| Inauguration Day |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|01:39 pm] |
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I am excited about the Obama Inauguration tomorrow and the Obama presidency that comes after. I feel good about being an American. I feel like better times are on the horizon for our country. I especially appreciate Obama's assertion that people need to stop being so "me"-centered and starting helping others more. I mean, is it so hard to help someone out? Do most people have so much that they can't give something/anything to someone else who's having a rough time? Some of the people I know that give the most are ones that have the least. |
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| wheeee!!! |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|10:56 pm] |
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i bought chris a Wii for his birthday (and christmas and other holidays for the next few months). he absolutely loved it. and wants to get up early friday morning to buy guitar hero during the black friday sales....what's awesome is....his sister already bought it for him and he will get it tomorrow when she arrives!!!!! |
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| Obama |
[Nov. 6th, 2008|09:47 am] |
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go Obama!!!!! I am beyond excited that he will be our new president. I thought McCain's speech was very gracious. And I cried during Obama's speech. I remember how devastated I was 4 years ago when Bush won and how great it felt to wake up yesterday and know that America got it right. I had a great time talking with all the kids on my caseload yesterday about how wonderful it was that Obama won. |
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| Poll |
[Sep. 29th, 2008|07:47 am] |
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I read today that the McCain camp is thinking of moving up Bristol Palin's wedding to prior to the election to boost the campaign. I hope that's not true. That's disgusting. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|03:26 pm] |
Things they should add to a social worker's job application:
1. can you successfully execute a u-turn while talking on the phone to your supervisor and looking at a map?
2. will you be able to handle hours of only talking to people with mental health diagnoses and not need mental health treatment yourself?
3. are you okay with eating lunch at 3 PM? (maybe...)And then eating it in your car on your way to somewhere else?
4. are you okay with only getting say 1 or 2 things on your to-do list done because 900 other things popped up?
5. can you conduct an interview while sirens wail in the background and/or the neighbors are having a domestic violence dispute in their front yard?
6. are you willing to overlook the gun on someone's dining room table while getting paperwork signed?
7. are you able to follow directions like "you turn left on the first dirt road past the city landfill, cross two cattle guards, and it's the only double wide in the trailer park on your right"?
If so, do we have the low-paying job for you!!!!! |
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| independence vs dependence |
[Sep. 16th, 2008|06:32 pm] |
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I feel like since Chris and I started dating, I have gotten a lot more independent as far as fixing things, solving work crises etc. I mean two years ago, I hardly knew what a phillips head screwdriver was. And last week, I was working late and Chris was two beers into happy hour when I swung by the other house to discover that the security alarm wasn't working. So I fixed it using a pair of tweezers (and yes, I am way proud of this considering I had a hard time changing my NC tags to TN ones). But today, I got a speeding ticket and was so upset I called Chris and had to get him to call me down. I feel like I rely on him more to regulate my emotions than I did two years ago. Like, I'm a grown-up, I know getting a speeding tickets isn't the end of the world but somehow hearing him tell me that made me believe it. I hope this is normal. |
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| news flash |
[Sep. 11th, 2008|09:52 am] |
after 8 1/2 long months of renovation, WE ARE MOVING IN NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!
the house is not done but done enough to be lived it. Hallelujah, praise the lord!!! |
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| what bothers me most |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|09:04 pm] |
...about this sarah palin thing is this: She knew if she accepted the VP nomination, this news would become public on a national and global scale. I think that when you become a parent, your first duty is to protect your child. With that in mind, why would anyone choose to have their daughter put in that kind of scrutiny? Why not just decline the nomination and let her have her baby/marriage in relative obscurity? Is Sarah Palin so blinded by her own ambition that she sacrificed her daughter? Is that the kind of person we want one heartbeat away from the Presidency? And the Republican party has the nerve to issue this statement, "The Palins asked for privacy around their daughter and we hope that will be respected." really? if you wanted privacy you should have stayed in Alaska.
And on another note, I hate the religious right hailing her daughter's decision as 'brave, courageous'. If Barack Obama (or Joe Biden for that matter) had an unwed pregnant teen, they would be skewered alive. They would say things like "if a man can't control his child, how can he control his country?" |
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| please share your opinions |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|02:54 pm] |
PLEASE!
I need some insight on this whole McCain/Palin thing. Granted I don't know much about her, just what I've heard in the past couple of days and read on the internet. This is what I get from the internet: The Republicans seem to think this is the most brilliant choice ever and the Dems seem to think McCain is desperately trying to court Hillary's voters while appeasing social conservatives by picking someone who is soooo vocally pro-life. I mean surely there are other Republicans (male and female) who are more qualified to be vice-president? Is she a dynamic speaker? Anyone? Is she being offered up as an alternative to Hillary (like vote Republican because there's a woman on the ticket) or the antithesis to Hillary (a relatively inexperienced pro-life conservative)?
I'm not sure I know what I think yet though I kinda like this comment from cnn.com
Christine writes:
I am a true-blue Hillary supporter, but I am sure Hillary did not mean to put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling so that a pro-life, pro-gun, home-schooling nobody from the frozen tundra of Alaska could slide in. Go Obama. |
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| Men |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|01:34 pm] |
So C and I were eating outside the other day and he starts telling me about this really cool spider he saw. He tells me, "it's black and has a really big abdomen with like a red hourglass shape on it." I freak out and say, "a black widow?" He replies, "I dunno, is that what they look like? Do you wanna see it, it's right over there?" Points to behind me a few feet. I instantly jump up and try to kill the freaking thing.
Then yesterday, we're trying to move our new stove down some stairs. While moving it, it slips and cuts the hell out of his hand. So we're standing there and he's talking to me about how to finish moving the stove and all I can look at is the blood dripping down his hand and splashing onto the sidewalk. He "fixes" it by wrapping a rag around it and securing it with duct tape around his wrist. He did, I must admit, get it looked at by a doctor today who wouldn't give him stitches because the wound was more than 8 hours old. And I did take pictures of the blood stains on our sidewalk...just like other sidewalks in east nashville.... |
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| A note |
[Aug. 24th, 2008|09:26 pm] |
To the almost 50% of Hillary supporters who are not supporting Obama,
As much as we wanted Hillary to win the Democratic nomination, she didn't. S, although, our pony still isn't in the race, the values, ideas and hope she had for America still are very much alive. It's silly not to put our support behind Obama. Hillary has. Bill has. For me, I supported Hillary because I wanted to see health care, education and ending the war as priorities. Supporting McCain does not make any sense as he doesn't see any of those things as priorities.
Many people wanted to see Hillary as the VP candidate. She isn't. Biden is a good, strong choice and one Obama and his team feel will make his team stronger. I don't think him not choosing Hillary was a personal slight. He wants to win and I think if he felt she would make his ticket the strongest, it would be an Obama/Clinton ticket. An Obama/Biden ticket has a lot to offer the country. And who knows, if he is elected, maybe he will make one of the Clintons high up in his administration or even a supreme court justice? He won't be able to do any of that if McCain is president. In fact, if McCain becomes president, Roe v. Wade will most likely be overturned, we will stay in Iraq long enough to see our grandchildren fight that war, and those without health insurance will remain uninsured.
We wanted Hillary because we were tired of a Republican in the White House, so let's put a Democrat there. Vote Obama!!!! |
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| Text message |
[Aug. 23rd, 2008|12:10 am] |
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So far, 8 different news websites have informed me that Joe Biden is the VP pick. My text message promising me to be the 'first to know' has still not come yet. Waiting. |
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| BRUUUUUCE!!! |
[Aug. 22nd, 2008|09:02 am] |
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Bruce Springsteen puts on a hell of a show! The concert was awesome last night! |
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| 2 things I will continue to do despite getting ridiculed for them |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|11:09 pm] |
1. wear spf 50. i don't care how awesome tan skin looks, i am a pale girl and plan to stay that way. A few years ago, I had to wait almost a week for results of a mole removal and it's worth the teasing I get for constantly reapplying sunscreen to never have to worry like that again.
2. wear ear plugs to shows. I can already tell that spending the early part of my 20s right next to the speaker at every show I went to has taken its toll on my hearing. All I can do is preserve what I got left. I don't care how lame anyone thinks it is. |
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| anniversary |
[Aug. 16th, 2008|12:07 am] |
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Chris and I have been together for two years. The best two years of my life. I love him so much and think he's the most wonderful person ever. I am very thankful for Chris and our life together. We have a lot to look forward to also. We should be in the house in the next month or so and then we are getting a dog. |
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| is it that surprising... |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|07:03 pm] |
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that a county that violates all sorts of international treaties and human rights conditions lies about the ages of their gymnasts? |
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| A most amazing week. |
[Aug. 7th, 2008|02:57 pm] |
Last week, I had what I consider the highlight, not only of my professional career but in my life in general. I had the opportunity to serve as the social worker for a camp for kids in foster care. This camp is amazing. It serves 32 kids ages 7-11. The staff, the camp, the kids. All of it was awesome. The kids get the chance to just be kids and play and swim and skip rocks in the river and not have to worry about permanency plans, or adoption hearings or all the other crap. This one girl came in on Monday and I could tell from the second she walked in she was going to be a challenge. She walked talked and acted like an adult. Her worker told me she is the oldest of 6 kids and grew up taking care of them. By Tuesday night, she was hunting frogs and crickets and having a ball. We had a few issues with her (like you know, asking the lifeguard on a date) but for the most part, she just had fun. I spent my week getting to love and spend time with these kids. The adults were pretty awesome too. I mean, there were 40 staff people, all of whom took a week of vacation to come to west TN to hang out and care for these kids. That's pretty cool to me. It was nice also, not to have to interact with foster kids on a paperwork/bureaucratic level but to get to hang out with them.
Thursday night, the camp throws the kids a birthday party because a lot of them have never had a birthday party before. They got backpacks full of stuff but most cool I think was that each kid got an MP3 player with the songs from worship loaded onto it. They put those headphones in their ears so fast and were humming along with the music the rest of the night. We were pulling the earbuds out of their ears after they fell asleep because no one wanted to take theirs off.
Camp was full of love and fun. It was hard to come back to work this week. I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity to have gone. Kids in foster care and their foster parents are my heros. Somehow, they are able to get up everyday and make as normal a life as possible even though the adults in their lives they should have been able to trust the most, have failed them. I don't know that I could have gone to school everyday and learned about math and spelling if I didn't have a mom or dad or I was worried about if I was ever going to see them again. These kids were amazing and I feel like a little better of a person for getting to know them. |
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| Nerd alert |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|03:50 pm] |
Okay, I feel like a total dork posting about my weekend. It reminds me of that scene from Old School when Will Ferrell is talking about his Saturday plans. Something about going to Home Depot and if they have time going to Bed Bath and Beyond. He says, "you know, pretty big for a saturday." Chris and I bought a dryer on Saturday and had quite the time wrestling onto the trailer. Then Sunday we drove out to Centerville and bought a pantry and antique kitchen table that is just awesome. There. I said it. I am excited about my new kitchen table. I don't even care how lame it sounds.
Oh yea, and we saw Wall-E. You know, pretty big for a Saturday.
Next week, I am serving as the social worker at a camp for kids in foster care. I am totally excited about that too, even though I am taking a week of vacation time to do it. |
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| vacation |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|11:31 am] |
Just got back from a lovely wonderful 5 days in Florida with Chris and his family.
Highlights include:
-Chris and I took a 3 hour walk on the beach. It didn't start out to be that long, we were just walking and talking and never bothered to turn around so we got 3.5 miles down the shore line and realized we had to walk back to the car.
-Sushi.
-Jet-skis.
-Watching Chris and his dad water ski.
-Having a great view of the fireworks and not having to sit in any traffic to see them
-Chris and his brother body-surfing and trying to teach me how (it was unsuccessful, but entertaining)
-Time with Chris without having to paint or talk about drywall, laundry or work
-Time with Chris' family.
I hope everyone had a great weekend!!! |
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