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Oct. 1st, 2006
07:43 pm - Trying to get out of the American dream
It is strange....I cannot use the apostrophe button because it automatically puts my cursor down to the "find" box on the bottom of he page where one would go to find text....hmmm....so, please excuse the bad mechanics...
Anyways, Ron and I have worked hard and seem to have what America tells us we need. We have a brand new house (we needed brand new because Ron and I do not fix things), well it is four years old now....we have a beautiful dog, we have a great car (again, had to be new because we cannot fix things), we have the best marriage and are still in awe of how well we fit....everyone tells us we are lucky, blessed,whatever.....than howcome I feel suffocated? Ron and I both have accomplished what most people think is success, "the American Dream", only to find that it is not OUR dream. We like to wander. We like to stay somewhere for a few years but get the heck out and find something new. I thought it would be hard to put our house up on the market this past month, but it really has not been. I am anxious to get out of here, move to Grand Rapids, get my bachelors, then get on with my life. I am rethinking my career choice to one that would provide me a reason to travel or live overseas. I am tired of the American ideals and standards and want to see something else.
America will always be my home. I love America with all my heart, but like a newly minted adult should leave home and see what is outside their familiar walls, I feel I need to meet my neighbors. This world is full of different people, ideas, and religions...I would like to spend a few months a year on the road, researching, discovering, and challenging my white-bred ways.
The big house, new car, white picket fence is not what I want. I am not sad about where I am right now tho because I needed to do it to find out it is not what I want. So I am glad I did this.
I was at Bonnaroo this summer and had an epiphany: I would rather wander around following bands, wearing hiking shorts and bandanas all day, and going a few days without a shower( if that is what it takes) than be trapped in a home, in a small town, working a small job, driving my small car to live a small life filled with reality shows gossip magazines and 401 K s.
Not that I plan to follow bands around, I am just saying that I learned that my life is not intended for such a purpose. Either is Rons. So, we follow the steps that we can and look towards the horizon for something we cannot see, but something our hearts are anticipating.
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contemplativeJul. 28th, 2006
08:02 am - un with a Y-E-S! July 26,2006
It sucks when there have been alot of cool things going on but they are just too much to write about. I have had a great couple of weeks 'tho. Last night, Ron, me and Becky went to Interlochen to see Ray Lamontagne and Guster....HO-LY COW! Ray was up first and besides looking uncannily like Becky's brother Joe, his voice was ROWR! So masqueline and gruff, yet sultry and soft. This man is a songwriter too:
" Saying the love that we had
was just selfish and sad
To see you now with him
is just making me mad
Oh so kiss him again
just to prove to me that you can
an I will stand here
and burn in my skin
Yes I will stand here
and burn in my skin"
Guster came out next, and WOW! What a fan-flippin'-tastic show! The drummer was by far the best! He had two sets of drums, one he played regular, and the other he would play with his hands and he kept the WILDEST beats, and set the stage for the most amazing sounds I have ever heard. Really got you moving! It was my first real exposure to Guster and I have to say that I am now a fan.
After that, we went into Traverse City to see if we could find a few of our friends that lived there, and just when we were about to give up and go home, we found them at Dillinger's downtown. So, it ended up being a wild night. I only had a RHS and a chocolate cake shot all evening because I was the driver....always the DD never the D. haha!
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chipper08:01 am - Clumsy? July 18,2006
Yesterday we went out to Whitings Park to camp with Country, Dan and Becky. We frolicked (yes, frolicked) in the warm waters of Lake Charlevoix for most of the day, played beach voleyball, had Tristan's birthday party, hung out and took turns kayaking.......that last thing conjures up hugely sad memories for me because when I went to my mom's house yesterday to borrow two of her kayaks, I tied one to the top and tried putting one INSIDE my jeep....BAD idea! When I put the kayak in through the back, I thought it was in enough and tried shutting the door....yeah, I put a huge crack in the windshield. sigh Oh, and then I almost lost the kayak yesterday because a huge wake caught me, tipped me over, and pushed the thing almost 50 feet away in seconds!
Oh, and then I backed over a trashcan this morning on my way to work.
Life can be funny....and tehn there are the times you laugh just to be polite.
Jun. 3rd, 2006
03:12 am - Jury Doody
So I got to go to Jury Duty this morning and after sitting for over an hour while the court asked us questions, and hearing the prosecutor use a thermos factory on Mars ran by three-headed aliens to make a point.......yeah, I was pretty much done. I brought my new book I've started to read "Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, but didn't get too much into it because the judge and the lawyers kept "blah-blah-blah-blah-BLAH"-ing, and a girl just couldn't get in the reading time. I'm on page 7. Gr.
We got the Bonnaroo tickets in tonight!WaHOO! So excited! I have already pretty much mapped out the shows I want to see during the three days. AND, just an FYI, Matisyahu's "Beatbox" done live at Stubbs is an ESSENTIAL download! His beatbox is AMAZING!! My booty can't help but move to the groove man! It is SO sick! Just awesome!
Everything on my end is well tho'. We camped for the first time in our pop-up and it was so cool! We went to Traverse City and camped in their state park (which actually cost MORE than a decent hotel room) but we got to hear the rain pittering on our roof and see the lightning. And there were TONS of squirrels! No, REALLY! I think the state park is like THE place for all the cool squirrels to go and hang out. I even saw this one squirrel that was really fat and couldn't climb the tree as fast as his friends. Yeah, I made fun of him. He was cute so I am sure I didn't give him a complex or anything.
And on Wednesday, we took Schatzie down to the breaker wall at the beach, and layed in the grass. Well, Ron layed in the grass, and I laid my head on Ron. We looked at the blue sky for a very long time. Ron said that he couldn't remember the last time he looked at the sky like that. I do it fairly often. I love laying down and looking at the sky because since you can't see your surroundings, you could be anywhere. You could be looking up at that cloud in Ireland. Or maybe you are in New Zealand.
But before I go, let me just say: Twinkle twinkle baby. Twinkle twinkle.
cheerfulFeb. 24th, 2006
07:05 pm - Mighty Times: Legacy of Rosa Parks
December 5, 1955 Rosa Parks took a seat on a bus and when four colored people moved so one white man can sit down, she remained seated. She was seated in the black section yet she was being told to stand for a white man.
This small gesture, from a quiet seamstress proved to be huge. She went to jail. She was tried and convicted for disturbing the peace in a trial that lasted all of five minutes. A bus boycott ensued where blacks refused to ride the bus because of the injustice endured, not by Mrs. Parks alone, but by all black people at that time. What was expected to be one day lasted 381. Bombings, beatings, death threats, hate ensued in the hearts of many white people. When Dr. Kings house was bombed and blacks surrounded his house with weapons ready to fight the first white person they saw, Dr.King implored that they do not react in violence. In the midst of hate, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Robert Greatz, E.D. Nixon, moved with level heads and steady hearts with peace and equality in mind.
December 21,1956 the Supreme Court struck down segregation.
How many people ever make a difference?
I sit here and wonder how much dignity and hope she gave to people. How can I do this? How can I make this happen? Can I stand in the face of malicious, blind hate and react with such an unwavering sense of resolve? Can I react in peace to violence aimed at me or my family? I am at a lack for words.
Someone starting a revolution….this is why I do not like to do things conventionally. This is why I strive to be different. Ordinary people never change the world. It's the extraordinary ones. Even if they come from humble, ordinary places they are storehouses for large, extraordinary dreams.
I want my life to be big. To count. To bring people hope and dignity and promise. But I sit in a small northern Michigan town and wonder what living here does for the world. What does living my life, so as not to disturb anyone else's, do to change the life of another?
contemplativeFeb. 22nd, 2006
05:07 pm - Not for those with weak stomachs....
Okay, this may gross you guys out, because I wanted to scrape my tongue for a week after I remembered this but........lats night, Becky and I went bowling. We shared a basket of chicken "fingers" halfway through our first game and I even licked the tips of two of my fingers....cut to this morning where I now have a yucky cough that hurts. It is no wonder I hav ethis ailment because I probably licked half of Boyne City off my fingers last night! I forgot to wash my hands before eating and now I probably have chlamydia or something. (FYI I know you cannot get chlamydia like that, I just said it for effect)
Everytime I think of this putrid fact, I get sick to my stomach and taste lead/metal in my mouth. I mean, how many people have sneezed, then picked up the ball to bowl, or some kid digs for gold then bowls? How many people with hands that have been GOD ONLY know where.....have.....the possibilities are endless and I want to spank myself for being so thoughtless.
*SIGH* I think I have to go brush my teeth again......
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dirty04:56 pm - Feb. 19- Sunday is no funday
I am fighting off a terrible headache that I *Know* is from lack of sleep because it started yesterday morning. I took like three naps (about an hour long each) and am just now tsrating to feel like I can do some math homework (which I am about 4 lessons behind on). Homework just creeps up on you and bites you in the butt.
You know, I hate that sign that says "Free Ride in a Police Car if you shoplift" because they make the first six words bold so all I see is "Free Ride in a Police Car" and I think "YES! Sweet!" And then the little words ocme into focus and my hopes are dashed.....EVERY time this happends to me.
If anyone is a cop, or has reason to become a cop, please call me someday out of the blue and blow my socks off with a FREE ride in your police car. And let me touch the radar and gun, and I would like to sya something to dispatch and end it in "Over". AAAAAND, I would like to sit in back behind the glass with handcuffs on and freak out and talk about calling my lawyer.
By the by, it's not that I have anything against cowboy hats, but if you are:
A) Small headed
B) Wearing Abercrombie and Fitch
or
C) Not a cowboy
you have no business wearing a cowboy hat. If I see you in violation of any of these conditions, I will walk ove rto you, flick off your hat and stomp on it.
Feb. 17th, 2006
10:10 pm - V-Day baby!
Okay, so I don't really get excited about Valentines Day because it entails alot of pressure to do the most romantic thing you can think of. Now, Ronnie is the sweetest, most thoughtful, most charming person I know but he always overthinks Valentines Day. V-Day's of the past have been nice, but almost all of them he has had to work, so we never really did much. But I didn't feel neglected because I am aware of the gross commercialization of the holiday.
But this past Valentines was my most favorite! First off, he wanted to give me this card on the 13th. He was so excited to give it to me that he asked me all day to open it. When I refused he would look at it and giggle and then put it away only to bring it out ten minutes later and ask me to open it again! lol. But when I opened it the next morning, I found that he had made a card for me on the computer using various monkey pictures and writing a poem. I loved it SOOO much!! I would have been happy if the card was my present! But then, after school,we went to Garretts (a extra nice restraunt in town)and had a MARVELOUS dinner! We started with a bottle of Cakebread Sauvignon Blanc and baked brie with fresh blackberries. For our entrees he had stuffed lobster and a petit filet mignon, while I had duck confit. After dessert,a lady brought me a red carnation and I smelled it as Ron and I walked arm in arm back to the car. Then he took me to see the Curious George movie! YAHOO! It was the best movie ever! If you ever feel down and out, go buy a ticket to that movie and you will leave in a good mood! It is such a ray of sunshine!
As nice as the day was tho, I know it is just another blessing that I got to spend it with Ron. Every day of my life I end in a sweet repose. I have felt so loved by this man for almost 8 years now and every day we somehow get more and more entwined with eachother. We show romance in many unconventional ways every day, and I cherish my morning cuddles, my goodnight kisses, and my times of sitting with him and laughing hysterically just as much, if not more than I cherish candlelight dinners or flowers or cards.
So, I will stop with the mushy stuff now and get in a late workout.
I hope your Valentines was spent with people you feel the most comfortable with! =)
cheerfulJan. 19th, 2006
01:41 pm - Ah! She lives!
yes, yes. I am writing in here again....but ONLY because "myspace" doesn't work on the college's computers for some stupid reason. Yes, "Livejournal" has quickly become the red-headed stepchild because "myspace" has just SO MANY more people that I know, and I get alot of feedback from posts, pics, etc... And we all know how much a girl needs her feedback. =)
"Myspace" is awesome because I have found lost friends (whom I quickly add) and lost boyfriends(whom I just assume stay lost)so I am MUCH more active on there.
But I come here everyday to read posts from my lovely little list. Thank you guys for being cool and updating semi-regularly. I should really take a lesson from you, but all blogs are not created equal! =)
Much Love,
M~
Dec. 29th, 2005
03:43 am - kUH-rOKEE
Or care-ee-okey. whatever....you say potato I say shut the heck up. Well, tonight was el-funo!It was Karaoke tonight at the Tannery and I sang "Amish Paradise" with Ron, Toni and our other friend Aaron. But, I apparently brang down the house with my rousing rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh yes....I OWNED! Ron says that there was people standing up and applauding when I was done, which never happens. I didn't notice because I was switched ON biznitch! SO....if you weren't at Tannery tonight, you missed out and you officially suck..............OFFICIALLY.
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energeticDec. 26th, 2005
02:16 am - I don't mean to be teh rain at your parade,but....
Okay. So, I do not buy into this whole "Happy Holiday" thing, so I'm just gonna say Happy Jesus' Birthday to every terd I see. Give me a break. It's not even the correct season Jesus was born, but for whatever reason, Christians stole this druid holiday, meant to celebrate the Winter Solstice, and now, in the spirit of Jesus, we spend money we don't have, fighting hundreds in the mall, cursing at fellow shoppers, and fueling the true spirits of the season: greed, stress, vodka and debt.
So eat your ham, and revel in this gluttonous time of year. I'm sure Jesus would be proud....C'mon people.
Now, I'm not saying I don't celebrate Christmas by getting presents, I just noticed these disgusting things while shopping for this holiday. It makes me sick to think that everything is being done to avoid God. Whether you believe in Him or not, is He really so annoying that you can't even say His name while wishing someone a merry "Christmas"? Sorry, but HE'S not the one bombing clinics or stealing your money, so why don't you take your beef up with the people who actually are behind the game?
Oh yeah, I got a HUGE pair of sunglasses in my stocking and I like to pretend I'm that terrorist on the episode of Family Guy who's trying to make a "Death to Americans" tape. He comes out wearing these HUGE sunglasses going, "What? What's everyone staring at? Is something on my face? I wear these all the time. These are my regular glasses." LOL@that episode!
Dec. 22nd, 2005
07:40 pm - Hrmmmm.....
Did you know that pecans are not nuts?? They are drupes. Other drupes are mangoes, cherries, peaches and raspberries. Hmmm.... this makes me angry. Why make the world more complicated?
So, I have finished my semester with straight A's. Yippee! I am happy to not have an upcoming test or quiz gnawing at the back of my brain. I am watching my beloved "Good Eats" and that's fine by me. =)
Oh, something else I find weird....very pleasant and impressive, but odd nonetheless. I ordered something for Ron and had it shipped overnight,right? Well, nobody was home today to recieve a package so I was kind of bummed. Well, tonight a guy from UPS called me and asked if he could come by my house on his way home to drop off my package! Wow! How cool is this guy? Very cool, I think. =)
Anyways, I am going to turn on some James Blunt, and cry into my vodka....hahaha! Noooo,silly people. I am actually going to listen to Daft Punk, wear my hot pink wig and pretend I am French. LONG LIVE FRENCH ELECTRONICA! =)
Dec. 21st, 2005
09:06 pm - Any way the wind blows
I am hearing the beautiful, parting words of Freddy Mercury: "Any way the wind blows..." These words, with the delicate and exhausted sounding piano in the back, make you feel like you're standing next to the pummeled masses who just minutes before were screaming: "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye"....*insert wicked guitar spike* ....."So you think you can love me and leave me to die, oh baby. Can't do this to me baby. Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here." Anyway the wind blows.... It's such an incomplete circle; like anything can happen now. It makes you want to walk off into a sunset......
Dang. I should be studying for my exam tomorrow. F and A,man.......
12:26 pm - God Bless Sean Connery. hahaha
I am watching SNL, and one of my favorite sketches from the 99-02 cast is on (Celebrity Jeopardy). The categories include: "Point to Your Own Head", "Will This Hurt if You Put it in Your Mouth", "Make Any Noise" and "An Album Cover", which Sean Connery of course says, "I'll take Anal Bum Covers for 100." LOL. Then, as Trebek introduces the celebrities, he tries to skip Sean Connery, but Connery says, "Trebek, I pose a conundrum to you, a riddle if you will. What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One's a sick duck..................I can't remember how it ends, but your mother is a whore." good stuff
04:04 am - Holy Mimosa Batman!
So,my day has been quite rad.Mainly because I found out I got a 96% on my math exam (because I'm a genius.I'm sure of it) and a ninety-something on my biology final, and I kicked much ass on my psychology quiz too. Then I went to lunch with my biz-nitch and came home to watch movies and eat cous cous.To wrap up my evening in a lover-ly little bow, I have had two mimosas and am feeling very rosey. Not drunk, not nearly....okay,maybe closely related; maybe accidentally stumbled upon the Drunk family reunion.....but I could still operate heavy machinery at this point.
I just got finished rating my professors at ratemyprofessors.com and I commented favorably on two out of three. My favorite class this year was Psychology. Hands down. The professor for that class communicated efficiently, humorously and as concisely as possible.....given there was a moron a row ahead of me that felt the need to spew any random thought she had regardless of its relevancy.....she made me want to drink. And hit babies.
But, other than that, my professor really knows his stuff. So well in fact that it would not surprise me if he really was psycho. As I put it on ratemyprofessors: "He is concise, funny and very intelligent about the subject. So much so that he could very well be a raving psycho at home who collects toenails and hair. Be that as it may,he knows his stuff and makes you want to go to class."
My math teacher was less exciting but, again, she knew her stuff. I have got to respect that. She had no qualms about looking at someone like they were stupid when she felt they asked a stupid question (including me) and this always makes me laugh. I have uber respect for people who shame dumb people. I wish I could have the cahoongas to do such things more often.
So, I'm sure you all are bored about my chosen topic, but considering I don't think anyone reads this damn thing except me,you guys can all go up your nose with a rubber hose. <- Props to Vinnie Bobarino for that snap!
It is almost 5 a.m. and I think I am going to dig up a few tunes to listen to before I go to sleep. OH, by the by, Dave Chappelle's stand-up from 2004 in San Fran, TOTALLY had me in hysterics!!! It was the best stand up I have heard from him, bar NONE!
Adios,ladies.
Dec. 16th, 2005
08:09 pm - Blah,lah,lah,lah,lah
I am watching Emeril and wishing I went to school in Harlem and sang in this all-boys choir that is on the show tonight. They are totally rad. I wish Emeril was my uncle. Not my dad because I would hate to hear BAM! all day. Uncle just assures that I would see him on holidays. I would call him Uncle E.
So,anyways, life is pretty tame as of now. Finals are next week and I am not too stressed out about them. What I am stressed out about is the fact that I have not been able to go snowboarding yet this winter!! GRRRRRR! I am still not very good and I need to learn how to stop......without running into the trashcan at the bottom of the hill. If someone can pretend to be me and go work for me at my craptastic job tomorrow, I could go boarding for awhile.
Yeah, that's another thing, I'm quitting one of my jobs A.S.A.P because my boss came in pretty dunk/buzzed the other night and yelled at me for no good reason, in front of customers, and basically treated me like a two dollar hooker....but she didn't even have the decency to leave me two dollars. Plus, the way I see it, I work five times harder than I do at Curves for longer amounts of time, for a dollar less.....yeah, I don't need this. I am thinking of just throwing in the towel and working at Applebee's just because I'm sick of having two jobs. I like working at Curves because, frankly, I know more about Curves then most OWNERS do, and I am really good at it, but I can't get enough hours. Then, my other job at the party store(liquor store) well, I already explained what's happening there........I'm sorry. I am probably killing your guys' buzz,huh? Well, I am trying to stop being miserable. I only have a year left here, right? Maybe a year and a half.....
Dec. 1st, 2005
08:03 pm - This Looks SO Awesome!
I was talking to my friend Lura today about the Travel Channel, and she told me about this hotel in New York City called "The Library". It is described as being "the first hotel ever to offer its guest over 6,000 volumes organized throughout the hotel by the Dewey Decimal System.* Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to."
WHOA!! I think Ron and I will have to go here as soon as possible! They have different special packages available like a mystery weekend, an erotic package and a broadway weekend! Anyways, you will have to go see it for yourselves here: http://www.libraryhotel.com/index.s
Just a sidenote about the website, it makes this annoying, high-pitched "beep" everytime you scroll over the hotspots, so be sure your volume isn't up too high. =)
Nov. 25th, 2005
03:18 pm - Just something cool.....
My college always has guest lecturers that are really very interesting to go to. Anyways, I found out that Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from "Mythbusters", a show on Discovery channel that debunks or verifies myths,are going to be talking at our school in April. Cool, huh? Yup. I think so. =)
Nov. 14th, 2005
01:52 am - The requests for autographs will come rollin' in
Ronnie was asked a few weeks ago to be in an ad for our school. He said yes, and they conducted a brief interview, and it is already running in the newspaper! I put it on my webpage so you guys can look at it here: http://www.geocities.com/marymango1
Well, he was already popular, now he's famous. =)
Nov. 12th, 2005
11:55 pm - It's the small things that make you happy. . .
. . .but it's the HUGE,ENORMOUS,MAMMOTH,MUNGO, SUPER-COLOSSAL things that make you outrageously, crazily happy!!! Yes, it's here folks: THE CURIOUS GEORGE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I see myself in that little monkey. *smiles and softly muses* You guys MUST go see it when it comes out, but until then, go see the trailer,okay? It's here: http://www.curiousgeorgemovie.com Prepare to BE SO EXCITED that you WET YOUR PANTS! I know *I* did!
Oh! And a good P.S: Jack Johnson is writing all the songs for the movie! Awesome. =)
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