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today my dad came over and dropped off some rhubarb clippings and chives he got from his friend chris callahan. rhubarb was something i always wanted while i was in st. joe, and something that i could have always gotten from my grandma, but never did. i don’t know what it is, but i am putting in plants like a demon this year. i love peonies, so i bought peonies and stuck them in the ground this spring. if i’d moved in earlier, they would’ve gone in last fall. (except the tree. haven’t gotten a tree yet. but i dont’ feel too badly about it since i have that line of trees at the back.)
maybe because i know what i would be missing out on? i know if i had the money, a deck would surely be on the table this summer. i waited so long to do certain things in st. joe that i feel like anytime i spend waiting is just time wasted at this point.
so, in goes the rhubarb. this fall, in goes some more peonies as well as a metric ton of tulips. because why wait for stuff that makes a person happy.

planning

planning

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nate and i have only been on one real trip since we’ve been together – in 2010 to go to branden’s wedding in utah.

so, i deemed it necessary that on our 10th anniversary year we should actually do something and go somewhere. naturally, i requested a south dakota travel guide. i just flipped through it tonight and got all excited. it would happen next year, but i want to go now! the only thing we really need to decide on is what time of summer we should go. i’d rather not go when it’s going to be uber busy, but i don’t want to miss anything. (last time we were there together it was september, and a lot of the places were closed for the season.) while i wouldn’t mind camping, i think i’m going to look into some of the custer state park cabin type things. oooh ooh oooh!! shouldnt think about this too much!

woo. not.

woo. not.

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at my last physical, i got bloodwork done to check cholesterol, triglycerides, etc., which were pretty good. unfortunately, i tested a weak positive for arthritis. woo for getting old.
i go in for xrays when i can, and they’ll do some additional testing with the blood they already took. if it’s rheumatoid arthritis (not sure which kind i tested positive for), that’s an autoimmune disease.
huzzah.

binging

binging

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i got season 6 of trueblood the same day the new season of orange is the new black was released. aaaahhhhh choices. but i’ve got 2 eps of TB left then i can start on oitnb. #firstworldproblems amiright?

sad face – a reunion lament

sad face – a reunion lament

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one of the highlights of my summers is going north to leech lake for my mom’s family’s reunion. we spend 3 nights up north, hanging out together, spending time on the lake. for a person like myself, who doesn’t normally have a lot of money to spend on travelling, this is my summer vacation – the only time of the summer i officially call vacation. i love it.
this year, two of my cousins are getting married within a month of each other (like my cousin matt and i did in 2005, and liz got married six months later; oh and charlie and karl graduated from high school in there, too). unfortunately, the reunion was called off this year due to some family members being committed to a lot of weddings.
with the warm weather, i always start to think about lake time, but every time i think about it this year, i get all sad and mopey because it’s not happening this year. sure, i’ll see my relatives at the weddings. i might see a lake at some point this summer (there sure aren’t a ton down here). but it just isn’t the same.
so, here’s a repost of something i wrote 7 years ago before the reunion, which makes me über sad.

So I’m looking forward to boat rides and swimming and eating Grandma’s donuts and hanging out by the fire and drinking beer with my cousins and the smell of sunscreen and getting sunburned and OFF and wearing sunglasses and swimming and seeing my siblings (minus Liz 🙁 ) and eating decent food and not wearing shoes and laughing and did I say swimming and the smell of lake and the sun and the breeze in the trees and riding in the boat and not working and hey, swimming and my toes in the sand and nummy drunken sandwiches and the anticipatory drive there and watching the trees turn from oaks and maples into birches and pines and swimming….

loooong weekend!

loooong weekend!

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excited for this long weekend! today i painted my front door red, so that was fun. nate and i dug up the sod where the flower box is going to go, and then we went to menard’s tonight and bought the lumber for it along with lumber and supplies for a composter.
i’m hoping to get the flower bed in tomorrow so i can get the hostas i have hanging out on my front stoop in some dirt. the composter can wait.
sunday i’m going to the cities to see megan and jane! excited for that. woo!

woo!

woo!

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spent 2 hours at the tattoo place today! got my book tattoo pretty much redone and the semicolon! woo!
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toodles, weekend

toodles, weekend

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so begins my summer love affair with weekends. i’m so sad to see them go. BUT.
this summer i am in a house again. this summer, in my own house, i will be done with work at a reasonable time of day and be able to come home with a reasonable amount of daylight left in the day. this summer i’ll probably enjoy my weekday nights a little bit more.
man, the work hours at merrill sucked.
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i smashed my way through “fire and flood” by victoria scott. i really enjoyed it, but it did seem a little recycled. girl goes to life-threatening “game” to save a loved one, meets boy, decides to bring down the system with said boy.
now that i’m done with that, i feel kinda bleaaaahh in the book department. what do i read next? i have a collection of essays by john mcphee, but it sounds really boring compared to what i just finished reading. might have to go see what the library has for s. king books.
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someday i’ll go to the st. charles farmers’ market. last thursday was commencement; this thursday is TATTOO DAY.

birdie

birdie

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Yellow-rumped_Warbler_m17-48-113_lit was a little after 10 p.m. when i got home from commencement last night. i grabbed the pizza i had brought home out of my passenger side and went to walk in the house, when i noticed right there in front of the door was a little bird hopping around. i think he was a yellow-rumped warbler.
i didn’t know how long he’d been in there, but he didn’t fly away when i got near him, so i stuck a cup over him to make sure he didn’t hop under my car while i put the pizza inside. nate came out too and poked the little bird to see if he would take off – nothin’.
so i scooped him up and placed him outside on the grass, hoping he would find his way back to wherever he came from. he didn’t fly away or anything, just hopped, and i wonder now if he had a wing issue that i should have helped him out with before throwing him to the elements.
this afternoon i suddenly thought of him and wanted to make sure he got away last night, so i scanned the part of the yard where i’d let him loose. sure enough – there he was on the grass, dead. 🙁 poor little bird. i don’t know if he was on his deathbed when i let him outside, or if he just didn’t have the wingpower to get through a close-to-freezing night. maybe i should have let him spend the night in the garage.
i know he’s just a bird, but it makes me kind of sad.

no blog for you

no blog for you

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commencement was tonight, and i’m bushed. on the plus side of working 13 hours, i get tomorrow off! maybe a more thorough post tomorrow.