it's my birfday!!!!

i congratulated my mom and my whole family is trying to get the day off in my honor. i have the next 4 days off and plan on celebrating thoroughly. let's hear it for turning 25!

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about 2 years ago erica and i drove to knoxville to see a show at the tennessee theatre. we howled all the way south, drank too much whiskey, danced too hard, and returned the next day to indiana blurry eyed and smelling of cigarette smoke ( Read more... )

i just spent an hour reading about the haitian earthquake and cried my eyes out.

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january has started and i am hesitant to do a 2009 in review just because it was so painful...but my goal for 2010? just be happier! i find that all the people i admire most are crazy, unpredictable optimists who can't wipe the smiles off their faces, so i am going to bottle whatever they got that i ain't got and drink it down ( Read more... )

so while i was out driving in the forgotten tundra that is miami county this morning i heard an interview with tom waits about his role in the movie "the imaginarium of doctor parnassus." he apparently plays the devil and when asked how he prepared he said he just wanted to portray the devil as a "best friend, salesman, and consoler" and that he ( Read more... )

- when the river reflects cobalt blue in the early morning
- cobalt blue
- dirty hair
- seeing foxes romping in the snow

this christmas i am thankful for all of the EXTREMELY thoughtful gifts everyone gave me - proof that it really is the thought that matters....or i am just very easy to please. (probably a bit of both ( Read more... )

i am currently watching jeremiah johnson and farmvilling my heart out.

(it's the little things that make me happy.)

last night was the first snow of the winter and i am hoping i can keep some of its magic with me.

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