Thursday, January 22, 2009
january is almost over!?
us with tabitha's family on christmas morning
so we've been back in providence from being home in oregon for christmas for a little over 2 weeks now and i am JUST NOW getting caught up on life! i've been sitting at my desk for a few hours now deleting emails, sending emails, organizing my planner and wondering how january already got so far away from me.
we had a WONDERFUL time at home seeing family and friends (the lines between family and friends are pretty blurred here) and enjoying all the fine things that oregon has to offer. we had such a good time that we both vocalized that we felt it sort of set us back in our progress here in providence. just when we feel like we are making some ground and feeling settled and carving out a place for ourselves . . . we go back to oregon and remember just what it is we were really made for . . . living in a sense of community, full of love, laughter, honesty, sharing of good food and good thought . . . we really miss home. so send us some if you can!
anyway, since being back we have:
painted and rearranged the kitchen
painted the bathroom
organized the upstairs portion of our apt (mostly)
organized and set up the glorified closet as a massage room
found the missing piece to my massage application (no, i haven't sent it in yet - i have to get it notarized)
reunited with the friends we've been making and continued to build relationships
visited boston for MLK JR day and stumbled upon the birthplace of JFK while walking around with our cousins
played countless hours of wii, pinochle, cranium and other games with our roommates
attended a LOST season premiere party complete with tropical foliage and dharma initiative labels on all the food
listened with goosebumps to an inauguration on the radio
shoveled snow
shoveled more snow
worked hard
laughed hard
and basically done our best to feel at home again here in rhode island
jon started school yesterday and with that comes more busy times. but i hope to keep posting at least once a month (or more!!! sheepish grin).
so check in.
let us know how you are!
we miss you.
lovelovelove,
tabitha
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
the interview
so . . . miss midge has interviewed me by giving me 5 questions to answer . . . if you want me to do the same for you, just let me know in a comment to this blog and i will ask you 5 questions. fun times!
here are the questions:
1-- When your nose is running and you don't have any tissues, what are you inclined
to do?
mostly, i just use me hand. hey, i am being completely honest here. if i am wearing a nasty hoodie, i'll use my sleeve. gross i know. whatev. if i am at work, i will use a tissue and then wash or even double wash my hands before touching your food. if i am at home and very relaxed, i will just shove some tissues up there and walk around with TP hanging out my nose. my nose runs a lot . . . i've given up trying to deal with it normally. as cold as it has been here lately . . . there's no hope. (by the way, i think midge cheated by asking that question cause she knew about the TP up the nose thing. i do it in front of people i am particularly comfy around).
2-- Which would you prefer: taking a bath in watermelon juice or taking a shower in tomato juice?
since i am allergic to watermelon and it makes me break out in hives (esp the juice). i would say the tomatoe juice shower sounds . . . lovely?
3-- What is your best characteristic?
my BEST characteristic? the fact that i literally know someone you know, but you never thought i would know them. i think my life's purpose is to connect people with other people. i am damn good at it too.
why? what do you think my best characteristic is?
4-- What one Christmas tradition would you never want to give up?
seeing my family. it's really the only tradition that i haven't missed out on completely over the years (except the one year we spent christmas in europe).
5-- Which type of natural disaster are you most afraid of?
do killer bees count as a natural disaster? if not, then i would say tornados and hurricanes . . . and YES i can lump them together because they are sort of the same thing - swirling wind and weather and mass chaos and death. i grew up with earthquakes and volcanoes so they don't bother me so much as the twistahs do.
but i am seriously freaked out of bees. esp killer bees.
BONUS QUESTION
Would you rather fart super loud in public or visibly pee your pants?
well since i've done the first one on a few occasions and lived to tell the tale . . . i'll go with the farting.
did i do a good job?
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Monday, January 19, 2009
25!
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. [my amendment: i wont tag anyone . . . you don't actually have to do this if you don't want to, if you want to do it, go ahead. I happen to be a looser with nothing better to do, so i did it]so, ava tagged me . . . here goes . . .
1) i can't wear my wedding ring right now because the winter weather has dried out my hands and caused my ring finger to crack and turn all dry and raw and nasty right under my ring.
2) i don't know how good of a parent i would be because i go back and forth between loving and hating my dog . . . if it were a baby how would i treat it? so let's just hold off of babies for a few more years.
3) i am a foodie. but not in the way that makes it so i know how to pronounce french foods and enjoy the taste of snails. but in the way that i wont buy eggs that come from caged chickens, i don't eat commercial meat (which means that right now i don't eat meat at all), i make my own granola and ii would rather buy organic, local apples even if it means paying several dollars more per pound and not being able to afford to go to the movies. that's the kind of foodie i am.
4) the same goes for body products. if i'm smearing it on my face, i'd rather it wasn't full of chemical and fossil fuel based petro chemicals. your skin is the largest organ of your body and it absorbes whatever you rub into it and that enters your blood stream and your cells and, essentially becomes you!
5) i'm struggling to fight the pack-rat gene that i've inherited from my family. moving as many times as jon and i have has really helped. we just get rid of stuff when we move.
6) i already don't remember most of what people gave to me for christmas this season. if i sat down and really thought about it, i could. the ones i do remember? people donating money to things in my name, handmade gifts, and recipes. and johnny depp movies.
7) i want to be more crafty. this week i will make coasters.
8) being raised in such a conservative, legalistic faith tradition has been hard to overcome . . . i want to be a spiritual person and do good in the world and love people and i know that i believe in a higher power . . . but that's hard to reconcile with all the hurt and negativity and judgment that i have seen and experienced.
9) i hate it when people ask me if i am doing massage work here in Rhode Island. I want to reply "Don't remind me of my failures, i have not forgotten them."
10) most days i am a lazy bum. i think my husband judges me for that. for instance right now, i know i said i had nothing better to do . . . we'll i actually have a ton of things better that i could be doing.
11) i have six sisters and no brothers. put that in your back pocket.
12) i put your mom in my back pocket once.
13) in our apt, all we ever do is play games. there are four of us. the perfect number for a rousing game of pinochle or settlers of catan. we also have been playing a lot of mario cart on the wii. and i'm fine with that.
14) best snack in the world? chips and salsa. more specifically spiced tortilla rounds and peach salsa from trader joe's. and the chips? haven't seen them at tj's in months . . . i think they've stopped making them. and thus, my life is less rich.
15) you know you are getting old when hard alcohol gives you heartburn.
16) a sense of home and a sense of family is very important to me. i hope to establish more of this for my family here in providence by the end of this year.
17) one word: YOGA!!
18) one other word: KOMBUCHA!! (i will start making this myself by the end of the month).
19) you know that thing happening on my ring finger? it's also happening on my face. yuck.
20) last night, my husband actually shoveled a path in the snow for me to get to the car! sweet!
21) no matter what you say, i still like to listen to the Counting Crows.
22) and i might just have to buy that justin timberlake cd they were playing at julian's when we had breakfast there the other day.
23) this is less 25 things about me and more train of thought. i am also ok with that.
24) spiders and bees creep me out. other sorts of bugs don't, really.
25) i resolve to read more books.
the end.
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