| Decade in Review |
[Dec. 31st, 2009|03:45 pm] |
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I'll do a year in review thingie eventually. But I liked the quick format one of my LJ friends did for a decade in review so I decided to steal that foramt.
2000: Started in the middle of my freshman year in high school. Took theater arts class and became friends with one of my best friends, Stan. Met Damon through him. Got my first SLR camera.
2001: Competed with color guard in Virginia Beach and won first place. Got named color guard captain for the next 2 years. Got my driver's license. Came down with mono which caused my doctor to discover I have sleep apnea. Got my first job at McDonald's.
2002: Quit McDonald's and started working at Pizzeria Regina. Got my first car, my red 1990 Mazda MX6. Had my first surgery, my tonsils and adenoids were removed. Started dating Damon. Took a photography class at The Hartford Art School. Got accepted into the only college I applied to, School of Visual Arts in New York City.
2003: Turned 18. Got my first 2 tattoos. Graduated high school. Got my wisdom teeth removed. Started my first year of college at SVA as a photography major. Moved to New York City.
2004: Transferred to Holyoke Community College. Damon broke up with me. Joined the Come Again Players, a Rocky Horror shadow cast. Started working at the HCC Bookstore. Got next 2 tattoos.
2005: Started dating Miseph. Had to get rid of my first car and got my current one. Moved to Sunderland with Miseph and Kiernan. Got my first mouse, Fay Wray. Got another tattoo. Took a road trip to Florida with CAP people. End of December was the last time I worked at Pizzeria Regina.
2006: Graduated from Holyoke Community College. Started at UMass Amherst as an Art Education major. Turned 21. Got my first digital SLR camera. Adopted my bunny, Claude Rains.
2007: Fay Wray died. Started the beginning of the end of my Bachelor's degree, my pre practicum. Started going to conventions.
2008: Student taught at Granby Jr/Sr High School and Van Sickle Middle School. Got licensed to teach Visual Arts for grades PreK-12. Graduated from UMass Amherst with my Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree.Mispeh and I moved to Belchertown. Flew for the first time when I traveled to Costa Rica. Long-term subbed for the art teacher at East Meadow School. Reconnected with Damon.
2009: Started working as a paraprofessional at Granby Jr/Sr High School. Also long-term subbed for the art teacher at West Street School. Helped Tegan get Happy Hour Burlesque off the ground. Joined Genetic Imperfection. Celebrated 5 years with the Come Again Players. Got hired as the 7th and 8th grade art teacher and life skills paraprofessional at Granby Jr/Sr High School. Got my 6th tattoo.
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| the 'l' word. |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|01:21 am] |
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i am so hook-line-and-sinker in lo...
wait, wait, wait.
i don't use that word unless i'm sure i mean it.
but infatuation sure does feel the same.
you smell good, and clean, and manly.
i don't ever want to forget the way you smell.
i don't ever want to forget the way you smile. |
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[Dec. 28th, 2009|07:51 pm] |
what a fantastic holiday weekend!
christmas was great....i went to my parents house in the morning to give them their gifts and they all seemed to really like the rubbish pottery i made for them.....my mother finished the afgan she made for bern and me and gave me the go to make an autobody appointment.....also chocolate, a bottle of wine and some really useful stocking stuffers.....a sketch pad......man man man.....twenty five and excited like a little kid....
then we went to our aunt and uncles in windsor for christmas dinner and it was ridiculous fun this year! bern came with me for the first time in four years haha.....i have nothing against young people but it's just great because finally the youngest person there was sixteen or something so it was just a really chill day...everybody got along and had a good time...then back to my parents house for a little post-christmas christmas but by then i was seriously tired and opted to just go home and hit the sack but then when we got there, my cousin sarah and her fiance who i thought already drove back to north dakota after her father's funeral were in my sisters living room so it was really great to see them again...
so then in addition to the wine and chocolate, shar also got tickets for the patriots game on sunday so we went together and had the best time ever! not only did they totally crush the jaguars but everything else was super great too....she mad shrimp skewers, gourmet grilled cheeses, a cheese and cracker plate, and wine! she called it tailgating lori style-i love it! and we were tossing around a brand new football, and our hands became dyed red because it never got wet before. it was hilarious because we were sticking our hands in the puddles to rinse off the dye and using the sani can hand sanitizer to cancel out what was on the ground and like a half hour later without even thinking, i was eating the shrimp and licked my fingers and it tasted like rubbing alcohol..haha
then on our way home shar got a call from the parents of the children she used to nanny and they asked us if we minding popping by for the youngest's fifith birthday so OF COURSE we went and it was a great time there too! they have this really young super wild laberdoodle that i just love to peices and little liam was beside himself to see shar....just really good people those
and today wasn't too too bad at work....two people are on vacation so i'm stuck as a back-up cashier which is the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE (i'd really rather stack pallets outside in the snow for hours than ring a register...ANYTHING but that) but i was still able to get the bulk of what i had intended to get done today-done.....so i suppose it wasn't awful |
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| in over my head. |
[Dec. 28th, 2009|12:26 am] |
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i have sixteen pages of email in my inbox because i hate deleting things that make me happy.
my first message is from august 13th, 2002 and it's from dana.
i miss being young(er) and all my friends and only worrying about who to hang out with and how to make that happen. and boys. there was always boys.
now i don't do anything.
unless you count work... |
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[Dec. 24th, 2009|08:24 pm] |
it doesn't feel like christmas one bit
maybe because i ate a bowl of rice crispies for dinner...
or that i had to hide all my wrapped gifts in the kitchen pantry because patrick was determind to devour them.....
or maybe because there are no christmas decorations in my apartment...
about the only thing that does feel like christmas is my checking account balance...
and there's nothing like showing up to christmas dinner with one inch roots because your credit card got declined in walgreens |
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[Dec. 19th, 2009|09:12 am] |
school is done for now! i'm so excited to just clean my apartment and relax on a saturday!
i requested a limit increase for my credit card because my check was so low, i used the entire thing to pay my minimal balance (i had to use my overdraft to pay for the lovely expensive as fuck co pays for my expensive as fuck insurance and owed the bank like seventy dollars....seventy dollars that would normally be groceries and my phone bill)....anyway, so dude tells me my credit is good and it shouldn't be a problem but it wont be processed until wednesday which basically completely defeats the purpose because i have not purchased one christmas present and rent is due...
my life is fucking awesome right now.....i should have gone to fucking college earlier so i wouldn't be thirty before i could assume a normal heart rate |
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