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Does this make you swoon?





well...... this is funny

if I can tell you the honest truth it is based on my sister's actual diary from when she was eleven, don't tell her, she will kick my ass. but it is so adorable it must be unleashed upon the world!! It has a heavy Brady vibe to it. My old diaries were not that cute or funny.

Yesterday I went to the Lawrence Hall of Science with my sister, brother in law, nieces and nephews. Today I went to a dog show with my mother and her boyfriend. Just noting that because it was kind of like the old days when family would do stuff together on the weekends. I dunno, I am depressed. Whatever. There where Chinese Cresteds at the dog show, clean shaven and silken haired but not as cute as quirky old Marmalade...

Cross your fingers, knock on wood!

Kris has a job interview right this very minute. Please if you are reading this send us some good vibes, would ya? He has been looking for a job for ages!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!

New Years Resolution?

I think I am going back to school! I am scared to death, but nevertheless I am going to do it, I am!!!! I just need major financial aid and then it is bang, zoom, back to school, reading writing arithmetic, up the down staircase to sir with love.

So I guess that my resolution is to stop wasting time working at jobs I hate, and study to get a career that I love. Loads of people do it. It's just that a lot of the time I feel under-confident and tend to take the quick and easy way out (such as taking wretched jobs just to have money to live.) I need to take some risks and be strong and quit whining and shape up.

happy new year! ugh, too much champagne :(

Coupling

This show rules

the old ones with Jeff especially...my latest pop culture obsession.

Today I have decided that instead of moping about, and being whiny and saying “what am I going to do with my life?” I am just going to embrace this last week of 2004 and enjoy and wallow in the fact that there is nothing I have to do. So today I am reading magazines and books and listening to Cat Stevens and Iggy Pop and lounging around Hefner-like in pj’s and a silky robe. I say silky because it feels like silk, but it is not, it is some strange concoction of polyester (how can one material have so many different-textured incarnations?). Which reminds me of a guy I knew who used to always say “nice shirt, is it felt? (feeling the material) well it is now.”
Christmas was strange- involving wine, cheese, egg rolls, taquitos, deep-fried raviolis, cold cuts, champagne, spritz cookies, fudge, brownies, more wine, popcorn, soon to be ex-brother-in-law, soon to be step-father (do I really have to call him my stepdad? I am an adult, couldn’t he just be my mother’s husband? It is altogether too weird to fully comprehend at this point), vomiting in the bushes (thankfully that was not me), bulldogs puppies eating said vomit (I got the unfortunate task of attempting to clean them on the sly so as few people as possible would realize what happened, yeck! Sis, you owe me one, I’d say).Today is the sad anniversary of my father’s death, fourth anniversary, and I am attempting to do him proud by not crying today. So far so good. I am just trying to stay busy doing nutty things that will keep me distracted. I bought some watercolors and a game of Yahtzee.

Holy schnikes, I almost forgot Minka's animated Christmas greeting!