Today I have acquired a job and so I will be paid money for the next month to work in a warehouse at my dad's place of employment Asset Marketing! score! money is something I could use lately! It's a bit of a drive and I had to take a drug test but whatever I have a job for the next month before school! yes!
randomness for the day: I was reading the paper today and read that the awesome Minneapolis based rock band the Olympic Hopefuls, have to change their band name because of some copyright law for the word "olympic" how crazy?!!?! so stupid. The band THe Postal Service ran into trouble with the US Postal Service at one time too but they are allowed to keep their name for some reason. So sad though that the Olympic Hopefuls are now just the "Hopefuls". Stupid copyright law and people being silly about the word olympic. Psh... I don't see how anyone should be allowed to own a word! crazy stuff.
so... this just in: my buddy Joe (Schwan as I like to call him) just informed me that he got engaged! shit! not another one! Davina and I were just discussing weddings this evening and decided that we don't need anymore weddings or baby showers to go to! fuck! YAY for them though! wow! just so random and crazy! geez! I think I will put this kind of thing off for quite awhile. (Davina I am NOT getting married anytime soon! I do NOT have a future husband like you do! ;-) By the way D hope the conversation with him went well ;-) )
and now...THIS just in: went to tell Dad about joe's good news and well Dad gave me some bad news:-( Grandpa Wes called and said that him and Grandma Elaine are going to sell the farm! I am seriously bummed out now :-( I LOVE the farm! it is SO good! shit. really. so sad right now. I am NOT happy with this news. What will the 4th be like now??!?!? no more farm!?!?! sad!
I can't decide if I should continue with the post and write more things or just go wallow in my sadness over the farm. Or chat it up about Joe getting engaged. Sigh... decisions decisions!... think I'm out... but if anyone wants to check out a great post about religion do direct your attention to Shannon Schwarz's blog: http://cheesebandits.net/schwarzblog/?p=87
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Happy!
Happy! So happy! It's come to my attention that really it is so much better to think happy thoughts and look for the good in things rather than get pissed off and upset. I don't have much to really be mad or sad about. I've been coming to the realization that you can find good things in heaps of stuff. I find so much joy in the simiple things lately like children's books! How lovely are they?! SO lovely! spending the day looking at books with Justin was so much fun the other day. I am so happy to be able to find the time to appreciate things lately. Really I am so lucky to have all that I do have. I got to go to Australia with my parents unwavering support! Shannon mentioned to me how lucky we are to be a part of a middle class that is well off. Not that Ihave heaps of money in my family but we are always doing fine with money and never have had many if any problems with it. So greatful for this! It's so great to have someone to remind you about these kinds of things in life. It's so true that "Life is Beautiful" (also a great movie). I may be sounding a bit sappy but hey, I'm allowed to be happy. People should try it more often. Of course you can't completely ignore the bad but I choose happiness. I choose not to get sad over not seeing friends.
Other things to be happy about: Have an interview for some summer work tomorrow! YES!
Nat called back tonight and said she'll be in f-town for my birthday! YAY!
Krista will be in town the night of my birthday too! It's been almost 15 months since I've seen her! She might not be able to go out with us that night but so excited that she'll be around for part of the summer before going back to school!
What else?!
how cool is it that Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France again!? it was his 7th time? His story is pretty awesome.
Oh yeah... still stay happy over the fact that I met some of the coolest friends in Australia and that we have done well in keeping in touch since I've left! They're amazing.
This coming weekend--> going down to Decorah to visit with Luther friends! Leah and I will make the trip together and are staying with Rachel and Allison. So many people will be down there I can't wait! The frisbee kids and others from Luther! will be SO wonderful!
Happy! :-)
-em
Other things to be happy about: Have an interview for some summer work tomorrow! YES!
Nat called back tonight and said she'll be in f-town for my birthday! YAY!
Krista will be in town the night of my birthday too! It's been almost 15 months since I've seen her! She might not be able to go out with us that night but so excited that she'll be around for part of the summer before going back to school!
What else?!
how cool is it that Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France again!? it was his 7th time? His story is pretty awesome.
Oh yeah... still stay happy over the fact that I met some of the coolest friends in Australia and that we have done well in keeping in touch since I've left! They're amazing.
This coming weekend--> going down to Decorah to visit with Luther friends! Leah and I will make the trip together and are staying with Rachel and Allison. So many people will be down there I can't wait! The frisbee kids and others from Luther! will be SO wonderful!
Happy! :-)
-em
Monday, July 25, 2005
birthdays, frisbee, and stillwater fun.
Well what can I say? what a great past few days and an awesome awesome weekend! Friday night was Em's birthday and even though I couldn't go out to the bars after and was the only one under 21 i still had fun hanging out with the group of people and going to dinner. The next morning was a wonderful day. Although it stormed later that morning I was still so very excited because after driving over to Lauren's where I met up with not only her but also, Britta, Rachel and Sarah we all headed off to Maple Plain to play frisbee in the Aquatennial Frisbee tournament! We were playing with a bunch of Luther friends! SO good! Guys and gals from the mens and womens teams down at Luther for a co-ed team! It was sooo good to see everyone and to play some fun fun frisbee. We had a first round by and our first game was at 10:30 which is when it started to pour!!! So needless to say our first game was postponed for awhile.
After the first great day of playing frisbee we all went to Old Chicago together to eat. Later I went to Lauren's again and some of us girls watched the fireworks for the Aquatennial. They were soo good and there was sucha good view from Lauren's place! The next day was just as hot again but still heaps of fun! We only played two games but still i had a great time. After some of us went to Taco Bell as we tend to do after tournaments and spent quite some time there just chatting and eating. It was lovely. We then dispersed and most of us went to Lauren's in hopes of going in the hot tub. Sad to say we found the hot tub out of comission. It was actually gone. They are re-doing the apartment building she is living and making them into condos so heaps of things are being fixed or changed. Instead we went in the swimming pool and had a blast. I had quite the headache and stopped after awhile. Too much sun i think for me. After we said our goodbyes and dispersed I came home and crashed. Was soooo tired! Had a good 12 hours of sleep and woke up this morning at 9 feeling well rested but still sore.
I spent today not doing much at first except I did catch up with Blair, Bec and Shannon. Later I went out to Stillwater to spend some time with Justin since he doesn't work during the day. So we spent the afternoon chilling in stillwater and it was great. Got coffee and food, shared drunk stories. Spent time in downtown Stillwater walking around and going into some book stores where I found some great children's books. The second bookstore we went to was great and full of old books that all seemed very interesting! IT started to rain and so we headed to get more coffee, chatted with some of his mates for awhile and then headed back to his place. I left for home right after. it was pouring! But I made it home safe and sound and it actually didn't take too long! Came home to an empty house so I had time to myself. Wrote an email or two and later started to watch Garden State only to learn that my dvd is messed up! :-( so sad! oh well...
Overall...great day! can't complain. Hoping that tomorrow will be good and can find some work with the temp agency in town. Here's hoping!
much love,
em
After the first great day of playing frisbee we all went to Old Chicago together to eat. Later I went to Lauren's again and some of us girls watched the fireworks for the Aquatennial. They were soo good and there was sucha good view from Lauren's place! The next day was just as hot again but still heaps of fun! We only played two games but still i had a great time. After some of us went to Taco Bell as we tend to do after tournaments and spent quite some time there just chatting and eating. It was lovely. We then dispersed and most of us went to Lauren's in hopes of going in the hot tub. Sad to say we found the hot tub out of comission. It was actually gone. They are re-doing the apartment building she is living and making them into condos so heaps of things are being fixed or changed. Instead we went in the swimming pool and had a blast. I had quite the headache and stopped after awhile. Too much sun i think for me. After we said our goodbyes and dispersed I came home and crashed. Was soooo tired! Had a good 12 hours of sleep and woke up this morning at 9 feeling well rested but still sore.
I spent today not doing much at first except I did catch up with Blair, Bec and Shannon. Later I went out to Stillwater to spend some time with Justin since he doesn't work during the day. So we spent the afternoon chilling in stillwater and it was great. Got coffee and food, shared drunk stories. Spent time in downtown Stillwater walking around and going into some book stores where I found some great children's books. The second bookstore we went to was great and full of old books that all seemed very interesting! IT started to rain and so we headed to get more coffee, chatted with some of his mates for awhile and then headed back to his place. I left for home right after. it was pouring! But I made it home safe and sound and it actually didn't take too long! Came home to an empty house so I had time to myself. Wrote an email or two and later started to watch Garden State only to learn that my dvd is messed up! :-( so sad! oh well...
Overall...great day! can't complain. Hoping that tomorrow will be good and can find some work with the temp agency in town. Here's hoping!
much love,
em
Thursday, July 21, 2005
the other side of the world called to say 'hello'!!!
Today had to be one of the most exciting days for me since I've been home. The other side of the world called to say hello!(BIG SMILE :-) ). Yep, i got to talk to Mel, Jess, Bec and Shannon today over the phone which was fabulous! Chatting on the phone is just a bit more personal than emails and im-ing people. I was so excited about them calling that I felt like it was Christmas when I went to bed last night! Mel told me a crazy story that did NOT happen :-), Jess told me about the tim tams she sent to Amber (twice), Bec and I talked mostly about her trip home that would begin in a few hours time, and Shannon and I chatted about music and much more! Overall I really really enjoyed my time on the phone with everyone. I felt like I was back in Adelaide chilling with everyone in Shannon's room again. Oh it was SOOOO good! I really really miss them all so much. Even when we had some random silences on the phone I was content because I knew they were on the other line and it just felt good. Needless to say I was ALL smiles today! :-)
I was actually somewhat productive with my day in that, I washed the dishes, washed my sheets, made my bed, and cleaned up my room a bit. Not bad...:-)
I also made a trip to get coffee with Davina again, and looked at books at the bookstore. Oh i love this. I hit up the art books again tonight and then the children's books. It was great to find the books that I grew up with like Harold and the Purple crayon and also the book Where the Wilde Things are. (sooo good ;-) )Davina was so much fun in the bookstore. She is a great listener and listened to me talk about Australia again, and listened to me read. There were some childrens books that I wanted to find but couldn't remember the authors (Shannon... who are the authors' of the goldfish story and some of your other fave children books?). I read some Shel Silverstein to Davina and I think she rather enjoyed it! :-) He is so good. I love his books. Simple poetry and illustrations but soooo good! I really really wanted to buy some of his books but I kept myself from doing so. I really wanted to buy so many children's books while I was there. But the fact that I have about $200 to my name keeps me from doing so.
other things ...
Yesterday was Amber's birthday and I got to chat with her on the phone too! YAY for phone's!
read in the paper today that Canada legalized gay marriage. I guess it is only civil unions but hey still something to be happy about. knowing tha tthe world is becoming more open minded and giving people the rights they deserve is great! I think it is now Canada, Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium that all allow gay marriage. There are three states in the US too that grant at least civil marriages. YAY!
also some joy was to find some pictures that Darci gave me from frisbee which made me very happy!
This weekend should be pretty good. Tomorrow is Emily B's birthday. I get to hang out with my sister again which is cool! Saturday is the frisbee tournament which means I get to see Luther friends! YAY! Think that's all i've got. --I'm out.
much love,
em
I was actually somewhat productive with my day in that, I washed the dishes, washed my sheets, made my bed, and cleaned up my room a bit. Not bad...:-)
I also made a trip to get coffee with Davina again, and looked at books at the bookstore. Oh i love this. I hit up the art books again tonight and then the children's books. It was great to find the books that I grew up with like Harold and the Purple crayon and also the book Where the Wilde Things are. (sooo good ;-) )Davina was so much fun in the bookstore. She is a great listener and listened to me talk about Australia again, and listened to me read. There were some childrens books that I wanted to find but couldn't remember the authors (Shannon... who are the authors' of the goldfish story and some of your other fave children books?). I read some Shel Silverstein to Davina and I think she rather enjoyed it! :-) He is so good. I love his books. Simple poetry and illustrations but soooo good! I really really wanted to buy some of his books but I kept myself from doing so. I really wanted to buy so many children's books while I was there. But the fact that I have about $200 to my name keeps me from doing so.
other things ...
Yesterday was Amber's birthday and I got to chat with her on the phone too! YAY for phone's!
read in the paper today that Canada legalized gay marriage. I guess it is only civil unions but hey still something to be happy about. knowing tha tthe world is becoming more open minded and giving people the rights they deserve is great! I think it is now Canada, Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium that all allow gay marriage. There are three states in the US too that grant at least civil marriages. YAY!
also some joy was to find some pictures that Darci gave me from frisbee which made me very happy!
This weekend should be pretty good. Tomorrow is Emily B's birthday. I get to hang out with my sister again which is cool! Saturday is the frisbee tournament which means I get to see Luther friends! YAY! Think that's all i've got. --I'm out.
much love,
em
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Charlie... = good movie!
what to say....hmmm
well... monday was good. At least the evening was really good. Playing frisbee and then jogging with Mikhal and Lauren. We then had pizza and beer after that and just chatted for quite awhile and they made fun of me, but I loved it. I got to be my stupid silly self and laughed with them! it was SO good!:-)
What else... so today (Tuesday) I felt productive by writing a letter and writing out two cards to friends! I'm still trying to think of things to send to my mates in Australia. Want to send a big package to a few of them but I can't think of something to send some of them. Hopefully something will come to mind.
Oh! Today I saw the movie 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Was so good! Loved it! I am a big fan of Johnny Depp (not just cuz he's good looking but because he can act) and the story! I was reminded just how fun the story is and now I want to read the book! I don't know if I ever did as a kid so I think I should now. I guess this movie version was much more like the book inclduing the same words to the songs that the oompa loompas sing! The design and sets for the chocolate factory also were really amazing and fun to look at. I got reall excited during previews too for Harry Potter and for Corpse Bride (Another Tim Burton film coming out soon which is more like his Nightmare Before Christmas movie--cartoon-ish). Anyway that was the excitement for my day. I was in a pretty good mood all day which was pleasant! After the movie I made some yummy ham salad, and was astonished and maybe a bit mortified when I realized my dad was using my Cooper's glass to drink his beer at dinner! So not fair! :-) hahah. Davina and I went for some coffee again and I had two Chai's. YUM. But only because I found five dollars in my wallet randomly! YES! That was a great find! Davina and I had a nice chat on the way to get coffee and on the way home about how much we love Minneapolis. Great sky line for one, and there's just always so much to do. I love to look at the posters and flyers in Pandora's to see what concerts are coming or what plays or productions might be going on. Plus the city pages always have heaps of stuff in them too!
That's all I've got for today i guess. Besides the fact that watching Conan tonight with D was also heaps good! He's a funny guy!
later all,
much love,
em
well... monday was good. At least the evening was really good. Playing frisbee and then jogging with Mikhal and Lauren. We then had pizza and beer after that and just chatted for quite awhile and they made fun of me, but I loved it. I got to be my stupid silly self and laughed with them! it was SO good!:-)
What else... so today (Tuesday) I felt productive by writing a letter and writing out two cards to friends! I'm still trying to think of things to send to my mates in Australia. Want to send a big package to a few of them but I can't think of something to send some of them. Hopefully something will come to mind.
Oh! Today I saw the movie 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Was so good! Loved it! I am a big fan of Johnny Depp (not just cuz he's good looking but because he can act) and the story! I was reminded just how fun the story is and now I want to read the book! I don't know if I ever did as a kid so I think I should now. I guess this movie version was much more like the book inclduing the same words to the songs that the oompa loompas sing! The design and sets for the chocolate factory also were really amazing and fun to look at. I got reall excited during previews too for Harry Potter and for Corpse Bride (Another Tim Burton film coming out soon which is more like his Nightmare Before Christmas movie--cartoon-ish). Anyway that was the excitement for my day. I was in a pretty good mood all day which was pleasant! After the movie I made some yummy ham salad, and was astonished and maybe a bit mortified when I realized my dad was using my Cooper's glass to drink his beer at dinner! So not fair! :-) hahah. Davina and I went for some coffee again and I had two Chai's. YUM. But only because I found five dollars in my wallet randomly! YES! That was a great find! Davina and I had a nice chat on the way to get coffee and on the way home about how much we love Minneapolis. Great sky line for one, and there's just always so much to do. I love to look at the posters and flyers in Pandora's to see what concerts are coming or what plays or productions might be going on. Plus the city pages always have heaps of stuff in them too!
That's all I've got for today i guess. Besides the fact that watching Conan tonight with D was also heaps good! He's a funny guy!
later all,
much love,
em
Sunday, July 17, 2005
missing the other side of the world like MAD!
the weekend was great. If you read this you probably already know how great friday was so I don't need to touch on that again.
What else did i do this weekend? Spent saturday sitting at Caribou with D having a chat and also doing some reading in my book 'God's Politics' (so good. some great reading) I went over to Leah's Saturday night and it was wonderful. It was great to feel so loved by Leah and all her questions about Australia which were mainly focused on a certain Australian she wanted to know about ;-) We were girls and watched Love Actually and just hung out. Had some daquiris, ate popcorn and then some ice cream out of the carton! ;-) with hot fudge of course! We ended up watching Chocolat after the ice cream and then fell asleep. Her mom was ever so cute and made up a yummy breakfast this morning! we had bowls of fruit, so yummy and then biscuits and gravy! Mmmmm my favorite! ;-) Ok so I LOVE all breakfast food.
Today I spent at home after getting back from Leah's and we had a bbq! Threw some snags on the barbie and had some mates over for a good time! It was a bit depressing going through Australia pictures over and over again telling people how much fun I had there. It's hard. People are more interested it seems in the places I went, but really the people I met are what mattered more to me. I so badly want to share every story possible i can with people back here about what we did over in Australia. Everyone cracked heaps of jokes at me about drinking today, which though are very funny, i got a little sick of. Sucks to not be legal. less than a month! -- Anyway I think I was most happy that I got to see Ruthie and Nate! Gave Ruthie her wedding gift (Tim Tams!) and also seeing Justin was wonderful. have missed the crazy kid like mad! Once people left I just stayed home and have been watching movies that haven't really kept my attention. Am thinking about going to bed a bit earlier than usual. It would be good for me.
So i miss the other side of the world like MAD and long to hear an Australian voice on the phone! I know it's afternoon over there now and I so badly just want to call Mel or Shannon's room to see if they are there cuz i know they're around for break. sigh... I think sleep wins over my craziness. I long to hear Amber's jersey accent over the phone too! I miss my life from the past five months. Like Amber said... we did not have long enough! we needed more time. I could have definitely used heaps more time! Heaps...for so many things! (BIG SIGH)
i'm out--
em
What else did i do this weekend? Spent saturday sitting at Caribou with D having a chat and also doing some reading in my book 'God's Politics' (so good. some great reading) I went over to Leah's Saturday night and it was wonderful. It was great to feel so loved by Leah and all her questions about Australia which were mainly focused on a certain Australian she wanted to know about ;-) We were girls and watched Love Actually and just hung out. Had some daquiris, ate popcorn and then some ice cream out of the carton! ;-) with hot fudge of course! We ended up watching Chocolat after the ice cream and then fell asleep. Her mom was ever so cute and made up a yummy breakfast this morning! we had bowls of fruit, so yummy and then biscuits and gravy! Mmmmm my favorite! ;-) Ok so I LOVE all breakfast food.
Today I spent at home after getting back from Leah's and we had a bbq! Threw some snags on the barbie and had some mates over for a good time! It was a bit depressing going through Australia pictures over and over again telling people how much fun I had there. It's hard. People are more interested it seems in the places I went, but really the people I met are what mattered more to me. I so badly want to share every story possible i can with people back here about what we did over in Australia. Everyone cracked heaps of jokes at me about drinking today, which though are very funny, i got a little sick of. Sucks to not be legal. less than a month! -- Anyway I think I was most happy that I got to see Ruthie and Nate! Gave Ruthie her wedding gift (Tim Tams!) and also seeing Justin was wonderful. have missed the crazy kid like mad! Once people left I just stayed home and have been watching movies that haven't really kept my attention. Am thinking about going to bed a bit earlier than usual. It would be good for me.
So i miss the other side of the world like MAD and long to hear an Australian voice on the phone! I know it's afternoon over there now and I so badly just want to call Mel or Shannon's room to see if they are there cuz i know they're around for break. sigh... I think sleep wins over my craziness. I long to hear Amber's jersey accent over the phone too! I miss my life from the past five months. Like Amber said... we did not have long enough! we needed more time. I could have definitely used heaps more time! Heaps...for so many things! (BIG SIGH)
i'm out--
em
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Birthdays and concerts!
Hey all! Such an exciting day today.
1) today was AJ, Blair, Nick and Aunt Lori's birthdays!
2) Blair called me and so I got to wish her Happy Birthday! I Miss her and love her!
3) Went to lunch with my sister and her friends Mike and Jen. Yum food was good!
4) AJ let me have a beer at her house! ;-)
5) We were watching tv at my sister's place and I saw FOOTY on tv in America!!! So exciting to me... not so exciting to the others! I really wanted to watch it but yeah. (oh and funniness...we also watched some 90210 on tv and Sesame St...it was good fun)
6) We went to the Aquatennial Block Party in Minneapolis and I saw Missy Higgins (she's aussie) and it made me think of the lovelies that I left back in Adelaide! Especially Sarah. I think the others liked Missy's sound which was cool. It was nice to hear an Aussie accent again! Oh andI bought her cd, got some good pics taken of her and also got her to sign my cd and a flyer! Woo hoo!
7) Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Howie Day were all awesome too! It was fun going to a free concert with four great artists! YAY!
8) got to chat with Jon and Jo this evening and haven't talked to them in awhile! YAY!
Alright.. i Think that covers most of it. So in general it was a spectacular day! w00t! The rest of the weekend is going to be great too! Will relax tomorrow and then going to Leah's and sunday is the bbq! yum! well I better get outta here... love you all.
cheers!
em
1) today was AJ, Blair, Nick and Aunt Lori's birthdays!
2) Blair called me and so I got to wish her Happy Birthday! I Miss her and love her!
3) Went to lunch with my sister and her friends Mike and Jen. Yum food was good!
4) AJ let me have a beer at her house! ;-)
5) We were watching tv at my sister's place and I saw FOOTY on tv in America!!! So exciting to me... not so exciting to the others! I really wanted to watch it but yeah. (oh and funniness...we also watched some 90210 on tv and Sesame St...it was good fun)
6) We went to the Aquatennial Block Party in Minneapolis and I saw Missy Higgins (she's aussie) and it made me think of the lovelies that I left back in Adelaide! Especially Sarah. I think the others liked Missy's sound which was cool. It was nice to hear an Aussie accent again! Oh andI bought her cd, got some good pics taken of her and also got her to sign my cd and a flyer! Woo hoo!
7) Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Howie Day were all awesome too! It was fun going to a free concert with four great artists! YAY!
8) got to chat with Jon and Jo this evening and haven't talked to them in awhile! YAY!
Alright.. i Think that covers most of it. So in general it was a spectacular day! w00t! The rest of the weekend is going to be great too! Will relax tomorrow and then going to Leah's and sunday is the bbq! yum! well I better get outta here... love you all.
cheers!
em
"God must be Australian"
Still no job... but my parents helped me figure out ways to keep busy. Basically by cleaning the house and doing odd jobs around here. They suggested I repaint my room. First I have to finish unpacking and then clean before I do any of that.! Apparently it doesn't bother my parents too much that I don't have a job. I guess we'll get by. I just have to stop spending my money! eek! Went to lunch with Lauren today and then we both ended up buying cds at Best Buy! Shoot!
quick note: I hate not being 21 yet! Some of my closest friends are 21 already and what do they do at night for fun?! go to the pubs, which I can't do! :-P
So tonight I was nice and made dinner for mom and dad. Yumm spaghetti! I broke a glass in the sink though and cut myself on it and cut my thumb. BLEH! It's really not bad at all but dang could that sucker bleed! Other cool thing... my friend Kelly called. I was thinking about her the other day. See what we like to do is go to Barnes and Noble and look at books while we drink our Starbuck's Frappucinos. We also always make a trip to buy planners (diaries as an Aussie would call it) from Barnes and Noble. This was the meaning for the trip. I ended leaving with not only a planner, but also two books: The Bell Jar (because Shannon mentioned it in his last email) and a Spanish Dictionary (because I left the other one in the care of Shannon when I left Australia.) Anyway.. Barnes and Noble is dangerous... I wanted to buy HEAPS of books! I have a list started of books I want to read that I feel i should really shoot for. I don't have a job! i should read more! but I have to finish the book I am currently reading! SO anyway it was a good night hanging with Kelly and telling her about Australia. I love the book store so much! I love to look at all the art books. I really want to take an art class now at school for the heck of it. It'd be good. I should just start drawing again! I do have a sketch book.
Well tomorrow is my sister AJ's birthday, it's Blair's and Nick's Birthdays and it is also myAunt Lori's Birthday! Crazy day for birthdays i guess! Tomorrow is also the Aquatennial Block Party which I'm going to with my sister and her friends to see Howie Day, Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Missy Higgins! SO excited! Should be heaps good!
oh on a random note... the title.. it's a quote from Davina...funny girl. When we were at Caribou Coffee the other day chilling ... she said that God must be Australian when she read the word 'heaps' in the Bible. :-) I asked her though how it was used in the sentence. The Bible was refering to someone 'heaping' something into a mound or a pile. So although it was not used as how Aussies tend to use the term 'heaps' it was still really funny. Love you D! haha.
Anyway i think that's all i have for now. Nothing special just whatever. I'm going to go write in my planner now for fun! I'm a dork!
much love,
em
quick note: I hate not being 21 yet! Some of my closest friends are 21 already and what do they do at night for fun?! go to the pubs, which I can't do! :-P
So tonight I was nice and made dinner for mom and dad. Yumm spaghetti! I broke a glass in the sink though and cut myself on it and cut my thumb. BLEH! It's really not bad at all but dang could that sucker bleed! Other cool thing... my friend Kelly called. I was thinking about her the other day. See what we like to do is go to Barnes and Noble and look at books while we drink our Starbuck's Frappucinos. We also always make a trip to buy planners (diaries as an Aussie would call it) from Barnes and Noble. This was the meaning for the trip. I ended leaving with not only a planner, but also two books: The Bell Jar (because Shannon mentioned it in his last email) and a Spanish Dictionary (because I left the other one in the care of Shannon when I left Australia.) Anyway.. Barnes and Noble is dangerous... I wanted to buy HEAPS of books! I have a list started of books I want to read that I feel i should really shoot for. I don't have a job! i should read more! but I have to finish the book I am currently reading! SO anyway it was a good night hanging with Kelly and telling her about Australia. I love the book store so much! I love to look at all the art books. I really want to take an art class now at school for the heck of it. It'd be good. I should just start drawing again! I do have a sketch book.
Well tomorrow is my sister AJ's birthday, it's Blair's and Nick's Birthdays and it is also myAunt Lori's Birthday! Crazy day for birthdays i guess! Tomorrow is also the Aquatennial Block Party which I'm going to with my sister and her friends to see Howie Day, Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Missy Higgins! SO excited! Should be heaps good!
oh on a random note... the title.. it's a quote from Davina...funny girl. When we were at Caribou Coffee the other day chilling ... she said that God must be Australian when she read the word 'heaps' in the Bible. :-) I asked her though how it was used in the sentence. The Bible was refering to someone 'heaping' something into a mound or a pile. So although it was not used as how Aussies tend to use the term 'heaps' it was still really funny. Love you D! haha.
Anyway i think that's all i have for now. Nothing special just whatever. I'm going to go write in my planner now for fun! I'm a dork!
much love,
em
Monday, July 11, 2005
a day well spent...
Another bum day but I did get some things done! Go me!
The day started with getting up a bit later than I wanted to but not too long after I got a phone call from one of my lovely room mates for next year Maggie! For those that don't know she was my roomie fall semester. She's great! What was exciting was that she said she has her tattooing license! How awesome is that?! she can already pierce people but not tattoos are added to that list of things she can do to people's bodies!
After the lovely phone call instead of working extensively on any job applications, I put off finding a job by cleaning the house! Well I didn't do too much but I did vacuum and sweep a lot of the house. Cleansliness is nice. I at least feel like I accomplished something. After getting the feeling of accomplishing something i sat and watched Oprah. It was actually really interesting. She had the second part of her interview with Brooke Shields and her struggle with Postpartum Depression. It was interesting to hear about what mothers can go through after having a baby. Having visions and thoughts about wanting to hurt or maybe even kill your child, seems "crazy" but it happens and it's real. It was interesting to hear Brooke Shields and other women talk about the problems that they had and just to learn about the depression in general. There were stories that they took from the news about women who had actually either ended their lives or their childrens' or both! There was a blurb about a woman who threw her two children (infants I believe) over a bridge into the river and then she jumped too. Guess where that happened? Here in Minneapolis. I was actually on that bridge later after it happened to watch fireworks at the Taste of Minnesota with some friends! I guess I never knew that postpartum was the reason for that lady doing that! The things I learn! Anyway watching this Oprah episode made me think about Tom Cruise again and his interview and the things he said about this type of depression when talking to Matt Lauer. There was a psychiatrist or psychologist, don't remember which one she was, that was on Oprah and she talked with the ladies about how it is a chemical imbalance, but that environment is a factor too. Back to Tom Cruise, I wish he would have watched this and taken it into account. Maybe he did watch this episode of Oprah and if he did I wish he had listened a little more. Basically I was thinking that the psychiatrist that Oprah had on the show knew a bit more about depression than Tom Cruise did and so it just makes me a bit more angry at what he has said. I just think it's not cool. Seriously, what does he know about having a child? Granted I've never had one but really... As Lauren said to me later "he's probably one of those guys that thinks pms is just an excuse". It was really neat being able to talk to Lauren about this later too because she was also a psych major. But yeah, Postpartum is really interesting to me and I'm thinking that I should do my senior paper on it. I'm just feeling quite passionate about the topic now after hearing both sides. I think I'm probably just more mad at Tom Cruise but I guess I can thank him partly for getting me interested in it!
ok so now that I'm done ranting... Something else that highlighted my day was going to frisbee tonight! Women's pickup was great! Nice ladies to play with and although I will be so sore in the morning and I was dying on the field, it was still heaps good! I haven't played in awhile so I was happy I got out and played for awhile. I'll probably be going to another practice/pickup/league thing on Wednesday and then maybe sunday. Coolest thing was that they invited Lauren and I to play with them in the Aquatennial Ultimate tourney! I'm totally up for that?! Playing with women would ge really great! We'll see what happens. Luther is getting a co-ed team together, so I might do that too. Who knows! It was a great time though!
Alright I think that's all I have for now. Hope this all made some sort of sense, especially that rant! much love all!
cheers!
-em
p.s. Oh it's Fiona's birthday today! YAY! ( i don't think she reads this but...) HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEE! :-)
The day started with getting up a bit later than I wanted to but not too long after I got a phone call from one of my lovely room mates for next year Maggie! For those that don't know she was my roomie fall semester. She's great! What was exciting was that she said she has her tattooing license! How awesome is that?! she can already pierce people but not tattoos are added to that list of things she can do to people's bodies!
After the lovely phone call instead of working extensively on any job applications, I put off finding a job by cleaning the house! Well I didn't do too much but I did vacuum and sweep a lot of the house. Cleansliness is nice. I at least feel like I accomplished something. After getting the feeling of accomplishing something i sat and watched Oprah. It was actually really interesting. She had the second part of her interview with Brooke Shields and her struggle with Postpartum Depression. It was interesting to hear about what mothers can go through after having a baby. Having visions and thoughts about wanting to hurt or maybe even kill your child, seems "crazy" but it happens and it's real. It was interesting to hear Brooke Shields and other women talk about the problems that they had and just to learn about the depression in general. There were stories that they took from the news about women who had actually either ended their lives or their childrens' or both! There was a blurb about a woman who threw her two children (infants I believe) over a bridge into the river and then she jumped too. Guess where that happened? Here in Minneapolis. I was actually on that bridge later after it happened to watch fireworks at the Taste of Minnesota with some friends! I guess I never knew that postpartum was the reason for that lady doing that! The things I learn! Anyway watching this Oprah episode made me think about Tom Cruise again and his interview and the things he said about this type of depression when talking to Matt Lauer. There was a psychiatrist or psychologist, don't remember which one she was, that was on Oprah and she talked with the ladies about how it is a chemical imbalance, but that environment is a factor too. Back to Tom Cruise, I wish he would have watched this and taken it into account. Maybe he did watch this episode of Oprah and if he did I wish he had listened a little more. Basically I was thinking that the psychiatrist that Oprah had on the show knew a bit more about depression than Tom Cruise did and so it just makes me a bit more angry at what he has said. I just think it's not cool. Seriously, what does he know about having a child? Granted I've never had one but really... As Lauren said to me later "he's probably one of those guys that thinks pms is just an excuse". It was really neat being able to talk to Lauren about this later too because she was also a psych major. But yeah, Postpartum is really interesting to me and I'm thinking that I should do my senior paper on it. I'm just feeling quite passionate about the topic now after hearing both sides. I think I'm probably just more mad at Tom Cruise but I guess I can thank him partly for getting me interested in it!
ok so now that I'm done ranting... Something else that highlighted my day was going to frisbee tonight! Women's pickup was great! Nice ladies to play with and although I will be so sore in the morning and I was dying on the field, it was still heaps good! I haven't played in awhile so I was happy I got out and played for awhile. I'll probably be going to another practice/pickup/league thing on Wednesday and then maybe sunday. Coolest thing was that they invited Lauren and I to play with them in the Aquatennial Ultimate tourney! I'm totally up for that?! Playing with women would ge really great! We'll see what happens. Luther is getting a co-ed team together, so I might do that too. Who knows! It was a great time though!
Alright I think that's all I have for now. Hope this all made some sort of sense, especially that rant! much love all!
cheers!
-em
p.s. Oh it's Fiona's birthday today! YAY! ( i don't think she reads this but...) HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEE! :-)
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Basillica Block Party = Awesome!
Last night was the Basillica Block Party here in good old Minneapolis! If you don't know what it is the Block Party is two nights of great music sponsored by the local radio station Cities 97. The block party is held at the Minneapolis Basillica and some of the streets surrounding it. It's so fantastic that the Basillica holds this event! Although you can't get in without some sort of religious affiliated group handing something out or speaking loudly about the scriptures or how you should repent. It's all good though, people just do their thing. I only went to the performances on Saturday night and they were heaps awesome! It was a very hot day and evening but we did not let that get us down. I went with a group of guy friends from high school and had a blast. We first went to watch The Olympic Hopefuls who are from Minneapolis. They are excellent, I am a HUGE fan! They came to Luther first semester this past year and they were so much fun when they were there so I was heaps excited to see them again! During their set I ran into Zoe and got to meet her fiancee! Crazy! She'll be getting married next May! After the Olympic Hopefuls we hung around for Carbon Leaf and they were pretty sweet too. I enjoyed my time listening to their music although some of it got kind of mellow and so I started to get tired! I saw my sister and two of her room mates at the block party too and got a chance to chat with them. They're great!
After the first two acts at one stage the guys and I headed to the Star Tribune stage to watch Better Than Ezra, who was the act that we mainly went to go see. They were awesome! They played a lot from their new album but still played some of their great older songs! It was a fun time and I especially loved when they asked someone to come on stage and play with them...play the cow bell with them that is! Some guy Andrew got up there and he was alright, but he could have been better. The lead singer Kevin kept telling him to be more rocking...and he tried, but he probably could have been even more rockin'! The best was that they were in the middle of a song, I forget which, and once they started the cowbell they started to play "Don't fear the reeper" by Blue Oyster Cult! I looked around for my sister for this one... If you don't already know the hilarious-ness that is this song and the cowbell you must see SNL and the Best of Will Ferrell! You have missed out if you have not seen this! Hilarious skit! Anyway BTE proved to be awesome once again. I am rarely ever disappointed. As we left Nick and Mark decided to take the sign that said "free church tours". Yes, i guess techinically they stole from the church! haha! oops i mean.. that's not funny. (but it is)
Overall it was a great night and good fun had by all. Next weekend... Aquatennial Block Party on my sister's birthday! w00t! Headliner: Howie Day. Accompanied by Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Missy Higgins! So pumped for next weekend!
cheers!
em
After the first two acts at one stage the guys and I headed to the Star Tribune stage to watch Better Than Ezra, who was the act that we mainly went to go see. They were awesome! They played a lot from their new album but still played some of their great older songs! It was a fun time and I especially loved when they asked someone to come on stage and play with them...play the cow bell with them that is! Some guy Andrew got up there and he was alright, but he could have been better. The lead singer Kevin kept telling him to be more rocking...and he tried, but he probably could have been even more rockin'! The best was that they were in the middle of a song, I forget which, and once they started the cowbell they started to play "Don't fear the reeper" by Blue Oyster Cult! I looked around for my sister for this one... If you don't already know the hilarious-ness that is this song and the cowbell you must see SNL and the Best of Will Ferrell! You have missed out if you have not seen this! Hilarious skit! Anyway BTE proved to be awesome once again. I am rarely ever disappointed. As we left Nick and Mark decided to take the sign that said "free church tours". Yes, i guess techinically they stole from the church! haha! oops i mean.. that's not funny. (but it is)
Overall it was a great night and good fun had by all. Next weekend... Aquatennial Block Party on my sister's birthday! w00t! Headliner: Howie Day. Accompanied by Ben Lee, Mike Doughty and Missy Higgins! So pumped for next weekend!
cheers!
em
Friday, July 08, 2005
Amber is Awesome, drunk sinner phone calls, and the lever is back!
Amber is Awesome!: Amber and I talked this evening (now early morning) about how we should go back to Australia sometime together. Both of us have J term and we were thinking if we can get the money together and if I don't have to take a j term class we will try to make it out to Australia to visit friends in Adelaide again and maybe do a bit of traveling again.:-) we are funny girls but it made us feel sooo much better! We even talked about meeting up in Europe or something half way with mates from Australia :-). But if those don't pan out we might just meet up with eachother because we miss eachother just as much! Sigh...it would be so great to be able to do that and make a trip to Australia again! Although i feel like I should travel some where else than Australia because I do want to travel so many places. Other ideas I've had for j term have been taking a trip to Africa with school. How cool would that be?!
Drunken Sinner Phone Calls: :-) This one makes me smile! I love Davina so much, and with all my heart. she is the funniest! Tonight was her sister's bacholerette party. She went out drinking with her sister and her sister's friends. A lot of the time she feels like a sinner, but she really isn't a terrible person. So one night I told her before I went out to the pubs that I was going to go out and be a sinner and be the best sinner that I could be. She quoted me on that tonight on her xanga website and all I could do was smile! the sinner thing is a bit of a joke with us... and when she called tonight a bit drunk it was even more funny. I told her how great she was for putting that up there. She's awesome. You should all get to know her! :-) D you're the best and I hope you had a good night! No worries, if you're going to hell... i'll already be there waiting.
the Lever is BACK!: One thing that I am very happy about for being home is the fact that I can watch Late night with Conan O'Brien!! He is HILARIOUS and just the other night he brought back... yeah you guessed it the Walker Texas Ranger Lever!!!! This is such a funny segment! Davina and I cracked up over the internet about it the other night. If you have not seen the shows with these clips you should! They are so funny and so random! Much love to Conan!
that's all i have.
Basillica Block Party tomorrow! Woot! should be fun!
much love,
smuder
Drunken Sinner Phone Calls: :-) This one makes me smile! I love Davina so much, and with all my heart. she is the funniest! Tonight was her sister's bacholerette party. She went out drinking with her sister and her sister's friends. A lot of the time she feels like a sinner, but she really isn't a terrible person. So one night I told her before I went out to the pubs that I was going to go out and be a sinner and be the best sinner that I could be. She quoted me on that tonight on her xanga website and all I could do was smile! the sinner thing is a bit of a joke with us... and when she called tonight a bit drunk it was even more funny. I told her how great she was for putting that up there. She's awesome. You should all get to know her! :-) D you're the best and I hope you had a good night! No worries, if you're going to hell... i'll already be there waiting.
the Lever is BACK!: One thing that I am very happy about for being home is the fact that I can watch Late night with Conan O'Brien!! He is HILARIOUS and just the other night he brought back... yeah you guessed it the Walker Texas Ranger Lever!!!! This is such a funny segment! Davina and I cracked up over the internet about it the other night. If you have not seen the shows with these clips you should! They are so funny and so random! Much love to Conan!
that's all i have.
Basillica Block Party tomorrow! Woot! should be fun!
much love,
smuder
Tom Cruise is kind of an Dickhead!
So some things have changed since I've been gone...first of all... The state of Minnesota is shut down right now. The government is anyway. The only state thing we can access right now are the state parks! I am freaking out that I won't be able to renew my license in a month that will state that I am 21! I know people might be getting a laugh out of this...but as funny as it could be it still sucks! How can the state of Minnesota be shut down?! I guess the deal is they couldn't decide on a budget or something. I should probably read up on this issue a bit more but seriously?! how random!
Other things that are different...well Ruthie is married, I knew that was happening but it's weird to think that she is no longer my high school friend Ruthie Falink. Ok well she's still herself but she has a different last name! Other things...there's road construction, a few different buildings around, nothing major.
One nice thing about being home realizing the many other clothes that I left here. I finally started re organizing things in my room and started to put clothes away and I decided that green is a good color and I should get more of it! I also started to try to get rid of some t-shirts and other clothes that i know I won't wear! Again I didn't get that much done today but it was a start. clothes are finally put away but there is still heaps that needs to be done.
Life in general? I'm missing Aussie friends like mad! It's only been a week!
Life here? I love to read People magazine when i go up to the farm to see grandma and grandpa. I picked up the latest that grandma had and read a bit about Tom Cruise and his interview with Matt Lauer from the Today Show. Cruise is a scientologist and well, what he had to say to Marr Lauer seemed fairly informational but he kind of did it in a dickhead sort of way. Even though I'm not studying psychiatry it is related to psychology which is my field of study and when somebody who is not studying that subject says that they KNOW it (psychiatry in this case) and proceeds to bash it, i'm sorry... i can only feel a bit offended. Sorry Tommy Cruise... but babe there is the possibility that chemical imbalances are a reason for depression and other mental illnesses. The fact that he flat out said that a chemical imbalance is basically crap, well gee, wow! thank you Dr. Cruise! :-P yeah... no! I guess I'm just open to the possibilities of psychology. I really believe that it could be a chemical imbalance for some people and maybe not for others. I don't agree with diagnosing things like depressiond and ADD extensively, I do believe it gets abuse and so do the drugs that get prescribed. I also know that these illnesses can get over diagnosed and that's not cool either. I'm totally against this stuff, but really there are villians i guess you could call them in any field of study that can ruin the name. I agree with Cruise when he says that there are other ways to cure things like depression. THere really can be. I don't believe that drugs are for everyone to help them out with their depression or whatever the case is, there is definitely the need for some people to just be counseled and to find other ways to deal with things but hey, it could be our bodies too. Granted there is no REAL proof that these drugs that are used are the answer but they seem to help so far. There is just so much behind this stuff and I feel like Cruise was being a bit ignorant. I wish I could have seen the interview he had, it would have been interesting. Maybe I will have a chance to read up more on it, but basically i have come to the conclusion that Tom Cruise was kind of a dickhead and that's not cool. Not that I feel like he was really pressuring his scientologist beliefs on people but it was not cool to say other people are wrong. Any thoughts?
Anyway that's been on my mind for awhile and I hadn't talked about it or wrote about it so I thought I'd share it now.
Life is complicated. People are complicated. Religion is complicated.
I want to share with you D's take on life lately. She's awesome, she asks some of the best questions. help her out if you can: www.xanga.com/davina22
cheers everyone!
Other things that are different...well Ruthie is married, I knew that was happening but it's weird to think that she is no longer my high school friend Ruthie Falink. Ok well she's still herself but she has a different last name! Other things...there's road construction, a few different buildings around, nothing major.
One nice thing about being home realizing the many other clothes that I left here. I finally started re organizing things in my room and started to put clothes away and I decided that green is a good color and I should get more of it! I also started to try to get rid of some t-shirts and other clothes that i know I won't wear! Again I didn't get that much done today but it was a start. clothes are finally put away but there is still heaps that needs to be done.
Life in general? I'm missing Aussie friends like mad! It's only been a week!
Life here? I love to read People magazine when i go up to the farm to see grandma and grandpa. I picked up the latest that grandma had and read a bit about Tom Cruise and his interview with Matt Lauer from the Today Show. Cruise is a scientologist and well, what he had to say to Marr Lauer seemed fairly informational but he kind of did it in a dickhead sort of way. Even though I'm not studying psychiatry it is related to psychology which is my field of study and when somebody who is not studying that subject says that they KNOW it (psychiatry in this case) and proceeds to bash it, i'm sorry... i can only feel a bit offended. Sorry Tommy Cruise... but babe there is the possibility that chemical imbalances are a reason for depression and other mental illnesses. The fact that he flat out said that a chemical imbalance is basically crap, well gee, wow! thank you Dr. Cruise! :-P yeah... no! I guess I'm just open to the possibilities of psychology. I really believe that it could be a chemical imbalance for some people and maybe not for others. I don't agree with diagnosing things like depressiond and ADD extensively, I do believe it gets abuse and so do the drugs that get prescribed. I also know that these illnesses can get over diagnosed and that's not cool either. I'm totally against this stuff, but really there are villians i guess you could call them in any field of study that can ruin the name. I agree with Cruise when he says that there are other ways to cure things like depression. THere really can be. I don't believe that drugs are for everyone to help them out with their depression or whatever the case is, there is definitely the need for some people to just be counseled and to find other ways to deal with things but hey, it could be our bodies too. Granted there is no REAL proof that these drugs that are used are the answer but they seem to help so far. There is just so much behind this stuff and I feel like Cruise was being a bit ignorant. I wish I could have seen the interview he had, it would have been interesting. Maybe I will have a chance to read up more on it, but basically i have come to the conclusion that Tom Cruise was kind of a dickhead and that's not cool. Not that I feel like he was really pressuring his scientologist beliefs on people but it was not cool to say other people are wrong. Any thoughts?
Anyway that's been on my mind for awhile and I hadn't talked about it or wrote about it so I thought I'd share it now.
Life is complicated. People are complicated. Religion is complicated.
I want to share with you D's take on life lately. She's awesome, she asks some of the best questions. help her out if you can: www.xanga.com/davina22
cheers everyone!
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
I'm a bum...
So I haven't posted anything for what seems like ages but really it's only a few days. I got home the fourth in the early AM and since then it was a trip to grandma's and fireworks...yesterday was sleeping in until 3pm and coffee with D and Jeff later at Pandora's! oh how I missed that place!!! and Today I slep til 1pm and then hung out with some frisbee mates from Luther! Love those girls! Throwing the disc with Lauren and Leah was fantastic and I got to share stories about Australia. Later I went back to Lauren's to hang with her room mates and their friends and Mikhal came over too and we had some fish and corn on the cob! mmmm yummy!
it's been great to be home and I feel like things are falling into place fairly easy and that not much has changed. Well a few things. THere is now a pharmacy at the corner where I turn to get to Jeff's which really confused me and Pandora's is remolding some stuff and you can no longer smoke in there...which i find a good change! Since I've been back I have of course really missed everyone back in Australia and the Americans that are in different states. It's pretty hard trying to share stories to the pictures that I've shown people but still things are alright.
i have had a craving for coffee and coffee houses for the past three days and feel like I could go every day but that might kill my wallet...Plus I don't have much money to spend. Tomorrow will hopefully be devoted to finding a job. I haven't done much in general. I haven't even done anything to stimulate my mind like read! I just sleep and bum and then go out. such a life.
alright so I'm pretty boring. I should probably go to bed so i can get up in the morning and run some errands and stuff and be productive!
much love all!
it's been great to be home and I feel like things are falling into place fairly easy and that not much has changed. Well a few things. THere is now a pharmacy at the corner where I turn to get to Jeff's which really confused me and Pandora's is remolding some stuff and you can no longer smoke in there...which i find a good change! Since I've been back I have of course really missed everyone back in Australia and the Americans that are in different states. It's pretty hard trying to share stories to the pictures that I've shown people but still things are alright.
i have had a craving for coffee and coffee houses for the past three days and feel like I could go every day but that might kill my wallet...Plus I don't have much money to spend. Tomorrow will hopefully be devoted to finding a job. I haven't done much in general. I haven't even done anything to stimulate my mind like read! I just sleep and bum and then go out. such a life.
alright so I'm pretty boring. I should probably go to bed so i can get up in the morning and run some errands and stuff and be productive!
much love all!
Monday, July 04, 2005
home again, home again, jiggity jig...
hey all! real quick post because it's early morning back in MN and I need to get myself to sleep and get back on MN time...but hey! I'm home... alive and well after a day of traveling. I have had no sleep lately either! Eeek. All of my flights except the one to Sydney were late and I actually missed my flight in Chicago but was lucky to get another one at a later time so I didn't get fly in til almost 1 am! whew! big day tomorrow at grandma's birthday party/fourth of july celebration. It hasn't hit me yet that I"m home...i'm just like yeah...whatev...it's home. I didn't bawl when I landed like I thought I might but I reckon I will be an emotional wreck for awhile!
Miss you all you lovely Aussies! I miss Australia! But Home is good too.! love to all!
much love,
smuder
Miss you all you lovely Aussies! I miss Australia! But Home is good too.! love to all!
much love,
smuder
Saturday, July 02, 2005
saying goodbye
so...it's sunday early freaking morning... a few more hours and we will be headed to the airport to say goodbye! It hasn't hit me yet, I haven't had any very emotional goodbyes yet although I'm pretty sure I will break down soon enough.
This is so weird. I don't want to do this. These people have been my friends, they have been my life for the past five months! Adelaide has been my life. Uni Adelaide, the frisbee team, Aquinas College, lower "H", has been my life and now I have to leave that life. I'm sorry by how depressing this is but I need to get it out of my system. Luckily I am not bawling and crying all over the keyboard yet. I want to write little letters to everyone, but I think it may take me too long and I'll never get to say as much as I really want to.
It's dead silent here in Lower Hannan and I'm not quite sure who to go visit now... I'm using some alone time, which I don't want too much of, but i definitely feel the need to collect my thoughts about every five minutes. All my mates are scattered around the college grounds, either packing or helping in the packing process. Writing notes, and addresses down, reminding ourselves that we can keep our friendships alive half way across the world.
these goodbyes are not going to be the easiest things I've ever done...wish me luck!
I'll be home soon!
em
This is so weird. I don't want to do this. These people have been my friends, they have been my life for the past five months! Adelaide has been my life. Uni Adelaide, the frisbee team, Aquinas College, lower "H", has been my life and now I have to leave that life. I'm sorry by how depressing this is but I need to get it out of my system. Luckily I am not bawling and crying all over the keyboard yet. I want to write little letters to everyone, but I think it may take me too long and I'll never get to say as much as I really want to.
It's dead silent here in Lower Hannan and I'm not quite sure who to go visit now... I'm using some alone time, which I don't want too much of, but i definitely feel the need to collect my thoughts about every five minutes. All my mates are scattered around the college grounds, either packing or helping in the packing process. Writing notes, and addresses down, reminding ourselves that we can keep our friendships alive half way across the world.
these goodbyes are not going to be the easiest things I've ever done...wish me luck!
I'll be home soon!
em
the goose is flying the coup!
sorry everyone it's been a week since I last posted, it's been a busy week. Well not really busy, more like lazy and I've barely spent any time in my room. I've spent most of my week either out, or in other friends' rooms. It's bee wonderful. So...what's been going on since Monday? well... here's a run down if you care to know...
Monday: finished my exam, shared a bottle of scotch with Shannon to celebrate being done, went to a movie with some mates (our scotch and coke in hand in drink bottles-oh the wonders of Nalgene bottles!), ate some pancakes came back and hung out watching movies til the wee hours.
Tuesday: can't really remember what I did all day. Pretty sure I laid around my room or in someone else's room just hanging out and getting stuff ready for the trip home. That evening I believe was Bec's celebration of the end of her exams. That evening most of us just sat in Shannon's room drinking. Me? yeah... half a bottle of tequila. I ended up falling asleep and sleeping hard til the next morning. I needed that sleep!
Wednesday: Ah my very last pub night! It was a blast. I actually went to frisbee first that evening and got to play once more with all my frisbee mates! YAY! I then made it home for pub night. This was Sunny's night to celebrate the end of exams. We all got together and made our way to the pub for the night where we stayed til they closed and kicked us out pretty much. It was a wonderful night getting the chance to hang out with whoever else is still around. A chance to see people for the last time. This night was also to celebrate mine and Amber's birthday's since we won't be in Australia for them. Basically we wanted people to buy us a jug of something, which they did, and then they sang the skulling song to us while we stood on the bar. People complimented me for a job well done, but really it took me a long time to get the whole thing down. What was my jug of choice? oh yeah...Tequila and Orange Juice...what I drank the night before. This was also Ann Marie's last night in Adelaide so I had to say good bye to her, but the evening was well spent hanging out with friends, getting pizza after the pub, and hanging out in Shannon's again.
Thursday: Oh what a day. WE spent part of the morning/afternoon at the Central Market buying food for a picnic we wanted to have in the park. IT was a blast, and I tasted THE best yogurt i have ever tasted! I think I could move to Adelaide just for that little yogurt shop in the central market. After we finally made some decisions on sandwich food we headed back and just went across the street from college with blankets and some music and sat and had a lovely little picnic. We also decided to play some Twister, which we plan to do at the airport too, and we had fun rolling down the hill. It was a great day. After that I went to Blair's to meet up with her and Warren before the frisbee party. This was the last night I had with the frisbee kids. Chantal who is an amazing girl, threw a party for the American frisbee players who would be going home. Basically it was for me and Blair. It was a good time although I felt mostly depressed the whole time and good byes didn't seem that hard, I didn't cry, because I think I felt like I would be seeing them again. This was also the last night I got to see Blair. She's been such a wonderful friend to me, and i love her! We became good friends over here and I had a blast playing frisbee with her and getting to know her. She left Friday morning with her family to do a bit of traveling before she goes back to the states. sigh...it was a hard goodbye but I didn't cry until I was sitting in Shannon's room later reading a note that my mate Ric had left for Amber and I. He went home to Perth that same night and he left us a lovely note saying good bye and keep in touch. Lovely boy. I kind of sat around being sad most of that night, but still hung out with everyone. People had gone to our friend Tom's for the night but slowly they returned and we just all hung out again watching vidoes and chatting and what not. It was an emotional night.
wow, this is getting long, but bear with me because this blog isn't only for you guys, it's for me so I need to remember what i did!
Friday: I started packing friday and it was not fun. I've just been saying good byes mostly. But anyway... Amber and I spent most of the day trying to get ourselves to pack, and I think i was the more successful one but whatever. We just hung out most of the afternoon. Later in the evening Bec threw Ben, Amber and I a party, again to celebrate our birhtdays! How nice! it was great. They even got us little gifts and we had cookies and ice cream! Oh and they bought us alcohol! We sat around in Jess and Mel's room all night and had some drinks and talked and had a blast. Again a bit sad, but still it was a good time nevertheless. Ben had some sparklers so we lit those and threw them off the balcony which was pretty exciting and got me thinking about the 4th back home! So excited! So yeah, we chilled all night and just had fun! I am hoping that Sarah will make a copy of the tape that she used to record us being silly. I sound terrible on audio. Barely got any sleep once again.
Now it's Saturday, I woke up today and started the day pretty much with good byes to Ben, Glen, Greatzy and Cagney. Lunch was kind of a fun experience, quite a few of us all sat together at the head table and chatted for quite some time. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon with Lauren, Terri, Sarah, Jess, and Amber doing some shopping down on Rundle Mall. It was a lovely afternoon and now I have a bag FULL of freaking souvenirs! Sorry if anyone doesn't like what they get. I can only be so creative. Anyway, the rest of the night is to be spent hanging out and having as much fun as we can. I need to finish packing up stuff and need to say good byes and all of that. Then it's off to the airport bright and early with my heavy luggage to first say bye to Amber and Lauren at about 6am and then I leave at 9. This is going to be a very crazy time. I think a lot of the IES kids are on my flight which will be weird to see them because the only ones I really hung out with were Blair and Amber and Dave. But yeah, I probably won't talk to them much anyway, will need all the time i can with everyone else who will be hanging out at the airport.
SO yeah, this might be my last blog until I return home. Wow, that's crazy... but I leave at 9 and make my way to Sydney then LA to Chicago and then home by about 10 pm. ! it's going to be a long day! I'm excited to see AJ when she picks me up and it will be good to be home, but it will be sooooo hard to say goodbye. I reckon I will be a HUGE mess when I get home so be prepared all of you back home to console me! Anyway I'll be home soon and we'll see where I go from there... until then... I love you all you lovely Aussies and I will miss you! I will write more to you all later! much love to all! Until I return home....
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Monday: finished my exam, shared a bottle of scotch with Shannon to celebrate being done, went to a movie with some mates (our scotch and coke in hand in drink bottles-oh the wonders of Nalgene bottles!), ate some pancakes came back and hung out watching movies til the wee hours.
Tuesday: can't really remember what I did all day. Pretty sure I laid around my room or in someone else's room just hanging out and getting stuff ready for the trip home. That evening I believe was Bec's celebration of the end of her exams. That evening most of us just sat in Shannon's room drinking. Me? yeah... half a bottle of tequila. I ended up falling asleep and sleeping hard til the next morning. I needed that sleep!
Wednesday: Ah my very last pub night! It was a blast. I actually went to frisbee first that evening and got to play once more with all my frisbee mates! YAY! I then made it home for pub night. This was Sunny's night to celebrate the end of exams. We all got together and made our way to the pub for the night where we stayed til they closed and kicked us out pretty much. It was a wonderful night getting the chance to hang out with whoever else is still around. A chance to see people for the last time. This night was also to celebrate mine and Amber's birthday's since we won't be in Australia for them. Basically we wanted people to buy us a jug of something, which they did, and then they sang the skulling song to us while we stood on the bar. People complimented me for a job well done, but really it took me a long time to get the whole thing down. What was my jug of choice? oh yeah...Tequila and Orange Juice...what I drank the night before. This was also Ann Marie's last night in Adelaide so I had to say good bye to her, but the evening was well spent hanging out with friends, getting pizza after the pub, and hanging out in Shannon's again.
Thursday: Oh what a day. WE spent part of the morning/afternoon at the Central Market buying food for a picnic we wanted to have in the park. IT was a blast, and I tasted THE best yogurt i have ever tasted! I think I could move to Adelaide just for that little yogurt shop in the central market. After we finally made some decisions on sandwich food we headed back and just went across the street from college with blankets and some music and sat and had a lovely little picnic. We also decided to play some Twister, which we plan to do at the airport too, and we had fun rolling down the hill. It was a great day. After that I went to Blair's to meet up with her and Warren before the frisbee party. This was the last night I had with the frisbee kids. Chantal who is an amazing girl, threw a party for the American frisbee players who would be going home. Basically it was for me and Blair. It was a good time although I felt mostly depressed the whole time and good byes didn't seem that hard, I didn't cry, because I think I felt like I would be seeing them again. This was also the last night I got to see Blair. She's been such a wonderful friend to me, and i love her! We became good friends over here and I had a blast playing frisbee with her and getting to know her. She left Friday morning with her family to do a bit of traveling before she goes back to the states. sigh...it was a hard goodbye but I didn't cry until I was sitting in Shannon's room later reading a note that my mate Ric had left for Amber and I. He went home to Perth that same night and he left us a lovely note saying good bye and keep in touch. Lovely boy. I kind of sat around being sad most of that night, but still hung out with everyone. People had gone to our friend Tom's for the night but slowly they returned and we just all hung out again watching vidoes and chatting and what not. It was an emotional night.
wow, this is getting long, but bear with me because this blog isn't only for you guys, it's for me so I need to remember what i did!
Friday: I started packing friday and it was not fun. I've just been saying good byes mostly. But anyway... Amber and I spent most of the day trying to get ourselves to pack, and I think i was the more successful one but whatever. We just hung out most of the afternoon. Later in the evening Bec threw Ben, Amber and I a party, again to celebrate our birhtdays! How nice! it was great. They even got us little gifts and we had cookies and ice cream! Oh and they bought us alcohol! We sat around in Jess and Mel's room all night and had some drinks and talked and had a blast. Again a bit sad, but still it was a good time nevertheless. Ben had some sparklers so we lit those and threw them off the balcony which was pretty exciting and got me thinking about the 4th back home! So excited! So yeah, we chilled all night and just had fun! I am hoping that Sarah will make a copy of the tape that she used to record us being silly. I sound terrible on audio. Barely got any sleep once again.
Now it's Saturday, I woke up today and started the day pretty much with good byes to Ben, Glen, Greatzy and Cagney. Lunch was kind of a fun experience, quite a few of us all sat together at the head table and chatted for quite some time. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon with Lauren, Terri, Sarah, Jess, and Amber doing some shopping down on Rundle Mall. It was a lovely afternoon and now I have a bag FULL of freaking souvenirs! Sorry if anyone doesn't like what they get. I can only be so creative. Anyway, the rest of the night is to be spent hanging out and having as much fun as we can. I need to finish packing up stuff and need to say good byes and all of that. Then it's off to the airport bright and early with my heavy luggage to first say bye to Amber and Lauren at about 6am and then I leave at 9. This is going to be a very crazy time. I think a lot of the IES kids are on my flight which will be weird to see them because the only ones I really hung out with were Blair and Amber and Dave. But yeah, I probably won't talk to them much anyway, will need all the time i can with everyone else who will be hanging out at the airport.
SO yeah, this might be my last blog until I return home. Wow, that's crazy... but I leave at 9 and make my way to Sydney then LA to Chicago and then home by about 10 pm. ! it's going to be a long day! I'm excited to see AJ when she picks me up and it will be good to be home, but it will be sooooo hard to say goodbye. I reckon I will be a HUGE mess when I get home so be prepared all of you back home to console me! Anyway I'll be home soon and we'll see where I go from there... until then... I love you all you lovely Aussies and I will miss you! I will write more to you all later! much love to all! Until I return home....
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