Monday, March 27, 2006
sigh . . .
jon has been gone since thursday . . . and i wont see him again until sunday morning.i am simply wasting away without him.
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sorry for the lack of posts as well friends . . . jon took the computer in to the computer doctor before he left, so i am completely isolated from the blogging and emailing world when i am not at work . . . our computer broke a hing and needed to have it set and casted . . . no swimming for six weeks!
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in other (and completely wonderful) news:
james is in town!! i gave him the keys to my apartment for a few nights (i am staying with friends while jon is gone . . . our apartment has a creepy attic and basement and i cannot sleep there alone). i was glad to give the use of our apartment to someone as special as james!
it was good to see him and talk about the things of life over some yummy beverages last night.
the only thing that would have made it better would have been if his lovely wife andrea could have come. instead, she and i both are stuck pining away for our husbands . . . and each other (andrea! i miss you!! come home soon!!!!)
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so . . . . . i wont be able to blog or email for a while starting tomorrow . . . i will miss you all terribly, but i'll fill you in next week. while i am "out of the office" leave me comments and tell me how much you miss me!
cheers!
say it don't spray it 12:43 PM
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
and now the moment you've all been waiting for!
a phblog . . . (photo blog)simply put: a massive update complete with pictures of what i have been doing with my life lately.
first of all . . . did i tell you that ron livingston was in town making a film (at portland state university) called the music within? well, he is. or was. and no, i didn't get to meet him.
moving on . . .
it snowed in portland (in march!) a few weeks ago . . . here is a picture of the street in front of my apartment . . .
for st patrick's day, i went to kell's (on saturday actually) with my cousins (we are all at least a quarter irish) and my sister. we watched clogging, drank guiness, ate fish and chips and lusted over the irish wolfhounds (i really want one).
sunday, i "graduated" from school (finals are this week . . . and i still have to apply to take my state and national boards in order to get my lisence). this picture is sort of dark, but here are some of my classmates and i at the oregon convention center for our graduation:
and here are my mom and sisters and i afterwards (aren't they the cutest?!?!):
my co-workers bought me this awesome cookie bouquet as a graduation gift!! (good thing i didn't give up sugar for lent!):
a few friends, jon and i went to olympia to visit a friend and go play on mt rainier a few weekends ago . . . this isn't mt rainier . . . but it was taken on the way to the mountain:
here we are down by the puget sound later that same day:
random hiking in the gorge photo number one:
random hiking in the gorge photo number two:
and lastly, a photo i took when my friend j and i visited the japanese gardens here in portland (if you come to portland you MUST visit these gardens! (mac, you would LOVE the coy pond!):
thus endeth the slide-show . . .
i saw "the squid and the whale" this weekend . . . has anyone else seen it?
say it don't spray it 10:36 AM
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Monday, March 20, 2006
and the winner is . . .
JAMES!!!!!he guessed the word "fleisch"
it means "meat" or "flesh"
and it really grosses me out.
niki guessed it right too, but after james did . . . so she gets an honorable mention.
anyway, thanks for all of your guesses--they were very entertaining!
james, what do you want from deutschland? a shot glass? a postcard? a patch for your backpack? :)
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and hey everyone: HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!!
say it don't spray it 8:53 AM
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Friday, March 17, 2006
everyone loves an irish girl . . .
HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!(doing anything fun?)
i just thought i'd say the following:
my mother's name is colleen.
my grandmother on my father's side is full-blooded irish (born or at least conceived in ireland).
my grandfather on my mother's side is scotch irish. we call him grandpa mac.
i have red hair, freckles and pale skin.
and my boss told me i wasn't irish.
whatever.
my father gave us this blessing when jon and i got married:
(keep guessing on the contest below!!! the contest ends at midnight tonight!!)
have fun and be safe this weekend!
say it don't spray it 11:46 AM
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
here are the rules:
the rules for my "blogversary contest" are:if you can guess my least-favorite german word by my blogversary (it is on saturday, so you have to do it by midnight on friday) . . . i will bring back a suvenier for you from germany when jon and i go there this summer!
you will have to remind me that i owe you one before i go (since it is sort of far away) . . .
anyway, you get three guesses.
i will announce the winner monday morning.
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also, i am graduating from massage school on sunday!!!
i wont actually be done with school until june, but the graduation ceremony is sunday (don't ask me why it worked out this way, it's very last minute for me too) . . . if you want to come, let me know and i will give you the details.
peace.
say it don't spray it 10:33 AM
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Monday, March 13, 2006
double trouble, deutschland and a blogversary
so . . . this weekend jon and i went with some friends up to olympia to visit the tree hugging child and his mother. we drove out to mt ranier and went sledding (where the "double trouble" reference comes in. it was the name of the inflatable let-down of a sled that we took up the mountain with us) for the day (wonderful!). then we stopped and had thai at "the lemongrass" in olympia. everyone crashed on the floor in the living room for the night. the next morning after a breakfast of waffles and oatmeal, we went to wander in the sun along the docks.it. was. glorious.
i haven't felt so carefree and what mac would call "godlike" in such a long time. we were timeless creatures in the sun by the water. skipping rocks, sipping coffee and living in true community. it was a lonely feeling when jon and i arrived back in our apartment and there was no one left but just the two of us (although that's not bad either *wink*) . . . just for the weekend we had taken care of each other, shared food and clothing and a place to stay, met each others needs and supported and encouraged each other. the group was such that no one felt they had to pretend to be someone they weren't and no one felt that if they expressed a need, it would not be met.
ahhhh. it was perfect.
and now we are back to real life. with one exception.
jon and i are currently planning a trip to GERMANY!! we will leave sometime in mid august (around our two-year anniversary) and return in mid sept (before jon's second year of his master's program begins). we will do research in university town (bayreuth maybe?) for a week or so, travel and visit friends for another week or so and visit prague or vienna or both for another week or so . . . it has been too long since i last crossed the ocean and i can't get this trip planned fast enough!!!
in other news . . . my blogversary is coming up on the 18th . . . i was thinking of doing something festive every day on the blog to celebrate the one year mark . . . but mostly i am just so happy to have met all of you people who are out there reading this silly thing right now. thanks for the awesome conversations, post cards, emails, encouragement, arguments, ideas, funny links, etc. it's been great!
i have decided that in order to celebrate, i will have a contest. rules and instructions to come . . .
say it don't spray it 2:55 PM
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Friday, March 10, 2006
welcome to march in oregon
so far today i have seen:rain
snow
hail
sunbreaks
and now it is hailing again. like mad.
this is nuts.
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something i posted on trish's blog (link in sidebar) got me thinking . . .
"it's hard to live double lives. when will the world be a place where we will be allowed to be ourselves without fear of judgment?"
so, as i said, it got me thinking . . . why can't i just be balsy, say "eff it," and just start being myself around EVERYONE? why do i feel i have to modify who i am based on who i am around?
i am one person in front of my mother, another when i am with my husband and friends, another online . . . and so it goes.
i guess that leads me to another question: who am i really?
huhn.
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another thing . . . i guess these things come in threes because (in addition to some tragedies i have recently mentioned in previous posts) some friends of ours recently miscarried their baby. for the second time.
my heart seriously hurts for them.
say it don't spray it 3:36 PM
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
global warming anyone?
here is one way you can participate in reducing our co2 emissions.if you know of other ways, post them in the comment box!
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here's an excerpt from a newsletter from act for change about global warming:
The science is settled. The evidence is even more frightening.
For example, 2005 was the hottest year on record. Greenland's glaciers are melting 2.5 times faster than a decade ago. Hurricanes are becoming more severe due to higher water temperatures. And, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is at a 650,000-year high.
On January 18th, all six former and current EPA chiefs, Republicans and Democrats, agreed that 1) climate change is happening and 2) humans are responsible.
What can you do?
The good news: You can make a difference. Working Assets has joined with the nonprofit Carbonfund.org to help you take immediate and effective action to slow global warming. The answer is simple and affordable. Support Carbonfund.org with a tax-deductible donation today and reduce your climate footprint by supporting wind energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects.
As U.S. citizens, we have a special responsibility. Though we make up just 5 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Just over a year ago, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change took force. Yet, the United States still hasn't joined on.
What can you do? You can carpool. You can turn off the light when you leave a room. You can demand that politicians improve fuel efficiency standards.
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what else can we do?
say it don't spray it 9:08 AM
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Monday, March 06, 2006
for rizzle, tim and tanya:
eat your hearts out!!!
say it don't spray it 2:31 PM
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
is god fake? (part two)
thanks for everyone's responses to my last post. i absolutely love it when people are willing to dialogue with each other about the questions of life!i will post my responses to your comments soon, keep checking the comment section of the blog below for further discussion.
but here is my next question . . .
many of us know j and k. i just heard today that their 8 week old baby who has been very sick and in icu since she was born will probably die today.
this is heartbreaking.
in addition to that, a dear sweet co-worker of mine has recently started her second round of chemo and i am sickened as i watch it knock her flat.
it seems that these things always happen to the best of us.
what do you do with tragedy like this when it happens?
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i've come again
like a new year
to crash the gate
of this old prison
i've come again
to break the teeth and claws
of this man-eating
monster we call life
i've come again
to puncture the
glory of the cosmos
who mercilessly
destroys humans
i am the falcon
hunting down the birds
of black omen
before their flights
i gave my word
at the outset to
give my life
with no qualms
i pray to the Lord
to break my back
before i break my word
how do you dare to
let someone like me
intoxicated with love
enter your house
you must know better
if i enter
i'll break all this and
destroy all that
if the sheriff arrives
i'll throw the wine
in his face
if your gatekeeper
pulls my hand
i'll break his arm
if the heavens don't go round
to my heart's desire
i'll crush its wheels and
pull out its roots
you have set up
a colorful table
calling it life and
asked me to your feast
but punish me if
i enjoy myself
what tyranny is this
~rumi~
say it don't spray it 2:41 PM
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