LONG AND RAMBLY POOOOOST
well, back in green bay again. back to being the all-purpose maid for my family. well, not really. i just feel sometimes that i either get left alone or get asked to do something like drive people around or the dishes. eh. tomorrow kate and kris and i are going to go to the fox river mall i think so that i can take advantage of the marshall field's sale and buy at least five of those $4 camisole tops that i love so much. mmm. strappy camisoles with built-in-bras. probably my favorite item of clothing ever except for maybe yoga pants.
the argh is mainly for my own... laziness? not exactly. inability to carry through perhaps. i was feeling lazy so i thought i would do a little practice/excercise session. but for some reason i always get the bright idea that i should give myself a ballet barre, which never ever works because i get too distracted by trying to make everything perfect (which by the way is pretty much physically impossible) and so i don't get much done. the thng is we have this really nice basement space which we st up with mirrors and a dance floor and it really doesn't get used that much. well, i don't know for sure since i'm not here much anymore. but that's why i try to use it when i'm here. but the mirrors are just too distracting and plus its really cold in our basement which is nice in summer but not really condusive to good dance practice. sigh. argh. grr. i did do some sit ups, though. i think i should go back and do some pushups too. that would be good.
it's hot here. i didn't really even notice until i came up from the basement where it was cold. but it's a reasonable sort of hot and humid, not the OVERPOWERING-I'M-GOING-TO-KEEEEELLLL-YOU sort of hot that is our apartment. which is why i don't think i really noticed until i went down in the basement.
i mean, it was nice to see my sister graduate and i was really happy for her, but sill, i hate long ceremonies with speeches and reading off names. sorry. mom chastized me for being so cynical (not unkindly) and i told her i was cynical at my own graduation. which was true, at least in some repects. i hate speeches. they all end up being the same thing. especially the student speeches which were practically carbon copies of each other. "when we first came to this school as freshmen we thought this and did this. throughout our years here we learned blah. now we are at a turning point, on the cliff looking out at real life. we have only to spread our wings to fly." gag. and the thing is, everyone who gets up there has to make like the same speech for 3 min. can't you cut it to 1 min, folks? we don't really need to hear the principal and the superintendent say the same things the students just said for five minutes each. i can kinda understand the students wanting to speak because it's their graduation. but i don't really care about the adults. just get it over with, man. ok i'm done bitching.
but i did get to go out to dinner with my aunt and uncle and kate, which was very nice. we went to grazie's, a nice italian restuarant, and had an acutal full, long, relaxed meal, with drinks and appetizers and salads and dessert. which in my family frankly is a rarity. and there was good conversation because my aunt and uncle are fun people generally. so it was a good time.
so, since this post was so long and rambly i will reward you with a picture.
the argh is mainly for my own... laziness? not exactly. inability to carry through perhaps. i was feeling lazy so i thought i would do a little practice/excercise session. but for some reason i always get the bright idea that i should give myself a ballet barre, which never ever works because i get too distracted by trying to make everything perfect (which by the way is pretty much physically impossible) and so i don't get much done. the thng is we have this really nice basement space which we st up with mirrors and a dance floor and it really doesn't get used that much. well, i don't know for sure since i'm not here much anymore. but that's why i try to use it when i'm here. but the mirrors are just too distracting and plus its really cold in our basement which is nice in summer but not really condusive to good dance practice. sigh. argh. grr. i did do some sit ups, though. i think i should go back and do some pushups too. that would be good.
it's hot here. i didn't really even notice until i came up from the basement where it was cold. but it's a reasonable sort of hot and humid, not the OVERPOWERING-I'M-GOING-TO-KEEEEELLLL-YOU sort of hot that is our apartment. which is why i don't think i really noticed until i went down in the basement.
i mean, it was nice to see my sister graduate and i was really happy for her, but sill, i hate long ceremonies with speeches and reading off names. sorry. mom chastized me for being so cynical (not unkindly) and i told her i was cynical at my own graduation. which was true, at least in some repects. i hate speeches. they all end up being the same thing. especially the student speeches which were practically carbon copies of each other. "when we first came to this school as freshmen we thought this and did this. throughout our years here we learned blah. now we are at a turning point, on the cliff looking out at real life. we have only to spread our wings to fly." gag. and the thing is, everyone who gets up there has to make like the same speech for 3 min. can't you cut it to 1 min, folks? we don't really need to hear the principal and the superintendent say the same things the students just said for five minutes each. i can kinda understand the students wanting to speak because it's their graduation. but i don't really care about the adults. just get it over with, man. ok i'm done bitching.
but i did get to go out to dinner with my aunt and uncle and kate, which was very nice. we went to grazie's, a nice italian restuarant, and had an acutal full, long, relaxed meal, with drinks and appetizers and salads and dessert. which in my family frankly is a rarity. and there was good conversation because my aunt and uncle are fun people generally. so it was a good time.
so, since this post was so long and rambly i will reward you with a picture.