| i love entourage... |
[11 Jul 2009|12:00am] |
love jeremy piven as ari gold. love carla gugino. both of em, a lot.
but, fuckin jane's addiction.
son of a bitch.
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| cars! and other such things. |
[14 Mar 2009|09:51am] |
Okay, so I'm fair sure my last entry was complainey about having no car.
So yay, I have a new one!
I got a dark shiny grey '09 TDI Jetta.
It's the most wonderful thing I've ever driven, honestly. It's name is the Baseship. She's functional, partly stylish, the blue and red lights are perfectly placed... The radio/cd changer buttons have a horizontal red line across them, in a row, so it's just like the red line on the Cylons.
Lovely.
Also, the VW handles like no vehicle I've ever been in. I'm having to try and avoid getting arrested for going too quickly, as driving 80 feels like 45.
It's bad.
Gonna be heading down to Portland in a couple weeks to visit friends, and taking the car down alone (with no extra people in to stress me out) will be nice, I think.
I don't have any pictures from inside on my camera yet, so that'll have to wait.
I'm still really liking my job. I love the kids I work with and I've had some good things going with them lately. One of my lower functioning autistic kids initiated communication with me, functional communication with me, last week. He's never spoken words that mean something to me without cueing before. A couple of my other autistic kids have been engaging in humor :)
And I'm gonna be exiting a little girl for articulation, and I've seen her progress since she started with me.
I'm also gonna pick up a kid for fluency/stuttering, and that's gonna be a new challenge for me.
So yay!
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| stuff |
[10 Mar 2009|10:01pm] |
So I got a new car. I got a Volkswagen TDI Jetta. 09. I absolutely adore it.
I've never actually cared much about vehicles, but I adore this car. I'll get arrested in it though, cause going 80 feels like going 40-45.
Work is going fine. Still like it. Still busy.
The roomie claims she's turning me into a yuppie. We live in a vintage building in downtown Tacoma, I got a high performing diesel engined car, and I want to eat an avocado with some seasoning for every meal.
I went with friends to see the Watchmen, and accidentally made RETARDED choices beforehand, and got wicked trashed and puked in the theatre's bathroom for a while. Missed the whole movie. One of the guys skipped it, drove the long ways to take me home, and put me to bed.
Sucks. For all.
Got friends visiting from home. Been very nice. :) Went to Seattle, had a good time.
Not enough sleep lately.
Love y'all,
-me
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| batards. son of a frakkin bitch. |
[22 Jan 2009|09:56pm] |
more bastard car info.
Current mood: distraught
so the car needs a new transmission.
son of a frakkin bitch.
to get a used one, it would be AT LEAST $1000.
despondent.
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| updateish ness |
[21 Jan 2009|11:21pm] |
okay. so things are getting better at work. much. i'm handling. mostly.
though, on the way to work today, my car decided that upshifting was a bad idea. so then there was a mechanic shop in front of me.
but it wasn't open.
so then i saw movement, and knocked some more.
the guy was helpful, but inappropriately flirty with me, while i was all distraught.
and then the principal had to come get me to take me to work.
and at the end of the day, they still hadn't scanned the car to see what the deal was.
so the wonderful roomie said she'd take me to and from work till i figure something out..
son of a bitch.
bastard car. why couldn't you wait 3 weeks!!!
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| updatey things |
[05 Jan 2009|09:13pm] |
okay. so the first day was today. i got to the district office, and they didn't know i was coming. turns out there was some massive miscommunication between my agency and the school district; they never knew i accepted the offer. oh man. freaking out.
then, they were very happy i was there anyway. i got introduced around, given a mac laptop, and brought to the school i'll be working at.
the other slp who had been working there is out for a medical emergency, fairly long term, so.... there was a tremendous back up of evaluations of children and IEPs to do. and, no kids have been seen for therapy since november. greeeeat.
so some other slps from other schools have been trying to cover for the one here, partially successfully. and thankfully, instead of making me run away screaming in tears, they will continue the evaluations and paperwork for those for this month while i start with the kids and therapy. and work me into the rest slowly. phew.
everyone there was VERY happy i was there, and super helpful. everyone said over and over, 'ask any questions you need. scream if you need help. ask questions more than once if you need.' so yay!
man. i am so tired tonight.
heh.
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| new new new |
[04 Jan 2009|07:45pm] |
so things have changed lots. i graduated with my master's degree in may 08, and moved up to tacoma, washington just after christmas. the mr and i roadtripped it from baton rouge, la. we left the day after christmas, and got here on the 30th. though we coulda made it by the 29th. we took our time, saw some sights. the pacific coast is lovely.
we're going to take some time apart. i have a job in a school system here, working as a speech pathologist for good good monies :) yay! though it was my idea, i do miss him and my family and home.
i start work tomorrow, and i'm super nervous about it. but hopefully it'll be okay.
the apartment is in a very old, pretty building, and our internets get hooked up tomorrow. yay!
it's snowing right this minute. my car is all white. it's sooooo strange. i'm incredibly unused to grabbing jackets, or thinking about ice on roads.
i think things will be better once i start work.
so there i am. an update.
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| what book am i? |
[25 Jun 2008|01:02pm] |
Look! YAY!!
You're The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
by Douglas Adams
Considered by many to be one of the funniest people around, you are
quite an entertainer. You've also traveled to the far reaches of what you deem possible,
often confused and unsure of yourself. Life continues to jostle you around like a marble,
but it's shown you so much of the world that you don't care. Wacky adventures continue to
lie ahead. Your favorite number is 42.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
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| Writer's Block: Wedding bells are ringing |
[26 Jun 2007|09:53am] |
So maybe I'll do the writer's block entry.
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
So the last actual wedding I went to was my own wedding ceremony, so obviously I was in it. It was quite shiny, having great music provided by the Buskers and the Red Stick Ramblers, cool people, and the super coolest cake you've ever seen. Twas a bit cold, or so many folk thought, but I never really noticed it :P
A few months later we went to my sister in law's welcome home/congratulations you got married party.. so it sorta counts, but didn't completely.
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| sweet miracles |
[16 May 2007|03:07pm] |
Okay y'all,
even though at the beginning of the semester I was told in at least one class that I would most certainly get a B if I worked hard, I ended up with an A in it!
So, after my post a couple weeks ago about how I was sabotaging my grades, here I went and ended up with 3 A's, and 1 B!!! It's the best I've pulled since my freshman year!! I can't believe it!
This is so going to get me off of academic probation. Life is good.
Except I have another class starting Monday... :(
Oh, and I have to go to a funeral for a Moran close family friend/surrogate aunt in NO tomorrow.
*sigh*
I've been reading a bunch though, yay!
And I'm cooking chicken pot pie for Tea today!!
luv,
-me
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| lint rolling. |
[30 Apr 2007|10:47pm] |
So, yesterday, I lint rolled the most confused of all evils.... Alpo, Tea's cat. I walked upstairs to her room, (in my house :P ) and Alpo started growling at me and heading toward my toes. I have an incredibly large fear of Alpo eating my toes, you understand. T says, "get the lint roller quick!" So I glance around the room, see it on the floor, crouch and hold it as a peace offering toward Alpo. Then I proceed to spend the next 10 minutes or so as Alpo's slave, because when I stopped rolling, she growled and raised her claws at me.
It was an interesting experience.
I now think I need a lint roller to get rid of cat furs from my furniture, because they must work really well if they remove the furs from the cats themselves :P
On another note, I hate school. I procrastinate too much. I'm on academic probation for having a 2.9 last semester, and here I am turning things in late. What am I doing to myself?
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| trying again |
[13 Mar 2007|01:53pm] |
Oh man. My last entry was pretty terrible. I sorta feel bad about posting all that... but now that I am thinking about it, it's my journal, so I suppose that if I freak out a bit and complain in mine, it's not so bad, right? shooot... I can't decide.
So I'm in fluency class, and we're watching this video of a diagnostic of a four year old boy. This kid is funny. They asked him to count from one to twenty, and he said he could; then said "one to twenty." So fun. And he won't make decisions about anything he likes better... He likes cake and cookies and dogs and cats, all with -great- emphasis.
We borrowed a bit of money, enough to hold us over till payday, Friday, and are working on bill timing and a budget. So hopefully things will be better.
And! I got my midterm back from one class, and I got a B! Of course, she added 4 points to everyone, so that helped, but hey! ya take good grades where you get em.
Anyway, Later
-dragonflylsu
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| monies! |
[09 Mar 2007|12:17pm] |
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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we have no money!
damn ppl with no budgeting skills!
and damn hubby with no sense! no thinking before he does things!
having no money for gas to go to school is not a good thing.
minuses in the bank accout are not good.
dammit.
dammit.
dammit.
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| same all the time |
[15 Feb 2007|07:54pm] |
man, my entries are the same every semester. i always complain about not doing my homework. you'd think the lesson would have stuck, by now... but apparently it didn't.
i think i may go to brew haha tonight and listen to music and do homework there. i will bring my laptop and write my self evaluations and correct goals and objectives and write lesson plans.
yucky school.
i mean, i don't want to just write about school....
ender is doing really well again. he's been all bad. have to crack down on the discipline.
for the day of love appreciation, my hubby and i had a nice relaxing day inside. i cooked some shrimp and cheese stuff flounder (which i didn't like much, and was supposed to be salmon), some crescent rolls, and some three cheese stuffed tortellini in an herby and spicy alfredo sauce. drank some red wine. ate a cookie or two - i baked leaf and heart shaped sugar cookies and frosted them with homemade cream cheese icing or chocolate, and i baked some peanut butter cookies with chocolate/peanut butter chips in em. yums.
love y'all!
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| wow! an update! |
[01 Feb 2007|08:26pm] |
so, the spring semester is here. I have two clinics, and two classes. not incredibly stressful, but I'm still tired all the time. and i'm still tired of school. I have a clinic with a 4 year old boy with down syndrome at our preschool for language impaired children, and one clinic with a 6 year old boy with a repaired bilateral cleft palatte and lip. so i'm trying to insert words and communication in one, and trying to fix multiple sounds in another. my classes are dysphagia (the study of abnormal swallowing) and fluency (all about stuttering).
Preschool is super tiring, as we use self talk with the children constantly. Since they dont have their own words, we talk for them, showing them things they could possibly say at that moment. But we take turns writing the lesson plans, so since I wrote for this past week, I don't have to prepare again for 3 weeks! yay!!!
Anyway, today is my wonderful hubby's birthday and I made a cake last night. when I'm off today at 430 I have to go home, I mean, not -have- to, but want to, and cook supper. And we will go to the coffee shop where my bluegrassy musician friends will be playing to hear some free music, and for me hopefully to sell some guitar pick earrings I made. So maybe I'll actually have cash to buy my hubby a beer later :)
So my friend Tea is living in my upstairs now, renting our second story "suite". It's going pretty well so far. At least when dave is busy playing Gears of War I have someone to talk to. :P
So the wedding ceremony went well. There was lots of insanity, but it all worked out in the end. Although keane's the cleaners owes me money.
My dragonfly circlet was gorgeous :) very much worth the money! worth more.
In class, will start paying attention, so I should go.
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| wedding/school stress! |
[27 Nov 2006|06:03pm] |
ahhh!!! i should do more schoolwork!
i need more time to finish little things for the ceremony!
i want it to be warmer on saturday!!.... i don't know what to do... do we move it inside for the cold, or do we hope that it reaches the high of 68 or whatever and stay outside...
i dont know!!!!!!!
*sigh*
-christine
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| transcriptions |
[08 Nov 2006|04:13pm] |
So I have a client for accent reduction training this semester in clinic. yeah, hah ha. laugh cuz the cajun girl is helping people with their accents :P he's from china, so even I can help him. :)
I like working with him. I'm learning a lot. But once a week we have to do these 2 minute language samples then transcribe them. I have to write it normally, then transcribe the target phonetic, then the actual produced phonetics. Very time consuming.
Not very difficult, but lots of time.
And they are kicking my butt. I am always behind. It sucks.
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| dude!! |
[09 Oct 2006|06:06am] |
Thanks Tea!! A new account background! Yay surprises :)
lol
so funny... sitting here reading T's LJ, and then realizing that my background looked pretty different... hehe
Anyhow... still in school. Taking two classes and have three clinics. All adults this semester, which is not something I would have chosen, but am enjoying pretty much.
Fall Break wasn't terrible, but kinda sucked. Saw Employee of the Month... wasn't great, wasn't terrible... I laughed. Dane Cook is pretty hot. Jessica Simpson is pretty terrible.
I really wanted to go camping at Kisatchie forest, but this weekend was the opener of squirrel season, which any Louisianaian knows is on par with Christmas... so my husband disappeared for the whole weekend and went hunting and camping while I drove family members around Baton Rouge :P All in all, had a pretty okay time, but I really wanted to be outside camping and enjoying the weather...
Am in the process of watching the South Park WOW episode, and am laughing a lot. Really.
-Christine
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| check the quote dammit |
[15 Jun 2006|11:21pm] |
Tea, the quote said maybe :P
but dave is calling me to bed for now, so i'll have to tell the story of silver attacking anel and her dog emma later :P
luv,
-me
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| Where men like me can easily let the day get out of control.. |
[03 Jun 2006|12:19am] |
So, lots of things have changed.
We are settling into the house. Still have crap hidden away that needs to be framed, shelved, or otherwise organized, but it is coming along. We are rather broke most of the time :P
I'm not in school for the summer. Although I was origninally very happy with this situation, I'm beginning to think maybe I should have gone for summer school. The hatred I felt for school this last fall and spring is dissipating... hopefully it's going to stay gone for the next year or so. I'm wondering why all of a sudden I no longer hate the idea of school quite so much, but I haven't been able to decide on a reason yet. Am I finally really ready to move on with life and grow up? Having to be a real adult still sounds scary to me... When I took my year off of school and worked full time in the preschool, I had my own classroom and a static group of children from 3-4 yrs... Now that I've returned as a part time student, halfway through the sememster, I'm a sub. I go when she needs me, and where she needs me. It can get difficult... the mental preparation for infants is different for 4 year olds. For the first few months I didn't feel the stress of this, but lately it's getting to me. You'd think, as a sub teacher, I'd get calls saying things like, "christine, can you come in tomorrow/next week/this afternoon?" Instead, it's been me saying, "Mrs j, can I go on a trip with my family three fridays from now?" and her replying, "I'm sorry, we already have 3 ppl off that day, I really need you." Since when can the substitute not have a day off?
Perhaps all these things are combining to make school not look so bad.
On a good note, one of the girls I've been working with a lot, our newest employee, seems to be pretty cool. She has two kids, and apparently doesn't get to do much with friends. But I enjoy talking with her, and she is very interested in going out, especially to 80's night at the Spanish Moon! Yay!
My birthday, T's birthday, and my cousin Desi's birthday are all within a couple weeks of each other in September. We are talking about a Pirate vs Ninja party. I like the idea, but last year one of my family friends had a pirate b-day party... I wonder how the fam will take to a party so like one they attended last year...
We are also trying to get a wedding ceremony planned on December 2nd. Getting the Greek Amphitheatre reserved and already have the Red Stick Ramblers ( http://redstickramblers.com/ ) scheduled. Yay.
Anyhow. Maybe I'll start updating more often :P
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