Halloween!

Happy bir.... I mean Halloween..... so for Halloween a bunch of my friends desired to dress up as a group theme and that was going to be Giligan's Island.... so I was going to be Mrs. Hawl, however my friend was going to be Mr. Hawl, however it fell through, so I tried earnestly to find a replacement but no one was catching on to the enthusiasm of being Giligan's Island, so I already bought a blonde wig for like $5 at K-mart and decided to just be Marilyn Monroe, however more people on the streets mis-taken me for Anna Nicole, even a photographer on the streets kept yelling Anna at me, I was a bit confused at first. It was a fun halloween, I went to the infamous Halloween parade in the city, with so many outrageous and creative costumes, the highlights were the zillions of Richard Simmons performing their n-synce workout routine and the zillions of MJ thriller's, and of course the Pallins, Obama's and Joe the plumber. My favorite and most creative costumes was a couple from the back look like they were swings and in the front they were the states Ohio and Flordia, needless to say NY really played off the election year for this Halloween:)

I then so gracefully tripped on the curb due to wearing my high heels (never wear heels in the city) and scraped up my knee and ripped my nylons.... "classy" then headed to the stake dance and danced the night away- it really was a good halloween-

Autumn in New York

The fall in NY is so beautiful and enjoyable. It is one of the two times of years that the New York weather is "just right" not too hot nor too cold. It is fun to walk around the city and get glimpses of the changing of the leaves on the little trees we do have in the parks.... So for the month of September and October, I enjoyed New York with Sunday walks in Battery Park, going out to eat at the good restaurants, hanging out with friends, going to ward activities, saw some broadway shows, my favorite was  "Tale of Two Cities," which is now closed:( and my personal highlight was getting general admission tickets to WEEZER!! I rocked out like it was 1997 all over again:)

I did go to Utah the second weekend of October because I got Columbus day off, plus my good friend Bethany Allen was getting married, and is always fun to see family and friends:) However I took many cute and good pictures but those were some of the ones on my memory card which I lost:( 

So here are some pics....walking in Battery Park, me and my new friend I made while participating in a service activity to run with special needs children in Central Park,  my friends going out to eat and checking out the CMJ (College Music Journal),  Weezer pics and 

Ogdensburg...

So my friend Nate who lived in the city was coming the second weekend of September to visit my friends and I in NYC. We planned to take a camping trip to Vermont, however, it fell through and we had to come up with a plan B. So then I remembered my family technically has a house in upstate New York, but it feels like forever away from the city and is in Amishville, so did not know if my friends would find that appealing. However they were up for it  and it ended up being a riot! So my friend Heidi, Joe, and his friend Tracy joined in Nate's birthday get away weekend to the exciting, Ogdensburg, NY. It was seven hours away, but we were with good company:)

We did the Ogdensburg routine, made a trip to Wal-mart, dollar store to buy Nate some "birthday crap" (quoting him directly),watched scary movies, played tennis, went swimming in the river/lake, pondered, read and had tin foil dinners. It really was a good time:) And we even found a new toy that kept us entertained.... a ball with a string....WOW!

Never too late to update!

So it is the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I am in Cleveland talking with family and we talked about writing Thank you cards late, and my brother-in-law and I both agreed it's never too late to write and send a Thank You note.  So I thought I would apply that to my blog.... don't worry it has been three months, by far the longest I have gone without updating it.... let's just say I am not the best at managing deadlines in my life, especially when there is no grade involved:) 

There is a reason to my not updating, the biggest and saddest of all is that I lost my camera:( and due to my data overload rusty computer was unable to download pics properly so was waiting for my new computer (which I now have) and lost my camera with my memory card of pictures taken from August to October, I won't lie I am quite sad for I am quite partial to pictures and wish I had them, so I had to use pics from my face book, but I am going to try to do a quick update..... so here it goes.......

I returned from my Study Abroad in Costa Rica the end of August. I then went to Cleveland, OH to visit my sister Loni before school starts, then returned to NY to start school, move into a new place and started school and a new internship, Arms Acres a substance abuse agency in the Bronx.

I did go to "Dirty Jersey" for labor day weekend with my some friends from my ward. We did the suburbia lifestyle of going to the local wal-mart, going bowling, eating at a mexican restaurant and getting ice cream and chillin at the house watching a couple of episodes of the John Adams series......I mean what else do you do in Jersey?