well well well..it's that time of year again. the holidays are upon us. woot woot. bah humbug, i say! lol...well, not really, but some people get so excited you just wanna smack 'em upside the head with a 2X4. or maybe that's just me. anyway, I love the holidays as much as the next person, but when you get off of work where you've just had a woman saying the f-word repeatedly (in a church, mind you!) and listened to a man argue for 25 minutes about getting his medications, all the while holding up the rest of your patients, making them pissed off, you just wanna come home, crawl into some pj's and bash your head against the wall. You do not want to paste a fake smile on your face and play "nicey-nice" with someone's relatives thrice-removed. Just call me Scrooge.
Maybe I'm just mad because I'm not going home for Thanksgiving. Nothing beats an Arthur Thanksgiving (haaaa!!), but it might be better this way...my mom usually makes a trazillion pumpkin pies and that's all I do is sit around and eat them all weekend...oh, how great! Instead, I get to spend turkey day w/ my brother's in-laws, which is very nice of them indeed (to invite me and put up with my introverted-ness). It is awkward to hang around with someone else's family on a typically family-oriented day, but what the hey...live a little, huh? Stevie J-bomber will be there, too, so all is well.
On a lighter note, I baked a pumpkin yesterday night so now my house is the proud owner of about 4 lbs of pumpkin 'flesh', as the cookbook says (eeew...pumpkins do not have flesh...that's just grody). If you love the squashy-type foods, come on over, we'll have a hay day!!
This post is very mental. I think my brain is shorting out.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Retreatin' it
So I thought I was really, really gonna hate going on our fall midwest retreat (all the volunteers from milwaukee, chicago, and minneapolis/st. paul--about 40 people--get together and, well, retreat and stuff) in the middle of nowhere, wisco, but I had a great time!! Sure, it sucked talking a lot and having to discuss, discuss, discuss the whole weekend, but I re-met (after meeting them at orientation in august) some pretty awesome people--I was an extroverted introvert!!--and got to relax a little bit, too. Played an awesome game of spoons (I have the carpet burn to prove it!), went hiking, got to relax in the sauna followed by running around in the frigid midnight air (it's really cool when the steam is rising off your body!--although this could account for my stuffy nose and sore throat), read a lot, and played some mean foosball.
It was just really good to be reminded that other people are doing this, too, and that they have the same struggles I do. It was also really neat to hear ideas about how to live simply or how to be a better community from some of the other houses. LVC is schweeeet. :D
Going back to work today after five days of retreating was pretty ugh. It actually really sucked and that's all I have to say about that. (thumbs down) I gotta get to bed, hope everyone's having a grand old time in their little corner of the world.
Highlight of my day: I got to listen to my beloved UND Sioux Crew Bball band tonight (and how I miss them!)...thanks Drewsef...you made my day! :D :D You're awesome.
It was just really good to be reminded that other people are doing this, too, and that they have the same struggles I do. It was also really neat to hear ideas about how to live simply or how to be a better community from some of the other houses. LVC is schweeeet. :D
Going back to work today after five days of retreating was pretty ugh. It actually really sucked and that's all I have to say about that. (thumbs down) I gotta get to bed, hope everyone's having a grand old time in their little corner of the world.
Highlight of my day: I got to listen to my beloved UND Sioux Crew Bball band tonight (and how I miss them!)...thanks Drewsef...you made my day! :D :D You're awesome.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
and the procrastination continues
Funny how you never can break yourself of some habits. Procrastination..it's my game and I'm freakin good at it, bitches (meant in the nicest way possible and to no one in particular, of course). Pulling all-nighters in high school was probably too common and I think I even did a few in college. I'm way too old for that stuff now ;), but I seem to pull the best work out of my rear when my head is throbbing and I'm so tired I can't really see straight. YeS!! That's how it should be done. So, back to my point...the procrastination does not cease once the schooling years are through, my friends. I am now a 'professional volunteer' and it still haunts me!! We have this retreat this weekend where we have to present our 'covenant': what we hope to get out of this year as a house/community and what our community promises to one another. Well, that's all fine and dandy, but we have to present it to the rest of the people at retreat (about 40 other LVC'ers) and it's gotta be creative. Soooo....here I am, at almost midnight (this is truly early by most standards, I realize) painting a huge circle on a cut up curtain we found upstairs...haaa!! This is great. I almost feel back in my element again, which is really, really scary.
Our theme has to deal with footprints, so I'm pretty excited about putting paint on my feet and stomping around on a piece of fabric. What a riot.
Then we have to make breakfast for everyone and provide food at other times and of course we put this off til the last minute, too. Grand! And I'm always the one trying to keep the other girls in this house on track..Lord, that's frightening. This from the girl who can entertain herself for hours by cutting out things from magazines and pasting them on paper. And the end is in sight....
There's a line in The Life of Pi that says, "Without a driver, this bus is lost". Well, I'm sorry to say it, but I think our driver is a bit tanked and really needs to pull over. They never said this year would be easy, and that is becoming more and more apparent with each passing day. Someday we'll get our crap together. Everybody loves a good challenge, right?
I just wanna thank everybody who continues to listen to me complain and carry on about all of my troubles..I couldn't stay [somewhat] sane without you guys and I love you ubermuch! And to Brooke....thank you for what you wrote. Our friendship, through all its ghast ugliness (yeah, we've been there!) and its ow!!ow!! hotness (hee hee..) is really something. Gosh, we're crazy lunatics! Gertie would be so proud. :D Love you, ma'am!
Our theme has to deal with footprints, so I'm pretty excited about putting paint on my feet and stomping around on a piece of fabric. What a riot.
Then we have to make breakfast for everyone and provide food at other times and of course we put this off til the last minute, too. Grand! And I'm always the one trying to keep the other girls in this house on track..Lord, that's frightening. This from the girl who can entertain herself for hours by cutting out things from magazines and pasting them on paper. And the end is in sight....
There's a line in The Life of Pi that says, "Without a driver, this bus is lost". Well, I'm sorry to say it, but I think our driver is a bit tanked and really needs to pull over. They never said this year would be easy, and that is becoming more and more apparent with each passing day. Someday we'll get our crap together. Everybody loves a good challenge, right?
I just wanna thank everybody who continues to listen to me complain and carry on about all of my troubles..I couldn't stay [somewhat] sane without you guys and I love you ubermuch! And to Brooke....thank you for what you wrote. Our friendship, through all its ghast ugliness (yeah, we've been there!) and its ow!!ow!! hotness (hee hee..) is really something. Gosh, we're crazy lunatics! Gertie would be so proud. :D Love you, ma'am!
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Oh, to be cultured..
I haven't written for awhile, but with good reason. Okay, not really. I just haven't had time. I've been really busy with work and trying to be simple and a community with my housies. It takes a lot of work to be simple, lemme tell ya. Kinda sucks that way.
Work is pretty good...I'm almost to the point where I can draw blood by myself..still learning. So watch out....cover your veins when you see me coming (I may need to practice on you...)!!!!
I went to a house party in Kenosha with one of my roommies last weekend (her boss had a party), and it was pretty fun. Lots of strange people, however...my fav costumes had to the the 6'6" drag queen and the homemade Transformer (woot!!) I went dressed as a dead girl...borrowed some props from the clinic where i work: a hospital gown, some bandages, and iv tubing....nifty place for halloween accessories ;) I had fake blood, bruises, the works...I'll have to post a pic on here. I'll get right on that. Perhaps. Then we came back to Milwaukee and went to this bar/bowling alley/arcade called the Landmark. It was a pretty rockin' place, although the showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show next door kinda took the cake. AND we had our first "big city" celebrity sighting: Amos Lee was bowling at the Landmark!! Now, for those of you who have no clue, Amos Lee is a singer and he's a pretty darn good bowler ;) One of the gals I was with is a huge fan and just had to go up and say hi; he was super nice about it and seemed genuinely appreciative of our "crazed fan" status..lol.
On Sunday, I got to go trick-or-treating with my nephew, Steven...he was Curious George and my brother, Ben, was the man in the yellow hat...sooo cute!! I had a really good time. Aunt Embly (as he calls me) got props for bringing along glow sticks...woot woot. I dressed up as a cat (figured the whole dead girl bit wouldn't go over so well with a two-year old) and was quite unsure how to dress up and NOT get candy..hmm...
I went to a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra/Symphony Chorus concert this afternoon. My boss had an extra ticket and invited me along, so it was fun to 'go out on the town'! The concert was awesome...they performed The Song of the Nightingale, which had a narrator and was quite whimsical, and after the intermission they did Carmina Burana!!! Hurray! The opening note is just awesome and the whole movement just makes you wanna go out and kick some major rear.. whoop whoop!! I had a grand time! Downtown Milwaukee is pretty cool :)
Anyway, work is work and life is life. Just keepin' on. We have an LVC midwest retreat we have to go to this weekend, so there's a lot of prep for that. I'm just afraid it will be a lot of sitting around and talking about how we feel...ugh! How droll. I hate that.
I realize that I miss you all and life isn't the same without the craziness...soo..you RoCK!!!!! I'll write more later.
Work is pretty good...I'm almost to the point where I can draw blood by myself..still learning. So watch out....cover your veins when you see me coming (I may need to practice on you...)!!!!
I went to a house party in Kenosha with one of my roommies last weekend (her boss had a party), and it was pretty fun. Lots of strange people, however...my fav costumes had to the the 6'6" drag queen and the homemade Transformer (woot!!) I went dressed as a dead girl...borrowed some props from the clinic where i work: a hospital gown, some bandages, and iv tubing....nifty place for halloween accessories ;) I had fake blood, bruises, the works...I'll have to post a pic on here. I'll get right on that. Perhaps. Then we came back to Milwaukee and went to this bar/bowling alley/arcade called the Landmark. It was a pretty rockin' place, although the showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show next door kinda took the cake. AND we had our first "big city" celebrity sighting: Amos Lee was bowling at the Landmark!! Now, for those of you who have no clue, Amos Lee is a singer and he's a pretty darn good bowler ;) One of the gals I was with is a huge fan and just had to go up and say hi; he was super nice about it and seemed genuinely appreciative of our "crazed fan" status..lol.
On Sunday, I got to go trick-or-treating with my nephew, Steven...he was Curious George and my brother, Ben, was the man in the yellow hat...sooo cute!! I had a really good time. Aunt Embly (as he calls me) got props for bringing along glow sticks...woot woot. I dressed up as a cat (figured the whole dead girl bit wouldn't go over so well with a two-year old) and was quite unsure how to dress up and NOT get candy..hmm...
I went to a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra/Symphony Chorus concert this afternoon. My boss had an extra ticket and invited me along, so it was fun to 'go out on the town'! The concert was awesome...they performed The Song of the Nightingale, which had a narrator and was quite whimsical, and after the intermission they did Carmina Burana!!! Hurray! The opening note is just awesome and the whole movement just makes you wanna go out and kick some major rear.. whoop whoop!! I had a grand time! Downtown Milwaukee is pretty cool :)
Anyway, work is work and life is life. Just keepin' on. We have an LVC midwest retreat we have to go to this weekend, so there's a lot of prep for that. I'm just afraid it will be a lot of sitting around and talking about how we feel...ugh! How droll. I hate that.
I realize that I miss you all and life isn't the same without the craziness...soo..you RoCK!!!!! I'll write more later.
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