Archive for January, 2008

Okay, first of all, I have never been reduced to such an explosive ball of excitement over a TV SHOW.
LOST, I don’t know whether to be thankful to you because you’ve spiced up my life, piqued my curiosity, given me conversation topics with countless strangers and, let’s be honest, given me SEVERAL pieces of eye candy in one-hour increments (yeah, I’m THAT shallow) OR absolutely infuriated that you’ve interrupted my life, made me part of the status quo, turned me into a a LOST-kind of trekkie, frantically searching out theories and missing clips online. I guess ours is a love/hate relationship, and you know what? I’m okay with that, mostly because I’ve found those near and dear to me reveling in your conundrum-like, confusing, never-ending, complicated plots as well. And, let’s face it, the only thing that makes you feel less crazy is surrounding yourself with other crazies (sorry if I’ve offended those who obsess over LOST as I do by implying you’re crazy), just ask Hurley. I’ve also never watched a tv show that scared me as badly as LOST. C and I both screamed rather loudly tonight when Hurley looks in the cabin window. Anything involving Jacob freaks the heck out of me.
Secondly, the last couple of days I’ve felt like a xanga rock-star, and it feels GOOD. I wish that many people looked at my site everyday, I feel a teensy bit like DOOCE must feel, or maybe how she did in the beginning. All because of one little picture of the MOST AMAZING dessert of my life. Thanks xanga, for raising my self-esteem, I think you’re super too.
Okay, I’m exhausted, freaking out over LOST will do that to ya.

A GOOD weekend to all and to all a goodnight!

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DUDE! One of my pictures is a xanga featured photo when you go to the xanga main page! I was wondering why I had 253 views today! Guess xanga likes pictures of dessert, can’t blame them!

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favorite things

I’ve noticed a few people doing this and thought I’d follow. I do have more substantial things to blog about, but to be honest, today was really pooptastic and what I want is to just show you some of my favorite things from this month of January to the 2008.

The bag I purchased while in Sanibel, which is working quite well as a laptop carrier

One of the crosses C got me for Christmas

I just started using this Origins face wash and REALLY like it, it smells like white tea, which is a perk. My face has really cleared up!

my brown Columbia fleece, I practically live in my three fleeces, but this one is currently my favorite!

and reminding myself that I have a ticket to see THIS in a month with my BFF

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for now

I ordered these from Etsy, which I found because I read this blog along with half of the free world.

Needless to say, I’m pretty excited about the neat stuff sold at Etsy. I ordered myself these

and these

and eagerly await their arrival. They will totally spruce up my Starbucks uniform.

Lest you have a panic attack because this post is light substance-wise, don’t worry, I will write more later. I’m about to leave for the TH, so can’t write much now!

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So unnatural, so very, very unnatural

I got up at 4 AM this morning. Go ahead, rub your eyes and reread that sentence. Okay I am not a morning person, I think I’ve established that in previous posts. I am starting to seriously doubt I will ever be one. I just can’t be happy to wake up to an alarm in the morning, or, honestly, waking up at all. It’s my least favorite part of the day. My favorite part of the day? GOING TO BED! I do love my sleep (see “interests” to your left).
My coworker K needed someone to cover her opening shift at Starbucks today. We’ve been getting to know each other of late and the getting to know each other, I’m liking it! She reminds me of my dear cousin, A. A portable version of A, awesome. Sufficed to say, I only volunteered to open because it was K and I knew she was having a hard time finding someone to cover for her and I’m off from nannying today and Monday. These are all nice things. When you wake up at 4, nice things/thoughts don’t flow so freely. Those thoughts/things that were lacking in niceness, none of them were directed at K, don’t you worry. They were mostly and justifiably directed at corporate Starbucks and people who need coffee at 5 AM. This is why the home coffee maker was invented people. It actually wasn’t bad once I convinced my eyes to stay open and my car heater to work. I even got off early, which I am positive is due to my purposeful avoidance of muttering any choice words or doing any complaining outside of my thoughts. The thing is, I feel jet-lagged. Waking up that early has thrown me completely off and it feels very odd. I’ve taken 3 naps today, ranging in longevity from 30 minutes to an hour. It is 11:05 and, really, I could stay up another hour. However, my contacts are objecting and I know that it is best I get into that lovely bed of mine NOW, after all, that IS my favorite part of the day. Oh and “Great Expectations” is waiting for me too, who wouldn’t look forward to bedtime with a book like that on their night-stand (said without usual sarcasm)?
I wonder how many more posts I will dedicate to sleep? I’m betting a lot. Becoming a new parent should be an interesting experience for me, an experience a long way off, in case any of you were thinking I was throwing that out there for a certain reason. There is no certain reason. I am enjoying this time in my life, the time where I get to sleep. a lot.

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drum roll please

For the first time in all my 24 and 1/3 years I am going to NEW YORK CITY! Don’t try to contain your excitement for me, I’ve already tried and it is impossible. I don’t even know where to start. Well, that’s not entirely true, we’ve already got tickets to see WICKED on BROADWAY! I mean I knew eventually I would see NYC but I get to see a show I’m sure I’ll love (and sing along to) on the first trip! And due to C’s awesomeness and connections, we are staying somewhere for free, which totally opens up the possibilities because I won’t have to save so much for a hotel room. Oh yes, I shall spend the entire afternoon researching and figuring out what I want to do. I know I want to go ice-skating somewhere, but that’s about it. Suggestions are welcome, as well as enthusiastic support.

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edit: I totally finished The Brothers Karamazov last night, so HA to those of you who thought it would never happen. IT so did.

Because being the only girl means I’m also the only sane one

I’ve accomplished quite a lot this morning. I always feel good when I got a lot done before 10:30, it means that I TOTALLY deserve that nap I just took. I took Loren to school this morning, after making a quick stop at Starbucks, I know, twice in one week, I guess it’s our “thing” now. After dropping him off, I headed BACK to the Colonnade to do some grocery shopping. Sufficed to say, sometimes I feel like I live at the Colonnade. Buying groceries at 8:30 is a good idea because there is no one else in the store, and we all know I like my space when shopping.
Moving on, this house has a rather large pantry, and it is my belief that we aren’t taking full advantage of that pantry. I know for a fact my mom would make cheesecake everyday for the rest of her LIFE for a pantry like that (am I wrong?). I’ve taken to arranging the pantry before, because I have this little obsession with organization, just ask my Starbucks coworkers. I just think all the canned vegetables should be living together, as well as the pastas and cereal boxes. Here’s the thing; I’m starting to think my boss has an apocalyptic mentality. When he goes to the Commissary, granted it isn’t all that often, he buys LOTS of weird things. Of course this is all in my opinion, but, honestly? who buys 10 bottles of Asian Sesame salad dressing? Are you afraid it won’t be there when you go back, or perhaps you don’t plan on going back in the next 2 years? Or maybe, just maybe, something akin to the Y2K scare will come up again, and you wouldn’t dare to be caught eating naked salad at such a pivotal, survivalist time. Yes, I’m sure that’s it. We also have 4 bottles of honey, two large and two small. Our pantry holds probably 15 small cans of mushrooms and 3 very large cans of something like pureed tomato, neither of which I know how or what to cook with. The whole bottom shelf I’ve designated as the “guy” shelf. It holds pop tarts, manwich, and several bags of seeds; pumpkin, sunflower, what-have-you (which happen to be MY favorite seeds). Yet I’m off to shop again, this time at Costco, for things I deem necessary and worthy of that pantry, such as canned corn and tomato sauce. Unlike salad dressing, everyone knows you can never have enough canned corn, especially in the end of times.

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Don’t get used to the daily updating, it could be fleeting.

This weekend was SO wonderful! Let me take a step back and let you see a little more of the weirdo within me. I have this thing, which may be an actual disorder, when I have a big event I’m looking forward to, say a friend’s wedding or Christmas in Sanibel. I anticipate my heart out, and when it’s over, I’m in “the depths of despair”, as Anne of Green Gables would say. It takes me about a week to adjust back to “normal life”, to pull myself out of my depression and get over it, start counting down the days until the NEXT BIG THING! I first realized this after my cousin, whom I call City Child, got married. There was so much to do and see, and new people to talk to and that cute boy to dance with at the reception and my first taste of champagne! And then, the next morning it was, O-V-E-R, and I was really upset. The week after Sanibel, I was cranky and disillusioned, because my life is SO hard. and Sanibel plus family is SO heavenly. However, this weekend was a culmination of good things and it became clear to me that I have a lot to be thankful for here. It’s going to be really hard to leave when I do. I actually have lots of girlfriends, and coworkers I really like and I feel plugged into the community and my church is great. I think that, for the most part, I’m relishing that I’ve done it by myself, only through God’s guidance and a lot of help from C. Now I know that I can move one thousand miles away and be okay. Now if I could move one thousand miles back and bring everyone with me.

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Week in review

I think since I now have AWESOME internet (well when it chooses to cooperate), I think I should instill a Week in Review every Sunday, where I post pictures. Why? Because you love looking at pictures, don’t deny it. Plus it will force me to take more pictures, therefore get more familiar with my camera and its capabilities!

So, twas a good week.

There was this

dipped in this (at Melting Pot)

this happened

which required me to wear these for 2 solid days

Alex made his debut as a photographer and these are what we got from that

and last, BUT by no means, least, Koda started blogging

Hope your week is great!

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ps still have YET to finish The Brothers Karamazov, but tomorrow is TECHNICALLY still the weekend!

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OH Dear Weekend! To have all of you, in your entirety, to myself, no need to share you with Starbucks EVER again, is quite blissful. At first I thought I wouldn’t know what to do with myself, all this free time, the ability to stay up late BOTH Friday AND Saturday night. Oh, but I did not flounder for long, I found many a thing to make the most of you. And I appreciate your thanking me by being so pleasant, so full of friends and coffee and “Arrested Development”. Dear, dear “Arrested Development”!! I have a feeling you will be a weekend I remember for all time, for I SHALL finish “The Brothers Karamazov”, I SHALL! Please try to contain your excitement. I honestly cannot remember a time when I wasn’t reading TBK. I’m 96% sure I said that same thing when I finished “War and Peace”.

that’s about it. Hope you are enjoying your WHOLE (and possibly LONG) weekend!

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