Thursday, January 31, 2002


DEREK. of course you are invited to dance mix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! come come come!! we will talk.

saw janet last night. amazing, just like before, although, i must say that i was feeling the crowd more at the garden than at van andel....nevertheless, it was awesome. a-maze-ing. plus it was just fun because it was lorie's birthday (happy 25th!!!) and eric and ny and donna and alvin and j and chrislum were there. =D i was pretty surprised by grand rapids, tho'....it's a pretty nice city. if detroit could just get it's act together to be like that....

so there's snow and snow and snow and oh yeah...ice and freezing rain on top of it. doesn't make for a fun three and a half hour drive at midnight. or a morning commute. i'm pretty much the only one in my office right now. i wonder if anyone else is gonna come to work....it's way too treacherous out there for any vehicle to be on the road. last night we saw at least 10 cars stuck in ditches and this morning i saw 5. i'm sure there were more cuz some of the cars i say were waaaayyy stuck in those ditches. none of the schools are open...with maybe the exception of michigan...they'd technically be open but no one would go to class....just cuz of that lawsuit a few years back. silly law students....i'm always surprised at the things people sue for.

Monday, January 28, 2002


so i thought i had blogged one of my more clever blogs, and it's not here and i don't know what happened to it, but i can assure you that it was clever. so clever that i can't rethink it. alvin finally checked up on the comments on his blogspot. i would have linked him, except there's nothing new to link to seeing that he hasn't blogged in over a month now. at least he acknowledged our comments. =P alvin, blog!! stop working and blog!

lorie's gonna celebrate the 25th anniversary of her birth on wednesday, gettin' old. hittin' that quarter century mark. and hey, insurance goes down! saving money is always a good thing. =D we're all going to see janet jackson in grand rapids. why she's going to grand rapids, i have no idea, but the tickets were cheap and we have good seats. kimmie and co. will be sitting on the main floor dead center. just need to figure out that "and co." part. i feel we're gonna be cutting it close to making the show. phllbbtt. i hate cutting it close..too stressful. like fast card games and encore.

blah blah...nothing fun happening to me. my tailbone still hurts from last weekend...starting to think this might not be normal. i'll ask porta...he should know. ha. anyway..here i go...back to work...

Tuesday, January 22, 2002


there is a world of traffic out there for me to face and yet i sit here blogging instead of trying to beat it. maybe cuz i don't look forward to getting in my car. every time i get in, i'm reminded of that stupid patch of ice (or should i say ice boulders) that took me out on saturday. ugh. if you ever go up to shanty creek, stay away from summit and just go to schuss. the snow was sooo much better and so were the runs...well except for that ridiculously flat one we foolishly went down. torture it was. but what a fun weekend for snowboarding. like chrissy said...nuts and lorie just started boarding and they did so good!! i think the falling might have taken a toll on donna, tho....it'll get better! soo much fun...hanging out with conehead and chrissy and porta and donna (who i never see ever) and lorie and ny. =D once again: i am so blessed. and we even made it home before midnight on sunday to get a semi-decent night of sleep...even though me and chrissy shouldn't have had to work in the first place. companies that don't take off mlk get a thumbs down. two, in fact. the only good part was that there really wasn't any traffic...okay...time to go home. g'night all!

Friday, January 18, 2002


one more hour before i leave for up north. techinically, it's like 2 hours cuz i have to go get chrissy and conehead first. i haven't been to this resort since i was 9 so i'm hoping that i remember right that the runs are waaaay better than they are in southeastern michigan. they probably have some natural piles of dirt instead of some made out of garbage. and taller, too...but then again i was also a foot and a half shorter. conehead has the brilliant plan of stopping off at birch run on the way up. brilliant i tell ya.

oh, yeah...i'm blogging at work. amazing. who ever thought i would blog at work? not that it would be outside of my nature, but who would ever think i would have a job in the first place that would give me my own computer?

Wednesday, January 16, 2002


i think i drove halfway home in first gear today. a good 15 miles. first gear! the roads weren't even bad yet...just a little bit of snow.--just like every other winter we've ever had in michigan--and there people go driving retarded. i realize that there is a degree of caution that must be taken during times of precipitation, but people! it's just snow and it wasn't even sticking! well, whatever. i just like to complain. i'm glad that i got home alright and that i didn't see anyone else have an accident on the way home. the good part: snow for snowboarding. real snow. the good kind. it should be even better up in traverse city. =) the even better part: lorie said we could make spring rolls. =D

Monday, January 14, 2002


it's hard to want to move forward when your life plateaus in contentment.

Friday, January 11, 2002


my week of bumdom is coming to a close. i stayed up past 2 every night just cuz i could. actually, last night i didn't because i realized it would be dumb of me to get used to sleeping so late since i start work on monday. don't want to be late on the first day. not that i could...you know how you're pretty anxious to start a new job that even if you are perpetually 15 minutes late for everything, you'll be on time, if not early, for those first couple weeks on the new job? yeah. anyway...i'm excited....no, not excited. don't want to get my hopes up. i'm looking forward to starting this new job. it will be nice to work with people that are within a decade of my age.

so i woke up this morning with a sore throat. i'm not sure if it's because i'm at the tail end of my sickness or if my whole neck is just sore from falling on my head yesterday during snowboarding. hmm. my mom reckons i should get a helmet. yeah, yeah. i think i should just stop falling on my head. regardless, everyone should take time off of work to go boardig. =) it makes it that much more fun, right, chrissy?

Thursday, January 03, 2002


one more day of dumb lab work before a week of no work before i start my new work. heehee. what to do...i figured i could get some reading in (that's right, i read) since eric has repeatedly brought it to my attention the downward spiral my vocabulary and communication skills have taken since i graduated in april. i admit that this is true, hence the reading. i'm also hoping we'll get some more snow (sunday's forecast says so) so that maybe one of my home friends with 22 vacation days not including holidays will take time off and be a snowboarding buddy, too. ;D

i feel that my life is beginning to roll now....i have no reason to complain about anything....i have my family and friends and a job and a mode of transportation. i'm pretty set...the new year really brought a fresh start, i feel. cheesy, i know....who cares? it's a good thing. finally, i feel that it's okay for me to do all the extra things that i want to do without feeling guilty about not having a good job.

(side note: is it supposed to feel like your fingertips will fall off when you first learn the guitar? it's a little painful to type. i don't know how i'm supposed to develop callouses.)

i'm excited to see what this year will bring. people are looking at buying houses and are moving all over the place....and i just found out that my friend michelle just got engaged to her doctor boyfriend (congrats!!!) and that chris and sheila got engaged at a pistons game last month. my goodness...we're all growing up so fast! haha...for real....it's like the video they made for jon at avalon. half a dozen young professionals being completely retarded in jon's underwear. how is it that we are so silly and can still get hired to do real world work? i love it. i have no idea if that made sense. oh, well..it's bedtime for me. bye bye to jon for a little while...good luck and safe travels in england!

oh, yeah...happy birthday to STEEEVEEE!!!! (in 30 minutes and counting...) happy 23rd, man!

Tuesday, January 01, 2002


whoa. what a trip. i don't think i've ever done so much in a week in my life. it was super concentrated fun. eating, dr. mario, movies, boarding, shopping, eating, sleeping, dancing, bonfire, cranium, mafia...my goodness. it was so much more than just those things, tho'. la...sd..irvine...i'll say it again. my. goodness. fun fun fun!!! i love my friends. i really think that i have the greatest friends in the world...we're so far apart, but when we get together, it's like no time has passed. so thank you thank you lynn and hong and james and victor for spending practically every minute of our visit with us and housing us and for driving us all over southern california and jon and george, too, for playing host to us in sd. you guys are the best ever for showing us such an amazing time. just think...only 3 more months and we'll be in miami. =)

so eric and i arrive at lax super early for our flight, get our bags checked in without a hassle, board our flight on time and even arrive at dtw early. atypical for northwest. of course, the idiots at the airport failed to notice that our plane had arrived, so we wasted a good 15 minutes on the plane waiting for them to connect the walkway to the plance so we can de-board(?). did i mention that it's 10:50pm on new years eve? (enter frustration.) we can make it to my house, i tell myself as we book to baggage claim...you will not miss watching the ball drop with your family because you have never missed the ball drop with your family in your entire life. i figure, we actually got to detroit on time, no doubt will i make it home on time. baggage claim to it's sweet time and by 11:18, we're running out of the airport with our snowboards in hand. (enter anxiety)42 minutes to get home, i think...i'm barely gonna make it. at 11:43 we're at southfield freeway and 8 mile, at least 20 minutes from my house. (enter disappointment) my brother calls me 5 minutes before midnight like i asked (so i could pseudo drop the ball with the family) and we count down and midnight hits. *happy new year!* i'm in a car less than a mile away from my house. i must say i was pretty close to devastated. i mean, i ran into my house without unloading the car so i could make the tail end of the new year excitement, but it wasn't the same. at least i got to see my cousins before they bounced off to other new year parties. i missed a tradition and i don't think i want to do that again. makes me realize how attached i am to my family....further reinforcing that this is where i'm supposed to be.

anyway...i've spent new years day sick. it was building up all last week and finally just blew up this morning. it's the kind of sick that makes you miserable because you can't breathe or swallow or talk or move your head. yechh. i have to go to work like this tomorrow. the only good part is that there's only 3 more days left at ppg (aka pppoopy--like kimmie says). then i have a week to do...nothing!!! hahahahaha...can't wait. i think i can try out my new snowboarding skills on our snow-covered landfills...