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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29.8.02 ( 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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5.8.02 ( 1:14 PM ) Val Family Reunion. It was more fun than I expected to have. *grin* I hung out with family members I had met previously; I also discovered that Uncle Jesse plays a mean game of checkers. He told me that I have to practice before I'm allowed to come back to a reunion. *grin*
Today's Agenda. Today seems to be shaping up to be a very veg out and stay-at-home kind of day. Grammi has to go get bloodwork done before her chemotherapy on Thursday, but she's also having a rough, pain-filled kind of day, so Dad hasn't taken her yet. I was watching TV this morning and got to watch The Fast And The Furious finally; it was really good. Tomorrow we're going on a campus tour of the University Of Chicago. I hooked up with a college prep advisor last week and he advised me to check out the U of C's political science and near east programs. From what I can tell they have a program very similar to the one I was interested in at Fordham. They are also very in-your-face about the challenge they present academically. And, you know me, I'm always up for a challenge. So, we'll see. It'll be the first college I've checked out seriously this time around, so I'll have something to compare with other schools.
That's about it on my front...nothing really interesting. I love Chicago but I'll be happy to be home on Wednesday, mostly because I don't have friends here to chill with like I do at home. It's been fun though-even the reunion. *wink*
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2.8.02 ( 9:00 AM ) Val Chicago. I arrived yesterday morning here in Chicago. It is hot here! We were walking through Greek Town and one of those digital time/temperature displays outside a bank read that it was a 103 degrees...that's just insane. So, yesterday was a very sticky day. We ordered Giordano's Stuffed Pizza for dinner yesterday. It was really good (it always is). Later today, we leave for Fort Wayne, Indiana for the family reunion. I don't know if I'll be on-line capable for the next couple of days, but we'll be home on Sunday night.
Oh, when I logged in this morning, I noticed that my e-mail account was filled to overflowing and I had a message from MSN in my box saying that they were sending messages that were going to send my account over the limit back to their senders. So, if anyone tried to e-mail me and it got returned, then you can feel free to resend it. I cleaned out my mail this morning. :-)
