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Wow

2007-03-20T04:14:25Z

It's been almost 2 years since I've posted on livejournal. I almost forgot about it. (yes... yes... I was on myspace). But now that I remember you are here I'll visit more often.

Isabella Grace is here!!!

2005-06-06T05:40:37Z

If I could figure out how to post a pictures I would post a new picture of the cutest little baby girl I have ever seen in my life... of course that would be Krystal's new baby girl, Isabella Grace. Born May 27th, 2005 at 11:40pm PST. 5 lbs 12 oz and 19 inches long. I love her so much its hard to describe. I could cry she's so wonderful and I only held her for 10 minutes or so. The newest joy of my life!!!

I'm back from vacation refreshed and ready to take on the world!!! :)

It's been forever

2005-05-07T01:08:21Z

I know its been awhile since I posted. I'd give you an excuse like I've been busy (which I have) but you've all heard it before.

Tonight I'll get some random things done around the house. Katriina is babysitting for a lady she use to work with. You know (and I think she'll agree with me) its nice to have the place to yourself every once in awhile.

I'm still working on the process of becoming a Washington State resident. Who knew there was so much to do? My insurance is finally taken care of and now I just have to work on registering my car and getting a license.

Tomorrow a good chunk of my friends graduate so I'll be attending that tomorrow. (John Ashcroft is the speaker so that will be cool.) Then after that I'm headed off to Haley and Aaron's joint b-day party at Haley's house. That should be cool too.

Pepper seems to be sick lately. She eats her food but has had trouble keeping it down. She managed to keep it down today so that's a bright spot.

Ended up walking my boss' dog for an hour today. Wasn't what I had planned but at least it got me out of the office for an hour. I was so ready for the weekend to begin.

Well I guess that's it. I'm outie.

Sick

2005-04-21T04:02:53Z

I hate being sick... I hate hate hate being sick.
Took some Tylenol Cold and Flu right after work and I was a goner. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I feel slightly better but there went my entire evening and I hate when I miss youth group. I could have used a good worship time tonight.

Alright, back to sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow, there is no getting out of it.

I'm such a slacker

2005-04-18T05:11:45Z

I missed church due to some issues I had after making an atempt to get ready...

So to cheer myself up Abby and I went and got pedicures (I LOVE THIS!!) and Katriina watched. The ladies gave me this look when I told them I just wanted my feet done... they gave Katriina an even worse look when she said she didn't want anything done. Oh well at least they did a good job. I should make this a bi-monthly event.

April and Chris came over to eat dinner and play games. We played ODDS'R and Katriina helped me cheat (by loaning me $500 and giving me the answers to 3 questions in sign language) and then I won. So I feel kinda bad but not enough to tell them that we cheated, esp cause April is such a competitive player.

Katriina and I are going to return to doing Power 90 in the morning. Its going to TOTALLY own us. Oh well... I guess that's what we get for slacking for 3 weeks!

The past

2005-04-16T23:03:35Z

Today Katriina's kind of aunt and uncle are coming over. They are related somehow (its like her mom's cousin I think and so they just call them aunt and uncle). Anyway, Katriina has spent the better part of the day fixing a feast. I'm excited because Katriina doesn't cook all that often. Mostly because it just seems like cooking takes too much time.

Today was the first time in awhile I just hung around and didn't really do anything this morning. I laid in bed and just remembered things from elementary school and thought about old friends and wondered where they are now. It was nice just to be able to reflect I guess.

Both of my bosses are out town this next week. I know I'll either be REALLY busy or bored out of my mind. I think I'll be busy. I'll try to get some projects done so to amazed them when they return. If anything it will be interesting to see how the club runs without them. I'm happy because I'll play my music just a little bit louder and most likely sing along. (I just hope no one walks in on me jammin'... cause that could be embarrassing.)

A lot of my friends are graduating in the next 3 weeks. Its crazy to think about where I was a year ago. I miss the CMC. I'm happy that I've kept in touch with a lot of people from there though. Those people sure know how to have a good time. Alright enough reminiscing for one day.

Hopefully I'll have something more exciting to post next time.

Wednesday weirdness

2005-04-14T05:39:09Z

Today was just not my day... until tonight.

First, I had an embarrassing encounter with the club's head chef. Since I'm trying to block it out of my memory I won't be sharing it with you... all you need to know is zippers and uncomfortable silence.

The second reason has quite a story so bare (no pun intended from above) with me here. So its 4:59pm and I quickly emailed Katriina at her work to let her know I was leaving my office to come pick her up (we've been carpooling since gas prices are outrageous!!) Then when I get in the car, I call her on her cell phone and we begin our normal "here I am calling to tell you about my day even though I'm going to see you in 15 minutes" conversation. (which basically is mostly me talking and Katriina laughing about the random weird things that go on in my office such as working out with the owner of the club, talking about lattes, boats, Tiger Woods incredible shot on sunday on the 16th hole, and various other things.) So I say to her, "Do you want me to tell you about my embarrasing story now or when I see you? I can't decide if I want to see your face expression or not." So she laughs and I say "oh I'll just tell you now." Meanwhile, some jerk from Bellevue who thinks he owns the road simply because he owns a Mercedes thinks he can get in front of me. I yell at him and then of course let him get in front of me. Then some idiot guy in a beat up old black civic, talking on cell phone (I'm all about hands free cell phone talking while you drive) has the nerve to try to get in front of me too! Of course he's not paying any attention and in my anger and yelling I let him over and I proceed to change lanes to get onto the other freeway which leads to my home. I continue to tell Katriina about "so-and so" and she listens and I talk and talk and talk. Then when I am getting ready to get off the freeway I think... hmm.. I wonder if she's at the apartment already because I can hear the outdoors. So I say to her "Hey man... where you at?" And she replies, "Outside the front of the building" I was thinking that's odd... why would she be at the front part of our apartment complex... then it hits me. Yup...I am a horrible friend who just left her roommate at work. Of course when I tell Katriina that I'm getting off the freeway in Redmond, she says..."No you're not." This is what I get for trying to pull too many jokes on her. So I say... "no really Katriina I drove all the way home. I have to turn around." It finally hits her and our conversation pauses for at least a minute in order for Katriina to regain speech since she's laughing so hard. Which I'm thankful for because not too many people would think getting left in another city would be funny. This also defeats the purpose of carpooling, luckily I was driving so it was me wasting my own gas. But alas, that is not the end my friends because there is one good thing about today..........

3 MONTHS TILL MY BIRTHDAY!! That's right folks... it's count down time!!!

An eventful Tuesday evening

2005-04-13T05:42:41Z

Quote for the evening: "Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies."

Things have been busy. I've decided to officially move into my room here at the apartment I've lived in for over 6 months. Its coming together quite nicely. I want to personally thank Katriina for helping me paint my desk and remind me that inhailing paint does not always come out good later on when you have to sneeze. (you may conjer up your own image of this and I promise it won't come close to her experience.)

We went to a Mariner's game on Friday night and they won!! It was such a great game! It went back and forth and back and forth. But the boys pulled through and gave us a win! For the next two games I can't say much... but close calls.

Trying to keep up with Freedom Fest. I've been slacking lately... I just got a new stack of demos to go through so I'm going to aim to get them done this weekend. We'll see how it goes.

*Poetic license has been taken with this livejournal entry.

April Showers bring Mae's flowers

2005-04-06T06:01:50Z

Sunday we moved into our new church! It was so exciting. Its been in the process for over 4 years now! We walked from where we had been meeting (an old cookie factory in a business park) to the new church building. It was about a half hour walk but we stopped at this Korean church just around the corner from our new building. We went inside and their 700 people congregation prayed for us and for the city. It was so amazing, I didn't expect to be emotional about it but I cried through the whole thing. We all sang "God is so good" together and it just made me think that this is just a small glimpse of what heaven will be like. It just feels good to be a part of the bigger picture... I think sometimes we forget that.

Now to some comedy... If you haven't checked out this video before you have to do it right now. I laughed so hard!!

http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook/index.html

I've finally decided to break down and get a Washington state drivers licence and register my car here. I guess that means I'll be here for awhile. Apparently I could get a $330 fine since I've lived here for almost a year without my "student status". The only bad side is that now I have to take the test all over again... if once wasn't bad enough. Luckily for me I think Krystal will let me be her study partner [HINT HINT!! :) What do you say LL? ]

Last but not least. We (meaning April, Katriina, Kaden, and I) went to Northwest University's school play tonight. It was so funny!! I've forgotten how much I like acting. Mind you Katriina could tell you I'm quite the drama queen sometimes. I ran into an old co-worker from WNN and a couple other girls from my freshman and sophomore year... Man how time flies! Of course the bad part about that being that I was asked by all of them if I was engaged or married... which I am neither... of course any of you reading this would know that. I tell you... I guess the questions about that will really only end once I of course can answer yes... but for now the answer is a loud and resounding NO... thanks again for making me very aware of my singleness in which I am completely enjoying and no I am not bitter about past relationships... thank you... end ranting.

Other than that not much going on. Keeping busy doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and reading an occasional romance novel from Sam's Club (once again Chuck my roommate and I thank you.)

Creepy

2005-03-04T06:03:33Z

What is this world coming to? Wednesday I was walking to my car (because we were required to park off site) and this guy drives by and waves to me... or at least I thought he did. So by habit I just waved back, thinking he was someone from work I just didn't recognize from afar. Not thinking anything else about it I finished walking to the park and ride. Just as I was about to get to my car this guy pulled up in his black car and says "Excuse me". So I turned around thinking that someone needed directions to something.... but no! its that guy and he proceeds to say "So I think that you're real pretty and I was wondering if I could call you sometime?" I totally freaked! But I kept my cool and said... "uhh... I'm kinda seeing someone." He said... ooh... then drove away. I was like unbelievable!!! What I should have said is "sure if you had my number you could call me, but I don't think that's going to happen." Oh man... I was freaked. Do I look like I'm the kinda of girl who gives random guys her phone number? Apparently... my boss, Beth, said its cause I have a million dollar smile. Great... the one good thing I have and its used against me.

Holy Moses

2005-03-02T07:33:21Z

Seriously! I can't even believe its Tuesday night! What happened to the weekend?!?! I swear it was just here and the next thing I know I was at work. And now its March?!?!? My how time goes by. Of course the good thing about it being March is that my raise started today. That and Mr. T is out of town to Maui for 5 days!

This weekend will be great. I have Friday off because at 3pm I'm headed off with the ECC youth group to Leavenworth for Winter Retreat. The winter part only being the season and not necessarily a description of the weather. They should have called it Early Spring Retreat. Good thing though cause I didn't bring my snow jacket up here with me from Salt Lake.

Not much else is going on except my sister and her husband celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary on Monday (don't ask me what they did cause I don't know...well I'm sure I can imagine but that could go all sorts of other kinds of places)...

Moving On....

I guess that was it.
I'm out.

Chuck - Movie suggestions: Love and Basketball (melyssa and I's favorite), Dirty Dancing, Princess Diaries, From Justin to Kelly, Ever After, and don't forget Steel Magnolias (I totally cried).

Gravity

2005-02-25T05:17:28Z

Gravity
Written by Shawn McDonald and Chris Stevens

The ways of this world are grabbing a hold
Won’t let me go, won’t let me fly by
It takes it’s toll down on my soul
‘Cause I know what I need in my life
Don’t let me lose my sight of You
Don’t let me lose my sight
I don’t want to fall away from You
Gravity is pulling me on down
I don’t want to fall away from You
Gravity is pulling me to the ground
This world keeps making me cry
But I’m going to try, going to try to fly, going to fly high
Don’t want to give into the sin, want to stay in You ‘til the end
Don’t want to lose my sight of You
Don’t want to lose my sight
I want to fly
Into the sky
Turn my back on this old world
Leave it all behind
This place is not my home
It’s got nothing for me
Only leaves me emptiness
And tears in my eyes

Here you go!

2005-02-19T08:03:25Z

Alright, so a lot has happened since I last wrote.

Work has been keeping me really busy. For the last two weeks my Monday projects haven't been getting done until Thursday or Friday. Tax season is coming up and its going to be a busy time seeing how my boss has stocks and all other sorts of stuff that apparently goes into his 200 page tax return. I know very little about all this stuff, but I'm sure I'll be learning more than I ever expected. I had my annual review and that went really well! I was kinda nervous about it but they must like me because they gave me a VERY generous raise. I'll probably never get another raise like this ever in my life so I'm very thankful. It will come in very handy seeing as how I went to a private college and now all my school loans are coming back to haunt me and I'm slightly wanting to rethink my decision to have gone to such a school. Luckily, I met the greatest people in the world there, so the thought goes as quickly as it came.

Last weekend my friend Jeff came up from Portland to see the city. We went to the EMP and saw the exhibit on Bob Dylan. That was cool. I like the EMP, but I know I could only go there once every other year or else I wouldn't find it as interesting. We went bowling (I won 2 games and Katriina won one... poor Jeffie... isn't much of a bowler. But that's okay) We also saw a movie, went to dinner, and various other things. It was a fun packed weekend. I'm not sure how much fun he had but Katriina and I always have a good time when we go out.

On Valentine's Day Katriina and I decided we had to celebrate sometime so we got a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's. We cut it straight down the middle. Then to end the evening I had an allergic reaction to my cat and went to bed early. A valentine's day I'll remember fondly, I'm sure.

In my free time I've been listening to band demo's for Freedom Fest. We are getting ready to announce our 2005 artists so I'm excited that I got to be a part of the process of deciding who plays this year. It should be a really great lineup this year. Some of my favorite CCM bands are coming!! One in particular that Rae and James got me into.

Katriina and I decided to paint our front room and dinning room this weekend. I've been thinking about it alot and it just needs to be done. I'm not sure how long we'll be here but at least this will make it feel more like home. Hope it goes well because other than painting a house in Mexico back in high school I haven't really painted before.

I know it doesn't sound like too much is going on, but I can't remember the last night I sat home and did nothing. Something always comes up. Hopefully I'll get a chance to rest a bit this weekend after we paint. Maybe not though, because Katriina and I are going to start doing this Power 90 thing... and from what we hear from April it is going to "kick our butts".

I'll try to post more often, but I can't make any promises.

Mae'

Will update soon

2005-02-14T01:46:04Z

Many things have been happening...
Will have detailed update shortly.

here.. kinda

2005-02-02T06:34:31Z

I haven't posted much lately. Been busy I guess. I'm not too sure of exactly what but I'm sure I was doing something. This next week I'll be house sitting for my old boss while her and her family are in Hawaii. Jealous? Yeah... me too. It will be nice to hang out with the girls again.(their cute little dogs).
My postings might be few and far between but don't give up on me.

Will it ever slow down?

2005-01-25T05:45:08Z

It is just one thing right after another.

This weekend was full of things. Friday night Corey showed up early for Katriina's surprise birthday party so we ate ice cream and stayed up late watching Mean Girls... it was Chris' choice (of course his other option was The Cinderella Story). Then Saturday morning was Katriina's surprise birthday party which was so great. (well except for the part where Noah fell and cut his lip open and there was blood everywhere... but he's okay thank goodness.) I can't remember much of Sunday except church was really good. I love our pastor! And my youth group... those girls are great!

Tomorrow is tax day for me. Wish me luck. It's just me, my W-2's, a phone, and my dad supervising via the tele. May the government grant me moolah.

I'm feeling better... I think

2005-01-21T07:31:17Z

I'm getting better. I actually went to work and suffered through it. I have to get better... I have way to many things to do to be sick. The only upside of being sick is that my intake of Diet Coke drastically decreases. Oh well...

This weekend will be great. Katriina's folks are coming up for a pre-birthday celebration! But she already got the greatest gift... according to me anyway... (don't ask what it is or else I'll be in trouble)

Sick

2005-01-19T19:57:00Z

Today I am sick. I hate being sick... ask Melyssa. Thank goodness Katriina is at work or she'd hate me being sick too.

A bad evening... maybe

2005-01-18T03:28:51Z

First... a small yet containable fire started in our toaster oven. Then I gave Pepper some cheese...yeah...bad idea... imagine me following her around the house with a wad of paper towels in my hand. GROSS....

here's to a movie and a diet coke to turn the course of tonights events.

this week

2005-01-17T06:48:07Z

This weekend was surprisingly filled with NC reunions. Nikki came over Friday night and we ordered Pizza Hut and watched Return of the King. Which of course.. I bawled. I guess it kinda helped that I was having an allergic reaction to Pepper, so the itchy water eye thing was going on. Saturday morning Mary came over and made Katriina and I swedish pancakes. Those were great! I should learn how to make them... they could become a staple food in this house. After that I felt seriously ill (I think it was the icky weather outside). So I did nothing... the rest of the day and went to bed at 10:30. So this morning I woke up at noon... SHOCKER I know... I NEVER sleep in that long...(you can ask Melyssa and Katriina) esp after going to bed at 10:30. Thus missing church for the second week in a row... I'm horrible.

Katriina and I spent the afternoon/evening with Krystal, Hunter, and Noah. We did a little shopping, a little eating, and of course a Sunday night wouldn't be complete without Extreme Makeover Home Edition. (what can we say? We're addicted).

This week should be semi-busy. I have work of course and then my first "hey I'm the new intern" Freedom Fest meeting. I also will be handed off all the demo's to start the band selection. I'm excited! Hopefully we get some good stuff and not a lot of junk... we'll see. This weekend Katriina's parents are coming up for her birthday so that's exciting. I love birthdays... seriously my friends birthday's are like my favorite holidays.

Must go... if I want to keep my job I have to finish my laundry.

PEACE.

this weekend

2005-01-10T05:49:08Z

So Katriina and I have decided to car pool to work to save money on what have become our weekly trips to the gas station. We only work 5 minutes away from each other. Why didn’t we think of this sooner? Well... I think we thought of it sooner… we just never put our thoughts into action. But it being the New Year and all we thought hey… we could use some change and a reason to get ourselves out of bed earlier in the morning. Hopefully it goes well. We will have to leave earlier tomorrow than normal because according to the forecast dude on channel 5 it’s going to be slick outside.

On a different note, Katriina, Karen, and I introduced Pepper to catnip… (also known just as nip). Pepper loves it. In fact I think it’s made her a bit too happy...she’s never acted this crazy before. She sleeps with it and on it...

Didn't do too much this weekend. I made teriyaki for Karen and Katriina on Saturday... apparently it was good. Watch Gilmore Girls Season 1 DVD and cleaned our apartment. I think that was about it.

When two words sound horribly similar

2005-01-09T05:59:54Z

Question: Do you have a sec?

Answer: Yes... I have lots of secs.

That came out sooo wrong.

mae0713 @ 2005-01-04T21:36:00

2005-01-05T05:42:31Z

I love being able to delete things once I've written them. It makes me feel like I've vented enough but not so much that I've angered anyone or said something I could never take back. God bless the backspace and delete keys.

(Don't worry... I'm only referring to one person and its most likely not you.)

Chuckle... Chuckle...

In the words of Katriina "I've never had buffalo before." (when asked if she'd like to try a buffalo wing) I LOVE MY ROOMMATE! SHE MAKES ME LAUGH!

False alarm

2005-01-03T06:26:06Z

False alarm... carry on... carry on.

Sigh...

2004-12-31T07:31:29Z

I've fallen in love and I can't get out.