You can run, but you can't hide

I have been in LA since Jan 2009 = almost 23 months next week.

For 23 months I have not been sick and I have not had to deal with the dreaded allergy season that would take over my body each fall in Missouri...till now.

At this moment my head is a balloon floating away from my body. A big balloon of gunk.

I felt like a true adult yesterday at Walgreens filling up my basket with every allergy pill possible, a bottle of OJ and a few jars of chicken noodle soup. There is nothing fun about any of these purchases. I should have thrown in a copy of the new In Style or People just for kicks.

Are the pills working? Who knows. I just keep taking them, thinking that they have to be helping in some way. I thought there had to be hope with one of the magic boxes since I was carded to buy it.

I'm really bummed LA has proved me wrong and that I thought I was allergy free here in this city. LA you have failed me!

LA - 0
Allergies - 1

San Fran Weekend

I was only back in LA for 6 days after my Shoe Drop and It was time for a weekend get away =)

I had made plans previously since it was a good chance to meet up with a few friends that would also be in the Bay area for the weekend.

Friends visited...

Claire and Devs -- Two friends from my TOMS internship who have recently moved up to San Fran. Devs just started working with Google in August and I was able to go visit her at work and have an AMAZING Google lunch.

Shamus -- On his marathon tour with Nike, he was in town to run the many Nike events that weekend. I was able to visit him at the Nike Expo on Saturday...the guy is kind of a big deal now.

Justin -- A friend from STL just moved to Sacramento to begin a teaching grad program. We spent all day Saturday touring the city and even took a ferry ride around the Bay.

Emily -- One of my oldest and dearest friends from back in the Jr High/High school days is also up in North Cal as a grad student at Berkley. We were able to meet up for lunch on Sunday after a year of not seeing each other.

Over all a PERFECT weekend. I have been to the city before twice, but this trip I really enjoyed being in the bay area. Hopefully I'll continue to utilize the friends that live there and make more trips. Enjoy the photos from the weekend below....

GAME DAY! GAME DAY!

Its Homecoming in Columbia and for the first time ever ESPN Game Day has come for a visit!

Missouri brought 18,000 fans out to the Francis Quadrangle Saturday morning, breaking the Nebraska Huskers' previous record of 15,800.

I'm watching from my TV in LA and will be going to the Mizzou bar down the street for the game. As much as I would love to be in Columbia celebrating with everybody else, it is really fun to watch on TV. THe Quad looks perfect with all that black and gold covering it.

The crowd looks great and I have a feeling the team will look good too when they take the field. Fingers crossed Mizzou keeps the streak going of beating the number one seed this week. Ready to have some fun tonight.

GO Tigers, M...I...Z...Z...O...U!!

Halloween Feed Bags

I sent my Mom one of these cute pumpkin bags for Halloween...
http://www.feedprojects.com/shopping_product_detail.asp?pid=49404

Such a good price and a great cause!

FEED Projects goal is to reach hungry children through the sales of our FEED bags.

FEED bags raise much-needed funds for WFP school-feeding operations and awareness of the problem of child hunger.

All FEED products are made as eco-friendly and fairly as possible. Our bags are produced with high-quality, 100% organic cotton and natural burlap. We work with only audited and certified fair labor facilities. It's important to us to visit the places our products are made AND the places our donations are going.

The goal of FEED Projects is to market and sell as many FEED bags as possible and to FEED and educate the world's 400 million hungry children.