hug a tree!

So here are my confessions so far as a manhattan girl, first that i haven't done anything touristy yet because i'm afraid to go outside alone, second i've sat in the apartment everyday since i got here and i'm getting depressed, third this place is LOUD, for heavens sake stop making noise for like a second. I also am having trouble sleeping because for some reason only at night there is this really strange sound coming from somewhere in the building that sounds like bamboo sticks getting rolled together, i think someone in our building is a whore and the sound is resulting from his/her sex torture. our apartment is so stinking hot i have to leave the window open all the time and i'm sure that at any minute a man dressed in black with a black beanie and a mexi stache is going to come crawling through it, i'd turn the heat down, but we can't control it. there is a mysterious button in our kitchen and finally yesterday i had the gall to push it and i heard a shrill buzzing noise coming from downstairs simultaneously, brilliant i know, now all i have to do is figure out how to look out the window to make sure someone is by the door and push the button from across the room at the same time! this would be much easier if i had an accomplice or two.. ahem (emily and kristal). anyway to be fair, i do go outside sometimes but not unless i have directions to where i'm going, like today i made it the 20 blocks to cory's work to meet him for lunch and i must say new york is FABULOUS! i'm really looking forward to getting to know the city better and becoming more familiar with places so that i can enjoy it that much more. OH, and i saw trees today for the first time since i've been here! not like a tree in the middle of a sidewalk, i went past bryant park and there was a plethora of beautiful trees! i wanted to run to them and hug them! so wherever you are right now run outside and hug a tree for me!

the probability of me dying at a young age just went up

if my name was molly i would call my blog 'blogging molly'. this was actually probably the safest activity we participated in while we were in alaska, except for the part that we went down a really big hill that turned at the bottom and i went into the trees, but i definitely like x country skiing much better than down hill, see i'm smiling.

SUCCESS

hey look at me! i finally figured out how to make my blog look cute! i have so many people to thank! first i need to thank kristal my inspiration for starting the blog in the first place and her threats to hurt me if i don't, second emily for making hers look cute.. that helped me gain the confidence that i could do it too, and last i need to thank president obama for helping me be so disinterested in his inauguration that it didn't take any time away from my current daily activities and allowed me to create this! i'm so happy!

here we are at the alyeska ski resort. . . skiing, that's what people do at ski resorts. i have to say i'm pretty good at the whole skiing thing, yeah, i spent the whole day tearing up the bunny hill, it was AWESOME.

well i thought that i would be able to catch up on my blog from the break and no one would know that i haven't been updating my blog, but i just realized that the date is posted on each blog.. so this is me catching up. But this was in alaska, cory's friend from high school is living in alaska and working with a dog musher helping with his team and he had a mushing race and we got to go watch it was really fun even though it was like -20 outside. Oh alaska, and it was like 11:00 in the morning and the sun was JUST coming up. this was one of the few times i went outside during the break. i'll blog about the other times in a few minutes but a good solid week i spent reading the twilight series, i read the whole thing. it was alright.

hey check out the huge dog. it weighs as much as i do. .