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June 20th, 2009
09:12 am
Demand that I figure out how to keep a houseplant alive for a full year.
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May 27th, 2009
08:42 am
You know who was awesome beyond belief?
Right Said Fred
Chuckle.
This is still my favorite Armenian song:
And out.
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May 17th, 2009
07:59 pm
I need a new icon.
Help?
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May 7th, 2009
04:12 pm - An interaction...
I just opened up my drawer at work, pulled out a potato, and said to Steph 'Did you know that I keep this potato in my drawer in case I get hungry?'
'Jamie, that's like...the weirdest thing YET'.
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April 8th, 2009
07:54 am
Woo. I ended up raising $140 for Big Brothers Big Sisters. In something like three days. I am the fund-raising champ!
Today is awesome because I'm leaving early to go to East Lansing. The most happening place in MI. Peace Corps reception tonight at MSU. I'm excited about that. Maybe all of MSU PC Armenia will be there...Probably not. But I will see a bunch of people I know, and this time I'm an RPCV. Go team.
I found my blog listed on the PC Armenia Wiki page...no wonder last year I got a phone call about needing to censor my post about the hookah. Whatever, it's Armenian hookah. From Shah Pizza! But there was no hookah - only free dates and tea! My life over there was not unlike an episode of Seinfeld.
Haircut in T-# of days until Saturday...I want it OFF. Good lord. Let me get a good stylist who will make it good for wearing it straight or curly.
Oh and seriously, this pain on my gum better not be a mouth abscess. Because that would be TOO AWESOME.
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HOOKAH HOOKAH HOOKAH. Yeah, I get to say it now without locking the post.
HOOKAH.
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April 2nd, 2009
09:16 pm
This makes me happy because it is from the exact concert we were at.
I still <3 Sam Beam
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March 17th, 2009
04:49 pm
1. My favorite character on Get Fuzzy (aside from Satchel) is Chubby Hugs.
2. The University of Washington is looking A++ appealing to me.
3. I made art for my bedroom wall by gluing some fabric to cheapo canvasses, then used super foam tape to keep them up.
4. Last year I only figured out that it was St. Pat's because Dagen and Tony drunk dialed me. At the time I was trying to sleep but could only focus on the mice running around overhead.
5. The plant bulb I put in Ollie's water bowl is starting to grow.
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March 13th, 2009
11:04 am
Seriously...how did this person miss the child-proof TOP of the container?
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29675664/
Like, that ALONE should tell you 'not a flavored beverage'.
dumbass.
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March 11th, 2009
10:19 am
I was running on the inside track at the gym yesterday, from like 9:05 - 10:00pm.
Around 9:35, this guy laps me and says 'You're the only person I haven't outlasted'.
So I told him I was probably going to outlast him. Which I totally did. I pretty much wanted to say 'Dude, I trained for a marathon in a mountain range while Peace Corps malnourished, I'm pretty sure I can run on this track until 10'.
Which I did. And which he failed to do.
Bwahahahaha.
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March 6th, 2009
07:45 am
Fasting is a bitch when the first thing you do in the morning after opening your eyes is eat breakfast.
I = the huuuuuungry.
Heading off to UHS to get blood work done, then grabbing some eats.
PS: FFFFFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAAAAYYYYY.
Oh and if you have access to my facebook, you should check out the awesome video of us talking to Dukakis in front of the pyramids.
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March 2nd, 2009
08:15 am
On a scale of one to it was a decent weekend, 25.
Friday I had my 'health assessment' at work so that I can get an extra $100 in my next paycheck. The woman who went over my results with me was 'kind of' telling me I needed to exercise and eat more fiber, to the point where I was like "Lady, I work out almost an hour and a half 6 days a week, and I consumed 36 pounds of grapefruit this month, I'm not sure how much more exercise and fiber I can get here..."
Went to the library and picked up my requested titles, so I watched 'Awakenings' over the course of the weekend. Oliver Sacks is my hero. Robin Williams pretending to be Oliver Sacks under a different name is not. I love requesting titles from the Public Library website and getting them sent to the branch near my apartment, it is like shopping, but for free.
Saturday mom came out and we went to the Broken Egg for breakfast. Hillary Swank was not there. But we both got delicious pancakes, then wandered around downtown for a while. Tried to find some attractive fleece to make my sister a fleece blanket, but nothing is really that nice. I can make you a really cute one of kiddie/baby fleece though, if you want Jod.
That evening I went out and bought my new Betta fish. He is maroon. His name is Oliver. He has a much bigger bowl than my original Betta, Algemon, had when I was in 6th grade. Consequently, he swims around a lot in it and looks pretty. He won't eat his food though. Maybe he's full?
Ang and I went to a brewpub in Plymouth on Saturday night. The Blonde beer was good, but she got a cherry porter that tasted like thick bad coffee. Afterward we got Rolos. Who doesn't love a Rolo, riddle me this.
Yesterday I spent the day picking out good pictures to print and put in frames to make my place look more homey. I printed up a really nice one of Grandma as a 5x7, got it a nice frame, and added a dried flower my mom gave me from the funeral. It looks really nice. Now she is sitting on my desk and I can always see her. My grandma was awesome^30.
This week I re-commence my memoirs. Story #2: "100% maybe, or 'how I learned to stop asking for a new outhouse hole and learned to start pooping in a box'".
Hope you caught that Lauren.
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March 1st, 2009
02:10 pm
When I came home for Xmas last year I made THREE CDs of all of my first and 1/2 of second year of Armenia photos. Then I deleted everything off of my POS Dell and went back for another 8 months.
Today I'm printing up a bunch of good pics to put on my walls, when I discover that I CAN'T open the disks. I about had a heart attack. TWO years of my life, my host families, my villages, I pretty much cried.
Turns out I can open them here at work.
PHEW.
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February 27th, 2009
12:08 pm
We just went to lunch at Angelo's.
Hillary Swank came in.
We dined together. - ish.
'It's a date, it's a scam, whatever.'
~Say Anything.
FYI the 'bowl' of clam chowder at the actual Angelo's and not from On the Side is approximately a vat. I pretty much had to bring all of it back to work with me.
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February 21st, 2009
06:52 pm - It picks up the phone and it calls someone.
I love my sisters.
Just want to throw that out there.
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February 18th, 2009
03:41 pm
Oh I dance like an ad for the Gap, dammit!
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January 27th, 2009
11:05 pm
Oooooh man....
The hat I just knit is like, TOOOOOOOO big again. Why? Why must the hat come out HUGE? No one wears a huge hat anymore, unless Blossom is still around clinging to her one year of fame.
I knit it on size 7 needles! 7! And the pattern called for size 10! What kind of head was THAT HAT planning on fitting? My friend has a small head so he was like, make sure it is small...but no, I end up hunting down the mammoth head hat online. Great. Now must start again. With a little less fail.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: Woe is me.
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January 20th, 2009
08:57 am
Yes uzum em panizh...
(yeah, I'm calling it a zh and not a r, because that's how Pambak rolls)
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January 15th, 2009
06:51 pm
Yesterday I was at the gym and running on a treadmill (I know, suck, but it was like minus one million degrees out) and when I do that I get all sweaty because it gets way to hot for me in the gym, so I was like dripping all over my Hard Lessons shirt and this really thin athletic looking woman that was running next to me told me that she was impressed with how fast I was going.
I forgot to tell her that is how I roll.
It's a big day for Mars I guess.
And for United Airlines. Whose plane hit a FLOCK OF BIRDS (according to the last news update I read) and went down. Good thing everyone is okay.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is being put on by the theater company here, and I really, really want to go. Because this is one of my favorite bits ever:
I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box. One keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never *know* you were in a box, would you? It would be just like you were asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be? In a box. That's the bit I don't like, frankly. That's why I don't think of it. Because you'd be helpless, wouldn't you? Stuffed in a box like that. I mean, you'd be in there forever, even taking into account the fact that you're dead. It isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off, "I'm going to stuff you in this box. Now, would you rather be alive or dead?" naturally, you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well, at least I'm not dead. In a minute somebody is going to bang on the lid, and tell me to come out."
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January 10th, 2009
01:47 pm - Sweater!
Well..I told myself I could do it, so I went ahead and did it. Probably it isn't perfect and won't actually fit a baby, but I tried my best...
The wee little vest bit:
With the arms on:
And all sewn up:
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January 4th, 2009
06:32 pm
Hm. I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking this morning when I got an 18-pound bag of grapefruit. Granted, it was on sale, but um, as ONE person I may not be able to consume all 18 pounds before a certain level of spoilage sets in.
Maybe I should invest in a juicer.
I'm having one of those lazy Sundays where I contemplate all of the things I might do during the day, then manage to accomplish approximately one or two. I was going to go check out the Whole Foods, but decided that as I don't have any more money until I get paid again, I should just wait. I can probably still attain my goal of taking down my Xmas stuff, since there wasn't much to begin with. And I went running outside and now can't decide if I should bother going to the gym or not. Probably not. Probably I should sit here and make some food for the week so that I don't have to cook it when I get home and am HONGRY.
I bought stuff to make a mushroom-spinach lasagna! Mmmmmm. I wanted whole-wheat noodles but they were out at the store. Can I make that tonight and cook it up tomorrow? Or will the noodles go bad from not being cooked? Jod? Anybody? Heeeelp.
Yesterday my mom and sister and nephews came over and I got to show them the lab and we went to a coffee shop and it was fun. At the end Tyler came up to me and said 'I had a GREAT time Aunt Jamie' and I was like 'awwww little guy, I had a great time TOO'. And of course it was super hilarious when Will mowed down a NutraGrain bar and then threw up on the table at the coffee shop. Lol.
Oh and I am now the proud owner of a set of kid's John Deer keys, which I have been playing with all day. If only I had a mini-Tractor to go along with them. I'll try to get those back to you soon Jod...
Oh and seriously...ditto on the Snuggie. I want one too. What a ridiculous commercial. But come one now, how is this a great product for kids if it is one size fits all? Because your kid is going to get all tangled up in it and fall of the couch or something when they jump up to do whatever it is kids are doing when they are in a hurry!
I plan to buy one and be the person at the football game. Who wants my free one and the reading lights?
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