Put up a parking lot

So two weeks ago while I was in the midst of finals week my driveway aka parking lot was filled with people who had dropped off their cars headed to fun-filled places like:

Hawaii

Jamaica

and the ever lovely Greece


So each day I would come home see their cars and swear under my breath as I was stuck at home doing advanced statistics and preparing for a test on Solution-Focused Brief Counseling among other stuff/crap. Life just isn't fair sometimes.

2 weddings and a breakdown

My brother got married in June. My mom got married in August. My dad is engaged and may be getting married very very soon. I had a little break down, well let's be honest a major breakdown.

Edward Moore Kennedy

February 22, 1932 – August 26, 2009


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Good Riddance to Summer

As my friend Carren pointed out, I'm probably the only person to think "good riddance to summer." I'm sorry but I do. I don't like the heat. I hated school, even though I did get a 4.0. I hate being broke. I hate being an emotional basket case. I'm sick of attending weddings (all two of them). Let's face it Summer has always been my least favorite season. The worst of the worst. Autumn has always been my favorite. Things are more relaxed and let's not forget cuter clothes. I'm just done with summer. Enter Autumn and fast!

Cell Phone Sabbatical

Yes you read that right. I hate talking on the phone, always have. SO until next week you will just have to use email or something. :)

The last 24 hours

I finished school at 7:06 pm last night. I didn't even fill out a course evaluation, I've never not done that before, that's how done I was. I couldn't take the extra three-minutes to do it. I just needed out of there. And so I left to go sit in my car and cry and breathe. It's an overwhelming feeling being done with a particularly hard quarter and freedom and relief and happiness don't hit you until the next morning. So last night I made my way to Bothell to visit some of my favorite people on earth (Carly and my Aunt Maudjean and the kids). So here are a few of the things I have loved in the last 24 hours besides my family in Bothell (alas I do no have photos of them and nor did I get their permission to post photos of them). But they would be number 1...and the rest are in no particular order.

2. Listening to the Beatles play on my favorite radio station The Mountain 103.7


3. Red Robin French Fries.


4. Bath & Body Works hand soap Montana Sky


5. Reading my first novel in forever "The Art of Racing in the Rain" as told from a dog's perspective. Takes place in Seattle and is fascinating!


6. Meryl Streep in Julia & Julie. She is amazing. This movie was produced by Nora Ephron and as we all know she did Sleepless in Seattle is was bound to be good. Seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen. Not for everyone but I can't stop talking about it to my aunt. We loved it. I cannot WAIT to own it. I grew up watching Julia Child and really had no idea about her life. Once in my life I even had act her cooking show out to get a part in the play in high school. She is one of my newest heroes. I am going to go check out her biography if there is one at the library tomorrow!
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7. Listening to the rain while reading in bed

2 years

I tend to do things in two year increments. As I'm coming on two years in Seattle (about three months away), it has me thinking. I have never lived anywhere longer than two years in the last 13 years. Even now, I find myself itching to just get away from here. I like certain aspects of my life right now but mostly I hate life right now. In fact, I despise it to my detriment. Why can't I just be okay here? What does that say about me always wanting to move? Does it mean I cowardly leave when I can't take it anymore or does it just mean I like learning new places and when that's done I'm done? Am I destined to be one of those people that people lose track of because I just up and move when I grow tired of the world around me? This is something I really can't figure out about myself. As a psychologist in training, I learn to take in perspectives about the self in an ecological way. But it is hard to see it from my own inner-world. Will I eventually grow out of this and just move houses instead of locales? I honestly can't say. But I'm way craving to move on but I know I'm stuck until at least Spring of 2011 which will put me here in Seattle for 3.5 years respectively. Maybe things will have changed by then.

Old School Vinyls

Jim has inherited an old school record player from my father and we are obsessed with it! We go to half price books numerous times and find old vintage vinyls. It is so fun to listen to it. Last night Jim bought Tommy by The Who and two Frank Sinatra albums, along with speeches of JFK. It was so cool. Then I broke out my Clash vinyl and was in, what I would consider, a little piece of my heaven.

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If I had six wishes...

I have had a list of things I have wanted for years. In fact, I have a folder in my email tagged "TO BUY" in hopes that one day thousands and thousands of dollars will fall from the sky and I will be able to buy them. Here are some of those things on the list.