bethany grace panozzo is the best bff ever.
i have not called her to thank her for the AWESOME birthday package in the mail. but know that it was full of things that make me smile and think of beth. not the least of which is twerpz, which i have spoken so highly of over and over again on here.and i'm pretty sure she had to order them online, since walgreens doesn't sell them anymore.
anyway, she is the best ever, and if i had a megaphone and a mountain, i'd tell the world. but i don't. i have a computer and a blog, so that will have to do.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
fifty thousand screaming fans can't be wrong
there has been quite the outcry, i tell you. a deluge of rage. all 4 of you who read this are UP IN ARMS over lack of updates. which is in fact, a complete exaggeration. but i like a little drama every now and then. dramadramadrama.
where do i even begin, i ask? i will start with today and work backwards till that DARN carpal tunnel kicks in.
so today i went on a supersecret mission that i will not divulge on this free and open blogosphere in which we find ourselves. rather, i will tell you in person. if you ask politely and if you have clearance for news of this magnitude. but for now let's just say it involved an entire morning, lots of corn, and some unfriendly government workers. in somewhat-related news, i also got my indiana driver's license (after only missing 2 questions on the test. [sigh of relief, as the others in there did NOT far so well} it was actualyl kind of hard, especially where you had to say what a sign meant based on SHAPE ALONE. well, not i know that railroad crossing signs are round. had never noticed that, because i was paying attention to what the sign actually said. but i digress)
anyway, i also taught little levi a piano lesson, during which he tickled my arm and told me to hold on to the tickle so it will stay with me all night. so cute.
i have an 8-hour class on saturday, and my days have been spent reading and writing in preparation. finshed an 8=[age paper tonight, and i have another book to read and 8 more pages to write before saturday. what complicates that is the fact that i'm doing the indy NITE ride tomorrow night--a late night ride through downtown. yay.
i also spent a good part of an hour catching up with my wonderful friend jessica from fremont, ohio. we talk about once a year, but totally pick up where we left off. and where we left off is usually mocking our junior-high selves back when we lived next door to one another during the mid 90s. if you could see my 8th grade yearbook picture, you would see why this girl is a saint. she was my friend, despite my big bangs, highwaist tapered jeans and ginormous gap between my two buck teeth. a saint.
she and i took the infamous trip to l.a. in 2005, and if you've not heard my stories about said vacation, by all means, ask me next time. i tend to ramble when telling stories though, so here are the cue words o get me back to the important parts of the trip: psychic cat, "the annex," "will work for marijuana," and "pacific sands MOTEL."
[in related news, never stay in a "motel"-type establishment in santa monica. or you will be the only sober non-prostitute female. you and your old navy sundress and suitcase on wheels. you innocent ponytail and paperback novel will scream "wholesome midwesterner" and you will stick out like a sore thumb at the pacific sands motel. you do not belong.
another hint to get the heck out of there is when you are instructed to walk your suitcase on wheels down an ALLEY to get to your room. at that point you may want to cut your losses and run. past the condemned mcdonalds overrun with shopping carts full of CATS to the recently remodeled and impeccably clean holiday inn across the street. it's hit-or-miss in santa monica, i tell you what.]
anyway...i went to target, spent $49. shocking, i know. but this time, it was all things i NEEEDED. and that is the truth. and that is a shock. that store is all at once magical and deceitful. the items call me forth and beckon to be buyed. but today i said "no more." i have to save up for my fun summer plans that lie ahead. and by fun summer plans, of course i mean driving to ohio a couple times, michigan another couple times., and perhaps getting ice cream here in indy every now and then. but you know what, i'm looking forward to it. it's the little things.
so it's stinkin hot outside. i am very blessed though by a well-insulated apartment. it is comfortably cool and i haven't even needed to turn on the air. that is a huge huge deal, saving tons of money. i've worked out, done some school work, cleaned the kitchen and brushed my teeth. it's bedtime :)
where do i even begin, i ask? i will start with today and work backwards till that DARN carpal tunnel kicks in.
so today i went on a supersecret mission that i will not divulge on this free and open blogosphere in which we find ourselves. rather, i will tell you in person. if you ask politely and if you have clearance for news of this magnitude. but for now let's just say it involved an entire morning, lots of corn, and some unfriendly government workers. in somewhat-related news, i also got my indiana driver's license (after only missing 2 questions on the test. [sigh of relief, as the others in there did NOT far so well} it was actualyl kind of hard, especially where you had to say what a sign meant based on SHAPE ALONE. well, not i know that railroad crossing signs are round. had never noticed that, because i was paying attention to what the sign actually said. but i digress)
anyway, i also taught little levi a piano lesson, during which he tickled my arm and told me to hold on to the tickle so it will stay with me all night. so cute.
i have an 8-hour class on saturday, and my days have been spent reading and writing in preparation. finshed an 8=[age paper tonight, and i have another book to read and 8 more pages to write before saturday. what complicates that is the fact that i'm doing the indy NITE ride tomorrow night--a late night ride through downtown. yay.
i also spent a good part of an hour catching up with my wonderful friend jessica from fremont, ohio. we talk about once a year, but totally pick up where we left off. and where we left off is usually mocking our junior-high selves back when we lived next door to one another during the mid 90s. if you could see my 8th grade yearbook picture, you would see why this girl is a saint. she was my friend, despite my big bangs, highwaist tapered jeans and ginormous gap between my two buck teeth. a saint.
she and i took the infamous trip to l.a. in 2005, and if you've not heard my stories about said vacation, by all means, ask me next time. i tend to ramble when telling stories though, so here are the cue words o get me back to the important parts of the trip: psychic cat, "the annex," "will work for marijuana," and "pacific sands MOTEL."
[in related news, never stay in a "motel"-type establishment in santa monica. or you will be the only sober non-prostitute female. you and your old navy sundress and suitcase on wheels. you innocent ponytail and paperback novel will scream "wholesome midwesterner" and you will stick out like a sore thumb at the pacific sands motel. you do not belong.
another hint to get the heck out of there is when you are instructed to walk your suitcase on wheels down an ALLEY to get to your room. at that point you may want to cut your losses and run. past the condemned mcdonalds overrun with shopping carts full of CATS to the recently remodeled and impeccably clean holiday inn across the street. it's hit-or-miss in santa monica, i tell you what.]
anyway...i went to target, spent $49. shocking, i know. but this time, it was all things i NEEEDED. and that is the truth. and that is a shock. that store is all at once magical and deceitful. the items call me forth and beckon to be buyed. but today i said "no more." i have to save up for my fun summer plans that lie ahead. and by fun summer plans, of course i mean driving to ohio a couple times, michigan another couple times., and perhaps getting ice cream here in indy every now and then. but you know what, i'm looking forward to it. it's the little things.
so it's stinkin hot outside. i am very blessed though by a well-insulated apartment. it is comfortably cool and i haven't even needed to turn on the air. that is a huge huge deal, saving tons of money. i've worked out, done some school work, cleaned the kitchen and brushed my teeth. it's bedtime :)
Friday, June 12, 2009
on bottled water and those butler bulldogs
the birthday celebration this morning was a smash hit. my grandpa loved the birthday card with a monkey on it and we had all sorts of important discussions. why bottled water is a waste of money. where i can take pop cans to recycle them. the butler bulldogs upcoming trip to italy. it was a lovely morning.
i rounded out my afternoon at panera and then poolside with friends. two of my favorite places to be. despite the cloudy sky, i am a litle bit pink.
life is good
i rounded out my afternoon at panera and then poolside with friends. two of my favorite places to be. despite the cloudy sky, i am a litle bit pink.
life is good
Thursday, June 11, 2009
back in business
ok. three things
a.) thank you aefisher84, my ipod is charged and i can once again work out. and i did. and it was awesome.
b.) how about that swine flu?
c.) i am kiiiind of up to my ears in work for school, but i have a much better attitude about it and a new resolve to make the most of this summer. this is good.
my back has been insanely sore the other day, so i've started sleeping on my back and juuuust might go get a massage this weekend. desperate times call for desperate measures.
a couple funny things happened today. first, one of my favorite students, sam (the eighth grader who had BUSINESS CARDS. i mean, why wouldn't you) put one of his science project videos on youtube. anyway, there's this one part where sam is part of a newscast, playing the part of the interviewer, interviewing an "expert" on BOTH volcanoes and earthquakes. He asks this expert to explain the similarities between volcanoes and earthquakes. to which the "expert" replies, "there aren't too many similarities...actually there are none at all." ok. maybe you have to see it for yourself. i will get the link. anyway at the end of the interview sam goes, "up next...bette midler." haha. what 8th grade boy from 2008 knows who bette midler is?
i also had piano lesson #2 this week with levi. i wish i had a video camera when he's talking. it's totally hilarious and completely adorable. he told me today that my arms had hair on them and that i should probably shave them. he also told me that next year he's going to take stair lessons because he has "a little trouble" going up stairs. he also told me that i made "a few" mistakes in my rendition of ode to joy.
i am going running with my grandpa in the morning and then taking him out for coffee to celebrate his 81st year of life. nothing says happy birthday like a cream cheese danish and st-rong starbucks coffee in the butler student union. we know how to celebrate in style. it's like, go big or go home. right?
and finally tonight, my grandmother burst my proverbial bubble last fall when she told me that the plant i had managed to keep alive for 2 whole years was a philodendron, and that you "can't kill a philodendron even if you tried." well, grandma, i did try and it did die. i had been feeding it a ot-so-steady diet of tap water and the dregs of my morning coffee, and it still kept losing leaves and turning yellow. so i put it outside for a couple days, to get some sun and some water. well, holy torrential downpour the other night! so the leaves (which are on these vine-y like stems) were sitting in some stagnant water for about a day, and they started to rot. so i killed an unkillable plant. what am i going to do when i have children? can i be trusted to take care of any living thing? i think we know the answer, and this is not good.
goodnight and happy weekend! tomorrow's friday!!!
a.) thank you aefisher84, my ipod is charged and i can once again work out. and i did. and it was awesome.
b.) how about that swine flu?
c.) i am kiiiind of up to my ears in work for school, but i have a much better attitude about it and a new resolve to make the most of this summer. this is good.
my back has been insanely sore the other day, so i've started sleeping on my back and juuuust might go get a massage this weekend. desperate times call for desperate measures.
a couple funny things happened today. first, one of my favorite students, sam (the eighth grader who had BUSINESS CARDS. i mean, why wouldn't you) put one of his science project videos on youtube. anyway, there's this one part where sam is part of a newscast, playing the part of the interviewer, interviewing an "expert" on BOTH volcanoes and earthquakes. He asks this expert to explain the similarities between volcanoes and earthquakes. to which the "expert" replies, "there aren't too many similarities...actually there are none at all." ok. maybe you have to see it for yourself. i will get the link. anyway at the end of the interview sam goes, "up next...bette midler." haha. what 8th grade boy from 2008 knows who bette midler is?
i also had piano lesson #2 this week with levi. i wish i had a video camera when he's talking. it's totally hilarious and completely adorable. he told me today that my arms had hair on them and that i should probably shave them. he also told me that next year he's going to take stair lessons because he has "a little trouble" going up stairs. he also told me that i made "a few" mistakes in my rendition of ode to joy.
i am going running with my grandpa in the morning and then taking him out for coffee to celebrate his 81st year of life. nothing says happy birthday like a cream cheese danish and st-rong starbucks coffee in the butler student union. we know how to celebrate in style. it's like, go big or go home. right?
and finally tonight, my grandmother burst my proverbial bubble last fall when she told me that the plant i had managed to keep alive for 2 whole years was a philodendron, and that you "can't kill a philodendron even if you tried." well, grandma, i did try and it did die. i had been feeding it a ot-so-steady diet of tap water and the dregs of my morning coffee, and it still kept losing leaves and turning yellow. so i put it outside for a couple days, to get some sun and some water. well, holy torrential downpour the other night! so the leaves (which are on these vine-y like stems) were sitting in some stagnant water for about a day, and they started to rot. so i killed an unkillable plant. what am i going to do when i have children? can i be trusted to take care of any living thing? i think we know the answer, and this is not good.
goodnight and happy weekend! tomorrow's friday!!!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
my ipod is out of juice
and i lost my charging cord. this makes working out for any length of time especially difficult. blast.
so this weekend was filled with naps in the sunshine, homework, and family. my grandma was in the hospital all last week, and no one really decided to tell me this until thursday. anyway, my parents came down for the weekend to stay with her while my grandpa went to pennsylvania for his only brother's funeral. so it's been quite a week for them. it's sad to get old.
oooh, this will get all you children of the early nineties...my brother has a reputation in our family for always having a year's supply of music for any and all car trips. this includes trips around town. we were taking the 15-minute drive to my aunt's house on the other side of indy, and he whips out a SHOEBOX full of CDs. we proceeded to listen to 7 of them on the short drive over. our musical selections included, but were not limited to kriss kross and mc hammer: jump and too legit to quit, respectively.
jeff was actually a proud cardholding member of the kriss kross fan club back in the mid nineties. he was, in other words, dessork and totally krossed out.
saturday was our annual CFA proctoring day of fun. that means we spent 8 hours watching aspiring young financial analysts take a high states exam. it is mindnumbing, but worth the paycheck. however, a day's worth of sitting still has done a number on my nearly 26-year old back. i am getting so totally old.
this semester is slowly but surely owning me...i must get back to work. friends, i am looking forward to our tentative summer plans to reuinite, whether it be in traverse city or on the beach somewhere in west michigan. you know who you are. can't wait!!!
so this weekend was filled with naps in the sunshine, homework, and family. my grandma was in the hospital all last week, and no one really decided to tell me this until thursday. anyway, my parents came down for the weekend to stay with her while my grandpa went to pennsylvania for his only brother's funeral. so it's been quite a week for them. it's sad to get old.
oooh, this will get all you children of the early nineties...my brother has a reputation in our family for always having a year's supply of music for any and all car trips. this includes trips around town. we were taking the 15-minute drive to my aunt's house on the other side of indy, and he whips out a SHOEBOX full of CDs. we proceeded to listen to 7 of them on the short drive over. our musical selections included, but were not limited to kriss kross and mc hammer: jump and too legit to quit, respectively.
jeff was actually a proud cardholding member of the kriss kross fan club back in the mid nineties. he was, in other words, dessork and totally krossed out.
saturday was our annual CFA proctoring day of fun. that means we spent 8 hours watching aspiring young financial analysts take a high states exam. it is mindnumbing, but worth the paycheck. however, a day's worth of sitting still has done a number on my nearly 26-year old back. i am getting so totally old.
this semester is slowly but surely owning me...i must get back to work. friends, i am looking forward to our tentative summer plans to reuinite, whether it be in traverse city or on the beach somewhere in west michigan. you know who you are. can't wait!!!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
update... come and get it
hello all.
i've heard from half of my loyal followers regarding my failures as a human being. specifically, the lack of updates within the blogosphere.
well, here's the deal. i've been:
put down
pushed around
apprehended, and led downtown.
...and by that, i mean out of town and busy busy busy. and a little taken advantage of, but that's my own fault. and i have a pretty awesome co-worker who lets me vent for hours on end. actually, more like minutes on end. but that's all i need.
i had a glorious weekend in michigan's "great southwest" --lots of time catching up with former students and their families at grad parties and graduation on sunday. i played pomp and circumstance (4th year) for the ceremony and didn't mess it up! (1st time for everything :). and the kids noticed. ha...i cannot tell you how nice it was to be back there. while i am so grateful for the opportunity to go to grad school, and to do it here with the people in my program, i still love gcs. it feels like home. it was refreshing to spend time there this weekend. ahhhh.
did anyone else watch svu last night? um, i kept my hands over my eyes for most of it. intense. scary. and yet oddly satisfying.
and speaking of tv, what was nbc thinking in a,) kicking jay leno out of the tonight show time slot. conan is awkward and not funny. and b.) creating i'm a celebrity get me out of here. i turn the channel when the previews even come on. seriously? sanjaya?
and despite how much i talk about it, i don't really watch that much tv. but i do tend to talk about what i watch.
this is perhaps the most boring update i've ever written. i'm now taking suggestions for topics you'd like me to address...politics? ethics? social justice? wnat me to give stand up comedy a shot? acrobatics? tap dancing? an advice column?
i've heard from half of my loyal followers regarding my failures as a human being. specifically, the lack of updates within the blogosphere.
well, here's the deal. i've been:
put down
pushed around
apprehended, and led downtown.
...and by that, i mean out of town and busy busy busy. and a little taken advantage of, but that's my own fault. and i have a pretty awesome co-worker who lets me vent for hours on end. actually, more like minutes on end. but that's all i need.
i had a glorious weekend in michigan's "great southwest" --lots of time catching up with former students and their families at grad parties and graduation on sunday. i played pomp and circumstance (4th year) for the ceremony and didn't mess it up! (1st time for everything :). and the kids noticed. ha...i cannot tell you how nice it was to be back there. while i am so grateful for the opportunity to go to grad school, and to do it here with the people in my program, i still love gcs. it feels like home. it was refreshing to spend time there this weekend. ahhhh.
did anyone else watch svu last night? um, i kept my hands over my eyes for most of it. intense. scary. and yet oddly satisfying.
and speaking of tv, what was nbc thinking in a,) kicking jay leno out of the tonight show time slot. conan is awkward and not funny. and b.) creating i'm a celebrity get me out of here. i turn the channel when the previews even come on. seriously? sanjaya?
and despite how much i talk about it, i don't really watch that much tv. but i do tend to talk about what i watch.
this is perhaps the most boring update i've ever written. i'm now taking suggestions for topics you'd like me to address...politics? ethics? social justice? wnat me to give stand up comedy a shot? acrobatics? tap dancing? an advice column?
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