it's alive!

hey there! i'm really sorry it's been so long since i've written. time just gets away and then i feel like i'm running to catch up. so this post is just going to be an update post. and then i'll get back into the swing of things. sorry about that.
lets see...

family - yesterday was my cousin anna's high school graduation party. i can't believe anna is that old! i remember when she was born! yes i'm that person now. hehe. at least i don't pinched her cheeks or anything. hehe. at the party of bunch of my moms family that i don't see very often was there. cousins of cousins kind of family. so it was nice to catch up with them all.

playwright - well one of the cousin of cousin - my moms cousin lee is an acting teacher in new york at a special high school for the performing arts. and he said they are always looking for new scripts to perform. so he said for me to email my scripts to him and his students might perform them. so that made me very happy! i'm going to send him the first play i ever wrote. which is an adaptation of 'the things they carried' by tim o'brien. i wrote that for my senior one act in high school. and i've always been proud of it. so if it gets performed, i'm just going to have to take a trip to new york and see it performed and see the city! hehe. so i hope it gets performed. if not, i understand. but if it does, that would be amazing!

weddings - my sister marianne is getting married! caleb is the new addition to the family. i've met him over skype. i know not the best way to meet someone but when you live across the country from each other, that's about as best as it's going to get; until you travel there that is. so the wedding will be in october. which of course is two months after my step sisters wedding which is in august. so many weddings, so little time!

work - i've been at my new job for 3 months now. i really like it there. the people are very nice and fun to work with. it's a laid back job but at the same time they are demanding of my time. it's an very good balance of working hard and having fun at work. like the other day we all were given little pots with flower seeds to grow while we were at work. like we were doing a 3rd grade science project. but it was totally fun. it took about 30 minutes out of our day, which was a nice little break in the work day.

letterboxing - now that the weather is nice again i've been going out letterboxing. it's so nice to go out and do it again. i've been going just about every monday. since i have the days off, it's a nice way to spend my time. and there are so many by me that i haven't found! it's like pokemon, i must catch them all! hehe. me and a friend are talking about taking a road trip just for letterboxing. which i think would be totally awesome! we haven't picked where to yet. but i've very excited for the idea of a road trip just for letterboxing!

photos - check out my flickr account and instagram account for pictures from the last couple of months. too many to post on this. hehe.

well that's all for now. i will update much more now. sorry about that. until next time!

Pinball wizard

So this past Friday my work had its Xmas party. We went to one of the nurses house (I work in a Dr office).well her house was amazing! It was huge and beautiful! Well one of the amazing things about it is that the basement is a man cave. And this is the coolest man cave I've ever seen. I can't describe it. But I'll post the photos. All I can say about it is: pinball wizard.

family good news

i have two things with my family that is wonderful news. first my brother got promoted with his job! woot woot for him. he is now a VP. second is that my stepsister recently got engaged to her bf. i'm super excited for the both of them. so i've already picked out the cross stitch projects i'm going to make for both siblings in celebration. hehe. how else would i celebrate their good news?! hehe.

poetry with friends

so on saturday a friend of mine emailed me with an idea to have a poem created by the two of us. we were both at work and he emailed me with two sentences of the beginning of a poem and said for me to write two sentences. and then he would add and then i would add. and we would do this until we were satisfied with it being a poem. i have done exercises like this before, but never outside of school. and i was just in love with the fact that he thought of this. i always love when someone else thinks of literature/writing fun to do with me. so here are the two poems we were on saturday. and we both agreed that we should and will do this more often. so here the two are.

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I stand at the sea with the breeze beating at me
The waves dancing at my feet
smelling sweet salt, sun on my face
the peace and calm are strangers to me

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If I was a poet I would not rhyme

If I was a mute I would not mime

If I was blind I would not close my eyes

The world around me hides under a tree

the roots so deep they are strangling me

the bright sun squints as the colors change

undulating in the rain

I pull the roots free from the tree

Twisted and tangled

I struggle in to see