Junie's Online Thoughts
Saturday, December 20, 2003
I can feel a fierce cold coming on and Im trying to fight it. Lots of juice, spicy foods, water, sleep, I fear its too late.
Leave tomorrow morning for the long drive. Wont blog until after next week.
Happy Yule everyone!
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Got this in the mail. Thought it was funny. Go Wisconsin. (Thanks, Marta.)
You know you are a true Wisconsinite when:
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going up north past Crivitz for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again in.
6. Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as cheese, beer, fish, and venison.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. The are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
15. You refer to the Packers as "we,"
16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
17. You can identify an Illinois accent
18. You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
19. You consider Madison exotic.
20. You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
23. Down south to you means Chicago.
24. A brat is something you eat.
25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.
26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
27. You know how to polka.
28. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
29. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
30. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly,"
31. You know what to do with a Blatz.
Big, gigantic, exploding congratulations to my good friend Dave, who is now free from the reigns of Alz hell and onto greener pastures. Merry, merry Christmas to you!!!
Get to see Leah and Dianne tonight for dinner. Should be fabulous.
Saw Lord of the Rings last night and it was AWESOME. Spectacular. But at three hours and twenty minutes, it was really hard for me to maintain attention and tension for that long. By the end I had all this pent up energy, that I thought I was going to pop. But the effects, the characters, the ending was the best of the three, just like the papers kept saying in all the hype. Plus Orlando Bloom = YUMMY. The shrieky dragonesque beasts that flew around, and the spider were some scary shit. And I want to be Gandalf so badly. See it on the big screen. Its sooooooo worth it. (Even though they shifted a lot of the book's storyline around, as it made for a better movie adventure, and added a few things here and there.)
I love having these days off. Whoo hoo.
Less than a week until Christmas. Exactly three weeks until I fly to Ghana.
Im out.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Finally a full day off in a while. Ive been running around like a chicken and its nice just to sit in the house for a while. Going out with friend Dave tonight for dinner and to see Lord of the Rings Three. Whoo hoo. I keep hearing how the third installment is the best. There was one movie theater that played all three in a row, but ten hours is a loooong time to sit in a theatre. Thats half a flight to Africa! I'll just be happy to see the last one, in all of its three hour glory.
Jeremy told me that we got a new frig and freezer in Ghana. It sounds very nice and we wont have to defrost it every single month because its one of those fancy self-defrosting refrigerators. Love it.
Gearing up for the drive to WI and MN. Cant believe the holidays are almost here. Ive never been this out-of-the-spirit before. Its all just distant and strange. Some of it is that Jeremy isnt here, and that the holidays will be weird with Chris gone, and that my own life is in flux. In any case, Im just hoping for a low-key Christmas this year.
I forget lately that this blogger is here. Dont have too much going on to write about either. So forgive me if my posts are short and infrequent.
Much love to all. More later.
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Last night at Noodle sucked. It was terribly dead and I barely made any money. I thankfully work a double tonight, but I stayed out really late with Dave last night, so Im a bit tired. Everything I make this weekend goes toward presents, so I hope I do much better tonight.
This is my last week with a car, so Im trying to cram in all these errands that I've been wanting to get done but havent yet. There are still a zillion restaurants I want to try, and I want to do some extravagant holiday shopping, but dont have the money to do much more than a humble Xmas.
I leave on Sunday morning for my drive to WI. Its gonna be a looooooong trip by myself, and I hope the weather holds out as I approach my folks' house.
Thats it for now. Heard about the capture of Saddam Hussein. Weird.
