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29 December This is me, this is who I amSo I was looking at my stats and it tells me the referring web address, 8 of them were searches. Five of them were for "MSN The Nice Guy The Starving Artist The Bad Boy", one was for "5 women every", one was for "The 5 guys every girl's gotta date", and one was for "msn 5 guys every girl's gotta date".
Yesterday I had to work one of those fun basketball games
 , and because the bus is on a break schedule, it was either wait 45 minutes for the bus or walk home, and since it was pretty nice out and I had my tennis shoes on, I walked. Got kinda freaked out with the 2 deer  that were trying to cross the road, that was as close as I wish to get to deer. I made it home before the bus would have even gotten there to pick me up, that was nice.So I'm trying to get inspired with the Christmas collage
 I'm supposed to be doing for my collageatcs yahoo! group. We get a packet of stuff that we're supposed to use on the cards in a non-traditional way, as in not Christmasy. It's pretty hard for me. I also have to make some Destination: Paris cards, Valentine Collage cards, and Free4All cards for my other group atcdesigns. I was thinking yesterday that that was too many to do, but of course I started on the Paris ones, since those were the last ones I signed up for. Now I'm not so sure about the Valentine ones, the Free4All ones I'm not too worried about.So Tuesday my friends (Geoff, Carrie, and Karli) and I got together for our Christmas gift-exchange. We went to Perkins for lunch
 and exchanged gifts. Carrie gave me a neat butterfly  puzzle/box, Geoff gave me a cute card  , and Karli gave me a stocking  with nuts  , fuzzy socks, and some Ferrero Rocher, which I just had five of, yummy stuff. Afterwards we went to Best Buy cause Carrie had to get a mouse and we stopped by Borders cause I got 2 gift cards for Christmas and Carrie needed a calendar. I bought a day-by-day Harley calendar, my third one, I never get tired of those, and a daily planner, a nice one has a whole page for each day, lots of space. So, great presents, good food, and great friends, can't get better than that.I have to work long doors for the basketball game tomorrow. UGH! Four to 10:15, that's gonna be a long time, I better get a good night's sleep tonight, otherwise I doubt I'll be able to stay awake through it all.
For the next hour and a half I get to veg, before I have to run away to work at the library, just me, my computer, my pig (who keeps sneezing on me, and eating my hair) and my yummy chocolate.
As always, feel free to email comments to me weinkermeyer@hotmail.com 26 December MMMmmm Peppermint BarkSo, it was a good Christmas, there's only one thing that could have made it better and that's in AZ
What I got:
Clothes: 1 pair of jeans, bunch of shirts, pair of gloves
Snowmen: jingle bell snowman, 4 'ice cube' votives with peppermint candles, an 'artist' snowman (he's wearing a beret, at first I thought it was a biker snowman, cause of the goggles [I was there when my mom bought it]), a snowman nightlight.
keychains: one from Pearl Harbor, the other from Honolulu (Ross went there recently)
a cable to connect my phone to my computer (to download those great pictures I've taken)
A bag of pine bedding (for my guinea pig)
Big & Rich CD: Comin' to your City
Candy: Ghiradelli candy square, 2 candy sticks, candy cigarettes (I bought them for myself, they're not as good as I remember when I was a kid), Godiva chocolate santa.
After opening presents, Dad and I went upstairs, so I could put together the CD/DVD holder we got him and Ross and Mom went to the kitchen to make lunch.
Great lunch, prime rib, twice baked potatoes, carrots, crescent rolls. Goat cheese appetizer, with creme de mint candy for dessert.
That's it.
As always, email me with comments weinkeremyer@hotmail.com 24 December It's Christmas time, pretty babyOnce again it's Christmas (well tomorrow is), as I sit here, I'm wondering if I'll get a good night's sleep or not. It seems to be a tradition for me to wake up numerous times in the night, the night before Christmas, not that I'm excited like a little child anymore, just seems to be ingrained in my brain, but seeing as how I did that last night, I don't know if it will be that way tonight. Personally, I just want to sleep
 the whole night through and wake up rested (and not at 4 or 7am, 8 would be nice), here's hoping.I snagged this off my friends blog, ***Your 2005 Song Is*** Don't Cha by the Pussycat Dolls "Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me" What happens in 2005, stays in 2005! What Hit Song of 2005 Are You? Ironically I have the link to this song, so I think it's a good song.
Wrapping up, I am checking my blogs I read everyday, my guinea pig gnawing on me, and then I will roll into bed. So,
Merry Christmas All!
Oh, and if that offends you, too damn bad, don't read the damn blog then. My beliefs, my blog, deal with it.
Please email me with comments weinkermeyer@hotmail.com 21 December Watching my new toyI just bought Four Brothers. Yes, I know it's almost Christmas, and I should have asked for it, yadda, yadda, yadda, but I didn't know it was coming out til like 3 days ago, and then my parents said they were done shopping for me. So, guess what. I BOUGHT IT MYSELF! I love the movie, hot guys and guns, pretty much the perfect movie for me. My mother's always complaining about too much violence, not for me, I love the violence (but I don't go out and attack anyone because I listen to rap, or watch violent movies, apparently I'm in the minority).
Heh, I dropped a very heavy gift on my foot tonight. We decided we're giving it to the person, and we're not picking it up again, someone else is bringing out Christmas morning. So let this be a lesson to all of you, when you find out that gift is way too heavy, get a neighbor to help you lug it inside and hide it.
I was reading on MSN last night about the 5 guys every girl's gotta date and the 5 women every guy's gotta date. They had the older guy/girl, The Guy's Girl/The Starving Artist, The Free Spirit/The Bad Boy, The Metrosexual/The Brainy Chick, The Nice Guy/Seductress. Of course it doesn't tell your which one to keep dating/marry. Me, I'd take the bad boy, he'd have that motorcycle, those tattoos, and be free, no deadlines, kinda like the guy in Erin Brockovich who "works when he wants to work". That's my kinda guy.
Please email me with comments weinkermeyer@hotmail.com 17 December Wierd TraditionsSo, I was watching the food network tonight and they were talking about the top 5 holiday something or others. Anywho, the number one thing was wacky traditions, and the one they featured is done in Texas, it's a motorcycle barbeque for charity rally, it was also a BBQ contest. I mean what more could you want than a giant hog roast?
For those that aren't familiar with the term hog roast, it's generally done at Harley Davidson dealership, and everyone rides their bikes to it, and we eat barbeque pork. So, this one is actually at the Texas state fairgrounds, with TONS of people, TONS of food, and TONS of bikes. And they kept showing the people getting this meat ready to grill. I tell ya, I am so ready for BBQ ribs.
    Bah Humbug!What's so bad about being in a grumpy mood? Just cause it's around the holidays, it's wrong? The world will not end if I'm in a bad mood, guarantee. And yet, everyone wants me to talk to them about why I'm grumpy. Don't know, but it's normal to be in a grumpy mood every once in awhile.
Just let me be in my BAD MOOD AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!
   13 December Never MindI remember why I love Iowa (or at least this season). Today when I left the house to catch the bus, I was reminded why I love winter in IA. The trees were coated with a thin frost, like they were dipped in white paint, just enough to coat them, as was everything else. It's just under freezing and it's beautiful out, this is what I love about winter. When it's just cold enough to have snow (and today frost), but not quite so cold you freeze. I was looking at all the scenery as I was riding the bus, wishing I had a better camera than what's just in my phone. The only downside is that the other day it was warm enough to melt stuff, so there are green and brown patches sticking through the snow, also the sidewalk's kinda slippery. But of course by this time, I'm more or less used to it, like John Candy says in Cool Runnings "Grip with your toes". And of course the fog helped make the snowscape, when we stopped at an intersection, where across the road is a field, it was almost like we were in the country, you couldn't see to the end of the field, as if nothing else was there.
Well, one final down, one to go. Yay! No more soc. Technically it should be 3 down one to go, but since I only have two this finals week. Anthropology tomorrow, fun fun. I plan to go to work, read, read more at home, and of course go over my notes and the study guide. Hopefully I'll do ok. I'm thinking I won't do too bad, I have a solid C in the class now, and I got 97% for the discussion sections, so that should help. I am sooo ready for a break, I thought my week long break for Thanksgiving would help, but it seemed like my body and brain just want to get away from school, work, and responsibilities. I don't know if I'm burning out or what.
I won't have nothing to do during break, got my Reader's Digest in the mail yesterday (almost had to tie myself up, I wanted to look at it so badly
 , I actually got to look at it a little when I took out the ads, which also made me realize, maybe I'm the younger part of the target audience [oh my god, too much school, run away], cause mostly the ads were for medicines for ailments, I have a long way before I even get to them), so that means my Jane will be coming soon, also received my Christmas packet for my collageATCs group, so that will keep me busy, plus plenty of bball games at the center, plus graduation this sat, and work at the library. I think I'll be ok.I went to get my mail yesterday, and there's this box, sitting there, I'm thinking, who would send me a box. So I get it upstairs and find out it's from my aunt, still kinda curious as to why, I open it and there's food in it. Peanut brittle, those oreo things, lemon poppy seed bread, pecan sandies, chocolate peanut clusters, plus other things I'm not quite sure of what they are. It touched me that someone would send me a big box of goodies (I'm guessing it was to get through finals week, but still). And then when mom comes home last night, she delivers me two bags of groceries, a get through finals week study buddy. Cheetos, frozen dinners, breakfast bars, soup, fruit, cheese sticks, rice krispie treats. Guess this means I can't complain about having no food now.
I can't wait until tomorrow night, I'm going over to visit Karli. I haven't quite figured out what we're going to do, but I'll be done with finals, and as far as I know, she's just sitting at home with her family. Not that that's a bad thing, but I think I'd get a little sick of seeing the same people for about 3 wks or so.
Anywho, I need to get back to studying. Wish me luck people. Also wishing luck to those people I know studying for finals this week. WE WILL ALL PASS!
Email me with comments, if you're not a member of MSN or hotmail. weinkermeyer@hotmail.com 10 December How nicely Glory fliesSo I went to supper tonight at Perkins, and they have this HUGE flag. Anyways, with the wind the way it was and the big flag, it was so gorgeous and just way it was flapping in the wind. Ya know like flags are supposed to, it was so gorgeous, I just wish I had a video camera to tape it, it was just how a flag is supposed to look in the wind.
Yesterday, I was noticing how fake the snow looked. It kinda looked like the stuff they have on TV or in the movies, sparkling in the sun. Almost like if I stuck my hand in it, it would be soft and fluffy. I didn't stick my hand in it, cause I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been, just cold and wet.
So, I was on the bus yesterday staring at this guy that was standing in front of me (it was quite crowded, as it usually is in the winter), and the guy had all these stains and little bits of stuff stuck to his pants it was gross. If my pants are noticeably dirty I'm not gonna wear them out in public, or at least not where a ton of people are gonna sett them. I'm guessing he was single, or at least does not live a significant other.
I was also noticing how good most (not all) guys look in jeans.
I worked the two Iowa/Iowa State basketball games, Thursday and Friday nights, and the Marines were there for Toys for Tots, can't say I complained. I spent the time I wasn't busy staring at them. And then before they left on Thurs, there was one guy, (Korean?) that I was talking to, I told him that if he was there on Fri, I'd bring a toy & he said he'd be there, so of course I bought something Fri afternoon (a nice stuffed frog, cause you can't go bad with a stuffed animal). So, when the Marines come and start setting up Fri, I went around to south (where I was the night before), and started talking to the guys that were there, and asking about the one guy. One of the Marines says "Was her really good looking?" my response "You're all really good looking" Damn, I love Marines. Anyways. I was at north doors on Fri, and a group of Army guys, I think they were color guard, came in and as they were leaving some of the Marines who had gone out to their van earlier were coming back in, and there was no contest as to who I was gonna look at. I do love a man in uniform, but you give me a choice and my eyes are on the Marines, unless there are cops that I know (and of course they're cute).
I was also noticing, not just on the bus, but as its been colder lately, lots of the college chicks pick looking good over warmth. This is a big thing at the basketball games, chicks will come in with mini skirts on and those tiny little sweater things that just cover their arms, and don't extend past their midsection, and then they complain about the cold. I don't have any sympathy for those. I understand looking good when it's warm (hell, I dress to look good when its warm, or just to show off the ink), but when it's cold I dress for warmth, it just makes sense. But then, as my bosses at the library and co-workers at the ISC tell me, just because it's obvious to me doesn't mean it's obvious to others.
And the update on Karli: The tumor is Medulloblastoma, which usually only occurs in children, but, obviously occurs in adults as well. It's cancerous, so 6 weeks of chemo & radiation starting in Jan. Radiation everyday of the week with a shot of chemo once a week, she'll be staying in the Ronald McDonald house in IA city. There is about an 80% chance of survival, but we all know she'll survive, no doubt about it. They also have to do an MRI and check her spinal fluid to see if the cancer spread or not.
And once again, email me with comments, weinkermeyer@hotmail.com if you aren't a member of hotmail or msn. I love it when I get comments 06 December YesOnce again, there is snow covering the sidewalks, though I'm told underneath it is ice, that will be fun.
So, my weekend was fun. I worked the wrestling meet Friday night. Was at the west door until my boss came around and told me to go open another door at south. I had gloves on and my hands still froze, I ended up with 677 people and that was just me. I believe there were about 6 of those doors open, so yeah, looks like it was a huge crowd.
Saturday had to do errands, cash my paycheck, which will keep me going for awhile
 . Also had to finally mail out the Mural ATCs from the swap I hosted. And then at that time, since I was out and had extra money figured I'd go to Dutch Oven Bakery for lunch, also figured I'd invite my parents. Got to Dutch Oven and they still hadn't called back, so ordered lunch and sat down to watch the snow, which was pretty neat until I started realizing I'd have to shovel it  that kinda ruined. Finally called my parents on dad's cell. They came along and ate with me, finished my tortilla soup, which is way too spicy for me. Then we went to Jaxs to get dad some boots. Ran into Darryl Vegge there, which by the way, fourth ward people should vote in the run-off election today. Went home to get my goodie bag for Karli. Got thrown out at Karli's house. Had a nice visit with her, that really helped me. Walked home from her house, it was pretty decent out. Worked the basketball game that night, interestingly though I had the extra layers (since I froze the night before) it actually wasn't that busy at our door. Though I did need them when I waited for the bus, that was a bit chilly.Sunday, got up and shoveled snow. Did homework and stuff. That was a real exciting day.
Monday, same old school and work.
Today same thing. Though as I'm sitting here looking at the temp on my desktop, it keeps getting colder. It was -1 when I sat down about 8 and now its -11. Isn't it supposed to get warmer? Actually I think our high is 8 degrees, or something in the single digits. Someone please remind me why I love living in Iowa? 04 December GoneSome quick thoughts before I head off to bed.
Went to see Karli yesterday, and if I thought hearing her voice helped, seeing her helped a whole bunch more. I have a better outlook on the whole situation now. So I'm upbeat about that. Unfortunately, my holiday spirit left last Monday when I found out about her. And I know the only thing I want for Christmas is for her to be better.
Also, was talking to some people saying I might be going somewhere over break, I don't think it's gonna happen anymore. It just seems to cost too much, and since I have a very hard time at saving money, I will be working and getting more. Maybe I won't be in debt to my parents after buying books next semester.
Well, I'm beat and I have 2 tests and a paper this next week, so I definitely need my rest.
And once again, please email me if you're not a member of Hotmail or MSN and have comments. weinkermeyer@hotmail.com 01 December The strongest person I know in the world has a brain tumorMy best friend has a brain tumor. Easiest thing to type on the computer, but try saying it out loud to a loved one, without tears, can't do it.
I found this out on Monday. I was all happy and was calling Karli about my great news. Later I get a voicemail message from her mom saying she's in the hosipital in IA city and she has a brain tumor. It's so hard to act normal after hearing that. I was walking across campus listening to the message, tears streaming down my face. And of course lots more of those after calling Becki (her mom) back. I got the news about 3, I was at work til 6 and I honestly have no memory of what I did. I do know I got on the bus, and later got off the bus, and I remember stopping against a light pole and just standing. I found out later looking at a clock, I was there about 40 minutes. Just standing there in the rain, didn't feel the cold, the rain, or even see anything. I think I was in shock.
I got home and told my mom, who's reaction was pretty much the same as mine "WHAT?" Then my mom hugged me, which she never does, pretty much cause I'm not into hugs. Then I went upstairs and I don't remember what I did. Later I had to go back down to give something to my dad, who also gave me a hug, I knew he knew even if he didn't say anything. I've always prided myself at being able to not cry in front of people, but this, this news tore me apart.
I told another one of my high school friends Tues at lunch and we hugged & cried (I hate crying in public), it helped. Then that night Karli called me, and that helped sooo much. I never knew how much just hearing her voice would mean to me.
She had a biopsy yesterday afternoon and was feeling good after it. This morning she was feeling badly again, so they kept her longer for more tests and last I heard she may be coming home tomorrow, but if not, she'll be coming back Sat. Her mom's not calling anyone until they are in the car. Next Tues the drs are talking and then they're all supposed to go back next week to talk about the results and options.
I just don't understand how this could happen to my best friend, the strongest person I know. It's just devasting, not something you ever thought would happen to you or someone you know. I know she has a huge support network that would do anything for her. All I want for Christmas now, is for her to be better, forget everything else, just heal my friend.
So, if anyone prays, I know we'd all appreciate it, I've already asked my freebie group for prayers and other people are keeping her in their thoughts.
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