Blogging @ MindSay

(in no particular order)

• Dipped my toe back into the restaurant game.
• Had a play date with my nephew Simon and my friends Victoria and Christian
• Attended a housewarming for my sister and brother-in-law
• Got to (finally!) start telling people about my upcoming niece/nephew *see below*
  
• Applied for a new job
• Got drunk with my brother-in-law
• Went to an historical shoe exhibit in Minneapolis with Elena
• Had lunch with Elena
  
• Am currently planning a spontaneous trip to Portland
• Had a New Kids on the Block Anniversary Day
• Got to hang out with Sony/Jay/Dylan/Jaysa
• Got to hang out with Kelly/Mark/Victoria/Christian
• Got to hang out with Mindy/Tom/Clayton/Lewie
• Saw my friend Stephanie from Arizona
• Found out my friend Adam is moving to China!
• Had another little baby (Congrats to Dickey and Steve!) born into the group (Welcome Agnes Therese, born 8/12!)
• Celebrated my brother-in-law's 25th birthday
• Went shopping with my nephew (he's a riot!)
  

....and to think, I was only gone from Mindsay for 17 days!

This was supposed to be a journal entry just for the sake of making a journal entry (and also because a certain boyfriend of mine won't stop nagging me on how I need to update!), but now I actually have something worth mentioning.

I'm tired of not going in full depth with my life in my journals. It's my journal, dammit. I should be able to say what I want without fear that my friends are going to judge me or ridicule me based upon my actions. Sure, I can get into a little detail with things, but I want to be able to blog about EVERYTHING. So why this particular journal? Well, first of all, my LJ is mostly (if not, only) online acquaintances, so blogging about people whom they don't know is sort of pointless for me and for them. Secondly, my Xanga is my group of close friends, some of who I know won't judge me, but there is a particular person who I am almost positive would. Thirdly, my Myspace blog... well, I don't really use it for anything, let's just say. So Mindsay it was.

And with that, if anybody is even remotely interested in what is going on with my life, tell me, and you'll be added to my friends list. I'm still going to make public entries, but if I ever need to update about something really personal, it's going up here. So yeah.

hot hollister co worker gave me a ride home
;D

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im extremely frustrated
i had to change my name and email on here because im nervous thataj is going to find my blogs and read them all. theres nothing wrong with anything i write, but its my stuff, like... i suppose what im trying to say is its personal [even though you guys read it AND its on the internet]. the thing is that i think that you and i share a form of comradery because we are fellow bloggers. he on the other hand is an outsider...

im not making any sense

but anyways, he told me he was curious and he might start looking for me unless i showed him one of my blog entries of my own accord

what should i do?
i feel slightly violated and he doesnt understand that im being serious when i dont want to tell/show him

help?

So I am thinking that I haven't blogged much lately and how I wished there was something interesting to blog about. Not my life, but something interesting in the world around me, maybe something I could learn or teach to you.

Well, I had nothing. Couldn't think of a thing. BUT--luckily for me, I often send myself links to interesting things on the internet that I think I might like to blog about. I have a whole folder for it in my email. I figure I'll get to them eventually, but life intervenes and I end up not needing them because I blog about other things.

Imagine my joy when I remembered that folder today. I figure I could poke through it and find something awesome and create a new, fun, blog. To my surprise, the universe had other plans (not that this blog isn't new and fun, it is). I opened the most recent message in the file, first, and saw a link to something called the Exploratorium. I didn't remember what it was, so I opened the link.

Flashback to three days ago.

I am on my way to the grocery store on a Friday night (I know, big exciting plans) when I got a call from Kelly and she persuaded (okay it wasn't that hard) me to stop by for a beer. She and Mark and the kids just got back from a family vacation and they wanted to chat.

So we're hanging out at their house, drinking beer and chatting when Kelly asks if I've seen this cool book by Eric Carle. (Author of wonderful children's books like "The Very Hungry Catepillar"). She and the kids and Mark had stopped by my library a couple weeks earlier and checked out some books. One of them was "Hello, Red Fox" by Eric Carle. I hadn't seen it so she handed it over to me. On the inside front cover was this description of the "why" of the book. Neither Mark nor Kelly had read this, though they had both read the book, so we all took a moment to learn something. This is what it said:

     One evening about two hundred years ago, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stopped at a tavern to dine. As he sat at his table, he gazed at the waitress stood taking an order at a nearby table. Her red dress stood out in sharp contrast against the white wall behind her. When the waitress moved away, Goethe continued to stare in the same direction, at the wall.

     Then a strange thing happened: on the white wall he saw a faint glowing image of the waitress's dress - but it was green, not red! Why? This moment of wonder led Goethe into more than twenty years of scientific research on color.

     In 1810 he published Farbenlehre, his color theory. He determined that there were three primary colors - red, blue and yellow - from which all the other colors could be made, and that each color had an opposite, or complimentary, color.

     Goethe (1749 - 1832) is celebrated as a great German poet, novelist and philosopher. But, to him, his color theory was his most important achievement.

Why, oh why, am I telling you this? Well, this book was pretty cool, a way to explore color and opposites in an unusual manner. Probably not really geared toward a three-year-old, but for an older child, a great gift. I enjoyed reading it and learning something but then I kind of forgot all about it. Until today. (Behold, the power of inter-connected learning!)

When I opened the link to the Exploratorium, I saw a link to exhibits and suddenly remembered why I copied this link. The things on size and spatial recognition (Changing Illusions) are pretty cool. And there is one exhibit called Bird in a Cage that is exactly what Eric Carle is demonstrating in his book! How awesome is that?

And here I thought I had nothing to teach you.....turns out, in a weak moment, the universe thrust some synchronicity into my path, just to make me happy. It worked.

"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
     -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


 

My bff that I proposed to whilst rolling balls, Dane. Well, he and I are hopefully spending the 4th of July together! Oh, and I'm gonna go to his house and spend the night tomorrow! (And go swimming ;) )
Well, I've made him make a mindsay, 'cuz he loves blogging on myspace... so I wanted him to join the big kids. So, show him the mindsay love friends! His name is frontlinesniper and I'll love you all forever if you give the love of my life a nice friendly welcome that shows him I was right to rope him in on mindsay!