Back from the Desert

I'm back from Palm Springs. I had a wonderful weekend with my sister and my friend. We drove out there Friday morning and had a blast till we came back home. We ate good food, exercised and hung out at the spa everyday and laughed a lot. Saturday morning we woke up early and drove to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway which takes you up to Mount San Jacinto where we hiked around. Up in the mountains it was nice and cool....such a huge contrast to the intense heat below.

We drank a lot of coconut water and watermelon drinks to stay cool~

The restort we stayed at had tennis courts right by our room. I had nobody to play with though ;______;

This is us having fun with sunscreen before our hike.

It cost about twenty bucks per person to use the tram. It was an amazing ride....kind of scary, but amazing.

The mountain was filled with beautiful flowers.

My sister and I doing some Armenian dances when we reached the top~

Lame but necessary poses.

CAKE WE HAD AFTER THE HIKE. It was a gluten free chocolate cake......I only ate half...was too filling.

And some more food we had. MYAHHH.

I just came back from my Structures class. I got a 95/100 on my midterm. I am beyond thrilled. I aced that crap. Now onto concrete slabs!!

HOPE YOUR WEEK STARTED OFF WELL!!!!

MY DAD

Sweden circa. 1988/89

Sweden circa. 1992

Los Angeles, 2012

I am lucky to have a dad like mine. I can't describe how tight our bond is. My friends often joke about how much I talk about him. I don't do it on purpose. He has been such a presence in my life that it's become natural. He has been my role model - the person I strive to be even half as awesome as.

We've been through some incredibly tough times together and we have come to accept that our future won't be as bright as we had hoped for, but knowing that we have each other's backs through all of this means the world to me. My dad has been a fighter and I intend to be the same.

Happy Father's Day to all the amazing fathers around the world <3

BACK FROM HYRULE

OMG!!! WHAT AN AMAZING NIGHT!!! I went to the Greek Theater to see Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses! It was so beautiful and nostalgic!

The whole day I carried my mini Link with me everywhere. I went to school today to work on a competition that my friends and I are entering. I recorded this instead of working:

Link <3

It's been a tough couple of days so it was nice to come here and listen to beautiful music <3 The performance was very strong and energetic! Now I want to play Zelda again! But first I must finish this competition~ Good night everyone <3 <3 <3

To Cut Or Not To Cut

I walked for an hour today in the morning while everyone was still asleep. I need to be alone for some time everyday to just think and try to relax from whatever it is that's stressing me out and walking helps with that. My thoughts usually flood me during the night but that used to exhaust me because I wouldn't get any sleep, so now I try to walk around the neighborhood before bedtime. Today I happened to walk in the morning because I woke up from a stressful dream and the best way to get rid of the weird feeling was to walk. I saw so many beautiful flowers....my neighbors have good taste! There is one lady who lives ten minutes away from my house...she has the cutest front yard. So many different types of plants and flowers! Her yard is very small but it's still filled with plants~ I always walk by her house on my nightly walks...I hope she doesn't think I'm a creeper...I just love her yard so much~ I want my future house to be like that....a small house that is cosy and surrounded by nature. Her house is very eclectic. I love that. Reminded me of The Borrower Arrietty <3

Another thing related to stress (maybe???) was something that has plagued me for the past two months. My hair was falling out! A month before my studio final I realized something was wrong with the amount of hair falling out and I freaked out which made matters worse, so I tried not to think about it, but that didn't help either. After school ended, my hair was still falling out so I decided to just cut it short...shoulder length. It makes so sense...I know...cutting it is not gonna make it fall out any less, but whatever. It's been two weeks now that my hair has returned to it's former self...I don't know if it's because I've been exercising regularly again or if I've been taking too many fish oil tablets....not sure, but I'm happy~ My dad says it might be from stress, but I feel as much stress now as I did a month ago...so I don't know.

I went to my hairdresser with my sister today because she wants to change her hair color and I thought about cutting my hair/coloring it just because she was going to. I felt desperate...wanting to change something out of the blue...but then I really looked at myselfwhen I got home and thought "it's great as it is"...I like my hair. So no cut for me~

I'm gonna go to bed now! I'll leave this Armenian lullaby here~ Hope you have a wonderful week <3