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Mm. **is a happy girl** I'm enjoying the taste of Really Good chocolate (from Switzerland!) and I have a bottle of water from Italy sitting here next to me, and I'm still pleasantly high on the Starbucks Caffe Americano I had earlier.
More importantly, mom's last post-op visit was today and she's doing great. Whew. Congratulate me, though, today I did NOT sit and worry the entire time she was seeing the doctor. Don't laugh--old habits are hard to break!
I'm also happy because I made it through my first Big City driving experience and WE'RE STILL ALIVE. Lol. It wasn't too bad, honestly, and I have to learn to drive in lots of traffic (and merges, lane changes, and Maniac Drivers) sometime. I've been driving with a permit for about a year now, but mostly in our smaller local towns, and the nice easy highways.
Heehee, I'm so odd. Most of the people I know still haven't gotten over how I'm handling driving. I waited to get my permit until I was 18 (due mostly to odd laws regarding what homeschoolers have to do in my area to qualify for a permit), and it's looking more and more like I won't be getting my license until I'm 21, unless I get a job that requires me to drive to work everyday. I'm really blessed that my two part time jobs are really close to my house! Anyway, that's due to the fact that insurance rates are *terrible* here, and since I don't NEED my license now, I don't feel right asking my parents to pay more then double the insurance cost just so I can toodle off to things on my own. And I sure don't want to pay for it myself. ; )
I'm also not going to college. Odd thing number three.
7/3
My heart is so squeezed up in love I can barely think straight. I'm so full of excitement and love and other happy emotions. How could God have blessed me with so wonderful a friend?
7/5
Amazingly enough, it's two days later and I'm still really happy! A list of things that are making me happy and generally content with life at the moment:
*The mail just came, and I got my paycheck. More money towards the plane tickets for:
*Going to see Gwenyth in December! I'm so excited. =) I'll get to see Return of the King with her, and go to the New Years Eve ball--even dance, if I can learn quickly enough ; )--and finally meet her sisters and parents and the Bachelors and Monique & Jeff and everyone else I've heard so much about.
*But before that, I have an almost-positively-sure trip planed to see someone else. The end of August SHOULD find me happily posting from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
savetheolives house. (She has a cable modem. I don't. And I'm hopefully going to be there long enough to be able to tear myself away from her for a few minutes to keep up on my email [thanks to Juno's webmail] and LJ)
*My room is clean and tidy. I feel more relaxed when it is so, although I guess if it made me really happy I'd keep it clean all the time.
*I have another idea for a short story set in Arthurian times. I've been trying to come up with something else ever since I was so pleased with how Knight of Truth turned out. Finally inspiration has struck. Yay for me. You know, it may be that I never show these little works to anyone else, but I feel such a sense of accomplishment at having completed something I like, plus it sharpens my writing skills immensely so that I can better produce articles that publications are looking for.
*I have CHOCOLATE.
*I have wonderful friends, and my acquaintances aren't half bad. =D Heehee.
7/15
My dog is jealous of a two and a half pound ball of fluff. My really BIG dog is jealous of something barely a tenth her size--but she probably has reason to be. ; ) My new kitten, which showed up basically out of nowhere, it the cutest thing God ever created (barring me. Um, that was a joke.) He's misty grey with white paws and nose and neck, and he's fluffy, and super tiny. By general consensus we named him Kuzco, for no other reason then we've just watched The Emperor's New Groove four times in about a week. (_haydee_, I think I'm finally getting closer to being able to quote TENG as well as you and savetheolives. At least, my brothers and I have been quoting whole passages during meal times, with appropriate voices. Our favorite one to mimic is "Is that my voice? Is that MY voice?")
Also had my first cavity-filling today; am not pleased with 1) appearance of the fillings (I swear, they must use JB Weld =P) 2) the taste of the nice cinnamon stuff and 3)the feeling of a numb mouth. It paralyzed the muscles around my mouth and I couldn't wiggle my nose.
BUT I have finished what I think it my favorite Arthurian novel yet. Hurray for Persia Woolley for creating a realistic Gwenivere!
7/16
Now I'm not so elated about the kitten. I'm scared he's going to die, so I almost wish we hadn't gotten him. =\ I found a hole in the base of his throat that I'm pretty sure is caused by a maggot or other type of worm-parasite...it's this little round black hole that goes what looks like forever into his little throat, and now and then I can see what looks like a tiny white worm. As soon as I get close to it with a tweezers, it jerks back inside the hole again. I don't know what to do, and I feel like crying. =\ We tried pouring hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and iodine into it, but I don't know if that'll do any good, or how to tell if it DOES help. And I'm afraid that if the worm doesn't kill him, then all the stuff we're using to try to get rid of it will.
**tries to think of something cheerful**
Well, Friday's my birthday. Last year I was 18 on the 18th--too bad I can't move my birthday up one day and be 19 on the 19th. I like things like that.
And Monday I'm going to get to have my first recording experience with what will hopefully be a cooperating rest-of-the-choir. I'm excited. And it was kind of neat to be able to tell Mona that I couldn't work late on Monday because I had to be at the recording studio by 6:00. =D
Mm. **is a happy girl** I'm enjoying the taste of Really Good chocolate (from Switzerland!) and I have a bottle of water from Italy sitting here next to me, and I'm still pleasantly high on the Starbucks Caffe Americano I had earlier.
More importantly, mom's last post-op visit was today and she's doing great. Whew. Congratulate me, though, today I did NOT sit and worry the entire time she was seeing the doctor. Don't laugh--old habits are hard to break!
I'm also happy because I made it through my first Big City driving experience and WE'RE STILL ALIVE. Lol. It wasn't too bad, honestly, and I have to learn to drive in lots of traffic (and merges, lane changes, and Maniac Drivers) sometime. I've been driving with a permit for about a year now, but mostly in our smaller local towns, and the nice easy highways.
Heehee, I'm so odd. Most of the people I know still haven't gotten over how I'm handling driving. I waited to get my permit until I was 18 (due mostly to odd laws regarding what homeschoolers have to do in my area to qualify for a permit), and it's looking more and more like I won't be getting my license until I'm 21, unless I get a job that requires me to drive to work everyday. I'm really blessed that my two part time jobs are really close to my house! Anyway, that's due to the fact that insurance rates are *terrible* here, and since I don't NEED my license now, I don't feel right asking my parents to pay more then double the insurance cost just so I can toodle off to things on my own. And I sure don't want to pay for it myself. ; )
I'm also not going to college. Odd thing number three.
7/3
My heart is so squeezed up in love I can barely think straight. I'm so full of excitement and love and other happy emotions. How could God have blessed me with so wonderful a friend?
7/5
Amazingly enough, it's two days later and I'm still really happy! A list of things that are making me happy and generally content with life at the moment:
*The mail just came, and I got my paycheck. More money towards the plane tickets for:
*Going to see Gwenyth in December! I'm so excited. =) I'll get to see Return of the King with her, and go to the New Years Eve ball--even dance, if I can learn quickly enough ; )--and finally meet her sisters and parents and the Bachelors and Monique & Jeff and everyone else I've heard so much about.
*But before that, I have an almost-positively-sure trip planed to see someone else. The end of August SHOULD find me happily posting from
savetheolives house. (She has a cable modem. I don't. And I'm hopefully going to be there long enough to be able to tear myself away from her for a few minutes to keep up on my email [thanks to Juno's webmail] and LJ)*My room is clean and tidy. I feel more relaxed when it is so, although I guess if it made me really happy I'd keep it clean all the time.
*I have another idea for a short story set in Arthurian times. I've been trying to come up with something else ever since I was so pleased with how Knight of Truth turned out. Finally inspiration has struck. Yay for me. You know, it may be that I never show these little works to anyone else, but I feel such a sense of accomplishment at having completed something I like, plus it sharpens my writing skills immensely so that I can better produce articles that publications are looking for.
*I have CHOCOLATE.
*I have wonderful friends, and my acquaintances aren't half bad. =D Heehee.
7/15
My dog is jealous of a two and a half pound ball of fluff. My really BIG dog is jealous of something barely a tenth her size--but she probably has reason to be. ; ) My new kitten, which showed up basically out of nowhere, it the cutest thing God ever created (barring me. Um, that was a joke.) He's misty grey with white paws and nose and neck, and he's fluffy, and super tiny. By general consensus we named him Kuzco, for no other reason then we've just watched The Emperor's New Groove four times in about a week. (
_haydee_, I think I'm finally getting closer to being able to quote TENG as well as you and savetheolives. At least, my brothers and I have been quoting whole passages during meal times, with appropriate voices. Our favorite one to mimic is "Is that my voice? Is that MY voice?")Also had my first cavity-filling today; am not pleased with 1) appearance of the fillings (I swear, they must use JB Weld =P) 2) the taste of the nice cinnamon stuff and 3)the feeling of a numb mouth. It paralyzed the muscles around my mouth and I couldn't wiggle my nose.
BUT I have finished what I think it my favorite Arthurian novel yet. Hurray for Persia Woolley for creating a realistic Gwenivere!
7/16
Now I'm not so elated about the kitten. I'm scared he's going to die, so I almost wish we hadn't gotten him. =\ I found a hole in the base of his throat that I'm pretty sure is caused by a maggot or other type of worm-parasite...it's this little round black hole that goes what looks like forever into his little throat, and now and then I can see what looks like a tiny white worm. As soon as I get close to it with a tweezers, it jerks back inside the hole again. I don't know what to do, and I feel like crying. =\ We tried pouring hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and iodine into it, but I don't know if that'll do any good, or how to tell if it DOES help. And I'm afraid that if the worm doesn't kill him, then all the stuff we're using to try to get rid of it will.
**tries to think of something cheerful**
Well, Friday's my birthday. Last year I was 18 on the 18th--too bad I can't move my birthday up one day and be 19 on the 19th. I like things like that.
And Monday I'm going to get to have my first recording experience with what will hopefully be a cooperating rest-of-the-choir. I'm excited. And it was kind of neat to be able to tell Mona that I couldn't work late on Monday because I had to be at the recording studio by 6:00. =D
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Date: 2003-07-17 12:30 pm (UTC)tell Hans hi, okay???? :)
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Date: 2003-07-22 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-17 04:21 pm (UTC)Lol!! Too bad you missed the days when Hannah and I would quote large portions on IM. It's nice to know you've finally become truly cultured. (oh wait... :-P)
Bewaaaare of the groooooooove...
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Date: 2003-07-17 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-17 08:55 pm (UTC)(LOVE the icon by the way. Lol!)
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Date: 2003-07-18 06:31 am (UTC)You never know! ;-)
(LOVE the icon by the way. Lol!)
Thanks. :-D I got it from here: http://www.virtuallycentral.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=24&thumb=1
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Date: 2003-07-22 07:02 am (UTC)