April 2005

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Currently Watching Cold Mountain By Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger Andy and I had the morning off together yesterday and watched Cold Mountain.  I found myself sad during the movie, but no tears.  After the movie was over, however, I cried about nothing. I wasn't overly impressed with the film, but it hasn't left me yet.  The emotional impact of the piece left me in a strange place.  I was sad without anything to be sad about.  Is this what the Greek called a catharsis?  I suppose it is.  I often feel this way when history and fiction meet.  Such terrible truths made extra poinient by slight exaggerations and strings of improbabilities.  Anyway, if their goal was to make me learn that women in the war were widowed and brutalized mostly by their own army, well they succeeded.  What I want to know is whatever happened to Natalie Portman's baby?  12:12 pm  Friday, April 08, 2005 Currently Watching Lost - The Complete First Season By Matthew Fox Happy Half birthday to meeeee Happy Half birthday to meeee Happy Half birthday to meeeeeeee-eeeee Haffy Half birth a day to me! 5:22 pm  Thursday, March 10, 2005 Currently Watching Garden State By Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman Life plugs on...lots of work for me right now...Starbucks, then sleep, then Gladstone High School Subbing, then meet about HONK!, then sleep, then Gladstone High School Subbing, then meet about church, then "watch" a movie through closed eyelids, then sleep...and it goes on. BUT it is SPRING here.  And I'm directing a show. And I may be leading two theatre camps this summer.  And it's over 70 outside.  And I have the best husband in the world. I am happy. Gotta dash... 4:33 pm  Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Currently Reading Honk! Vocal Selections By George Stiles, Anthony Drewe Yes!  I am in preproduction for my very first CYT show!  I am directing HONK! for Christian Youth Theatre starting in March.  It is a musical adaptation of the Ugly Duckling.  Anyone seen it?  I will have a cast of 50-60 8-18 year olds in my cast.  I will also have a choreographer, music director, and assistant director to help me out.  I can't wait to get started!  It has been 4 years since I directed a show, and that is too long.  This time it is even a professional company which means for the first time I will be paid to direct.  What a blessing! 2:01 pm

February 2005

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Currently Watching 13 Going on 30 (Special Edition) By Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer Last week I had a brush with the miraculous that I thought I might share with all of you.  I woke up and couldn't get the sleepies out of my eyes.  This went on for hours.  My eyes hurt and it was really annoying.  Putting my glasses on made it harder to see.  As time went on, although the pain did not lessen, my vision improved.  I could see the tv without my glasses!  Had God performed a miracle?  Had he answered my childhood prayers to correct my vision?  Or were my eyeballs just swollen to the perfect size for 20-20 vision?  I couldn't figure it out.  Andy was puzzled too.  After several hours I looked in a mirror again.  The sleep had cleared enough that I could see what I had missed before.  My contacts were still in from the night before, thus the pain, sleepies, and 20-20 vision.  In the 18 years that I have been wearing contacts, I have never left them in over night.  Now I know why you're supposed to take them out overnight!  OWWW!  I couldn't put them back in for a week!

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Currently Watching The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King  By Elijah Wood Finished!   I even stayed awake (and sobbed through the end credits as usual). 3:48 am

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Currently Watching The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers  By Elijah Wood And it continues! 2/3 to go! 4:30 pm

Currently Watching The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring By Elijah Wood The marathon begins! 4:28 pm

Monday, January 24, 2005

Currently Watching Napoleon Dynamite By Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Efren Ramirez Alright.  So now I've seen it. Gosh.

January 2005

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Today is my first long day since my vacation.... I'm subbing for an English teacher with an intestinal virus at Oregon City High School. He left lesson plans which essentially call for crowd control and study hall. WEEEEEEEEEE.... Tonight I close my Starbucks again... I'll be home by 11:30pm. Andy had a rough night with coughing and such and insisted on sleeping on the couch so he wouldn't disturb me.  Life is good...just thought you all could use a reminder. 1:15 pm

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Currently Watching Hamlet By Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan The weeks blow by willy nilly. I continue busily working too much.  The president (aka The Andy) tells me I'm too busy.  I agree.  We both know there is no choice right now.  For lo, the bill man cometh each month on his appointed day.  And lo, the paychecks never satisfy his lusty desire for more. O what a weary web we weave when first we practice to untangle the hangman's noose of student loans from out proverbial necks. Santa just gave me a candy cane and now I am done waxing Shakespeare.  Candy is yummy. 4:00 pm

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Currently Watching Love Comes Softly Good morning friends. Life and love are good.  Although most days are terribly full of too much toiling, each night I come home to a husband who loves me and misses me.  He and I do not get tired of each other.  Ever.  Nice to know that we made the right vows almost six months ago! Last night we decided to pull out the Christmas decorations and sort through which ones we will display this year.  Andy has learned a new thing that he loves about me...I have a ceramic Christmas village that has many unfinished pieces.  We are going to work on painting a few more this year. Not sure where we will display them.... We have decided to avoid the (ugly fire safe) artificial vs. (lovely genuinely pine scented semi flammable) real tree argument this year.  We will not get a tree because of the expense and our current financial state.  Sooner or later one of us will have to give in.  There is no half way between real and fake.  Sigh...  Well, I am set for another busy week.  I am subbing every weekday from 7:30-3:00. Closing Starbucks 3 of those days....working my usual full weekend at Starbucks, plus church and drama rehearsal!  Whew!  Thanksgiving was nice while it lasted! Off I go.... 12:06 pm

Sunday, November 14, 2004

Currently Watching Bridget Jones's Diary By Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth Happy Sunday to you all. Well.  We have had an interesting week. I started it by working 37 hours between 8pm Sunday and 11pm Tuesday.  51-37= 14 hours to drive to and from work and sleep.  The good news is that I followed that up by sleeping from 11:30pm Tuesday until 11:00am Wednesday and stayed in my pjs all day at home.  And I did nothing except cook a couple eggs for Andy all day long....the bliss. Interesting fact: If you sleep in until lunch time in November, it will be dark out before you feel like eating lunch. Friday brought some interesting news for Andy...but I'll let him tell you about that. 12:30 pm

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Currently Watching Love Actually By Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant I just got sad news.  My friend Laura Goss had to return to Eugene this week because her father died on Monday of an anurism while riding his bike to work. (For those of you who were at my wedding, you might remember Laura.  She was our photographer and a long time friend of mine.)  She headed to Asia for mission work before we even returned from our honeymoon.  She had plans to stay a year.  Now, though, I am not sure what she will do. This has reminded me of a loss that I experienced when I was in college.  A former teacher of mine also died unexpectedly of an anurism.  At the time I was not so much sad about her death, as I was scared that someone I was related to might be lost in a similar incident.  These moments of grief have served as  cautionary tales encouraging me to invest my time in the lives of others.  For a while I am better about keeping in touch with my loved ones and less caught up in my busyness.  Those financial and personal goals I am reaching for cannot be allowed to rob today of its moment of joy.

October 2004

Currently Playing Glo By Delirious My Glorious I got an extra hour overnight, though I should probably use it to sleep to make up for the hour I will lose in the spring, Thought instead I'd live on the wild side and touch up my weblog.  Life is full of work for me.  And Andy.  And more work.  Yeah.  I teach once a week for a Youth Theatre company.  Starbucks is 35 hours a week plus I sub several days a week for local high schools.    I subbed last week in a sewing class and looked at all the pattern books.  I want to make myself lots of woolen Burda classics.  They have a great Irish line that makes me drool.  Coats...capes...jackets...woolen pants blown by the wind o'er the moor...long flowing skirts with pleat and without... Speaking of drooling.  I took Andy to the largest fabric store in the West last week.  We were picking out the fabric for our new duvet cover.  You should have seen him drool over the huge table of pleather. ("Has anyone seen my leather mini skirt?") Today is Halloween.  Which is exciting, but mostly because the elections will be over in less than three days!  Hallelujah!  I never thought I'd miss Cialis commercials. 12:15 pm

Friday, September 24, 2004

Currently Reading The Works of Jane Austen: Minor Works By Jane Austin Today's schedule: 3:45 AM -- Hit snooze bar on alarm and leave room so Andy has to figure out how to turn it off in the dark when it goes off again. 4:15 AM -- Report to work at Starbucks. 1:00 PM -- Go home and build Xanga account after watching Andy beat Super Mario Bros. 2. 3:08 PM -- Take a nap.  7:30 PM -- Go to potluck zzzzzzzzz....

Our First Apartment!

We have settled into our first home together.  11790 SE Fuller Road in Milwaukie, OR.  It is a townhome with a garage, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a washer and dryer.

We have put away all of our lovely red kitchen wedding gifts in our first kitchen.  Aren't they dazzling?

Here we are, fresh from our honeymoon picking up our wedding gifts at my parent's home in Eugene.  We got to open them all that day.  So many presents, so little time!  You all have blessed us with way more than we were expecting.  Our new place is well equipped!

Looking at our wedding pictures.

Our new dining room.

The kitchen with us in it. :)

We are so happy!  What a perfect place to start our married life.