below is a list of the ‘tags’ I used in 2009, start of 2010…giggle some of them sure are silly…some sad……..

Was a lie. I’m back on wordpress. Last time, I promise hahha

The past week was so tiring..I remember at mass on Tuesday I was amazed that it was only Tuesday. I didn’t do homework on Thursday after Heidi, Mina and I’s weekly ooVoo and slept. I slept yesterday too

YESTERDAY I WOKE UP WITH THE BIGGEST PAIN IN MY NECK. I think it was because i slept with my face down on Thursday so it was awkwardly positioned..It still hurts..I couldn’t even finish my math hw b/c it hurts to lean it over. I’m screwing myself over..I am supposed to do so much studying this week but it’s actually Physically Impossible hahha

On a brighter note: Tomorrow is SOL! There’s the operation Christmas child thing tomorrow, which I think will be fun! I think I shall wake up at 3 to study and finish hw tomorrow. I need to rest my neck
Oh and I started the book!! I’m super dorkily excited for this! I love you Mina and Heidi!!!

-Kari

You cannot even believe the long week I have had. It was a complete crazy train of chaos, anger, stress and a bitter struggle to find my voice when I am being attacked….. You know how people start talking to you and then they walk away while your still talking to them…. People do that to me a lot. It is crazy I am  like Hello I was trying to converse with you. And then there is the people that don’t really care they will act like they are listening but then they won’t respond at all. I am not socially awkward, at least not until now.

I feel like I am flung down the rabbit hole, and now Alice needs to find a best friend who actually cares. Around here though I don’t seem to find much of anyone. It annoys me cuz I am like “okay I totally listened to all the crap you just said and now you turn and walk away not caring to give me the same kind of courtesy I bestowed upon you. “
I feel beat down like chains are keeping me from holding my head high in the carefree sense that I normally have. Like I have someone right next to me that will trip me and kick me when I am down, just when I start going, taking two steps forward and six steps back.

To put it bluntly I am in a game of monopoly where everyone else is winning and I am constantly landing on the go to jail space. “Go to jail. Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.”

Augh! I hate this feeling! Stress I hate stress!

I am, however working on my story. Eliora has almost nine pages (notebook paper at least) of story that will be added soon enough. Maybe more…

I would love to get it published, not just ebook published either. Though I have nothing against ebooks, I just have a lot of drive for paperback at least.  It is different from my normal stories, but I think with a little polish my little gem will shine.  It would be nice to have some feedback on it. I can take criticism…. I have developed a thick skin for it, and if someone doesn’t like it, it doesn’t really bother me.  Constructive criticism is something I can’t get enough of.  Be kind though. Let’s just keep in mind that what is uploaded so far is a rough draft. LOL

I now have two different versions of Caramelldansen on my mp3 player. The original Swedish version and the English version. Sadly I know the Swedish version better than the English, only because it was the first version I listened to so. I don’t know why I just love this song…. It is a song that gets me to shake off whatever is bothering me and just be a little crazy. LOL

It has been a great week, I saw people come to Jesus for the first time and people come to know him in a new and more glorious way.  For the past 6 months I have seen dozens of young adults come to Jesus.  Scores of people are engaging their friends and their family about the once-dead, now-risen King who is coming back to rule and reign with His people.  People of many ethnicities, including African-Americans, Nigerians, Laotians, Ethiopians, Muslims, Chinese, Caucasians, and the like have been exposed to the good news concerning this man, Jesus.  Rich communities of mutual understanding and love have formed around the leadership of Jesus.  I would venture to say I’ve seen following Christ at its purest — loving God and loving people.  God is definitely afoot and I can’t wait to see His next move!

Congratulations to my friend David Dawkins who preached his first “official” sermon.  (He’s been preaching forever though!)

I hate that feeling you get when you wake up in the morning thinking it’s atleast Wednesday or Thursday n then realize that all you’ve gotten through is just Monday!! It sucks.. The reason for the feeling I guess is probably because you haven’t had the most restful sleep ever the night before n that’s really beginning to mess with you.

I don’t know why we find it so difficult to unplug ourselves from the work world – that being the reason for my restless sleep.. you become so attached to it.. so passionate about it.. that it completely envelopes you! It doesn’t help that you have to work with two people who make make it such that u actually end up having to do their work as well but maybe that’s just an excuse. Having all good intentions of a relaxing evening I left work early.. yes, I did hit the obstacle of the container truck across the road, but still.. Even when I did get home, I was back on my computer checking my work email! WTF is up with that??

Anyways.. I’m on my way to work now -in a bus that only takes me up to one stop before my destination.. n while I type this post on my iPhone, in my head plays Dogs Eye View – ‘And everything falls apart.. then again you try n put it back together n it falls apart.. count on that, count on bad bad weather again’

This is just a random sign I see everyday on my way to work.. On top it says ‘Ever Loving Jah’… Rasta maaan!!

A fresh week is upon us and I already wish it was over. The last one never seemed to end and just blended into this one. Mind you I’m not complaining. On the contrary, you get a weird feeling of accomplishement (martyrdom?) after working so damn much!

We have such glamorous jobs...

The week in numbers: 96 hours at the hospital in 6 days and around 40 patients put asleep and, mostly, woken up… I got home Sunday at 10 a.m.  and was back at work monday morning at 7 so my week-end lasted a whooping 21 hours!

This week was kinda a long one. Today will either be really quick or really long. Depends on the customers. I know that I’m eventually going to be left alone for the rest of the day which may make the day last a little longer. Oh something interesting about yesterday. A woman comes in and asks if we sell hydrochloric acid pills. Ok why in the world would we sell those. That acid is way to powerful for human consumption. Then there was this guy that came in at closing he just didn’t seem right. He just kinda rubbed me the wrong way and didn’t really like talking to him. It could have simply been because it was closing time. Either way the guy creeped me out. So I worked out last night. Did arms and chest. Probably just going to do stomach tonight and take tomorrow off. I’m suppose to go meet my tattoo artist tomorrow. Should be fun. well squiby time. Today’s video is the opening for the anime Tokko. Tokko is one of those weird animes that you’d think would have a 2nd series, but doesn’t. If you were to watch the whole thing you’d end up with more questions than answers. It’s not exactly a happy anime. If you want a quick anime to watch with blood and powers and what not then watch Tokko. Today’s tip is when the mind draws a blank, draw a better picture. My b-day is now 13 days away. Yay. Well laters.

Last night as I watch Mr. Facebook’s face light up, you could tell he was in his glory. We went to a Incubus concert downtown in Circle City. It was suppose to rain but we lucked out and It ended up turning out to be a great night. I love watching him get all excited about something he enjoys. It had been a long week for the both of us and it was a nice to take a break and do something fun together.

It has been neat to see our relationship blossom over the summer. Dating him was probably the best decision I have made in a while, I’ve been extremely happy and content with how things are going lately. Even though we both have had stressful situations going on these past two weeks with work, it has been really helpful to have someone to sit and talk things through with. That is what a relationship is suppose to be like, right? This is a great change compared to some other guys I dated.

As I look at the framed photo of us sitting on my coffee table I realize how much I’m starting to care for Mr. Facebook. All this time I’ve been trying to hold back and slow down the process of going to fast. But in reality I’ve been building up some strong feelings for him. I think taking our time has made me like him even more and I have so much respect for not rushing me into anything. I know that I would miss him terribly if something were ever to happen between us. He already has pieces of my heart.

I Miss You – Incubus

“To see you when I wake up
Is a gift I didn’t think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do
Is a three-fold, Utopian dream.

You do something to me that I can’t explain.
So would I be out of line if I said “I miss you”?

I see your picture.
I smell your skin on
The empty pillow next to mine.
You have only been gone ten days,
But already I’m wasting away.
I know I’ll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care,
And I miss you.”

Right now Mother Nature is displaying my favorite kind of weather: rain. And it’s not that yucky cold rain that makes everything look miserable – it’s of the nice spring variety; my favorite. It’s the kind that makes me want to sit out on the porch for hours on end. Or, at least, until it stops comin’ down.

I don’t know why, but I love the rain. It’s just something new and different after a couple of dry days. Right now I am experiencing a strong urge to tie on my bathing suit and frolic around in the falling wetness. After this long week that seems like the perfect thing to do, but I’ll never do it. Not by myself, at least. I’ll wait until I have a certain someone to frolic with.

After a long week of dashing through my finishing-up-construction house to get it ready for a home appraisal (because of course we are refinancing at the same time) while my hip continues to kill me…then the appraiser notifies us 30 minutes prior to the appointment that she will reschedule because if the floor in the nursery is incomplete she will have to come back anyway…I finally sit down to post.

And a lightening bolt just struck way too close for comfort.

Will post after the storm has passed. And Critter has settled back down – apparently she does NOT like the thunder!

It's amazing how I can always find the perfect google pic!

Another long day at work done. WOO HOO.

As you can tell, after a long day at work…my genius brain is practically all used up. So in order to keep the spark alive, I try and woo Hubby, but alas it doesn’t work.

Me: Wanna smell my feet?

Hubby: No. Not really.

Me: The shoes I wore today really make them smell. In fact (as I lift my feet to my nose and grimace) they REALLY smell. Smell them!

Hubby: No

Me: Don’t you love me? It is part of your job, as a HUBBY, to do things that your wifey says, even if you don’t like them.

Hubby: No it isn’t.

Me: Yea it is! It is in the I-got-married-and-now-what rulebook. It defines the rules that Husbands have to perform in order to keep their cute wifeys!

Hubby: What about the rulebook for wifeys?

Me: There isn’t one. Wifey’s are perfect JUST.THE.WAY.THEY.ARE.

UPDATE: I succeeded in shoving my feet in Hubby’s face. He looked like he might vomit.

Hubby: Those feet smell HORRIBLE. GEEZ

Me: I even febreezed them!

Hubby: You febreezed your feet?

Me: Yea

Hubby: Are you sure you didn’t miss?

Ain’t love grand?

This is the longest week EVER! I just want it to end!

This is so me….and then I am slapped back into reality.

So after all the hooplah of taking Thurs off to help the older sister with her ailing kitty…

Long story short Americus was having trouble holding food down, then lost her appetite completely and was a mess.  It was her liver, but after shots, lots of love, and a couple of days she has started to eat again!  Hooray for Mer feeling better!

So in celebration of a rough week and some much needed tlc we invite the eldest sibling out for a half yard of beer at our treasured restaurant -The Yardhouse…and what does she do?  Declines her loving sisters offer!

How Rude!

Life has been unbelievably busy. You can tell because I haven’t been blogging. And this probably wojn’t be a particularly long post, but since I’m here at Beer and Blog, I sort of feel obliged to blog, since I haven’t in the last couple of weeks.

This week has been so long that last night, as I was trying to figure out what to say at the Into Judaism class I was teaching, I was tweeting random passages from the Bible.

This week has been so long that I couldn’t keep track of the various meetings I was having or who was supposed to be in them.

This week was so long that marathoners wouldn’t have run it.

This week is so long that I can’t really come up with anything amusing to say on the subject.

In any case, it has been a humbling week, as I’ve desperately tried to do more than I really could, and discovered I couldn’t do some of the things I expected to be able to do. I got virtually no knitting done.I sat in more hours of meetings than I can count. I understood far less of what was said in those meeting than I should have.

Nonetheless, the week has ended, and Shabbat has come. And everything else is just commentary. A day of rest, a day of restoration for the soul. A day before a new week begins.

1.      I am so busy thinking of reasons to call in sick, I forgot my lunch.

2.      Can’t sleep in

3.      Time to go back to work and the people you can’t stand to see all week are in your face.

4.      There are 4 more days  before I can sleep in again

5.      Monday meetings….my brain is barely functioning

6.      Mondays equal the worst traffic days…it’s like everyone and their mother is on the road on purpose, going under the speed limit or braking every 2 seconds for nothing

7.      It is the longest day of the week….I swear I have already checked the time 10 times and I think it has barely moved 5 minutes

8.      Happy morning people…enough said

9.      Catching up on my email

10.  Working

This will be a long week. We have company that is leaving today and more that is coming Friday. In the interim, Tom is leaving tomorrow for a business trip until Friday night. So….I get to play single mom for the week to the kids and the animals. Between those dates there are 2 piano lessons, one open house, one parent teacher conference, one play, 3 Odyssey of the Mind meetings, a boy scout meeting and a snowstorm…..keep it tuned here for what I am sure will be some interesting posts this week.

Well after racking my brains for so long yesterday trying to come up with interesting things to be honest about yesterday inspiration seems to have deserted me today. I have absolutely nothing to write about. All I know is I’m soo glad it’s Friday! I think this may just have been the longest week ever. I actually thought I was going to fall alseep today… and that was before lunch time. I was sitting there reading my way through a contract and my eyes kept trying to fall closed. Not good. Then I spent the afternoon reading through the computer instruction type texts that I’ve been translating all week. I found hundreds of mistakes. Literally. Aaarggh! Other than that it has been an incredibly slow day. The phone rang exactly once, and even then it was someone to speak to the boss. You’d think having nothing much to do once in a while would be nice, but instead it’s just boring and makes the day seem never ending. I was actually relieved when the boss came in at 3:30 and said we might as well go home. It has also been chucking down with rain all day today, which led to the discovery that my boots, that I just had reheeled over Christmas, are apparantly no longer waterproof. My socks got wet on the way to catch the tram this morning and remained wet all day. Most uncomfortable. Pity my poor feet please.

There is one good thing about today though (apart from the fact that it’s Friday) – I’m off to look at a flat in an hour. Finally I feel like things are moving forward! Stay tuned for a detailed description of it (I bet you’re all really looking forward to that incredibly exciting post…)

And it couldn’t have come a moment too soon. Jesus this has been a long week. I think it’s because the weather has been good. When the weather is good, you end up resenting (more than usual) the fact that you’re in the office.

There is nothing more painful than waiting for the time to pass… you will notice I have chosen to write this incredibly pointless and disappointing blog entry. I apologise to anyone reading this. I wish I could make it better or at least make it funny. Wouldn’t you like to read a funny blog entry? Something to pass the time, even if only for a minute. One sweet, blissful minute of non-stop smiling and laughter, maybe even a tear, something you can think back on and say, “Man, that was a goodie. That made the excruciating pain of Friday all worth it.”

Well, you’re not going to get it here, not today anyway. I’m too weak, too desperate, too longing for the end. I went to make some tea earlier. That always kills four and half minutes but they’ve changed the milk brand and the new one blows. So, yes, I wasted some time but got lousy tea in return and that just makes me sad. Can’t I catch a break?

What’s the time now… 16h02! Oh come on! I swear to God, the clock is going slowly on purpose. I’m counting, “One crocodile, two crocodile” and it’s going much quicker than this “computer” clock. OK, now it’s 16h09… I had written other lines during these last seven minutes but chose to delete them. One was about Me vs. Machines and the other was about energy in the morning. Neither was very good so I removed them. Although I’m telling you about it now and it’s not like this sentence is any more entertaining.

One thing happening this weekend is I’m off to a “celebrity” themed birthday party. The catch is you get told who to be on the invite. I’ve been asked to go as Courtney Love. Apparently my friend perceives me as a drunken crack whore. Probably not that far off…

Have a lekker naweek ek se!

When you are sitting there at your desk and you think about how when you get home, you’re going to take the dog for a nice long walk, because it’s been so long since you’ve been able to do that, and it occurs to you that you should text him and let him know that.

Yeah, no.  The dog doesn’t have a cell phone.  If he did, he would likely have trouble texting with his little paw pads.  Also, he can’t read.  He’s a dog.

I need a glass of wine, stat.