Tuesday, August 29, 2006
news news news
man. my friend just told me yesterday that this family she knows had their house burn down and they lost everything too. if the wife and kids hadn't been out of the house, the kids might be dead . . . by the time the dad woke up, the kid's room was gone.it's like 10 blocks from my house.
also, we went swimming this weekend in the columbia river. to get there, we drove by all these news vans and police and a dive and rescue team. but no ambulance. so we thought maybe they were looking for something that was lost in the river and that probably no one was hurt.
the next day, my friend told me that what really happened was that there was a boating accident and a woman had her leg chopped off at the knee! and we were swimming downstream of it!
lastly, it is raining here in portland oregon today. for the first time in a good long while. i am happy because a) i LOVE rain and b) due to staying up late at the rocky horror picture show party last night, i drove to work rather than rode my bike. good thing, because i don't have fenders on her yet . . . no mud mohawk for me.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
that's the sad state of america
you know that someone is being greedy when . . .they go out and pay cash for a new vehicle, but their employees have no health insurance.
just speaking from experience here.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
people are funny
so, on my lunch break today, i decided to run some errands and deposit my check. my co-worker (not quite from hell, but perhaps from purgatory) calls me and says,purg: "do you feel like running a errand?"
me: (sweetly) "what do you need?"
purg: "i need you to drive to the bank and pick up some print-outs that BigImportantBankGuy has waiting for us."
me: "where is this bank?"
purg: blurts out random address.
me: ok, i'll try to find it.
i proceed to drive 2 miles in the wrong direction because Purgatory had given me the wrong street name.
i call purg back,
me: "is it NE or N RandomStreetAddress?"
purg: "oh! it's not RandomStreetAddress, it's ThisOtherStreetName! i am sooo sorry!"
so, it turns out that when she called me, i was actually 4 blocks away from the bank she needed me to go to . . . drat. and i have nooooooo gas.
i get back to the office.
purg: "i ordered us a pizza and some chicken strips for lunch as a thank you for running those errands!"
me: "awesome." (picking the meat off my pizza)
purg: "oh! i didn't even THINK! you don't eat meat and there is chicken and bacon on that pizza!!"
me: (a little blandly) "it's ok, i can pick it off."
--5 minutes later.--
purg: "do you want these last two chicken strips?"
me: "chicken?" (thinking she'd get it)
purg: "yes, do you want it?"
me: "chicken . . . hmmm . . . no thanks."
she never caught on.
and . . . she tries to blame me somehow for everything she does wrong. awesome. make the new girl look bad.
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bloggers unite!
i've been having a pretty crappy week.to top it off: this morning, i stopped at the store to get breakfast on my way to work. i bought this package of beautiful raspberries (spelled with a "p"). i was soooo excited about my raspberry breakfast. i got to work, got settled in, and opened the package.
every. single. berry. was.
MOLDY!!!
gyarr!
good news is:
tonight fellow blogger mac will be flying in to pdx for the weekend.
looking forward to a great blogger-friendly weekend.
still working on ironing out the kinks of the new blogskin. this is costing me big bucks. thanks alot arwen.
by the way everyone, arwen loves woodland creatures!
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
what say you?
the new skin has arrived!i don't know about you, but i think it is sooooo "bad diary days."
enjoy.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
freundenfest!
announcing the
1st ever
annual
end of August
freundenfest* potluck!!
monday the 28th of August at 7pm
featuring:
Rocky horror picture show POPPEN SCHAU** sing-a-long (with other special performances)
costumes encouraged, expected and hoped for!
RSVP early if you want to be a special performer!
all talents are welcome!
RSVP to me for more info . . .
mostly, you'll see my husband in a corset (a-la dr. frankenfurter)
*"freundenfest" = "Friend Fest" auf deutsch.
**"poppen schau" = "Puppet show" auf deutsch.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
under construction
working on a new blog skin currently . . . with the help of arwen the great. i've asked her so many stupid questions! but, she's been fabulously helping me from an entirely different state of the union!also: trader joe's peach salsa and spiced tortilla chips = best. snack. ever.
the absolute fastest way to my heart.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
2 years . . .
ignore the acne please people . . .
it's been quite a ride. ups. downs. twists. turns. soft landings. scraped knees.
tears. laughter. joy. anger. LOVE. agreement. disagreement. overdraft fees. adventure. homework. music. silence.
awkward pauses. knowing glances.
a squeeze of the hand.
a journey.
a discovering. a searching. leaving things behind. finding new places to connect.
looking at each other and saying, "who are you?"
looking again and saying, "it feels like i've known you forever."
a prayer. an absence of depth.
how can love be the deepest, widest, richest of things in one moment and the most shallow, selfish, reactionary thing in the next?
all i know, lover, is that i would die without you. and sometimes i can't stand you. but it is beautiful -- this contradictory love that we share.
for our short life-time our spirits will mingle in this physical existence. and for that, i am truly blessed.
as cs lewis wrote, "be a sphere touching my sphere." (in reference to spiritual beings connecting in the physical existence).
and i don't want to share this with anyone but you.
thank you for the last two years. they have been beautiful.
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Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
gyar!
hey friends.my birthday was AWESOME!!!
camping on the beach was perfect. the weather was gorgeous. i'm just glad i fell asleep before everyone decided it would be a good idea to play football. on the beach. in the dark.
my friend j has a sprained elbow. it's green and twice the size of normal.
on the way home from the beach my friend jake called us and said he was stuck in seattle (because he had missed his flight home from alaska). so we drove allllllll night to pick him up. it was GREAT to see him! i hugged that kids neck so hard! we got back to portland by 4am. slept until 8am. and then took jake to breakfast before the husband had to drive him back to seattle to catch his new flight to arizona.
best birthday present ever.
second to that was the present that the husband gave me. a 30 gig ipod. you can watch movies on this thing!
the first and only album currently downloaded?
fiona apple's "tidal"
don't even tell me you were surprised.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
the johnny depp quiz
 | You Are Sam From "Benny & Joon." You are very talented at physical comedy. People are in awe of your abilities. However, you have many quirks which can either win people over or completely annoy them. But you're a sweetheart through and through, and it's hard not to love you. |
Take The Johnny Depp Quiz!
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
the good news is:
national geographic traveler magazine featured oregon this month. it was pretty cool to read about my homestate.my birthday is on sunday. you should come to tabithapalooza. it begins tomorrow night with the pied cow and footloose in the square.
and . . .
I PASSED MY STATE BOARD EXAM!!! i got the letter in the mail today.
yes!!!
now i just have to fill out a bunch of forms and send in a chunk of money and i can start practicing massage!!!
let the celebrations begin!
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
3 days until my birthday
not counting today or the day of my birthday.last night, 3 of my girlfriends came over and we made dinner together (veggie stir fry and rice!). it was soooo yummy and fun! then we met up with another friend and my sister at the laurelhurst theatre to see SPACEBALLS the movie on the big screen!!!
my friend j can do the scene where dark helmet is playing with his dolls perfectly! it cracks me up!
my friend c can sing the "we are friends" song from "the jungle book."
she is going to perform it at our freunden fest that we are having on the last monday of august (end of summer bash, concerts and performances by our friends, ended with a big finale: "the rocky horror puppet show sing along"!).
you should come.
rsvp soon if you want to be a special guest performer.
dress up like you are a character in the film. the puppets will be in costume.
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Friday, August 04, 2006
my husband the rock star part 1
the husband is a musician. he loves hearing and listening to music. his master's thesis revolves around music. when i first met him, he wrote, performed and even recorded songs with friends in college.his music tastes range from beck to neil young, rufus wainwright to bob dylan and back again. i was going through our music collection recently trying to organize it (another blog for another time) and i realized. we have a lot of bob dylan.
it reminded me of the time i went to saturday market with my friend c and we went to the poster store in the red building (you know, the one with the fire sale?) and there was this bob dylan poster (of when he was younger) and we both looked at it and did a double-take.
c said, "doesn't that look like j?"
"it sure does."
now i tell everyone that my husband looks like a young bob dylan.
for example:
bob.
the husband.
i know those aren't the best pictures . . . i could do better. but seriously.
ok, here's another one:
not sure what it is with those glasses. he always wears them.
so.
dear mr dylan,
please tell me that you would have aged better if it weren't for the hard rock and roll star lifestyle. my husband looks a bit like you did in your younger years and i would hope that he might age a bit more gracefully than you did.
it would be apprecieated if you could have your "people" make me a computer generated picture of what you would have looked like today sans party and have it sent to my people.
thanks.
sincerely,
a concerned wife.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
as i posted on arwen's blog this morning:this new job of mine leaves no space for blogging or personal putie time (as rebecca marie would say) . . . poopie (as i would say). don't they know i have NEEDS?
i need to informe my friends of what's going on in my life. and catch up on their lives . . .
i guess i have to rearrange my schedule and do it in the evenings. or (GASP!) on the weekends.
so, go read arwen's blog about our opportunity to become the future mrs lincoln . . . to a dead prez.
anyway.
exams are over. (phew). passed the first. not sure about the second. i will get results in the mail within 30 days.
right now i am just gearing up for the day that we all get to celebrate ME (can you tell i am a leo?). and my two year wedding anniversary. and my sister moving off to college (sniff). and my trip to germany. and:
THE PORTLAND PIRATE FESTIVAL!!!.
but i know you are all anxiously waiting to hear how i did on the exam . . . so am i. i will let you know as soon as i find out.
for now, i will listen to U2 and type up roofing estimates.
and go see the velvet teen tonight at dantes.
peace.
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