Once again I am looking internally. I am feeling a bit nostalgic, as always happens when I can start to feel the season changing....I smelled fall in the air this morning and elt a chill when I stepped out to go to work. Late summer is upon us. I relive moments past and marvel at how much life changes over such a small space of time. Then you look back and see things as they were just a short time ago. So another tune in my collection of the eclectic. One of my very favorites for many reasons...



How are all of you?

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Sometimes I am reflective. Sometimes it happens when I do not expect it. Like in my car on the way to work in the morning, listening to my iPod. I have very eclectic taste in music and find that my friends adopt my songs and add them to their own collections. I seem to know all the ones we all know but most of us forget until we hear them again. This one touched me this morning and made me reflect...



It always makes me cry.

Yeah, I know it has been forever since I blogged. I just get so caught up in day to day life type stuff that I forget to keep things updated. I am always thinking about you all and hope you are doing well. I am good. Getting into the new job, which totally switched my lifestyle from being a night owl to an early bird. I have to be to work most days by seven thirty and have a half an hour drive to get there so I am getting up at the butt crack as they say. I have adapted to it pretty well, I guess. I have only really had one bad day. I like the job and the people I work with. I find immense joy in a multitude of diverse personalities, and let me tell you, I have found it at this place. Not one person there is like another. I am doing the things I have been doing for years, for better or worse. I have been allow to completely take over the optical lab, which is good for me because I have so much experience with making glasses and am so set in my ways I have a hard time working in such a small area with others who are less experienced. I know, I know. I sound like a stubborn old coot, but hey. I get the job one and done well.

TheInfamousMrV and I are doing really well. We live quite contentedly doing domestic type stuff and living in the WoW. He keeps me amused and feeling loved always and for that I am grateful. He even likes my crazy, jittery brother and mows the lawn without complaining. He has yet to join us in the playing of Rock Band, but maybe someday. We is good.

Otherwise, i am getting myself psyched up for getting the house pulled together and to start filling it with cozy and homey things. I am an antique and thrift store fiend so who knows what I will turn up. My best friend and I have been known to haul home some pretty kick ass finds.

I know it is early, but I am getting in the mood for fall. thinking about getting things cozy really makes me want the cool, crisp air. MN is beautiful when the leaves start to change and the air always smells so good at night coming in the open window.

How are all of you? I want to know.

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Hi everyone. I want to thank everyone who wished me a happy birthday. I finally have a job and am back among the employed. It will take me a little while to get everything all caught up again (probably most of the summer), but that's ok. I will do what I can. I am working at a little private eye doctor's selling glasses and doing some lab work, which is stuff I have been doing for years. Thought maybe I would be getting out of the business, but since that is where I got hired, guess I will be staying around. But that's ok. I'm good at it and know it well.

I have a lot of plans for things I would like to do to the house, but since I am a huge thrift store junkie, it will not cost me a whole lot to have the place looking fabulous. Have the kitchen, extra bedroom, living room, and spare bathroom to be making with the fancy so I will be busy with it for quite some time. Also, we have had a few chats about some things we would like to do with the yard to make it pretty. We have all kinds of ideas.

How is everyone else doing this week? Well I hope. I need decorating ideas, so if anyone has some or even pictures to share that would be super cool! Lemme know.

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Hey there. By now we are getting pretty settled into the new life together in MN. Things are pretty comfy for us other than the fact that we both need jobs. But I have an interview on Tuesday and am hoping that my unemployment will be short lived. There are a bunch of stuffs we want to get for the house that would make it fun. We got a new kitty yesterday who is just so impossibly tiny and cute. The two cats I already have are already adapting really well and being all parental with him. It is adorable. Expect pics soon. How are all of you this week?

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As some of you may know, the moving plan has knd of been reversed. I will be staying in MN for the forseeable future. This makes me pretty happy. I get to keep my cats together and stay in my house, which I have grown a bit attached to, as well as stay close to my awesome friends. I am in Philadelphis at present helping TheInfamousMrV pack up for his move to MN. Well, I'm sick and not really helping a whole lot. More like whining about being sick and sleeping quite a bit. We will be heading back to MN tomorrow morning to settle in. I am happy. How are all of you?

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So, the preparations for moving go on. I have been trying to do little things here and there to make it easier on myself. Getting rid of the junk that has accumulated around the house makes me feel much more in control and eliminates a lot of stress, which is always a good thing. I had to sit down the other night and go through all the pictures I got from my grandparent's house, which was kind of sad but fun at the same time. I actually found my prom picture, which is just insane. I would post it if I had a scanner, but sadly I do not. The weather has been nice here the past few days and that makes me really happy. So nice to be able to sleep with the window open again. i sense rambling coming on, so I will stop with all that.

grayness asked me after my last blog what I like to cook when I cook for a large group of people. It's funny that Lusyd and I were just talking about cooking yesterday and swapped a couple recipes. When I cook for a lot of people, I love to make big fancy pasta dishes. I use my wok, which may seem weird, but it is an awesome vessel for holding large amounts. I make whatever type of sauce I am making (always from scratch) and then just toss the pasta and stuff right in there. I invented my own personal party pasta a couple years ago and it is always a huge hit. I find that in the winter, enchiladas always go over really well...I have made them for several Super Bowl get togethers and it is always fun.

I would love to hear what is going on with all of you, so please don't hesitate to send me a PM or text message to say hi!

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Well, I decided that today is the day to start packing up the stuff for my big move. I really don't have much when you put it all together, it's just the effort of actually getting it all organized that I have been unable to find. But I think I have it now and am going to take advantage of it. Condensing is good and I can always use a good old throwing crap away session to make me feel less stagnant and cluttered. Hopefully I will be able to find good homes for the stuff I don't want anymore.

Anyway, with my ongoing series of questions to be answered, bald eagle asked me who of the famous people I met when I lived in L.A. were down to earth and who were full of themselves. The only famous person I met whom I absolutely did not like was Carson Daly. He just struck me as very full of himself and quite self-important. The guy who played Carl on Family Matters and Billy Connolly were the absolute nicest people. Rob Zombie seemed painfully shy; it was really hard to reconcile him from the crazy dude you see in music videos. Regardless, he and his wife were way cool. I was impressed. Otherwise, they were all just regular people out shopping, minding their own business.

So, any more questions? Gives me a focus and makes it easier to blog.

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Things in life continue to be pretty good for me. I really can't complain much. Been living the peaceful life alone at home playing WoW with all the cool people and attempting to get all my stuff together for moving. A couple people asked me questions in my last blog that I want to answer. grayness asked me what one thing I would leave behind to summarize my existence. After a lot of thought and pondering over various pieces of writing and actual items, I decided there really isn't anything at this point that would do for me what I would want it to. So, I decided on this:

bald eagle asked me if I ever met anyone famous when I was living in L.A. I actually became quite famous in my general working area as the person who met all the famous people that no one really knows. i met the guy who played Carl on Family Matters and the chick who played Topanga on Boy Meets World, as well as Billy Conolly, Carson Daly, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alan Thicke, and Ron Jeremy (not a high point in my life). Amongst the more well known people I count in my list are Rob Zombie (and his wife), Marilyn Manson, Janet Jackson, Rose McGowan, Matthew McConaughey, Charlton Heston, Steven Spielberg, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, and Patrick Stewart.
I love you guys. More questions?

Well, while everyone I care most about on this site was in Philadelphia enjoying the tattoo convention, I was stuck at home on a very cold and dreary weekend. It makes me sad that I missed the fun, but I will be there soon so that makes it a little better. Hope everyone here is well and enjoying the springtime. I know I am. I asked for questions in my last blog, and only got one I can really write about. bald eagle asked me where I grew up. Well...I was born In Fairbanks, Alaska, and lived there until I was seven. Yes, it is THAT cold and dark all the time in the winter. My parents moved us to Northern Minnesota at that point, to a little rinkydink town that has nothing going for it but some depleted iron mines and a paper mill. I lived there pretty happily until I was sixteen, when we packed up again for a move to an Orlando, Florida suburb. I spent an entire summer working at Disney World and had a total blast before my dad decided he was homesick and hauled us back to Minnesota where we settled in the burbs of Saint Paul. I lived here until I was eighteen and left for Los Angeles, met tons of famous people, then came back a year later. And that is my story. More questions? I love to answer them.

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