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Happy New Year!!!!

I don't know what I'm doing for the celebratory countdown yet...I mean, it's me! I procrastinate. Maybe I better make a new years resolution about that. Hm, nope, I'm gonna be realisitc.

New years resolutions: Everybody makes them. Maybe not every year, but at some point everyone stops, has the moment of clear thought and stillness that may mark an epiphany, and says "Next year, I'm gonna..." Once I thought I'd make a resolution to make no more resolutions, as I tend to not follow them, and then feel bad. But, realizing that was rather an oxymoron...I stopped that idea. This year, I'm gonna be realisitc. I'm not going to "lose 20 pounds this year", or even 10. I'm not going to resolve to "eat less sweets" I like them too much. Other favorites include keeping in touch with family and friends more, or smiling more, or telling so-and-so that you love them, or remembering to pay attention to the small things in life. Nope, none of these for me either. I know they are all good goals, but I'm not turning them into a resolution that I can break. Though I will try harder to keep in touch with people, I'd rather just do it, not resolve to do it. "Do, or do not. There is no try." I really do love that quote. I'm not going to try to be less judgemental. Hell, we all know I'm stubborn, obstinant, and set in my ways. I'm a college graduate for goodness sake. I'll just do what I learned was a "good idea" in school...keep my opinions to myself.

So what? You ask. What are you going to resolve to do as this fine year turns from 2003 to 2004? (By the way, how the hell did 23.25 or so years of my life go by this quickly?) My resolutions for 2004:
1. Floss. Yes, floss. It's something I'm supposed to be doing anyhow, and I don't want to lose my pretty pearly whites. And, this last week, I've flossed 3 out of 4 days, if you count Sunday. So, I've already started to turn it into a habit; continuing shouldn't be all that hard. Some habits are good for you...really.
2. Survive the year. Good resolution, don't you think? It's not all that crazy really. Oh, I don't mean...live through the year, though I plan on doing that. I mean, do a semester of classes for work, work hard, get ready and start my Masters. It's a different world. I don't want to be someone I don't recognize one year from now.


I could keep going but I seem to have developed a nasty cold thing. I actually have a fever! I haven't had one of those in forever. Earlier today it was 100.6. My normal body temp is about 98.2 or 98.4 so, I'm all burning. I have the chills and aches and a nasty cough. I think some bug made a New Year's Resolution to attack me. So, who knows if I'll be up at midnight counting down the numbers with everyone and blowing noise makers. I certainly won't be kissing anyone. I think the cold realized today was a great day to infect me--so many possible vectors to infect others. I may be able to make it til 11 and watch the times square ball drop. Makes me think of the last couple of New Years' celebrations. Me and Katie, watching movies one year and missing ours so staying up til one to celebrate with mountain time. Me and Katie drinking an entire liter or more of champane by ourselves. Play Project Gotham Racing and eating S'mores out of the fire. It was becoming a tradition. Sadly, Katie has already celebrated somewhere on the Continent. I raised my water glass to you in a toast at 5PM Katie, hope you and Jenny had a great time doing whatever--ringing in the new year.

Now, I'm gonna go find dinner and feel miserable. See--now had I made a resolution like "I'm gonna be a happier person in 2004" I'd already be breaking it. Yup, Flossing and Surviving til 2005. I think I can manage those!

Another day...
Another Dollar! Blah, I work to fast. I have finished most of what I thought would take me all week. Good thing I have found a few more projects. I wonder how much stuff I'm gonna get done now that I'm working full time for the next 2.5 weeks, and then 25 hrs a week after that?!?

On another note, I learned that I am indeed registered to take classes the way I need to. Now I think I should go about figuring out how to drop my minor, since I'm not actually getting one anymore. I'm not sure if you have to tell them you are not doing something. :P After all, I don't want it to affect my diploma! So, off I go to the email page to find out who to email and tell them I am no longer seeking a Minor in Spanish Studies. Would be fun if I had time. Hm, I COULD register for 15 credits of upper division spanish for next semester...--yeah right!

Lists and more Lists

Today has been a day of lists. I have made one for work...which i keep adding too, I made one for home, which I have crossed some things off on. I made one for internet stuff too, here it is:

1. Update blogs
a. Back-date entries for Whimsical Doodles for vacation
b. Find out about Meandering Evengale (Katie I left you a note on the posts screen that isn't published)
2. Brainstorm new website
3. Application to grad school online

I wonder why I have #3 last? Probably cause I need to procrastinate on something over break. Anyway, I will be updating this page later today with all my adventures from finals and going home for the holidays. I just thought I would put something here for people to read in the interim.

Go Packers!

Happy New Years and Merry Christmas to the Packers, who received a unexpected gift from the Arizona Cardinals. Yes, the Cardinals beat the Vikings in the last play of the last seconds of their game to make the Packers the North Division Champs. The packers take on Seatle, and old coach Mike Holmgren, on Sunday at 1. Too bad Mr. Holmgren's team has an terrible habit of 1. not being able to beat the Packers, and 2. Not being able to win on the road. Games at Lambeau, anyone want to predict the outcome?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

And that's all I'm doing. It's brown here in Green Bay. And warm! Who would have though light weight jackets and sweaters would be all that is needed on Christmas Day in town. It was a good Christmas all the same though, I now have cruise control on the Super Saturn, and I own the Lord of the Rings, Two Towers Extended DVD. My brother rocks! HE gets to go skiing in Aspen, CO for a week for school. I am jealous, but I really wanted cruise on my car, and besides...It's only a sixteen hour drive to the hills out there for me :P

I also got some perfume (Pink from V.S.), flannel sheets for my bed, and a thermos with nice Stainless Steel Mugs. Yes. It was a good christmas. I got to see my family for a week, and saw my extended family a few times. I almost got to relax.

I did miss having a lot of my friends in town like past years, but Erin is in town, Lance is coming, and Joe is in town...so I'm not completely lonely. I just realized that I don't get to spend New Years with Katie as has become tradition. :(

So, I'm going to go dream of more snow, and maybe getting a long night's sleep!

Home for the Holidays

I went home Friday for the holidays, and I'm home for a week. A good man has left this world, and I went to his funeral. Sometimes I wonder why good men (people) leave us so early, while repeat sex offenders or drunk drivers get to live on. There is something definately wrong with the balance of the world.

And a drumroll please!

I saw Return of the King last night. I am not saying a word until most people have seen it. Other than, I liked it, I enjoyed it, I'll go again. That doesn't give anything away, since you all knew I liked the first two, and the books, so it was almost a given that I would like the last movie.

I am done with my finals! GO ME. And now, for a nap!

YAY for tomorrow

Happy night before the opening of Return of the King! Some people get to see it tonight, but I don't. I'm not the lucky one. I have to see it on regular opening night tomorrow. I'm really excited to see it, but at the same time...it's the last one. I don't get to look forward to the next one, because there isn't a next one. Still, I love the books, and I'm sure the last installment will be great. Now, if they only create a "what the charecters did after" movie like I drempt about the other night. (I got to be an elf, and was dating Legolas...of course)

Tonight was the first of my last three finals. I studied for it, and it went well. I have yet to study for my test tomorrow. Oops, I get on that tomorrow morning, and I have to finish studying for my test on Thursday. I might actually do that tonight, and study for tomorrow's on tomorrow. If that makes any sense at all. Oh, so exciting! To be done with school for the semester. 1 down, 2 to go, and a nice study break in the middle of them!

Study Day?

Last free day before three solid days of finals. I have my easiest first, then a harder math based one--only hard because the teacher doesn't know what HE wants on the final half the time..., then my annoying Polisci final on Thursday. One each day--nice they don't bunch it up TOO much. Polisci's grade counts the most, becuase it is my only four credit class, but I have enough other "good" classes to make up for a lousy grade in there, if I don't do so well. I think I'll be fine though...after all, I have about a B going into the final. I should get a B on the final, so I shouldn't drop all that much. I am not sure about the rest of my grades. 6 classes, and I'm anticipating not dropping my GPA below 3.0, and a good thing too. I need a 3.0 to get into grad school.

The GPA is finished, the GPA should come out where it needs to be. Now all I have to do is get the bloody application done for Grad School, hand out my recomendation forms to people, update my resume, ... Sheesh. I also have to figure out if I need to apply to the school of continuing ed to take classes next semester. It never ends...

Another Long Day

...Over at last. Well, ok, so it's only 7 and a friday night, but if I'm not in bed by 9, some miracle must be keeping me awake. I had the Environmental Engineering Final today, the Soils Paper to turn in and poster presentation, and the GRE. ECK!

I think I did fine on all thing. The nice thing about the modern day GRE--it's computer based, so you get the verbal and quantitative scores before you leave. So, I know I did well enough to get into grad school. Instant Gratification.

Oh, so much more to say, but so tired, hard to push the key buttons.

Just one more note before I leave: Peanut butter, marshmello fluff, walnuts and chocolate chips, all melted together on a tortilla--YUM!

Return of the King!!!

It's coming. One week away. Do you have your tickets yet? Do you know when you are going yet? Do you honestly think I would miss opening night of this movie because it's finals week?!? NOT a chance. It would be a very kind and fortuitous day for those in Hell if I wasn't going. After all, I'm sure it snows in hell, the problem is there aren't any ski hills, and the snow isn't packy. So you can't play in it or on it, and that is why it's hellish. Yup, so it would be a KIND day in hell before I would'nt see the movie. Does that make sense? I am not really making much sense lately...I think it has something to do with it being finals extended week.

BUT--I have Lord of the Rings, Return of the King tickets! Rachel and I bought them online tonight for the 7PM show on opening night. It will be busy, it will be exciting, and hopefully there isn't a snow storm (not that I don't love snow, but not when I'm going to an event and all the idiots from rush hour are still out and about).

So here's to my last 4 finals, the GRE, the poster presentation and paper I have...and LORD OF THE RINGS. I think I'm preferencial to the latter!

SNOW!!!!!

Oh, how I love that white powdery substance. It's great as a weapon, and art form, a beverage (though a VERY small one) on the tip of your tongue, and for writing songs about. It's cold bite is warmer than the harsh edge of a winter's night, and affords delight in the form of winter sports. AND, not to mention the wonders of warming your toes in front of the fire, and your insides with a cup of hot cocoa, or a nice coffee drink after playing in the snow. Building a fort and defending from the 8 foot snowman/monster that is approaching--firing my snowballs as rapidly as I can make them. Perhaps making a snow creature instead of a snowman. I know I'm partial to snow-dragons. Or riding down the ski hill as fast as I can on my skies, carving sharpe curves into the nearest black-diamond run I can find...or falling on my face, butt, knees, side, etc as I learn to snowboard--all the while enjoying the pure joy of the challenge, of trying something new, and of just being outside in winter.

So fall on your back, and make a snow angel as you stare up at the slowly dancing flakes and think of me, because I'll be here doing the same thing. If you don't have snow yet (or ever) I am sorry for you, for it is truely a grand experience!

And Katie, I'm saving a giant snowstorm just for us, so we can create said 8 foot snowman/monster, our fort and have our snowball war--complete with coffee drinks at Cafe Expresso afterwards!

OOOH!!! OOOH!!!

In searching for the PotC link below, I learned that Pirates of the Carribean 2 will be coming out in 2005. Let's hope the sequel is as good as the first!!!!

Mr. Will Turner, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Elizabeth Swan will be at it again! Ooh, Happy News!

Temporarily out of order???

I think my phone is strange. I ported (or changed service providers on a cell phone whilst keeping my number) this weekend to a Motorolla phone, and it was fine. I didn't like the phone though, so I went tonight to get a new one. I like this one, a Kyocera 414. It has many toys, but I'll leave those for a different day, though I haven't found the games on it yet... :( It is supposed to have some too. Oh well, I'll go find them. First I must finish my paper. Anyway...what I started saying, right now, if you call my number, it goes to voice mail but doesn't ring. That's cause the port hasn't finished, or something. As the parrot in Pirates of the Carribean would say..."Any port in a storm."

Gone?!? But why is the rum gone!?

I still have rum, but I have no more Inuyasha episodes to watch. Suck! And it leaves you hanging too. I want more! Damn. Now I have to find a place to get the tapes, rent them or something. If they even exist outside of Cartoon Network. In a subtitled or translated version that is. But, all is not lost...

For, though I have lost the Inuyasha, I am now the proud owner of Pirates of the Carribean. Which means I'll be seeing this movie quite often in the next few whiles. :) I do not mind. In fact, as soon as I'm done blogging, I'm off to do the inagural watching. I feel I should have some sort of ceramony, like when a new ship sails, or something. I've brewed some tea. Perhaps I'll find some chocolate and have a little mini-party to my going to Best Buy in my climbing clothes, covered in chalk, and getting weird looks whilst picking my copy out. I couldn't have just ANY copy you see. It had to be MY copy. And it is. So, I'm of to watch my movie, I leave you with the word of the day:

AVAST!

Turkey Day and a bad week

Ok, so I haven't written for a while. Not my fault (ok, it is, but I'm sure I can ameliorate the situation by writing a nice entry here).

To recap: Turkey time was last week, from Wed-SUnday for me. Go home, have time with family and friends, and food. The three F's, not including everyone's favorite four letter word for mishaps. I drove home Wed night, and then drove promptly to my aunt's condo in Door County. Thursday I watched the Packer's lose (man did that make for a grumpy thanksgiving dinner) and then ate food at about 3PM. We talked for abit, and then headed to my cousin Michael's for the other side of the family's dinner. At 6. Luckily I was smart and saved room! So I ate twice in 4 hours and was stuffed by the time I was done. Friday I spent in green bay, and had dinner at my aunt's house that night. There was a 2 foot fire on the salmon, but luckily for us ( I LOVE salmon) it was salvaged and was really yummy. Saturday I went climbing with Erin, Lance, Mo, and Mo's friend at Vertical Stronghold in Appleton. Good times were had by all, and that night I had dinner at my place with our neighbors (who moved, but will always be neighbors) Joe and Alma. They are in their late 70's, early 80's and they played grandparents to my bro and me since we were small. They are sooooo interesting and have great stories to tell. After they left, I brought my neighbor Al a thank you card and gift for helping me to fix my car when I was stranded a month ago. I ended up talking to him and Nancy (his wife) for about 1.5 hours. It was great, they are really interesting too. Sunday I went to church with my parents, and then ate dinner, took pictures of the car (I'll have them up on my website soon..just you wait), and drove back to my other home, here in the Cities.

This week is a kick in the ass for me. I'm reminded why I enjoy thanksgiving, and then regret enjoying it every year. Every year, I bring homework home to do. Every year, I do some, but not ALL of it. Every year, I regret not doing ALL of it. With only 2 weeks and finals after thanksgiving 'break', there isn't much time to finish all the papers, projects, homeworks, and studying needed. So yup, I have two weeks left as an undergrad student...plus finals. Assuming I'll pass all my classes (no worries there), I'll be a college grad before the month is out. Scary huh?!? So yeah....Welcome to the home stretch.

Still sniffley

Yup, I still have a cold, and today I was graced with an allergic reaction to wearing a winter coat (for that is the ONLY thing I did different...). Oh well, at least I can tell I'm getting better. Now, to just get the right amount of sleep tonight and throughout the weekend, and I should be fine for the home stretch of this semester! I can't wait to be "graduated" officially! I'll be re-enrolled within a month, but still. I will be doing something entirely different. And, with the exception on my cousin Mike Jr., I think I'll be the only one of the first cousins to get a Masters. (Maybe one other has one, but I don't know about it)...

My house is cold tonight for some reason, and making funny noises. I'm not quite sure what to think of that. I think perhaps there is a ghost, or something. That would account for both cold and noises. AND the cabinets opening themselves when I tell them to stay closed. Perhaps the ghost likes cookies, I know I do. I'll have to make him some more. I ate all of the pumpkin-oatmeal-raisin-walnut cookies. Perhaps that is why he's mad.

Ok, so I don't know why I'm just babbling on, probably it's the medicine head! I'm off to go stall and do homework, and then try to get to bed before midnight!

I'm dreaming of a white Thanksgiving

With every word I sit and write. Where tree tops, glisten. And children hasten, to make snowmen with delight....

Ok, so I changed it a bit. I know it's not the first "official" snow we've had this yaer, but the last snowstorm didn't last nearly long enough, ro leave nearly enough snow. Thistime the roads turned white and snowy too, unlike last time where the ground was just too warm. We're apparently in for our first 'snow storm' right now though. Up to 12 inches, or so they say. We'll see. It certainly felt like the air was heavy enough to produce that much earlier tonight when I took the trash out. (I didn't want to do it tomorrow, if we did have a foot of snow, I would have gotten covered trying to open the garbage cans)

I bought a bookcase today. My first one ever! "I am still awesome. Seriously." ( --strong bad from the "new hands" email ). I put my bookcase together all by myself, and now all my books have a home. In fact, I got the bigger one, and I still have room!!! I can put MORE books on my bookcase. This nice new bit of furniture in my home makes the floor much cleaner. There is even a floor to vaccuum now! Wow, that means more housework**sigh**. Well, I've had about enough of today-really! I've been up since 8 since I had a fight with my bed, and a strange dream (something tells me one begot the other). I have been working on cleaning, and organizing since then--AND I have the sniffles and a sore through, so bedtime would be a good idea just now. Hopefully I can sleep past 8 tomorrow. I have homework, yes, but not so much that I need 14 hours of a day to do it.

Goodnight everyone, and hopefully you have snow where you are too!

Why always me???
My computer broke at work again today. It just started to randomly restart itself. Of course, when I called the nice Help Desk people, it started behaving. Then the printer broke, so we fixed that. Now I think everything is working the way it is supposed to. (shhh, don't tell it.)

Today I had to put thirty boxes together for the project I'm working on. Corrogated Cardboard ones. Made me think of Katie, and her summer at the box factory. I have sooooo many little paper cuts on the hands and forarms right now from them. I'm sure Katie could sympathize. I'm now waiting for the printer, which has taken an abhorence to printing, to finish the color job I sent to it (in small increments so as to make it THINK it was doing less work.)

Eh, what a day!

Little Ms. Housekeeper

That was me this weekend. Saturday I cleaned the house before going out with my neighbor downstairs. We went to Kierans and the Tims were playing! Yummy food, a Strongbow cider, (I like Blackthorn better than Strongbow, though Strongbow makes for a nice pint) and good music. Today I woke up and decided to play Betty Crocker. I made a pumpkin pie, and pumpkin-oatmeal-walnut-raisin cookies. I couldn't decide what I wanted in them, so they got everything. I forgot the chocolate chips, or they would have been added too. The whole time I was baking, I was listening to my Mannheim Steamroller "Christmas Extraordinaire" CD. I know it's not even December yet, but it wall all grey out and I found myself humming christmas songs anyway, so I ran to my room and threw the CD, very nicely of course, into Katie's CD player that I'm babysitting. I wouldn't want it to feel neglected after all. Then, since I didn't want to start work on my paper yet, I iced them with powdered sugar frosting. I did already finish that paper I was dreading, it is entitled "Property For Sale--On Mars???" It's about overpopulation. Ok, now that I've made you all hungry, I'm off to finish up some other homework.

Not so Super

Two things
1. My parents computer which can't keep up with my typing this blog entry.
2. The Super Saturn.

Yes, that's right, I thought she was fixed, but Sunday she didn't want to start...at all. So now I missed a day of classes trying to sort that out. I changed her battery, the bad one had a corroded-off possitive terminal, it fell right out of the battery. Now she starts like a dream. I'm just hoping that it was only the battery and not the alternator. Time shall tell, good thing I have a cell phone, a blanket in the car, and good auto insurance.

Here's to hoping I make it home safely. I'm gonna leave GB about 1, so I should be back to the cities about 5:30--right during bloody rush hour, oh well. I know the way through town. I'm off to drive in to the great blue (grey) yonder (rainstorm coming, maybe snow...oh, the joys of driving in Fall/Winter in Wisconsin/Minnesota). Good news is the packers play tonight, and I'm sure they will win. GO PACK!

White as snow
Yes indeedy folks! Today marks the first official big snow that I've seen this year. I'm sure that there have been others, just not here, in the MSP area while I've been in town. It was so pretty, and very very wet. I threw a snowball and made a small (about 1 foot high) snowman. I didn't make a snow angel-can't do everything on the first snow, or what will you do the next time. It was nice not having the plows out right away, to see WHITE snow, not brown or black snow (or even yellow snow). I don't know about others, but I happen to like winter, especially the skiing part, and big snowstorms, so I say-bring it on Old Man Winter. I have my "LJ's" and my hat (I need a scarf again). I want a 30 or 40 in storm. That would be great. Ok, so it would suck to drive, or dig out cars, or walk around in, and the logistics of cleaning that much snow up suck too, but I'm not worried about that. I want a 30-40 in snowstorm with packy snow, so I can make a fort, and a snowman and...well you get the idea.

Katie, can't wait to you get back so we can make an even bigger snowman this year!

Super

The super-saturn is once again super. Today, with Lance's help, she got an oil change, more power steering fluid, more coolant/antifreeze, and a new serpantine belt. The serpantine belt was a chore. I found out that my hands fit very well into the engine compartment, so I did most of the putting on of the belt, but it still took two of us, and two belts--the idiot at pepboys gave us the wrong one at first. So, after struggling with that one and cutting my hands up, we went back and got the right one. Amazing how much easier that one was. Once we got the thing around the crank shaft--poof, it was on. Then Lance grilled stakes while I made acorn squash and fried potatoes with mushrooms and onion and pepper, and a bit of my finger (not realy, but it was a near miss). Oh, don't worry it's still all attached. I was cutting the pepper and cut through my thumb to the bone. BUt, it's a thin cut even though deep, and it's my left thumb, so I don't use that one while typing :P Always thinking of my blog, yeah, that's right. So, all is well. I simply put down the knife and calmly asked Lance for a bandaide. He then ran around looking for one while I bled all over since there were no napkins to stop the bleeding with. It worked out though, I didn't season the food with my finger really, it didn't start bleeding til I was well away from the pepper. I really need to have a chit chat with the knives of this world and see just why, exaclty, they have it in for me. Oh well, now I'm off to clean my room.

And I shall call her...

...? I'm not sure. I got a new computer today. Well...scratch that. I got a bunch of new components, added a few of my other ones, and made a new computer for me. Nate helped cause I bought his machine. It's sweet. I now have:
*60 GB hardrive
*1.21 GHz processor
*1 GB ram
sweet sound and video cards etc, etc. I kept my old monitor and speakers andmodems and ethercards and joysticks and ...I'll stop being a geek now. Well, she's fast, she's loaded, she's raring to go and help me play great games...er...and do homework. The only question now is--what shall I name her?

ROCK!!!!!!

Ok, I thought I couldn't be more impressed by Sue Generis or DNA, but I was wrong. I went to Sue Generis's CD release party at the Quest last night. 8 bands, Mainstage: Johnnyrook, down and above, Skywind, with Sue Generis headlining; Ascot room: Sounding Moods (used to be Subnormal), Shadowbox, EXO (from Chicago) and Ginger Jake headlining. Ok, first off, I was sore from dancing at my cousin Leon's wedding this weekend. Side note on that-it was a beautiful ceramony, Leon and Lacy are perfect for eachother, and I had a great time dancing for hours at the reception after. So I am sore from that, and from climbing, and from sitting in a car for 8 hrs, but ready to have a good time. I went with Chris, my concert buddy here, and we watched part of Sounding Moods, then all of Johnnyrook, then all of dna, then part to most of EXO, then part to most of Skywind, then all of Sue generis. Man--I was so impressed by all these bands. I had never heard Johnnyrook. I like their style, but I have to admit, I'm not as huge of a fan as some of the other bands I've heard. I have only heard them once though, and there isn't much in the way of music that I hear just once and like instantly. dna, sue generis, skywind, and B! I did like instantly. The rest of the local music I've heard so far I have had to hear more than once to decide. EXO rocked the house, as usual. I love their sound and it's great they get up here often enough for me to hear them live more than once a year! Sounding Moods--hm, liked them much better as Subnormal. They are WAY too mainstream for me now. Not to say they are bad, they are very talented, and their stuff should get radio time...it just sounds like everything else on the radio. Didn't get to see Ginger Jake of Shadowbox, so can't say anything about them. Skywind had the energy turned up--and I danced out to them. My new fav song of theirs is Kansas. Extremely powerful.

dna--what can I say? The new stuff Rocks! It has more energy, it's faster but cleaner, and deeper--better put together. I love the old stuff too, but I really like the new direction. This show they gave it their all, not that they don't always, but I'm sure the venue and the crowd helped to raise it up a notch and make it the most memorable show that I have seen recently.

Then Sue Generis came out to do their thing. They had an intro song, and a little slide show--very sweet. (I'd use bigger and better adjectives and verbs if only I could spell, but I'm not running this through a spell checker, so I'm stuck with the old verbage for now--even though half the time I spell those 'old tried and true' words wrong anyway) I had heard some of the new stuff, but there was one or two songs I hadn't, and I was again blown away by the energy. There were some sound issues, that they had no fault in, but they played on, and the crowd rocked on, and I almost punched out a fan in front of me for being annoying and attempting to ruin my show experience. But, all was not lost, I squeaked into the broiling fans trying their best to create a mosh pit and found myself in a much more animated section of the crowd, that was much more fun. I could rock out there without fear of getting a cigarrette or an elbow in the eye, getting my ass slapped or receiving a misplaced 'wet willy'. I mean seriously girls--you are at a show, in the frontish rows, to watch a band that is pouring their hearts and souls out in the music in front of you. Could you at least TRY to pay attention!!! Ok, end of rant. She did not ruin my show experience though, cause I made it better, and with music that good, it would take a lot to ruin it.

So, a great show, and a great time, though about the only part of me that doesn't hurt right now is my nose. I went climbing tonight too, so I made sure to catch any muscle that wasn't complaining and give it cause to strike. **A note, I'll link the bands websites later, I'm tired now, and my fingers are also sore!

To the Masses:

Meandering Evengale has been updated per your request. You may check it out at your convenience. I heard this from a little bird, or maybe it was the house elf, or the monster under my bed... Anyway, I know it's been updated, so you may read whenever!

Home..working...bound???

That's where I was all weekend. Doing homework. I seem to have lot of it, but at least I go the stuff for the beginning of the week done. I still have to buy a scale and protractor for my surveying and mapping class, and I still have to memorize the map for Anthro, besides all the other studying in that class I have to do, but it's coming along. Now if only I could get the rest of the stuff I told myself I would get done, done. I STILL have to redo my resume, and I have to email the lady about a Masters, and I need to apply to some jobs.

Right now, I am not really wanting to do any of it. Oh, don't worry it will all get done, but I want to just, I don't know, take a trip, or something. I think I'm getting senioritis. Scratch that, I already have it, badly. I wonder if there is a pill you can take to make it go away, or a magic remedy. I prefer those. Something that doesnt involve me being bored with my classes and not really caring. I'll get the work done, and it will be good work. I'll even enjoy bits of it (like Self Defence) but. I really don't feel like being here right now. I'm sure the feeling will go away. Eh, I think I need to cut myself off of fantasy books and etc. They are bad for my head. Make me want to be out having adventures, taking on the world and saving it, learning new talents. Not stuck here in the city doing same old, same old all the time.

Eh..HEM

No, that is not me trying to get your attention, that is me trying to clear my throat. I have a really annoying cold that WON"T GO AWAY! I got it last week, and then I thought I was over it, and now it's back with a vengence. I coudln't sleep at ALL last night cause I was so chilled, and so stuffed up and so coughing. I bough better medicines for tonight I think. I think I'm in the final stages....but I'd like to kick it out. My cold doesn't pay rent, and it isn't a welcome houseguest.

Rachel had one before me, and she is still in the coughing stages, even though the major part of the cold is gone for her now. I have been drinking lots of juice, and plenty of water, and hot cocoa (hey, it makes ME feel better) and hot cider and hot tea, and taking my vitamins, so now it's just a matter of time. Still, I'd like to know where the battle horn for raising the white blood cells and T-cells is. Nae, any ideas? I think gollum stole it. Or maybe one of the fighting Uruk-hai broke it. Maybe Denethor is staring at it in his White City now, thinking it is the horn of Gondor that his dear Boromir carried, all the while it's just the broken horn of a college student who can't rouse her white blood cells into action. Without my horn, who then will come to my aid?

I went grocerying this evening, and remembered to buy more hot cider and orange juice, but forgot the chicken soup. I will have to nourish myself with something other than the "perscribed medicines for cold". Mayhap some noodles, or...Potato and Ham chowder--even if it doesn't sound like a good soup to Katie. It will have to do. Unless of course there are people in internetland who want to travel to middle earth, steal my horn back, and bring it here--along with chicken soup--to help this heroine get better.

Or maybe...I just need the King. After all, the hand of a healer are the hands of the King, or so Ioreth the healer would tell us. Where is the King of Gondor when you need him?

Ice caves

Had another dream last night--two actually, but the details of the second one are too sparce to write down. I was on a grand adventure (I seem to be doing this a lot lately...maybe I'm being told something) I was climbing down a cliff, and when I got to the bottom, and had walked away from it a ways and looked back up, I noticed that I was really climbing down a giant carving in the cliff (aka my handholds were outlines of things). It was like the Argoneth or a giant carved Tapestry from the middle ages. There were people carrying things and leading animals and a war scene and in the top scene there was the King. I kept walking, next to a river by the cliffs and I looked at another cliff carving, and this was was intricate geometric designs. Someone was at the top, one of my companions, and I wanted to take a picture with them on top to get scale. So I aimed the camera that magically appeared in my hands, and I was about to take the picture when the person jumped. Now, these things are about 1000 feet tall or so, many heights of man, way more than any building, save perhaps the sears tower. But my companion jumped just as I took the picture, and I watched them move out of my shudder range just before I snapped the pic. I was ok with it though, aparently this person can jump that far and not be hurt, I could too, I guess, but I enjoyed climbing. My companion...I don't know if they were male or female, though I suspect male, and all in black, with a trench coat thing happening. Still it was more "vampire movie" than "matrix movie" Then we walked along the river and eventually got into an boat. The boat looked very much like an elven boat from Lorien, but it was made of ice. It sailed itself down this river, whick looked much like the River Anduin from the Fellowship of the ring. At some point we got out of the boat to swim. The water was very clear, and of a blue green color, and very, very cold. Colder than Lake Michigan, yet it was a cleaner-almost sterile cold. Where the lake feels more...Organic. I don't know how to describe that, it's just what came to mind. So we swam, and we were more in an underground now. IT was man made, with tile, but looked like a giant room under a temple or something. At the end was a grand pool, and many steps that led out of the water into this room under the temple or great building of some sort. I got out of the water there, and woke up.

Blustery Day

Today it is very windy. I'm thinking it just started raining too, and it wasn't supposed to, but my window is getting wet and there isn't a sprinkler in the neighborhood that can reach the third story flat we live in. I just about was blown away by the wind as it fought with trees and buildings and I think just blew to show what a mighty wind it was. It's getting colder now, really starting to feel like fall. Today I relearned taht sweaters have holes in them, and sweatshirts don't. Note to self: wear a sweatshirt next time.

Last night I had a really strange dream. Part of it was Mark and another guy getting in the wrestling match, adn then I got involved and my cellphone face cracked. I don't remember why this happened, and only remember being mad i cracked my cellphone. Then later in the dream, I took the Circulator bus (the little busses we have on campus that go around east bank or st paul) to Wales (yes, the country...don't ask how the bus got there, I'm not sure myself). I took it to the bus stop by the train station in Bangor, and I wanted to get to Caenarfon (which is kinda pronounced (can-a-rvOn long O) took a while to get that one right. Anyway, I had to run to this other bus stop, and I wanted the 'H' bus, but it wasn't going that day (it was saturday) so I ran to catch the B bus, which went somewhere else, and I was bemoaning the fact that I couldn't stay at Trodder's , and would have to find somewhere in Bangor. Then I realized that the bus I was on, the "B" (these have nothing really to do with the actual busses in wales, not even the right letters/numbers) was taking me to chicago and to a giant "El/bus combo station" where I had to meet my parents at their hotel after changing to a train, and tell them why I was late, which somehow tied back to the being over at some random wood grained apt. room and watching mark and some other random person wrestle. Like I said...strange.

Today Prime Minister, Tomorrow...

Head of the entire class? Yeah, in my Poli/sci class we did an excercise where we had to run for office and then, since I ran for a legislative type position, and I'm calling our legislative body parliment, cause I can, and I was "speaker of the house" for my "parliment" that makes me Prime Minister! Call it creative license, or maybe political license, heaven knows most political leaders try to bite off more than they are allowed to chew. But I didn't. I was a good prime minister, I kept order, yelled at the interlopers, and got a decent immigration policy passed through in our 20 minute 'legislative session'. It kept most of what I wanted--I mean--what was good for the people, and made all the (5) political parties of Trumania happy...ok, only 4. There was this whole gripe about actually having Trumanian blood. But we couldn't have that. That's...well....yeah.

At one point, I got a bit snippish with the TA. She kept interupting my legislating team to ask if people from the class could immigrate to my--errr--our country. I got the vote to say yes. After all, more citizens means more people trying to find work and out of our recession...well, there is a bit more complexity there, and it also involves Beer--but that is another story. So, I told her to stop interupting...so did some of my other parlimentary members. SHe told us in real life interuptions happen all the time. I told her that In real life we'd table it to the next legislative session.

I decided I make a great world leader, even if I am only head of a fake government in one third of a class. You have to start somewhere, right?

"She's Everything to me, I'll bet she's 23"

That would be a lyric from a little ditty called Candycane by Down and Above. Always was one of my fav dancing-to-and sing-alonging-to songs. Yup, this weekend I turned 23. It's a bit odd, I don't feel older--other than the sense of impending doom that nags whenever I think of that life-after-school thing. I chilled with Katie and Chris and Lance for my b-day. Friday night Katie, Lance and I had chicken and fried potatoes and steamed veggies for dinner before having a few drinks and watching Superman, which Chris joined us for. Then it was a late night to bed. I took a benadryl for my snuffy nose and was promptly groggy and fast asleep at the same time! Saturday was for a bit of shopping and then it was out to eat to Old Chicago and then to watch Count of Monte Christo with Chris and Katie. Then sunday I watched the Packer game --GO PACKERS (yay for beating the Lions) -- and then I want to dinner with Katie and Chris before Katie went home again. All in all a good weekend. I was pleased.

Now, for the pleasure of all who read, here are the lyrics to Candycane

Bare feet in the grass she watches as I pass
I turn around, she looks away
Twinkle in her eye the color of the sky
I want to wrap myself around her
She's everything to me
I'll bet she's 23
I know that she's the one
Can't live without you dream about you all my life
Dancing in the rain and licking a candycane
I just can't walk away
Daisies in her hair, laughs without a care
I think she's beautiful

(you can listen to other dna songs here

I'm a great 'Holder-of-the-Rod'

And I'm great at reading instruments! I had my first Surveying and Mapping lab today, all about leveling. Let me tell you, after 2.5 hours out in the sun, we were pretty good at leveling. First I held the rod. A nice stick that is 7.35 feet tall, but doubles, and walked about campus being cute. Many people stopped to ask the obivous, "are you surveying something". Funny-"no I'm holding this stick becuase I like to know how tall things are....in the middle of a field" Then I got to record things in my new, orange, field notebook. Lastly, I got to play with the instrument, and level it and read the nice rod that one of my lab partners was now holding. We did the same route (well close) three times, each taking a role. We were only off by 3 hundreths of a foot (about 3/8 of an inch)--we're pretty rockin for our first try. I think I'm gonna like that class!

Heat Wave

There are better things to have waves of than heat you know. I like wave pools, and waves of knowledge or creativity. *sigh* School is now in full swing. I have assignments due and tests this week already. I finally broke down and just bought the course packet for one of my classes. It waas 78 dollars so I was going to use reserve and not pay for it, but at the same time, It was more inconvienent to do my homework on the little time I had between classes going to the library,checking it out, and reading it, than it was to pay for the packet and bring it home. I have to type the homework tonight and then hopefully use my roommate's computer to print it since my printer is still broken. Grrr. Anyway, I have lots of homework to do tonight, and none of it that I want to do, well-practicing my punches for self defense is always fun. Good frustration releaser.

I know I havne't posted much lately, and i mean to remedy that--soon, for now though I am going to get back to work.

I don't like homework

But then...does anybody?

School Days, School Days

Today is labor day, which means that tomorrow is the first day of school. I don't even get to ease into it. I have to go to class from 9AM to 9PM. SUCK! I have self defence, politics in the changing world, surveying and mapping, and rise in civilization. There are a few breaks in there, but for the most part, I have to be on campus the whole day. I may try to swing comign home, but I'm not sure about that whole first day and not being late thing. I should be a good girl this semester, no skipping class, and paying attention in class too :) I'll be working Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Hopefully I have time for fun, and now-to bed in preparation for the new semester!

It's a beautiful day!

...Finally! It's been so hot lately, and today it's finally cool. I know it's not that cold, but it actually feels it. It's 64 right now, and I was chilled walking into work. So much nicer feeling than sweating whilst doing nothing. It's supposed to stay cool through the weekend, which is a nice switch from the last few labor day weekends we have had. (it is, of course, because I don't have to do a major move this weekend.)

Labor day-the weekend before school. I think I'll be doing a lot of stuffs. Katie is coming into town tonight, and we get to chill together all weekend. Jenny may join us, I'm not sure. At some point I'm going out somewhere with Mark and Karin --I know, real specific, but nothing is planned as of yet. It's Mark's last weekend in MN before leaving on his road trip, so I have to do the chill and party time with him a bit too. At some point I'm getting to the MN State Fair. The only real thing I have planned is Sunday, at 11:30 is the official checkout at our old apartment. Monday is a day off from work AND school, which I will probably spend sleeping and organizing my house and myself. Tuesday is the first day of classes. I'll write more about THAT later.

I bought a DVD player yesterday, and I like it, but I am having some sound quality issues and I can't decide if it's the DVD I bought or not. I still have Mark's DVD player at my house, so I'm going to try the DVD in his player and see if I can find out if it's the DVD (LotR-Fellowship of the Ring, Extended Edition)or my player or the converter I bought or just some whacked out issue that I can't figure out. I'm an engineer for goodness sakes, I will have to apply the scientific method, coupled with a wine cooler, to figure it out. Speaking of wine coolers--yesterday I went to the store to buy Marguarita ones and I ended up with some Melon shit. I don't know how that happened, but I'm hoping these are ok. I just wasn't paying attention I guess.

Last weekend

Last weekend was great. I did the hairs cut thing, and the Dr. thing, and then it was on to a weekend full or horses and water and fun. Friday night we rode for a few hours and then we (Shona and I) went to the pool because she teaches scuba and she had a class that night. I just snorkeled around for a few hours and had great good fun. Saturday I woke up-more sore from the swimming for 2 hrs than the riding, and went out to Shona's again to play with horses. First we washed and clipped all three. Molly and Angel were pretty good (It was Angel's first bath, and she took it well) but Slammer...he hates getting the inside hairs of his ears clipped. He was being a twit-butt, and then at one point he reared up and came down on my foot. Didn't do any real damage, just a nice pretty bruise. He didn't get a treat--that's for sure. After they were dry, we took Molly and Slammer for a ride, but they both were hyper/misbehaving. It was cause they were tied all day and had so much excess energy..and for Molly's part (I was on her) she is afraid of cows and corn, and was using that as an excuse. We had some schooling to do when we got back. No treat for her either. Sunday I got my oil changed and my tires rotated and went to the farmer's market witih my parents--I have a really fun assortment of veggies in my fridge, I have to process them or I'm going to have lots of rotten ones soon. Then after a dinner or steak and salmon (I know, my parents spoil me when I go home--food wise anyway!) It was off to go see the horses again, on my way back to the Cities. We rode Slam and Molly again--but not on the road, since that long of a ride would have put me back in the cities too late. Molly had lots of energy, but so did I so we cantered and cantered, and loped and loped, and at one point gallopped. Getting her to walk after you let her go--takes a bit of skill, luck, and a whole lot of persuasion. But, I did and we went and played in the pond with them for a while before heading back and then me heading back home. Sunday night I went to Karin's for some Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How I DO love that movie!

Back to the Present

So, here I am, taking a quick break at work to write this--since I haven't blogged at home, or very much lately. I promise I will right more soon...I'll have so much to say whilst procrastinating from homework and whatnot. Now though I had better get back to my spreadsheet and editing my work website. (It's internal or I'd link it). Have a good Labor Day weekend everyone!

even MORE weekend fun!

My weekend will begin thursday after work, when I drive to GB. I have to remember to get my oils changed, and I need a new serpentine belt. I will have to have people look at that tonight at climbing. I'm getting my hairs cut friday morning, and then I have to go to the Dr.-the real reason for the visit, and then I'm free for the weekend. my parents are goign to marquette to take my little brother to school. I will be horseback riding all weekend long! Exciting, and making me sore. I'm not sure how many hours of each and whatnot-but it will work out. I will be getting to see Katie and Joe and others who might be in town. That's all for now, I'll write more laters

Weekend Fun!

I'm not going to be getting any sleep this weekend! I was out last night, got home and into bed by 2:30, then tonight I'm going camping in the Dells, and then tomorrow I'm in Milwaukee for a wedding, and then either there or back at the dells for the night, and then Sunday I have to move things. Sheesh- I hope I get a nap at some point!

The cable modem guy is coming later today. I hope that he can get it working this time! Then I'll be able to blog and update my webpage and all that from home. Until then, no weekend access...but I don't have time to go online this weekend anyway.

I sometimes wonder why I've picked up so many "extreme" sports lately. Ones that are prone to providing bruises! Rollerblading, Climbing...and now waterskiing. I have a beautiful bruise on my upper thighs where the little handle bar thing whacked me as I fell-but I did manage to stand up this time (for a grand total for about 6 seconds). It's already turning pretty colors, I can't wait to see it in a few days (another thing to explain while wearing shorts...)

I'm off soon here to go enjoy my weekend, have a good one!

On rabbit holes

Ever fell down one? I feel like I have this summer...but taht is a different story. There are bunnies that live outside my apartment, and while they don't make holes where I can fall into them (Maybe I haven't fallen down one, in which case I would like to try, thank you very much!) but they do hop everywhere. They like to hop out infront of my car and then they taunt me by hopping down the middle of our alley in front of me, just fast enough to escape my idling forward car. They are cute buggers, I just wish they would learn the benifits of looking both ways before crossing some pavement.

Speaking of alternate realities, I played Knights of the Old Republic this weekend. I didn't get very far, but it is a great game! I wonder if they have it for PC?, Speaking of PC. Mine tried to die/blowup/become unuseful this week. I fixed it, but I thinking I may get a few new parts for it. We'll see. specially if there is a KOTOR for PC. I'd need a few better things to make it go :D

Jenni was over for friday night and saturday, that's when the game was played. We also went climbing on saturday--her first time in a while, and she had fun. I'm glad! I am going tonight, as usual, and maybe rollerblading as well. I need to get goign on long distances if I'm going to blade a marathon in a month.

American Wedding???

Odd that this particular movie is coming out the weekend I go shopping for the first bridesmaid dress I will ever have:) I am standing up in my Friends' (Jenni and Chad) wedding. The color is Indigo-sweet color-and that is all we know now...until tomorrow when we will go down to David's Bridal to see what we can see. Katie and Jenny are goign to be in town all weekend. It will be a blast. I have seen the previews for said movie above. I know nothing as crazy and silly and comedic will happen at Jenni's wedding...well, maybe, but hardly as out-of-scale as I'm sure will happen in that wedding. We (the bridesmaids) will try to keep everyone in line (just call the three older of us Jenni's Angesl, and Natasha is our sidekick?!?--or perhaps our Bosley) It will be a weekend full of great times :)

I hate Mosquitos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all

sittin on the floor

Why? Because, 1. I have no chair or desk, and 2. my computer is on the floor, and 3. I can't levitate...yet. So I'm a sittin here, bloggin, and thinkin about how lazy I am. Lazy cause I didn't bring some boxes here to get my stuff and bring it to the other place. Oh well. I did climb today, till I pulled something in my hand and made it burn, and then stopped. I'll try more later. Right now, I'm gonna go back to my other place, and go to bed early. Doesn't that sound like fun?!?

Look, I get to die by being drained of blood. :P I forgot to put my name in first time, but I died from a fall from a great height. My real name isn't so much fun. I die from a simple blood clot. :P

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Sleeping Time

I moved ALL weekend!!! My (old) apartment still looks like a bomb was dropped, or a toddler was allowed to run pell-mell through the place, but a significant amount of the moving was done. Rachel and my bedroom at the old place is empty, except for the trash on the floor. The bathroom has not much of our stuff left, and I'm blogging this sitting cross-legged in the office as my desk moved to the other apartment already. I didn't move my computer though, because I don't have internet over there. We moved some of the kitchen stuff and some of the food, but forgot a few essencial things. We made pasta salad-our first real meal at the new place...but didn't have a strainer for the noodles, so had to get creative. We put carrots and cucumber in it, but didn't have a peeler, so had to use the paring knife. Again-creativity. In all, I moved my new double bed and dresser into the place, all my clothes, most of my computer/office stuff except the actual computer, a couch, a futon, and helped move Rachel's stuff into the new place. I moved a bed, a table, a bike, and a lamp and a TV into the truck to go home. I then had to start the unpacking and putting away, as well as the reorganization...cause things just never want to stay where you put them to start with. My body is sore and I'm looking forward to sleeping in my new bed for the first time.

The rest of the weekend was fun to though! Saturday after moving, my parents, Rachel and her mom, and I all went to Kieran's for dinner, then walked through Ribfest, and then went to the Target Fireworks. Target handed out these little "3-D" style glasses, cept they weren't for makin things 3-D. When you put them on and looked at the lights, the light got a halo of a target. Still they were fun and did make the fireworks different. They were great and laster for a long time. Today was mostly just moving. I wanted to go see Seabiscuit today...but that didn't work out. Oh well, some other time.

This coming weekend, Jenny, Katie, Natasha and I will go with Jenni to look for bride's maids dresses. It will be fun to all be in town together. This coming week between-not sure what I'm doing. I do know it will be fun going between the two apartments picking up stuff, leaving the stuff that others need for a while, forgetting stuff and buying stuff we need. And I need to find out where we bring our trash...

Internet use will therefore be sporatic for a bit. I'll have internet all day at work, and will check it at least once a night, but I don't know if I'll be on as much as I have been. BUt never fear, cause I will soon have internet at my new place, and I can put my computer back on a desk and go to town!

Boxing Time

No, I don't mean putting on gloves and one of those nice little helmet things, wearing shiney shorts and punching at someone--though there are people out there who I would love to punch right now...I mean boxing for moving. Yes, my dears, it's that time again. I have a new place, about a mile from my old place, that is really cute. Third floor though, which presents some problems when moving. Older house, so nice little stairways-narrow, dark, and tight turns, and steep, but I'll perservere. Yesterday I moved to shelving things, my sweaters, my winter clothes, and two boxes that were in the front closet being stored. Along with some of my books and my bathroom stuff. Tonight I plan on moving more of my clothes, my shoes, and some of my desk stuff, along with the dishes from the kitchen that we don't need, and maybe an end table or two. If I don't get it moved tonight, it will be at least ready to move tomorrow. I'm not a huge fan of moving out of a place, but moving into the new place and organizing it for the first time and deciding where to put everything and what new stuff I need is always fun.

Tomorrow my parents are coming with my new double bed and a dresser (new to me, but actually gifted me by my aunt). I'll move what I didn't move today over there tomorrow, and then we'll go out to dinner and to the fireworks. Tonight I'm either going to Ribfest, or I'm going to a movie, or I'm staying in. I should go out though...have fun with my friends-those that actually call me and want to do things with me anyway. We'll see what happens. It will be a busy day tomorrow, and sunday is shaping up to be busy as well. I may go to a movie then-I want to see Seabiscuit-and I have Archery.

Should be a weekend full of fun, and maybe (depending on things) I'll get to do some of that other boxing as well...

I've added a poetry page to my website. It has some of the stuff I've written over the last year or two. I have a lot more that isn't done, some of it has been posted on this blog...some is stuff that til now, I have kept hidden. Some of the postings are in that "almost done" stage. I plan to move my guestbook over to the website mainpage and update the picture pages more very soon.

Even More Weekend Fun

This weekend was fun! I went to Door County for my Aunt and Uncle's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party. Thursday night I was in Green Bay though, and I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean again with Katie. Avast! She be a good movie. Friday I slept in and then went to Door County with my Dad and we went out to fish with my Uncle Bob, Aunt Peggy, Aunt Ann, Aunt Joanie, and Aunt Eunie. I had the cajon salmon and it was Delish! Then we went back to Aunt Joanie's place . Dad and I went and walked the property, and after I palyed Spinner (kinda like dominos) and Rummikub (rummy on little tiles) for a few hours with the Aunts. Saturday I was up at 6, but stayed in bed til 7:30. Then I was up, and eating breakfast, and going to the Carlsville Parade (this, by the way, is funny cause Carlsville is a blink-and-you-miss-it town. The parade was about 8 vehicles long, but it was still fun, and they all threw candy at us) It was Carlsville days, and after the Parade, my cousin Paul, his fiance Tricia(Yes, I will soon have a cousin with my name and the correct spelling), his mom Deb, and his sister Tiff with her husband Greg all went to the winery to do the free wine tasting, and then to the little booth shops set up. After shopping it was back to Aunt Joans to shower and change for the party and then the party. (don't you just love the play-by-play?!)

When the party began to wind down I left to go back to GB with my Bro. I called a Shona and we went riding. I rode Molly, her oldest. She rode Slammer, her middle horse. They are both Saddlebreds. They both like to go. I can ride either, but I prefer Molly at this point, cause my seat isn't as good as it could be, and Slammer requires constant attention and a good seat and patience and...well--he's a handful. I was bucked off him a year and a half ago cause a car pulling a sailboat decided it would be fun to honk at us. It was a good ride though, 2 or more hours of trails and the road. Moslty trotting and a bit of Cantering with walking at the beginning and end. Angel, her third horse, is still really green. I'll have to try her sometime when I've had a bit more riding than once or twice a year (which will be soon, since I refuse to be going half a year to a year between rides anymore!!!). She's a Saddlebred-Morgan. All three are beautiful animals. I had a great time. I can't wait to go back.--probably about a month from now.

Saturday night I went out to the bars on Washington with Katie, and we played darts. Then we were bored with the bar scene. We didn't have the patience for it that night....We saw someone hit someone elses car and played the nice people by writing down the license plate number of the hitter and giving it to the hittee. Then we went back to Katies and watches some Inuyasha(and I'm sure I'm spelling that one wrong...but it's a pretty cool anime that is sometimes on Cartoon Network).

Sunday I woke up early, visited with my friend Joe and showed him the trip pics, and then took a nap before heading back to the cities. All in all it was a nice and relaxing weekend...though I am a bit sore from riding today. My poor lower regions... :P

Weekend Fun

Ok, so I realize its Wednesday, and halfway to the NEXT weekend, and I haven't written about last weekend yet. Therefore, i'm going to recap last weekend, and talk about what I'm doing next weekend, right in the middle of both, so it's fair to each...Or something!

Last weekend-motto: ARRG!

Friday night I saw Pirates of the Caribbean with Jenni. We had great fun, I laughed a bunch, and Johnny Depp, who I don't like in a lot of movies, did a GREAT job with that role. I recommend that movie to everyone and their parrots. Then Saturday I didn't have anything to do in the daytime, so I just bummed, and then Chris and I decided to do something semi crazy and drive to EC to a show. Why not, I ask! It's less than an hour and a half drive when you have magical license plates (aka WI plates) and can go over the speed limit fairly safely, and good bands were playing. It was Sue Generis, followed by dna, followed by Skywind. show was awesome, as usual, and I got home and into bed by 4AM hehe, late night! Sunday I just chilled at the apt. again cause I thought I had plans but they fell through.

This coming weekend I'm heading home to GB. It's my aunt and uncle's 50th wedding aniversary and all my aunts, uncles, cousins etc will be there. Familial obligaions--will be fun! Haven't seen many of them in a while, and only had a bit of time to chat with everyone at my bro's grad party a month or so ago. I am going to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with Katie--and I'd like to get in some horseback riding if I can manage it. And of course, there is the obligitory going out on Washington to the bars with the girls (and Joe if he comes).

So that's it. I'm gonna go now and climb in a few hours.

Then there were Pics

Quick post to tell everyone that there are pics on my webpage!!! Exciting, no? NOt many yet, and not set up the way I want them, but it is a start. Enjoy!

Boom! Batta-Boom!!

This weekend rocked! Katie was here all weekend, and we chilled. It was good to see her again, I had missed the Katie lately. Thursday night we went out to Ground Zero with Karin and danced the night away. Friday we went to the fireworks. Other than having to use our spanish skills to tell the Mexican Gentlemand that we didn't want "hispanic boyfriend" it was all cool. He was ok for a while, it was fun practicing spanish, but then he wouldn't go away! Finally he did though. Then it was all good. The fireworks at the Taste of Minnesota were great fun, 'specially when the helicoptor didn't get out of the way in time and had to high-tail it out of the fireworks or he'd have gotten his little tail propellor scorched. Saturday we went swimming at the pool by my house, not to expensive to get in AND they have a diving board. KT and I showed off our diving and cannon-balling skills and attempted to soak the lifeguards along with the 10-30 yr old guys there (one older guy, who impressed all the kids by being able to make a VERY BIG splash). After that it was a dinner of pizza and then out to kierans with Jenny A. and Jenni. Sunday I went to shoot archery with some friends and then to Charlie's Angels 2. The movie was good. Not so much plot, but action, and I wasn't in the mood to think anyway.

Time for a poemish thing

I wrote this at work, hence it's incompleteness. But the words were there and in my head, with a nice little tune and even a really sweet guitar riff (if only I could PLAY the guitar) So I sat there at my desk and with the tune and beat in my head, started writing. It's not edited, and doesn't make much sense outloud yet...but it's coming:

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Bring me back to myself
I've turned into someone else-
Who is that person I see, in my mirror
Staring at me, I woke up and guess who I found
The person I lost when you came around

Fight Back! Run away..Come back here-now- I've
got something to say to you :
All these words I've kept inside-
All these emotions and thoughts I've tried to hide-
All this pain, I'll no longer abide
All the silent tears I've cried.

I've come back to myself now,
No longer a prisoner
In a world my own fear created
Free to fly, to soar the skies and bring
back some peace to my mind...


**like I said, it's not done, I got interupted. I'll have it up when I've finished it in the poetry section I'm going to add to my webpage very soon (hopefully by monday). I had another Idea for a poem/song today, but it slipped away, and I'll have to see if it ever comes back.

The Order of the Update

By order of the Katie, Twin to myself, I must update this page. Not that I mind said order, and have issued similar orders to her in the past.

1. An update on the state of my bruised person: I am doing better, my skin may actually look again like it once looked. I hope I don't scar :P But I think I will be ok. My jaw is just about functional again, though I can't eat carrots yet, and My chin doesn't look quite like I was in a bar fight anymore.

2. An update on books: I have nothing to read!!!! (sound the alarms, make the crisis known unto all the land. I have run out of books. I must trek soon to the place of book-borrowing, known also as the Library, and borrow a book. Perhaps another by Terry Prachett, or something by Robert Jordan. I have been meaning to read the Left Behind series as well)

3. An update on the summer: Climbing is fun, though I wish I could get outside more often. Rollerblading is still fun, though I don't intend to fall again. I WANT to go swimming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. An update on the weather: The weather here has been fishy, full of rain and floods, and hench the fish. There have been bad storms this week, but I love the chance to play in the rain, so all was not lost. Still, it is hard to rollerblade in the rain, or climb outside in the rain, and so we need a FEW dry days here sometime...

5. An update on time: It goes slowly when at work, quickly when having fun, and not at all when you are waiting for something (like water to boil for example). It also seems to dissapear in rather alarming quantities--how the bloody hell is it almost JULY!?!?!

The updating has been completed. Katie, your twin is awaiting further orders. (or, awaiting plans for further mischief...you decide) :P

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It came out on saturday. I was laid up with injuries. I read fast. I have finished it today. Took less than 24 hours of total time and about 10 hrs of reading time. I won't way a damn thing about the book, you couldn't threaten it out of me. Or use the threat of pain either. I already have that. It's long, about 900 pages. It's fast read, and my advise is read it when you have a bunch of periods where you won't be interupted, you won't want to put it down. Enjoy :P I certainly did...and I know how it ends.. **insert sticking out of tongue and raspberry noises here**

New "Note to Self"...learn to fall

So it seams that Fridays are injury days now. Two weeks in a row, I believe that makes it tradition. Thist time it was a rollerblading accident. I did a good job on myself too. I made it all great and fine 3.75 laps around the lake, and then BOOM. I fell down. I'm not sure how, but I did. It was a very good fall, I impress a bunch of people and lots of people asked "are you alright", to which I promptly replied "yes" even though I wasn't quite sure. I have scraped up most of my left leg and hip, my left sholder, my chin and my left side of face. I also sprained my jaw (although how I did that I'm not sure. I think it had something to do with slamming my chin into the pavement). Before you ask, no I wasn't wearing pads, and had I been, it might have been a different story. I would have fallen in a different fashion. But, the old addage of fall lightly and roll took over, and I didn't break anything, so it must have worked. I have gotten to deal with Urgent Care and such this weekend, they told me that my jaw was not fractured, like the Ask-A-Nurse thought. They bandaged me up, and I went home and sat for the last two days, reading, and being bored. Today I decided to take the bandages off. OUCH! THe bandages liked my leg so much they tried to take up residence on the wounds there. I had a time convincing them to leave, let me tell you! About an hour and many curses later, I had all the "bandage squatters" off my leg and decided to not let any more take up residence. It's caused for an interesting day of dodge any and all things solid with my left side, but it's worked.

I wanted to go climbing and rollerblading tomorrow, I'll see what, if any, I can do. I still have half a floating holiday to use, though if I continue to injure myself on time off, I am going to seriously consider not taking holiday. (yeah right). Oh well, here's to a diet of iced cream, popsicles, and pudding :P

Note to self...Learn to Stop

So, I am bruised and cut. I had a head on collision this weekend, with a go-cart. The two guys in front of me were goofing around. They spun out but I didn't see it cause I was trying not to spin out with Chris hitting my left side. I look up and there they are. BAM!!! I hit them at full speed, biting my tongue, thrown into my harness and gashing my knee. It's all bruised (you can't see the bruise so well, it's deep) and cut. Luckily I heal fast. That was friday night. Saturday I hobbled around at my brother's graduation. only about 60 or 70 people were there, but that is still a lot of people. I learned how to make kegs of Red bull Vodka (hehe) from my cousin Moose, as well as how to start bonfires with a tennisball on an arrow...that didn't work so well, funny story, have me tell you sometime. I hope to be there for attempt number 2...maybe I'll even live through it. Sunday I did Father's Day stuff, and then I tried out my rollerblades. Learning to stop=good idea. I just about was killed on Allouez Avenue after attempting to brake the way I would on my old blades. It didn't work so well. I got beeped at, but my theory was, I was already going fast in one direction. It was better to keep going taht way than to try to turn and fall down in the middle of the street. I'll try not to kill myself, I promise.

I'm going to the lake tonight to practice going and stopping some more. It's really hot though, so we'll see how fast I go. My knee will factor into that a bit. It's so hard to be inside when it's so nice out. I cna't wait. 25 min and I'm free! Then it will be go away to the climbing gym time. YAY!!!!

Here's to hoping I don't die sometime tonight:P

It's the Weekend!!!

Well...almost. The office error didn't turn out to be too much extra work, though I did make that spreadsheet for nothing, since we're using the other one now :P It's still vaguely annoying that I did the extra work though.

My brother's graduation party is this weekend, so I'm heading home to Green Bay. I'll be helping my mom put together a party for 120 or so people. FUN ::sigh:: I don't know who will all be home to chill with when I get there, we'll see.

I get my new rollerblades tonight! Excited I really am. I think I'm going to try them out when I get home. They are friggin sweet. Rollerblade brand Aero9 women's with Abet 7 bearings (aka fast) and a sweet tightening system. And only a bit expensive...score :P

So, until later, have a good weekend.

Office Errors

Don't you hate it when you work really hard on something and it doesn't matter, cause it gets screwed up and you are now going to end up having to redue the work, or do at least as much work to fix it?!?

I do...now to find out how much work I'm going to have to do to fix another person' mistake...even thought it was an honest one. Jeez..**insert sarcasm** I didn't see this coming :S

Back to Work

I had a great time on my vacation, I will write more detail about that at some other time, I plan on getting the pictures developed soon, and then putting them online on my other webpage. I haven't done much work with that yet, but I will soon. I am still in decompress mode from the trip, so I tend to rush out towards physical activity (ie climbing and rollerblading) but not so much towards organizing things in the apartment or working on the computer. We were in London for a few days, and saw most of the sites there (the really big touristy ones anyway) and then headed to Wales to Caernarfon (pronounced ca-nav-orn) and I still may be spelling it wrong, silly me. I'll look it up when I am home. We went castle looking there (best castle I've seen so far) and then climbed a mountain. Then we headed to Scotland, where we were only in Edinburgh. It was a nice bit of a place though, cause Arthur's Seat is just outside of town, providing some great hiking. We saw Edinburgh castle, and went on a walking tour, and did some shopping htere. Then it was back to London (via Leeds and the Armory there) for a night, and what a night. Note to people--stay NOT at the Leinster Gardens Hostel...they make you buy toilet paper, the bathrooms are crummy, and the rooms are well...interesting. We jetted to Ireland for a week, spending time in Dublin and Killarny (county Kerry) doing some hiking in the state park in Killarny and visiting Ross Castle. In dublin we visited Dublin Castle, and the Book of Kells, and did shopping. Then it was back to London for a night, and then after walking in Hyde Park for a few hours while waiting to leave for the plane, it was back to Minneapolis. A busy time, but well worth the trip.

This summer now I have work, 40 hrs a week, sheesh, I'm 3 hours into the first day and I'm bored and hoping for 4PM with every fiber of my being. It's mostly cause the people who give me more than one thing to do are gone. That means I get to work on the project I left unfinished all day, I may even get it done, or mostly done today, if I keep working at an industrious pace. I will try.

I also have to look for a place to live for Sept. It doesn't have to be very close to campus, but it can't be too awefully far away either. There are some options in St. Louis Park, but that is far away and traffic is yuck. I'm thinking still Minneapolis/St. Paul area for me. I'll still be living with Rachel, and there will be just the two of us this year. We will each have our own rooms for the first time since we have lived together, it will be weird. I sense many a sleepover in the same room :P

There is a possible climbing trip in July. I want to go, but have no tent, no sleeping bag, no air thing to sleep on, and most imporantly, no money to buy them. So If I can't go there, I may have to see if I can convince certain people (or person) to go somewhere else for a few days. Who knows. I hope to go to CO though, cause I want to see my little cousin Griffin.

So that is the update on me. Stay tuned, I hope to get more motivated to work on this blog and my webpage and everything. I hope to blog more often as well, if things stay interesting in my life that is.

Hello, Mr. Anderson

Matrix Reloaded Rocks. I saw it last night at 10PM when it was released. I will give no review, and no details, cause people will kick my butt if I try, and this is one you have to see. Maybe you've read things...maybe not. It's action packed, and long, and doesn't really have much downtime...(time where you have to look at your watch to gage how long you've been there). I suggest staying through the credits. I will not say why. I have 5 Papers and 1 final left. Go me.

It's Almost Over!!!

Well, It's tuesday of the last week of class,and I've managed to not go insane. Crazy...yes. Am I stressed to the max?...yes. But I am not going insane. This is a good thing. I have exaclty two weeks til I board a plane and head to the UK for two weeks. I am really excited! We still don't know what we are doing when, or even have places to stay booked, but that is besides the point. We can do that next week.

I have a million and 10 things left to do and I'm freaking out about it. Today, I took off work early to come to school to do a presentation with some people, well-put it together in power point, and I find out they have already done most of it. I'm not complaining that they took the initiative to do it, but they could have told me, so I didn't get here so early. Now I have no homework here to work on and it's driving me batty. Oh well.. I had more to say when I started writing this, but I don't know where the thoughts went. I'll figure that out later.

I give Road Constuction the BIRD!
From Katie's Blog: "As brought on by recent events and a discussion with a close friend, I have come to the realization that I give the middle finger quite often. Now, I know most people will admit to flipping the occasional bird here and there, but there comes a point when it becomes more than just a symbolic representation of the phrase "Fuck you!"--when it becomes...an addiction. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am addicted to flicking off. "

I think I may have gained just a bit of this addiction here or there from my dear twin. Or maybe it came from my wonderful cousins, who were always flipping me the bird, in as many "creative" ways as they could think of. I would like to formally pass on that tradition towards WI and MN's longest season, and biggest annoyance...Road Construction. Yes, here in WI and MN we have 4 seasons, Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and ROAD CONSTRUCTION! Yes, I realize it is a necessary annoyance, and gives many people jobs, and it is a very respectable job, but you have to understand, it's not kosher at 11PM when you don't expect it.

Yes, I have just gotten done watching one of those jump out and try to scare you with the spooky music and the flashing scenes and the chick with big boobs that likes to scream at annoying pitches horror movies, so I figured I had had my share of badly timed surprises. Then...I could almost feel the spooky music starting, and a few raindrops hit my windshield, and there it was...the big, bright, flashing sign that said..."94 East ramp closed, find alternate route" . What the F^$&? Find a who? I don't know my way about that area, where am I to go? So, I keep driving and I see a second sign..."94 East ramp, Closed 11PM to 5AM"...with some dates I couldn't make out. The music is getting louder, and I have to look behind myself now (and I'm a smart horror movie heroine, I looked in front, behind, on both sides, above and below me, and then I didn't run upstairs or downstairs or into the area where we all know the monster is). Still, nothing to worry about, I'm brave and I am smart, I'll find a way. Third sign (what is it about threes????) 94 east ramp closed, find alternate route. Still the bastards are not suggesting an alternate route. Where is the Minnesota Nice I've heard so much about???!??!?! So, I am starting to get a bit heart thumpy when, there, just on the side of the road, this smart heroine sees what appears to be her salvation. "94 East Ramp, follow Dunwoody exit"

Ok, I can do that. I take the exit, and end up on Hennepin, I know the name of the street, I'm ok. I drive for a while, and I end up downtown (not a fun palce to be when a concert it letting out I can tell you!) and I see another sign, 94 East ---> that way, so I turn. Now I'm on 6th street and going throught the tall buildings, and going and going and going. Why? I think. Why didn't I stick with the origional plan. Now I'm going to get my throat bitten off like those stupid heroine chicks. Still, I had followed an instinct, so I stayed on, in the middle lane, with two escape routes. Down I drove, past the buildings, and past the metrodome. Now, where the hell...Ok, I see two options, turn left, hit Washington, go that way, I can do that, or go straight...I go straight (again the instinct). There are no signs, but all of a sudden I'm on an "on" ramp. Where am I goign? Apparently to 94E! YAY! Then the idiot-single-person-in-his-car-while-in-the-carpool-lane to try to pass me tryes to cut me off. Hells no. So I speed up, almost get run off the road, get the bird from him (probably) while giving him one, while steering one handed around a turn, 20 miles too fast, but making it just and passing him! HA, take that bastard! (Ok, I don't normally drive like that, but it so happened that I felt the need cause I was mad at MN-DoT Orange signs at the moment.)

So now I'm home, adventure over, and I'd just like to honor all the MN-Dot Orange signs that I will see this coming Road Construction season with my middle finger, waiving proudly as a flag, flying high as any bird!

Quiz time again...only this time I had to find out what magical power I have....


You have the Power of Flight!


What's Your Magic Power?
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Ok, so I went back and changed one answer that I was waffling on and look what happened:

Mean lil fellow, arn't you?


What Monty Python Character are you?
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I certainly like to kill things, maybe I should get that checked out?!?

Haha~ I knew it! Katie had this little image thing on her website, and I figured I would follow her excellent example. Great Idea, Twin...I now too have a picture.


Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who!


What Monty Python Character are you?
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ROCK!

The dna show last night ROCKED! Lance, Katie, Will, Chris, and I got there in time to hear all the bands, but we didn't pay attention to the first three. We played darts, and pool. I kick ass at darts! Katie had an off night, otherwise we trade wins, but last night it was Katie and Lance on a team, Chris and Will on a team, and me. Little 'ole me played alone. I won too. Will doesn't like to lose :P Tough for him though, cause I like to win. Then He and I were on a team with Chris and Katie on the other for pool, and Lance was a floater. Katie and Chris and floater Lance were kicking our asses, and then...poof, katie sunk the 8-ball and so we won. It wasn't a big deal though. Fun times. About the end of the pool game, Karin and Mark got there, and we chatted in the back for a while. When the third band was almost done, we headed up to the front, and secured our places infront of Ian. The band played the best set I've seen in a while!!!! They won the battle of the bands...of course, and we were happy for them.

The other reason for going out was Lance's Power Hour. He turned 21 at midnight last night...technically, so after the band finished at 12...convienent, no?...we got him his little wrist band, and took him to the bar. Katie and I served him his first legal drink...a shot of tequilla. Second he got a Red Bull/Vodka-from Will, and third, he did a shot of Jagermeister...(I have probably spelled that wrong, but I don't need to know how to spell it, just drink it). I didn't partake, cause I was driving. Mark bought the shot, and Will and Lance partook. Will was ok to drive, but I think he was feeling it a little. Lance however, was smashed. He's a very happy, touchy-feely drunk. Not so much different then him not drunk, but more talkative, and with less control. That will come with time though.

I made Lance sleep on my floor because he was NOT ok to drive, and he went to work and was fine today. I went to work, and then went and bought hiking boots for my trips this summer. Have to break them in first. Now I'm doing laundry and tomorrow I'm going climbing outside at Taylor's Falls.

DNA show this thursday! Band order, uncertain, people going with me, uncertain, fun to be had---so certain. It is Battle of the Bands; I have never heard of the other bands that Down and Above is playing with, but it will be a good time I'm sure. I hope they play at least one of their new songs, but we'll see. They may keep it to older stuff, to appease the crowd. Lance's 21st b-day is Friday, so thursday nighta t midngiht he is officially 21. I told him I'd take him to this show to celebrate (it's 18+ so he can get in before midnight). I think Mark and Karin may join us, and if Will decides to not be a poop, he may too...though he thinks not. His loss, he'd get to see me jammin out and meet some really cool people. His excuse is he has to work, but so do the rest of us :P I'm going, cuase I missed their last show here, and that makes me sad. I don't have night class this thursday---ROCK! I hate that class. So glad it's goign to be done soon.

On another note, I changed the classes I'm registered for now. I think I'll still get all my requirements done, and now I have a two classes I had wanted to take...even though one is a night class. The first, Rise of Civilization...should be fun, but it's a nightclass, so I hope the lecturer is good. The other I added...SELF DEFENSE. I get to learn how to kick some major ass. And a good thing too, cause I'm tired of getting my bum kicked when I wrestle with friends. I know a few things already, but by next december, I'll be all good to go. ANd it's good to know how to defend yourself. Ooh, I'm hungry now, I'll write more about next year and this summer later!

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A single tear runs down my cheek
Through liquid crystal, a stolen peak
Into my heart, and thoughts I hide
My darkest secrets kept inside.

In soft-lit darkness and shadow grow
All the fear I'm afraid to show.
And in this blanket of deepest night,
My heart does battle with that fright.

In the deafening silence of this place
Uncertainty and emotion now give chase.
Murkey thoughts race through my mind
An end to this war I hope to find.
~~~~~~~~~~~Tricia, 01/18/03

Super-calla-fraga-listic-expi-alli-docious

I felt like Mary Poppins this morning trying to go to work. I walked, in the rain and wind, and the umbrella wanted to fly. We didn't quite make liftoff, but came close several times, and I think I managed to get just as much rain on me as was trapped by the umbrella. Then I had the joy of being at work all wet and clammy and chilled. I love rain, and like to play in it all the time, but not when I have to sit in wet clothes in a cold room in the basement of a campus building doing homework and thinking about still being in my nice bed (be it small, it's still nice). The rain this morning was the nasty wet and cold kind...(ok, yes I realize rain is ALWAYS wet, but that is not the point ). Last night it was the somewhat chilly, but occumpanied by thunder and lightning and wind and fun to play in kind.

I didn't get much done last night, with the storm, and taking a nap, and then being on the phone all night (yay for good conversations and procrastination). I did clean up the apartment and get our recycling out though, which are major accomplishments.

Tonight is more climbing, and more fun, and then homework and picking an outfit for tomorrow night when I go out. I have the bottom half figured out, I just need to find a shirt. Ok, back to more random staring at the computer screen and waiting for the weather to be nice again. At least when it's miserable out I don't feel like skipping class so much....

Wonderful Sunny Day!!!

To which I have declared a holiday. Not going to class, this girl is goign to go outside and play in the sun. I can't stay inside with such wonderful weather outside. I fully intend to take a nap on a blanket in my swimsuit and tan after I get off work in an hour. Yes, I'm at work and blogging, but that is cause I work where I can do homework or blog when I'm not helping people. I should be doing homework, but I'm still burned out from the FE. Besides, I can do that tonight when the sun is NOT out.

I'm going to go climbing later, and then shopping with Karin to find clothes to wear out clubbing. I need knee high black boots. I love the new skirt I have....

I have a CD player in my car now. That is really really nice! I like it lots. It's the override an FM station kind, but it works for my purposes, and I don't mind haveing the wires about. I got the new Evanescense CD. I liked the music too much not too. I really enjoy their sound. Check it out at their webpage.

I think I'm going to go try to do something homeworky for the next hour or so...maybe...til later!

Yay for being Naughty!!!

And before you go and accuse me of oversharing, let me tell you why. It is 6:25 on a Thursday. I am blogging, and eating chips. I am trying to be creative, but there is a really annoying car horn happening outside that is inhibiting it. The main reason for naughtiness is that I'm supposed to be in class right now. I sat through a field trip for almost 10 hrs though, so I desrve a bit of off time before I go to class. I have to print off my homework, and then I'll head up there about break time. That way, I figure I don't disrupt the class. Good reasoning right?!? Here I thought I had all these ideas to blog about right now, but the horn made them go away. On a nice note though, it's beautiful outside, and I will only have to be in class for an hour. I'm done with my homework for the week, mostly, so I can go home, do laundry, and take a nap if I want, or just go to bed...whichever I prefer. Mark wanted me to go out tonight, but I don't know if I'll be up for that, I'll give him a call later on and see what I'm in the mood for. I may just eat iced cream at home, watch a movie, and chill...or-go for a run, I haven't done that in a while either. I need to get in shape. The climbing has been helping, but my belly is still really flabby, and will look terrible in a swimsuit. I have to do some running and some sit-ups. I need to go clothes shopping too, I need outfits, and I need hiking boots for my UK trip. I am so excited about that, still have to plan it though. I suppose I shouldn't skip too much more of class, and my stream of conciousness blogging here should really end. I am in a wierd mood right now, I want to climb a tree, find a nice soft branch, and fall asleep. There are other places I would like to be too, but that is for another blog...