My Mountain Experience

I had the opportunity to go up into the mountains, and learn how to grow Cannabis. Of course I accepted. So I will be difficult to reach for a while, but I will blog about every thing that happens up there this Spring and Summer, and all of the bad ass things I learn how to do.

Day 1

Day One on the Mountain was peaceful. My friend Jack and I arrived early before everyone, so we sat for a while outside, and enjoyed the peace and quiet. It's so beautiful up here. All forest will silvery lakes dotted here and there. It was quiet and,to be honest, it was kind of a shock for me having been in the city for so long, the quiet was almost overwhelming. I felt the urge to turn on some music, or strike up a conversation to fill the silene, but after about half an hour, it started to become relaxing.
I brought my cat Sugar, and my puppy Rusty up with me to the mountain. I wasn't sure how my pampered spoiled house cat would react to the culture shock of being in the woods, but she loves it up here. Her calico fur which sticks out like a sore thumb outside in the city is the perfect camoflauge up here. When she sits still in the trees, you can't see her until she moves. Rusty went right to town digging holes all over the place. I can tell they're going to enjoy their stay up here just as much as I am.
Where we're at on the mountain, there's no electricity or running water. We have a generator so I can charge my computer, but that's about it. We have to drive six miles into town to get water, and take showers. We also cook our food over a fire. Which I actually like way better than regular cooking. For one it's way more exciting. Also there's the possibility that you can burn the hell out of your hands. Also you can roast marshmallows while you cook.  Which I think is the awesomest thing ever. We had forest chili that night. Jack made this concoction of beans, summer sausage, and chili powder, that was so hot it felt like my mouth was on fire, but so damn good I couldn't stop eating it. I ate so much, my mouth was numb by the end of the evening.
We pitched our tent after dinner, and sat and smoked some weed and drank some beer, and enjoyed the evening.
I really feel like I'm going to change up here. There is powerful energy here, and I think I'm going to learn a lot of awesome things up here. I feel like this beginning of my journey to inner peace, and I'm going to tell all of you about it.

C'est La Vie.
Viva La Vida.
And Fuck the System.
Peace.
Signed, Esther Dolezal ♪♫

Hot... or NOT!!

Well I've only been off campus for a few days, and I gotta say, it is Not what I thought it would be. I'm in the exact place I was in last summer, and I am bored as hell.
I thought I was gonna get the whole summer hookup thing started or something with this dude I met on Hot or Not (sketchy, I know, but he seemed legit.) We chatted on Facebook for a while, and he seemed like a sweet -if not hella sexy- guy. But then I got a friend request from some creepy weird dude from Somewheresville California. I deleted the request, I mean, I had never met the guy, and I had already stretched my limits with cute Hot or Not dude. Well, then Hot dude proceeded to tell me what he had been lying to me the entire time. Both the Hot or Not account and the Facebook profile were fake, and he looked nothing like the person in his profile picture. So even though I was now officially weirded out, I asked him what he looked like, because I was curious. It turns out, the creepy dude from Somewheresville California was him! To make things even creepier, he's also a 20-something year old truck driver, and he was in town looking for me!!
I know, I know. You're probably all sitting there thinking, "Well what did she expect, she met this dude on the internet." Well in my defense, I've met someone on Hot or Not before, and he and I actually became pretty good friends. So when "Hot" dude friended, me, I didn't think too much of it. But its whatever right? I'm actually enjoying the single life right now.
Also, an update on the Summer Bucket List. I said in an earlier post, that I hooked up with someone and that I wasn't quite sure it counted, but a few days later,  I had a really, Really, REALLY unexpected occurrence with a friend of mine. We were hanging out in one of the piano practice rooms, playing some music, and talking like we usually do. We were sitting side by side on the piano bench, when all of a sudden he turned and put his arms around me. Up until this point, I wasn't even aware he was interested in me as more than a friend, so I was a little surprised, but I just went with it. Well we sat like that and talked for a while, then suddenly he stood up, and pulled me up against him and, well, one thing led to another, and the next thing I knew, we were going at it on the piano bench. Anyway, later he came over and helped me clean out my dorm room and we hooked up again. He left after that, and that was that. But we did make out in a public venue, so I can now say I have successfully crossed that challenge off the list.
Now, I'm on the job hunt (again) and I just hope I end up doing something I actually know how to do. Last summer, I worked at an auto parts shop, and since I know nothing about cars, It was fairly miserable. Basically, my plan is to get a job, find a less boring place to crash, and find someone to have fun with on my days off. If I can achieve all that, I can honestly say, my summer was a success, whether or not I complete the List.
C'est La Vie.
Viva La Vida.
And Fuck the Sysyem.
Peace.
Signed, hot_tunes♪♫

Getting Things Done

I've been dreading the moment when I'll have to say goodbye to all the wonderful and amazing friends I have made this year. Every time I start to think about it, I get teary eyed, which is weird because I almost never cry. We've had some CRAZY experiences together, and to think that I'll have to say goodbye to them possibly forever is just painful. I think this is one of the most difficult, memorable, and crazy years I've ever had, and saying goodbye to it is tough. But on the other hand, I am looking forward to this summer, and the new opportunities I will be able to experience.
On a lighter note, I have completed a few more tasks on the Summer Bucket List.

• Eat a lemon without sugar
• Play a card game
• Make something out of duct tape
• Hook up with someone 
• Make out with said hookup in a public venue

Basically, I'm just doing the really generic easy things first. I suppose it would have been more difficult if I had to complete the list in order, since the first item is Learn how to do a triple backflip.

Here's a really bad picture of me attempting to eat the lemon, taken by my friend Laurel in my dorm room. I'm just gonna say, that even though I am a hardcore lemonade addict, I do NOT like lemons plain. It's like eating pure acid. Ugggghhhh.

Some of my friends and I got together, and played Phase 10 on the beach yesterday, so that counts as a card game. Even though I lost pretty miserably, it was great getting to spend some time in the sun, and relax by the water. Unfortunately I don't have photo evidence, but it's just a card game, so I don't think it's that hard to believe

Also last night, I made a duct tape flower which I am pretty proud of. I used duct tape and a bobby pin, and besides the lemon, it was definitely the most difficult task I had to achieve so far on the list.

I am also happy, because even though the whole sleepover/hookup thing didn't work out, I did end up getting laid for the last time this semester, by one of my old hookups. Which totally counts as my hookup, and I made out with him on a college campus, which is a public venue. I do not have photo evidence of that either, because I think it would be highly inappropriate, but it was a pretty fun experience. So after I say my goodbyes, I can start my epic summer with no regrets. :)


C'est La Vie.
Viva La Vida.
And Fuck the System.
Peace.
Signed, hot_tunes♪♫

Achievements...? Probably Not

Well, this is going to be one hell of an interesting and challenging summer. So far, I have only completed two of the items on the list.

• Make paper boats, and float them somewhere outside
• Build a blanket fort

I did the paper boats thing last night in the lake off campus. It was raining, and it was kinda sketchy because this random guy was down there watching me do it, and I felt like a total wierdo. It was dark, so you'll have to take my word for it; I don't have photo proof of me floating the boats. But it's not like it's something really difficult to do, so it is pretty believable. 

I'm actually not quite sure if my blanket fort thing actually counted, because it was really just some sheets tacked over the entrance of my dorm room. Several people have told me that it does count, but I think I'll have to redo it. Basically, me and my friend Syd decided to have a sleepover/hookup with a couple of guys, so we redid my dorm common room to lok like we had been roommates, so we didn't appear desperate or something. But then one of the guys backed out so I was the third wheel, so because I was kinda bummed out about it, I went and drank like 8 shots of whiskey, which for me isn't that much, but I hadn't eaten anything but a handful of tortilla chips that day, I got totally wasted, and threw up everywhere. Definitely not my finest moment. Anyway I laid beside the toilet and listened to them get it on, and basically had a fairly miserable night. So, since the whole blanket fort was iffy, and I ended up smashed, I think I might have to repeat that one.

Hopefully my other attempts are a little more successful.

C'est La Vie.

Viva La Vida.

And Fuck the System.

Peace.

Signed, hot_tunes♪♫

My Summer Bucket List

I am determined to have the best summer ever, so with the help of some friends, and some ridiculous dares I have accepted, I have created a list of things I am going to (or attempt to) do before the summer ends. Some of them are crazy, and honestly I have no idea if I'll be able to achieve most of them.

1. Learn how to do a triple back flip
2. Blow smoke bubbles
3. Go cliff diving
4. Mix the perfect margarita
5. Kiss a random stranger
6. Go sand-boarding (Whatever that is)
7. Go bungee jumping
8. Give myself a permanent tattoo
9. Glue money to the sidewalk and laugh
10. Plant some flowers
11. Go to a drive in theater
12. Dance wildly in front of screen at drive in theater
13. Make paper boats and float them somewhere outside
14. Use a horrible fake accent all week
15. Go paint balling
16. Make s'mores
17. Cook something on a solar panel
18. Wash the car in the driveway and writhe sexily on top of it.
19. Chase an ice cream truck
20. Shoot off fireworks
21. Go to a farmers market
22. Make a food basket and give it to a homeless person
23. Wear a coconut bra all day
24. Run a six minute mile (easy)
25. Go to an amusement park
26. Kiss a carnival worker
27. Make a mud pie
28. Learn how to make sushi
29. Solve a Rubik's cube
30. Break dance in the middle of the mall (easy)
31. Hook up with someone in the middle of the night
32. Make out with said hook-up in a public venue
33. Read 5 books (Easy)
34. Deep fry a Twinkie
35. Try to break a world record
36. Sing some horrible karaoke on purpose
37. Fry an egg on the sidewalk
38. Write a fake love letter
39. Sneak into an amusement park
40. Pose with mannequins in a store window (easy)
41. Throw bouncy balls off a skyscraper roof (no idea how I'm gonna get on the roof of a sky scraper)
42. Pretend to sleep in a bed store
43. Learn to say "hello" in 50 languages
44. Ding dong ditch someone
45. Milk a cow (Where am I gonna find a cow?)
46. Play strip poker
47. Collect 100 business cards
48. Send off a message in a bottle
49. Sleep under the stars
50. Go skinny dipping
51. Put on all the sample makeup at Macy
52. Shower in the rain- nudity not required 
53. Untie someones bathing suit
54. Play the pianos at the Steinway piano gallery (I actually play the piano, that's an easy one)
55. Cartwheel across a street at an intersection
56. Buy something and return it 5 minutes later
57. Give a random person my number
58. Crash a party
59. Wear lingerie to a bed store
60. Make a music video
61. Take selfies underwater
62. Dance in the rain
63. Write random notes and spread them all over the city
64. Splatter paint something
65. Do something for charity
66. Build a blanket fort
67. Pretend I'm a greeter at Walmart
68. Make homemade ice cream
69. Pull an all nighter
70. Choreograph an epic hip hop routine with five people and perform it in a public venue
71. Sleep on a roof
72. Play turkey basketball
73. Learn to ride a unicycle
74. Go on a blind date
75. Ditch blind date, no matter if he's cute or not
76. Have an enormous pillow fight with feather pillows
77. Learn  how to juggle
78. Make someones day
79. Find the perfect glass of lemonade
80. Get five new piercing's three of which must be somewhere besides ears
81. Wear a bikini and assless chaps to the mall
82. Plant a tree
83. Bury a time capsule
84. Carve name in a tree
85. Have an all day movie marathon
86. Jump fully clothed into a public pool
87. Suck the helium out of a balloon, and talk to random people
88. Buy bleach, rope, trash bags, and a shovel at home depot
89. Eat an entire tub of ice cream
90. Sleep on a park bench
91. Pose with a statue in front of a museum
92. Lick candy in a candy store and put it back on the shelves
93. Have an epic water balloon fight in public
94. Drive backwards through a drive through
95. Have sex on an airplane
96. Moon someone
97. Create the perfect ice cream sundae
98. Buy $50.00 worth of clothes from Goodwill
99. Make an epic sand castle
100. Have the most epic summer ever!!

This is going to be one hell of a crazy summer, but I am determined to at least attempt every item on the list.

I'll keep y'all posted. Wish me luck!!

C'est La Vie.

Viva La Vida.

And Fuck the System.

Peace.

Signed, hot_tunes♪♫

Summertime Sadness

As I near the end of a school year, I realize how temporary everything is. Things that even a few weeks ago seemed set in stone, now wobbling on thin ice, about to fall and crumble at any moment. The friends that I made over the few months I was here, so close to me now might never see me again, or if they do, may become distant, and cold during the months of summer. As I look back over the academic aspect of the year, I realize that I didn't really learn anything. I just became good at passing. Doing what was required to receive an 'A'. Everything I thought I learned at the time, was just enough to complete an assignment or project, then completely forgotten.
Relationships will dissipate, and the people I once was infatuated with romantically will go their separate ways, leaving only a memory of their touch and the times we had together. Sure, I'll stay in touch with some of them, but conversation without contact soon dies off in the end.
Now, I know this all sounds depressing, and you're all probably thinking "What the hell? It's summer! What's wrong with her? No college kid sound be depressed at the start of summer." I'm not depressed, I mean summer? HELL YEAH!! But still when you think about it, it's not like high school where you know you'll be sitting in the same classrooms as your friends the next year, or where you'll most likely see your friends throughout the summer. There is no knowing where you or your friends will be in the next year. Sure, they might stay, and sure you might be sitting together listening to a professor lecture the next semester, but the chances are most likely that they'll move on. They'll go to the next step of their lives, whether it be a transfer to another campus, or a soul-searching trip across Europe. I realized that friendship is even more important, and special now that you never truly know how much time you have together.
Am I excited about summer? Yes! I'm excited for the break from academics, and the time to spend with my family. Not to mention the steamy nights of fleeting summer romance, and sweltering afternoons by the poolside drinking lemonade and
 making conversation with the lifeguards. But now as an adult, summer means more than playing in a sprinkler, or sleeping late. Summer is full of responsibilities, same as any other time of the year. For a college kid, summer calls for the search for a temporary occupation, whether it be saving lives from a white bench at the side of a pool, serving ice cream to the children who have no idea how quickly their carefree summers will end, or sitting at a desk facing a screen, glancing out the window at the sunshine outside longing for just an afternoon of freedom and fun.
But even for the work burdened college student, trying to earn enough money to survive the next semester, there is still fun in those summer nights. Crazy backyard parties, crammed with bathing suit clad individuals dancing to the latest "summer anthem". Lazy nights on the porch drinking cheap beer, and devouring pizza, trading stories of the past year. Late night swims with your current significant other, under the warm starlight. Evenings spent with loved ones gathered in the living room around the TV, crunching on microwave popcorn, watching a movie you've all seen countless times, laughing at your favorite parts, dreading the day when you'll have to leave once more to start the next semester. And on those few afternoons you can escape the dreary burden of work, the more studious of us will head to the local library, or sit at a desk inside, to get a head start on the next semester. The more adventurous of us will travel to some part of town less frequented by the hoards of summering people. While still others will head to the mall with family or friends to perfect that summer style that will most definitely turn heads, or the cinema to see the latest movie that every family simply must  see.
I will most likely be spending my summer in the house on 36th street, soaking up the time spent with my family, searching for a job which if found, I will throw myself in whole heartedly, hoping those hours will earn me the funds to tough it out yet another year. Yes, while those nights spent dancing in a backyard, or those afternoons spent lounging on a poolside sound wonderful, and fun, they will most likely be spent inside some building, catering to the every whim of a customer, or crashing exhausted after a hard day's work. My weekends will be spent with my family, showing them in every way I possibly can how much I love them, and how much I appreciate everything they do for me. And as for those steamy summer nights of romance, those will most likely be just a daydream as I press my way through another work day, waiting for my shift to end.
I am excited for summer. I really am. But as excited as I am for the break from academics, I must be realistic and know that while it is a break from one type of work, it will be replaced with another. And such is the life of an adult. There never is a real break from any type of labor. There will always be something to replace the work that is completes. There will never be enough time to spend with family and friends. The next year will be a mystery, and it is one I am excited to unravel, but still, I can't help but experience a hint of summertime sadness.
C'est La Vie.
Viva La Vida.
And Fuck the System.
Peace.
Signed, hot_tunes♪♫