- I think it is really funny how xanga completely redid its look and now is very similar to facebook. They realize they are so four years ago - Chris and I got new running shoes two days ago. We are faithfully plugging away at our training schedule for the half marathon! -We've been looking at houses which is so much fun! Still have a couple of months before we might really make an offer, but we've started with a realtor. Seems like a puzzle though because there are so many great houses except for one major thing - pet odor, location, no backyard, etc. - I adore my new life as a freelance interpreter - Chris got roped into being the Sophomore class sponsor and their major project is planning the Valentine's Dance. He's been up to his eyeballs in that and has already decided he isn't doing it last year. It makes me laugh that he has to plan the dance! Looks like I may be getting my first experience chaperoning next weekend! - I'm going to start at CSDVRS next month as a video interpreter (same concept as Sorenson). That will be something new and different; I'm curious. -I'm fascinated with the human body lately - I've been reading a book on natural family planning and it just amazes me all the intricacies of our bodies! - I'm glad that this TV strike is rumored of ending and we might get to watch The Office again - I've been convicted of all the pride in my life. Yikes. Lord, please change me! - I'm looking forward to wearing non-winter clothes again soon. It is always so hard to imagine it being warm enough for shorts and tank tops when it is snowing out. - I hate hand-washing the special clothes that can't go in the washing machine. - Easter is my least favorite commerical holiday - I think all the bunnies, chicks, and pastels are not even cute. And you know it is all going up on Feb. 15. Or maybe even the evening of the 14th. - I love reading and have been discovering more and more great authors. - College seems so long ago. Chris said that he still counts our "adult life" in terms of college years. We are now "juniors" in "real life". And that it will be weird when our adult life just goes on and on and on. -An interpreter in the community dropped dead on her way in to a job yesterday. It always makes me think about mortality issues. - I've lived in Indiana 7 years. Eventually, I'm going to have lived in the midwest longer than in Oregon. Sometimes I catch myself doing little things that make me realize how I have really become a mid-westerner; such as asking "Washington state?" when someone mentions Washington and doesn't specify D.C. or state. Growing up near Washington, Washington was always just Washington. I'd never even heard the phrase "Washington state". -Our realtor is from Seattle and has lived in Portland as well. It was a nice connection point. And always validating to meet someone else that has moved across the country - makes me feel like it is okay that I did that. - Valentine's day tomorrow - I'm going to buy a heart-shaped pepperoni pizza at Papa Murphy's. -These bullet point type posts don't ever have good ending spots. Oh well. The end. | 
