ELF YOUR SELF

a tribute to my sissy!!!



















also payback for the 2000 photo booth pictures of her and 2 i-movies!!!!

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Missing AJH

so many of you are beginning to make the long journey home for turkey day!!!  for the first year in 5 years i am staying put!  I am tres sad about this because this is also the first year in a few that i will not be picking AJH up from UD and transporting her home. 

our trips home in summary:
it was my senior year at the most amazing place on earth and her (ajh) freshman year and she stayed up all night on tuesday crying with her roommates becuase it would be the first time that year they would be separated.

FAST FORWARD ONE YEAR: i arrive at UD to pick AJH up and she is a wee bit hungover and smells like stale bar, she also made me stop at 4 exits looking for panda express because it was the only thing to cure her illness (irish flu).  We ended up getting a feast at Wendy's (they gave us the wrong order and our order!!- it was karma for paying for the cars behind us on the toll-way!)

I will miss her this year as she is not coming home.  perhaps i will have an extra gimlet or 3 for her!

writers block

sorry i have been absent for a while with my birthday and trip to cincinnati i have been busy/boring/unmotivated. 

here is a run down of what has been going on with pictures!
in cinci MLF and i went to a pumpkin patch.  this is our yearly ritual and even though we are far apart we have never skiped a year!

 

we named her constance.  she lit up the october night nicely (yes i am aware this was tres early!)

we also went on ride the ducks in cincinnati.  it was tres brilant.  you go in a boat (that also drives on land) built in WWII (by women!!!)

this was not our trip... ours was mlf me and 4 octogenarians, and it was cold and rainy.

here's a picof mlf with his duck quack-er (everyone gets one!)

we also went to montgomery inn for dinner and visited AJH at college!

dissapointed

so after my big move and because the great state of NC keeps asking me to do jury duty i got a new Virginia license.

normally this is a hassle. surprisingly it was not horrid. AJH and i headed to the DMV located closest to the rental home. after hiding our water-bottles -no drinks or food allowed- we made our way to the front desk. this is where a kind woman checked to make sure we had all the proper documents. although i had checked the VA DMV site multiple times neither abby nor i had the appropriate documentation. Abby is not in possession of one crucial piece and i did not have my passport. we went home and i grabbed my passport. after waiting a mere 30 min my number was called.

this is where the fun began. my eyes where checked and i was passed once again without glasses or contacts. then it was time for the dreaded picture. i have had very good luck with sweet taking the people at the NC DMV into always allowing me to check my picture. no such luck. in addition to this VA just started enforcing that secure ID procedures from Ws days where you can not smile in government documentation. MLF says this is because no one smiles when the get pulled over... well i mainly use my ID to get into bars and i am ALWAYS smiling there so i decided to sneak a smile. CAUGHT! she made me do my picture again and told me not to smile or open my mouth. AHHHH. i quipped is this like a mug shot to which a gentleman in line behind me laughed. the DMV worker was not ammused and i was left with the picure below....



its not even in color... ugh... at least its only valid until 2016...

hi friends

i have been in hiding but i have BIG news...

1. i quit my dead end job

2. i got into grad school (the fact that i got accepted to the wrong program is moot)

this is GREAT news for all of you because now i will have so much time to blog.
-downside i am leaving chi town - i need a new twitter ID
but i am moving to Va and going to live by the BEACH!!

right now abby is here with me. i just love love love my little sis. we have not been having that great of a time because i was sick and now im going to work everyday. she flies home on tommorw.

MLF was also here over the weekend. it was our last visit before he starts L-school. EEEK. i am so proud of him. he will be enrolled in Univerisity of Cincinnati's law school. this will mean that we will be back in the same time zone but now a plane ride away.

this also brings me to my new Pet Peeve. why when you say that you are in a long distance relationship do people ask if its hard, say it has to be so hard, say they could never do it... on and on and on. -eh life could be worse.

i will post about alex maries trip soon!!!

rough week

so after my horrid sunday the week just keep on going full speed ahead. not much to talk about, busy busy.

I missed the first 1/2 of GG and missed the city, but i did get my nike +. Missed the office and 30 rock. cant wait for the morning to catch up!

i did get the Feb edition of Real Simple and InStyle. as alex can attest this was v. stressful for me and did start the upswing of my week.

today MLF sent me flowers at work!! they are so wonderful and everyone was asking me about them. i think they thought i made up MLF until then. (picture to come soon!) this was the highlight of the week and maybe month!!!

only 7 days until i move in to the new apt.
14 until i see my mom and sister! (abby thats for you!)