I forgot to mention about 4th of july weekend. We spent it with nicole and ethan and another couple at netarts/oceanside playing lots of card games, eating good food (mmm steak) and having a bonfire at cape kiwanda. then on the 4th paul and i drove north to manzanita to watch the parade where my grama rode on my dad's motorcycle waving to the crowds. i could explain about the spectator kids next to us grabbing candy furiously and their crazy mom, but i will not for paul's sake. ;o) they did make me a bit grumpy though. i hope i'm not a mom like that.
two GREAT pieces of news:
1) erin's wedding is coming up and i'm super excited for her and ambrose.
2) sapna and david are engaged.
congratulations to both couples!
oh: and exciting piece of news #3. paul and i bought tickets for the sufjan stevens concert in milwaukie, wis in september. it's a monday night, but it should be great. we have seats a bit back from the stage, but they're in the exact center, so that's pretty cool. and we bought three tickets, so i hope that jason will be joining us. also, we're tempted to buy chicago tickets for the next night, but the 'presale' tickets were all gone, so we'll have to beat others to the keyboard on the 15th if we want to obtain them. i would *love* to go, but then again, driving 3 hours there (in rush hour too) and then 3 hours back to madison on a weeknight does not seem like the best thing to do, esp after driving the night before to the previous concert. hmmm.
i just realized yesterday that i only have two weeks left at my job. that's so soon. and i am nowhere near done with my project that i really wanted to be done with. but this year there are 5,000 more surveys to deal with (times four!), so that may be why. i will probably be working remotely from wisconsin during the month of september. we shall see.
so i didn't mention this two weeks ago, but definitely the lowlight of my summer so far (or maybe the year?) was that i got a ton of stuff stolen from our locked car when we were hiking up eagle creek in the gorge on the 25th of june. sucky sucky sucky. my third time going through identity theft now (the other two times were a fluke from people stealing mail from my college mailbox, and the second time who knows how they got my card number and rang up a dozen msn accounts....this is the first time i've ever had anything physically stolen from me, so i guess in a way that's pretty good luck to only have it once in 25 years of life so far--and I am one of those people who does not give out information and shreds everything). changing bank account, changing direct deposit/withdrawl stuff, canceling checks, writing up affidavits and police reports. it is so time consuming. not to mention losing hundreds of dollars of stuff (i just added it up tonight and it's around $800---whoa!--lots of medium items add up pretty fast, especially articles of clothing). so these past two weeks have been spent clearing lots of things up and talking with banks and all that fun stuff. but things should be looking good soon. and since we have renter's insurance we might even get some reimbursement $ (after the large deductable of course).
today i finally got my drivers liscense. once again, a not so great picture. but the dmv express at lloyd center rocks. so fast, so easy.
does anyone know--do i really have to get a new passport since my name has changed? or can i just keep using my old one and bring along my marriage liscense?
also, anyone interested in driving our car one way to madison? at the moment paul and i are taking two cars across the country, but it would be nice to find somone to take one of them for us. i'm thinking about posting something on craiglist and interviewing people for the "position". it would rock if that works out. then we could get our car there and save on gas.
i really should not be typing right now. i should be working on rounding up more stuff for our garage sale this weekend. lots and lots to sell, but just like the stolen stuff, all the little odds and ends if they sell will hopefully add up fast. we're trying to get rid of as much stuff as possible before our move. anyway, time to go work. i hope all of you readers are doing well.
two GREAT pieces of news:
1) erin's wedding is coming up and i'm super excited for her and ambrose.
2) sapna and david are engaged.
congratulations to both couples!
oh: and exciting piece of news #3. paul and i bought tickets for the sufjan stevens concert in milwaukie, wis in september. it's a monday night, but it should be great. we have seats a bit back from the stage, but they're in the exact center, so that's pretty cool. and we bought three tickets, so i hope that jason will be joining us. also, we're tempted to buy chicago tickets for the next night, but the 'presale' tickets were all gone, so we'll have to beat others to the keyboard on the 15th if we want to obtain them. i would *love* to go, but then again, driving 3 hours there (in rush hour too) and then 3 hours back to madison on a weeknight does not seem like the best thing to do, esp after driving the night before to the previous concert. hmmm.
i just realized yesterday that i only have two weeks left at my job. that's so soon. and i am nowhere near done with my project that i really wanted to be done with. but this year there are 5,000 more surveys to deal with (times four!), so that may be why. i will probably be working remotely from wisconsin during the month of september. we shall see.
so i didn't mention this two weeks ago, but definitely the lowlight of my summer so far (or maybe the year?) was that i got a ton of stuff stolen from our locked car when we were hiking up eagle creek in the gorge on the 25th of june. sucky sucky sucky. my third time going through identity theft now (the other two times were a fluke from people stealing mail from my college mailbox, and the second time who knows how they got my card number and rang up a dozen msn accounts....this is the first time i've ever had anything physically stolen from me, so i guess in a way that's pretty good luck to only have it once in 25 years of life so far--and I am one of those people who does not give out information and shreds everything). changing bank account, changing direct deposit/withdrawl stuff, canceling checks, writing up affidavits and police reports. it is so time consuming. not to mention losing hundreds of dollars of stuff (i just added it up tonight and it's around $800---whoa!--lots of medium items add up pretty fast, especially articles of clothing). so these past two weeks have been spent clearing lots of things up and talking with banks and all that fun stuff. but things should be looking good soon. and since we have renter's insurance we might even get some reimbursement $ (after the large deductable of course).
today i finally got my drivers liscense. once again, a not so great picture. but the dmv express at lloyd center rocks. so fast, so easy.
does anyone know--do i really have to get a new passport since my name has changed? or can i just keep using my old one and bring along my marriage liscense?
also, anyone interested in driving our car one way to madison? at the moment paul and i are taking two cars across the country, but it would be nice to find somone to take one of them for us. i'm thinking about posting something on craiglist and interviewing people for the "position". it would rock if that works out. then we could get our car there and save on gas.
i really should not be typing right now. i should be working on rounding up more stuff for our garage sale this weekend. lots and lots to sell, but just like the stolen stuff, all the little odds and ends if they sell will hopefully add up fast. we're trying to get rid of as much stuff as possible before our move. anyway, time to go work. i hope all of you readers are doing well.
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