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| 07:21am 13/12/2007 |
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seriously, it's almost christmas, and of course I haven't finished my christmas cards because i take forever to do such things. plus I still need many of your addresses! I do have a few yes, but not as many as i should! if you want a neato card from me, you best be getting me your address, otherwise...i may not be able to get you a real card, just one sent through my mind, which is definitely not as cool i'll admit right now!
shit fuck damn, i must be getting ready for work, 8-4:30 and then 5-12:30 is just a bitch, luckily it's only today, but that's still too much in my opinion, i need to quit kohls i suppose, but i'm crazy and haven't yet for it is the holiday season and apparently i'm crazy and want to die soon, we shall see how long i last... |
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| phones can be so lame sometime... |
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| 03:25pm 04/11/2007 |
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due to changes in my phone plan, my daytime minutes are up until the 11th. I have unlimited night and weekend minutes, so feel free to call me all you want after 7, etc. I'm just going to try to be good and not answer any calls during the day unless its an emergency. so if you call me and i happen not to answer, it's not because i'm mean or mad or a bitch, i'm just paranoid of going waay over my minutes again. Last month I went over and was reamed, hence the reason I changed my plan, I'm just gonna try to not make my bill this month quite so high as lasts. I have unlimited texting, so by all means text me dearies! My plan is through cingular, so if you have cingular as well, by all means call me whenever since those don't count towards my minutes at least. I hope everyone is having a good weekend and will have a fantastical week ahead! |
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| 12:40am 26/10/2007 |
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mood:  bouncy music: yo tengo de hoy
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man it's weird to think that in a couple of hours I'm leaving with Eddie to go down to visit some of his friends and kick it in so. cal, and go to DL & party and all that jazz. It'll be a crazy trip i'm sure, hopefully i won't kill us and that we won't drive each other nuts...or dead ;). if all goes well and we survive, i shall be back in the eug monday/tuesday next week.
ooh and yay for halloween, who wants to do something? i do! the last couple years i've worked on halloween, but i have it off this year! i may have to work at 6 the next morning, but i want to kick it like never before! and i don't want to do it alone! |
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| 10:53am 15/10/2007 |
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mood:  curious
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today i felt like celebrating. not that i did anything much or more celebratory in general than any other day. it's interesting that a day in ones past that could have been tragical, can later change your life for the better. yay for days like that, even if they are hard to deal with sometimes as well...yay to old demons? not really but yay to facing them! |
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| I'm baaack! |
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| 12:00am 29/06/2007 |
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mood:  drained music: dirty jobs- man i'm obsessed with this show, its sad!
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hey kids, I am finally back in Oregon after a being in southern california since last friday at disneyland! I had lots of fun, but it's good to be back to something a little more normal. It was defintely fun there, but at times extremely stressful. there ended up being 16 people in our party, quite a bit of family drama, & my cousin Anna had the chicken pox! it was her first time too! luckily she was a lot better by end and got to spend a little time in the park, instead of being cooped up in the hotel the entire time.
Near the end of my stay in california my immune system gave out and I got a cold of some sort, but it's getting a little bit better now that i can rest somewhat, i'm still incredibly tired no matter how much i sleep. Hopefully that'll get better as well, if any body wants to do something sometime soon, you should call me! I miss everyone lots! |
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| weeks are fun, when I have no room to breathe? |
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| 01:39am 23/05/2007 |
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mood:  busy music: Hairspray - Mama I'm a Big Girl Now
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This week is definitely different than the ones I've been having over the past two months. For one, I'm working less than 40 hours in the first time in 10 weeks or so...yay! It's not really a break though...as I am working many hours in a far different venue, of which i was told I was going to be paid, but who knows?
Essentially on easter Robin talked to me & I agreed (due to wine and the prospect of hanging out with her son) to take a few days and help assist an art festival that Willamette U would be putting on for a local school. At the time I thought my temp job would've finished and I would've had all the time in the world to hang out and do something different. Well, the job isn't over, but I'm still involved with the festival and am actually going to be in the play that's being performed on Thursday. It's a disney jr. adaptation of Cinderella, so it's a short hourish musical, with a cast of about a million.
Tomorrow is actually (or today rather since it is getting late isn't it?) dress rehearsal and so there's gonna be a million more people on stage because some of the 4th graders are gonna be in it as well. I'm not sure how many, I just know that I have to take care of 2 sheep. Hence, why I'm in the show, as a ginormous sheep like creature that really looks like a fuzzy marshmallow...hot? incredibly! Why am I not just a sheperd? Because A.J. is the farmer apparently...then why am I an 'adult' sheep? it's just more degrading that way! oh well, it'll be interesting. I still don't really have much of a clue as to what is going on, but at least I'm kind of in the same boat as everyone else since supposedly blocking changes every day. It'll just be a mad house tomorrow night since there'll be little kids in the mix. I've been told thus far, that everytime A.J. is on stage, or in the middle of the stage at least...so will the sheeps. Should prove interesting.
I kinda wish I would've been able to go to the rehearsal tonight to get a better feel, but instead got to see Hairspray at the Hult with my parents and sister. I think i got the better end of the bargain of course, but still I wish i wasn't so in the dark about things when i'm supposed to be helping my kids when they get there.
Today at the festival I got to help the kids make birdhouses & color shirts, we took tours of the Elsinore theatre & Hallie Ford Museum. When I was with the one group at Elsinore, A.J. & I wanted to scream because the teacher just basically stood there watching while they all went crazy and kept talking through the tour. I kept telling this one group of kids to be quiet and one of them started mocking me and I kind of wanted to deck them...(great idea, if in fact I ever become a teacher, since Robin thinks I'd be great at it, and I'm now kind of considering it). Oh well, the other group I liked better, but they were still a little crazy...yay for the rest of the week!
Wednesday is going to be dance day, yay! There's gonna be Ballet, Swing, and essentially line dancing, w00t. I think i'm gonna take pictures tomorrow. which should prove hilarious since I think sometimes my photo taking skills could use some work, but here's practice at least?
The actual peformance day is gonna be on Thursday. The main one, is at 7 pm at Smith auditorium. It's also free, so people should come, not to see me in my frightening whiteness (and later sheep bling) but for everyone else! the evil stepmother is played by Jeff Baer, yay for drag queening in a disney kiddie show!
Unfortuantely my week isn't over after thursday, friday I get to be back in Eugene to work again because I promised I would. I guess at least Giniece said she'd take my evening schedule that day. I have to be in town friday anyways so in a way It've almost been better if I'd just kept it, oh well, c'est la vie!
The weekend should prove interesting though...I get 3 days off in a row and am going to go wine touring! We're gonna go at least one day, but I was talking to A.J. and we were thinking we should maybe do two days for more excitement, and yay my grandma is gonna be the D.D. how creepily weird/yet awesomely awesome can that get? The main day might prove a little crazy if Blair, Margaret, Steve, Robin, A.J. & I go, not counting Hannah, because she likes to come and watch us get drunk apparently...mmmm at least it's now NOT!!!!!!!! just my family this year...i should be able to find some comfort in that I hope.
ugh where does the time go? I'd probably even go on about the awesomeness of the sheep's costume and random crap, but I'll spare the boredom for now and try to get some sleep...baaa |
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| I've realized that there is absolutely no point in this post, oh well... |
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| 09:23pm 10/05/2007 |
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mood:  sleepy music: Outkast - B.O.B.
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Ironically the 3 week project I started with GB, then turned 8 week fiasco, has yet once again been extended for three more weeks. Apparently Trader Joe's liked what we did, yay. The crew is gonna be smaller and the hours are from 8-4:30 again. So I can't go crazy like I've been doing lately with the 6 to 6 schedule. I swear I don't know what is wrong with me. I agreed to go on with them, though I will have to miss this next Monday, and three days the week after due to promising Robin I'd be her assistant for her children's opera @ Willamette U.
I'm also really excited that I got people to cover my shifts tomorrow night and saturday at Kohls. I'm lazy and don't want to work any more for the moment. meh. All I really want to do right now is hang out, sleep and read. I'm really getting into the Poisonwood Bible, it's quite fabulous. But the days off from kohls and the fact that I'd asked for monday off as well means I get a 3 day weekend! I'm going to go to salem sometime for mother's day and to help Allen and Robin move sets & costumes from DHS to WU, so good times!
Hmmm, I think sleep is in store for me, I think in the past three days I've gotten a total of 6 hours sleep, if I'm lucky, and consequently worked 40 hours, because I'm a tool and feel bad if there aren't enough people to run machines or get stuff done...must work on that...but first sleep! |
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| yay for weekend/breathers! |
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| 11:34pm 15/04/2007 |
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mood:  contentified music: my morning jacket - into the woods
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The thought of being at work in less than 6 1/2 hours should make me want to go to bed, but instead I think my time would be spent best putting up some random musings off the top of my head:
* I got quite the exciting surprise going to the Bierstein this afternoon and found that they had Strongbow Cider on tap! Now the last time I've had it was around December of 2005 when I was still in Florida, so it was good to have that nostalgic moment back. My taste in alcohol preferences has changed a little, but I still thought it was rather yummy!
* I really need to spend a little time cleaning up my apartment before it decides to swallow me whole. Maybe that neat little book miss Kayla thoughtfully got for me about organizing for dummies will help in this endeavor
* Thank God for the annual book sale at the fairgrounds, I got my yearly supply of cheap books (& vhs's as well actually) and now won't have to buy another book for a long time! EXCEPT I do need to buy at least one David Sedaris book before the 29th so I can have him sign it when I get to see him! mmm borders & or smith family bookstore here I come! I must be careful though lest I buy too much other wonderful things...
* the original Star trek series is on tv, and it makes me wish that we wouldn't get fatter as we age, but stay the same, or in some cases even get smaller, wow how's that vanity...?
* seeing the sun out today for more than a few minutes made me realize again how much I love spring! yay for spring and flowers and even bees (wow, never thought I'd say that did you), at GB there was the annual bee fair where all these people came to pick up the bees they ordered. I was hoping that maybe I'd even see chuck hunt, since he's a self-proclaimed beekeeper (and I've been told by other employees that he comes in a lot), but alas I didn't get the chance to see him, not surprising though, since I was in the back most of the day with the rest of my group.
* I've recently rediscovered the fine art of googling certain people, and consequently feel sort of creepy and almost stalkerish, though I really couldn't be one if its all there for everyone to see right?
* I'm beginning to think of this project I'm doing for GB as a parallel to Gilligan's Island. For them, it was supposedly a three hour tour, for us, the project was supposed to be 3-4 weeks max. I'm about to start the 5th week, and who know's when it'll be over, especially if Trader Joe's sells the product successfully and want more...we're thinking about doing a pool to see how long the thing'll actually last, right now the general consensus is around early-mid May...we'll see about that
* I am quite excited to wear my new red Chuck Norris t-shirt. It says "After partying all night CHUCK NORRIS doesn't throw up, chuck norris throws down" wow for some reason I find that particularly hilarious, I think some others at work'll enjoy it, especially Marcus since he thought we all needed to hear all his chuck norris jokes the other day, brilliant!
* I really really really want to go wine tasting soon, for some reason spring means wine tasting! I'm a nerd I know, I also just bought a wine/cheese set kit, so if anyone wants to take a romantic hike/walk in the woods where we can dine on cheeses and wine, let me know, I have just the utensils for such an occasion ;)
am i done with my musings? probably not, but shall i stop for now? yes, yes i will, g'night and godbless america, haha |
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| my baby girl is growing up! |
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| 01:28am 07/04/2007 |
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mood:  thankful music: REM - Man on the Moon
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Well, the 2007 Oly pagaent was rather nice, and I actually made it there relatively on-time. Luckly it started a little later than it said, so I didn't miss kelsey and my dad coming up on stage. In fact, I actually got to see them before they went on so that was nice :). She did a great job and had on this fabulous teal dress, which I think I would've been rather envious of in high school, heh.
It was kind of weird though sitting there and hearing people mentioning over and over again about how hilarious Kelsey is. Now don't get me wrong, I think she's a funny person and all, its just not how I see her. Margaret and I talked about it during intermission because frankly it baffled us all, and we kind of came to the conclusion that most of our family has the same sort of humor more or less so we don't see it the same way. I guess other people in my life have said that I was hilarious to some extent at one point or other, but it just seems natural, I don't know what it is...It was kind of funny to hear everyone throughout the pagaent mention it. People were talking about it during intermission, the pagaent director kept mentioning it, and even Mrs. Stanford (mother of Jessica Stanford, who was a student at Sprague and died 11 years ago of Leukemia), said that her daughter Jessica would've loved Kelsey's jokes. I felt kind of bad for her friend Caitlin though because she was other MC/coordinator and nobody ever said anything really in regards to her. Oh well, it was kind of funny.
Another funny thing was watching the slideshow, which obviously had mainly pictures of Kelsey, but also other pictures of our family, etc, its interesting to see how other people react to pictures, granted some of them were funny, but people were going crazy over our random pictures at disneyland, everyday life, etc. crazyiness.
In the program, all the contestants & coordinators/MC took time to thank their teachers and families, Kelsey even wrote something to me, which made me cry a little because I'm a baby and cool like that...
( mushy stuff Kelsey wrote about me in the program )
But to try to wrap this up somehow, I just need to say that I am proud of my baby sister! its really weird to think she's 18 and is going to graduate in June. We're quite different in many ways, and haven't always gotten along that well, but lately we seem to be getting closer, and I think I like that... |
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| 05:39am 06/04/2007 |
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mood:  nerdy music: don't ask its just some nerdy commerical, and its annoying me right now
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yay today after work I'm going to salem to see my sister MC tonight at the Elsinore theatre for sprague's Mr & Miss olympian pageant. The fact that my dad has to walk her down the aisle in a tux (which he of course rented) is reason enough for me because for some reason i think that'd be hilarious. But if you are in salem this evening at 7:30, get to downtown to see the sprague pagaent, because it'll be fun, and its $11, and its to help dorenbechers! yay!
I do believe it is quite sad that i'm quite excited about going to salem for a couple of days this weekend, but I believe it mainly due to the fact that I've been holed up here for too long working and whatnot, and a slight change of pace will do nicely, and it'll be easter! mmmm easter eggs & random goodies I really don't need! yay! |
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| 07:32am 02/04/2007 |
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mood: content music: the wedding singer = 80's yeah!
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ugh, back to the ole 9-5, or in my case 8-4:30 + random other times, but I just wanted to thank everyone that has wished me well and/or I've had the huge pleasure of getting together with these past few days! Special thanks to my p-town girls for coming down to hang out and stephanie for hanging out with me the past couple of days, yay! I love everyone!
ooh and i have 15% off coupons for kohls for this sale thursday thru saturday, if anyone wants one, i'll be sure to mail one to you :). just thought i'd get that out there.
and now to hopefully get to work before i am myself late...lets see if i can do to it right today...i have a certain knack for getting just a little behind |
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| Its my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| 07:15am 29/03/2007 |
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mood:  happy music: It's my party & I'll...if I want to!
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yay I am now officially the ripe old age of 24! well I'm not sure about old, but at this time (7:15am) 24 years ago I was born! and to celebrate I'm going to eat some more of this cake for breakfast! Its leftover from sweet life when i went with my mom & dad on tuesday. its soooooooooo rich though, I fear I shall never finish this one piece of cake...but I'm giving it another go!
I can't really say that I'm excited about going to work in less than an hour to work until 4:30, but I'm excited for the pizza that lunch shall bring! Supposedly its inventory day at GB, and we all get some, I'm going to think though in my head that it's because it's my birthday, because the fantasy is better :). It's weird to think that this will be the first birthday where I'm having to go to work. Originally I was also supposed to work at kohls as well, but the prospect of having to work 12 plus hours on my birthday was too depressing to think about so I had the hr manager take me off the schedule today. He was all disapproving, but in my head I had to say 'why the hell would anyone want to work 12 or more hours on their birthday!' so in effect i could really care less what he thought about that.
okay i must get ready for work and take another crack at this delicious yet lethally rich piece of cake. Have fun today kids, I demand it! and if you're free tonight, come to john henry's for 80's night, for I am wanting to go! huh? huh? I can't stay out too long for I have to work again at 8, but I do what I can! |
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| the results are in... |
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| 11:24pm 27/03/2007 |
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mood:  relieved music: just the voices in my head
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AND I'm not pregnant! haha right, yeah, but I did have my ultrasound today and it came up negative, so that's good I suppose. It must be something to do with the strain at work and not being able to recuperate and rest enough. I feel kind of stupid for going in now, but it was probably the best thing to do, because it could've been something, and ignoring things doesn't necessarily make them go away. Whatever it is, I seem to be getting a little better, and I actually have somewhat of an appetite again, which sucked today since I couldn't eat anything 6 hours before the test, so I hadn't eaten or drank really anything from 9am-7pm, good times!
in other news my parents came down and I had dinner with them. My dad also brought my car back complete with an actual window yay! As I was leaving to go out with them I shut my apartment door and then realized that I left a light on, and consequently had locked myself out of my apartment without my keys or cell phone...classic, so after dinner my dad had to break into my apartment, in retrospect it was pretty hilarious I suppose :)
mmm I suppose I should get some sleep now, must work soo long tomorrow yay! |
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| I must be a bad person...things keep happening to me? |
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| 01:11am 26/03/2007 |
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so yeah the past week has been kind of crazy, I ended up working over 70 hours with the two jobs, and let me be the first person to say that you should never do that! At least this week I'm only scheduled around 60 hours? I've survived mostly, however, starting Thursday I developed this semi-painful sensation on my right side. I tried to ignore it, and it went away and came back and I thought of many things that it could've been, appendix problems, ulcers, anything related due to stress, etc. so tonight I finally decided after work that I should at least have it checked out so I went to the urgent care clinic. The doctor seems to think its something to do with my gallbladder maybe, so I have to get an ultrasound on tuesday after work.
I could handle all that, but when I went back out to my car on the street, I found that the passenger side window was smashed through and the glove compartment and other things had been rifled through! So yeah, my poor car was violated yet again, nothing of value was stolen, the stereo was left in the freaking car...the only things gone was a canvas bag that I use for grocery shopping and a bag of random crap that I got for my mom, that was maybe worth at the most $20...and some cds, seriously, its so lame! I went back into the clinic and called the police, and was informed by the lady that I would be contacted within 48-72 hours for a report. I know it wasn't an emergency and all, but seriously. she sounded like she thought I was crazy when i asked about someone walking me to my car, because she was like, 'you aren't already there'? hell, no, who knows when it happened, whomever did it could've been right around the corner while i was standing there! Luckily the security guard at the clinic was much more helpful and walked me out and helped get some of the glass off the seat...and made sure i was alright and wasn't going to get apprehended or anything. my dad was nice enough to come down and traded cars with me, because he apparently knows a guy who can replace windows in a jiffy, but seriously, i'm not sure how much more shit i can take before I go completely crazy or postal or something.
this is NOT the best start to my birthday week, so lame...
and now i need sleep because i have to work from 7-4:30, 6-10:30, yes i lead the saddest existence ever |
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| It's official.... |
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| 09:58pm 15/03/2007 |
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mood:  aggravated
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I hate other drivers and parking lots, hitting my car and leaving without saying anything is really getting old. My car cannot withstand people backing up into it all the time! luckily its still driveable, but I cannot afford the money or the time to get it fixed right now...this sucks, especially since next week I'm apparently supposed to work over 60 hours because i'm going to be starting a short term project for a few weeks and working at kohls still...w00t :( |
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| mmmm sci-fi goodness |
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| 12:13pm 10/03/2007 |
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mood:  geeky music: stargate!
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yay for watching movies that you used to love as a kid but haven't seen in years! I am currently watching Stargate, I loved this movie when i was younger, but haven't seen it in soo long. I remembered that Kurt russell was in it, but forgot about james spader as the nerdy doctor guy. I'm not sure why i think its so funny but i do, probably has something to do with the fact that I watched pretty in pink and a couple of minutes of boston legal not too long ago and he was in it, and in each oen he looks rather different, weight-wise at least. yeah i know what you're thinking, I'm the coolest kid in the universe and you wish you were me, yep, luckily i can read your minds and you don't have to say anything! |
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| wow, I really don't make any sense...yes!!!!!!!! |
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| 10:48am 22/02/2007 |
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As I look into this ginormous jar of mixed nuts from costco, I find myself rifling through it, shaking it, so I can find the glorious almonds. Why am I going through all the rest of the nuts just to find my favorite in this mix? I'm not quite sure. I do like them that is true, but are they really all that better or am I on a crazed path to find them for no other reason than to eat them before anyone else gets a crack at 'em. So is it gluttony or greed that makes me do this?
The other nuts are perfectly tasty, but for some reason I overlook them for the precious almond. What right do I have to forsake the other ones just to get what I want. Maybe subconsciously I'm weeding them out incase someone else wants the others but are not fond of the almond. My mom and I have had the discussion before that it in mixes everyone has their favorite and they eat that and someone eats another thing in the mix, and so on, so that evenutally the mix is gone and everyone is happy. (yes yes my mom and I did have a short convo about mixes before, yes it was embarassing, but that is what we talked about because we are just that awesome).
In this view am I just doing my family a favor by taking my favorite so that they can find theirs easier? Or should I be content with whatever comes at my grasp? It makes me think of life, do I only go for what I truly want, or just take what comes to me the easiest? wow, such thoughts coming from a jar of nuts...wow, I think I need to stop thinking about anything right now, nuts or not. This has just gone on too far, and I am obviously nuts (no pun intended of course) to even write this long about such a subject. I apologize, but you should think to yourself the next time you see a mix of some sort of deliciousness...are you helping yourself to what you want, letting the others find theirs, or are you just being greedy? |
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| i feel like a eugenian? |
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| 09:28pm 18/02/2007 |
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mood:  apathetic music: american dad
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today for no other reason than the fact that I can, I got a eugene library card for the first time ever. its weird that its taken me so long to do that, but yeah, go David Sedaris! He's the reason I got one so I could get some of his books to read before going to see him at the end of April!
yay...my life is thoroughly pathetic I know, but for some reason that excited me...stop judging me! |
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| I'm a golden god at tire changing! |
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| 04:10pm 06/02/2007 |
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mood:  amused music: cat stevens - peace train
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today I changed a spare tire for the first time by myself! Yay! Was it really all that hard? no... Was it time consuming? Yes, especially since I'd never done it before... my hands got kind of gross by the end with all the grease etc, but other than that what fun!
in other news, the horse calendar in my bathroom is decidedly less creepy than the one last year with the hispanic men chopping down palm trees, though i have kept the picture up with the new horse one...oh los baez and your free calendars! |
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