Minnesota Nice

Today is a good day...that's because it's friday..and normally i would be sad thinking about how i can't hangs with my party people in napes this weekend...but i'm putting that aside...cause Kristi gets here today...yeah....let the party begin...

so, the air conditioner at the office isnt working....not good for CA weather...since it's only 10 am and about 100 outside by now....the air conditioner guy is coming b/w 2-5...which brings me to the thought that i hate it when delivers guys, or maintainence guys say they will be here b/w this time and that...why don't they just say...hey, i'll be there when i get there...that way you aren't sitting around all day waiting.....
Case in point...the fed ex guy told me he would be at my apt from noon-3 (big window)...well i sat my bootie at home for those 3 hrs...and did he come...nope...so i left..but sure enough i got home at 5..and there was a little fedex note on my door that said....somthing like..you weren't here b****, i'll be back tomorrow b/w...o, sometime after the sun rises...but just before it sets...thanks...thanks a lot. so jamie, if you choose to be a maintainance guy..or gal in your case...just don't make any promises to people.....

o..update on signs of life in my apt complex....weird thing..I actually saw some people walking around...but now the question is..what have you done with the cats...they are no where to be found...freaky

my favorite movie these days: Good Will Hunting...i've watched it 3 times this week......yeah, i need to get cable real soon

my favorite scene from that movie: let me set it up....will (matt damon) and skylar (minnne driver) are hanging out..and skylar asks will to move to CA with her (I can relate...) anywho..this gets them in abig ole fight about their relationship......skylar is crying...and here's the line..(said crying and in an English accent of course)..."I wanna here you say you don't love me...cause if you say that...I won't call you..and I won't be in your life." She kisses his forehead, and he looks her straight in the eye and says......."I don't love You!".....ouch dude.....that hurts.....but he didnt really mean it..he has commitment issues and fear of abandoment...sounds like most guys....
Aww..i love the movies...just like real Life.....

favorite book: are you kidding me...i hate to read...remember

What i miss most about chicago (besides my friends, of course and meaning relationships): the cubbies.....i can't live without baseball..and I will never be a dodger fan...Lord help me...

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I don't think that there is much life without email...i can't survive without it..or the web for that matter...what in the world did we do before it?
I say this because my email has been all jacked up and it throws my equalibrium all off.....I don't even know how to function....anywho..

so there's these 2 cats that hang around my apt. complex....it's really the only sign of life i've seen. It's kinda freaky...cause the cats are always there....yet there are never any actually people around...

i couldnt sleep last night...i usually never have a problem sleeping... woke up so much...i think i'm just anxious....i went to bed with sadness..thinking about how much i miss my friends in IL...and how sad I am that I havent been able to develop relationships here....
I think God is trying to do a work in me..that i'm just not ready for...it would probably help if I actually consulted Him on my life right now....gosh...i used to complain i had no time...having 4 jobs in naperville, singing every weekend..hanging out with friends...now i have all the time in the world...and still i complain....
I'm just an Israelite...complaining..even though it is obvious God is right here...

random thoughts....

I want to be really good at guitar....

I want to be good at ministry....

I want a new bed-that may be some of the reason i didn't sleep..it probably doesnt help that i am sleeping in a bed that my grandpa slept in..and died in for that matter.....

My best friend Kristi comes tomorrow...I can't wait. I need some social interaction with someone my age.

I don't think i'm very good at taking care of plants...

My apt. doesnt feel like home yet...maybe cause the walls are bare..and nothing significant has happened there yet....

Bakersfield doesn't feel like home yet either..I can't wait till that day comes...or maybe it won't

...This world is not my home....

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I realized yesterday that I don't think that I like to be called "Ma'am". It makes me feel old. Small Story

Yesterday, I visited the local Wal-Mart (that's what people do who don't have friends yet...) anyway...i spent an hour or so filling my cart...using my gift cert. that someone gave me....(it's fun to buy stuff that you aren't technically paying for)....so....as I was leaving i proceeded to push my cart through what i thought was an automatic door...but turns out it was just a regular door circa 1990.....so my cart kinda just thudded into the door.....that's when the "cart guy" says, "Ma'am, the automatic door is down here."
So at this point, I can't decide if "Ma'am" made me feel old, or just dumb...since it was followed by a statement that can only be taken as....hey, dork.....you can't just plow through any old door...if you want the door to open for you...you have to actually go through the door specifically marked 'automatic door'. Aww Wal-Mart. What are they still doing with 'normal' doors anyway....hey, 2003 called, they want you to join them...


So I'm excited today cause i'm actually typing on my own laptop.....I finally got hooked up to the network here, and am online....so, say Hi to my laptop, whom i affectionately call Delly Gebhardt. So now i don't have to use other people's computers while I spend time blogging and instant messaging...pretending to work.

I have a Board of Director's Meeting: whooo, i'm official now!!! key word being board...as in bored.....awwwww. I just wanna sing....i don't want to have a meeting about our voicemail system or church bylaws, and articles of incorporation......don't you just love ministry.

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Wow, I've entered the world of blog...kind of risky for a girl who doesn't like to read...but then again, i don't actually have to read anything....just ramble on...and let you read

My adventures have begun on the west coast, here in Bakersfield, CA...which is actually nowhere near a coast....

I have yet to meet anyone my age...i'm convinced that there is some underground circuit of young adults that only come to the surface after 11 pm...and have some secret membership...i have yet to learn about.

I spend my days in an office with 3 other people.....you can't really call it an office though..it's acutally someone else's house....the beginings of a new church.....so that means most of our furniture is ghetto and used: let's take a moment to reflect on my desk....
I have the smallest desk in the office..and i believe it was picked up from a yard sale...and although i don't know the full stoy behind it...the desk says to me
"Hi, I once belonged to a nine-year-old boy, I only like facing the wall, and if you expect to fit a chair under me...you are crazy, and if you even think i'm going to have the luxury of drawers, than you better just pack your crap up now and find another desk to abuse"
I think it would say something like that.

Back to that small desk to work!!!

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