Thursday, June 30, 2005
another bloggerview; this time with ryanlee
Lucky you! You get to read the latest interview of Tabitha Jane(intelligent artsy pants) given by a dear friend she likes to call ryanlee.ryanlee: When and why did you start including your wonderful middle name in your profile?(easy ones first)
tabitha jane: I’ve only used my middle name on my blog once. Since then, I never have. See if you can find it (no hints those of you who know!!!)
ryanlee: What did you learn most from your old BF (was his name Jason?) that has helped you with handsome hunk Jon.
Tabitha jane: well, the boyfriend I had right before jon was also named jon . . . he was a handsome hunk and he and his new wife were actually in my dream last night! Weird! I think the thing that I learned from dating him was to have higher standards and only date guys who are “my type.” He was really a rebound relationship from the guy I dated before him named chris. Now there was a relationship I sure learned a lot from. I learned not to keep giving to a relationship that is obviously not going to work out, I learned to show affection and say “I love you,” I learned the importance of making sure the other person knows how important they are to you. I learned so much!
But I have never dated a guy named jason.
ryanlee: Okay help enlighten the world on the amazing sociological expirement you grew up in. There must be some profound truth's that a women in your position can lend towards the rest of us in understanding females. Can I have at least 3? More is better!
Tabitha jane: I think what ryan is getting at with this question is that he wants me to ‘fess up’ to the online world that I have 6 sisters. Yes, you heard me, 6. six. SIX. Yes, ryan, you can have at least 3 daughters. Go for it. The only thing I would warn you about wanting to have a big family is this: attention. ATTENTION. This is a big deal (especially for girls). Kids in general need lots of attention and love from their parents. And if both of their parents are involved in their lives, they need a great deal of attention from BOTH of them (especially their fathers). Ryan, if you want to have 17 daughters go ahead, but make sure you spend TONS of time with them, loving them, teaching them, encouraging them, and praising them.
ryanlee: Now this one is a little complicated so bear with me. I would like you to explain your position on the war. I rarely hear intellegent views on this from either side. (For example we are there for the oil... We just spent billions to give up their debt to us and we always get oil from Kuwait and have not touched one drop of their oil. We lately have had to buy diesel for their troops and escort it from Kuwait)(weapons of mass destruction? hahah what a crock) Also consider that we are fighting 150+ new foreign fighters that come to iraq everyday. Add that up and you can see this isn't anything to do with a civil war similar to vietnam in this aspect.) Anyway I'm going to appreciate your answer either way because I know it will be intelligent, and I love to wrap my mind around intellegent views.
Tabitha jane: my current position on the war is this: this is a war that was built on lies. The american people were lead by fear into this mess. It was poorly planned, deceitfully executed and manipulatively begun. IF there had been WMD in iraq, I might look at this war in a different light. Having studied history in college, I grew to hate all war (neccessity aside). So when this war began I was apprehensive and dissapointed. But I thought I understood it to be a necessary evil. Now that more and more has come to light on the nature of deception involved in the pre-war process, the lies that were told, etc, I am much more dissapointed and angry. I believe that a dedication to TRUTH is one of the most important qualities a leader can possess and dubya does not seem to have it. And it has cost countless lives (military and civilian alike). Now, I do not say this to discount the good that is being accomplished over there. I know there are good things happening for the people over there, but it is mixed with a lot of death and tragedy. When you take a religion with extremely militant factions (I am not saying that all muslims are militant) and mix it in an unprovoked war with a country that said religion abhors, you are putting together a recipe for difficulty and disaster. I could go on and on, but I think I’ll go on to the next question.
ryanlee: If Jon gave you complete artistic control on the names of your children what would they be 2 boys 8 girls hahah J/K two girls will do? (see that wasn't so hard)
tabitha jane: so, are you saying if I had two girls what would I name them? Hmmm . . .
1. emerald kaitlyn sophia
2. I don’t really know . . . something irish probably.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
swamped
[Rugen has invited Humperdinck to watch Westley being tortured]Prince Humperdinck: Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work. But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped.
Count Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
taking 2 days off of work can really set you back. i'm working on catching up right now, better posts tomorrow!
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Friday, June 24, 2005
friday . . .
tonight i will have my last final for the term and then i will have two glorious weeks of free weeknights! i can do all those things that haven't been getting done since i started school in april! i am really looking forward to it.and we are leaving town to spend some time with my in-laws. my husband's brother is in the air force and is coming home on leave for his birthday. we will be gone until tuesday i think, so no posts for a while friends. sorry!
to those who asked me to interview them, i will post your questions when i return. this will give me time to think of some really good ones . . .
while i am gone, feel free to leave me nice comments that will welcome me back.
also - and this is important people - ben harper is going to be in concert here in portland on july 14th. i really wanted to take my friend jamie to the concert for her birthday, but it sold out in one day! if you find a way for me to get tickets, you will win some sort of amazing prize! i am really hoping to be able to take my friend to see the show--i've heard he is AMAZING live. plus jamie is basically in love with ben and it would really make her birthday perfect. and, who are we kidding here? i'd LOVE to go to the show myself as well!!
please help, if you can. i just want to find some reasonable priced tickets somehow. i don't want to pay $135 for a single ticket when they were $35 to begin with. stupid scalping jerks, buying tickets with the intention of turning around and selling them on craigslist or ebay or something for much, much more. jerks.
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
a look into the secret life of tabitha jane; a bloggerview by rebecca marie
i was honored enough to have been able to have been interviewed by rebecca marie this week. you may read the riviting results below.1) You’ve got William Shakespeare’s undivided attention for one hour. How do you spend that hour?
hmmm, this is a good one . . . i think first of all i would ask the age-old question of whether or not it was really him who wrote all those plays. scholars have debated the question for so long and i would really love to know the truth. then i would ask him if "the taming of the shrew" was written as satire or if he really felt that way about women. i think that would lead us in to a lively discussion regarding women's roles in society and the differences and similarities between our two worldviews in general. if we had time following that, i might show him some clips of what has been done with some of his works on film (since he obviously died before they were made) and ask him if they met his standards or not.
also, i hope he is a beautiful as joseph fiennes (who plays him in shakespeare in love) . . .
2) If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be?
the orangy-red undertones in my skin coloring. i know this sounds strange, but it is something that, if changed, would solve a lot of "problems" in my life. i have keratosis pilaris* on the back of my upper arms and on my lower legs and i think that if the red tones in my skin were less obvious the kp would be too. and my acne and the scars from previous acne wouldn't stand out as much on my face. i would look better in flourescent lighting and i wouldn't feel so yucky when i wore shorts or tanktops because my skin would look healthier and less gross. but i know that worrying about physical appearance is shallow and, in the end, wont really matter. i don't want to be remembered when i die as that girl with the beautiful skin, but rather as that girl with the beautiful heart.
3) You are getting married tomorrow and you have to choose your groom. Your choices are Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinneson and Richard Nixon. Who do you pick and why?
well, since they are all dead, it doesn't really matter all that much.
i do think nixon was the best looking of the three, but he did have all that scandal behind his name. tabitha dangerfield does have a nice ring to it. i'll go with rodney. he was funny, and pretty well respected . . . (hee hee). besides, since they are all dead, i really just get their money right?
4) You’re on death row. Describe your last meal.
hmm . . . my last meal, eh? dessert from papa hayden's for starters. and i do mean i would eat dessert first! maybe some pad thai would be nice. but only if the peanut sauce was perfect. i think mostly, the food wouldn't matter. i might not even have an appetite if i knew i was going to die. i think i would rather spend that meal time with my family and friends, especially my husband. even if none of us could eat, just being together for one last meal would be so important. i think that meals together with family and friends really fosters good conversations and good relationships. there is something special to sitting down to good food, laugher, tears and memories with people that you love . . .
5) What three things do you want to be when you grow up?
1. i want to be a healer. someone who helps people realize the amazing power and strength that their bodies and spirits have to heal themselves and to nurture others. i am starting that process by going to massage school. i see this as a gateway to getting in to the alternative health and healing world and perhaps becoming a naturopathic physician or a nutritionist.
2. i want to be a volunteer. i want to give my time and money to help make the world a better place even if i never see the direct outcome of my efforts. i am working on doing this today by participating in fundraising events like the breast cancer walk we did in may.
3. lastly, i want to be at a place in life where i feel that i can honestly referr to myself as an artist. this means spending more time using and developing my creative and artisitic talents in order to express myself and reach others through abstract media rather than by using words and speech.
i would have said "i want to be a good wife and mother" but that's a given. i am fo' sho' already going to rock at those things! :)
well, that's the end of the interview, thanks for taking the time to get to know me better, and thanks to rebecca marie for the good questions! feel free to comment on any of the topics addressed in the above interview. if you want, go ahead and ask for clarification on things or even just ask me more questions that you would like to know the answers to. i LOVE self-disclosure (within reason of course).
*i would have said something else like get rid of my tummy or make my hair straighter, but those are things i could probably do on my own if i worked at it (working out or getting my hair straightened). i decided to go with something genetic that i have absolutely no control over.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
random thoughts by tabitha jane
yesterday at work, it was someone's birthday. so, of course, there was cake. the plastic thing that the cake came in from the bakery had this sticker on it that read: "the moistest cake you've ever tasted!" now, i will admit, the cake was pretty good . . . but did they have to use that word to advertise the cake? i hate the word "moist."i went and saw "batman begins" in the theatre last night (instead of studying for finals. but that's ok because the people i went with were in my class so they weren't studying either). it is perfectly AMAZING. i had hoped that i would like it -- who wouldn't like a movie with christian bale, liam neeson and katie holmes (no matter what horrible romance choices she is making at the moment)? but i was very surprised by how much i liked it. my husband was dissapointed by the incongruency regarding the death of bruce wayne's parents (they were killed by someone different in the original batman) and he wasn't sure what to do about that issue. but all in all, it rocked.
on the down side, i went and saw kingdom of heaven at the laurelhurst theatre. i will say one thing: it had a lot of potential. in a post 9/11 world (how cliche does that sound?!) it dealt with some subjects and themes that really need to be addressed and portrayed in an honest way, but this film took all it's potential (subject matter, really yummy actors, and a director that made another pretty great film) and flushed it all down the toilet. i admit some parts were pretty good and some characters were well developed, but mostly i am glad that we got in for free.
i also went to this website today to see when i was going to die. it says that my day of "armageddon" will be on october 10 2074. that means i have 25312 days, and a little less than 3 hours left to live. how much more time do you have?
lastly for now, i have been so tired lately that i stay in bed waaaay too long and i haven't had a shower in the morning for a few days (i have showered in the evening when i get home from work or class though-don't say "ew"), and i haven't washed my hair in a good long time.
oh well, sushi day it is! yes!
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
bad habits
inspired by tanya, i have decided to make a short list of some of my bad(ish) habits:1. i spend too much money on coffee even though we are broke and i could get free coffee from the place my husband works.
2. i love tweezing the hairs on my big toes (there aren't many, but the ones that live there, don't stay long!)
3. i judge suburbanites. i hate suburbia.
4. i hate touching/cooking with raw meat. so i rarley ever buy it. but when we go out to eat, i order it without batting an eye. i hate this because i know it is healthier to buy it at wild oats or something a cook it myself at home.
5. during the week, i just let my clothes pile up on the floor in my bedroom, i never put them away or in the dirty clothes basket. not until company is about to come over.
6. i eat way to much chocolate at work. but only at work.
what are some of your bad(ish) habits?
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Saturday, June 18, 2005
billionaire formal wedding
today chris and annelise are getting married!
i'm really excited about it because:
1. they are awesome, creative and artistic people
2. hor d'oeuvres aned cocktails
3. the wedding attire is billionaire formal!! that meant i got to go shopping . . . and i get an excuse to dress up pretty. seriously, after high school, the only even where you get to buy an awesome dress is your wedding. once that's over, opportunities to dazzle up are few and faaaarrrrr between. i jump on every chance i get! unless you are rich and have cocktail parties often or famous and walk the red carpet often, you really have no reason for formal dresses past prom.
am i right or am i right?
billionaire formal, here i come!
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Friday, June 17, 2005
bush fishes for compliments at a press conference
hee hee.funny thing is, i would probably do it too.
"hey all you reporters, what do you think of my new shiney shoes? i picked them out myself. got a pretty good deal on them too"
no response.
"alright then, how about getting back to politics?"
p.s. in case you didn't know, the the onion isn't a really real paper, so don't start spreading this bush story as true.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
all i have to say is jeb and priscilla had their baby! and he is perfect!go look at him and coo in wonder and amazement!
i could look at those pictures for forever!
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
your age in chocolate?
i hate forwards. my little sister sent me one today though, that i thought was pretty sweet (pun intended). you can figure out your age by how much chocolate you eat. i am sure it has something to do with a math trick, but since i am horrid at math, i don't know what the math trick is and it seems pretty magical to me. so, here's the game, play it and tell me if it was correct:1. pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate. it must be more than 1 but less than 10.
2. multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. add 5 for sunday
4. multiply it by 50. i wont make fun of you if you need to use a calculator.
5. if you have already had your birthday this year, add 1755.
if you haven't, add 1754
6. now subtract the four digit number of the year that you were born.
7. you should have a three digit number. the first digit is your original number and the next two digits are . . . YOUR AGE!!
amazing huh? i didn't think it would actually work . . . i tried to trick the system, but it still worked on me. you?
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Monday, June 13, 2005
and then it was monday again.
wedding: good.bride: beautiful.
seeing my friend joey for the first time since last summer: awesome!
stuffing myself with wedding food: not a good idea. tasted good though.
i'll leave it to niki to post the details on her blog. she'll do it the best.
cousin's graduation party: fun. good cheesecake.
we got lost on the way there though. my dad wanted to take a "shortcut" which ended up taking an hour (my mom got didn't know where she was going and she was riding in my car). so, we stopped at starbucks and asked for directions. mostly because i wanted, no scratch that, needed a caramel macchiato (i don't think i spelled that right) to calm my nerves. i can drink that and drive as opposed to other, nerve calming drinks.
Headphones concert: great. the doug fir lounge always makes me feel like i am partying in my grandparent's house. i got to sit and talk to my husband while we each "bought each other a round." it was strange to see david bazan sitting at a keyboard, wearing a dickees trucker style hat though. he still sported the classic black one pocket tee. i had to keep reminding myself it wasn't pedro. the sound was different, but the lyrics were still just as blunt. perfect. t.w. walsh still drums with his mouth, i love it! it's like when you are feeding a baby their mashed up food, you can't help but open your mouth as the baby does. t.w. does that when he drums. ba-ba-boom-bad-a-bah. with intensity.
getting ready for THE PARTY: my 13 year old sister spent the night at our place. she helped us clean up the apartment and i paid her back by giving her a massage. it worked out well for everyone. our attic room looks soooo much better than it did last week! we haven't realy done much in that room since we moved in. it was sort of "um, i don't know what to do with this stuff . . . i'll throw it upstairs in the attic and deal with it later." now everything is organized. a friend of ours gave us her old green and gold bureau and i used it to store all of my art supplies and set my easel up next to it. it looks awesome! we got some area rugs to save the floor from the nasty scratching of the rolling office chair. my husband moved our recliners upstairs too so we have a new armchair downstairs and our recliners upstairs for some cozy reading time . . . anyone who has seen the before and after will tell you: it looks awesome!
the PARTY: jon's mom showed up early to help us get ready. she brought us roses from her garden! "the inner circle" showed up around 4 and we had some quiet, catch up time with them. the "crowd of the masses" began showing up around 6 and it turned in to quite a party! the grill was hot, the food was good (and interesting! it was a german theme!) and the friends were wonderful. jon LOVED his gift! *(Thanks to those who contributed! it was perfect!) and we spent some time putting jon on the spot with words of encouragement and praise. that rocked. our families and some friends stayed and helped to clean up (so i didn't have to do it all myself! thank you!) and the night ended with a sigh and a very clean apartment (i thought i'd be picking up the pieces for days). to those who weren't able to come and celebrate jon's graduation with us: we missed you and hope to catch up with you soon! to those who did come: it was great to see you! come back and visit again!
and then is was monday again . . .
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Friday, June 10, 2005
my upcoming weekend . . .
not only is niki's wedding tomorrow
but i am also going to see the headphones play at the doug fir lounge tomorrow
and i'm going to party with my man on sunday to celebrate the fact that he GRADUATED from PSU this week and was accepted to the MASTER's PROGRAM at PSU and he is so freakin' smart that THEY ARE PAYING HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL! (no more loans! hooray!)
updates coming soon . . . i hope . . .
happy weekending!
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eeewwww . . .
mostly, i just wanted to say that the government processed our taxes on april 22nd.we had direct deposit set up on our bank account. our state taxes came in just fine at the end of april, but we waited and waited and waited for the federal $$$ to come in. finally last week, my husband called the bank to see if maybe they had put the money in the wrong account.
they had.
i hate our bank.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
true story
so my friend* looks at me the other day and says, he goes, "today, i had a poo that went terribly wrong."*friend's name with not be disclosed due to the potential damaging nature of this post.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
and now i need your help . . .
ok, so if you haven't read the post below, go read it now. it's ok. i'll wait . . . .are you done now?
allright. i need your help: what does one do to show their gratitude toward such an amazing act of kindness and friendship? how should jon and i repay our friend for such an amazing gift? i need your suggestions and advice!
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sweet baby james
want to know why i have the best friends of ever?well, i'll tell you a little story.
once upon a time, there was this girl. she met this boy and they got married. for the wedding, they picked out all of their favorite songs. one of them was "something in the way she moves" by james taylor.
so, the point here is, not only is james taylor an amazing icon of american folk music, he also means a great deal to this girl and her boy.
where is this story going? well, james taylor is coming to oregon for two days in august! but the girl and the boy are pretty broke and since james taylor is crazy amazing, it is also expensive to see him in concert (not like $300 expensive, but $50 expensive). so they were thinking about ways to possibly get to see him including asking the boy's mother to get them tickets for their anniversary (which is also in august).
this is the part of the story where the bestest friends of ever step in. actually the bestest friend. his name is dors and even though we have only known him since april 9th, 2005 to be exact, his character and generosity have not gone unnoticed. he is such a giving person and a wonderful friend to have.
so last night (during our break from massage class), he come up to me and hands me these rolled up sheets of paper.
"what's this?"
"happy anniversary/birthday" he replied (did i mention that my birthday is also in august?)
i scan the papers . . . they are tickets to james taylor that dors had bought for us online!!!
so, i proceed to freak out a bit, give him a pretty sloppy hug and say something cheesey in greatful response. when i get home from class i say to my husband, "you'll never guess what dors gave us!" and of course, he never did guess, so i told him . . .
but seriously, dors is the best! can you even believe it? and he didn't even buy a ticket for himself! (maybe he doesn't love james t as much as i do . . . he is going to see sarah mac in concert in vancouver b.c. this weekend, lucky duck).
i still can't believe we are really getting to go to see james taylor and that we have such a generous and amazing friend! words can't really explain it all . . . i hope you understand my excitement just a little.
and that's my story. the end.
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Monday, June 06, 2005
weekend update
a quick update on the squirrelslaughter post:i think the squirrels have wi fi. they must have read my post and formed an offensive of some sort. and included their friends.
over the weekend, i almost hit 2 squirrels, a bird and a cat all the space of just a few hours.
and i hardly ever drive on the weekend. and i hardly ever have run-ins with animals when i do.
what is going on?!?
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Friday, June 03, 2005
did you know???
. . . cause i didn't. i googled my name and found out these things about myself:- I was a seamstress who married Thomas Williams on July 8th 1810 in Overton County, Tennessee. We had 11 children. 8 boys and 3 girls. One of the boys was named Commodore Decatur Williams. Nice.
- I was one of the first 12 members of the (Baptist) Church of Christ on the French Broad River which was constituted on March 25, 1786
- I also married Dr Joseph William Scales of Tennessee and we lost our firstborn infant son in 1850
- I was born after 1804, Rockingham County; married 15 Feb 1827, Williamson County, to John Watson (my middle initial was W at this time)
- I was student of the week for the fifth grade class of Grant’s Lick Elementary School in September of 2002
- I was the first postmistress of the Hightown postoffice in Alcorn County, MS. It was establish Feb 20th 1884.
- plus, the two twins that played Tabitha on Bewitched actually had the same last name that i have now!
ps: I got this idea from bsc!
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
squirrelslaughter
gabe's posting about an unfortunate run in he had with a bird, reminded me of a rather traumatic experience that occurred on burnside st a few years ago. i think it happened because i didn't knock on wood and ended up jinxing myself.i was driving along in my two tone blue '84 limited edition buick skyhawk thinking about how i've seen so many dead squirrels on the road but that i've never seen one hit by someone, nor had i hit one myself (not thinking i would need to knock on wood for such a thought). less than 2 minutes later (i swear it was not more than two minutes) a squirrel ran out in front of the car ahead of me. i think that the car in front of me just barely clipped it and it was still moving and began the struggle to get up and get out of the road. i attempted to drive around it and somehow avoid running over it, but instead i ran right over it and, looking in my rearview mirror, saw that i had succeeded in flattening it (gross!) ! i felt so horrible! before i looked away from the mirror i saw the car behind me roll right over it as well . . . at least it was out of its misery.
i hope it went to squirrel heaven . . .
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005
your turn
ok friends. now i want some random lists from you. you can use my list from yesterday as inspiration.the only rules are:
1. you must have at least five things in your list
2. i can make up a new rule any time i want.
ready? go!
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