these pictures are evidence that i have other friends too katrina ;-)
you know that you have become a grown up when, instead of having a huge party where you invite a bunch of people (some you may never have known) and get way drunk and do beer bongs, you drink champagne and watch the state of the union address. haha.
it was sarah's 24th birthday on monday. the plan was to watch bush make an ass out of himself and play a drinking game. for example, everytime he said "nukler" instead of "nuclear" we were supposed to take a drink. everytime the republican side of congress gave him a standing ovation but the democrats stayed seated and kept their hand still, we were supposed to drink, etc. the drinking game didnt last very long because it was just too hard to keep up. plus it was a monday and some of us has to work the next day. it was fun though. sarah's co-worker colleena and her boyfriend came over and we all hung out and ended up just drinking and watching superbad (ive watched that like 5 times now but i still love it!)
sarah pouring herself some champagne from one of the like 5 bottles her and derek brought. that's her boyfriend derek with her
i took this picture because noah and derek were cracking up about some reaction video to 2girls1cup. dont look it up. you wont be able to sleep at night...
me and sarah later in the evening. im all scrunched because i thought that i was blocking sarah but it only made me look funny. i want to add a disclaimer here; i looked pretty drunk for it only being like 9:3o in the photo. this was only after like one glass of champagne so i have no idea why i look like that!
stu was there too but im not allowed to take pictures of him. he's mean...i still love him though ;-)
Also: very excited because tonight is the night of the season premier of LOST! i watched the season 3 finale last night with stu and now im all pumped up...and a little sad that i had to watch charlie die again :-(
another blog. but a short one. just wanted to mention that i finished Duma Key by Stephen King on sunday and it was awesome. there were a ton of ties into the dark tower and it was scary too! Kenton, when you get done reading the dark tower, i would recommend this one.
noah loaned me a new book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. Haddon was a teacher who actually worked with kids with special needs and it is supposedly from the point of view of a 15 year old with autism. im pretty excited about it and ive read a chapter or two so far and am definitely into it. ill let you know how it works out.
do i have too much time on my hands that i can read and blog? hmmmmm....
i know that i have been putting up a lot of things on this blog about LOST. im just so excited! i know that some of you might care so i thought that i would share. throughout the LOST hiatus since season 3, verizon wireless has been showing mobile videos or "mobisodes" to their wireless customers called missing pieces. it is meant to be like the "LOST experience" that was put out between seasons last year. these mobisodes, like the LOST esperience dont usually give any answers or hard evidence but they tell a part of the story that isnt included in the actual LOST episodes. while these are meant for verizon customers, they post them a week later online so that other people can view them.
however, this last mobisode called so it begins, was aired to those customers today and was actually leaked onto youtube and it is a good one. jack's father christian is actually in it and he is on the island! he calls to vincent, walter's dog, and tells vincent, "...go wake my son up..." and "he has work to do..." then jack wakes up in the jungle, looking up into the bamboo! the scene from the pilot episode season one!
do you know what that means? christian was really there all the way from the beginning? it wasnt only jack's imagination that he was on the island! crazy. anyway...if you want to take a look that the mobisode, just look up "so it begins" or "lost mobisode 13". it might be taken down since disney doesnt want it up yet but if you are lucky you will be able to see it. by the way, there are 12 other ones if you are interested. just look up "lost mobisode number ____"
try this link for the particular i was talking about:
so its a beautiful sunny, wintery, snowy day. most people are outside playing in the snow with friends and family. me? im walking through the snow...to the police station...to file for id theft. yep! once again, i got a bill in the mail saying that i owed $4,884 on a credit card that i never saw.
this has happened before. my junior year in college, i got a call from a debt collector telling me that i needed to pay like $2000 on a credit card in my name. over the years, ive gotten a few more calls about cards out in my name. i have always disputed it but not very successfully because whoever was doing it has ALL of my info, including my social security number.
the last one (in like september or something like that) was a capital one card and no matter how much i tried to dispute it, they told me that unless i could send them a piece of official mail, like a bill, with my address on it at with a different address than the one that the card was taken out at, they couldnt do anything about it. i had to prove it with the bill with my real address on feb 2004 or i would have to pay it. i was frustrated. i had shredded everything over a year old and when i called my old phone company, etc, for a copy of an old bill dated in feb, they told me that they couldnt help me. sooo, frustrated, i sent the bill to my mom to pay. i mean, i had tried to file a complaint and they hadnt listened to me!
so this time, pissed, i called the collection agency. they cant do anything until i file a police report. so i did. turns out, i should have been doing that all along but i didnt know it because creditors kept telling me that they couldnt do anything "unless you find an old bill, etc." the woman at the police station was very helpful and told me that they had no right to do that and gave me all kinds of information to get me started on getting my credit back.
today i filed a police report, tried to report id theft online but i have to send in a copy of my idea and everything, and got a copy of my credit report. i have had four credit cards out in my name and i only know who took out the first one. i hope that everything works out because my credit sucks because of this. i have never taken out a card in my name and now, because of all of this, i had to buy a used car and pay HUGE monthly payments and get full coverage insurance for it when i could have gotten a new car for the same amount monthly. all this time i could have actually been approved for those in-store cards like old navy and victoria's secret, i could be able to get a cell phone plan without paying HUGE deposits!
if you were on the LOST island who would you want to...
Befriend? hurley. he's the funniest and nicest person on the island.
Be enemies with? kate. i hate her and her always-wet hair. oh yeah, and probably the others who are trying to steal my babies.
Possibly kill? thats really hard to decide. i dont know...the only person i hated was anna lucia and she's already dead.
Kiss up to for favors or supplies? definitely sawyer. he has all kinds of loot! and is strong enough to protect me too!
Share a spot in the cave with? hmmm...how about a hybrid; sawyers head on jin's body. oh yeah baby
Hook up with just once? probably jack. i mean, if i was sharing a spot with my hybrid than i could spend one night with jack
Help the most? sun. so that she could have her baby safely.
Would you ...
Go on the raft or stay on the island? i dont trust rafts leaving the island. we dont even know if michael made it out...traitor. and from the 3rd season finale im not so sure that leaving the island is the choice to make.
Live in the caves or on the beach? definitely beach it. too many monsters and whisperers
Open the hatch or leave it alone? well, that's already happened and it worked out pretty well right?
Keep other's secrets or tell them? im thinking that working together is the way to go. they have a lot more resources and i think i would be tired of sleeping on the sand.
Know your blood type to help Boone? i do but i dont think i would be able to help him
Eat fish, boar, sushi or just fruit? i would eat anything. im always hungry now. i cant imagine what i would do if food was scarce.
If it were up to you ... What would you name Claire's baby? not aaron. it would have to be something with deep meaning in true LOST fashion. i would name him christian. it would be deep because it of the way LOST is all about connections and christian is jack's dad and jack and claire are brother and sister and dont know it. so it would be eerie because he would be the "reincarnation" of their father whom jack has already "seen" on the island.
Who would get Kate, Jack or Sawyer? sawyer. jack and juliet just come together so much better
Would you side with Locke or Jack? hard to say. locke seems a little crazy but i think hes on the right path. i would probably follow jack just because he is hotter
The truth behind lost ...
What do you think is the secret of the island? that there are too many to answer! there is something about the island that makes it home for everyone. while it is a scary place, it makes people become who they truly are; the them that the rest of the world wouldnt let them explore. the thing about the island is that once you get there, you can never leave and if you do, you feel torn, as if you are missing something. i also think that the island called all of these people to it. it needs something to be done, something that needed them to meet the others, blow up the hatch, find jacob, etc, in order to be finished.
What do you think the monster is? jacob. i think that he is pissed that ben is keeping him prisoner in the hut!
Will they get off the island? of course! but will they be happy? i dont think so. something goes wrong. they need to find a way to get back.
Are the numbers really bad? i dont think so. i think that everything is in the hands of fate. i think that the numbers, even though it was through bad luck, got hurley to the island which is where he was needed.
Forget the show - what about you
If you were on an island with three people who would they be? losties? sayid, jack, sawyer. real people? stu. macgyver.. and my brother jake. he's really resourceful and outdoorsy.
And you could bring three personal items? the stand, good hiking shoes, and a nice tent
And what part of the world would your island be in? south pacific
One final question ... Who is your favorite character on the show? ben. i want to hurt him sometimes but im so interested in him connection to the island. he plays a very good character.
this recap is really good. it sums the first three seasons up in 8 minutes and 15 seconds (two numbers from the sacred number sequence) so you should watch it before this thursday.
this was a really fun weekend! on saturday i went to katrina's Arbonne party. she had yummy treats for us to eat and we got to do things like soak our feet and massage them with marbles and everything. my feet havent been that pampered in a while! it was fun to kind of be "one of the girls" for once. i dont usually get to do things with girls since i usually am around guys more. i ordered this really good smelling body lotion that im pretty excited about.
this afternoon was spent in my pajama bottoms because they are warm and toasty and our house is kind of cold. we have this really cool four-sided easel at the preschool and i plan on having the kids painting one day in my group this week so i spent this afternoon mixing paints in baby food jars. it was a lot of work actually! the kids get so excited about painting and now i can make sure that each child gets all the colors since they are now in small baby food jars.
i am sad because we were planning on going over to kenton and katrina's house tonight and now we cant. we were going to attempt to play the LOST game that made me cry a few years ago and i havent played since, and then watch some episodes. LOST starts up again this week and we are all really excited. but there is so much snow and we figure that even if it melts a little, it will get colder tonight and then freeze and we'd have to drive home in the dark, on icy roads. bummer. i guess that we dont have to hang out with kenton and katrina every weekend. i will be sad that i havent had my finley fix though!
