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the radio When I went home for Nana’s service earlier this month, I visited my parents. My mom had baked two apple pies that day (my favorite!) because she was going to give one to my aunt and uncle. Apparently, my aunt started having some (abdominal, I guess) pain one day and it escalated to [...]

nothing The weekend was surprisingly light-hearted. Thursday: We got into Coeur d’Alene (pronounced “core-duh-lane”) at about 10pm Thursday night and stayed the night there along with Heidi and Aunt Dawn. Friday: In the morning, Aunt Kair-Kair came over and we hung out for a while and then left for Sandpoint, because Daniel’s dad (Dave) and [...]

The Benedictine Monks again There’s really no graceful way to put this, so I’ll just go ahead and say that Nana died sometime this evening. :worried: Daniel and I were out most of the evening, and when we got home there were two messages on the machine. One from Heidi that I could not understand [...]

nothing No news yet about Nana, other than that she’s still around. Thank you all for the lovely comments though, and Daniel and I are doing okay. It helps a bit that we knew this sort of thing was coming, I think, but it still sucks. Daniel got to talk to Hi-Kid last night – [...]

The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos – “Os Iusti” Daniel’s family is amazing. Today when I got home, there were two messages on the answering machine – one from his dad and one from Heidi, and then Hi-Kid (his grandpa) called just a bit ago, and I just listened to a voicemail message [...]

Eddie Izzard’s “Glorious” DVD I just had a fifteen minute conversation with my brother like he was a human being. We talked about what’s going on at his school (they got 23 new teachers because they had 400 incoming freshmen or something like that, which is a lot for that school) and what teachers he [...]

um, the sound of rain. I like rain. :rain: I like the noises it makes when it hits things. Rain is weird here in Portland because while it rains a lot, it really doesn’t rain that much, if you get what I’m saying. Like, it probably rains a couple days out of every week, but [...]

Opeth – “The Leper Affinity” I got my check in the mail yesterday, for working the portfolio show. I made $43 and they paid me $7.25/hour! I thought I was only making $7.05! :money: Yay! I’m running really low on money because my new loan still has to be processed and that won’t happen for [...]

Nine Inch Nails – “Sin (Long)” My grandma just called me to tell me that my great-grandma Emma died yesterday. :worried: She was my Grandpa Ed’s mother, and she was 99 years old, so it’s not like it was terribly unexpected, but it was still sad. She never walked with a cane or anything – [...]

Tiamat – “Sympathy For the Devil (Rolling Stones cover)” I am SO. FULL. :gross: In a good way, though. I got chicken shishkabobs, they come out on two big metal skewers skewered into a half of a fresh eggplant. You don’t eat the eggplant, it’s just for decoration. And then they put a lit birthday [...]

Tiamat – “Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones cover)” I love this song. It’s awesome. I shall email it to anyone who wants it, and who has enough space in their inbox to receive song-sized emails. Just comment and let me know you want it. Nothing much to report… Daniel’s mom Sharon and his brother [...]

Finger Eleven – “First Time” A little background: my Uncle Ted is presently serving in Iraq as some sort of police trainer type thing, and he recently got married to a nice lady named Oksana from Ukraine. The marriage was basically just a legal one, a courthouse type thing. He should be done with his [...]

Trafik – “Into The Wind” You may notice I have some new smilies: :rocker: :rain: :hug: :money: I also got the greatest email ever today in my Junk Email folder: Also, my great-grandma Emma had her 99th birthday the other day. Yes, you read that right. 99th. She still walks unassisted and doesn’t really have [...]

Fear Factory – “Archetype” The 22nd, Daniel’s dad took us to coffee and we saw some of their family. Later, we were walking around and we saw Adam Kohut! He has lost so much weight! It’s crazy. Then, the 23rd, I saw Yaicha for the first time since graduation! She got her nose pierced and [...]

the “Maybe This Christmas” CD Callie gave me! Waiting, waiting waiting for Daniel’s train to get in. I still have three or so hours. :eyeroll: I can’t wait! I went over to Heidi’s today and she was making Christmas presents, so I made one too. I don’t know who I’m going to give it to, [...]