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how do you get lady gaga's attention?
you poke her face.
wah wah wah.
that joke was as bad as her music.
zing!
it's official
i got a promotion at work today!
it takes effect in january.
:)
i hate when i end up saying or doing something really stupid that in turn makes someone else really mad at me. i don’t like that. it kind of makes me a little sad and feel really foolish. all i want are for things to be okay.
i can be a real jerk sometimes.
:/
look at all that grass!! can’t we have both? high buildings and pretty grass around the highways?Hey Atlanta……1963.
Chris
weird.Frankenstein will not be too far now:
A dead heart beats again, thanks to the efforts of scientists at the University of Minnesota. To rebuild and reanimate the organ, which was harvested from a rat, scientists first stripped the old heart cells away with a detergent typically found in shampoos.
That left behind a collagen matrix—the protein fibers that hold groups of cells together and help give organs their overall shape—which they then reseeded with heart cells from a newborn rat. They attached the organ to electrodes and waited. Then it happened: The heart started to beat regularly.
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im sorry but naked pregnant bellies freak me out.
they look deformed and alien like and they make me a little nauseous to look at.
back in georgia.
the memorial service was very nice and beautiful, and she would have loved it.
it’s been an emotionally draining weekend, but it was really nice to see my aunts and cousins whom i haven’t seen in almost 5 or 6 years.
i felt strange being at her house, knowing she wasn’t there, and we were all going through her things. my aunt pulled out a box that had 4 rings in them. three were her set of wedding and engagement rings, the fourth was one that our grandpa got for her on her birthday years ago. these were the last things she was wearing while she was alive and told my aunt she wanted to split them up between the 3 older girls [myself, my sister, and my cousin]. it felt strange to take them, but they picked their choices and i got her wedding ring.
it’s been rough. but part of me is glad to be home.
I love when you’re sitting at the airport listening to music, and suddenly everything and everyone around you seems to be moving to the tempo of whatever it is you’re listening to. It’s like this impromtu orchestra of sound and movement.
I’m kind of in love with those moments.
Truth
The tumblr app for the iPod is a pain in the ass and I hate it. Please a make a better more browse friendly version!
:(
RIP alfredia bates.
you were an awesome grandma and i wish i got to see you more. :(
this weekend has been overwhelming.
it’s been fun spending the last couple days with my family just hanging out, but ever since yesterday afternoon things have been crazy and i’m kind of itching to get back to work for some sort of distraction.
we got a phone call from my aunt, or rather a message on the answering machine, that my grandma [dad’s mom] was in the hospital and is dying. it took a few hours for us to figure out what had happened since obviously my dad was really upset over it and didn’t want to talk to anyone, but apparently she has a hole in her aorta and is bleeding out. she’s in the ICU and the doctors say she won’t survive but a few more days.
my sister and i took my parents to the airport first thing this morning, since the number of flights from atlanta to rochester, NY are so abundant [sarcasm]. it was really rough being around my dad yesterday and this morning, and i’m sure he’s feeling guilty for being so far away from his mom. i wish he didn’t feel guilty.
we were surprised this happened completely out of the blue, but we were suspecting she had been in the hospital for longer than one day, and i think my dad felt a little hurt that no one in his family, especially his closest sister didn’t bother to try and get a hold of him sooner. he said he had called a few times on thanksgiving, and the day after and no one had answered [two of my cousins live with her].
it’s really sad because my sister and i have never really had a tight knit relationship with any of our extended family, because that’s just how we grew up - we were never in the same state as they were, and traveling is expensive. i can’t help but feel a little guilty myself. we were even talking about going up to new york and bringing her down for christmas with us this year.
this is a really long and somewhat personal post, i apologize for the debbie downer-ness of it. it just really sucks and makes me sad.
i made this!
whole baked apples with walnuts, raisins, and dried cranberries, covered in a caramel sauce made from whipping cream, brown sugar, black pepper and nutmeg.
eat your heart out suzie homebake.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m thankful for my awesome job that I actually really like, and that pays me enough to have made my goal of 5 grand, in 3 months.
I feel like a real adult/person all grown up. dawww.
also, my family is pretty sweet too. in an hour we’re going to have a wii bowling/guitar hero battle. my sister and i versus my mom and dad. what an unfair fight hahah
i am so ready to go apartment searching it's ridiculous.
i am one pay check away, and it’s feeling mighty awesome.
i’ve been internet stalking a few places, but it just doesn’t make sense to try and move in between thanksgiving and christmas. i HAVE to wait until january and it’s driving me insane.
excited about work this week, because it’s only a 3 day week and then a very nice much needed 4 day weekend filled with food and booze.
also, I’M GETTING A NEW CAR FOR CHRISTMAS and it’s been making me giddy for the last two weeks. i went and test drove two cars yesterday and now i have to make a pro/con list for both because i’m in love with them both.
these last couple of months have just been absolutely awesome and i couldn’t be happier/more excited about things to come.
