2013.07.17 - back from the dead

Hello again chicas!

I have been stuck in the deepest rut, but having the time of my life as well. Too many things have happened and my life has taken far too many 180's. I'm going to bring it all in with some short snippets. 

The beautiful lady by my side is none other than my very best friend, Gina. She has been with me through everything and I have gotten to know her better than ever before. We really have been through thick and thin and nothing will stop us from going to infinity and beyond! We have plans for matching tattoos in the works; will update if those come to fruition before she leaves again for school. This photo finds us at Mt. Rainier on the Fourth of July (hence the color-appropriate outfits). 

We were supposed to make the almost three hour drive to meet our friend Alex's family for a bbq. None of us were aware of the still wintery conditions and dressed for typical Fourth of July weather. Thankfully, my socks and beanie were surprisingly warm. We ended up being three hours later than we  were supposed to and we later found out that Alex's family had left before we even arrived... There was absolutely no phone service once we got there, so there was no way for us to find his family to begin with. We decided to walk around a bit and snap a few pictures to prove that we made the journey. After about half an hour, we gave up and left to get korean bbq at a restaurant (not quite worth the six hours of driving). It was a massive failure, but still a fun day with three people I love. At least we'll have a story to tell next summer. 

We even went back to Seattle in an attempt to salvage our Fourth. We went to our friends' apartment to finally join the celebrations only to find that everyone (again) just left. While we stood on their front step, they were all sitting at the nearby park watching the fireworks. Completely defeated, we went home to sleep.

Here is a picture of me and my one and only. Appropriately dress, I swear, for the annual gathering of ravers in Vegas. Tom and I pose in >100 degree weather between dancing our butts off. EDC was an amazing experience and hopefully I will be able to say that again next year. 

The sun was setting behind the electric daisy on our final day of raging. The dusky sky and beautiful mountains were the perfect backdrop to this mind-blowing event. A few photos and immeasurable memories are close to everything I brought back with me. 

This year has seen quite the lifestyle change for me, but I couldn't be happier. I am currently dating the young man who introduced me to this other life and I will keep you updated on our adventures together. This chapter of my life has seen six months so far and we are still going strong. 

Hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying their own adventures as much as I have been enjoying mine!

~April Baldock

2012.11.22 - hide and seek

Happy Thanksgiving, kiddies! I thought I would just share a quick story that I posted on my recently made, personal tumblr. I have had a fashion tumblr for quite a while, but just decided to make a personal one as well. You can find it hereee if you would like to check out my adventures in shorter, probably more frequent, updates. 

On Tuesday, my lovely friend, Emily, and I went out on a grab-a-date together and I summarized the night on my tumblr. I use quite a different writing style there, as you will see. I hope you enjoy getting a sneak peek into my night life. It gets crazy up here.

"2012.11.20

my Tuesday with Emily, one of the loves of my life:

both get asked to the same grab-a-date at SAE. not interested in the guys…nbd, free booze and bowling. get to the house…only lokos. wtf? Emily and I down a couple after finding half a bottle of fireball to split. talk to Nick and distract him from his essay for a while. feeling good and off to bowling.

car ride includes touchiness. pretty sure my crotch was touched…everyone thinks we’re lesbians anyway. bowling is pretty fun; took a chunk out of my thumb with my nail somehow, bled on my sweater dress..oh well.

back at the house, more lokos and some cookies. we’re getting real bored of our dates and leave for the bathroom. run out the doors and head to the frat across the street. it’s a grab-a-date, but we just walk in and follow some bitches around…no drinks, no cute guys. wander through their house for a while, lost. do some pull-ups on a door frame, get crept on by a weird asian with weird earrings. super ghetto, we’re out. talk to a couple wasu juniors at the door when we try to leave. run to high five them and both trip over the same parking block…

our dates have been looking for us.

“where did you guys go?”

“hide and seek mutha fuckaaa”

“are you at least in the house still?”

“of course…come find us.”

fuck, locked out of the house. knock on the front door, run back inside, soaked from the rain, run into our dates. 

“you went to sigma xi, didn’t you?” “what. no.” 

later, sobering up…this sucks. let’s go home. want to go without my date following us back, he comes with, we insist we want to go by ourselves, he still comes with. 

“uhhh my friends need me to walk them back from zbt…” “it’s cool i’ll come with” “nahh man, you stay.” “nope, coming with”

Emily and I run like mad to zbt with him following, wtf. Timmy, my favorite person, opens the door and lets us in, tells of my date and we chill, escaped from the creeper. 

too much excitement, Timmy is the best, eventually back in Emily’s dorm…slumber party! talk for hours, I love this bitch. 

I’m thankful for the many wonderful people in my life and the adventures we go through together; here’s to many, many more!

<3"

I hope you all had a wonderful turkey day and check back soon for more of my adventures!

~ April Baldock

2012.09.10 - meeting the roomie

Today I went out with the intention of being at work from 9-5 with a short-ish break during lunchtime to meet up with my roommate for a quick bite. Instead, I pulled in to UVillage around 11:15, sat in my car taking pictures and videos of myself, and wandered around UW until 1:00, when I was supposed to meet my roommate. The two of us also got together with two other girls in our cluster and one of their friends, who was visiting from southern California. Once the five of us found each other at the U Book Store, we headed off to Thai Tom for lunch. 

Thai Tom was amazinggg; the serving sizes were great for the price and the staff was super friendly. All the entrees were the same price, which was about $7.95. Most of the girls, including myself, had to get a take-out box (you can see mine sitting on top of my phone d: ) even though we were starving going into the restaurant! I'll definitely have to head back there more often once I move into my dorm. But a quick warning; they only accept cash here, so come prepared!

Meeting the girls was great. Everyone was really nice and I didn't feel much awkwardness at all. Conversation seemed to flow pretty naturally and I'm insanely excited to move in with them and spend the year getting to know each other. Maybe I'll finally find a couple girls that I actually get along with. I might even hang out with girls instead of guys for once! I might be getting ahead of myself, but I'm very optimistic about our cluster. I'll be sure to keep you updated on meeting the rest of the cluster-mates and getting to know them all. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and check back soon for another update!

~ April Baldock