go me!! it's my birthday!!!

that's right, this sunday i turn 27th!!!

which, let's be honest, it's the first time that a birthday sort faces me in the sense of, "huh, 27... that's almost 30..." not a big deal, just a weird thougth...

i'm having breakfast and hanging out with my friend kristin in the morning. we're picking up my friend michelle from puerto rico at the airport at noon, hanging out, having dinner with the above mentioned plus beth and sheryl, driving to grand rapids to hang out with lenski and tanya, coming back saturday to celebrate kristin's b-day (who by the way, we share a birthday and we've decided -suspending all rational thinking of course- that we will always live in the same town forever and ever in order to celebrate our birthdays together...) sunday, (my actual birthday) i'm having breakfast with my roommates and michelle, drop michelle at the airport - tear :-( do yoga, going out to a wine bar with the roomies - then monday spending the day by myself... not sure if i'm going down to the city or just staying in my pj's all day - we'll figure it out then...

love it, love it, love it!!!

happy birthday to me...

ps - i started celebrating two weeks ago and plan on keep celebrating for the next two weeks - it is a national holiday ;-)

oh, palatine...

my friend nick and i used to joke around saying that we all needed a monthly dose of palatine... for those of you outside of the greater chicago area, palatine is a suburb that offers nothing grandiose... hence the joke...

however, two of my favorite couples in the whole wide world, the worley's and the moorhouses live there, and they are only 10 minutets away from my place in barrington. so recently i've had more than my monthly dose of platine. in fact this week i even went to palatine high school for their concert, where kreg (mr. moorhouse himself) is their drumline director.

i spent the night at the moorhouses (too much snow and too much vino) and now i'm dreading to go out there since my car seems to be buried in the biggest pile of snow i've seen in a while.

i also had breakfast with the worley's this last wednesday. so much fun... i fell in their parking lot. i was stepping out of my car and the ground was so slippery that i really don't remember my foot touching the ground. i do remember my ass smashed against the ground, but not my foot touching it. the left side of my back is hurting like hell, but i'll survive.

oh, palatine...

the jim wallis interview...

is on the daily show website. well, an edited version... apparently him speaking of his 2 conversions doesn't make it to the funny category. anyways, still worth watching... www.comedycentral.com - look for the daily show page and the interview is on the home page.

why i love the daily show

yes, it has to do with my sexual, non-sexual, and intellectual crush with jon stewart... but last night's interview with jim wallis, one of the co-founders of sojourners magazine made me a convert all over again.

he just wrote a book called god's politics: why the right gets it wrong and the left doesn't get it. jon stewart was asking him extremely great questions in the midst of his satire and "subtle" contempt - and all that wallis did was affirm him, me, and america that the loud voice of conservative american christianity is a minority in the biggest scheme of life. made me feel able to embrace evangelicalism.

last night show will be rerun tonight on comedy central at 10:30 pm central as well as 12:30 am central. tune in earlier and catch today's brand new show at 10pm/midnight central - you won't regret it.

also, go to comedycentral.com and watch two videos on the daily show page: under jon stewart - councilmen throws metal and under stephen colberg - this week in god: fanatics.

it's beautiful, i tell you...

kitty porn

our cat is in heat. full blown heat. she wants to get some action and there's nothing stopping her... it's funny, sad, disturbing, all at the same time. i try to empathize with her. i tell her, "sweetie, you and me both would like some action and are getting none." it is so disturbing that at times it feels like she's some sort of kitty porn star - no need to go into more details over this medium.

she's getting the surgery thing done monday. hopefully she can last til then. hopefully we can last til then.

it is so disturbing...

missing you...

i miss my working computer... i miss having internet at home... and i miss tivo, even if i never had it before...

i'm at the library and i can't upload pictures from my camera to the web... what the hell?!?!?!

oh well, i guess i'll go back to living in what feels is like 1992 - i was a sophomore in high school. i didn't like that year... oh well...

by the way, i'm turning 27th the 30th of this month. woohoo!!! no clue how i'll celebrate it. any ideas?

these are a few of my favorite things...

i'm in st. joseph, michigan, a little town on the southeastern coast of lake michigan. i come to this town at least once a year to get away from everything and spend some time with god, jesus, spirit, the trinity...

i vowed to myself that i wasn't going to communicate with anyone else during this time... however, i need to let you all in what's going on...

i've had the best time so far. nothing major has happened. no earth shattering event, no major wall breaking down...

i'm just being - my empty, lonely self, my happy, complacent self, my ambitious self, my little kid self, we're all hanging out with "the letter 'g'" (another name i give god) and we're having a blast!!!

it's been so much fun to be, not to have to fix anything, not to rush into the what's next, we're right here, right now, in one of the most beautiful places in the world, even when covered with snow...

by the way, i think i'm the only person who drives east in the middle of a winter weather advisory. i was literally following the storm. driving southeast in illinois, it was fine. driving straight east in indiana, pure hell - at least three semi's had crash and one explorer was totalled. and driving northeast in michigan, also fine... yeah, i don't think i would willingly drive in that kind of weather again, but it's been worth it.

come visit st joseph. walk around state st. and all the fun shops, including the south haven chocolate museum and coffee house - love it!!!! and if you can't come all the way out here, please make sure you take time in your life to just be, it's the best gift you can give yourself.

ps - tomorrow i'm going to the lakeshore - i've never been at a snowed "beach" - i'm excited to see what that's like - even if the water has no salt :-)