Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote for a man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."
-WILL ROGERS
I don't know if that quote is entirely true but either way I'm glad I voted! This isn't my first time voting but it's my first Presidential election. Daniel is hopefully voting tonight.
Friday, October 24, 2008
“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”
-ALBERT SCHWEITZER
So evidently I didn't give Daniel my cold but he did get something worse. :( For the past 3 days he has had a sore throat, been achy, congested, and all that mess. To top it off his stomach and chest are now hurting. We have no idea what is wrong with him, really. Today they sent him home sick from work so I decided he would have to go to the doctor. Well, that probably won't happen because there is only one free clinic besides the MTSU clinic (which only treats students) and they are very busy. They said if we come in Monday, he might have a chance of being seen by their nurse practitioner. I looked up a few other places but they are all really expensive just to be seen, let alone run any lab work. Things like this are what keeps me in college... the hope that one day I will have a job that pays well enough that we don't have to worry about paying for doctor's visits! So please keep Daniel in your prayers.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Yay for the weekend!
Finally the weekend! I have just about managed to unwind and unpack from our vacation despite the fact that I am sick and may have given whatever I have to Daniel too. I'm just happy to not have to work for two days! I have more respect for parents every day... driving 3 girls around, making sure they remember to eat, do homework, chores, rent movies, put up signs for the lost cat, go to dance, drop off at doctor's office, pick up from school, supervise DI meetings...blah blah blah... is a lot harder than it looks! :) I think Henley was definitely easier to take care of. But I still really like my job!
Not exactly true but hilarious anyway :)
School is still going pretty good. I am counting down the weeks (6) until winter break. Finals come then too but so does my birthday and Christmas so it all evens out!
Daniel has been listening to a Harry Potter book on his iPod for the past week so I haven't seen a lot of him. The book is over 21 hours long. He hasn't been doing much of anything else so no real updates there. :) The cats are goofy as usual so that is pretty much all we have been up to lately.
Not exactly true but hilarious anyway :)School is still going pretty good. I am counting down the weeks (6) until winter break. Finals come then too but so does my birthday and Christmas so it all evens out!
Daniel has been listening to a Harry Potter book on his iPod for the past week so I haven't seen a lot of him. The book is over 21 hours long. He hasn't been doing much of anything else so no real updates there. :) The cats are goofy as usual so that is pretty much all we have been up to lately.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Though California pays big for their art, their fanmail comes addressed to NYC!
So, I have about an hour's break between classes and work today because of 3 fire trucks, 5 haz-mat trucks, about 6 cop cars, and one unidentified cardboard box possibly containing a hazardous substance outside of the building of my last class. So I thought I would write about what we did in NYC.
Our plane from Memphis (after waiting 5 hours in the airport) was a 48-seater and I am claustrophobic so I cried for about 30 minutes :( it was not fun. But that was the only bad thing that happened. We took a shuttle from the airport to our hotel and luckily they let us check in early. Our hotel was tiny but very nice and in a really fun part of town. We walked around Greenwich for a few hours, had dinner at a Mexican place, and then saw the off-Broadway show Altar Boyz, which was hilarious.
The next day we went to the Museum of Natural History which Daniel loved. There were 4 floors full of dinosaurs, bugs, rocks, all that kind of thing. Then we had lunch and went to a Columbus Day craft fair. Most of the crafts there were handmade (i.e. really expensive) but we got a few things. We also saw the Dakota, the apartment building where John Lennon lived and was killed. It's still a private apartment building so you can't go in unless you live there. We also spent about 2 hours in Chinatown buying souvenirs and I had a lot of fun doing that. That night we had dinner at a tiny pizza place where you could get about a pound of delicious pasta for 5 bucks. Then we saw an off-off-Broadway show at this tiny underground theatre called Under St. Mark's and the show was called Brew of the Dead. It was about the zombie apocalypse and these 5 people who figure that if they're going to die anyway they might as well drink as much beer as they can before it happens. Their only props were three metal folding chairs with a wrinkly white sheet covering them (the "couch"), a couple fake guns, and a real keg of beer. It was pretty funny for being so low-budget. We also found a tiny bookstore across the street where Daniel got a really old book for $2 that he loves, and I got a book of poetry by Sylvia Plath.
On Sunday I woke up really early to go buy something else at that craft fair and got lost on the subway. I made it all the way into Queens before I figured out I was lost. After I made my way back to the hotel we walked around the fashion side of Manhattan, 5th and Madison. Plus we went to Dylan's Candy Bar, a 3-story candy store owned by the daughter of Ralph Lauren. Then we spent about an hour walking around looking for St. Patrick's Cathedral but it was worth it when we finally found it because it was gorgeous. That night we went out to eat at some bar near Times Square that had the best, crunchiest french fries I have ever had. After that we walked around Times Square and went into the Hershey's store and then went home.
Monday morning we got tickets to go to this museum in the Lower East Side called the Tenement Museum. A tenement is basically an apartment building, and this tenement that we saw was built in the 1860's, closed in the 1940's, and had had around 4,000 immigrants from over 20 countries live in it during that time. It had 20 apartments and each of them were only 325 square feet divided into 3 rooms. Some of the rooms had been redecorated to look like what they would have looked like in the 20's, 1800's, etc, but they left some of them looking like what they looked like when the museum found the building in 1988 (basically a falling-down rat hole). That was really fun. Then we walked around the financial district and Battery Park and we saw the Statue of Liberty but didn't take a ferry out there. There was a huge street fair on Broadway with tons of vendors so we got a lot of food and souvenirs there. Finally we made it back to the airport, where they switched our gate about 3 minutes before the plane took off. It was a tiny plane again but I figured it would be so no crying on the way back. :) My mom and dad picked us up from the airport and we drove home and unloaded the car and I am still staring at all our suitcases and souvenirs on the floor which I don't plan on unpacking until this weekend. :)
We had a lot of fun!
Our plane from Memphis (after waiting 5 hours in the airport) was a 48-seater and I am claustrophobic so I cried for about 30 minutes :( it was not fun. But that was the only bad thing that happened. We took a shuttle from the airport to our hotel and luckily they let us check in early. Our hotel was tiny but very nice and in a really fun part of town. We walked around Greenwich for a few hours, had dinner at a Mexican place, and then saw the off-Broadway show Altar Boyz, which was hilarious.
The next day we went to the Museum of Natural History which Daniel loved. There were 4 floors full of dinosaurs, bugs, rocks, all that kind of thing. Then we had lunch and went to a Columbus Day craft fair. Most of the crafts there were handmade (i.e. really expensive) but we got a few things. We also saw the Dakota, the apartment building where John Lennon lived and was killed. It's still a private apartment building so you can't go in unless you live there. We also spent about 2 hours in Chinatown buying souvenirs and I had a lot of fun doing that. That night we had dinner at a tiny pizza place where you could get about a pound of delicious pasta for 5 bucks. Then we saw an off-off-Broadway show at this tiny underground theatre called Under St. Mark's and the show was called Brew of the Dead. It was about the zombie apocalypse and these 5 people who figure that if they're going to die anyway they might as well drink as much beer as they can before it happens. Their only props were three metal folding chairs with a wrinkly white sheet covering them (the "couch"), a couple fake guns, and a real keg of beer. It was pretty funny for being so low-budget. We also found a tiny bookstore across the street where Daniel got a really old book for $2 that he loves, and I got a book of poetry by Sylvia Plath.
On Sunday I woke up really early to go buy something else at that craft fair and got lost on the subway. I made it all the way into Queens before I figured out I was lost. After I made my way back to the hotel we walked around the fashion side of Manhattan, 5th and Madison. Plus we went to Dylan's Candy Bar, a 3-story candy store owned by the daughter of Ralph Lauren. Then we spent about an hour walking around looking for St. Patrick's Cathedral but it was worth it when we finally found it because it was gorgeous. That night we went out to eat at some bar near Times Square that had the best, crunchiest french fries I have ever had. After that we walked around Times Square and went into the Hershey's store and then went home.
Monday morning we got tickets to go to this museum in the Lower East Side called the Tenement Museum. A tenement is basically an apartment building, and this tenement that we saw was built in the 1860's, closed in the 1940's, and had had around 4,000 immigrants from over 20 countries live in it during that time. It had 20 apartments and each of them were only 325 square feet divided into 3 rooms. Some of the rooms had been redecorated to look like what they would have looked like in the 20's, 1800's, etc, but they left some of them looking like what they looked like when the museum found the building in 1988 (basically a falling-down rat hole). That was really fun. Then we walked around the financial district and Battery Park and we saw the Statue of Liberty but didn't take a ferry out there. There was a huge street fair on Broadway with tons of vendors so we got a lot of food and souvenirs there. Finally we made it back to the airport, where they switched our gate about 3 minutes before the plane took off. It was a tiny plane again but I figured it would be so no crying on the way back. :) My mom and dad picked us up from the airport and we drove home and unloaded the car and I am still staring at all our suitcases and souvenirs on the floor which I don't plan on unpacking until this weekend. :)
We had a lot of fun!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Pictures!
Here are a few pictures from our trip to NYC...
And here are the rest! http://photos.walmart.com/share/p=282141224018848117/l=14932051/g=20832943/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
And here are the rest! http://photos.walmart.com/share/p=282141224018848117/l=14932051/g=20832943/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
“If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer...
...a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - ROBERT CRINGELY
I wish that was true! Because then I wouldn't have to pay for a new headlight cover for the girl whose car I hit today. I could just buy her a new crappy car that cost about $10 bucks. What really happened was I was backing out of a parking spot on campus, she came whipping around the corner, and stopped right before I bumped her headlight cover with my plastic bumper, making the "wreck" my fault. The only damage was the headlight cover which cracked off and will need to be replaced. She didn't call the cops to file a report or act mean about it or anything (I think she knew it was partially her fault!) and she said she wouldn't have a problem with me paying for it out of pocket.
It sucks because I know I looked both ways before backing out, and she had to have come really fast around the corner in the parking lot to be as close to me as she was. Unfortunately she stopped before she hit me, soI got the pleasure of hitting her at 1/2 mph (I seem to have a knack for these slow-speed fender benders). And I'm glad the Jeep wasn't damaged at all--that plastic bumper is awesome.
Oh well. I'm not too worried about it, I just hope the headlight cover doesn't cost too much!
I also changed the colors for Halloween because I'm cool like that. :)
I wish that was true! Because then I wouldn't have to pay for a new headlight cover for the girl whose car I hit today. I could just buy her a new crappy car that cost about $10 bucks. What really happened was I was backing out of a parking spot on campus, she came whipping around the corner, and stopped right before I bumped her headlight cover with my plastic bumper, making the "wreck" my fault. The only damage was the headlight cover which cracked off and will need to be replaced. She didn't call the cops to file a report or act mean about it or anything (I think she knew it was partially her fault!) and she said she wouldn't have a problem with me paying for it out of pocket.
It sucks because I know I looked both ways before backing out, and she had to have come really fast around the corner in the parking lot to be as close to me as she was. Unfortunately she stopped before she hit me, soI got the pleasure of hitting her at 1/2 mph (I seem to have a knack for these slow-speed fender benders). And I'm glad the Jeep wasn't damaged at all--that plastic bumper is awesome.
Oh well. I'm not too worried about it, I just hope the headlight cover doesn't cost too much!
I also changed the colors for Halloween because I'm cool like that. :)
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