goodbye

it was time ... you were confined to a bed, unable to distinguish between those you knew and those you didn't much of the time, unable to recall anything other than what others prompted and only from your early years, unable to recognize me and your son when we last visited. but when you were grandma, you were a great one. so involved and so supportive, i will always cherish the memories i have you helping me sell cookies for girl scouts, spending the night at your house and drinking orange juice out of small red cups, you coming to my elementary school graduation, and all the other countless things you did during our time together. i hope you are in a better place, maybe reunited with grandpa in the next live ...

japan blog is updated

check it out! http://allisonthejet.blogspot.com

packing sucks!

yup it does ... packing sucks royally! at least when moving out of the dorm, you know you have to pack everything. and in my case, i didn't have to worry about weight limits or space or anything like that, because i could just stuff my car full of shiot and head home. now ... i'm limited by 2 suitcases and a carry on. i thought i would have problems with weight, but evidently it's difficult to pack my suitcases with more weight than i'm allotted, so no issues there. instead, now it's just about space and how to pack smartly. but i'm sending a huge box, i hope the post office doesn't look at me like i'm crazy and try to say that they don't ship things that size, but i checked! the dimensions cannot be more than 108 inches and can't weigh more than 66 pounds. my box's dimensions are like 77 inches and it weight 60 pounds. shouldn't be a problem right?

well anyways, starting to freak out about going to japan finally. it's all settling in, but still seems unreal. i kind of just want to hurry up and get there so i can get through this funky stage right now. the inbetween stage, the dude what i'm doing stage, the can't even read my harry potter because i don't have time stage :-P

oh yeah, my predecessor sent me 2 pictures of the inside of my house. as ann put it so well, they kind of look like picaso's because she stiched multiple pictures together in order to see the whole room. i'm excited, the place looks really nice and clean. can't wait to see it!!! well i guess you guys will have to wait to see it as well, for some reason they don't want to load :-P

crazy weird

so tonight we went over to my parents' friends house, and of course, we played some boulderdash. have you ever heard two answers that sound almost the same? probably. we would typically think that one of them must be the right one and one of the players just happened to know the definition of some crazy word. so tonight that happened. the word was whisersnavet, or something like that, and the definition i came up with was (probably because i had heard the definition before while playing a long time ago) the plastic cap at the ends of a shoelace. well, the answers are being read off and one of the other answers was, the plastic tube at the end of a shoelace. pretty darn similar right? in my mind i'm thinking, holy crap, did i really guess the right answer? i don't remember that word going with that definition, but by gollie i think i got it. hand on the back for me right? well low and behold, the answer was actuall a hard blow to the body. me, and my parents' friends' son (whom i had just met tonight), had thought of the exact same thing for the exact same word at the exact same time! pretty darn crazy weird! but we got all the points because everyone else thought it was it! ha!

on other news, i have a car in japan now! well going to buy it, all settled, i get it! nifty huh?

it's official

we can no longer sing in to our soka email accounts :( i was seriously thinking that they wouldn't actually turn off our accounts for some time, and if they were, i was hoping that they would officially tell us themselves instead having to hear it from another student! what is that about?! so i guess no more student emails from the dean or other random department. it's a good thing i saved my emails, i guess if you didn't email me and i didn't email you (thus i don't know your email address) then i don't need it. crap! i forgot to save the contact list of all the seniors. did any of you happen to save it?

ok, i'm off to mammoth today for more shopping! joy ... can i just sit at home for once? guess not ~ later gators.

oh yeah, thanks jessica for looking up that number. everything worked out a okay except for the fact that they charge me $20 now when they used to only charge me $10. suck butt!!

can i get a witness?

so it's official, i'm a slave to my parents ... BUT someone in the near vicinity has wireless which means and i can connect to the internet in my room ~ waa hoooo!!! it's excellent. i've been working like a dog the last couple of days - wait where does that saying come from because i know for sure that my dogs barely do much more than sleep and maybe catch a ball! anyways, we got new carpeting so it's as if we moved again, had to move all the furniture out of the rooms then back then unpack everything. but it's quite nice.

let's see ... i was sad to leave kansas on sunday, still miss it and i hear everyone there misses me! hee. had a dentist appointment this morning, went well = nothing majorly wrong with the teeth. tomorrow i leave for so cal and not exactly sure what i'm doing tomorrow night. man it's been non-stop go go go since saturday and i'm ready for a break! i guess that will have to wait until sometime next week, or maybe not because i have a bunch of projects to do around the house aside from needing to study japanese and getting my act together before i leave in exactly one month! holy crap.

ok, bye :-)

splurged

this last weekend, my bro, sis-in-law and i went to a town called eureka springs ... evidently it is the san francisco of arkansas, except much much smaller. it's really a quaint town, and we stayed in this quaint cottage that was really cute!! i did some shopping, splurged on stuff i probably shouldn't have. investment, investment (that's what i keep telling myself!).

getting nervous about japan some more. there might be a chance that i wont be living in the house i thought i was going to be living in. have to wait and see. ahhh, next month! holy crazy crap!!

leaving kansas on saturday and in all honesty, don't really want to leave. i love my folks, but there's just a lot more to do out here and it's fun! actually around young people :P and i love my bro and sis. oh well, what can you do right? we've kind of talked about maybe living near each other some time in the future (after they move back to cali probably), but first japan.

oh yeah, got more bras from lane bryant and now have a total of 6 from there! i was even accepted for a card, which never happens!