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I have so much to post - sorry guys. I'll title each paragraph so you can scan for the section you may have interest in.

PICTURES OF MY TRIP TO LIVERMORE, CA



Here is the whole crew! Here we are at dinner after a long day of wine tasting for the girls.




In this picture Cory has successfully managed to catch the 2nd ugliest picture of me ever. The photo shoot pictures are the first. This is definitely second. What you don't know about this picture is that I always do this. I always stick my tonge out at people I've just met. It's a build up to my big first impression.



Isn't she cute!? Natalie is the sweetest, quietest, whispering, vegen that I just want to pick up and squeeze!




Here is a picture of Cory and I on Monday night before I left. I just woke up from a nap (mid horror movie) so that's why you can see my bra, I look stoned, and my hair is wired. Cory looks good though, eh?




This is the saddest picture of them all. It's of Natalie crying on the floor after I left Courtney's house on Monday night. She knew it could be months, even years, before we'd get to take shots together again -- and she was devastated. Don't worry Natalie (!) you'll forever be my shot buddy!

THE CLOSET ORGANIZER

So Eric and I picked up, paid for, and installed our new closet organizer. We bought it at The Container Store for a whoppin $650.00!! Yes, I know, it's a lot of money. My thought was that it's great! You take the measurements of your closet, the store creates a blueprint of how you can utilize all the space in your closet based on it's size and how you use it, and then they sell you all the parts to create your dream organizer. There's just one thing I didn't take in to account. Eric. See really this entire closet project was an insult to my crafty boyfriend who just got done reconstructing our entire condo post-flood. Not to mention he engineered the gift I'm giving Deannie for her birthday. Eric could have bought all that stuff at Home Depot, designed a lovely organized closet system and installed it for under $300. See the quality of the closet shelving itself isn't "all that". You're paying $650.00 for someone to chart out your closet and then have all the pieces there ready for you to go. Oh and the computer program they have so you the buyer can visualize what you're buying. I should have thought about that before. So Eric installed this closet organizer -- and we agreed we'd not do that again. When we buy a house he's designing & installing all our closet organizers.

HISTORY 161

Yesterday was my 2nd History test of the Semester. I got an A- on the first one and I'm aiming for an A+. The teacher lists the top 3 grades on the board and I want my name up there. I'm fairly sure I got an A on my test -- but I'm not sure how good of an A I got. I cannot wait until next week to find out!! It was a lot of memorization and I think if I messed up it was in describing the rights that the Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by King John, provided to us.

THE WEEKEND

This weekend I'm playing Mary Popkins, umbrella and all. It's raining here and is supposed to do so all weekend. I'm babysitting for 2 kids for the entire weekend. Their parents are going away on a weekend of romance and bliss. This is not my first time doing a weekend baby-sitting job. Remember I had those teenagers a few months back. I've also baby-sat for a severely handicapped girl during one week of my first attempt of college. This will probably be somewhere in the middle. These kids are 5 and 9 -- so not as hard as a 180 14 year old in a wheel chair wearing diapers -- but not getting me a cup of Starbucks on the way back from school, either. We were supposed to go on a hay ride tomorrow at Oxen Hill Farm but if it's going to rain we're going to have to catch a movie instead or carve pumpkins. I'm trying to keep my creativity level up. I want to show these kids some fun!

THE CONDO

Last night after my test I came home to clean & organize. DO YOU KNOW WHAT BREAD AND LETTUCE LOOK LIKE IF YOU LEAVE THEM IN YOUR HOME WHILE YOU'RE RENOVATING YOUR HOUSE FOR A MONTH AND A HALF? G.R.O.S.S.! It was the worlds biggest 2nd grade science project ever! Lots and lots of moldy bread. Ick! Now we have no food. Even the Oreo's were stale...not that I ate one of course....too many carbs.....

TEETH

I'm going to try whitening my teeth with the over the counter stuff. I have one fake tooth in the front that they matched in color to the rest of my teeth back in 1996 -- and I know I can't technically bleach that one but you'd think after 9 years of smoking and drinking coffee that my fake tooth would look different in color, right? But it doesn't.

MY COUSINS WEDDING

I'm going to post pictures of my cousin's wedding/reception when I get them from my family. My camera is about as worthless as a day without wine -- so I'm at the mercy of my family members. IF ANY OF YOU ARE OUT THERE, AND YOU'RE HOLDING CAPTIVE MY PICTURES, SEND THEM.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 12:27 PM