Hello friends! How are you? Well I hope. Alright! without further ado I've decided that instead of the same ole, same ole non-visual blog, we're gonna try this new fangled idea I call picture blogging. After stealing this master idea from someone, I went through my camera and found a bunch of pictures that will hopefully help illustrate my life recently.

First and foremost, I have to share these hair photos. I have had my dreads in since I was about...18, so about three years now, and they are a constant work in progress but holy crap, I am proud of them. Behold:

Epic dudes, EPIC. I really thought they would have stopped growing by now. In all honesty ever since I moved back to LA I've just been contemplating shaving my head and getting rid of they, they're so hot and heavy in this So Cal heat. Speaking of SoCal, yes, I am back! I know I said I'd never live here again, but a few certain someones changed my tune and alas, here I am. It's nice to be closer to my sister, and some of my friends, especially Danny and baby B. Since I just got a call from my Aunt last week saying these photos were in Life & Style, I see no harm posting one here. The new digs:

It's a compromise house, but, I'm glad because I've really ended up loving it more than the original. Who knew that men don't see the logic in buying a 5 bedroom house because 'it's pretty tho :[ '. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me!

Since I've been back in LA I've had a little orange haired wonder staying with me a lot, which has been nice since we've both had kind of a lonely summer. She's finishing up an album that's going to blow people away, because she rules like that. I've also gotten to sneak in some precious hang out time with my faux big brother. I don't know what I'd do without them both: here's a photo I snapped of them when we all went out for dinner the other day:

Talk about the cutest people ever. Love love love them.

Speaking of things I love love love. I ended up with a new pet :[ Normally I am not a cat lover, but, animals are animals and we've had this stray wandering up to our porch for about a week. She didn't have a collar, and I tried to call around to see if anyone had reported her missing, even asked around the neighborhood, all to no avail. Finally three nights ago when she was whining outside the screen door I just decided enough was enough and took her in! I named her Dolley in keeping with my tradition of naming animals after the wives of American presidents. This is her debut:

I start school in a little over a month and I'm already getting pretty nervous. I mean, I know I got in and I didn't even do all that horrible on the math placement test (this is a miracle, trust me) but I still can't help the feeling that I'll be behind because I've been out so long. I'm excited about my major though, evolutionary biology is just a big fancy name for trying to answer the question: "Where did we come from?". If you know me, you know this is one of my favorite topics of discussion so it really couldn't be more perfect. I had my orientation last week, it was really hot, really overwhelming, but also really cool. Here's a picture of UCLA for good measure:

I think I'm just about done rambling right now, but, since my friend Garbo is always posting about her fabulous meals on Twitter, I figured I'd better toss in this photo to show her up! (in my dreams, she cooks the pants off me!) This is what I made for dinner tonight:

Vegan tofu herb lasagna! Hopefully Jay will approve.

Until next time kids,

xoxo phoe