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screenshot of the weatherbug... notice the two red circles... it's negative two degrees right now... and with windchill... it's negative 19!!! sooooo coooooold.....
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and since it's friday... here's a cute pic sent to me by mitch... it's his "new monitor security system" :)
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:)
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it's finally friday... but i have some crap i'd like to get done this weekend... so it will be a busy one. saturday is the work party... the social committee is meeting up before hand to have our own celebration before the event :) then sunday is the super bowl! it's the first year i actually know who is playing before the day of... and wouldn't you know, it's also the first year i have no super bowl party to attend. oh well, guess you can't have it all. my internet is back up (hopefully) today... so thankfully i will have it all weekend to work on books, and to keep my sanity.
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pay day, and the money is spent already. i love bills. car is in the shop.. my part came in yesterday, so by the end of today, it will be running smooth again :) hopefully it is less than i thought it was going to be... but i find that is never true when it comes to car repairs. oh well... it's almost friday :)
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is there a hormone or something you can take to cure pms? i swear to god... i can tell when small little things make me REALLY REALLY upset... for no reason. i know logically that they shouldn't upset me... but i feel the tears coming, or my temper flaring... and i can't control it. I HATE THAT. more than anything. so seriously... is there something that can be done? other than shoot myself...
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well the burning in my car was just some leaves that had gotten trapped... and my car apparently is missing the cabin air filter. worried that someone had serviced it and accidentally forgotten to put it back in, i googled it, and found that ford actually doesn't put one in, unless you special order it on the focus. bastards. so i had them put one in. the bad news is i had them check my tie rod to see if the loose one needed to be replaced yet... and sure enough, that sucker needs to come out. but that part has to be special ordered, so it will be a week or so before i can get that fixed. all in all, it will cost me about 300 dollars... so it's not terrible... but i hate car repairs.
oh, and my cable is out. so i have no internet at home at the moment... and i have to wait to see a show on hbo until it re-airs later this week, instead of watching it tonight. doh. hopefully it will be back on when i get home... or on by tomorrow... but i am not holding my breath.
oh, and my cable is out. so i have no internet at home at the moment... and i have to wait to see a show on hbo until it re-airs later this week, instead of watching it tonight. doh. hopefully it will be back on when i get home... or on by tomorrow... but i am not holding my breath.
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if i won a scratch-off ticket lottery for 20 grand, and the clerk grabbed it from me and told me i only won 100 dollars... i'd have jumped back behind that freakin counter myself... what an asshole:
clerk arrested for larceny
in other news, my car smells like it is on fire when i turn the heater on... so a trip to the mechanic is in order. stupid car. my tooth is fine... jaw is still sore, but i'm fine. oh, and i forgot my purse this morning... it's a monday for sure.
clerk arrested for larceny
in other news, my car smells like it is on fire when i turn the heater on... so a trip to the mechanic is in order. stupid car. my tooth is fine... jaw is still sore, but i'm fine. oh, and i forgot my purse this morning... it's a monday for sure.
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well, i feel almost completely normal today! so that's good... i was sick of watching tv for the last 48 hours... i can actually get stuff done today, and clean up my apartment a bit. i sort of just trashed it within the past two days... especially around the couch where i stayed... oh well. it still hurts to open my mouth really wide... i think it's just stiff from having stayed in the same spot for the past two days. but i'm still taking it easy, and not eating stuff i have to chew a lot. but i'm not in much pain at all!
this week there isn't a whole lot going on... there is our annual winter work party on saturday... we are cosmic bowling and getting catered with a fajita bar... mmm... so that will be fun :) other than that, work work work...
this week there isn't a whole lot going on... there is our annual winter work party on saturday... we are cosmic bowling and getting catered with a fajita bar... mmm... so that will be fun :) other than that, work work work...
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got this article from a friend... for all of my msu friends, do you remember the skinny guy who rode his bike and collected cans around campus? people used to rumor that he was really a professor that was doing a study to find out if you could live off of collecting cans and returning them for money (cans are a good money maker in michigan... we get ten cents per can, so they become a hot commodity for college students.) well, it turns out he was not a professor, but the sad news is that ernie the can man died. the statenews wrote an article about him... it's interesting.
in other news, my tooth really really hurts... but slowly it's getting better. i've still got the ice pack on my jaw to keep the swelling down, but i can't manage to sleep for more than a couple hours at a time. i'm supposed to be able to be back to normal later today... so we'll see how it goes...
in other news, my tooth really really hurts... but slowly it's getting better. i've still got the ice pack on my jaw to keep the swelling down, but i can't manage to sleep for more than a couple hours at a time. i'm supposed to be able to be back to normal later today... so we'll see how it goes...
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i made it through surgery... but i look ridiculous. i just took the prescribed tylenol with codene... so i'm heading off to a nap. hopefully i can sleep through most of the pain. it's not bad, although, half my face is still numb from the novacaine. that, and my jaw is stiff, so i can't chew food. it's fun. really.
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i'm off to get the tooth out today... i hope it's not TOO painful... time to get it over with...
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either my cat is suffering from ocd, or he's really really bored... but lately, every night after i pick up all the cat toys, i come back out to the living room, and find him sitting there, with his mice, all lined up in a row. he's so proud, that i just have to laugh...
he did that without any help from me... i came out, saw him, and had to grab the camera :)
he did that without any help from me... i came out, saw him, and had to grab the camera :)
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so there's good and bad news... i looked up crime stats for the area i am moving to... and the good news is, the crime rate is about the same as the area i am living now, which is pretty low. the bad news is, the neighborhood gets worse as you go west... but gets better as you go east. so as long as i remember not to venture too far west of my house by myself, i think i'm going to be fine :) so that's always good :) the wisdom tooth comes out tomorrow morning... so after 10am, i might just be zonked out for the rest of the day. they are giving me just a local, so that i can drive myself home... but i plan on napping, and trying to pass out... i HATE novacaine... and i'm not looking forward to the damn needles either. ouch!!! can't be worse than the toothache i had though... god, did THAT hurt...
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dreams are odd. but to me, what makes them odd is that i have trouble recalling exactly what happened... but i wake up, and i still feel whatever emotion i was dreaming about, strongly. i have dreams that make me laugh... and i wake up happy... dreams that scare me so much that i wake up in a panic, having shouted and woken myself up... and then there are those dreams that make me sad. i wake up, and it's like something bad happened... and i can't shake it. i can't even remember the whole dream... but i just have this depression hanging around, and i know it had something to do with whatever it was i dreamt. it's odd.
in lighter news, i watched a replay of sex in the city, since i missed it on sunday night cause of the game. i love that show. love that show! sometimes it goes too over the top... but the majority of the time it is perfect. i will be sad when it is over in five weeks...
in lighter news, i watched a replay of sex in the city, since i missed it on sunday night cause of the game. i love that show. love that show! sometimes it goes too over the top... but the majority of the time it is perfect. i will be sad when it is over in five weeks...
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whew... work has been busy. i let myself take a breather last night though, and i watched american idol. :) yes, i am an american idol fan. i've been watching it since the first season... although, last season, i got interrupted with moving out of state. but i watched all of the final weeks. ruben even sang at the panthers game on sunday... it was awesome! anyway, i also caught the new fox series about the gross fiance... as ridiculous as it was, it made me laugh... that poor girl and her family. things are movin along... still got a ways to go, and things to do before then. but march can't get here quick enough!
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sweet game... and the panthers go to the super bowl against the patriots. awwww yeah ;)
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so of course had i waited a day, i would have been able to get some sunny, nice pictures... so i went back out today to get some decent ones, and i also took a few of the houses across the street, so you could see the neighborhood better. it was cold, but it at least looks nice outside: better pics
i'm gonna put up a countdown up... i'm goin nuts with waiting... i can't even move for another six weeks, and i'm already thinking about packing :)
i'm gonna put up a countdown up... i'm goin nuts with waiting... i can't even move for another six weeks, and i'm already thinking about packing :)
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i started to get stir crazy and think of an excuse to leave my apartment... so even though it's raining outside, i decided it would be fun to take pictures of the house i am renting. i don't have a key, so i could only take outside shots... but at least you can see what i'm dealing with:
rental house
forgive the dreary-ness... and the house next to me caught fire a little while ago, so it is boarded up and looks pretty ghetto. but that's only temporary... and i'm going to ask about taking the windmill out of the backyard... i'm not a fan of it... :)
rental house
forgive the dreary-ness... and the house next to me caught fire a little while ago, so it is boarded up and looks pretty ghetto. but that's only temporary... and i'm going to ask about taking the windmill out of the backyard... i'm not a fan of it... :)
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ten months at hk today... getting closer to the year mark. each month i can't believe it's already been that long... time has flown by. and over the next few months, time is really going to fly, with planning a move, doing the move, going to a wedding shower, a bachelorette party, two weddings, going to vegas, getting a dog, having the dog... and this is all before may :) i think april is by far the busiest month... with easter thrown in there for good measure ;) crazy time. but i still have a good couple of weeks before it gets hectic... hell, the puppy isn't even born yet :) but she's due in about 4 weeks... i know, i know... i'm ridiculous. but i found something that makes me happy, so i'm going with it!
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oh god, i am getting so excited. well, after a short drama, i made a deal with the guy i was hoping to rent from, and i will now be renting a house in urbana, starting march 1st! he's even only charging me for the last two weeks of march, since that was when i had said i wanted to move... so i get a full month to move/clean/get settled! once that was all straightened out, i managed to finally hear from the woman that i was hoping to get a lab puppy from... and what do you know, she is expecting a litter, that will be ready to go home either at the end of april, or may! woohoo!! so things are looking good... in about six weeks, i'll be moving out, and getting ready for a puppy! :) i'm so freakin excited... between now and july, i have a bajillion things going on... three (maybe four) weddings, moving, a puppy, a vegas trip, and various trips home. oy! by the time august rolls around, i'm going to be so sick of my car... but at least i'll be happy :)
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well, jackie's back from jamaica, and she's got some news... she's engaged! craig (her fiance in the picture below) is the jamaican bartender we met on spring break... she's been back a couple times since then, and now he will be coming to the u.s. to be with her. congratulations jackie!!
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happy birthday, danielle! today is my sister's birthday... hope ya have a good one! ;)
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"what ever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your choices are half chance. so are everybody else's."
good song. even if it is cheesy... if you know me at all, you know that i love cheesy crap like that. but regardless, i like that quote in that song. especially during a time when so many of my friends and family are going through life changes... i have four weddings alone by the time july rolls around... and i have watched three friends have a baby... while others are still figuring out what the hell to do with their life - myself included. i keep waiting for the time when it will all make sense... when i will finally have this epiphany of a plan... a goal... something. but i don't have one. i'm still struggling to get myself together... i thought by moving away, it might help me get things straightened out... but so far things are still not any clearer. it makes me wonder if things really ever get straightened out... or if the people who seem to have it together, are really just as confused as i am... they just put on a good front.
anyway, it just made me think. tomorrow is the oral surgeon, bright and early at 7:30am. hopefully he has good news, and i can get this tooth out asap. :)
good song. even if it is cheesy... if you know me at all, you know that i love cheesy crap like that. but regardless, i like that quote in that song. especially during a time when so many of my friends and family are going through life changes... i have four weddings alone by the time july rolls around... and i have watched three friends have a baby... while others are still figuring out what the hell to do with their life - myself included. i keep waiting for the time when it will all make sense... when i will finally have this epiphany of a plan... a goal... something. but i don't have one. i'm still struggling to get myself together... i thought by moving away, it might help me get things straightened out... but so far things are still not any clearer. it makes me wonder if things really ever get straightened out... or if the people who seem to have it together, are really just as confused as i am... they just put on a good front.
anyway, it just made me think. tomorrow is the oral surgeon, bright and early at 7:30am. hopefully he has good news, and i can get this tooth out asap. :)
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if anyone ever wondered what the hell the company i work for does, here is an article in our local paper, describing what we sell, and what we do :)
human kinetics
i do work on websites for the american sport education program, and other orgs like that, as well as the internal backend stuff... just an fyi... i actually DO work ;)
human kinetics
i do work on websites for the american sport education program, and other orgs like that, as well as the internal backend stuff... just an fyi... i actually DO work ;)
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for those interested, you can click here to see my exact problem with my wisdom tooth (but if you don't like mouth/teeth pictures, don't look): pericoronitis with the third molar. the xray looks just like the one i had done... but what i didn't realize is that i might go numb in my lip because that tooth is close to a nerve. yikes! i see the oral surgeon on tues, so i won't know til then when i am scheduled to have this sucker taken out. the penicillin is helping a lot to take down the swelling from the infection... two more days...
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well, i did it :) today at my weight watchers meeting, i finally made lifetime. starting at 188 in june of 2002, a year and a half later, i am at 126, four pounds under my goal of 130. still six pounds over my personal goal... but at least i don't have to pay for meetings anymore! :) i'm still gonna go... they help me stay on track, and having someone write down my weight every day helps A LOT for motivation. woohoo... go weight watchers :)
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so after comparing a few houses, i believe i have found one to move into, in east urbana. it's technically a two bedroom house, but one of the 'bedrooms' is in the basement... and it's not really a bedroom as much as it is just a small furnished room. it could be used as a bedroom, but i'll probably leave it empty, and use it for storage, or a workout room or something. the bedroom upstairs is smaller than my room now... which isn't hard, because i am spoiled and have a GIANT bedroom in my apartment. but the living room has nice hardwood floors and is a decent size, the bathroom has an odd paneling job, but is in good condition... and the kitchen is nice, with room for a table if i ever get one. it has a yard, and the owner is fine with me having a dog and two cats... so this might be it. it's just at my price range... but i have to keep in mind that i will now have to either do my own yardwork, or hire someone... and i have to now pay for trash hauling. but, i will probably end up renting it, and i will be moving in mid-march! so i'll have a house, all to myself. in the next few weeks, i'll be signing the lease, and organizing the move. that in itself should be interesting, since i have to get someone to move my furniture for me. i figure if i just hire someone to move my couches and my bed and just the actual furniture, i can move all the other boxes myself, to save on moving costs. i can move whatever i can before the movers get there... and then just have them clear out whatever i couldn't lift. might have to do some spring cleaning before then, to get rid of junk i don't need. i HATE moving stuff i don't even use.
anyway, so i'm excited to have found a place :) hopefully everything works out...
anyway, so i'm excited to have found a place :) hopefully everything works out...
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so that sucks. there really wasn't anything the dentist could do for me, for the pain. i am seeing an oral surgeon on tuesday morning, but til then, it's just swishing with peroxide, and then taking more aleve/advil. i finally took enough for the pain to go away, so today it's just a dull ache, with a few sharp stings now and then. i DID get some penicillin though, so if i can get the infection to go away, the swelling will probably go down, and alleviate some of this. but enough about the teeth.
nothing else exciting is going on... still looking for a house/duplex. i have found a couple potential ones, and i'm looking at another today after work. both neighborhoods are ok, i checked with people at work, so i won't worry about leaving my house after dark. not that it couldn't have happened at the place i'm at now... but for some reason, houses are always scarier to me. maybe it's because i'm really alone... without someone to share a wall with... i don't know. anyway, it will be different, but i'm looking forward to it. :)
nothing else exciting is going on... still looking for a house/duplex. i have found a couple potential ones, and i'm looking at another today after work. both neighborhoods are ok, i checked with people at work, so i won't worry about leaving my house after dark. not that it couldn't have happened at the place i'm at now... but for some reason, houses are always scarier to me. maybe it's because i'm really alone... without someone to share a wall with... i don't know. anyway, it will be different, but i'm looking forward to it. :)
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here i am awake after midnight... and this toothache is OUT OF HAND. it literally hurts so bad it's making my eyes tear. and i'm half dreading the dentist, because i know he has to poke around it, in order to flush it out and help me, but that pain is going to be excruciating. hopefully he can numb it or something... :( I HATE WISDOM TEETH!
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ouch. my tooth hurts. it hurts, and it is making my ear hurt... and giving me a headache. i called to see if i could go in today, but the dentist isn't in until tomorrow. i have taken 2 aleves and 2 ibuprofen... it still hurts. ouch. ouch. ouch.
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we all gathered around at aunt mary and uncle mike's house this year, for a stuve family christmas (my mom's side of the family)... and much to my aunt mary's dismay, here are the photos of the holiday..
stuve family xmas
yeah, it was rough with all the crazy lighting in the house... i really either need photography classes, or a better camera... cause my pictures SUCK. but hey, at least i took some :)
stuve family xmas
yeah, it was rough with all the crazy lighting in the house... i really either need photography classes, or a better camera... cause my pictures SUCK. but hey, at least i took some :)
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i forgot that a friend's wedding is the same day as the performance for my class... so i am withdrawing from it, and taking a couple months off of tap. i will start up again in june, but tonight was my last class til then. it was fun... and i can't wait to start again... even if the friends i made were only 13 ;)
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oh what a mess. i open my car door... and notice there is some dirty slush/snow on my seat... and even though it hadn't snowed yet, i think... hmm.. i probably accidentally got my shoes or something on it... so i brush it off... and then i notice, it's all over the other seat, too. and the dashboard. and my windshield. it's all OVER the place! i start thinking someone opened my car, and threw snow all over it! why would someone do that? did i piss someone off and not know it? hmm.... then i notice i have two cans of pop... and THEN i remember the unopened can of pop i had left in my car... and then realize an entire can of pop had exploded in my car! OOPS. yeah. so now i have a big sticky frozen mess all over the place... which is soon to become a big sticky WET mess, once the temperatures climb back up. so now my only choice is to go back down in the butt-ass cold weather and clean out my car, while the crap is still frozen, and doesn't sink into my carpeted seats and floor mats. oh... what a freakin mess. moral of this story: DON'T LEAVE POP CANS IN YOUR CAR!
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for those of you with kids... what the hell would you do if your kid did this? crazy!
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i love love LOVE sex in the city. tonight was the start of the new and last season... and it was sweet... and it was so perfect that mikhail baryshnikov was back on there. i had recently been getting crap for "googling" people... and she totally did the same thing on tonight's episode... it had me crackin up :) it was good...
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i think the weather people are insane. we got all these predictions for a winter storm, and 3 inches of snow, etc, etc... and all it did was rain today. it's still not even freezing temperatures yet. oh well... i'm not complaining. i just thought it was odd. i took down all the christmas decorations yesterday... my place looks bare again. but now that i'm moving in two months, i'm not tempted to start anything new, until i get settled in the new place. i probably won't sign anything until the beginning of february... but god, it's already the 4th... i feel like it's already flying by. i'll miss this place... but it'll be worth it :)
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i got my hair cut today... and the girl asked me how often i just wear my hair natural... and i said... "mmmm... never." and so she wanted to show me how to do it without having to style it... so yes, the webcam pic is of me, without ANY curling what so ever... au natural. and now everyone can see why i don't ever wear it like that... i look like a freakin cocker spaniel. yuck. and GOOD GOD does my tooth hurt today. i don't know if i can last til thursday. it went from a dull ache to sharp, shooting pains in my jaw. :( OW. OW. OW.
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i'm getting too ahead of myself... but i can't help it. i found a place that is looking promising to move in to... i explained the pet situation... and they are fine with me having two cats and a dog. even when i told them i would be getting a lab. they just aren't for sure that they will have an opening. they have one now, but said that march is a little far off to guarantee that it will still be available... so i'm supposed to call back at the end of the month. but if that pulls through, i'd be moving in about mid-march... and what do you know, a couple of the breeders that i have been looking at will have puppies ready to go home at then end of march! and then, the puppy class begins the first week of april! good god... i have to slow down... but the closer it gets, the more excited i get... but we'll see. if that doesn't work out... or even if i DO move, i might not get a dog right away. we'll see... we'll see... but it's still exciting ;) i might have a puppy by the summer! how fun is THAT? just in time for good weather, and trips to the dog park :)
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stubborn tooth. this morning i woke up with it hurting... so i have an appointment thursday to go get this thing checked out. i was hoping i would just fight off the infection... if i just kept it clean... guess you can't do that. stupid wisdom teeth. at least i found a dentist that actually doesn't suck. my new year's was ok. i slept most of the day away... it was nice. i watched a bunch of movies, and just watched some tv. and now it's back to work...
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happy new year, 2004. it's been a crazy, crazy year... i lose my job (again), i go to jamaica, i find another job, i move out of state, and my grandfather dies. here's hoping 2004 helps my life settle down a bit...
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