I did it.  Finally.  After more than a  year, I finally did it.  I finished Nixon.  He boarded Marine One and left the presidency and I finished all 1090 pages of the presidential memoir.  I've now read the memoirs of the two most unique presidents in our recent history, with their partisan fights, special prosecutors, and impeachment proceedings ( Read more... )

Was high school really like that?  Was it really that crazy place where you were friends with someone one day and hated them the next, then dated them a year later?  Were there really crazy parties where everyone got drunk and had sex?  Were there really all of the terrible cliques of the cheerleaders, the jocks, the rich kids, the computer geeks- ( Read more... )

I still can't believe that we are two days away from Tuesday, a day I have been waiting for... well for a very long time.  This election I feel secure in my place in Oregon, much more than I can say of where I was 4 years ago.  The point of this isn't to be political though, the point is, I have spent all day today preparing for a party!

Tuesday we ( Read more... )

Barb, Leslie, Mom and I saw Spring Awakening last night- it was totally awesome, and I so glad that Barb bought the soundtrack so that I can listen to the songs that are currently stuck in my head.

There is some very graphic sexual content in the play, something that if you saw in a movie you wouldn’t be shocked by, but seeing real people on a ( Read more... )

Ah, the glory that is vacation. I have been reveling in it for over a week now, and it has been wonderful to me. It’s funny how breaking the routine of everyday life is so important and necessary to keep the sanity. So, here is the brief recap of the vacation so far:
Disneyland, Universal Studios, Disneyland, Disneyland, Disneyland, San Diego Wild ( Read more... )

And just like that, baseball season is over here in Portland.  2008 was a great year for the Beavos in my eyes, the team played pretty well despite the constant shuffle between here and San Diego.  A lot of my boys have spent time or are currently in San Diego, which is very exciting.  I guess the season isn't truly over for me until next Tuesday, ( Read more... )

Today is a prime example of how you know that finally everyone really does like you in lab ( Read more... )

Being sisters is fun, at least right now it is.  When things go well, I sing the song from White Christmas in my head "Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters..." there are some great lines in that songs, and it makes me smile.  It's nice to have someone who shares my love of old movies, old music, board games, all things classic in ( Read more... )

I read in a dating book once (I know, it’s sad, but I promise I was just perusing it at Powell’s) that baseball games were a good place to go to meet guys.  I’ve met lots of guys at all of the baseball games that I have been to this year, and I have even become friends with some of them.  Unfortunately for me, all of these guys are middle aged or ( Read more... )

I need a project, something to keep me busy, something for my mind the think of and work on when there is nothing else to do be done.  I almost always have a project going on, sometimes more than one, some are big, some are small, not all a real projects, that's just the term I've given it.  Sometimes a project is planning a vacation, sometimes ( Read more... )