woo hoo trials are fun!! can’t wait to race tomorrow!

more blogging to come tomorrow

ps i literally hate the number 125

Day off today!!!! Woo. Well after doing a 15K that is.. And seat racing and pieces. Went and got a delicious breakfast, which consisted of chocolate chip pancakes, eggs and sausage! Also had my third bacon experience!! Still don’t know how I feel about it… Selection process is getting so long… Can’t wait until we know what boats we are in or of in any… Get to see ke$h-la next week!!! So pumped! Currently watching the village with Leigh… Who I think is asleep.. Our room smells like Crisp water! Nomnomnomnomnomnom

so i haven’t blogged in awhile.. oops. 

things that have been a major change in my life: 

1. i have left the mighty oklahoma and have moved my life to princeton, where i get to live in a theological seminary with no kitchen or any appliances to make food.. hello oatmeal for the rest of my life… SO HAPPY! miss you nevahhhh

2. i have been eating a lot of pie since Finbar has been getting lots of packages from friends and they all tend to send her pie.. hey i don’t mind

3. I have spent about 40 dollars on nail polish so far.. i am in love with any essie color.. just like lala wrote in her post that color is awesome.. it is currently on my nails… 

4. kayla and i are on the same wavelength of brain power or something… example: i also have been watching californication non-stop and that color is owned by me and is on my nails right now!… weird but awesome

5. an olympian drove me to princeton.. MARY WHIPPLE i died inside when i saw her.. filling a 15 passenger van with all our bags and 15 people was a challenge but was successfully completed!

6. my tans are getting worse.. i am now becoming a different race. 

as for another aspects of life and rowing… the last few days in Oklahoma were decent we did a lot of seat racing in straight fours with massive cross winds and any sorts of wierdness going on the course… pairs crashing into bridges, breaking oars, more crashes. one day it was 108 degress.. that day i did a 6 by 20 min on the erg.. it was delightful and the heartrate 157… that number is going to give me nightmares.. let’s just say I was really glad to leave oklahoma. on the last day we went out and danced with the national team boys, ended up being a nice delightful night with funny stories. our plane was at 7 am to philly.. we left our apartments at  4:30 - too early. i slept on Mo at the airport while she blogged… apparently i twitch when i sleep… hmm.  the traveling was fine nothing fun happened there… minus the van ride which was awesome.. 

princeton is pretty awesome though.. the weather is nice and it isnt 108!! funny story ran into my friend sam at walmart today!!! it was great! made my day! so far we have rowed on mercer lake where its FLAT and NOT WINDY!!! oh and we don’t have to consistently plug our noses to ignore the awful stockyard city smell that came over during the last 1000 in oklahoma… (so much stronger when there was cross-wind… oh wait there was always cross-wind there!) 

but so far we have rowed about 400,000 meters.. cool 

we took out big boats today and rowed this brand new boat!! ahh it was sooo smooth.. magical! 

but currently ranked 4th on the port side.. while my girl moseph is 2nd! how awesome is that! working hard and not letting my head down though.. always ready to race! we are trying to make THE national team not some scrubby team.. duhhh 

I am going to list 5 things that I have recently fallen in love with:

1. extra long bandaids - perfect for covering nasty blisters on yo fingahs

2. lattes - from this gelato place called capo giro - literally they are so good i die, their gelato is pretty ah-mazing too

3. californication - perfect for watchin in between our 3 practices a day, literally its so addicting and i’m already on season 4

4. essie bright tights - i just got a pedi this weekend and i LOVE this color, its soo summery and looks great wif my havaianas

5. and finally Max Brenner’s Chocolate Restaurant - E.Landy was working for JL at the schuylkill navy regatta this past weekend and we went out for dinner here. IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER LITERALLY THE BEST! We got the most delicious dinner of just dessert and i think i actually died for a couple minutes it was THAT GOOD.

not pictured: chocolate fondue with strawberries and bananas and make yo own smores

ok so those are the 5 things i am currently in LOVE with

xoxo

ke$h

THERE IS A HUGE STORM COMING THIS WAY!!!! 

70 MPH winds!!! we had to move all our boats into the boathouse… hopefully it will hold against the wind! 

had a great evening and dinner with MO/Finbar today. some nice men gave us their watermelon so that was pretty sweet and they had some solid vegetables at dinner which was legit..and then we got slurpees and sat on the grass and talked about lyfe.. it was da best. pictures coming soon!! 

practice was windy… in a four against 30MPH head wind trying to do 20s… ha that was funny. 

aight almost to ptonn 

xoxo

the russian

YAY SCULLING!

- KE$H

1. it is nice and sunny, clear skies, within a millisecond the sky gets gray, dark and frightening… soon it starts hailing … hail the size of tennis balls.. let’s talk about how the world is ending and OKC is the first … also casual rainbow shows up later… 

[please note the splash they are making]

[compared to my hand…..this is not real life]

2. random dance moves are being throw out in the erg room because we are so bored of waiting for our second practice to start.. obviously i attempt to cat daddy.. this is for carl-carl 

but so far camp has been pretty sweet. went out in a straight four today. i felt like a gimp of gimps because i now have…. wait for it… wait for it.. A SEAT PAD!!!! what the… i was in shock but i do.. feel so tall on the water… we had a 6K on sunday.. I PRed however did not execute my plan correctly which was kind of depressing.. we did our 16K D Rotation Stepping 4 by 2K so much fun. and then some core.. my fav exercise is the windshield wipers… so much fun.. 

caution: these are not fun! 

over the weekend i saw x-men and it was so ahhsomeee.. i want to have some secret power and be supa human.. being russian isnt enough i want to be an x-men!!! also their russian sucked in the movie.. soon we are going to princeton to humidity and hotness.. and no longer the nice apartments.. so sad… and we will be closer to knowing who makes what boat! wooo also finally went to sonic and devoured a chocolate malt after my 6K.. and dipped my fries in it SOOO GOOD, it was melting in my mouth.. best mouth orgasm ever.. so yeah that is it for right now!!! 

xoxo, 

sha-sha aka d@$h-d@$h… k3$hLa has a cool name why not have one too??? 

ok so my last bloggy was from like last wednesday right?? So since then I have still yet to become a master of sculling, almost killed myself in a single, had a 2k test, rowed some more, visited the zoo, went home for da weekend, and rowed a little more.

Day 2 like my 3rd practice ever, they put me in a single and say we’re doing like 4x8minz… i have never really been in a single before, except for a one week stint at craftsbury sculling camp after my freshmen year of HIGH SCHOOL… so when the coach said what we were doing and noticed my ghost-white like face, he casually asked if i have ever been in a single before and i said no so he let me do some SS… all alone. It was so scary!! There was also a lot of traffic on the river and i kept stopping every 3rd stroke and i thought i was going to flip and DIE. I was so happy once that practice was done!

Since then I have been like only rowing in a quad, which i like SO MUCH MORE. The quad is so much more stable, and friendly, and i don’t have to bow, and just a lot more relaxing. This morning i had to bow a double for the first time, and i BLEW… i was like freaking out the whole time and we couldn’t go straight and like ugh it was awful. But i think i will be in the quad from now on… hopefully.

Oh so the 2k… it went aiight - not like the stellar 2k the G-Thins did before IRAs, where i PRd woot woot - but I was pleased, i was the 2nd fastest!!

Oh and on friday our second practice was cancelled! so i went to the zoo fo da day wif rich(my boif)!! Look at these cool pics i took!!

         look at these monkeys just hangin

and these are some gangley giraffes

these two crocodiles just love some snugglin!

i hope you lurved my captions!!

KLA