stalking

erma and i went to the twins game last night. great fun and we won! :D afterward we ran into scout and enrique, and the four of us waited at the twins parking lot for the players to come out. and we saw cuddyer! i was so happy. he's so dang cute. he waved and was friendly and all that (but walked straight to his car as he talked to the fans), and then he drove by and waved to me. :D yay!

we also saw morneau, but he hardly gave a nod to us (how rude). (but he probably just wanted to go home after the game, so i forgive him.)

we didn't see hunter, which was sad, and the girls of course really wanted to see mauer, but we didn't get to see him cuz he supposedly left quickly. i think he was still there, though, cuz i heard someone on one of the security guards's walkie-talkie say something about boy #1 (and i think that's him).

we saw some of the other guys, too, and the manager and announcer people. (but bert didn't circle us.) the last one to leave was joe nathan (he's always last), who made quite an exit riding up the ramp on one of those flat-bed cart things with a big dorky grin, instead of taking the stairs like everyone else.

so fun!

july 24th

according to our catholic calendar at work, july 24th was st. sharbel makhluf day. catholic? really?

and because of that darn epilepsy thing, i can only have so much caffeine, and i reached that limit before noon

4:45am should not be a time

i'm so tired i'm going to implode

observation of yesterday

when you wear white pants, wear white underwear.

my marriable list

i never got around to doing this post (or the other one), and while i may have cut out my botws, i don't want you all to feel deprived of woo-wooiness.

so, here they are, in no particular order (except the first one), the men i'm going to marry. ;)

1. John Krasinski He, like I said last October, is like Mary Poppins - practically perfect in every way.

Prince Carl Philip I've been going to marry him for so long, I don't remember how to not be going to marry him.

Mark Ruffalo After seeing '13 Going on 30,' it's impossible not to want to marry him.

Matthew PerryHe's been waiting for me for so long. I'm his Lucy.

Michael Cuddyer

He's so nice and has such cute dimples and is a Christian - what more could I want?

(I was going to choose Will Smith for this list, but I felt too guilty taking him from Jada. But Michael Cuddyer's married. Not quite sure how that works.)

Theater Review: Les Miserables

Friday night I went to see 'Les Miserables' at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater. The food was good, but that's not the point.

When I heard 'Les Mis' was playing there, I didn't really care to go. I love the book and the Liam Neeson movie version so much, that I was leary about seeing this one. But my uncle wanted to go, so I went with him.

It was good. I'm not a fan of musicals where they sing every word (they end up crowding words together in a funny way just so they can tell the story - just do a normal musical people), but it was okay. The set and costumes were really good. The actors and actresses did pretty well, especially the little girl who played young Cosette. She was hardly in it, but she was the one with whom I was the most impressed.

The only thing I didn't like was the actor playing Jean Valjean, which is too bad, considering that's the main role, and that's the character I love so much. I don't like that the play calls for a tenor cuz that's just wrong (Jean Valjean was recognized because he's a big strong man - he couldn't possibly be a tenor), but also the man's voice wasn't great, and he didn't impress me as an actor.

Oh, and the story felt a little choppy. So if you're going to see the play, see the movie first (and better yet - read the book!).

but on the plus side

i both got to see baby girl and my aunt, and read the book :)

the latest trial of my life

my aunt was here with baby girl this weekend! this weekend! the two days i had set aside for pure potter! we hardly ever get to see them, and this is when they show up. i love them and am happy whenever i get to see them, but goodness. that meant that i didn't get to finish until this afternoon! sad.

another reason we love eileen

the other day eileen was in the dining room alone. i innocently walked through while cleaning up and glanced at her to see if she was done eating. she yelled loudly, 'oh you shut up!' i said, 'eileen, i didn't say anything.' 'well you were thinking about it!''
(oh, and today she ran down one of the nursing aides, backing her into a pole and ramming her a few times with her chair. in all fairness, the aide deserved it.)

and my dear chelleybutton

thank you so much for introducing me to harry potter! i'm so glad i got in on it before the end. yay!

i'm with chelleybutton. don't even think about calling me this weekend.

i'm a wreck

i so feel like crying at everything right now (and this is me we're talking about). i kind of feel like i did the time that sven returned to school for a short visit and everything just felt wrong and i went to najeen and we sat on the floor with my head in her lap and she just stroked my hair and hummed a hymn. (and she asked me what was wrong and i said i didn't know and then awhile later we heard his voice and i said 'that's what's wrong,' and she said, 'i thought so,' and we kept sitting there til someone needed her for something else.)

but the bfg just gave me a gift on facebook and that so made my day. i needed that cuz i'm so a wreck and it was so random and nice and now i so feel like i'm gonna cry because of it.

is this what it feels like to be a crierhead, didder?

oh, but chelley

this one is super cute, too

i love neville

that's all i wanted to say. just i love neville. cuz i do.

sorry guys

busy week. i'll post more on monday maybe.

toothache (but not really)

i think i swallowed a filling thurs night. i woke up and bit down on something hard (i felt and heard a loud crunch), then i think i swallowed. i thought i had lost a tooth, but i felt around and none of them are gone, and i didn't feel or taste any blood. so now i'm thinking it was a filling. how gross is that?

something annoying

when you have to switch your email password and after a couple months your fingers still aren't used to it

language barriers

violet is from sweden. she likes nothing more than to talk about sweden and speak swedish. some days she'll get in the mood to be a brat and only speak swedish knowing full well that then the nurses and nurses' aides can't understand her. whenever they try to feed her or encourage her to eat, she'll just speak swedish to them. those are the days they call me over to encourage her in swedish. so i'll go over and (in swedish) tell her that she should eat a little. so she will answer (in english) 'well i would, but i'm not hungry, see.' and i will say in swedish that she should at least drink a little. and she will say in english, 'well, maybe a little coffee.' after a bit of me speaking swedish and her speaking english, i'll shrug my shoulders at the aides and walk away. at which point she switches back to speaking only swedish, and the aides throw their hands in the air and give up.

friends and enemies

today at work, nancy was trying to clear the table. she asked eileen if she was done with her juice, and when eileen said yes, nancy started to take the glass. eileen started slapping her wrist. nancy said, 'you said i could take it.' 'no i did not! you're crazy!' 'eileen, yes you did.' 'you're nuts!' (and she continued to swat at nancy - by now she was quite agitated.) 'eileen, i thought i was your friend.' 'you're not. you're my enemy! and you're nuts!'

so i went over and told eileen that i agreed with her that nancy is nuts. then i asked her if i was her friend. exceedingly calmly she replied, 'yes.' (and proceded to not drink her juice.)

today was actually better than i thought it would be, because yes, things do get tougher when we try to change. but i think that's one of the problems we have. we try to change. that will never ever work. we have to let HIM change us. actually that was one of the things they tried to hammer home to us in Bible school, 'stop trying to live for JESUS...let HIM live through you.' ('let' being the key word there.) 'letting' is the only part that's our responsibility. HE will do the rest.

convicting and changing

"alright, alright GOD, i'll let YOU change me. but it has to be all YOUR doing, cuz i've bungled it up too many times already. help me stay on fire this time!" i wonder how often i say that. but this time i really want to really mean it. i'm reading the book "absolute surrender," and it is so convicting. i mean, the question on the front cover is 'are you willing to surrender yourself absolutely into HIS hands?' absolutely? whoa. that's big.

and then i've got this whole mark thing (you know, my pen pal :) ). how can i be a witness to him if i'm not completely on fire? mormons have great values and a good church structure (personally i think the mormons put us Christians to shame in both of those areas), but i have to show him that that's not what it's all about. i have to let him see that it's all about 'CHRIST in you, the hope of glory' (sorry, i don't remember the verse on that one).

so, from now on, there is going to be a change in this blog. i'm going to try to vent less and praise GOD more. i'm going to share more deep thoughts and quotes and verses to try to encourage you girls (and in turn, myself). and, to go with that whole 'everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial' thing, there will be no more botws. (i know, it's sad. but if i don't do that that will continue to be the way i think, and that's not right. instead i need to focus on my botForever.)

this is my goal anyway. GOD's going to have to play a big part in it, though. but HE is good. i'm not too worried.

AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!

so remember my botw from feb, timberwolves player mark madsen? (don't worry, i'm sure you don't. i said he's like perfect except that he's mormon.)

yeah, well back then i felt that i should email him about his faith, but it was during the basketball season, so i figured he wouldn't really have time for it. well, then on sunday i got inspired to finally send the email that i had written back so long ago, telling him some of my concerns about the mormon church.

he emailed me back sunday night!!! (i didn't check that email address til today.) it's a big long email telling me some of what he thinks about the questions i raised. and then he told me to feel free to email him again if i have more questions, or if i want him to hook me up with some mormon missionaries. i don't think i'll do that second thing, but hey, he told me i can email him again!

pray for him, girls! GOD can do great things! AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!

sorry - i needed to vent

dear people with whom i work,

(don't take any of this personally karol and amanda, these are just meant to be general comments)
i would like to take this opportunity to say:
1. if, at 5:30am, you are working in the kitchen and i am working in the dining room, do not come out to the dining room and turn on the lights, they are off for a reason.
2. if you need to take the cart with glasses out of the cupboard, take it all the way out and then close the cupboard.
3. when washing off the other carts, wash the handles as well as the top. i have yet to see anyone push a cart by the top. i don't want to grab a cart and feel whipped cream or mashed potatoes.
4. if you use a rag, throw it in the rag bag when you are done. i don't want to pick up after you - i don't know where that rag has been.
5. if you use a bucket of water, dump it out when you are done.
6. it's 'she doesn't,' not 'she don't.' please don't make me take the time to review verb conjugation with you.
7. if i am asking lunch choices in the morning, do not make me serve breakfast, too, just because you are too lazy or too busy doing your afternoon tasks to serve the people. (this seriously ticks me off - it makes me go 'sunday' on you. ask amanda - you do not want that.) (for those of you who don't work with me, it is a well known fact that when i work sundays, i become the crabbiest person in the world, to put it mildly.)
8. if i am on my break and reading my book, don't talk to me about the weather. i don't care. if you want to have a real conversation, fine, but your banal talk while i'm trying to relax is unappreciated, to say the least.
9. if you stack racks on top of each other, stack them correctly, not incorrectly so that they fall over.
10. if i do something, i do it for a reason. don't touch my stuff, don't rearrange my stuff, and don't get in my way. i'm ocd. i'll know if you've been there. and i'm people claustrophobic - i need my space.
thank you.
oh, and mr. not-the-good-looking maitainance guy, stop talking!!! you're a nice guy, but stop following us around not shutting up!

sorry - baseball trivia

friday night the twins played a double-header in which they scored a total of 32 runs. that's the most a team has had in two consecutive games since 1939. go us!

but then in the 3 games before and two games after that, we scored a total of 4 runs (and lost all 5 games). i think we should've spread those runs out a little.

biting my fingernails

hotmail for some reason isn't downloading attachments for me, so i can't find out how i did on my tolkien paper!

didder just paid me the highest compliment!

she said my mind works like tolkien's!!!!!

And you thought I'd never get a new BOTW

Seeing as I'm sure you're all getting tired of baseball, I suppose I should move on to a new BOTW. So, here goes.

With the new HP movie coming out, I decided it was time to watch the 4th one again. No, Daniel Radcliffe is not my new BOTW. He's not my type, and as for the character, I think if I knew Harry Potter, I wouldn't really like him. However, as a true Hufflepuff, I must say, I would probably have had a thing for Cedric Diggory. That being said, my new BOTW is

Robert Pattinson

Ordinarily, he's not one I would choose. If you really break it down, I don't think any of his features are all that. He has bushy eyebrows, too rosy cheeks, big lips, big hair (when he's not Diggory), and his nose is flat. However, then he was Diggory. At first I didn't like him in that role, but he's grown on me. Not quite sure how to describe it, just suffice it to say that I'm now with Hermione and Ginny when they check him out.

Robert was born May 13th, 1986 in London. (Hey, I think that makes him my youngest BOTW thus far!) He's 6'1", which is happy. He plays the guitar and the keyboard. (You know, though, I'm starting to wonder just how talented all these boys who play the guitar and piano are - all these bios say they do these things, but they can't all be good enough to warrant mention. I'm gonna claim Robert's good enough to warrant it, though.) He was in 'Vanity Fair,' but his part got cut out cuz it wasn't faithful to the book. (He was good in it, of course, though.) He likes sports, but prefers darts, cards, and pool (which are things I'm far more likely to do - heck, who wouldn't want a boy teaching her to be better at pool).

Unfortunately, he was a model. How can one fully respect someone who's been a model? And then there are all those feature things I mentioned earlier. And he smokes.

But, as I said, I'm a Hufflepuff. As some girl I don't know put it, 'Hufflepuff is all about acceptance.' Plus also, we're loyal. If Diggory is a Hufflepuff, I simply have to choose him.

vanilla ice cream

why do people feel the need to buy new york vanilla or french vanilla or vanilla bean or...
seriously people - buy plain vanilla! it's the best kind!

since didder and i are the same...

yesterday i saw the librarian sitting outside eating a dq ice cream cone. all i could think was that i so want to do both of those things when i grow up.

my father and i were watching the twins game today (surprise, i know), and the announcer said something about the players having to use their instincts. i said they couldn't cuz only females have instincts. my father said, 'only women have instincts? i suppose men have outstinks then.' i agreed.

live earth

i wonder how much electricity they used for their 'save the earth' show

my advice to college students

take advantage of college life while you're there. soon you'll be in the real world, which stinks. so have fun while you can.

i'm seriously craving an oreo malt

this is pathetic

for the second night in a row, my parents are out having a social life, while i sit at home alone. happy friday, everyone.

love love

today ethel told me she wouldn't eat because nobody likes her. i told her i do, and she said, 'well, that's you.' so i pointed across the table at a nursing assistant and told her she likes her, too. and she said, 'well, i like her. and i like violet [her best friend, by whom she sits].' then she turned and smiled at me. 'but i like you better.' :)

Why Andrew Murray is one of my favorite authors

things like this (from 'Absolute Surrender'):
One day I was talking with a missionary and he said to me, "Brother, remember that when GOD puts a desire into your heart, He will fulfill it."
That helped me; I thought of it a hundred times. I want to say the same to you who are plunging about and struggling in the quagmire of helplessness and doubt. The desire that GOD puts into your heart, HE will fulfill.
If any are saying that GOD has no place for them, let them trust GOD and wait, and HE will help them and show them their place. I have learnt to place myself before GOD every day, as a vessel to be filled with HIS HOLY SPIRIT. HE has filled me with the blessed assurance that HE, as the everlasting GOD, has guaranteed HIS work in me. If there is one lesson that I am learning day by day, it is this: that it is GOD who worketh all in all. Oh, that I could help any brother or sister to realize this!

some of my favorite youtubes - most of you have probably seen these, but i'm putting them here anyway -more to come

*Indian Thriller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvP7dT3Dx0
*Indian Thriller with English Subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc
(have to be watched in that order)
*Scary Mary [Poppins]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
*Oops Hermione Did it Again [Harry Potter - so if you don't know HP (*cough* Kim) wait til you do]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vZZ4B3TYE
*Harry Potter Pride & Prejudice [Again, Harry Potter - so if you don't know HP (*cough* Kim) wait til you do]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sge5pUSJIRY
*Laughing Baby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttF5HVYtlQ

i'll stop there for now

every few days, ethel claims it's her birthday. she says it's cuz she's old so she can have as many birthdays as she wants. go her.

4th of july

i had to work last night cuz otherwise they'd be working short and the two who would've been there could not have handled it. as i was leaving i saw eileen zooming (slowly) around in her wheelchair. i asked her if she had had a good 4th of july. she said, 'yes! it was busy!' what had she done all day? zoom (slowly) around in her wheelchair.

youth group reunion

so my church youth group is having a reunion on the 21st. i don't really want to go. other than my cousins (who actually i'm not that close to anymore), i'm only still in touch with one person, and he won't be there (and he's the only other one who doesn't have a life). other people stay in touch, they're married, they have kids - so they have things to talk about. what am i gonna say, 'hi, i'm in my high school job and living with my parents?' i feel like i should go, cuz otherwise i look anti-social, but doesn't the fact that i'm not in touch with any of them already imply that? idunno. i keep not rsvp-ing, but i should probably let them know soon.

another reason i need a man

i need a roommate

sad news

due to scheduling conflicts, i will not be able to see ootp until july 17th :(

too much computer

my hand's cramping up from using the mouse. i think i'll stop computering for awhile. (sorry, chelleybutton.)

my first ever screen cap!

the video was a little blurry, but the smile was so cute, i had to try to get it. ;)

anybody know how to do a screen capture?