2007: Rear in Review

January: I don't remember anything that happened in January.

February: Yeah, I guess I was taking classes and working.

March: Spring Break 2007 NYC!!!! I saw Spring Awakening and then it was Spring for reals.

April: I have no memories of April 2007. It was my Grandma's birthday, but I don't remember what we did. I'm sure I was hanging out with LeeAnne a lot, too.

May: Um. I think this is when I got in a huge fight with Darrell and he stopped talking to me.

June: End of first year of Library School. Grin and I went to Spokane to see Nathan get deaconized. LeeAnne moved to China.

July: I turned 25. 25 and alive! For my birthday I ate pizza, Darrell started talking to me again, I went to a concert in the zoo with BJ, and I had drinks at Linda's with Kiera and Jeff. The final Harry Potter comes out and I cried bittersweet tears.

August: Amelia gets born. I convince Jeff to date me. Very exciting month.

September: I went to CA. I started my second year of L-school.

October: Halloween? Oh right, I went to my dad's and it was awkward.

November: Kiera moves to Florida, which is sad. On Thanksgiving I saw Beowulf in 3D and had dinner at my mom's.

December: I passed all my classes and got a scholarship I didn't even apply for. Nice. For Xmas I got an electric kettle, a deep fryer, books, and a framed picture of my little niece. I also just moved out of my room at the Spano's because they're moving to Switzerland. So I'm currently homeless, but it's not so bad. Tonight I'm going to Rich and Grin's for their NYE party.

Grade for 2007: A

Resolutions for 2008: 1) Bring reusable bags on shopping trips. 2) Graduate. 3) Get a real job.

Exciting possibilities for 2008: 1) Visiting Kiera in Florida. 2) Visiting the Spanos in Switzerland. 3) President Obama!!!!!!!!!1 4) Keeping my resolutions.

After the Flood

Fake hardwood!
Cold but cool.

It's Been Raining Like Crazy

...and my basement room is totes flooding.

I guess my landlords picked a good time to move to Switzerland.

This is what Seattle looked like yesterday:

Awesome.

Ladies Who Lunch

D-rell was on the UW campus today with 30 of his high schoolers. I met up with him and we had lunch. A lot of interesting things happened:

1. I told him what "Superman dat hoe" means.

2. He bragged about how much he spent in Las Vegas ("The tickets were $150!" "We ate at the highest grossing restaurant in the world!" "We didn't crash with Libby. We stayed at a hotel!")

3. I encouraged him to stick to his guns about Parke choreographing his next musical.

4. I showed him pictures of my bf to prove that Jeff's real.

5. Nobody got hurt.

Commercials, Cars, Christmas

In the spirit of my "everyday" vs. "every day" post, I'm going to rant about something that's not important but still really bothers me: those commercials on TV where people get cars for Christmas. Seriously. Who gets a car for Christmas? (Jeff says he knows someone who did once, but that was in California, which I don't count as part of my reality.)

My least favorite one goes like this:

Interior: A tastefully furnished upper-middle-class home.

Well-dressed woman looks upset about something. Her husband is clearly the cause of her low-level angst.

Well-dressed woman goes outside and is shocked (SHOCKED!), surprised (SURPRISED!), and ebullient (EBULLIENT!) to see a brand new car in the driveway.

Well-dressed woman embraces her husband and they are happy.

I also really don't like that chorus of duhs commerical. Duh is so 1990s.

I don't actually watch that much TV. Well, that's not completely true. I watch my fair share, but almost always after the show's been recorded so we can fast forward through the commercials. It is awesome to fast forward through the commercials. That may be one of the better technological advances of my lifetime thus far.

This should make Charlie laugh:

Why female genital mutilation won't get you asylum

But really it's horrible.