Archive for October, 2006

edit #2: my friend who is a white house intern may be able to get me a ticket to tour the West Wing, how great is that? I’m SOOOO excited…I might even bump into GB himself!! woohoo for living near DC!

edit: what the heck LOST, what the heck?

I love peanut butter…a lot. Of late, I have loved peanut butter on my sliced apple, my sliced honeycrisp apple…yum! I also love Gilmore Girls, it makes me laugh…out loud…while I’m home alone…and eating peanut-butter-doused-apple-slices.
That is all for now.

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Seems like another lonely post is due, so here we go. I’m feeling lonely as of late (shocking i know). I understand that it was my idea to move out here to the East Coast where I do not have an established group of friends with whom I can hang. AND I am trying to remedy my situation by getting involved with a small group at MBC AND going to the Frontline service on Sundays. Weekends are the hardest and this is why I’m writing this on a Saturday night. I suppose if I were into the bar/club scene I would be making friends in a jiffy.
Note to self: When I’m older and live somewhere for a while and have my big family and whatnot, I will reach out to young singles in the area, have them over, feed them dinner, etc.
I’ve almost watched a whole season (2) of Gilmore Girls this weekend. I finished that book (mudhouse sabbath by Lauren Winner) and started another (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) this weekend also.
I want to go out to a nice steak dinner. So if you’re in the area and also craving steak, call me, I promise to pay for my own steak dinner!! That is all.

LOVE!

ps I’m going to see a friend next weekend, so don’t feel too bad for me

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I’m almost done with LOST, if you can believe it! But don’t despair, I haven’t merely been watching DVDS all day my friends, I have given in to my bibliomanical nature today. Went to the library and got 5 books, came home, lit two candles and the fireplace and almost read a whole one of those books. I couldn’t help myself it was cold and rainy outside!! I also managed to cook a delicious and healthy dinner (i’m so humble, i know) for my boys thanks to a recipe my good friend Nikki Barry emailed me (not without burning BOTH my hands ). It’s funny to me that I’m in the stage of my life where I am exchanging recipes, it seems so mom-ish. But I guess that’s what I’m doing these days…momming it up, well technically psuedo-momming (aka nannying) it up. I’m ready to entertain guests at my “apartment”, because 1) I’m lonely a lot and 2) I’ve started to decorate and 3) I’m feeling the need to bake and it’s always nice when there is someone to bake for (the boys aren’t really supposed to have sugar, dad’s orders). I will admit to you, dear xanga readers, that I baked a batch of brownies yesterday, just 16, but I’ve yet to tell anyone in a 30-mile-radius about these brownies. This week was my “feed-your-addiction-to-chocolate” week, and therefore there is 3/4 of a pan of brownies hidden down here in my lovely basement apartment. I’ve yet to decide if I will share or not. Don’t worry, I made the boys some warm and soft chocolate chip cookies, I’m not a completely horrible nanny!
LOST, you are SO weird. Though you have my undivided attention (well not at this moment), you are really freaky. For instance I just saw a giant foot statue with only 4 toes…why oh why? It’s gonna be hard to catch up then made to wait a week until I get to see the next episode…oh no and then I’ll have to wait a whole summer between your third and fourth season…noooooooooo!

LOVE!

ps I heart Dr. Jack!!! … and Dr. Pepper for that matter…haha…I love me some doctors!!
ps2 i know you’re out there mysterious cali reader…and that you are subscribing to my site! who do i know in california?

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I’m afraid I am a bibliomaniac. Yes it’s true my friends, I have an obsession. I think the weather may play a part in this too though. The thought of wrapping up in a blanket near the fire while it is blustery cold outside is completed in my mind with a book. I’m embarassed to admit that I have been reading Lady Chatterly’s Lover (it’s a classic, what can I say), and it’s really dirty. But I’m almost finished and then I can add it to my “classic literature read” list, which is very satisfying. In the last 5 minutes I have put 6 books on hold at the library. And I think I just may read them all before they are due back. If being a bibliomaniac is wrong, then I don’t want to be right!
In other, still nerdy, news, today I realized I missed high school vocabulary lists. I miss learning, in general. But I really miss learning new vocabulary and then being tested on it Fridays in English class. I need to get back into school! I just might start making up my own vocabulary lists. I need to expand my vocabulary and though reading is good for this, I feel the need to be even more proactive than just reading.
I’ve always been a nerd, but I think DC is getting to me. People are so intelligent here, I feel it. The average nerd isn’t gonna cut it, therefore I need to up the anty.

LOVE!

ps it’s okay if you are laughing at me right now, I would laugh if it were you!

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I talked to my boss. He was totally receptive to what I had to say. Thank you Lord, You are so faithful.

LOVE!

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Crazy day/night in the district with my friend from the second grade. The world is a small place, I met a White House Intern that is good friends with girls I graduated from JBU with…so CRAZY!
Saw Flags of Our Fathers and liked it a lot. Saw Marie Antoinette last night and liked that a lot too. Need to stay in for the next month due to the price of movie tickets here.
Must…get….sleep.

LOVE!

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Okay I really need to blow off some steam, so here goes;
As I said before, it seems as though my boss is “seeing” someone, which his personal life is his business, except for the
fact that I live in his house and care for his children and make him dinner every night. He is not divorced, merely separated, which is another soap-box issue in itself. When did the majority of Americans decide it’s okay to date if you are “separated”? You are still LEGALLY married, hello! Another issue is that I think his kids have been through enough, their mother is an alcoholic and had to be removed from their house by social services. An uncle came to care for the children at the beginning of the year, then there was a summer nanny and now me. My boss has been out of state for work about 3 out of the 8 weeks I’ve been here. I believe these kids need stability.
Okay, so I like this lady he’s seeing, apart from the fact that I don’t think they should be seeing eachother at all. She went to a Christian university and it seems like we have similar backgrounds. I believe she is at least 20 years younger than my boss.
This is my issue; Sunday when I got home from my trip to Arkansas, my boss and his “lady-friend” went on a walk and then packed my boss for his trip to Luxembourg. So around 9 o’clock I decide someone needs to get the boys ready for bed, so guess who does that? So I’m babysitting while these people moon over eachother. They both later thanked me, so whatever. Today my boss got back into town about 2 pm, does he come home because his kids are his FIRST priority and he wants to be home when they come home, NO, he is at his lady friend’s house. So I’m here not only watching my two “charges” but also the lady-friend’s kid. GRRRRR

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ps i realize how crazy all this sounds after LAST NIGHT’s Entry…it’s just that i love the kids…not really the parent.

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I LOVE MY JOB, L-O-V-E! Yes it’s hard, especially when I work nights because my boss is in South America, Europe or Florida for a week and yes sometimes I want to cry and feel like I’m going crazy. But today was great, still difficult, but great. I had a wonderful time just being with Alex today, which is hard to do when he acts like a typical moody 13-year-old, but not today. I laughed so hard, after joking about bodily functions (I live with two young boys, what do you THINK we laugh?), at the dinner table. Alex has the best sense of humor and when he wants to be sweet, he is. AHHH! Praise the LORD!

In other news, I’m gonna start saving for a digital SLR camera…hopefully I can do that AND still do Christmas shopping. Maybe the camera will have to wait.

LOVE!

ps Does anyone else think the plotline of Day Break (a new show) is eerily familliar to that o the movie Groundhog Day? yeah, that’s what I thought.

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Dear Virginia, my current state of residence,
We have been together for 2 months now and I’m learning a lot about you. There are some things that aren’t so great about you, like your traffic jams, ficklish weather and the sparseness of your sonics (which you definitely make up for in Chick-Fil-A’s I will admit). There are lots of GREAT things about you though also. Your big city feel, amazing shopping opportunities, closeness of most important things, friendly people (though not quite as friendly as those Arkansans or even Kansas Citians), public libraries and east coasty-ness. Today as I was driving, I realized I love you. Your fall leaves are beautiful and remind me of home. I even love you on nasty, rainy days like yesterday. I am looking forward to the next 8 months with you, especially when snow lays all about you.

Love,
Mandy

ps please do not be discouraged when you post comments on my entries. For some reason I am not able to post on other people’s xangas, though I desperately want to.

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From Prairie Girl to City Child
When I was about 12 I was very close to my cousin Carrie. I adored her, as she is 6 years older than me and loved to play with my hair, which, let’s face it, is all you need when you’re 12! While visiting her in Tucson one time, I suddenly started calling her “city child” for no real reason. I suspect I’d heard it somewhere in a movie or something and somehow thought it applied to my dear cousin. In turn, she started calling me “prairie girl”. Our respective nicknames didn’t really have anything to do with where we lived, be it city or country, I mean I don’t really think of Tucson as the “big city” nor do I think of my dear farmhouse on 40 acres back in Lansing, because I lived in a regular neighborhood, 30 minutes outside Kansas City. But I’ve always FELT like a prairie girl. Now I feel like a city child. I took the metro to a bus to the Baltimore Airport on Thursday. It was a long journey in order to embark on another long journey but I loved every minute of it. I loved feeling independent and like there was SO much for me to see in DC and its suburbs. I loved people watching on the metro and joking with the bus drive on the way to the airport. In short, I delight in this season of my life, my “city child” season.

Sixth Time’s a Charm!
Saturday I was a bridesmaid for the sixth time. Cecilia thinks I should start charging when people want my bridsmaidly services, I could’ve made a fortune by now she says. I’m thankful that I have so many dear friends who’ve requested I share in their wedding. I couldn’t find my camera as I was packing, so you won’t get to see any pictures until the photographer posts them. It was good for my heart to be back in Siloam. I saw some dear friends (so sorry to those of you I missed) and got to relish in all that is JBU. I temporarily reverted to my prairie girl-ness for the weekend. I had forgotten how sweet southern people are, they always (not always I suppose) go out of their way to be kind. I like that…a lot. Not that east coasters are rude (except for driving) but they aren’t really overly-friendly. I also enjoyed a minimum amount of traffic this past weekend, except for driving home after the wedding which coincidentally ended right at the Razorback Homecoming Game ended…at the same exit.

My boss is going to Europe tomorrow, so I may not post for a while! Pray for me please.

LOVE!

ps I came home to find that Loren had cut his own hair..in school, mysterious bright blue spots on the carpet in Loren’s room and my tv unplugged. Better never go out of town again. Plus I think my boss has a girlfriend now…weird.

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