I am not the only one who is tired of me being sick :)
thoughtfulness = happy
facebook status= warm fuzzies
"Brighton Noorda
misses lindsey. and lunch, and hot tubs, and random movies, and making messes with smoothies :) hehe. but mostly just lindsey.12 hours ago"
g-chat convo today while i'm at work, stifiling much laughter
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"Danielle: i wonder if it's conceited to think you are so rad since you remind me of myself."
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lol you only have so many friends like this in a lifetime, ya know :)
went on a date on saturday and then came home and watched this with my roomie nicole... i'm so in love with the old man and jude law and jack black in this movie, it almost spoils reality ;)jk everytime my favorite quote from this movie changes. the winner this time:
"he's a schmuck. he let you go, this is not a hard one to figure out."
Tuesdays are street fair nights in HB. Main street gets blocked off and various sellers and performers come to show their stuff. You can buy fresh fruit from a stand, original art, roasted almonds, quilts, get your face painted or your palm read... Basically it is just a good time. You can watch the guy ride the unicycle "first in the US, second in the world," watch the break dancers, and my personal favorite, the old man with the bubbles- kids love it!
My regular fair-going-friend is Logan, and this Tuesday we were joined by Lauren & my new roomie Nicole, an HB street fair virgin.You are always guaranteed to see people you know and it's just a relaxing good time. High recommendations to all!!
the other day, while "facebooking"(don't roll your eyes it's a prefectly socially acceptable thing to do now a days) i decided to look up some old friends. and i mean old friends. like nj friends... from middle school... and elementary. first and second grade to be exact.
well you will never guess who i found! the boy i held hands with on the band bus in 8th grade, the boy i wanted to kiss @ spin the bottle in 9th but never got the chance, the girl i sat next to in homeroom, the girl who distracted me in algebra 2 and because of her i got a C+ first quarter(which became a B in vegas haha suckers), and last but not least, my friend Joey who lived around the corner and who was my friend in 1st and 2nd grade.
it is this joey who is the reason(by degrees) for my first childhood trauma.
his name was peanut. he was beautiful. sleek, shiny, small, squeeked, and the best chinese hampster ever. he was joey's pet, and when i went over to play we'd get him out of his cage in the mudroom connecting the garage to the kitchen where it was always dark (i felt so bad for him).
then one magical day...
she brought him to me!!
joey's mom was always bringing me lunch at school when she brought something for joey, and i remember just thinking she was the greatest friend mom ever! she told my mom they never played with him anyway, so thus little peanut became my first real pet!! HOORAY! can mrs vanaman be cooler!? i mean, she gave me a hampster!? i'm 6 and this is the best moment of my life thus far.
i took him with me EVERYWHERE. he would sit on my lap or my shoulder and hang out. i think he enjoyed the extra attention and light our new relationship offered. with peanut, the sun shone brighter and all the world was better! i had day dreams that he would live forever and i could teach him tricks (not kidding) and then joey would want him back bc he'd be so cool!! i vowed i would never give him back. ever.
it was a saturday. i woke up and i distictly remember it was when we were building the wall that would forever split the big room in half leaving one side for me. i got peanut out of his cage and walked downstairs. i remember it was early and the sun was up. i ate my frosted mini-wheats and watched as peaut gleefully ran up and down the bench to our kitchen table. i finished my bowl and my mom told me something(maybe i can blame her, too) and i ran upstairs to go watch the excitement as they painted the wall(again keep in mind i'm 6).
...hours pass.
i go to get peanut out of his cage andAGAST!!!!!!
wait no. he'd on the bench where i left him. i run downstairs and he's not on the bench. how did he get off!!??
in panic i go to my mother and family, to whom little sympathy is given for my worried little heart. we look. for days. then finally...we find him. and to my horror the only thing i remember is kevin laughing and saying(he is a lot to blame for this childhood horror story, too) "look you can see its spine!!!"
i cried.
poor peanut, the frigerator fan will getcha everytime.
blast joey for not loving him enough, my mother for distracting me, kevin for being insensitive and me for being 6.
the end.
even when i lived in utah and nevada, land-locked states, i cut the rings of the plastic things that hold together soda cans. birds and fish can get their heads stuck in them -horrifying thought to any 8 year old.- i am grateful i found an apartment- its uber cheap and with 2 awesome girls and around the corner from k & k and i move in on the 15th.
- i am grateful found a car that i can afford but is nice enough and awesome enough to instantly love and keep for a long time.
- i am grateful when i budget every dollar i need to pay each month i actually end up with something besides a zero or a negative at the end.
- i am grateful to have family who love me and support me.
- i am grateful that the lady i rear-ended last week has been really really nice and hasn't called my insurance and has looked at a couple places to find the cheapest deal.
- i am grateful for my parents- aka "wendy" and "moneybags."
- i am grateful i don't cry as much as i used to, or yell, or be as loud and obnoxious.
- i am grateful for the beach. and how it smells. even when its stinky. and how i live a mile from it.
- i am grateful i have a digital camera, computer, car AND brain that all work at the same time.
- i am grateful to have a few worldly things that make life nice, but i know that they don't make my life.
- i am grateful to be loved.
hello.
this is my new car. although my past driving experiences may suggest the purchase of a car with a signature saying of "zoom! zoom!" may not have been the wisest of choices, the contrary is actually true. the past three days i have never driven slower or more carefully in my life.lets hope it lasts :)
RIP Andrew the Red Rocket.
1994-2008
Love at first sight and ne'er a moment of love lost in 4 years.
okay thats a little dramatic. andrew the red rocket is not dead, but his ego and vanity are very much damaged. so are his owner's, who until this year ne'er had a ticket nor an accident. thanks to a jerk bike cop in a speed trap in july, and stupid stop out of nowhere cali traffic, now she has both. *sigh* sad day.
okay thats a little dramatic. andrew the red rocket is not dead, but his ego and vanity are very much damaged. so are his owner's, who until this year ne'er had a ticket nor an accident. thanks to a jerk bike cop in a speed trap in july, and stupid stop out of nowhere cali traffic, now she has both. *sigh* sad day. kellie and kevin anderson are my new roommates. hopefully not forever, but they have been ridiculously generous and way fun and cool to live with! they love me and i love them and i am just "so blessed!!" (insert molly mormon utah voice with sobs and cries holding the pulpit...jk)
just wanted to show you what kind of high life i'm living.
trying to get a car loan at this exact moment isn't exactly easy, so after no luck finding a car, or an apartment, or enough money to get either and being quite frustrated and tired and hungry...
i came home to a gourmet dinner, courtesy of chef kevin anderson:
i love my family.
i came home to a gourmet dinner, courtesy of chef kevin anderson:
i love my family.
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