Thursday, January 8, 2009
PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!
Would you please pray for me? I have come back to work with very few hours that has put me in a little bit of a financial bind. I know you all know that the economy is in a terrible place right now and it is really hurting my favorite paper store! So i am going to get a new job. I applied for a job on Monday, and i am trying to find out about substitute teaching in the public schools, and starting over on craigslist. the thing is everyone is looking for a job right now, because did you know that the unemployment rate is already the highest it has been in 30 years, and this is just the beginning. So if you find yourself thinking "i hate my job" send those thoughts out the door and say a prayer of thanksgiving for the job God has placed you in this day. and then pray for me! because i need something to supplement or replace ASAP!. thanks!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
i resolve
well not really but it seems like a good title for the first post of the new year. i am sure it is so original as well.
it has been quite some time since i have blogged. have you been worrying about me yet? you should have been, because times have been a little hectic since we last met. i wont go into great depth of the craziness that has occurred since i returned to nyc, but i will give you a few tidbits.
1. i had a horrible travel day. it started by having a bag that was too late and too heavy which led me to missing my flight. i mean i could blame it on the bag, but in reality i guess it is about time that i start taking responsibility for my actions and say its my own fault i missed my flight. so yeah there it is. i did get onto the next flight thankfully, but then it got delayed and delayed and delayed more. it was terrible. i should have been happily in my home no later than 1pm last tuesday. however i barely made it home by 7pm. not only did i have air traffic issues, coming into the city at 4:30 made for a rough ground commute. therefore my car service was an hour later than expected and i then sat in traffic for an hour and a half. it was a horrible travel day. i was hungry tired and not ready to face the company that then arrived BEFORE me. but i did. and it was fun.
2. then we had company. lots of fun people. two in particular. my friend megan staggs came and we had fun fun fun. such a good visit because she had no plans for coming other than to hang out. loved that. and then my friend jennifer firmin. so fun to see her because we have hardly seen each other in the past year. so it was really good to catch up and have some good conversations. then generally we had a fun group here. good group of people very laid back and fun. we all went to the free saturday night at the brooklyn museum. it was amazing. we were only there for about an hour and a half, but it was such an interesting conglomeration of cultures and people. urban mixed with artsy mixed with hipster mixed with classy mixed with nyc crazy. a very brooklyn art experience i would say. in one area they had a string quartet and ballroom dancing and another area they had a dj with all kinds of get down dancing. oh yeah.
3. after 12 house guests in the last 20ish days (8 that don't count cause i was in dallas) it is good to say things could be calming down a little. dont get me wrong i loved it, but we all like a little routine at some point. and it has really cut into my blogging time. so dont worry its not that i have to make a resolution to blog more its just i have been a little preoccupied in the past 3 weeks. i am sure you all have been too. so its back to work and back to checking blogs! i have much to mull over in this brain of mine and i am sure you all are looking forward to hearing about it. more to come soon.
it has been quite some time since i have blogged. have you been worrying about me yet? you should have been, because times have been a little hectic since we last met. i wont go into great depth of the craziness that has occurred since i returned to nyc, but i will give you a few tidbits.
1. i had a horrible travel day. it started by having a bag that was too late and too heavy which led me to missing my flight. i mean i could blame it on the bag, but in reality i guess it is about time that i start taking responsibility for my actions and say its my own fault i missed my flight. so yeah there it is. i did get onto the next flight thankfully, but then it got delayed and delayed and delayed more. it was terrible. i should have been happily in my home no later than 1pm last tuesday. however i barely made it home by 7pm. not only did i have air traffic issues, coming into the city at 4:30 made for a rough ground commute. therefore my car service was an hour later than expected and i then sat in traffic for an hour and a half. it was a horrible travel day. i was hungry tired and not ready to face the company that then arrived BEFORE me. but i did. and it was fun.
2. then we had company. lots of fun people. two in particular. my friend megan staggs came and we had fun fun fun. such a good visit because she had no plans for coming other than to hang out. loved that. and then my friend jennifer firmin. so fun to see her because we have hardly seen each other in the past year. so it was really good to catch up and have some good conversations. then generally we had a fun group here. good group of people very laid back and fun. we all went to the free saturday night at the brooklyn museum. it was amazing. we were only there for about an hour and a half, but it was such an interesting conglomeration of cultures and people. urban mixed with artsy mixed with hipster mixed with classy mixed with nyc crazy. a very brooklyn art experience i would say. in one area they had a string quartet and ballroom dancing and another area they had a dj with all kinds of get down dancing. oh yeah.
3. after 12 house guests in the last 20ish days (8 that don't count cause i was in dallas) it is good to say things could be calming down a little. dont get me wrong i loved it, but we all like a little routine at some point. and it has really cut into my blogging time. so dont worry its not that i have to make a resolution to blog more its just i have been a little preoccupied in the past 3 weeks. i am sure you all have been too. so its back to work and back to checking blogs! i have much to mull over in this brain of mine and i am sure you all are looking forward to hearing about it. more to come soon.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
20 hours from dallas
well i am not too sure the depths of my feelings towards coming home tomorrow so i thought i should write a little to let you and me both know. well there is the surfacy excitement first of all. for example. my parents house. they have been working on this garage and swimming pool since the day i left, and now they are both done, so i am pretty excited to swim in the pool even if its cold.
also i am excited to be off of work for a week. i am excited to drive a car. excited to eat mexican food. excited to do laundry in some what normal conditions. i am excited to get home and wrap my own gifts since i have finished all the new yorkers at this point. i am excited about warm air.
but at the same time, i am a little worried. because although i am excited to see people initially, i am a little worried about how i am going to feel when i have to leave them. my dear friend erica came up to nyc last week, and it was wonderful. we had THE BESt time. so fun. but when it was time to part, i couldn't take it. i cried. yep i did. it just made me think oh my goodness. this was a sweet glimpse of how we used to get to spend time with each other all the time. bittersweet. tastes so good, but there are few happy thoughts concerning the miles between us at this point. and that was just one near and dear friend. whats that say for scarlett and my momma and daddy???? this is why i am a little worried.and here is a little more explaination on why there is reason to worry about the topic.
you see, i LoVE NYC. i just wish the distance between nyc and dallas could be like the distance between dallas and denton. the absolute PERFECT distance. but its not. it is a very complicated 2500 miles from point a to b. so i love living here and i am not coming home for good yet and i dont really want to, but i do love some people in dallas that make the place rather hard to resist. so i am just wondering how i will cope with the deep love of two places and many people in each place whom i love. it is a challenging topic to face. so in this sense i am worried about coming home and loving it and wanting to never return to nyc. wouldnt you be a little concerned if you had rent and roommates to answer to.
well to end on a happy note I AM SO EXCITED TO COME HOME AND SEE EVERYONE!!! i hope scarlett has been studying her pictures and practicing her "S's" fun fun. call me or email me if you are reading this and want to see my face!
also i am excited to be off of work for a week. i am excited to drive a car. excited to eat mexican food. excited to do laundry in some what normal conditions. i am excited to get home and wrap my own gifts since i have finished all the new yorkers at this point. i am excited about warm air.
but at the same time, i am a little worried. because although i am excited to see people initially, i am a little worried about how i am going to feel when i have to leave them. my dear friend erica came up to nyc last week, and it was wonderful. we had THE BESt time. so fun. but when it was time to part, i couldn't take it. i cried. yep i did. it just made me think oh my goodness. this was a sweet glimpse of how we used to get to spend time with each other all the time. bittersweet. tastes so good, but there are few happy thoughts concerning the miles between us at this point. and that was just one near and dear friend. whats that say for scarlett and my momma and daddy???? this is why i am a little worried.and here is a little more explaination on why there is reason to worry about the topic.
you see, i LoVE NYC. i just wish the distance between nyc and dallas could be like the distance between dallas and denton. the absolute PERFECT distance. but its not. it is a very complicated 2500 miles from point a to b. so i love living here and i am not coming home for good yet and i dont really want to, but i do love some people in dallas that make the place rather hard to resist. so i am just wondering how i will cope with the deep love of two places and many people in each place whom i love. it is a challenging topic to face. so in this sense i am worried about coming home and loving it and wanting to never return to nyc. wouldnt you be a little concerned if you had rent and roommates to answer to.
well to end on a happy note I AM SO EXCITED TO COME HOME AND SEE EVERYONE!!! i hope scarlett has been studying her pictures and practicing her "S's" fun fun. call me or email me if you are reading this and want to see my face!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
lighting and limos
well i have had a bit of touristy fun within the past week that i wanted to tell you about. first we went to the Christmas tree lighting in Rockefeller Center here are the pics from that. if you didnt see it on tv, i am not too sure what you missed, because we didn't see anything either. well barely. but beyonce, the jonas brothers, harry connick jr, miley cyress and tony bennett were all there. not to mention britney not quite ready to perform but announcing she could do. there were what seemed to be millions of people there, and we saw two fights break out because so many people were shoving their way to the front. exciting you can imagine. but we stayed til the end and it was fun. we should have been there earlier, but whats new. here is what we saw.
we stopped in at Kenneth Cole to do a little "window shopping" i couldn't resist taking a pic. this would have been the best place to watch the lighting. warm with a perfect view! and the people below were waving at us.
my alloted personal space for the night. it looks way bigger in the picture.
brr. i love my fur collar.
there it is in all its glory.
check out the manly minks in the background. wow.
we ended the evening by walking through times square to get on our train home.
THEN. saturday night we celebrated nikki and katies birthdays. we went to eat dinner in china town. we were eating and it started snowing! lots of snow. like piling up on cars snowing. so we walked to canal st to get cabs to go to our next stop and happened to hail a limo instead of a cab. yes with lights, loud music, fake flowers, cheap old whiskey and a character of a driver. i would say this was the highlight of my evening. it was fun. we were driving through nyc in a tacky old school lincoln town car limo while it was snowing, i mean i dont think that could happen anywhere other than NYC. is this the life?
we stopped in at Kenneth Cole to do a little "window shopping" i couldn't resist taking a pic. this would have been the best place to watch the lighting. warm with a perfect view! and the people below were waving at us.
my alloted personal space for the night. it looks way bigger in the picture.
brr. i love my fur collar.
there it is in all its glory.
check out the manly minks in the background. wow.
we ended the evening by walking through times square to get on our train home.
THEN. saturday night we celebrated nikki and katies birthdays. we went to eat dinner in china town. we were eating and it started snowing! lots of snow. like piling up on cars snowing. so we walked to canal st to get cabs to go to our next stop and happened to hail a limo instead of a cab. yes with lights, loud music, fake flowers, cheap old whiskey and a character of a driver. i would say this was the highlight of my evening. it was fun. we were driving through nyc in a tacky old school lincoln town car limo while it was snowing, i mean i dont think that could happen anywhere other than NYC. is this the life?
Friday, December 5, 2008
you know you are sick for home when...
your christmas countdown starts at 21 days and you are 25 yrs old. (and it has nothing to do with december 25th)
you listen to circa '99 country music to motivate yourself out of bed daily
your consistent topic of conversation revolves around menu planning while in TX...mmmexican!
you aren't worried about rent even though you are missing a week of work
you have a friends visit planned to make it all come one week faster
ok well i dont know if i am really that home "sick" or more so it is just EXCITEMENT to come home. it is going to a much needed week of reconnect! i love you all. and i want to see many many of you. i also have fun friends coming to see me in one little week! they are arriving on our 4month anniversary of being here! yeah!! whoa. i feel like i have been here 4 years. im not kidding.
well see you all soon! i can say that now because i am now only 16 days away from home!
you listen to circa '99 country music to motivate yourself out of bed daily
your consistent topic of conversation revolves around menu planning while in TX...mmmexican!
you aren't worried about rent even though you are missing a week of work
you have a friends visit planned to make it all come one week faster
ok well i dont know if i am really that home "sick" or more so it is just EXCITEMENT to come home. it is going to a much needed week of reconnect! i love you all. and i want to see many many of you. i also have fun friends coming to see me in one little week! they are arriving on our 4month anniversary of being here! yeah!! whoa. i feel like i have been here 4 years. im not kidding.
well see you all soon! i can say that now because i am now only 16 days away from home!
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