re⋅sil⋅ient::  1.springing back; rebounding.

so i feel like i’ve wasted my saturday, because i’ve been in bed all day. i didn’t sleep well at all last night, which led to a gigantic headache. bummer. i planned to clean & craft all day, but mostly i’ve been reading craft blogs and lurking myspace. i did get up to shower, but i just put other pajamas on and got back in bed.

i had a few good conversations via text today so at least i wasn’t completely worthless today! hopefully, kristine’s ex boyfriend taylor is coming up on a spontaneous road trip with some friends tomorrow to go to ski roundtop and go snow tubing. i’m not going tubing, i hate the snow, but i’m inviting myself to hang out even though they’ll be staying with MY ex boyfriend jake. isn’t it sweet that our ex boyfriends love each other so much that taylor’s driving up from florida to play in the snow with jake?!

since i have no picture of anything worthwhile i’ve done today, here’s a picture of where i’d rather be:

santorini, greece–the caldera; i want to swim here.

okay so i hit up http://www.craftster.org and sent in info to join not one but TWO swaps! i haven’t done any swaps in months, i think since the beginning of summer actually, because i was just too busy. i signed up for the be my valentine altered altoid tin swap and also the valentine’s classroom card exchange. i’m pretty stoked on both. unfortunately tomorrow i’m going to have a metric shit ton of cleaning to do before i get started crafting.

this is my desk as of right now

WATCHING:: Dexter; Season 1, Disc 1

so happily i got out of work early today, and believe me, that $30 that i’ll be missing on my paycheck is worth the sanity. although there were like no kids, i just wasn’t okay to be there today. my stomach was super upset this morning, it was unbelievably hard waking up, and one of the kids with me drives me crazy.

me and kristine outside pita pit

one friday in august kristine texted, totally bummed out that she has no friends and wanted me to come visit. long story short she put the trip on her credit card and i was there around 11. i stayed for the weekend and it did us both a world of good. we need each other sometimes.

me & kristine in the margaritaville chairs

my happy place with my best friend

me with the hemisphere dancer!

after august comes my favorite time of year, fall…not much happened this fall…just the normal my favorite time of year stuff, trick or treating and the like.

victoria is a punk rock zombie and andrew's godzuki (godzilla's baby)

trick or treat is my favorite night of the year, by far. there’s nothing more fun than rounding up free candy with a bunch of cute kids i love more than anything!

christian was predator and he looked effing awesome!

sadly it was christian’s last year trick or treating, since jill & chris are cutting the kids off after their 12th birthdays. he whined a lot as well, because it was insanely hot in that mask and he couldn’t see. overall it wasn’t our best trick or treat night, but it was still fun!

there are a few things to talk about as far as 2008 goes, christmas and the 2 greatest days of the year, my brother’s wedding and the day his son was born. so let’s go with a couple christmas goodies and wrap this wrap up, up.

i got pearl earrings & a necklace!

whoa! wolfman's got nards!

grandma got mom ribbon candy, mom is stoked.

gary collects ALL things redskins!

i made jess & justin a giant collage, they loved it.

chris & his dad takin a shot of jager, courtsey of jess

christian, andrew & v opening guitar hero

i want hulk smash hands!

christmas this year was amazing as always. i love getting to spend time with jess, justin, mom, gary and grandma and then rushing to jill’s to be with her family. we went to my dad’s the saturday after christmas but i forgot my camera. it sucks cause that was the first time i met my cousin joe and his wife kristy (who was my best friend all through middle and high school)’s first child, kylie.  she is so bastardish and amazing. i am totally in love with her. i can’t believe i missed almost the first 3 years of her life. i refuse to ever go that long without seeing them again.

kristy and kylie at fridays on new years eve

getting to hang out with kristy again, was one of the highlights of my year by far. i’m going to use money out of my tax return to book a weekend trip to st louis to go visit. her whole family is out there and i miss her sister dana so much. dana has a 5 year old son i’ve never met, and that seems even more unbelievable than never meeting kylie.

on to the 2 most important dates of 2008, my brother’s wedding and the birth of his son. get ready for a huge mess of pics!

sarah and mike at the alter

marci, the maid of honor; sarah & mike

mike & his best man, ben

my mom & stepdad cutting a rug

jess and justin

justin, jess, me, mom, gary, mike & sarah

the wedding was in may, sarah was already very pregnant. you can’t tell, she just looks like a normal sized person in these pictures. they were engaged for awhile and had the date set when she found out she was pregnant. sher due date was…well her doctor’s sucked and gave us like a billion different dates but one of them happened to be my mom’s birthday, which is august 27th, and damn if gage didn’t come that day! we waited and waited and waited for that kid, and when he finally came out and had to go to the nicu some of us (me) were ready to beat up nurses to get to him. once you see you’ll understand.

gage lee; 8/27/08

my favorite picture of me and gage

grandma & gage 3 months old

sarah and gage at christmas

so that about sums up 2008. tomorrow i’ll move on to 2009, or to whatever else i decide to cover here. i know i want to document my projects this year…

so hello 2009, you came to me not the way i expected but hey that’s okay, i’ll forgive you…this time. i’ve decided that obnoxious text message i got this morning is NOT indicative of how this year will go. and i kissed someone at midnight, someone i love dearly! just because she is a 16 month old baby girl doesn’t mean it’s not good luck!
however, i DO refuse the good luck tradition of eating pork and that evil smelling sauerkraut every single person i know was cooking today. blech.
so there, everyone is our beginning–new years 2009…let’s get on with the ending of 2008!

just for my own self satisfaction (hey it’s MY blog) i’ve decided to wrap up 2008 with a few pictures and memories posted on the internet where it can never be forgotten. you can come along for the ride and get to know me a little better or you can choose to skip this and come back when i have something more relevant to say, i’m cool with whatever you decide.

me and andrew blowing out the candles

that dreaded birthday was in january. a big group of people who i loved at the time went out to celebrate with me to the coliseum. my lovely half jap best friend kristine flew up from orlando to brave the cold and celebrate with me as well. sadly a large portion of the group in attendance has been cut out of my life due to pathetic high school behavior…others have just grown apart and i’m okay with that…here’s another shot from that night:

kristine, justin, jess, me, jill

i wish i had something to remind me of all the things i did this year, but i’m an ass and didn’t think to do this last year, or to keep a scrapbook for the year. oh! i thought of something i did! i taught myself to like country music! go ahead and laugh i’ll wait……………okay, ready to continue? it’s possible. i found that the songs about drinking, being drunk, the beach or summer in general are right up my alley! i had formed my opinion based on the “i lost my wife and she stole my truck that my dog was sleeping in” songs, which bum me out way too much. i LOVE country music now, at least some songs!

jill & i cheersing the daycare!

so this picture is from april, from when Jill (an aforementioned best friend) and her husband bought the daycare we work at from Jill’s partner. i won’t go into to detail but we are all a lot less stressed now without that partner there. she had no clue what she was getting into. (working for your best friend is amazing. it does have it’s downsides, but i highly recommend working with/for your best friend if possible) so we cheersed, we ate, we drank and we were beyond merry that night!

assateague island

this is walking onto the beach at assateague island in mid may. it was windy and kinda chilly to be honest but the ocean is my happy place. the smell of the salt water and the feel of the breeze…it just does something to completely relax me and getting to go to the beach with Jill’s family and her brother’s family made it an amazing weekend. we did so much fun family stuff.  here, let me show you!

jill holding andrew's hand, as he's hit by his first wave EVER!

we found little tiny crabs!

christian (jill's oldest) & andrew fighting while we wait for breakfast at dough roller. YUM!

that was the best start to a summer i’ve had since the summer my sister and i flew to miami for a weekend to hang out with some friends. man, i miss cheap airfare. but i digress….so this summer…what happened…i worked…and i hung out, a lot. not as much as some years, but responsiblities seemed more important this year. go me, i’m growing up.

brad, me, brooke

i feel like this picture sums up the summer nicely. i don’t even know what hurt brad’s head, maybe it was me? but brooke’s making a myspace face & i’m laughing…so that’s basically it. unfortuantely brad didn’t hang out as much as i would like, and brooke decided in august i was too mean and she was over me. it happens. i’ll survive. we still text occasionally…

around the campfire

this was how most of my weekends looked from, i’d guess april to june when it got too hot for fires. the adidas are MC’s, vans are brittany, saucony’s are me, and other vans are brooke. some of the best conversations of my adult life happened around that fire.

me 6am no sleep; normal summer weekend

sunscreening

this picture, also not abnormal. who wants to be old, wrinkly and ugly?!

here it is, 10pm on New Years Day, and i have to wake up early for the first time in over a week to go to work, and i’m only at summer on this blog. I haven’t even gotten to the miracle of my first true nephew and not just “it’s easier to say nephew than this is the son of my best friend, and we spend so much time together it’s like we’re related anyway, blah blah blah” nephew. i didn’t get to my discovery of loving hats even with short hair. i didn’t get to how awful it felt to be broken up with jake for a full year…but i have to go to bed. i guess this post will have a part two. maybe tomorrow…maybe saturday. tomorrow after work i have date night with my mom, we’re watching as much of season one of dexter as we can…not because we’re in a rush, but because we just can’t get enough.

LISTENING TO:: the bouncing souls–hopeless romantic

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