down time

Sunday: Bethany, Mi Suk, Caden and I took a little adventure to downtown to watch Where the Wild Things Are.









Fall is upon us.

This leaf alone has all the Autumn colors.

And this one is just a purple leaf.
Our house after raking.
This cat is my best friend. I call him buddy, he's just a stray.

Alki w/ Papa and Oksana

Funny story:
I accidentally locked myself outside my house this afternoon and then found out that my house isn't too hard to break into if you are flexible. One of the windows was unlocked and I pried it open with my little fingers and climbed inside. It was pretty sweet.

some fun in the gym

the squashed philosophers

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quick readings of all the greatest philosophers.

a puzzle and a poem

a puzzle:









and a poem:
Robert Frost is up there with my favorite poets of all time.

BOND AND FREE

Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about--
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.

On snow and sand and turn, I see
Where Love has left a printed trace
With straining in the world's embrace.
And such is Love and glad to be
But Thought has shaken his ankles free.

Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom
And sits in Sirius' disc all night,
Till day makes him retrace his flight
With smell of burning on every plume,
Back past the sun to an earthly room.

His gains in heaven are what they are.
Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.

apparently

We took a trip to the gym on Friday for one last time. Papa had something to talk over with Coach Yulia and I needed to clean out my locker.

I'm glad he was keeping her busy because I definitely wouldn't have been prepared if I had to face her. Guennadi gave me a hug and said he missed me, no more than that. Just that he missed me. I'm going to miss him too.

Apparently Yulia said a lot of things.

Apparently she's done SO much for me and I'm very ungrateful.

Apparently I told my teammates that my dad is strict and he doesn't feed me and he makes me workout extra and he makes me work in the family business because we're so poor.

(Is this the same Yulia who thought it was so cool that I was a personal trainer and told me to never give up what I loved and I would definitely succeed?)

Apparently after I had resigned she went home and canceled me as a friend on facebook.

And because I quit gymnastics I'm most likely going to quit everything else I start in life "and before you know it I'll get pregnant or something."

Wow.

This went on for a whole hour while I was out on the floor catching up with my teammates. When she got tired of ranting and Papa got the financial issues taken care of he came out.

He was really confused and questioned me about it later. I really didn't know what to say. I had never been so disrespected in all my life. And the upsetting thing was that it was by someone who was my mentor, role model and guide for such a long period of time.

I was upset and angry for a couple hours and then realized how ridiculous it was and now I can't stop laughing.

The little bit of truth in all those lies was the fact that I did "quit" even though it was for a good reason. The greatest revenge is success.

I was really tempted to go to her facebook wall and say "haha we're still friends."

I find it all quite amusing.

little blessings

Little brother: "When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Bigger sister: "What I wanted to be didn't matter so much to me as who I wanted to be."




sometimes the little things people say hit you harder than you expect...