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I got my certificate of election from the King County Elections office. I am an officially an elected Precinct Committee Officer. See here is the proof. |
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So one day when coming out of the Lake City Campus I saw a travisty. This poor gnome was sitting on the side of the street. He was so sad looking. Upon further investigation i notice small pieces of him in the parking area and near the street. Then I found his hand bound and separated from his body. It had to be such a shock to him. I couldn't help but try to investigate the scene to see if I could determine what happened. There were cars near by but none seemed to be near the debris. I surmised that he had been bound in a trunk and and escaped...but when falling was gravely injured. May he rest peacefully now that he has been freed. |
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This year I spent an evening with my friend Blair helping him set up his christmas tree. It was huge. He had all these wonderful ornaments from his childhood. Not like the ones where you know they were all bought in a store but home made filled with love ornaments. Yes there were ornaments that were bought too...but all in all it was a great time. He also helped me move my big blue chair and a half that day from Bellevue to Ballard...I am sitting in it as I type. Thanks again for the help Blair. |
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At Christmas time, some of the trees in Bellevue we decked out in red lights. Fred (my vanpool driver) said he really liked the red trees and since i walked past them everyday i took some pictures. Here they are: |
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This year we had a huge snow just before Christmas. I had to use chains for almost a week. I took a bunch of picture of the snow. It was about 6-8 inches deep at the time. Here are the pictures: |
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This year I put up my very first full size christmas tree. I was so excited. Most of the ornaments were older than I am. I also put up some ornaments from my childhood. Here is a picture of my tree. |
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So last Friday I was babysitting and had already put Jones down to bed. I watched the new series premiere of Dollhouse. Really good by the way. So anyways...Bubba and Shelly were TIVOing Battle Star Galactica so I couldn't change the channel. I have never watched the show so I had no idea what was going on. So instead I played with Jones's cars and dinosaurs. It was a good 15 minutes of fun. Here are some pictures from my play time: |
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 Wednesday I got together with the Eastside Professional Network. Those who had replied did not come but Blair and Scott both came. We had a great time together and a good lunch. I ordered the Ravioli Diavdio (or something like that). And shared the ballpark pretzels with the guys. Today they launched their Fire Chief Ale and in honor of that they had an old fire truck parked outside the restaurant. The Fire Engine said it was from the Hennepin Fire Dept. in Granville-Hennepin Fire Prot. Dist. I thought it was pretty cool. Here are a few pictures.  
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 This is a wonderful pear dish Anita created specifically for tonight's menu. It was so lovely I had to take a picture although I did not order it.  This was the crepe I had for dinner. So yummy, I would recommend Anita's to anyone looking for something different for a change.  And this delectable treat was my dessert crepe. It was a yummy lemon flavor.  This is the bottle of Pear Cider that I ordered. It was a very subtle pear flavor and very dry. It paired well with both of the crepes. If you have a chance to check out Anita's I highly recommend it. It is on Leary just east of 8th Ave.
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 Picture of the ceiling.  Picture of the bathroom scale.  Closer picture of the ceiling.
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Okay so I saw a screening of Ghost Town last night. This movie will be released to Theaters on August 15th. It was really good....it was a romantic comedy....many will compare it to Sixth Sense...although in that movie the kid was scared out of his pants most of the time. It is a heartfelt drama about the way in which circumstances in our lives can change and mold our hearts into something more desireable. I don't want to give too much away because it would be sad to tell you the entire plot and outcome, but I will say this... It was a great movie! |
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Well, it came and went again... I got to work with some great people this year at the WaMu Family Fourth. I volunteered with a company called OneReel. They put on some fairly large events in Seattle, WaMu Family Fourth, Bumbershoot, and they work with Theatro Zinzani. I arrived bright and early and began helping at 9:00am...it was overcast and cool...very much like I like it...well the sun came out and I went down...not really. I had neglected to put on sunblock so I got a mild burn on my face...not bad at all, but then the heat stroke/dehydration kicked in. I started to feel nausiated and had a really nice headache with extreme muscle issues in my shoulders and neck...I started downing water like mad only to find that it really made me want to vomit. But I kept drinking any how... Eventually in the evening, the headache and muscle issues began to subside...all in all it was a good day. The fireworks were amazing....There was a huge helicopter that flew around the edge of the lake...do you know what happens to water that is displaced by large amounts of air...it flies...we got misted a little others got more then they had bargained for...but still it was really cool... I can't wait for bumbershoot which should be coming up here in the near future...I really enjoyed volunteering with them last year and look forward to it again this year. |
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So last night I cooked the most wonderful food. I made Zuchinni soup, with salt, pepper, minced garlic, onions, and chicken broth with a little milk mixed in. For desert I had a few oreos with milk and a mochi ball (japanese ice cream). The not so funny thing is I have had all of these things before...nothing new...well except the brand of chicken broth and the new jar of minced garlic/onions. I don't get it... I started to itch along my jawline and around my ears and I thought nothing of it really, but then it felt hard to breathe and swallow when i was trying to go to sleep. So alas, at 11:30 i decided to call my manager to give him a heads up that I was heading to the ER. By the time I got to the ER I was doing better with the swallowing although I still had a scratchy throat and my jawline and ears still itched. They checked me in and gave me some benadryl...which I now actually have a perscription for...cheaper over the counter though...and within an hour or so the itching went away. Now I get to schedule a battery of allergy tests to be done at a later date to see if we can determine the cause. I haven't had my allergies tested in about 20 years. I guess they change when you become an adult. Oh well...that was my fun for last night...
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and inside the submarine was my brother and tons of kids...they were playing cards and wearing the old wool army clothing....he kept looking at me like it was normal or something. The strange thing is the multiple dreams about water to me...I don't know perhaps there will be flood or something. 2 Nights ago now I had a rather disturbing dream.... I dreamt that I was in my managers office except that it had a couple of extra pieces of furniture....There was a man there....he kept trying to get me to give him access to private information....i kept locking and unlocking the drawers...all the while I was trying to fight him off...a couple of my co-workers walked by and i was pleading with them to call security but no one would...then i finally got security on the phone and said I needed help...while still fighting this person off...they said everyone was in a meeting...I told them I needed help...come to suite 810....if security can't come then call the police...I kept pleading for help but alas no one would come...i kept struggling against this person and they kept overpowering me...then I would get the upper hand only to be crushed again....finally in the end I got them on their back on a counter...I had them by the throat...i could have hurt them but I didn't....I didn't know what to do...then I woke up...again a very strange dream....can't help but wonder what is going on inside my head...so much destruction, chaos, and uncertainty....and feeling so alone in it....weird.... |
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I have been having strange dreams lately... |
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Okay so last night I had the weirdest dream. It was very vivid and strange and so I thought I would share...oh the strange things that go on inside my head when I am asleep. Why was this dream so vivid...it was so real and yet I never left my bed. Stacy and Mei -- I am sending this to you because you were in it. :) So it started out with me sitting at a computer searching E-bay for what I don't know and i ran accross a seller named limmei (Mei) so I clicked on the link. A beautifully done video with cobalt blue glass displays and relics of my past pictures, toys, my old house, began playing...I though oh, Mei is selling cobalt blue glass. So I continued to watch and as the camera panned over all the things of my past it ended on a beautiful glass keroseen lamp. Mind you my mom has a metal one...but I thought why is Mei selling a family heirloom? Strange so I decided to drive to her house. She lived in a 1 story rambler within walking distance of the beach. She was outside working in the yard when I arrived. We went inside and it was kinda dark with that sunset lit look to the house. We began looking at the lamp and chatting and then she was gone. All of a sudden my freind Stacy was there. We were running around gathering things up and seemed to be packing to go somewhere. I remember going into the bathroom several times and trying to grab stuff from the shower. We didn't talk much and her parents weren't home so we just worked...the last time I went into the bathroom to get something the house changed into a brightly lit 2-story home. I was now on the second floor. Stacy's parents were there but she was gone. Tim and I were in one of the upstairs bedrooms grabbing a bag when we looked out the window on the back side of the house and saw swirling green water beginning to cover the ground...We ran to the front of the house to see highrise buildings of downtown seattle and a ginormous wall of green water coming straight at us. Since I had been packing my camera was there on the table. I grabbed it and began taking pictures. All of a sudden we were in a Highrise in downtow. I could see the dividers between the windows they were metal and plaster... Suddenly there were tons of people outside the building trying to get in from the water...Many of them were riding elephants (I know strange)...I saw the people and the elephants run into the glass...I thought the glass was going to break but it held...I continued to snap a couple more pictures as the water swelled up and over the people and elephants. It looked so strange but not out of the norm. Then next things I saw was a great wooden ship with a Whale tied to the top of it. The ship sank and landed upside down far below with the whale under the weight of the ship...then the water was gone and it was just the whale and the ship... Now I was on a huge ship...it was a cross between a cruise ship a ferry, and some sort of a space ship...I couldn't see water any longer but I knew it was coming. I began talking with people and trying to get them to close the windows. I kept saying the water will be coming back (it never did)...So as I began closing windows I ran into all sorts of crazy people and stopped to talk with them as I closed the windows near them. There were several gaming consoles where die hard gamers were trying to determine the fate of our cruise based on the outcome of the game they were playing... Soon I ran into some teenagers. One kept talking about a boy with fish hooks...I looked over to my left and saw this boy with fish hooks in his arm...they had fishing line attached and he was tugging at them "see it doesn't hurt"...it was then that I saw this boy who had long blonde hair protruding from all over his head...even his face...it looked like it had been applied to a baby doll head (you know how there are the spaces all over the head and you can see where each individual bunch of hair had been put it...it looked like that). So the boy would pull a string and then each of the individual hair sections would stand straight out like porcupine needles. Well he did this a few times and it was quite amuzing but then the last time he tried it didn't work. He actually began to grow fur and turned into a half human half bear creature and went running down the hall and out one of the cargo bays to where the cars were being stored out on the deck. Some guy came up to me and told me that I need to close the cargo bay doors...I told him I couldn't...turns out that all the people who went to look for him were the guys from the production team...they were all outside and I saw the boy...I yelled at them but they couldn't hear me...I kept pointing to the boy...finally Bryan looked up...he saw me point to the boy, who by now had become a bear. He was laying down crying....they guys went and got him and brought him inside. I saw another friend of mine, April, we chatted for a couple of minutes before she went into her room with one of those cool sliding doors from so many sci-fi movies... That is where the dream ended. I don't know that it meant anything...but it was strange none the less... |
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Not Good Enough... This has been the thought echoing through my head for some time now...You're not good enough...why do I listen to it, why am I always so quick to see the good in others but not able to see the good in myself...I am consistently detrimental to my own walk...I let Satan tell me that I am not good enough and I believe him...WHY? Yesterday I was speaking with a friend, I told her that I was running away...some of you know what that means, others may have to ask...I proceeded to say that I was horrible and wretched for running, but she stopped me...she said that I am not...and that I need to stop doing this to myself...I need to stop believing the lies of Satan...for so long I have believed his lies that I don't know truth from reality...I appreciate my friends for pointing these things out to me...the accountability and friendship in my life is far stronger than Satan can ever be... I have recently taken steps to be the person Christ would have me be...I have surrounded myself with strong Christian friends...with whom I will rely on more here in next few coming months than they will ever know...I am seeking Grace, forgiveness, and healing in my life...something that has been a long time coming...I am finally at a breaking point, one where I can admit, I have not moved past the things that have haunted me for so long...I am hurt and broken...but not alone...for years I was alone and could not deal with the things that needed to be dealt with...but now Christ is here with me...He is holding my hand, keeping me safe, loving me more than I will ever deserve to be loved, but still here despite the things I have done to make Him have to sacrifice His life for me...Mark said it on Sunday best...He let me murder Him...so that I would not have to die...He gave up everything for me... I am now entering into a season of life where things are not known...I am constantly unsure of myself...I am unsure of my place in this world and I am unsure of those who are around me... But one thing that I am sure of is that Christ is here for me...He hears my cries and He answers me...true the answers may not always be what I thought they would be but He answers them none the less... A verse that has been speaking to me recently is John 16:24 "Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will recieve, and your joy will be complete." Jesus spoke these words to His disciples, if we ask in Jesus' name our joy will be complete...it is not good enough to pray, but to pray specifically asking in Jesus' name is the key. In the name of Jesus, I ask for peace...the peace that will calm the storm in which I so often become entangled in...I pray that your will is prevelant in my life and that you make my paths clear, show me your grace and give me strength today as I go about the day...Amen. |
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 GREEN EGGS AND HAM I am Sam I would not, could not, I do not like them, |
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Psalm 3838:1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, 3 There is no soundness in my flesh 5 My wounds stink and fester 9 O Lord, all my longing is before you; 12 Those who seek my life lay their snares; 13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, 15 But for you, O Lord, do I wait; 17 For I am ready to fall, 21 Do not forsake me, O Lord! |
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