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December 25 2008 Synopsis1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? 2. Did anyone close to you give birth? 3. Did anyone close to you die? 4. What countries did you visit? 5. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? 6. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? 7. What was your biggest achievement of the year? 8. What was your biggest failure? Nothing is ever truly a failure. It is more like a trial run for the real thing. 9. Did you suffer illness or injury? A Cold in November and that is about it. 10. What was the best thing you bought? I can't think of anything 11. Where did most of your money go? House 12. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Laird 13. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008? "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson
i. Happier or sadder? Happier, love does wonders ii. Lighter or Heavier? Heavier but back on Weight Watchers I go iii. richer or poorer? The same. I have money in the bank but my house has lost a bit of value as many people would say 15. What do you wish you’d done more of? Can't think of anything, maybe scrapbooking and writing. 16. What do you wish you’d done less of? Nothing 17. How will you be spending Christmas? I will be spending it with my parents and brother and grandmother at their home. 18. What was your favorite TV program? 24, Numbers, CSI, Samantha Who, AMW, Cold Case, Heroes, there is so much I rush home for nowadays. 19. What was the best book you read? I re read some childhood favorites of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. 20. What was your greatest musical discovery? Not I can think of. 21. What did you want and get? I wanted to pass my Science Class, go to Las Vegas, be successful at my job, and I feel I did all of this! 22. What was your favorite film of this year? I really liked Sex and The City, Juno, Indiana Jones, X Files, Atonement, Burn After Reading, Iron Man! 23. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 34 and my friends tried to take me to the Ingrid Michaelson the Friday before. However, it was sold out. On the actual day, I spent the day working in my pajamas . 24. What kept you sane? Working. Constantly working, the peace of my home, and Laird. 25. What made you crazy? School 26. Where did you ring in 2008? At home, single, sick and in bed. 27. What was your status by Valentine’s Day? Presenting in my PE class. 28. Were you in school (anytime this year)? Working in one and taking classes at another. 29. How did you earn your keep? The two jobs, Target and Registrar. 12 years at Target and 7 years at Westwood.
Not once. Knock on Wood.
31. Did you encounter the police? Other than at work, not that I recall 32. Where did you go on vacation? I went to Cabo San Lucas with Sonya in April. Then Las Vegas with Tracey, Meghann and Beth. These trips were fun. 33. What did you purchase that was over $500? No major purchases this year. 34. Did you know anybody who got married? I went to the wedding of a co-workers in June 35. Have you run into anybody you graduated high school with? All the time. 36. Did you move anywhere? No. I am pretty stationary. 37. What sporting events did you go to? Other than my niece's soccer games, no sporting events were on my calendar 38. What concerts did you go to? I won tickets to Santana through KBCO's Select-A-Set Weekend in September. Counting Crows were here the following weekend with Augustana and Marroon 5. I almost saw Ingrid Michaelson if the tickets had not sold out a half hour earlier. One of the more impressive concerts though was my niece's school choir concert at the local high school. 39. Are you registered to vote? Of course
40.) If so, did you do your patriotic duty in Nov? Hell Yes! 41. Where do you live now? My house, mine all mine (and my brother's and the mortgage company's)
42. What’s the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2008? Sang Karaoke 43. What is one thing you regretted this year? Je ne rien regret ( I have no regrets) 44. What’s something you learned about yourself? My heart could open up agai, full and wide 45. Any new additions to your family? None 46. What was your best month? All of them. 47. What from pop culture will you remember 2008 by? DNC-Wondering around Downtown with old friends in the great sense of energy. September 10 If elephants can miss members of their pack, why can't dogs?
He has been gone for 11 years and I still miss him. I wish I could sit next to him but this is as close as I can get... July 07 Why Paris?A friend asked me where my fascination with French culture and, most importantly Paris, comes from. I could not give her a definitive answer. I can not trace it to an one moment in my life. What I believe is this grew from is a sum of experiences that led up to the greatest vacation I have ever took! I remember seeing Chanel commercials as a young child., so graceful and sexy though I probably would not have said so at the time. I remember seeing the Red Balloon in first grade. The story was simple but, the landscape is what really got me with the grey streets punctuated with color. The interest grew in my favorite movies with lines like, "We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night" or And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes. I remember seeing Audrey Hepburn striding through Fashion Central, Cooking School, and Intrigue on Saturday night movies on PBS and thought, "this is for me". I saw images of the sites on the news, on television, and in movies over the years. I learned about the culture and the history of the country. When it came to junior high and choosing a language to study, my choice was obvious (although not practical) was French. While girls had posters of the latest heartthrobs on their wall, I had one shot of the Eiffel Tower at dusk, glowing against the violet sky. In high school, I was in French club although a language class would not fit into my class schedule. I would have studied abroad in Paris if I didn't have a nervous mother. I had hoped to go on my honeymoon but such was not the case. It was easy to see what I wanted, it was harder to make it happen. When things turned for me, I pulled money together, little by little, and saved for my passport and two days in Paris. June 13 June 13, 2008 Since the beginning of this summer, I have been busy with my house:
June 04 Rank Jon Kristin's brother and roommate. Subject Matter Expert: Soccer, Physical Education, Quoting movies at the weirdest and oddest times, teasing Kristin and Mia like there's no tomorrow, oh yeah, did I mention SoccerMia Jon's daughter and semi-permenant house guest of Jon's and Kristin's Subject Matter Expert: Radio Disney Tunes, Soccer, Conversational diversions, Pop TartsJune 03 Hey big-puffy-version-of-JunebugTwo movies have come out recently that have to do with the word "Junebug". Both have pregnant characters that are not truly ready for parenthood and odd eating habits. Both deal with family tension. Both happen in the blur of small town/suburbia. Both end in a way that you don't expect. However, one mother is prepared to name her daugher Junebug. The other mother is called Junebug. June 02 LiliacsI remember liliacs blooming in the summer sun and the lilty aroma swaying in the cool evening breeze. Most yards I knew had a lilac bush and I miss not having some land so I could plant one under my bedroom window. I could smell them all night long all night during those two weeks when they bloom. Scent is said to be one of the strongest ties to memory. I think so. Liliacs remind me of my childhood. They take me to a time when school was ending for summer and all the possibities of rest and play and life seemed possible. It has been so long since I was not working to simply enjoy the lazy summer days. The liliacs remind me that one day I will have those lazy days again. Introduction to "I Remember Mondays"Welcome to I Remember Mondays! This comes from a writing exercise from my teen years. I came across this book at my local library many years ago and I instantly fell in love with the writing exercises and the tales of living a writer's life. It spoke to me in a deep way, like someone understood the writer inside of me. It also helped me when I have had writer's block. One of the basic exercises is to start with "I remember" and go. Here we go... May 19 NameI was born in the middle of a football game on a Sunday in November 1974 to two newlyweds along the Rocky Mountains. And everything has gone from there... As the oldest of two children(My brother came around when I was two), I was the artistic intellectual while he was the athlete. My parents are half Norwegian Minnesotians so I am half Norwegian but do not expect lutefisk to be served anytime in my house. My childhood is filled memories of my grandparents, family vacations, learning and growing. I grew up in the same house that my parents owned for 25 years. In fact, I currently live within 5 miles of that house. I am a hometown girl through and through and graduated from the local high school in my 18th year. I decided to go away for college but returned after three semesters and finish school at a local college. When I was away, I met my first love. We were together for the next five years until I met my husband. I married at the age of 26 to a man I believed loved me and wanted the same things I wanted. I was mistaken though and we divorced five years later. During the separation in the last year of our marriage, I began to realize what I wanted to be. I wanted to go to Paris, own my own house, become a teacher and write. I wanted to be a woman who took risks, went on adventures, and was content with my life. I wanted to be someone my niece would be proud to know because I am strong and courageous. This is my life and what I want to be. Subject Matter Expert: Dance, World Class Rock, World History, English Literature, The Study of Psychology, Paris, Higher Education, Films (Old, new, test me!), making gooey crispy rice bars, Art Appreciation, Scrapbooking, Knitting, meanless tidbits of trivia that only mean something in bars on Trivia nights April 08 John Hughes/Molly Ringwald TriologyThese movies take me back to the awkward high school years. John Hughes captures those moments between childhood and adulthood with Molly Ringwald as his muse. They are about A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse, a birthday gone so wrong and so right, and the cliques we all survive. Fictional Writer's BlockAt times, I understand the feelings however the surreality has never happened to me.
Although, I have not found a muse to aleve this malady.
There goes the neighborhood...There is the Smiths (they are gun enthusiastists), Mrs. Parker (she drinks a bit too much), Mrs. Doubtfire (watch out for what's under the skirt) and Mr Ripley (he's a killer). When I go out with artists...Artists have always intrigued me. It is something about the lives they have led and what inspires them. Frida Kahlo and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec are two artists' lives that are fanscinating. I pray you, sir, is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates?Kate is one of the most interest female characters that Shakespeare had written. The modern intrepretations of her show that she is never truly tamed. Whether she is singing, a high school senior, or half of a TV duo, she exudes that confidence and fraility of the modern woman. |
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