Beach @ MindSay

Blahh... so i just got back from playing beach volleyball and i am soo sore!!!! (OMFG there was the cutest lifeguard lol sorry) And it doesnt help very much that i only got 6 hours of sleep last night because i had to watch all these hyper screaming kids at this one camp. 

    but i guess the highlight of these last few weeks was winning some stuff from Cosmogirl magazine. I use to enter the daily contests in Seventeen and Cosmogirl about a few months back but i was getting mad that i never won anything.....sooo now im getting boxes at my door lol. So far ive gotten two shower massage scrubby things and two things of Cake satin sugar hair and body mist. 

 yeahh its pretty tight

well tomorrow i gotta get up at 6am soo we can start painting our new house

Viva Oxnard. In 4 days. The quiet beach with the quiet waves and the wide open sunset-filled sky.  My oldest brother, Scott, my oldest sister, Nikki, her husband F and my two famous little nephews I helped raise 4 years ago, within Mindsay. They're 8 & almost 6 now. It's remarkable.

It's indescribable, the chairs around the bonfire on the sand of California...the waves I used to dream about are as blue and as velvet under the sunlight as I imagined back on the farm at 12 years old. Extraordinarily, my Dad stays there. He's a part of the air, the movement of the ocean, he's the sparks flying up from the fire and the light in my brother's eyes. A small part of my heart naturally beams when I visit there.  I like to push my feet in the sand, there; lean back and breath in the beach like a flawless indulgence, a sparkling presence. There is no question, I belong by the water.  I come so alive there.

I came back East for love, after living in San Diego in 2004. I mistook a lover for what should have been a best friend and I let myself return to Virginia where I thought love was waiting for us there. I lost that friend but, nonetheless, Virginia is home, more than California will ever be, I have realized.  I live in Maryland now, with Nathan, life's best gift so far :) --I love it, but Virginia has the history that molded me into who I am so I couldn't possibly not call it home. I know its roads and its trails on my grandfather's farm in Hartwood, I know it better than I ever wanted to, truthfully.

Silly me. Plotting and plotting at 21 years old. I didn't know shit. Life just happened. All of a sudden I am the happiest I have ever, ever been in my life. I made so many plans, I made so many changes, but life has a stronger engine than me, it has its own direction. It's marvelous. I wouldn't dare hit the brakes. I just cruise. :)

I can't wait to see everyone when I land at LAX!!!

I love Nikki's smile. I can't wait to kiss my nephews :)

Not the best video, but I did "catch" them.. LOL!

It was so much fun taking them to the beach and for the boat ride. Mark and I really enjoyed the day today out in the sun and swimming. We woke up to a thunderstorm and were both bummed that we werent going out again, so we went back to bed, set the alarm to get up for church, but it was sunny and we were like.. lets give it a shot!! I am SO glad we did, cause it really turned out to be such a terrific day.

so, today when i went walking for the longest time around the beach, i decided to get on the rocks.

cool, right?

i'm a big kid now. it's safe for me.

just so long as i don't fall in. because, you know, i have important shit with me.

camera, ipod, money, Israeli cell phone...money and camera being the most important.

so i was there. thinking maybe the bottoms of my shorts would get a little wet, i stepped up on a rock.

well guess what?

ba. ha. ha. becca falls in.

gets the entire right side of her body soaked, and hits her side on the edge of a rock.

leaving a mark. D:

but, fortunately, my ipod is in my LEFT pocket! go me, i have good planning.

and, unfortunately, my money, my Israeli cell phone, and my camera are all on my right side.

alright. cool. just get out as soon as possible. did that, got on top of the rock.

my camera? looks pretty broken. i turn it on and nothing comes on the screen, but a little red light is on near it. uggghhh.

my money? that's fine don't even worry about it. :D

my cell? not turning on. that's no good.

i'm not exactly sure what i'm going to do about any of this. haha. 

but hey. at least my ipod's fine, right?

i'm looking on the bright side of things. ha.

oh, and. i had some oceanic thoughts today as well.

check it out on the first entry on this page:

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