i didn't hang out with the down-the-hall girls yesterday, cuz ess called at 9 to tell me that cass is sick. but i have a lot of free days next week, and i'll find out about evenings tomorrow when i call and check the schedule at chick-fil-a.
butttt, i did make a milestone in my life. i went to the movies for the first time by myself, haha. i really wanted to see brothers grimm, and brit was going to the expensive movies w/her dad and brother, so i went to the cheap seats by myself. i felt like such a nerd, haha.
after the movie was over i called b-rit [with my mom's prepaid minute cell phone, because she has one now, and it's kinda funny], and she was almost home i think, but turned around and came back to boardman. we went to caribou coffee and hung out [with my librarian, haha. but anyone from leetonia knows that paula raneri is a lot more than just a librarian, she's amazing].
we sat out in brit's car after caribou closed and talked, then we decided to go to her house. and her dog is great, i like her. haha. so i hung out there for a couple hours, and watched her family christmas on dvd and took great pictures, among other things.
today i was lazy. i watched the tony danza show this morning, which i do pretty much at least once a week, especially when i'm home. i love that show. i was home by myself, so i didn't feel motivated to do much. i talked to my wifey on the phone for awhile, and made plans to go to lunch tomorrow, possibly joined by christy. i played final fantasy: mystic quest for awhile on super nintendo. i watched the 'making of' for raiders of the lost ark and part of temple of doom. then i worked 4-9.
and let me tell you, work was crazy. we were busy, and everyone was wired and on edge. a strange combination. but i didn't have to work in the grill, so i didn't care. haha.
tomorrow is lunch w/case, then calling chick-fil-a, then working 4-8ish, then hommmmeee for a good, old-fashioned new year's movie night w/my family. i haven't done that for a good 4 or 5 years cuz i've always had plans, but this year i don't, and i'm looking forward to it.

anyway. i'm going to go play roller coaster tycoon for a little bit more, then sleep



wow, i just saw the cover of 'the secret life of bees' out of the corner of my eye, and thought that a bee on it was real. maybe i should just go to bed.... haha

my uncle no longer has any tubes coming out of him! most excitingly, he no longer has the 2 tubes that were in his head to drain his blood clot. so that's exciting. :)


i got my digital camera for christmas. i kinda let the excitement from that slip by the wayside. and mom got me the final myst game, which i can't wait to load when i get back to school. tim got me the myst 3-pack that i already have, so i'm gonna return it and get myst 4, cuz i don't have it yet. anyway. we were in columbus from saturday night till late monday morning, and then we headed to my grandparents' house. my cousin anya was there, which is exciting. she just moved from california to connecticut. and she's finally not going to college anymore [she has 2 bachelor's degrees and a master's degree]. i had fun pestering grandma with her and tim, haha.

i finished narnia last week, and so far this week i read the rest of black by tod dekker, and read over half of eragon by christopher paolini. i need to get out more and read less... haha

tomorrow i'm supposed to hang out with cassie [stokes, i just like to use her last name, haha], esther bardo, and molly thompson. i really hope all that works out, cuz i neeeever see molly or cass anymore, and i don't see esther much even though we're both still at malone.
tomorrow night it looks like i'm going to movies 8 w/b-rit. yay!

i'm going to bed soon, cuz tim's at a lock-in at the church, and my mother nominated me to go pick up him and some other kids and take them all home at 8 or 9. which is good. i rearranged my room today, and it's still in shambles. so if i get up, then i can work on it.

so i'm off to play roller coaster tycoon 2, and then sleep. :)

i'm going to post on xanga and my blogspot, because i'm pretty sure more people check xanga even tho i use this now.

you never think about things like how many people spend the Christmas holidays in the hospital, whether as the person being hospitalized or the family of that person, until you experience it.

that was my family's holiday this year. we left our house a couple hours earlier than expected on saturday [and skipped the christmas eve service at my church] and headed down here to columbus to riverside hospital, where my uncle mervin is. saturday late afternoon he was vacuuming, and thought he was standing on the other side of the stairs that he actually was, and he took a step back and fell head-first backwards down the stairs. my uncle is blind, by the way. he had a bad skull fracture and, as the doctor put it, a huge blod clot. they finished surgery while we were still on our way down, and then we went and saw him. he has tubes coming out of his head draining the blood. it's sad.
sunday morning we went to church, and then back to the hospital. since we were in the ICU of the Neuro center, i saw a lot of tears. that was a sad thing to see on Christmas day. people were camped out in the waiting room to be near their loved ones, possibly in the last moments of their life. it really broke my heart.

anyway, i hope everyone's holidays were good. please pray for my uncle, because if he recovers, it's going to be a long recovery. and after all the time he spent in the hospital when i was in high school when he got shot and went blind, this is just the icing on the cake. just pray for him. this is rough stuff for the Christmas season

i just ordered jenny smith's christmas present [that she's not going to get until after break] on ebay.

in 10 minutes i can go to bed. but due to the tradition of beating tim to move the mouse on the calendar on christmas eve, i have to stay up till midnight, even though i'm rather tired.


tomorrow morning, i'm going to boardman. i don't quite know what i'm thinking... haha. except i have a 10 dollar coupon for old navy, and my mom had one for jc penney. so i'm going to go spend 20 dollars, and not spend a single penny. :-)

that's all for now. it's almost christmas eve!

i finished chronicles of narnia about an hour ago. now i get to finish reading 'Black' [by dekker]. i hope i like it, cuz i couldn't decide if i did or not when i started it.

i worked 4-7 last night, back in the dungeon. ok so not really, but it feels like it. other than taking orders through a headset and then taking people's money through a window, you get no human contact. and plus my fingers practically froze off. but i still like it better than grill! :-)


tim and i are going on a walmart adventure tonight. haha. the world is in for it...

ok i'm going to go play roller coaster tycoon 2 until it's time to go to work.

so this break this is kinda nice. since i've been home i've:

finished a horse and his boy (which i didn't like much), read prince caspian, read voyage of the dawn treader, read the first 10 chapters of the silver chair
watched [a lot of] movies: last of the mohicans, cats and dogs, some mr. bean, polar express, sound of music, terms of endearment [stupid!!!], the christmas blessing [tv movie on cbs] say anything, prince caspian, and part of voyage of the dawn treader [the BBC version]
watched my mom and dad sing in the church's christmas cantada
went to the dentist and went to sheetz for lunch afterwards

worked a whopping total of 4 hours [4-8 last night]. tonight and thursday i work 4-7. haha. yay mcdonalds not being able to give me hours...

got things figured out w/chick-fil-a, and the last week i'm home [jan. 2-8] i'm going to work at mcdonalds and be trained at chick-fil-a [in canton. this could be interesting... haha]

beat 2 parks on roller coaster tycoon

so yes. unproductive, yet a tiny bit not. and surprisingly, my mom and i haven't killed each other yet, although there have been plennnnty of fights. but that's just how we do it here... haha

tonight after work i'm booking it home, showering, then going to tim's band christmas concert. i hope lynne's going.
tomorrow after work tim and i are going to wal-mart to buy stocking stuffers for our parents, haha. every year my mom stuffs her own stocking, and she knows exactly what's in it, and what's the fun in that? so tim and i are gonna take care of it..

speaking of my mom and christmas... she decided that we were going to have matching pjs this year. tim is 16. i'm 20. oh goodness... she bought flannel bottoms and at first she bought ugly shirts, but then she bought new ones for me and tim. they're funny. she's funny. i can't believe i agreed to it... haha

anyway. i want to go play roller coaster tycoooon 2 now. i like that game. so goodbye!

jenny and leah are the best. i wish i could transport them with me wherever i go, haha. they're some of my favorite people ever, and that would make life easier.

we hung out tonight. we talked. and worked out [aka played on jenny's parent's gym equipment. especially the upside-down one. and all 3 of us went on the treadmill at the same time and walked 0.1 mile together. haha]. so yes, it was a good night. :)

i'm going to bed now because this is the latest i've been up since being home, and i don't like it. and i have dentist in the morning and work in the late afternoon. and i need to find my work clothes. so that's all.

Kr7ist7en7: o tracy i jus cant wait for u to come i jus want wait for u to come and ive got cookies..3 yummy cookies only for u for when u come only for you for when u come..because its CHRISTMAS
notagrobanite: haha i love that cd, and you always spell my name wrong
Kr7ist7en7: ahh
Kr7ist7en7: i always do
Kr7ist7en7: haha
Kr7ist7en7: its prolly coz all the tracys i know dont spell it ey
Kr7ist7en7: cept for u
notagrobanite: well i'm just that cool
Kr7ist7en7: haha yeah right
Kr7ist7en7: guess whos goin to have ddr 2 wen i come back to skewl:-D
notagrobanite: you'll have the real version, not my downloaded knock-off version!
notagrobanite: haha
Kr7ist7en7: haha:-) n then u can come play it w/ ME
notagrobanite: although i pretty much suck at it
Kr7ist7en7: lol me too its okaay
Kr7ist7en7: i havent played since i ripped my pants at christies w/ the boys..:-X
notagrobanite: hahahahaha
Kr7ist7en7: O MAN..that came out so wrong..CHRISTIES HOUSE a PERSONS HOUSE
notagrobanite: i was like "oh goshhh..."
notagrobanite: i'm totally quoting you on that
Kr7ist7en7: lol DANG IT
notagrobanite: my mom laughed too
notagrobanite: good job kristen
Kr7ist7en7: lol
Kr7ist7en7: i totally didnt mean for it to come out that way
notagrobanite: but it was hilarious
Kr7ist7en7: haha u ARE right
notagrobanite: ok, consider yourself quoted
notagrobanite: and by the way, i'm going to have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the night now
Kr7ist7en7: lol wat song?
notagrobanite: the veggie tales one
Kr7ist7en7: hahah
Kr7ist7en7: im glad u kow it
Kr7ist7en7: makes me feeel good
Kr7ist7en7: my friends hate veggies
Kr7ist7en7: i <3 it
notagrobanite: i don't own that cd, but my mom does
notagrobanite: hahahah
Kr7ist7en7: haha i do :-)!
Kr7ist7en7: maybe i can make some money next time i go to christies n get it for u
Kr7ist7en7: haha
notagrobanite: yes yes, do something useful with your time spent there
Kr7ist7en7: lol
Kr7ist7en7: u know u lov eme.. me n my crazy retardedness
Kr7ist7en7: im never quoteable til i tlk to u..then they jus start rolling outta my mouth



oh kristen... haha
i love her. she says things wrong and it makes me laugh.



"i do that all the time"
-my brother
"what? rip your pants at christie's?!?!"
-me


ok this quote fest is done, haha

honey i'm home! haha

i've been so unproductive that i didn't even go check my schedule when i got home last night. and my car still has some of my stuff in it.

but that will end soon, because i need money, so i hope that i work every day, even though i hate my job. and i think i'll be starting at chick-fil-a in canton the first week of january. i'm thinking i'm going to work 2 jobs like a mad woman. if i work in columbiana till 4, i should be able to get to canton by 5:30 without a problem. so that should work out well. i'm looking forward to having a job while i'm at school. even though pretty much the last thing i want to do is move back to school. but i have 3 weeks before i have to worry about that.

i watched last of the mohicans last night, cuz i saw tim's dvd sitting there, and i've only seen the regular vhs that i have. he has the dvd w/extended scenes. i was reminded how much i love that movie, and especially the amazing soundtrack.
i finished horse and his boy last night. can't say that i liked it all that much. it was kinda boring. but now i'm four chapters into prince caspian, which is four chapters closer to voyage of dawn treader, which is my mom's favorite.

and now, some quotes from the movie that tim and i just finished watching a bit ago. holy crap, i forgot how freaking hilarious it is!!
"no lunch for you"
"from Russia with love"
"and you can go to the bathroom wherever you want!" "yeahhhhh!"
"our team is red hot and your team ain't doodley squat"
"you fight like a poodle!"

annnd a quote from tim and i while watching the movie:
"it's pretty sad if your dog's your best friend." -me
"shut up." -tim
haha, my little brother is a loser!

there were so many more from the movie... but i didn't write them down.

anyway. i'm going to go do something productive now. like my laundry. or getting the rest of the stuff out of my car. or checking my schedule. so that's all

update for the sake of the one person [reno] who actually reads this. or because i just feel like it.

i'm tired. really tired. finals week makes me want to cry. i have the tendency to get a good night's sleep--if you add up at the end of week the hours that i slept every night. it's a good time.

i have a job interview today at 2:30. i hope it goes well.
i have to study like a mad woman until then. i'm hoping to get a 15 minute nap in sometime today, that would be glorious.

i should make some coffee, but i've already had more this week than a normal person drinks in a month, and it's only tuesday...


ok. back to study guide. and i need to go turn the heat down, cuz i'm getting hot.

that's all.

i just procrastinated a lot and made a sweet picture:







haha merry christmas everyone!

good times were had tonight. it was the best study/homework break ever.

i went to golden corral w/jessie and some people from her church, some girls from malone, kim, and shauna. shauna and i had some good times stuffing ourselves to the point where laughter had a the dangerousness of almost making us puke.
then we headed to tinseltown to see 'yours, mine, and ours'. which i didn't really think i wanted to see, but it was hilarious. and sitting next to shauna made it oh so much better... i haven't laughed that hard in a long time. she made it like an interactive experience, and i provided the jokes that went along with the movie. and then jessie, kim, shauna and i were rather hyper after the movie was over. holy cow. we were like dancing around the theater. :)

now back to paperrrrr. :( i have 3 pages written! 7 to go...

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! that is me, knowing that i've been a horrible person this weekend when it comes to homework. i have a paper, 3 journals, and a test this week. and then like 7 tests next week. and i've been so unproductive. tonight, i really want to get started on that paper, cuz it's a huge one.


i'm thinking/praying about going on another campus crusade trip over spring break. i want to go back to pass christian with all my heart, and i'm pretty sure a trip is being offered over malone's spring break. i've been semi-planning on going anyway, and this would be good, because it's only $150, and i wouldn't have to provide my own transportation or anything like that.
friends, pray about it. i would REALLY like someone to go too, because it would be sad to go on my own. PLEASE pray about it. it was a life-changing experience, and i really want to share it with someone.


i'm going to see pride and prejudice w/pete's kelli [aka my kelli] at 3:25. i'm pretty excited. :) she says it's really good.


i watched bruce almighty today, it had been awhile. it was funny.
faith and i watched the boys next door last night. it was a really good movie. i'm thinking that might be something that i could do for the rest of my life [work with the disabled]. i don't know... but this is the second time in like a week that something's come up that's made me think seriously about it. so yeah...
and then we watched part of 'growing up walrus' on animal planet. and i fell in love. that walrus was seriously the cutest thing ever. he was all cuddly, and just awwwww. :)

ok now i should put shoes on and think about going outside in the coldness and drive to the strip and meet kelli.
i drank coffee like an hour ago. what was i THINKING? because now i'm going to have to pee in the middle of the movie, and we all know i refuse to leave movies while they're playing! all well, i have BLADDER OF STEEL!!!!

ok i really should stop typing now....


oh wait. one more thing. if i haven't talked to you for awhile, know that i miss you. i was realizing today how out of touch i am with a lot of my friends' lives, and it makes me sad. so i'm sorry about that!! email me [christisforever@gmail.com] or IM me [notagrobanite] or call me [330.588.7545] and update me on your life!

i'm pretty sure that Rent has taken over half of the campus of Malone. it's kinda weird. hardly anyone knew what it was before the movie came out, and now it's everyone's favorite.
i like the broadway soundtrack better than the movie one, although it's still amaaaazingly good.


i should work on my paper more now. it's half done.


i'm in brittany and faith's room.