Bit of Ivory

But I can’t not say it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ravensnape!!!!!!! You are an amazing woman and a wonderful friend. I’ll always consider my life to be blessed because you are a part of it. I love you, Lou. *hugs* In other news, saw Pride and Prejudice with Jen and Kate today. Still a good movie. Orlando […]

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Number of: Minutes late : 5 (had trouble finding the place I was supposed to park my car) Times I signed my name filling out new-hire paperwork: 5 Times I heard the “square peg in a round hole” analogy: 87 Times I heard the Impressing Texas With Our Amazing Database story: 3 Coworkers who have […]

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but this is a FREAKIN’ long entry, and really needs the LJ cut. So. . . Thoughts on the JKR chat, as mused upon in Live Journal. Judging by the general dearth of comments on here lately, I doubt many of you care.

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I have a job! I have a job! *does happy employment dance* $8 an hour, full time, with the possibility of continuing part time once school starts. And I’ll be working with Kate! And WGU employees get a free membership at Apple Fitness, so I can lose that weight! Whoot! Off to celebrate. . .

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I’m sure it’s just exhaustion from the past few days, and a bit of depression over the whole thing. Even Wimsey can’t interest me. Am trying to read The Five Red Herrings, but am having trouble. Do any of you people who are much smarter than me know what the object was that Wimsey found […]

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Am much pleased with the Oscar outcome. Wish Johnny could have gotten it, of course, but he looked awfully pretty not getting it. And go RotK! Grandpa’s funeral was today. It was a wonderful funeral– very inspiring. Sad, of course, but that’s to be expected. Since my grandpa was a veteran, he got all of […]

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There is a bit of happy news in all this grief. I just opened my mail, and I have been accepted to BYU Graduate School! Wahoo!

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is here. I think it turned out wonderfully. A fitting tribute. My mother was much too tired to cook last night, so we went out. Our waiter was very cool. We were reminiscing about our high school choir teacher, and my sister Laura mentioned a comment he’d made once about Britney Spears: “Not much upstairs, […]

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My grandfather died at approximately 11 o’clock this morning, just as I was being interviewed at BYU. It’s almost a relief. He’s past the pain now, and the anxious waiting is over. Now we just have to learn to adjust to life without him. My grandfather was a great man. As a child I was […]

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Grandpa is still hanging in there, which amazes all of the hospice people. My parents are both up there, so I’m home alone again with my thoughts. Except this time Wedgewood’s in the corner, which makes such a difference. She’s been acting strangely– very clingy, which is extremely odd. She usually doesn’t like me very […]

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