Thursday, February 12, 2009
long overdue update
sorry it's been so long since a substantial post (besides the rich jandt story) . . . we really do have stories to tell and pictures to post! i just haven't even gotten around to putting photos on the computer since we got home from oregon in january!
so, i figured while i make granola, i could post a blog (in between stirring every ten minutes so the oats wont burn).
things here are good. i've been working a lot and jon has been reading a book a day for school. in between this, we are finding other things to keep us busy.
i am helping to plan and put on a benefit concert here in providence called Musica Fem. it will go along with the VDAY campaign and the until the violence stops festival. VDAY is a campaign to raise awareness to global justice movements that are aimed at putting a stop to violence against women and girls around the world. for our concert, we will have 4 different women performing artists play at the west side arts space (WSA is a local non profit that i have been volunteering with this past year). this concert is in conjunction with WSA's Imago Fem art show (an art show featuring pieces from local women artists that will run through march 15) that is raising money for a local women's shelter. i will hopefully have a few pieces in the show as well. the show opens on the 21st and concert will be on the 28th. whew.
in other news, a few weeks ago my cousin emily and her husband brian came down and we all went ice skating together downtown (as well as introducing brian to his new fav bubble tea house). we had a great time! it was my first time ice skating ever! and i didn't fall one time! emily and brian took a lot of pictures . . . whenever we get them from them we might post a few :)
HERE IS SOME REALLY GOOD NEWS: I FINALLY TURNED IN ALL THE PAPERWORK TO FINISH MY APPLICATION TO BE LICENSED AS A MASSAGE THERAPIST HERE IN RHODE ISLAND!!! when i took it to the post office to mail it all in, i was so nervous and excited and shaking and sweating . . . i'm sure the postman thought i was mailing a letter bomb. so, hopefully i will hear back on that within a month . . . and then i will have another option for making money so we can save for . . .
. . . our trip home to oregon in june for sara and peter's wedding, as well as a hopeful spring break road trip next month to visit friends and family along the east coast, and most importantly the HUGE insurance bill that is due at the beginning of april . . . ah yes, the economy may be in the toilet, but we still have to pay the same amount for crappy health coverage.
other mile markers: my best friend's baby turned one year old last week . . . sadly i wasn't able to be there to celebrate with them. it breaks my heart to be so far away from them. i love them so much! i was so blessed to be able to fly back and be with them for a whole week to help out when he was just born. he was so tiny then - now he's huge!
i'll finish with a fun story:
the other night, jon asked me if i wanted to go on a date. of course, i said "yes!" since i covet any time i can get with him (phd's are not designed for married people). we decided to check out this thai food place down the street that people have raved about but that we had never tried before. we dressed up and went down there. as we walked up, we noticed some people waiting outside. it was a monday night so we were sort of surprised that there was a wait (the place only has abt 6 tables we discovered, once we were seated). so jon went in to put in our names and i asked the couple how long they thought the wait was. they told us it wasn't long and instead of lapsing back into uncomfortable new england silence, they kept chatting with us. we asked each other if either had been to the restaurant yet. neither group had.
they said, "we just moved here and we are trying out places to try to figure out what is good and what isn't."
"oh, where did you move here from?" i asked.
"oregon," they answered.
"no way! that's where we are from!" we replied!
turned out they were from eugene and had transferred here because his professor at U of O had gotten a job at Brown and had asked him to come with him. he is getting his phd in psychology at brown and she is working as an architect in a firm nearby. soon after our discovery of being from the same place, their names were called and they were seated.
we continued to wait outside.
"we should give them our phone numbers."
"yeah, we could all use a little oregonian time every now and then."
a few seconds later, we were called in for our table. which turned out to be right next to our new friends' table! we talked off and on to each other through the meal and then exchanged contact info before leaving (right when the OTHER person i know from oregon - a girl i went to summer camp with who moved out here 13 years ago - came in to the place for dinner too!). since then, we've hung out a few times and really enjoyed it - it's fun to bounce frustrations and revelations off of each other.
how exciting!
so, this post really should have been like 4 or 5 different posts . . . if you are still reading: thanks for sticking with it! we miss you!
lots of love,
tabitha, jon and hudson
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