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our first baby Benjamin James 11 lbs 7 oz Born: 12/15 |
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so that's pretty humorous...i went to go buy wrestling shoes for my class tomorrow...and i couldn't fit into any of the men's shoes...they were too big. so yes, i had to get the "youth" size 6...damn i hate being a child...at least i have shoes...and they weren't that expensive since they were on sale...so now i'm all set to get my ass kicked tomorrow...
| posted at 9:06 PM ~ comments (0) |
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so a couple of people have told me that i need to be more assertive. so i have decided to attempt thai-boxing lessons (muay thai). i took a self-defense seminar there back in december and really liked it...so not only will i get in shape, but i will be reinforcing the techniques i learned at the seminar. that way i will build up confidence and not be so timid. it's supposed to be a difficult class...so hopefully i won't get discouraged since i am in very bad shape right now. we'll see how the first class goes. plus i need something to do during the week...i am getting pretty bored just coming home from work and watching movies...it's not very fun...look out! :)
| posted at 6:49 PM ~ comments (0) |
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being friends with someone i used to have feelings for is the hardest thing i have had to do in a long time. not only do i have to fight off feelings of ridiculous jealousy...but how do you stop caring deeply about someone? it's not as if they hurt me, and now i can turn all those feelings into anger or have those faults make me realize that i am better off without them. all i can see is the wonderful person i fell for, and i am left with my original feelings. i know in time, things will change...but only because we won't have spent any time together...and their memory will fade. and it makes me sad. i guess i should be thankful that they are still a part of my life...even if it's smaller than i want it to be. it's just that much harder when i see them...my feelings haven't changed...but the way they look at me has. and it hurts. it's moments like this that i wish time could just fly by...but it seems to be taking its sweet ass time...c'est la vie...
| posted at 12:13 AM ~ comments (0) |
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whew...last night was a lot of fun...i hung out with my sister, her boyfriend, and stephanie....and was up til 5:30 in the morning just having a good time. sorry for whoever i may have called and left messages with. i was pretty wasted. i'm sure the messages are barely intelligible anyway :) tonight we are supposed to go out to the bar...should be pretty fun...i love not having things to do today or tomorrow...monday is back to work and bleh...but today is saturday!! :)
| posted at 3:23 PM ~ comments (0) |
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whew. this week has been rough. my job is going ok...i am still adjusting to everything...it's a lot different than CRT...but i've been talking more with the guys i work with, and they are pretty friendly...i think it will just take time for me to get used to things.i really miss my old desk at CRT though. I brought my red Swingline stapler to my new desk. shep asked if it was the same one that I won at creed's Office Space party...and it is :) a memento of the old days. *sigh* my cable modem is down until monday...so meanwhile i am using my 56k modem...not too bad...but it ties up the phone line, so i don't know how many updates i will be able to do...stupid at&t...alright, time for me to go make dinner..i'm getting a lot better at it...pretty soon i'll start practicing making it for other people...now that'll be a challenge :)
| posted at 8:52 PM ~ comments (0) |
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second day was alright...my computer at work sucks ass. it took me all day to get it set up...and it keeps locking up left and right...i might have to talk to them about getting a different one...i can't have it doing that in the middle of me working on something...i also feel really young working there. over half of the guys are married with or without kids...and i would say the majority look over 30...which isn't a huge deal...but since they think i am a junior/senior in college which would put me at around 20 (i guess 23 isn't that much older) it makes me as young as i probably look. *sigh* i got stopped twice in the past month to double check my age...the first time i had to be at least 15, and the woman had to double check my age...in case i didn't look 15..and the second one i had to be 14...and they had to stop and ask me how old i was to make sure...good god. i hate looking like a freakin teenager. in a picture with a friend of mine, he commented that it looked like i was there with my dad when it was a picture of he and i...yeah, that made me feel like a champ. i guess i will appreciate it when i'm older...someday i'll grow up...
| posted at 9:43 PM ~ comments (0) |
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well the first day went well... i couldn't do any work because my computer wasn't set up, but i got to meet a lot of people...it is a lot different than crt...but not bad...they have a cafeteria in the building...so that's pretty fun...i got an email from a friend about "what's wrong with this picture"...check this out...it's freakin hilarious!
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off to my first day of work...i'm a little nervous, but i'm only an intern, so they won't be giving me too much responsibility right away. i can't believe i was up at 6:30 this morning...man, this is gonna suck every day...but hey, a job's a job...and the money will be nice :) the rabaut wedding shower was nice...i sat with a bunch of people from ann arbor, and they were cracking me up...the wedding is on june 29th...colleen should be about ready to have her baby here in a little over a month, unless she has it early...man, so much to plan for...thankfully this weekend i don't have much planned...i'll have time to relax after a busy week...temple club, look out!
| posted at 7:32 AM ~ comments (0) |
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temple club was fun, as usual. the stupid girl that worked there the last two weeks wasn't there tonight, so right away i was happy :) the race for the cure was fun...jackie and i managed to beat our time from last year...not by much, but hey, it's a start! next year we'll go for beating it by a lot more, i think...alright, i have to go shopping for some business casual clothes...no more tshirts...except for fridays...:)
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i'm in a better mood today...not like i was in a bad one yesterday...but it's finally cooling off in our apartment after three days of 80 degree weather...man, this summer is going to suck. our air conditioner does squat. looks like i will be investing in some heavy duty fans :) this weekend is the race for the cure, and the rabaut wedding shower...should be a good time...even though i am ridiculously out of shape. i need to go shopping tomorrow for clothes for work on monday...we have to dress business casual, and all i have are t-shirts. ok, i have some dressy clothes...but seriously, like two outfits. doh. i'm broke, and i need new clothes...andrew is supposedly coming to visit this weekend...i might take him to the temple club tomorrow for happy hour...free food, live jazz music, and 1.50 drafts...can't get any better than that... :)
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well the concert was really fun...i like nickelback more than i did before...injected and default played as well...but i didn't like them enough to want to buy a cd...i might have to check out nickelback's "silver side up" cd though...i also decided i needed to go to more concerts...it is so fun to be surrounded by music that you like...with all the lights and energy from everyone around you...*sigh* now i just have to figure out who i want to see in concert...
| posted at 1:23 AM ~ comments (0) |
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woohoo! i get to go to a concert tonight! my sister works parking for events on campus, and the mtv campus invasion is here this week...but she asked her boss, and not only do i just have to go work for two hours and get paid, but i also get to go to the concert for free...and get paid to be at the concert!! danielle rocks :)
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got back home from a lovely vacation :) new job on monday...i'm pretty stoked...i got to meet adam's new girlfriend becky...she was really cool...and i even got to play with his new dog, sony...she is adorable!! the dog, i mean :) i'm pretty happy for him...now if my job pans out, i'll be even happier for me...but this week should be good for relaxing...only a couple more days of freedom!
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yeah...so i got distracted when i originally tried to post this...sorry bout that...but i got the job at jackson national...i will be an intern until the end of august, and they will train me in java and jsp :) so that rocks..i start a week from monday...i get to go to work again!! :) this weekend i will be in minnesota visiting adam, so i won't be posting again until probably monday night or tuesday...then next weekend is the race for the cure...jackie and i might have to walk it this year...we are that out of shape...but oh well...we'll see :) alright, time to go get ready...i get to walk around the new terminal this morning...detroit metro is about ten minutes from my parents house...fun fun...
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it is so freakin beautiful outside...i just want to drive around in my car...but i have nowhere to drive to...so i just threw open all the windows and am watching out them at all the crazy college kids...it smells like grills and summer. mmm....it's times like these that i really miss having a porch/balcony. i could be outside, sittin in a lawn chair, enjoying a tasty beverage. instead, i'm inside, on the couch, watching people play catch. :)
| posted at 6:41 PM ~ comments (0) |
well i just got some sort-of good news...i have an informal meeting tomorrow with someone from jackson national...but it is for an intern position until the end of summer. now, there are two reasons why i am considering it. actually, three. 1) they will give me java experience which will put me in a better position at the end of the intership 2) i can finish school this summer 3) they would probably hire me at the end of the internship, and jackson is a very reputable company, and not one that is going to disappear within the next year or so. but on the other hand, it is an internship, and i will be getting an intern's salary. that's going to make it rough. plus it's not guaranteed that i would get hired after the internship, but a good possibility. i think i may go for it...they told me if it doesn't work out, i can leave whenever i think i need to...so i don't think it could hurt to try...right? the meeting is at 10am tomorrow, so i have til then to really think about it....
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have you ever really tried to see what someone is feeling, by trying to look really deep into someone's eyes? i used to think that i could connect with someone if i stared long enough. i'm surprised my past boyfriends didn't think i was a complete mental case. a lot of times, i would get the "what?" question...and i would feel retarded because i realized that i was probably staring at them for a while...but i don't realize i'm doing it until they ask...a couple of times, i actually had someone stare right back...and it always feels a bit strange when someone looks at you that deeply...but i liked it...yeah...i need to go to bed...it's starting to get too late when i start thinking like this...
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i bought a suit today. it's my first one...i decided i would inevitably need at least one for interviews if i wanted to get a real job...so it's navy...with a blue shirt under it...i had help at the store to pick it out...i think i look retarded since i am so short...it's like i was playing dressup or something...but it works...and made me look like a business woman...that's what i was going for anyway...
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went on my interview today for a part time job working for the virtual university for MSU...i think i was way overqualified...they don't do any work with databases or asp or cold fusion...just html and javascript and php...so it might be a good part time thing for me to do, until i find a real job, or graduate and move to get a real job...at least it will keep me busy :) i also need to apply to a couple of jobs that require me to submit examples of code. i have no idea what to give them, or how complicated to make it. so we'll see...it sounds like a good job though...hopefully i can find something full time soon...
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ok, i think i've figured a little bit more about my dream...i figured out that my dying was probably me stressing about losing my job...and then the questions were me being interviewed at possible new jobs...and me seeing how everyone was doing without me was me visiting with people i used to work with...makes sense, right? damn...why do our dreams have to be so abstract? why couldn't i just dream about my job? weird...
| posted at 6:37 PM ~ comments (0) |
i had the strangest dream last night...but not in a bad way...i dreamt that i died...i don't know how...and then i went through almost like a screening process...i had to answer a lot of questions about my life...and then explain a lot about how i felt about those questions to a woman...i never saw her face...but i remember her voice...i got to see the people that i left behind...i remember my sister was really upset...my parents were really upset...but i got to talk with them and they were telling me how things were since i have been gone...really odd...
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i almost forgot...i promised noelle i would write about her site...so check her out :) woohoo for noelle!
| posted at 1:24 AM ~ comments (0) |
it's a good thing i wasn't on the computer last night...i apparently was being very sassy...so i apologize to anyone that i may have offended...but i had a really good time at laura's party...i got to see friends that i hadn't seen since christmas...and plus the jungle juice was AWESOME :) it was soo good...i didn't wake up til quarter to one today...so now i'm wide awake...maybe i'll work more on my layout...i decided that monday morning i'm going to get back into my workout routine...since i got laid off, i haven't been sticking to it at all...but i'm ready to start back into a routine...something needs to drag my lazy ass out of bed :)
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so obviously i was having a fun time last night... :) tonight should be even better...i heard back from the legislative service bureau...i made it through the first round of applications, so i have to fill out some stuff and mail it back to them...cross your fingers for me... :) i get to go into work again this morning...man, i missed saying that :) it's only for a couple more hours...maybe even a couple more monday...but man, i feel productive again! :)
| posted at 7:41 AM ~ comments (0) |
just got back from the bar with laura and corinne and keith and everyone else i know...it was supa fun :) cause i'm a supa girl :) although, i'll have to admit..i like a boy...but he'll never know...cause i'll never have the guts to tell him...hey ****! i like you! so should i tell him? even though he has stressed that he just wants to be friends..i think i should just stick with being his friend...and suffer through hearing him talk about other girls...doh...maybe when i'm drunk tomorrow i'll leave another singing message on his phone...that'd be funny... :)
| posted at 1:26 AM ~ comments (0) |
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i've got a new layout in the works...i've got the main page finished...plus some side menus...i'm still going with the blue theme...but instead of a black background...it'll be white...so as to brighten things up a bit...i'm excited to start work tomorrow...even if it is only for a couple of hours. hopefully that will lead to more work...keep your fingers crossed!
| posted at 10:06 PM ~ comments (0) |
so this is good news: i get to work tomorrow!! i received a "side job" from a former client...so i get to go to work at 9am tomorrow!! woohoo! it's only for a couple of hours...but any work is good news for me :) tomorrow is also laura's birthday...corinne is coming up to go to the bar...how fun is that? tomorrow is going to rock...then friday is the big party at laura's...jungle juice...mmm...big daddy taxi, here i come :)
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ok, i want your opinions on snoring and fat people. recently, i was told by someone that i snored in my sleep. this was very stressing, since i DO NOT want to be the big fat woman that needs to be rolled over in my sleep to shut me up. jackie said i shouldn't worry about it...maybe i don't snore all the time. so i want to know from you...do you associate snoring with being overweight, like i do? i shouldn't stress about it...but for real...i don't want to snore...
| posted at 11:47 PM ~ comments (0) |
there is a really cool picture of an illuminated tree on this site. wish i could think of something that cool...
| posted at 11:17 PM ~ comments (0) |
since it started to get warm out already...i'm thinking of redoing the site...since i have nothing else to do, might as well keep my skills fresh, right? so we'll see if i can't come up with a spring/summer/warm weather type of layout/design...i'm supposed to be thinking of one for someone else too...that one's got me stumped so far...so maybe by working on mine i can think of one for him...want a layout? email me and we'll see if i can't do something for ya...
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this weekend lifted my spirits quite a bit...on friday, i went out for drinks with the people i used to work with...they made me laugh and helped me think a bit more positively...plus it was just good to see them after two weeks...then later on i went out for matt's 21st birthday...that was really fun...i didn't leave until 3am...and then felt wiped out on saturday...but still managed to go hang out with a friend...we watched jay and silent bob on dvd...it is signed by kevin smith...pretty cool...plus the deleted scenes were pretty funny...then i drove home to my parent's house for easter...i wound up making dinner (under my mom's supervision so as not to create a catastrophe) and it actually turned out good :) ham, cheese and potatoes, and broccoli...nothing too complicated...then i drove laura and myself back home...so nothing too crazy...but an all around decent weekend. this week is laura and vince's 23rd birthday...that should be a good party on friday...hopefully i will find a job this week and have something to celebrate even more...wouldn't that be nice?
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