the newest addition to the family

passing the time

Thank god I got a real job and moved and am no longer a channel-challenged nursing student. We, overnight, increased our channels by 2600%. No lie (Hannah even just confirmed that with her calculator). Anyway, I haven't been home much except to sleep in the past few weeks with vacationing and working and all, but last night I couldn't sleep and found myself curled up on my new couch thinking I'd find some chick flick or something to take my mind off my crappy week and what did I end up stuck on?

Jackass.

I will admit that I remember when MTV just played videos (I actually saw the very first video ever, "Video Killed the Radio Star," when MTV premiered). And everyone is bitching (including Justin Timberlake who apparently wants to start his own MTV-type ripoff channel so he can just play videos) about MTV not playing videos anymore and only having series and specials and stuff. But come on...I'd pick Jackass any day over watching Gwen Stefani or J Lo or Shakira dance on a pole or grind on a guy and sing a song I've heard on the radio 4,000 times at work the night before.

Check it out...I lasted 3 episodes and haven't laughed that hard in weeks. Just don't try it at home.

can this all please just be over already?

It's amazing how you can be cruising along just doing the life thing, hanging with 10 year-olds, spending time with friends, traveling to US cities for exciting adventures, enjoying the simple pleasures of life that we all become accustomed to and then suddenly with no warning or explanation people say or do things and those little things can just knock the wind out of you.

I went home on Sunday to hang out with my family and then spent the evening at a Springsteen concert in Chicago. Afterwards as Meg and I sat outside and chatted into the wee hours of the morning on a beautiful, crisp fall night, I told her that it had been one of the best days I'd had in a long time. I should learn to keep my mouth shut because whenever I say that, the next day turns into shit. Quickly. And without fail.

I can't decide what's worse: hearing that someone said my heart just isn't in something that I've been so completely committed to, or hearing someone tell me their heart isn't into something anymore even though my heart completely is. Both of those things happened to me this week.

Makes me not want to invest my time, energy, or heart in much. Thais says that these are all learning experiences and that I will do it all again someday, but I just think I've had enough for awhile. It is incredible how certain people that we connect with can cause such happiness and also such indescribable sadness.














How much I love and miss Lake Michigan: a whole bunch
How many times during my trip home I thought about moving back: countless
How many trips I need to make to Chicago or Milwaukee during the winter to remind me how crazy that would be: 1
Days til I start my new job: 10
Days til Hanukah: 40
Days til my birthday: 47
Days til 2008: 66
How many mortgage payments I've made: 1
How many days til my next big adventure: Meg?

to those of you who don't believe

Apparently the magic 8 ball is right....

My weekly horoscope, which as many of you know I take very seriously, is extremely timely and fitting in my life right now. I deleted the Latin stuff (cuz, well who speaks Latin so who cares?) but this is the gist of it...

...Since your imminent future will require you to be elegant, high-minded, august, and in possession of gravitas -- even if people you deal with aren't any of those things -- I'll provide you with Latin phrases to fit the kinds of situations you may find yourself in.

(1) What is natural cannot be bad.
(2) He who does not advance, goes backwards.
(3) What's food to some is poison to others.
(4) With great pleasure.
(5) I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken.
(6) Show me the money!
(7) How do you get your hair to do that?

One more time, just for kicks...

Me: Am I gonna get this job?
The magic 8 ball: Yes.

the (possible) newest addition to our family (aka ursula's potential lunch)

self-described idiotic quote of the day

"The only way it's gonna be gone is if you move it." ---exhub, as I was bitching to him and Zack about how much I hate moving and how there are so many other things I'd rather be doing today, like eating turkey legs at the balloon fiesta or taking a nap because I have to work tonight.

But when I came home from a 19-hour shift yesterday and saw that he and our neighbor had moved half the huge, heavy furniture without me, I remembered why I married him in the first place...

best news i've heard all week

Sammie is now Sammie, RN!

Congrats!!!!