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Anna
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Apr 16, 2010 06:35PM
Thats so great Paula, I love when little things like that can change the whole tempo of a day.
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work was brutal for me this past weekend but I live across from an elementary school and they just started pee-wee t-ball practice. Every night on my walk home I get to watch little kids learn the finer points of baseball and it just makes my day. What makes it even better is that a lot of the dads/coaches are locals and I feed most of them lunch every day.
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There is a tee ball team that plays at a park near by, when I go walk my dog, I have to stop and watch. So cute! When I was little my parents put me on a tee ball team. I was that kid that spun in circles in the outfield.
My younger cousins have started playing soccer, Baylie is 11 and her brother Devon is 8. Baylie, the poor thing, is just like I was at that age. We look like sisters. She is 5'2 and skinny. She hasn't learned how to use all of her limbs yet and usually manages to trip over the ball, kick it backwards or trip over her own feet. lol. She's getting a lot better though. I love watching the kids play. When Devon plays it's even better, the kids are younger and understand even less. I laugh every time I see a kid try to go the wrong way, or sits down to play with the grass.
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My aunt lives about 4 hours away, and they came down Easter weekend, so I thought I would lend her some books. She called yesterday to ask about another aunt that was having surgery, and told me The Boy in the Striped Pajamas made her cry. I love that she liked it.
So I'm kinda sad. I had planned visiting my friend this summer. She got married in December and moved to California. Her husband is in the Air Force and is stationed out there. I haven't seen her since the wedding, which may not seem all that long but we've known each other since we were seven and we lived less than a mile apart from each other. So this was a big adjustment. But in June her husband is being transferred to Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls Montana, much closer. I had planned on flying out there to visit for a weekend. I never realized how expensive it was! $450 was the minimum price. I was hoping to find a better deal. But I'm not planning to visit until August so that gives me some time to plan. :) If any of you know of good places to check for good deals on airfare, let me know!
that is crazy expensive, I really like planning pretend trips so I looked into it. I had you going from SLC to Grand Falls (GTF) and sure enough flights were about 500 but flights elsewhere seem about right (it would be much cheaper for you to visit them in CA). The issue appears to be in GTF because flights to/from SLC seem average but to/from GTF (and most of MT) are outrageous. I know that doesn't really help but maybe if there is some temporary thing going on in MT flights will go down soon.
Thanks for looking into that for me, Annashu. :) I think the main problem is that Great Falls is such a small airport.
I think that is probably true, I was thinking that maybe since MT is so big and sparsely populated that all the airports are fairly small.
A while ago I posted that I might be going to Italy, tonight my mom and I talked about it and we decided to wait a year. We were going to go with some friends of hers but the timing really wasn't right so I would only have been able to go for about a week and it really didn't make sense considering the cost of airfare (almost $1,900). But we are going to start planning for next year!
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Just was facebook added by an old friend whose profile pic looked just like I remembered, but the current family pic, are you sure that is you? :) So funny.
haha Tami, yes I've been thinking that. A few people I probably wouldn't even realize it was them if it weren't for their old photos. Some people have either really let themselves go, or have really grown up. I've been out of high school for 3 years, and I still get surprised when someone I use to know fairly well has gotten married, and already has kids.
I just found my childhood best friend from when I lived in California on Facebook. I moved away when I was 6 and I've only seen her once after that, and that was 10 years ago. She lives in Germany now, me in Florida and we are both in college. It was so nice to find her! And apparently her older brother, whom I was friends with too, is a semi-famous country singer in Nashville! lol! :)
That's so exciting Kelly! One of these days I think I'm going to get out my yearbooks from elementary school and look up the people who moved away. I can remember people's first names but not their last name.
Haha, okay, so something really random happened today. I'm going to move in with a friend in a few weeks, so I'm currently trying to figure out how to decorate my room. I went out today to dispatch some letters - just a five-minute walk, really - and when I got back to my apartment house, someone had left a baobab in front of the front door. I went up to my flat, grabbed my mother to take a look at the plant with me, walked down again, tried to figure out if someone was meaning to take it up again... and then took it and off I went :) Now the baobab is happily (or so I like to imagine) sitting in the bathroom, drying off. I love it already :) It's pretty huge, and I've always been fond of baobabs since I grew one from tiny (when I got it in first grade) to huge myself. :D
I just wanted to stop by and say how much I miss reading!!! Things are so crazy here w/ graduation coming up that I just don't have time to read or get on GR or anything. This summer that will change!! :]
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Lynn--We miss you!! :) Hopefully you can survive this semester because then you are DONE!! :)
Have any of you ever made a bucket list? I am currently working on one. I'm only up to about number 40 right now, but I am getting excited just thinking about doing a few of these things!
I thought about it, maybe even started one but then it occurred to me that I really just want to do everything. I also have a "1000 places to see before you die" book and tried marking all the ones I especially wanted to see but I stopped when I realized every page was marked.
Anyone from the Chicago, Illinois area???
Just about everyone has left campus for the summer and it's really hitting me...My college career is almost over!! :'[
I'm on the verge of freaking out.
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my public library posted this as their facebook status for the day and thought I should share:"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most
powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which
belongs to you."
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, quoted in his autobiography "Life", in which he confesses his secret longing to be a librarian.
Annashu-I love that quote!As a random comment, I love working with all guys. They are so easy going, they don’t get in petty fights like women do. And they never fail to make me laugh, one of them just walked past my desk and belched. Lol. Which may sound disgusting, but it’s just hilarious. One of the guys in the building bought roses for all the women in the building for mother’s day, even if they aren't moms. :) I feel so special!
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Take note boys, flowers are not pointless. :)
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Heidi Montag says her F-Cup breast enlargement isn't big enough! WHAT?! You have got to be kidding me. What do you all think about plastic surgery? Do you think it is okay in moderation? What about this excessiveness? (is that a word?)
Seriously?! I can't imagine that would be comfortable, at all. I've never really understood peoples need to have plastic surgery, it just seems so... unnecessary I guess. And I’m not exactly fond of needles, I’m not going to have surgery when I don’t need it!
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First, I was reading the little blurb about one of the books, and thought this sounds slightly familiar, and then I looked at the authors name and it is someone I grew up with. :) Now I am going to have to get a book, even though it really isn't something I normally would read.
Second, a coworker had a girlfriend she grew up with that wrote a book. The only reason I knew is because she doesn't really read, but had this book with her for one of our weekend trips to Vegas. Anyways, it's there too! Recognized the cover.
Talk about a small world.
I love ancestry stuff! I'm kind of a European mutt, but part of my family came from Ireland too. I believe they were from County Cork.
I'm Norwegian, Irish, German, French, English, and Swedish. =)
I just cleaned out my junk closet. It is where I just threw a bunch of boxes that I didn't feel like unpacking when I moved back home in 2007. Well I finally sorted through them and it was like a blast from the past, kinda fun and scary at the same time. Among other things I found a box of school notebooks from the last year or so of school and I just couldn't bring myself to throw them away.
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I think you would be happier if you explained it to your parents. If it means a lot to you, you should do it but having your parents understand makes everything easier. Even if they don't agree with you, but understand why you are doing it, it will help. Personally I don't think we're ever too old to listen to our parents, as adults we need to learn to listen to them but not let them make decisions for us. I hope it works out! Good luck!
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Anna, I think that you've done all you can in talking to them. Now you have to decide how important it is to you to participate. There comes a time for all of us when we have to decide whether it's more important to play it safe, play by our parents' rules or do what we think is right.
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I'm pretty much dying right now! It's like 90 degrees today and the kids I babysit wanted to be outside allll day.
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You really should post pictures!And I want to know how you found it in the dumpster of all places. :D
There is a flower shop near my friend and they throw away any flowers that look a little wilted and my friend always dumpster dives and gets awesome flowers. It is amazing what people throw away.
hey! i live in vienna, austria, i'm 18 and will graduate next year. in austria you don't have to pay anything to go to university or college or what so ever. the government even supports you by giving you money so you can fully concentrate on studying. and i was wondering if i could go a year to usa because the universities are bigger and better than here and i was really shocked when i saw how much it costs. Do you approve with this system? because it seems like poor people have almost no opportunity to get a higher education.
sorry if i make any mistakes but i can only draw on my school english and i hope you get what i'm trying to say.. ^^
Rachel I can say with complete confidence that it is terrible to have to pay so much for college. I will be paying it back for years. I did love college though.
I agree that the cost of college it awful, but there are a variety of scholarships, grants and loans that make college possible for anyone who wants to put forth the effort to obtain any of those. It isn't always easy to afford college but in theory the effort pays off. I don't have any experience with foreign university systems though so I can't really say if paying for schooling is better than free schooling.
I really wish that I didn't have to pay for college, but it's worth it. The experience of being in college, and the fact that I'll get a better job and be able to pay back all of the money I spent on college makes it worth it. And it actually isn't the poor people that have a difficult time going to college. The less money you have the more likely you are to get a grant or scholarship. It's the middle class that has a rough time.
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