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  • The Art of Journaling

    I know I haven’t been updating as regularly lately, and I do regret that. Because other than using this website to stay connected to friends and family, make new friends, hopefully entertain someone who reads it, and have a place to express myself, I also want this website to contain a record of these years of my life. I want to be able to go back later, read it, and remember what was going on in my life at that time. So at least for that reason, I wish I had written more lately even if it’s just to report on what my day was like.

    That is exactly the kind of writing I used to do. I kept a journal for a lot of my life. Not always consistently, but I have a whole box full of them. I thought it would be fun to pull them out and share with you. So today we go back in time to 1990, when I was 8 years old. This is from the first journal that I ever received. I didn’t write in it all that often, but it is still so nostalgic to remember how simple my life was then. I’ll try to type it exactly as I wrote it:

    March 3, 1990
    I was given this book

    March 15, 1990
    My Brother and I PLAYED TOGETHER ALL DAY!

    March 16, 1990
    I went to ADVENT SCHOOL.

    March 24, 1990
    Barry Buged us.
    Barry and I played.

    April 29, 1990
    Today I played Don’t let the Grown-ups see you with my brothers.

    Ah, life as an 8-year-old. I can’t wait till we get to my junior high years. That’s where the real entertainment is!

  • my return to normal life

    So I’ve been out of town the past three weekends, and this past week I was house-sitting for half the week. In the meantime life went on, including work and school, and all of it put together left me quite frazzled. No more, my friends! I am back home and settled. Here are the things that I am most excited about right now, approximately in order:

    1. Being able to spend more time with my wonderful boyfriend.
    2. Getting to see my family and my boyfriend’s family regularly again.
    3. Spending more time with my dog Cleo and taking care of her again.
    4. The full apartment deep clean that my roommate Amanda and I did yesterday.
    5. The $100 worth of groceries (MOST of which are fairly healthy) that I bought today.
    6. Getting back to a normal life schedule.
    7. Being able to return to church next week.
    8. Running again, and our relay team coming together.
    9. The manicure/pedicure I scheduled for tomorrow.
    10. The fact that my checkbook is balanced.
    11. At this point I have school somewhat under control.
    12. Starting to ride the bus again tomorrow (and thus save money on gas, tolls, and parking).

    Sometimes small things make me happy. Right now I’m just glad to be home!

  • DC Day Two

    Click here to check out the rest of my pictures from my trip! (Hint: click on the pictures in the slideshow to see details.)

    My second day included a Capitol tour, visiting the Library of Congress where I got a library card (supposedly for “research purposes only and NOT to be used as souvenirs…I figure I might come back and do research, right?), viewing the Supreme Court building, botanical gardens, a whirlwind tour of the Holocaust Museum, and a final visit to the Washington Monument. I did all that in four hours, and then my feet wanted to kill me.

  • Washington, D.C.

    I’m visiting my good friend Ellen in Washington, D.C. this weekend. I’m a little jet setter lately! I’m ready to be settled in at home again, but it won’t happen next week. But anyway, we’ll get to that at a later date.

    Day one of my visit, Friday, was spent with Ellen at work, and then lounging at her apartment eating cookies, talking, and watching Scrubs.

    Day two involved sleeping in, watching more Scrubs, going to a wedding, and hauling out to Annapolis to see Over the Rhine in concert, which was, by the way, amazing.

    Day three (today) we went to church and then walked the heck out of DC. What we saw: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, National History Treasures, Archives (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights), Washington Monument, Korean War Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Ford’s Theatre, the house where Lincoln died, and went to the top of the Old Post Office to see a view of the city.

    I think we walked about 10 miles, and my foot hurts! Here are the pictures from my trip so far. Tomorrow I’m taking the Capitol tour and visiting the Library of Congress, so more pictures will be added after that.

  • tidbits

    Seriously, everyone should get a dog like Cleo. She usually sleeps on my bed at my feet, which I love. But last night in the middle of the night she came up to my head and worked her way under the covers with me and cuddled right up next to me. It was the sweetest thing in the world, and I only wish I had been more awake to appreciate it.

    In other news, I am trying to figure out how to make extra money. I decided not to get one of the $10,000 loans that I got last year since school ends in May. I think I can make it, but I will be cutting it close. Besides my part-time job, I am pet-sitting and looking for more clinical trials to participate in. My newest endeavor is signing up with an online company that refers me to other companies that pay me to take surveys, do interviews, and focus groups. I’m going to give it a good try and then report back to say whether or not it really works.