Fitting

I'm sitting on the slant
the blue checkered ramp to the terminal
in the city I've called home for the last
almost half-decade

I find it fitting that this is the transfer zone

To Say Goodbye

This year was marked with great friends, great memories and thankfully, some great pictures to document!

Unfortunately, I am still behind on the whole digi-camera thing, so I do not have any pictures.

Thankfully, I have three photographing friends who love to snap their cameras a lot. Is that what you do, snap photos? Shoot photos? I guess I am also behind on the lingo. Well here goes a photo walk through my senior year of college...



Key contributors (in no particular order because uploading pictures is still not my forte):

Steph
Que
Tina

The first big moment was saying goodbye to our summer home: Stone Harbor. This beautiful sunset over the Yacht Club bay marks an ending to an era. Our cozy cottage era.

Yet, our summer friends were not ready to let it end. Ali and Jake came to visit us in Brooklyn for a surreptitious pre-season sleepover (note: we're wearing newspaper hats to keep away the rain... good idea...)

Then Tina and Ali traveled SIX HOURS to Boston to watch us play in humid humid heat. They even brought me a watermelon :)
Then Ali's Birthday! We got all dressed up to walk home across the Brooklyn Bridge :)
And Ali met a dog named Teddy at Barcade in Williamsburg...
And my brother got a new puppy named Daisy- which would prove to be my new job when I came home for winter break. She looks so innocent...


Now they say college is all about drinking, bars and having a good time: we had our share of bars and celebrations. Jeremy's, Floyd's, Tavern, Newgate, BBQ on 8th, Josie Woods and Camp...
Tina and I karyoking to CCR at Village Ma's.
Ryan and Caley getting ready to kick ass in bocce ball at Floyd's
Fish is so excited about this shot, she can't contain herself.
Someone wrote Catie's name on a napkin with BBQ sauce!
Yeah, Gans' downed all of those 32 ozers.



AND YES, throughout the good times, soccer was interspersed. Oregon!
Camera crew, Denise, Meg and Jackie found the big draw of Portland: "Special" Elvis
How many Vdubs did we see? Well, Steph thought this was was pretty rad. Can't you tell by her expression?
And who could forget us stealing fun oregon beach games from nearby little kids. Ahhhh, seaweed skip-it - still fresh in my mind!
This is what happened when Jackie screamed "Turn and pose!" as Caley, Fish, Steph and I were walking toward the Pacific Ocean. Hot models, we are.
And Gans Fish TD Caley and Jackie thought it'd be funny to imitate the Chippery people. (they did not think this mockery was funny, but couldn't express their resent because, well, they are metal.)
And bus/van trips are always a good time. Look at this "candid" photo of Jackie TD and I laughing our asses off.


80's night!
First of all, all 80's photos should be taken at this angle.

Secondly, girls could pose like this in the 80's and not get called lesbians. (Even though she does like chicks)


ANOTHER NIGHT TO DRESS UP: Halloween :)


We got some firefighters hanging from poles, a mummy, the Ninja Turtles, Braveheart and...The naughty Red Baron and Golfer. Well, we weren't "naughty", but there were some fun poses we could do with that plastic club.
And so, an interlude for Miss Tina Prickett- my roommate, best friend and sister from another mister...

She loves to pose, that is for sure. This is Tina doing a photoshoot at the Salmon River waterfalls- less commonly known as, Forbidden Downs.
And she loves her muscles. Looking hot in (half-a)toga.
She's always willing to share the last few shots on a raft in the bay (and then break up incurring fights on the dock)
Rest on a chilly iceblock to make sure we get the perfect picture...
Try and convince an old cowboy to give up his hat for her performance on the bar of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

And these 5 pictures of Tina cannot even sum up her existence. Everytime anyone hangs out with her, she is the welcomed center of focus.

Tear * tear* miss you bull...

Moving on to another sad moment: THE END of my soccer collegiate year.
Jackie and I as we walk away from ever playing soccer together again...
(we're actually walking to the Brooklyn Library to read to young children)
Oh how I will miss the Hawthorne Inn and its Murphy Bed!
After the Conference Championship- losing one to zero to the Blue Devils - I take out my sadness and anger at the Tavern, in my home Jersey with lots of beer and swamp frog in me.

Who could forget Oswald, Kalvin, Dagg and Peck? The only imaginary characters that kept me sane throughout my ankle injury...

Soccer was a great time. LIU kicks ass AND we're cool. Beat that CCSU.


WITH EVERY END COMES ANOTHER BEGINNING
even if it someone else's beginning...
Ali graduates from the Coast Guard!!! (and Chelsea has my BURGUNDARY purse from Kmart)

What a joyful time it was to see Ali again. Sorry, there are no pictures from this upside-down night with me and my mac at this moment. Perhaps this section will be updated later...

ANOTHER NEW BEGINNING:
The marriage of Jerry and Melinda! Also known as Gerald and Miranda. A beautiful Seattle New Year's wedding for a gorgeous couple with an endless future.
This is us at Snoqualmie Falls, stalking Jerry and Melinda on their honeymoon.
Juuuust kidding, they had already left and Steph Jackie and I wanted to check out the place.
But we do look stealth...

Speaking of stealth, here's some legit, hardcore, rated X stealthiness for ya'
Notice: Rainbows are Gay. It's funny cause it's true.
And next to her, with the quote of the year:
"Gay is gay, age is irrelevant" -TD
Mission possible.
Gans and Jackie with their stealthiest faces
I did not attend this mission, but damn I wish I did.

While we're on the subject
some more stealth
you'd understand why this is stealth if you knew the context...
Catie, plotting AGAIN.
Fish as Super Fish, just a part of the stealth squad.

Enough stealth. Man, that word is leaving my mouth dry. On to my roommates!

So this is how I decided we'd spend Valentine's Day. Framboise, cheese and crackers and chocolate covered strawberries. Yum! Oh and wearing green. Instead of Vday, we made it Greenday!
Our family photo. Amy is the baby. Me mom, Tina pops.
Tina cooking us some kind of concoction. I think this one was green bean casserole.
(the onions get to her eyes, so she wears goggles)
Slainte- to a great year in 7M

Speaking of a manless Valentine's Day... I did some math in my head the other night.
Over the past 365 days, I have only seen David 19. Ten of those days were on our cross country trip to San Francisco. Here's my tribute to our travels...
Here we are in Houston at his Grandparents house. I love the bricks in the background
This is me in a tree at the LBJ Museum in Western Texas. Yes, I am wearing the same shirt, because I went the whole week living out of one backpack. I rock (and possibly smell? nooooo)
Carlsbad caverns... staring in to the BATCAVE where all the bats fly out of at some point (that we missed). Damn travel deadlines. So much to do, so little time...

A candid shot of David coming out of the meteor crater. I actually forget where exactly this was, but I do remember the circumstances. Dixie Chicks blaring, sign that says Crater exit! We get off the exit, it's 11 miles to the crater and when we get there it's 10 bucks each.
The crater wasn't worth it.
This picture was.
Me contemplating over the Hoover Dam

To be continued...
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