Reno Balloon Race 2006

"I love this crazy tragic, sometimes almost magic awful beautiful life"

I discovered this video this weekend while I was with some friends. My friend, Zach pointed it out. It's a time-lapsed video of the Reno Balloon Festival. Keep track of the Eagle balloon. It seems to have some technical difficulties. It starts out near the middle of your screen then swirls around a bit, disappears, and re-appears later in the shot and then is done for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyCcjbrWOM
This video is just so peaceful and there is so much going on, so I feel like I could watch it over and over again and still not catch quite everything.

This reminds me of a time when I was in Washington visiting my sister. We drove past a car dealership that had tons of balloons placed outside on the cars and they were just all bobbing up and down in the air, much like these balloons in the video.

*NOTE: I attempted in various ways (including the 2 that we learned in group presentations) to post this video not as a link, but as the actual YouTube Screen and was unsuccessful as you can see. If anyone has friendly advice, I'm all ears:)

"As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together. And as our lives change, come whatever, we will still be, friends forever."
~Vitamin C~

So, yes, this isn't the highest quality of songs, but it gets the point across. It is almost graduation. I am getting very sad when I really should be getting excited. I spent the weekend with some old friends that I used to see much more often. I found myself being very sad on the way back. One of the friends I speak of is from Boston. As I was leaving to come back to Milwaukee, he gave me a hug and we realized that this could potentially be the last time we see each other. He is also graduating in May and will be moving back to Boston and who knows where I will be.

Which leads me to my next issue: where am I going to be after graduation? I am having a near nervous breakdown trying to figure out the next phase of my life. I am barely coasting through the end of the semester while not realizing that it is almost gone! Even the stress of planning a graduation party is something that I don't want to deal with when really it should be a fun time.

Ugh!--so that is my rant for the evening.