Once upon a time there was this girl. She had an attitude. And a spirit nobody could tame. She was tough and attacked each new day without fear. She went by my name and spoke with a voice only I could hear. She lived in my mind. But now...she's coming out.
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29.10.02 ( 10:19 PM ) Val Guess What? It's my birthday! Woohoo--I'm twenty! And I'm staying in Rochester for a while...and, amazingly enough, that's a good thing.
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19.9.02 ( 10:38 AM ) Val Due to a bunch of things going on right now, I'm letting this blog slide for a bit. I'll be back, eventually. However, I'm not entirely sure when that will be. In the meantime, if any of ya'll need to get in contact with me--feel free to mail me here. See ya'll later.
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29.8.02 ( 9:05 PM ) Val Oh, The Horror. My navel ring fell out and now the hole is closed. The ball fell off and went down the drain Saturday morning (pre-Vanguard) in the shower. It was early enough that I knew no place that sold navel rings would be open, so Skip and I jury-rigged this funky setup involving Blue's Clues bandaids to keep it in. I gave a girl friend of mine money and instructions to buy me a new ring and send it with her brother who wouldn't leave for Vanguard until the following day. And then, on Saturday night, the stickiness of the bandaids was compromised and my ring fell out on a gravel path after dark in the middle of the wilderness. Oh well, que sera sera and whatever else I'm supposed to be saying. Since my piercing is still (relatively) new and unhealed, the hole had closed entirely too much for me to force it through by the time the replacement piercing had arrived. The replacement is incredibly cute though, so I just have to go get my navel re-punched (doesn't that sound awful? Re-punched). I'm also not entirely sure where I laid the replacement down though...It's probably admist the luggage I have yet to unpack.
24.8.02 ( 12:16 AM ) Val Incommunicado. I leave town for Vanguard (yeah!!) tomorrow morning at 10 am and I won't be home until Wednesday afternoon. I know I won't have access to a computer until I get home, so don't bother checking this site until then. What is Vanguard? It's a really intense church "retreat" for young Christian adults who have a passion to see God change their city. It is absolutely amazing...
In Other News... I may be sporting some odd scrapes and/or bruises the next couple of days. I forgot my keys and Skip wasn't home, so I came in through a window (with some booster assistance from Mom). It was entirely too easy, so we're gonna want to fix that. And my hair was scrunchy/wavy/curly today because of this stuff I sprayed in it. I like it but not for all the time. It was easy though and looked cute enough, and that's really the point of doing it like this anyway. We'll see how it works 2nd day though-that's when the real test begins.
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21.8.02 ( 8:49 AM ) Val Good Times. So, I have had an incredibly good week so far. A good friend of mine, Maria, was home for the weekend before heading off to spend next semester at the Biosphere in Arizona (she's a physics geek, but we love her anyway). So, I spent all afternoon and evening with her on Sunday. We went shopping for camping equipment at the mall, ate dinner with her mother, and watched Kate & Leopold.
Then, on Monday, I worked at night so I ran errands during the day. I went up to my church and ended up getting the definitive details about Vanguard this upcoming week and also got invited to a children's ministry conference in Orlando next month (I'm probably not going to go because of a shortage in funds). And work was all right, so that was good.
And yesterday, I went to work (another decent day nothing to brag about). PJ, Kate (Skip's roommate from college who is in town and staying with us this week), Skip and I all had a real dinner together. Then, Skip, Kate and I went over to Jon-e's (another college friend of theirs) house. Jon-e was a missionary kid so he grew up in Kenya and he makes chai tea, so we sat around for a couple of hours drinking tea and talking with him and his wife, Kris. It was a lot of fun.
So, I am in a good mood this morning. And I don't have to leave for work for another hour and twenty minutes. *grin*
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12.8.02 ( 9:40 AM ) Val As a postscript to my last post, I would also like to point out that, unlike Tupac, Elvis does not come out with a new album every year. This serious lack of vision on his part further limits us having new things about him to discuss...
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11.8.02 ( 11:40 PM ) Val Elvis Makes Me Scream. It is the 25th anniversary of The King's death (sometime in the vicinity of today) and our local newspaper has this honkin huge article about him. I was also floating around to some other people's blogs and one of them was discussing CNN's feature on him. He's been dead for 25 years! Really, how much more is there to say? I mean-his music was great, he did a lot for the industry...but he's dead. Isn't there better stuff we could be doing with our news space?
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