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Name: Holli
Gender: Female
Interests: Alias, Veronica Mars, Running (I'm a full-fledge runner now - training for a half marathon), Reading (I love libraries and bookstores!), Coffee, Friends (both real and the one's from TV)
Expertise: Organizing (think Monica on Friends and drop it down a few degrees), Planning Events, Bridesmaid (13 and counting...)
Occupation: Convention Coordinator
Message: message me
Member Since:
5/4/2005
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| I'm off. Ohio beckons. Specifically this http://www.allencountyfair.org/
There was one part of the trip that this newly adjusted SoCal girl was dreading but after looking at this I have high hopes for this weekend. Check this out:
http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=LIMX&zipCode=45805
So maybe the humidity won't kill me after all.
I'm heading home. I'll the above song as I go...
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| The summer TV season has begun to take its toll on me and I've started to want to read more. Unfortunately, there is no 1/2 price book store out here to supply me with an array of books (sure there's the library...whatever) but I have convinced my friend Lisa, who's started her own library and started reading and writing about some pretty amazing books, to send a few out to me. I've had to sign in blood that they'll be returned in the conditioned that I received them in...but it's worth it!
So yesterday, I spent the afternoon at the beach and read the Kite Runner. I know I may be behind on reading of this book, it came out a few years ago, but I just finally got my hands on it. This book was incredible. I also feel like anything I write here will feel as though I'm quoting off the back cover of the book and still be insufficient. But the reality is that this book is incredible. There are parts that are excruciating to read and there are at least three different parts where I just had tears pouring down my face as I read. And at one point I had to stop to see if this was really a fiction book or an autobiography...the author does an amazing job of capturing life in Afghanistan (both in the past and in its current, well pre 9/11, state) but the book is more about family, honor, love, forgiveness - both of others and of yourself.
I don't know that I can openly recommend this book to everyone because some parts are just that hard...but it is a book I would recommend highly.
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| So, to be honest, the move took more out of me than I let on. It was slightly emotional in that the two girls I've moved in with are both really excited about the new place. One of the girls was living in a studio and has only been out of school a couple of years and the other girl had been living at home because of some family situations. So both of them were SUPER excited about the new place, roommates, etc. Me, I've done the roommate thing more than enough and I've also done the moving thing more than enough. So to me, it was just - we've found a place to live, its reasonably priced for SD, let's go. There was no excitement or anticipation for it. It just is what it is. And I guess, I just found myself more discouraged and annoyed by the whole thing that it hit me on more a emotional level than I saw coming. And really, its going to be fine, I just am beyond any of the excitement of it.
But one thing I did discover this week (a friend pointed out to me in conversation) was that I don't really have the desire to move CITIES. And while this may not seem to huge to some people, to me this was enormous. For the past few years I've always been open to going wherever, ready to pack up and head South or West or East depending on where the job's led. However, I have realized that I really like it here in SD and I'm ok building my friend base and life here. Again, for most people this may not be a big thing but for me, this sliver of self discovery was nice.
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| It's been a week since the move. And its actually been not so bad. Our third roommate moved in this weekend and that caused some more chaos (so I went to the beach!) but overall...it's good. Syd has really adjusted well and that has been a huge relief.
Last weekend my friend Jenny came to visit and she was a huge HUGE help. She has the natural gift of sorting/throwing so she was just the person I needed to help me unpack and squeeze things into my room! While I do love sorting and organizing (and getting the proper tools to do this with) throwing things away, well, I'm afraid, I'm Jerry's daughter 100%. We ended up taking a car load of things to Goodwill and threw a whole bunch of other things out. It was lovely. Don't worry...we did take Syd down to the beach one night for a walk and then headed up Cowels Mountain for a hike...I didn't make her work her whole vacation. Plus, she said she had fun (so there!).
The one thing about the new house, we have a westward facing house and until Wednesday only 4 windows in the whole house opened. IT WAS STINKIN HOT!!!! Luckily, the handyman dude, came and opened the windows. I've heard that August is the worst out here...guess I'm really going to experience that eh?
PS - I finished Harry and Loved it! :)
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| I don't sign up for many daily emails as most of them just annoy the beejezus out of me but one I do sign up for is from Sojourner's. Anywho...I really loved today's quote so I thought I would share:
We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be
at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but,
often without realizing it, we hunger to feed others these things because they
too are starving for them. We hunger not just to be loved but to love, not just
to be forgiven but to forgive, not just to be known and understood for all the
good times and bad times that for better for worse have made us who we are, but
to know and understand each other to the same point of seeing that, in the last
analysis, we all have the same good times, the same bad times, and that for that
very reason there is no such thing in all the world as anyone who is really a
stranger.
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Frederick Buechner
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