Archive for January, 2007

There is a lot of talk in this house about getting a puppy. The boys have begged for a dog for as long as I’ve been here. Their mom’s dog died last year, and Loren still gets mopey about that (I can relate!). So Alex found some beagle puppies and he called the owner and asked about price and whatnot. Supposedly this weekend they are going to pick the puppy up. I have mixed feelings about this. I have puppy fever, but it’s mostly golden retriever and/or lab puppy fever. I grew up with big dogs and I want to get a big dog, only as a puppy! So a puppy would be nice. What wouldn’t be so nice is house-breaking this puppy. And who is home all day who could conveniently train the puppy, you ask? Well, me of course. Now my opinion on this matter has been asked for, but no one has really asked me if I mind taking care of a dog that isn’t mine all day. This also wasn’t in my job description. AND, according to Alex, I am NOT part of the family, so yeah. I’m also wondering if this puppy will become attached to mostly me, only to find out I’m temporary hired help. And the boys have definitely used the “we will be the ones to take care of it” line, which my brother and I used to get Timber in like 1992. Us taking care of the dog lasted about a week until our interest waned. Although I love Timber and miss him dearly, truly he was my mother’s dog (because she was home all day, fed him, etc). Your opinions would be greatly appreciated!

Okay I better go wake Loren up!

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Okay the “bla” entry was just to test whether xanga would let me post, and it did, it let me post “bla” and then wouldn’t let me edit it, add to it OR delete it, so yeah. I just want to make it known that “bla” in NO WAY expresses my feelings, that couldn’t be further from the truth. If anything I’ve been feeling the absolute opposite of “bla” as of late, thanks to my dear Cecilia.

We’ve seen a couple movies in the last few days and I feel it is my duty (haha, duty) to warn you. Happily N’ever After, NOT so great. I went in thinking it was of Shrek-caliber, but it is not. In fact, I feel asleep. Yep, first time ever, I fell asleep during a movie, and I didn’t miss much.
We rented Little Miss Sunshine and The Last Kiss. They were on our list of “movies neither of us can see until we are together and we can watch them for the first time, then discuss”. Little Miss Sunshine was pretty amusing, I liked it. I wouldn’t say I loved it, but I did whole-heartedly laugh out loud more than a couple times. The Last Kiss was not good. I thought it looked pretty promising from the trailer (as did Cecilia), but there was A LOT of nudity, I felt like I spent half the movie hiding my eyes and it just wasn’t a great plot, although I do think it was realistic. I’m so disappointed. Thank goodness for season 1 and 2 of Grey’s Anatomy is around to pick us up after the letdown of our latest film choices.

My dear friend, Kelly, is coming to visit me! I’m so excited. She’s going into the Peace Corps and moving to the ends of the earth this summer. I was hoping to see her before she left to save the world and now I will! YAY!

Lastly, this;

JBU in the NY Times

we’re in the press, and NOT for kicking out a gay student, YAY!

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Okay, so Matt Wertz last night was A-M-Azing! I’m SO glad I went and I’m super glad that Cecilia was with me. I’ve definitely never done the crowded bar scene for a Wertz concert before, that was interesting..and slightly claustrophobic. This was my 6th MW concert, which, I realize, makes me sound like a stalker-freak, but oh well. If you had the chance to see your favorite artist as many times as possible before he/she/they made it big, wouldn’t you? Mhmm, that’s what I thought.

Well, I don’t have much of substance to say here. I’m feeling a little fired up about politics, but I’ve yet to decide whether I want my xanga to become a forum. Besides, those of you who know me, know my politics (pretty much the same as my dad), so we really need not discuss it here.

Oh and I want to go to Africa and be useful!

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Matt Wertz concert tonight, WAHOOO! I’m really excited. It’s Cecilia’s first MW concert and I get to be the one to go with her.
Right now, it’s lightly snowing and I LOVE IT! I’m really tired though. Perhaps I shouldn’t stay up til midnight every night, yeah.

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I am currently sitting in a VERY comfy chair at the Hyatt Regency, which is within a stone’s throw of the Pentagon (just wanted to give you a visual). Cecilia is downstairs at the job fair, I’m just here for moral support…scamming free wi-fi from the Marriott (shhh don’t tell). There are a TON of people here, I guess a lot of people want jobs.
I don’t really have any deep thoughts to share with you. I’m too tired and this chair is too comfy. All I have to say is it is SOOO wonderful to have a friend here with me, and a BEST friend at that! Suddenly all the annoyingness of being a nanny has melted away, although it’s more like laughed away.
Okay, we’re off!

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Yeah, I didn’t post yesterday, hope I didn’t disappoint anyone. Yesterday was a hard day, thus I spent my “free time” talking to my most trusted life coach/therapist aka my mom (she also doesn’t charge me!) and not writing on xanga. Don’t get me wrong, xanga can be therapeutic, but it hasn’t been there for me for 23+ years, sorry xanga, mom outranks you. Yeah, I think the sum total minutes spent on the phone to my mom yesterday was around 1 hour and 40 minutes. Usually we talk for at least 30 minutes everyday. Anyhoo, crisis averted and it is a NEW DAY. A NEW DAY WHERE MY BEST FRIEND CECILIA IS MOVING HERE!!
I don’t know if you realize how much of a big deal this is. Cecilia and I have NEVER lived close to one another. Thanks to us both being Army brats, the closest we’ve ever lived to one another is like 1.5 hours away, and when we did live that close, we didn’t really appreciate it because we were under the age of 10. During our teenage years we lived on separate continents!! History is being made here, we are about to live within an hour of eachother (maybe even 30 minutes) and see one another on a REGULAR basis, not just once every two years!! We’ll be like “normal” best friends. WAHOO!

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ps your prayers for her safe trip here would be GREATLY appreciated

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I have 59 footprints for the day, so I figured most everybody that subscribes to me has read the previous entries. When I update frequently I always worry that people will just read the most recent entry and not the ones before it. I guess it’s a test of true readership and I need to have faith in you guys.

All I have to say is I’m not ready to be a grown-up and I don’t like change! My brother just posted a bunch of pictures on his facebook, some from Sanibel and a lot from a fraternity dance. Alex grew this amazingly gross “christmas beard” (as he called it). First of all, when did he become old enough to grow any facial hair? Second of all when did said facial hair make him look so much older. As I looked through the pictures I realized he’s made that transition from boy to man. Now when he opens his mouth, he’s usually still all boy, thank goodness. I just can’t believe he looks so old in those pictures. I’m not ready for this!!! He’s an adult, ahhhh! Alex, don’t grow up, stay little with me forever, pretty pretty please.

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My fourth entry in two days, I know.
Okay so I can’t sleep and night-time is when I’m most pensive. This could be due to several factors; I do my
devotions at night, and everyone knows that devotions spar thought, also night-time is when I feel most alive, I am definitely a “night person”, no matter how much I wish I was a morning person. Also I am a HORRIBLE worrier, so the time between turning the lights out and actually falling asleep is the worst for me. A million things run through my head, and usually I remember that burden I’m carrying for some situation (obviously very important to me as I have to remind myself!). And this is why my mind is alive and well most when I wish it were winding down for the night the most. Bla, so this entry is going to be spastic, much like me.
I do this thing when I spend time with people I know very well. We’ll be talking about something, usually of medium-to-high import and then I’ll start thinking about the subject, and five minutes later blurt out something about said subject, oftentimes leaving my conversation-partner scrambling to figure out what the heck I’m talking about, because the conversation has moved on to other subjects. Thankfully those who are blessed to be my conversation-partners usually have known me long enough to know that I do this. It was hard to make good friends at college because of this (okay not really). My friend Katie was one of the first people I met at college to catch on to my strange habit, and we are still friends! All that to say (more like prove) I’m spastic and sporadic and therefore, am justified in a spastic and sporadic post.

I think about posting on xanga a lot. I think about other people’s xanga posts a lot. I always want to say something significant and be focused in my posts, but this rarely occurs, as my personality comes through loud and proud in my posts and this personality of mine doesn’t always dwell on significant and especially focused thoughts. Eh, I’m not gonna lie and said I’ve never wanted to be a writer, but I’ve come to the realization that it’s not gonna happen. Xanga is as far as I’m gonna get, and that’s just fine.

So 2007 is a big year, though I don’t have any tangible evidence of this. What kind of tangible evidence would one have? I don’t know, like knowing you’re graduating from college or getting married or something. Okay so those things aren’t really tangible, but there’s usually a piece of paper proving either of those events, even another person at your side 24/7 for the latter! It’s just this feeling I have, which is that big things are going to happen this year. I ended last year with a little depression and desperation, so to now have such hope, well, it’s a big deal. I am going to decide what the heck I’m going to do with my life, for real, this year. Doctor or nurse, which shall it be? I’ll get back to you on that. God’s really been talking to me about purpose and vision and that’s what I need to be talked to about, funny how He knows these things! So I don’t know what other “big things” are going to happen. My biggest hope is that I’m going to find and form an amazing group of Christian friends here in DC. I want to live it up while I’m close to the big city and SINGLE! There have got to be other people like me out there! Come out, come out, wherever you are.

In other news, I found out this week that the rest of our (cecilia and me) europe pictures are forever gone (due to a crashed computer in Germany, where we foolishly stored like 2/3s of our pictures) (foolishly describes my sentiments, I do not speak for Cecilia on this subject, let it be known). Part of me is really sad, I mean we’ll never get those back. But the other part of me is like, “eh no big deal”. I know for a fact we are going back to Europe together, and we know so much more now. We’ll definitely both have flashdrives to save pictures on next time and we’ll hit a couple of those places again, I’m sure (hello, Rome and Interlaken!) But I also know that those are memories I’ll never forget, there are images from that trip that are burned in my memory. There are so many stories I’ve saved for no other reason than to tell them to my grandchildren. What an odd stage in life, I’m dreaming of my grandchildren. It’s true, I think about them a lot! Cecilia and I even talked about it quite a bit while IN Europe. I so hope to be physically and mentally adept when my grandkids come around! I want to do so much with them. So I’m not opposed to Jesus coming back any day, but I hope I get to meet my grandkids. Someday I will share all my tips for being a cool grandparent, don’t you worry.

Okay, I doubt anyone has stayed with my for this whole post, but I must say it’s been quite therapeutic for me. I think I’ll go write in my journal and pray my mind settles down so I can SLEEP!

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ps. Liz, I literally laughed out loud for like 5 minutes when I read your comment! Man, I want to get to know you better!!
pss tomorrow I promise to log onto the PC upstairs so I comment on everyone’s posts, so I hope you are all waiting in anticipation!!

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Indeed, I have been updating a lot lately. I have no life, what can I say? Today I braved Costco for the SECOND time in a week! We needed tp, what could I do? Thankfully Costco feeds my addiction for this:

I LOVE IT! And Costco sells it in a two-big-bottle set. So far I’ve only tried Blue Machine and the above flavors. YUM!

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