Tuesday, August 30, 2005
i should slow down but i don't wanna . . .
friday's james taylor concert was a blast! we were surrounded by men and women in their 40s and 50s. it was like partying with my mother (no offense to the over 40 crowd that reads this blog!) or something. only more fun than that actually.we got there sort of late because it took FOREVER to get there--I HATE RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC!
the beer was $8. but at least it was better than coors. it was heffeweizen.
coolest musical goosebump moment: when james sang "the water is wide" with his acoustic guitar accompanied by the fiddle player in his band (who rocked!).
best musical moment in general: "steamroller." it kicked ass. when you are james taylor you can afford to have the best musicians in the world in your band. and he does. he has this awesome percussionist from south america and a pretty sweet fiddle player that i already mentioned. "steamroller" was a chance for all the band members to be showcased. it was brilliant.
it took forever to get out of there after the concert though. i have never been to a concert at the clark county amphitheatre. i have never been to a concert with so many people before either. it was packed!
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saturday, jon and i went to another concert (tickets given to us by my sister sara). we saw ben lee, rufus wainwright and ben folds. all of these musicians were also amazing.
ben lee's highlight: on his last song, he jumped into the crowd with his guitar and started dancing while ben folds and the drummer for rufus came out on stage and drummed a little marching beat.
bonus: the keyboard playing chic was hot.
rufus highlights: he had his sister come out onstage and sing alleluia with him . . . i love that song.
another highlight was when he flipped his hair out of his eyes and said "we're gonna rock!"
the funny thing was that before he came onstage, a roadie was polishing his piano very carefully. he and ben folds both play grand pianos when they perform and rufus' was perfectly pristine. ben folds' on the other hand basically looked like crap. it was all dusty and beat up. but. he. could. rock!
which leads me to:
ben folds highlights: basically the entire performance was amazing. i have never seen someone take a grand piano, a bass guitar and a drum set and make such amazingly brilliant rock music. he beats the shit out of his piano as he plays and all he had to do was look at the crowd and they started screaming their heads off in adoration.
another great highlight was when they did a dr. dre cover. here is this nerdy white boy (let's face it, ben folds has the image of white nerd. what with his big glasses and nasty hair and button up shirts and stuff) playing a grand piano singing "the bitches can't hang with the streets" throwing up his fist and rapping about his hos and his homies. it was perfect!
best part of the entire show: when ben folds had rufus come out on stage and they performed george michael's careless whisper. it was the most awesome thing i have heard in a long time! when they both hit the high note on the bridge, i about wet my pants. i was laughing with joy the entire time!
needless to say, i am exhausted and have an odd george michael song stuck in my head . . .
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to finish the weekend off, jon and i went to see "the goonies" at the laurelhurst theatre sunday night. on the big screen.
"heeeyyyy you guuuyys!"
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the good news is: our friend todd is out of the hospital!! he is alive!! he is really tired and has to rest for a long time (which means he is worried about money) but at least he is alive! so, thanks to all of you for your prayers and good energy and thoughts and whatnot. i really am thankful! we plan to go down to eugene to visit him sometime within the next two weeks . . .
ok, enough babbling from me about stuff you don't care about. get on with your lives!
say it don't spray it 10:56 AM
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Friday, August 26, 2005
random friday
so. i set the date. sept 18th my friend coleen, perhaps bry, and i are going to have a dread party and get dreadlocks in our hair! coleen and i ordered our dreadhead goods today and i am super excited about it. i am also a little nervous about making this commitment . . . and about how it will affect my employment opportunities in the future. but i plan on taking good care of them and keeping them all nice and clean and smelling good (yes, it IS possible, people). so, if you'd like to take part in our party on sunday the 18th of september, you are very welcome to come and help dread for a while or even get your own. we will be watching movies, listening to music, having food and beverages and a grand old time. more to come . . .
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my friends when to the nude beach without me today . . . but i get to go to the JAMES TAYLOR CONCERT without them tonight! yes!
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i pass this one corner on my way home from work every day where there is always someone panhandling. a few weeks ago i passed by a this guy had a sign that read:
let's be honest, i just need a few beers
yesterday, i drove by and two jolly fellows were holding a sign that read:
hugs - 25 cents
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
first and last
Charlotte tagged me . . . so here it is:---------
First memory... i might have been living in tennessee when i remember this (so i was younger than 3). we were driving in a car and it was raining really hard outside and i remember turning a corner or something and water started to come into the car! i freaked out because i thought we were gonna drown or something, but we must have just drove through a nasty mud puddle. it really rains in tennessee.
if that isn't my first memory, then it is the one when i was in a dark(ish) room taking a nap on a really big bed and my big sister comes in bringing me a new doll. i think she and i had been given matching dolls and we were so excited.
First kiss... ok . . . here goes. honestly? this guy. i don't know if he knows he was my first. but i was like 16 i think. and i think we were on my front porch and he was about to go home and he leaned down and kissed me real quick like and left. thanks friend for being my first kiss!
First concert attended...this is embarrassing, but i think my mom's friend took me to see twila paris at the state fair one time . . . the first concert i chose to go to on my own (my mom did not approve) was the oc supertones, audio adrenaline and jennifer knapp. since then, my music tastes have changed dramatically. but the thing about that concert was that i was there with a current boyfriend and little did i know but my next two boyfriends were also at this show and i hadn't even met them yet. one of them is now my husband!
First love... his name was chris. he was and is still amazing. i saw him this weekend at a wedding. i seriously almost threw up the entire drive to the wedding because i knew i would have to see him. i was so nervous. he's getting along nicely, thank you.
First thing you think in the morning... "already?!"
First book you remember loving... uuuhhhh . . . maybe "zeek the caterpillar" or the "narnia" or "little house on the prarie" books that my mom read to us at night.
First pet... her name is Shanie. she is a big black lab. she is very old. 14 years i think. in people years. she'll probably die soon and i will be sad . . .
First question you'll ask in Heaven (If that's allowed)... which way to the room where you get to reconnect with all your friends and loved ones that died before you did?
First place you think of when you hear the word vacation... ASHLAND oregon! i wanna go there soooo bad! hooray for the shakespeare festival!
First best friend... her name was sara and she had these really loooong braids that hung down her back that i loved to play with.
Last time you dressed up... saturday for the wedding. i had to look hot if i was going to run into chris huh? and boy did i look hot!
Last thing you ate... tapioca pudding and a piece of dove chocolate. i don't care much for tapioca i think. what are those little bead thingies anyway?
Last CD bought... umm . . . i can't remember really. maybe it was howie day or the new ben folds or something. it has been awhile since my latest cd purchase.
Last time you cried...saturday. i was exhausted from the wedding and i had been driving around the airport trying to find a place to pick up my husband (who was flying back in from alaska) and he called me saying he was stuck in seattle and wouldn't be in for 2 more hours and i just lost it for a little bit. end of the rope you see.
Last time you told someone you loved them...today on the phone when my husband called me at work to ask me a question.
Last really fun thing you did...i went to edgefield mcmenamin's with my husband for our one year anniversary. we got massages and ate way too much food and went to the japanese gardens and sat and journaled. we ate at portland city grill (30 floors up! great view of pdx!) and i had sushi--yum! that was really fun . . . i'm glad we went.
Last thing you watched on T.V...do movies count? i saw "adaptation" on friday night. i didn't really like it much. it started out well, philosophical comedy, and ended strangely, tragic, horrific, dramatic, i'm gonna kill you, kind of stuff. odd.
Last Halloween costume...i wore this "renaissance" dress (think drew barrymore in "ever after") at work when all the kids came trick or treating through the offices. then i took it off. i made it myself though. kudos to me.
Last Concert attended...the decemberists and the violent femmes on the 12th of august. it was great fun and would have been better if i had actually gotten to see the entire femmes show. next concert: james taylor on friday!
Last time you had a really moving spiritual experience... lord, who knows. i haven't had one that moved me in a long time. i have had some great conversations on various blogs nd with my husband lately. and i just finished reading "blue like jazz" that really gave me hope for the future of christian spirituality . . . they aren't all fundamentalists out there!
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thanks for reading!
i now tag: bsc, andrea, and ryanleepeters. answer the questions and tag three more people. comment here when you've posted your list so we can go read and learn more about you!
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so many games of tag lately . . . sheesh.
say it don't spray it 10:38 AM
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
breanna's interview from ages ago . . .
1.If you had to commit one crime (without being caught, and don't get all moral on me here...) what would it be, how would you do it and why?i would rob a bank so jon and i could pay off all our debt and put the rest in savings so we could travel.
2.You've made it your life's goal to get into the Book of World Records...how do you do it?
i will have taught my kids more languages than any other kid knows by the time they are 3 years old.
3.Who is someone that you consider to have truly found their destiny?
bebo norman because what he does comes so naturally to him and he is so good at it and his music is so beneficial (and i couldn't think of anything else at the moment)
4.If you could change one thing in your life to make it more balanced, what would it be?
i would be able to work less without loosing money so i could spend more time doing things that mattered rather than sitting on my ass in my office.
5.What is your least developed emotion?
humility. i am really prideful, i think.
Extra Credit: If you could have the mind of someone from history while remaining in your own body, who's mind would you choose?
i would create my own mind out of many other's. i would take jw waterhouse's artistic genious, che's revolutionary quality and love for the people, einstein's genious, cs lewis' writing and apologetic abilities, and da vinci's multi-faceted talents in many areas of life . . . i would combine all of those together in cate blanchett's body with kate winslett's hair and angelina jolie's lips and sara mclachlan's voice to create a new me. until then, i'm happy being me . . .
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Friday, August 19, 2005
i can't believe it has been one year already . . .
jon and tabitha share a kiss
august 21, 2004
sunday will be mine and jon's one year anniversary! it has really flown by! at times i feel like it was just yesterday that we were sitting in the shakespeare garden of golden gate park and he was nervously offering me an engagement ring. but then, at other times, it feels as if we have always been together and always will be and that is just how the world was meant to be.
i love being married to this man. i love my new last name. i love watching him sleep and i love it when he kisses me. i know that no matter how screwed up things get, he will be a strong arm for me. he will be the one person in life who will care about what is happening to me from day to day. it is nice to know that there is someone out there as interested in myself as i am (that sounded shallow, but it is still true) . . . but even more than all that he does for me, i love him for who he simply is. he is a strong man with a solid character, high ideals, inspiring goals, an active mind and astounding intelligence. he has a good heart, a beautiful soul, and he puts up with me even at my worst. he takes out the trash, vaccuums, does the dishes (even though he hates it) and makes me dinner when he is home from work before i am.
i could go on and on blubbering about how in love with him i am and how lucky i am to have him in my life . . .
i wont though.
i'll just close with this poem by my favorite poet Rumi:
In The Arc Of Your Mallet
Don't go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground,
in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don't see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me.
Be the rose nearest to the thorn that I am.
I want to feel myself in you when you taste food,
in the arc of your mallet when you work,
when you visit friends,
when you go up on the roof by yourself at night.
There's nothing worse than to walk out along the street without you.
I don't know where I'm going.
You're the road, and the knower of roads,
more than maps,
more than love.
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since it is our anniversary, we are going away for a while. no more posts until tuesday i should think. feel free to comment in my absence though. cheers!
say it don't spray it 1:36 PM
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
charlotte and i went to see sixteen candles last night at the laurelhurst theatre. august is 1980s month for them. they showed risky business and 1941 already. in a few weeks they will be showing the goonies one of the all-time best movies ever made in my home state of oregon.charlotte and i are hoping to go see it dressed up in 80s garb. personally, i think charlotte would relive the 80s if she could. and that's why i love her. you rock char!
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i am reading blue like jazz by donald miller right now. i don't know if any of you have experience don miller before, but if you haven't and you are looking for someone who represents a non-cheesey, non-judgemental, vulnerable, and honest approach to spirituality and a relevant form of following the teachings of a man named jesus, i would recommend becoming more familliar with this man and his writing/speaking/messages. it just might change your life. or at least show that there are christian perspectives worth paying attention to in this fundamentalist, evangelical hell-hole that "modern christianity" has created.
don't get me started.
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lastly, please keep thinking of my friend todd. he and his family are still in need of something great to happen medically. i can ask all the "whys" i want but it wont make him better. i want to believe that god can and will help him live a long and full life for many many years more . . . so i just keep sending prayers and good energy and what have you . . .
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
i dig it
i was tagged by ghost dog to make a list of 10 songs that i am currently digging.i'm gonna go a little further with this and state why i am currently digging them.
here goes (in no particular order):
1. bastard by ben folds because it is a beautiful tribute to a certain father figure that i have . . .
2. raining in baltimore by counting crows because it is one of the songs that helped me through the summer jon was on the west coast and i was traveling across the western united states in a big white van. since jon is gone right now, i am reverting back to the need for this song.
3. landlocked blues by bright eyes (and emmylou harris) because i don't think i will ever not dig this song. it says so much about being young and idealistic and becoming dissolutioned in a world filled with war and lies and greed.
4. naked as we came by iron and wine because it is a beautiful reminder that even the happiest of moments will not last and that when you marry and say "till death do us part" it is very true. death will part us someday. this is not a sadistic depressing song for me but a reminder not to take time with my lover for granted.
5. secret of the easy yoke by pedro the lion because it is how i feel about fake, shallow, consumeristic churches and how i feel when i know i should be moved by god and really, at times, i just feel nothing.
6. stations by denison witmer once again because it reminds me of a time jon and i were apart. this time it was when i was in germany and he was in america for a summer. we sang this song at a fundraiser together at school before we left for the summer. this song is about traveling and waiting for the return of another. since jon is gone i, once again, find myself in need of this song.
7. this song i don't know the title to but some of the lyrics are "if you don't love me let me go" by the decemberists. i have seen them in concert twice this month and have just had that song stuck in my head lately. that's why i dig it. nothing more, nothing less.
8. i know this is more than one song, but i am digging the entire soundtrack from the moive the motorcycle diaries. this flick is about the early life of one ernesto "che" guevara and it is amazing! go. rent it. watch it. buy it! get the soundtrack!
9. complainte de la butte by rufus wainwright for several reasons: we are going to see him in concert with ben folds next week (birthday present from my sister), i just made a "best of rufus" compliation for breanna and got that song stuck in my head, and it is the song that jon and i heard first that made us fall in love with rufus (not each other!). it is played on the moulin rouge soundtrack (great flick!).
10. passenger seat by death cab for cutie because we just went to see them in concert and they remind me of the guys that jon used to live with (dylan and jake) who he is visiting in alaska right now. i listened to this vinyl lp at home yesterday and missed him. this was the last song i heard from that album.
thanks for making it through this with me . . . now i must tag five other people (and so must you once you've made your list) i choose:
rebecca marie
jimps
tanya
bsc
breanna
have fun and let us know when you've posted your lists!
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in other, sadder news: please pray, send good energy, or whatever you believe in for my friend todd and his family. todd is an amazing man and a great friend to my husband and i. jon has known todd longer than i have and he has really touched our lives. he has multiple sclerosis and is in icu right now because he developed pneumonia and strep at the same time. not just strep throat but strep entire body. he hasn't been responding to treatment and while he was in the hospital he had a heart attack. the doctors are saying things like "IF he makes it" and stuff . . . he has 3 kids under the age of 10 and a wonderful wife who needs him. i want him to live for their sake.
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yesterday was good. my sister and her friend and manny and i hung around portland. we went to powells, java vivace (for coffee and crepes) and the international rose test garden for pictures and a stroll. then we dropped him off at the airport and he went on back to greece. what a wonderful last 3 weeks! i have gotten to spend time with people from at least 4 other countries! i love it!
say it don't spray it 3:07 PM
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Monday, August 15, 2005
i was gonna make the title of this post a line from a rufus wainwright song
. . . but then i remembered no one else likes him as much as i do and it just would have seemed stupid.so, tanya tagged me and said i had to post 10 turn ons and 10 turn offs here on my blog. here they are:
TURN ONs:
1. folksy guitar music
2. the smell of my husband's armpits
3. organic food
4. coffee, friends, and lively discussion
5. dirt on my feet from traveling
6. a weekend morning in bed with no rush to get up
7. getting a real letter in the mail
8. my birthday
9. reuinions with old friends
10. a good book and a warm blanket
11. voices harmonizing
12. the innocence of children
13. good food (pad thai for example)
14. kissing
15. wait, i was only supposed to list 10!
TURN OFFs:
1. bad journalism
2. not being able to find a recycling bin
3. when my feet are hot and swollen
4. when my alarm goes off in the morning
5. 8-5 monday through friday and the sunday evening before when i realize that my weekend is over
6. rudeness, intolerance, and pride (i know that really counts as 3)
7. bad parenting displayed in public (you know it is even worse when they are at home)
8. sour body odor
9. telemarketers
10. debt (i hate it)
so, i tag breanna, charlotte and loo. you have to list 10 turn ons and turn offs (they don't have to be sexual--mine weren't) and then tag three other people as well. have fun and let us know when your lists are posted!
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no posts tomorrow friends, my friends rose (from salem) and manny (from greece) and my sister deborah (from keizer) are staying with me tonight (in the absense of my husband--i miss him!) and i will be spending the day galavanting around portland like a tourist!
cheers!
say it don't spray it 4:04 PM
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Friday, August 12, 2005
tomorrow is . . .
my birthday!to celebrate, we are going to the bite of oregon to see the decemberists and the violent femmes play.
then we are going to float down the sandy river and eat at mcmenamin's kennedy school for dinner on saturday.
thus will be the events of my birthday weekend celebrations. you can come play if you want. it will come to a sad end when i drop my man off at the airport for his week-long trip to alaska . . . and i spend the week taking my mid-terms. blech.
but happy birthday for now anyway!
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
alright. it has been awhile since this blog has had a real post . . . sorry.so let's get started.
this is tony, jon, and i at the "summer camp" concert in bend. jon is in the nasty floppy hat that saved us from heat stroke. i yoinked this pic off of tony's blog (thanks man!)last week, tony stayed with us. he is an adventerous fella hailing from austrailia and currently living in vancouver, b.c., canada. he spent some time hitchhiking down through washington and oregon and stayed with us for one of his nights in portland. if you want to know more about his adventures, visit his blogs and i'm sure he's bound to tell you all about it!
friday was the memorial service for my co-worker's husband (see a few blogs below for my previous emotional meltdown). what an emotional day for everyone. i just wanted to crawl back under the covers . . .
saturday, we drove down to bend, oregon and met up with tony again for the indie rock fest, summer camp. the show featured all northwest bands including viva voce, pedro the lion, the decemberists, built to spill, and death cab for cutie. the only things that would have made the show better were: if jake, dylan, isaac, and barry were there, and if they hadn't made us pour out our water before we entered the gate and then wait in line for the ONE WORKING DRINKING FOUNTAIN in order to fill our water bottles back up. this caused us to stand in line during the entire viva voce set . . . not fun.
anyway, all of the bands were GREAT. pedro's set was a bit short but still classic. they ended with my first ever favorite pedro song, when they really get to know you they will run. i had never seen the decemberists before but i really fell in love with them! they have this fun, upbeat sound that feels like what might happen if bright eyes suddenly got a huge burst of energy, morphed into a gypsy, and became a bit more theatrical. if you had heard them you would know what i mean. they made us scream like we were being swallowed by a whale at one point.
built to spill played a longer set since they played second to last. they did their usual 20 minute long jam session on a single song. it was comprised of awesome. the lead singer of this band, i swear, he looks like he could be david bazan's brother! this was the only band not from seattle or portland. they hail from boise idaho.
one last thing about the show:
death. cab. ROCKED! it was awesome! the opened with "new year" and it was perfect. they played a lot of new songs from their album that will be released later this month. when they finished their set, they hadn't played THE song yet, so we clapped and clapped and said, "we wont leave till you play it." of course i knew they were planning to play the song as an encore, because no death cab show would be complete without it . . . the drummer walked back onstage alone and hit this thing (thing=don't know what it was called, but it was some sort of electronic drum machine) which started the whirring sound for "transantlanticism." it was a beautiful moment as the lights came up and the song began. a beautiful way to end the night beneath the stars in the middle of the oregon "desert."
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after the show, we went with tony to stay at his host's house outside of bend. they were this awesome couple in their 30s which tony met on hospitality club or couch surfers. they had just gotten back from a trip to southeast asia. they own camels and are into exreme sports. we sat out on their huge trampoline and watched the stars. we saw several shooting stars and could even make out the milky way. this city girl sometimes forgets what the stars look like away from the city lights where night is darker and the stars are brighter.
in the morning we met up with my old roommate calah and her son trey. she looked amazing and i couldn't believe that trey is already 14 months old. so cute!
we had a great breakfast and then set out on the road to get tony to the train station so he could get to vancouver and get home at a decent hour (didn't happen). on the way, i finished the latest harry potter book. i wont spoil the end for you, but all i have to say, is "what!?! now i have to wait a year or two until i find out what happens!! i have tons of questions, no resolution, and so much time to wait!!! ack!"
got home. went to a 1 yr old birthday party. went star gazing. went to bed.
these last two days, we've had two friends from germany and one from austria staying with us. they are also members of hospitality club and were driving down the coast from washington to california. the austrian had already been to new york and dc. the two guys were planning to go to las vegas and the grand canyon before returning home. i wished i could have just jumped in their rental car and gone with them! we had a great time the two nights they were with us, talking about everything from politics to religion to pop culture to language differences and abortion. it was so refreshing to have good friends, good conversation and enormous amounts of respect. tuesday night we went to mcmenamin's kennedy school courtyard restaraunt and stayed there until 1 in the morning! it was hard to say goodbye to our new friends when they left, but we felt so refreshed and encouraged by their visit and even more determined to improve our german language skills.
the new words we taught them while they were here included "stingey" and "flacid."
and yesterday was our red robin date with james and andrea. it was wonderful to see them. i heart the wood family.
and that, my friends is what i have been doing when i am not working, going to class, or blogging. thanks for taking the time to read . . .
say it don't spray it 9:26 AM
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
right now!
i'm going to see james and andrea right now!meet us there if you can!
red robin
mall 205
say it don't spray it 12:53 PM
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
sorry . . . i will post something good soon. maybe even today!i'm covering for the receptionist at work this week while she is on vacation, so life is a little strange . . .
oh! and: james and andrea are going to be in town tomorrow! we are planning to have lunch with them at red robin. if any of you friends want to meet us. HOORAY!
say it don't spray it 12:50 PM
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Friday, August 05, 2005
i don't see the good
i really did ask god today, "where the fuck are you?"i attended a graveside memorial for my co-worker's husband today. he suffered with cancer for years. they were so excited to find out he was going to get the organ transplant he desperately needed. they knew going into it that there was a 50% chance he would not survive the surgery and that his body would reject the organ . . .
he died on monday.
they have a baby. A BABY! and three other children. the oldest can't be out of high school yet.
shit.
what's the point? why didn't god do something? i know everyone has answers like, "he will bring good from it" or "maybe you'll never see the reason" but really, his family needs him. his baby will grow up without ever remembering his face. he wonderful wife will raise their kids alone.
my heart is broken for them. and i have questions for god.
why did this have to happen? why did he suffer and fight and live and love and give and be loved back only to be buried today much too early?
i've been very emotional these past few days, but i know this is not an overreaction. during the service, the priest (or whatever he was, i don't really know) said that god's love is perfect and his peace is beyond understanding . . . he didn't make any claims about whether or not this happened for a reason . . . but i need a reason.
why?
say it don't spray it 4:46 PM
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
oh, and . . .
this fellow is staying at our place tonight.we are members of this thing called hospitality club where you meet up with people all over the world and give each other a place to stay. so far, i have met people from as far away as finland!
anyway, i am very excited to meet tony (my husband already has met him earlier today). we are hooking up with him again saturday at the "summer camp" concert in bend and we are all driving back up to portland together afterwards.
i'll let you know how it goes!
also, check out hospitality club and couch surfing if you are interested in getting involved with stuff like this and are looking for ways to make traveling cheaper.
cheers!
say it don't spray it 2:05 PM
5 i heard that
he's home! for a little while . . .
i drove home from work last night feeling oh so tired (exhausted to be more specific). i was thinking about how i was going to have to stay up late waiting for my husband to come home hungover, dehydrated and sunburnt from his rafting trip. i missed him a lot and knew i couldn't sleep without him being there anyway, so i was making plans about how i would get home from class at about 9:30 and sit up with the new harry potter book and read until he came home.i opened the front door and sitting in front of me on the steps that lead up to our apartment was this pile of smelly camping gear and sopping wet shoes.
"jon?" is he up there?
no answer.
i grab the mail off the floor and take it with me up the stairs.
on the couch sat my husband wrapped in a towel, watching "return of the king," and eating macaroni and cheese out of the pot with a big wooden spoon.
"hooray!"
i went to climb on the couch with him and give him a hug and he said, "you need to stay away from my stomach."
"are you sick?"
"no."
"sunburnt?"
"not really."
"hungover?"
"yes."
there were 14 guys. 900 beers. and 3 days.
being surrounded by guys made him revert back to his bachelor days i noted as i shared the rest of the mac n' cheese out of the pot with him. and i noticed that none of the guys had felt comfortable enough in their manhood to help put sunscreen on each other's backs.
he told me about sleeping in the rain the first night (leading to sleeping in the mud) and sleeping with spiders the next.
"i just kept drinking so i could fall asleep without being worried about the spiders."
i told him about my wild weekend with my little sisters and how exhausting it was.
i told him i was quite happy and content that he was back.
i really just don't function well without him.
did i mention he's going to alaska without me later this month?
say it don't spray it 8:17 AM
8 i heard that
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
sorry friends
i kind of dropped off the face of the planet for a while . . . i've been pretty busy, exhausted, and i haven't seen my husband for three days . . . he's off having fun rafting, camping and drinking. without me. i don't function well without him i've found.anyway, the question for the day is:
what was your favorite subject in school and why? (it can be preschool, elementary, jr high, high school, college, post college, whatever)
mine would have to have been pottery class in high school. because i loved playing with the clay and creating all these lopsided sculptures. i never once made a coffee mug believe it or not . . . i would give anything (within reason) to get my hands in some clay and slam in on a wheel again . . .
say it don't spray it 9:02 AM
9 i heard that
