling it.

Today I am obsessed with "What You Know" by Two Door Cinema Club and "Does Your Cat Have A Mustache?" by The Format

2:00 pm - A Target trip on lunch break yielded wonderful finds.

3:00 pm - My smoothie was sour. 

6:15 pm. Home from work, but anxiously awaiting roller derby tryouts. Pinkie Pie helped.

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - This is The Hive, where the Happy Valley Derby Darlins practice and hold some bouts. And where the fearsome tryouts were held.

And tryouts were successful! I'm all set to train for the next 12 weeks!

9:30 pm - Dinner and reading.

A celebratory panda cookie. I did good today.

Pinkie Pie really did help me through my jitters. Is it weird of me to say that about a cartoon character? I suppose I don't care either way, I'm just glad for her no fear song.

Tryouts were intense. But doable. I know I will be feeling it tomorrow, but for now, I feel capable. The immense amount of support on facebook tonight alone has been great. Everyone is super excited for me! Now to survive fresh meat training...

I decided to throw myself a wonderful birthday party next week, inspired by Pinkie Pie's vision of the Grand Galloping Gala. I want to make a photo booth with crepe paper, we'll have sarsparilla and sun beams and sundaes and sugar cubes. We can play pin the tail on the pony and watch the best Pinkie Pie episodes of Season 1, since they're all on Netflix now. Pinkie Pie's birthday is on the 3rd, and mine is on the 4th, so it's only fair that I share a bit with her. :) Oh, and I want to rent out the skating rink as well. We'll see how that goes.

I'm feeling good about the project still. Here is my analysis: I want to take more photos throughout the day. I will work on this tomorrow. 

Good times!

A Week In The Life of Sara: Monday

Week In The Life Day 1. Exciting stuff!

Man, these posts are going to be photo heavy. And I'm just posting highlights! Get excited though, for you are about to take a glimpse into the life of Sara.

I woke up around 8:30 and did some reading. Kishkumen was a pretty bad dude.

Here's my room. It's messy. Hopefully it will be cleaner by the end of the week. That's always the goal, but we'll see.

I planted herbs on Saturday: cilantro, basil, spearmint, parsley, fennel. So my new daily task is watering them. I makeshifted a watering can out of a styrofoam cup.

Borrowed the roommate's full-length mirror for a shot of myself.

10:00 am - work time! My computer is pinkie-fied. :)

Breakfast is Berry Basic Granola. I usually eat breakfast at work, since I don't like to eat right when I wake up.

I have started wearing my skates at work, so that I can get used to them. Tryouts are tomorrow!

New tea! SpritMint from Urth Caffe. It's pretty good!

Crazy flower leaf things were everywhere today.

2:00 pm - Lunch is an egg sandwich on wonderful marble rye bread.

Snacktime! Truffles and sunflower seeds.

6:00 pm - After a long day of hard work, finally heading home!

FHE is ultimate frisbee. I actually did pretty well, surprisingly. 

We rearranged Colette's room. Nick helped.

I organized a package to Craig - this has been a month in the making, haha. I know he will be happy to get it.

Included a letter to him with my new seal!

I went crazy getting rid of things tonight, since Colette is taking a load to DI tomorrow. Here I am posing with all my claw machine wins. I'm not sure what to do with them all. We're keeping them for now.

And in my cleaning, I found my leaf canopy from Ikea. It's a LOT bigger than I thought it was going to be. Hope I can find room for it!

Today I kept a tally of how many times I checked facebook. The total was 20 times. I don't know how much time I spent there, but I'd say each visit was at least a couple minutes long. Some much longer. I might have a problem.

I had a sweet idea to get a gorillapod and attach it to my scooter's handlebars. Then I have easy camera access and I could record a sweet time lapse of my journeys to various places.

An observation: As an ENFP, I find myself in existential crises often. Everyday something new makes me question my purpose and identity. I've also found recently that I do actually look for change a lot. This is another ENFP characteristic. I put a lot of trust in authority figures and what they say (and so may go along with established procedures easily), but personal change is a big goal for me.

People think that I'm a hipster. I think that I'm too passionate to be a hipster, but I guess the evidence is stacked against me: I use Apple products, I'm a photographer, I drive a scooter, I have and regularly wear many pairs of fake glasses, and I own hats and colored skinny jeans. Dang. 

It feels really good to mark something off of my to do list. Today I got quite a few things done, and I feel fantastic.

Look forward to day 2!

A Week In The Life

So I found this sweet project: http://aliedwards.com/2010/01/week-in-the-life.html

The point is to take a week and just document your life. Photos, words, ephemera. Later on, you compile it, scrapbook style, physically or digitally, and then you have a sweet album of one week in your life! She has a set week when everyone does it together, and this year it's April 23 - 29.

So, starting tomorrow, I'll be making a daily post with pics and words, and we'll see what happens down the road, album-wise. I think the project is too neat to pass up. I'm not really at a very significant point in my life, but I'm sure future generations would be curious as to how I spent my single years...right? And so I go and do. We'll see if it ever actually turns into an actual album, but at least the blog posts will be there.

Look forward to it!

p.s. what do you think of the new blog design?

Weeks 15 + 16

weeks 10 - 14

Some Nights

As some of you might know, fun. has been one of my favorite bands for a while.

However, their sophomore album, Some Nights, was released recently, and I'm just not sure about things. You see, it's not a bad album. It's just...different.

I've listened to it through 12 times now, and here's the breakdown:

Great tracks

• Some Nights
• We Are Young
• Carry On

Decent tracks

• Some Nights (Intro)
• Why Am I The One
• All Alone
• Out On The Town

Terrible tracks

• It Gets Better
• All Alright

Tracks that deserve to die a gruesome death

• One Foot
• Stars

Let me tell you why One Foot and Stars are so bad. One Foot consists of the same trumpet/synth track played OVER and OVER and OVER. A repetitive waste of time. In Stars, they AUTO-TUNED Nate. NATE DOES NOT NEED AUTO-TUNING. 

Not to say I hate the new stuff, though. Overall, it is growing on me. It's nice to hear We Are Young on the radio, but it's weird that all of a sudden, fun. is super popular. We Are Young is topping charts all over the place and now people actually know who they are.

For you people just discovering fun., I definitely recommend you check out their first album - Aim and Ignite. I think it holds a certain charm that you won't find in Some Nights.

As for me, I'll keep listening and supporting the band, but perhaps not with the same fervor I had before.

weeks 8 + 9