Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 26
Sign: Pisces
City: Toledo (ugh!)
State: OHIO
Country: US
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Friday, November 24, 2006
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tag! (oh, why not?)
Current mood:  hungry
Category: Life
Tag I am it
And you are too!
Here are 7 random facts about ME!
1. i've been craving a cheese danish for about seven months
2. my favorite fruit is a pomegranate
3. i hope USC wins tomorrow so michigan goes to the rose bowl instead of the national championship game
4. i am a second degree black belt
5. i'm super messy and the apartment only gets cleaned when wade does it
6. i work three jobs
7. i have a shoe fetish and a tattoo fetish (and i did not mean for that to rhyme)
And now I'm tagging....
Ryan, Gordo, Elyse, Kelly, Fink, Ashely, and Renee!
Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about yourself. People who get tagged need to write their own blog about their seven things as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged & list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they're tagged, and to read your blog!
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V for Vendetta (Full Screen Edition)
Release date: 01 August, 2006
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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giant camels!
Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Pets and Animals
Giant camels? What?? how cool!
Scientists find more bones of big camels --> -->
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By ALBERT AJI, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 11, 7:47 AM ET
DAMASCUS, Syria - Hunters stalked giant camels as tall as some modern-day elephants in the Syrian desert tens of thousands of years ago and archaeologists behind the find are wondering where the camels came from and what caused them to die off.
The enormous beasts existed about 100,000 years ago and more of the bones, first discovered last year, have been found this year in the sands about 150 miles north of the capital, Damascus.
The animal, branded the "Syrian Camel" by its Swiss and Syrian discoverers, stood between three and four yards high — about twice the size of latter-day camels and the height at the shoulder of many African elephants.
"The camel is a dromedary but extremely big and extremely tall — about double the size of a modern day camel," said Jean-Marie Le Tensorer, who led the Swiss side of the team.
The camels did not appear to have been bred by humans as beasts of burden, the scientists said, raising questions about its provenance — and disappearance.
"What we want to know now is: where did it come from, and why did it disappear never to be seen again? Was it migrating from Asia to Africa?" said the team's Syrian leader, Heba al-Sakhel.
Le Tensorer said humanoid bones were discovered at a nearby site and stone tools used by early humans were found with the camel's bones, which are thought to be up to 100,000 years old.
"The bones — a fragment of an arm and a tooth — are, of course, of the hunter of the giant camel. He probably stalked his prey to a water spring where he came to drink," said Le Tensorer.
"Ordinary camels appeared in the (Middle East) region some 6,000-7,000 years ago and, for the first time, we have a wild form and very, very old," he said.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
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Annular Solar Eclipse Today!
Current mood:  dorky
Category: Life
There was a solar eclipse today and none of us even knew it!!
It wasn't a total eclipse, that won't happen again till August 1, 2008, but the greatest eclipse occurred at 6:40:11am today over the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean somewhere between southern Brazil and Namibia.
How cool would it be to have been in a little boat on the ocean at 6:40am (our time) to see it?
This made me want to read about eclipses. Did you know that a solar eclipse can only happen when there is a new moon? (A new moon is a moon that we cannot see, it's when the moon is all dark, the opposite of a full moon). During a solar eclipse, the sun disappears and everything gets dark, as if sunset were happening in a matter of two or three minutes.
Eclipses are cool! So everyone mark your calendars for 08/01/2008 and we'll all go to Northern Canada, Greenland, Siberia, Mongolia, or China to see it. We may be able to see it from Michigan, but it will only look partial to us. Who's with me?!
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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I want a dog!
Current mood:  determined
Category: Pets and Animals
I'm sitting here a Pfizer with nothing to do so I decided to look up pictures of Newfoundlands (Newfies) online.
I want one SOO bad! They're super adorable and just gigantic. They don't make very good guard dogs, but they're easy to train and they love their people a lot. When Newfies are separated from their human families they actually grieve for them.
No, I don't know how much they cost yet. And no, I haven't convinced Wade to get a Newfie yet. I've got him convinced that a Great Dane would be a good dog, and now that he's used to the idea of a giant dog, I think it won't be too much of a problem to get him used to the idea of a hairy dog. He's got allergies though..
It will definitely help if Newfies are cheaper than Danes. Definitely.
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
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Holy Crap! Did we just earn a draw with Italy?
Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Sports
...yes, because of an own goal, but still yes.
For those of you who missed it: Despite three red cards in the game, two of them going to the US, and despite playing for the tie in the last few minutes--a notoriously dangerous plan of attack, especially so far in these FIFA World Cup Finals, the on-the-ropes US team managed to earn a result agains European powerhouse Italy.
Donovan didn't produce, McBride took an elbow to the cheek, Pope earned two yellow cards--which equal a red card and get him kicked out of the game, and not one US player scored. But we won!!!
Now we have Ghana on Thursday at 9:55 EST. Let's not celebrate too soon though, Ghana just offed Czech Republic this morning. That's the same Czech Republic who took us in hand quite easily in the first game.
And how about that ref? Apparently he was among a few refs suspended a couple years ago for "irregularities" in his calls. Pshaw. Irregularities, my ass. Those cards were burning a hole in his pocket.
So US soccer fans (and anyone else who isn't a fascist), here's what to hope for: Italy must beat Czech Republic and we must beat Ghana. Then Italy will win the group with 7 points, we'll move on with 4, and Czech and Ghana will go home with 3.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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if it's good for Brangelina....
Current mood:  excited
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
So, I'm in the slammer (Pfizer), and there's nothing to do but talk to the other inmates (study subjects). There's a girl here who has basically travelled the world volunteering. So she gave me the website...
And there are elephants in Namibia who need saving. For anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months (and anywhere from $1580 to $5180) I can go to Namibia and learn to live in the bush and build walls around people-watering holes and dig new elephant-watering holes. Tell me that doesn't sound awesome!!
I'm not entirely sure that I can get Wade to go with me, but this drug study that I'm in could pay for the both of us (minus airfare) to go. OR... if Wade doesn't want to go, it could pay for me to go (with airfare) and pay all my bills why I'm gone.
If you want to check it out it's www.gvi.co.uk I don't want to say "Namibia here I come!" yet, but I don't know if I want an opportunity like this to go by.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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Studying Drugs
Current mood:  mellow
In my neverending quest not to get a real job, I have become a part-time guinea pig. I'm at Pfizer right now, testing drugs. Actually, we're just testing one drug.
Today is an easy day, they dosed us in the morning and all we have to do all day is show up at the right time for our meals and eat everything they give us. Not bad. Yesterday, however, was bad. We had to get dosed, eat everything on our plates, get EKG/ECG's every hour and get our blood drawn every hour. I got 10 needle pokes yesterday. By 9:03pm (the time of my last one) I was not happy.
But today is fine and tomorrow will be too. But Thursday is another day like yesterday. And this will go on for four weeks.
Before you make a face, let me tell you that in these four weeks I'm going to "earn" enough dollas to pay for all the food at the wedding reception. All the food.
And I'm not without amenities either, evidenced by my computer access. So I'm planning my wedding, getting my blood drawn, blogging, ECGing, and getting paid an undisclosed (to you, not to me) sum to do that in a highly air-conditioned facility with nice, squishy mattresses.
The Pfizer recruiting number is (734) 622-7051, my little bro signed up today too. 
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
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Winner!! Kendall Grove--Rear Naked Choke!!
Current mood:  aggravated
Wow, I love the UFC. Ultimate Fighter season 3 was on tonight (thursdays 10pm, SpikeTV here). Ross-from-the-UK got choked out by Kendall-from-Hawaii. Kendall is so skinny and lanky that he didn't really look like he knew what he was doing.
But Kendall kept taking Ross down. Every time Ross stood up, Kendall put him back down. And when Ross would stand up, he kept turning his back to Kendall. The second time, Kendall got him in a rear naked choke (sounds dirty, right?). I don't know why Kendall didn't do it the first time, it looked like he could have.
Wade said that he wants to start the first female ultimate fighter. I told him not to count on it, most women I know like their faces the way they are. And can I just say--cauliflower ears, YUCK!
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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My Wedding Dress!!! (it's safe Wade)
Current mood:  ecstatic
I'm so happy!! My wedding dress has FINALLY come in!! I ordered it in November. November 10, to be exact. It's WONDERFUL!! I'd post pictures, but Wade is on myspace and I don't want him seeing pictures of my wedding dress!! It's made by Pronovias, which is a Spanish design house. So the dress had to be put together in Barcelona.
Barcelona!
I mean, I know, big deal, wedding dresses get made all over the world. I, however, think it's awfully cool that my very own dress was made in Barcelona, Spain.
It's true, my wedding is 14 months away. But this isn't jumping the gun at all. When I originally went dress shopping and bought the dress, Wade and I were planning to get married in August, which is only four months from now, so I'd be scrambling, I needed to buy the dress right away.
The good thing is that I don't plan on changing sizes that much between now and then, I'm pretty much at my ideal.
Oh, what the hell, here's a picture of my dress: (it was up for a while and now it's down so I don't have to worry about Wade seeing it) I'll just make sure that Wade doesn't look at this blog... This picture doesn't do the dress justice of course. This is just a picture of the sample dress and it doesn't fit exactly right, mine will be tighter in the hips and in the chest. Also, it's waaaay more sparkly under reception lighting and the entire dress is made of spanish lace. AND it makes me look like I have boobs!!
I'm so happy!!
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Friday, March 31, 2006
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WRIF Rock Girl
Current mood: determined
This is just a quick little blog to say: go to www.wrif.com and sign up for the CyberClub (no strings, no emails if you don't want them, no spam) so that you can vote for my bud Lara Z. She's the only one on that whole page that even looks the part. She LOVES rock'n'roll and she TOTALLY deserves to be the rock girl.
Vote as many times as you have email addresses!!! Yay Lara!
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