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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Your mom has facebook


Facebook. All of you bloggers that aren't on facebook need to get on. It's the best thing since sliced bread. Take today for example, I woke up, got dressed, got on facebook for 10 minutes. Went to work for a school district that doesn't allow the internet to go to the Facebook site (dooooo!). Came home from work and got on facebook. Needed to study for a final exam that was at 2:30; instead spent about 30 minutes on Facebook. Went and took the final exam. Well, the teacher insisted we do our final evaluations first on the computers, so when I was done, what do you think I did? Got on facebook. Hurried through the exam, came home to take a walk. Instead I wasted 15 more minutes on facebook reading my photo comments. Took a walk. Now I'm back. And I've already been facebooking.

What does it have to offer? HOT DAMN. My favorite part is that I can put all my pictures from various events up and everybody and their brother looks and them and puts comments!! How cool is that? It makes me feel special and like I'm the center of attention. Especially with these last set of pictures. It seems like a TON of people put comments. Funny comments. And I didn't even put all of the pictures from the trip up. YET. Anyway, for those of you with stalker tendencies, facebook is for you. You can find out the relationship status, favorite books, most recent pictures, etc etc on your newest crush or beotch you be hatin'. Lord my 1st period is rubbing off on me. Anyway, wish I could post more pictures on here, but it just ain't possible. You'll have to get on facebook. Maybe that's why I don't post more. Because I'm on facebook. Or maybe it's because of crazy anonomi.

--FARIS BUELLER

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The two-family holiday


This year was a first. This year, I grew up a little and decided to do the two-family Thanksgiving. What I mean is that Caleb, my mans, came to my family for part of the weekend and then I went with him to visit his family for the other part. It's hard to do the two family holiday, I have to say. We were in Greenville from Wednesday to Friday, then we drove from Greenville to Nashville, which involves driving on I-40, the most terrifying road on earth. Especially when your driver thinks he's Mario Andretti. So, we went and stayed with Cay's sister and her husband in Nashville for the weekend. His parents came and so did his sister and brother-in-law that live in Jacksonville. So, back up the train to my family's Thanksgiving. All in ONE day (Thursday), we decided to: drive to Charlotte/Lake Norman to have Thanksgiving lunch with my mom's family and then drive back to upstate SC to Williamston to have Thanksgiving dinner with my dad's family and then we went back home. 2 Thanksgiving dinners! Then, I got to eat again on Saturday night with Caleb's family up in Nashville. It must be really hard to be married and have to accomodate everyone's family. We were talking about how we guess that you just have to keep a tally of which holidays you spent with who to be fair. What do you married folks say?

My friend Stewart calls his holiday travels the "Triangle of Death" because his family has to go from Atlanta to Birmingham to Tennessee and back to Atl. I feel his pain.

I'm thankful for the fact that I am healthy. I can run and jump and eat whatever I want. I think I gained some pounds this weekend, but that's probably good. I'm bored at work today. Maybe I'll write another blog in a few minutes. Do I have a picture to attach to this blog? Mate, maybe I'll send you one to do.

-FARIS

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

We're getting old kids


We have reason to celebrate the whole month of November here in Charlotte because November is birthday month!!! On November 6th, I turned 26. On November 11, our friend Paul turned 26, and on November 17th Aaron turns 26. For those of you reading closely, yes, I am older than Aaron, I robbed the proverbial cradle. I like having one up on my mens. Alas, I digress. So, I love November because it's like a party all month!! I used to call November my birthday month, but now that Aaron's birthday is in November as well, I get the first half of the month and he gets the second half. So, today is November 15, the end of my bday month. ***Sigh*** Thanks to all the peeps that came out to celebrate with me at Mama Ricotta's and here is a pic of what Aaron gave me! A smokin' hot ski jacket. I should put a picture up of the jacket I was skiing in. It was one of those Land's End jackets we had in middle school. Yep, I had my previous jacket for 14 years. So, thank you Aaron for bringing my ski gear to the 21st century. Peace out kiddo's.

Monday, November 06, 2006

I'm always cold


Why am I always cold? I think that starting in mid-October and spanning through mid-May, I am cold 23/24 hours per day. I realized this over the weekend. And I was in FLORIDA for goodness sakes. Honestly, I was cold every second. I was cold in the car, inside, outside, awake, asleep. My boyfriend was about to kill me because he is the opposite. He is always hot: driving with the window down in 40 degree weather and running the AC at night. Do y'all think that I'm going to get even colder as I get older? That rhymes. Kinda. What if we didn't have heat? I'm not sure that I would have survived in the olden days.

Why does everyone call their hometown or college town "God's Country"?? I got an email this morning from a coworker and he was like..."I'm going to God's country this weekend to watch the Auburn Tigers take on the bulldawgs." I've heard people refer to the following places as God's country: Auburn, Athens, Georgia in general, Alabama in general, North Florida, and the South in general. I'm beginning to wonder what exactly IS God's country. What would God say? WWJD. My boys in my 2nd period, who are presently taking a quiz...and probably failing it...told me that they think it's mostly Alabama people that say "God's Country". Maybe they think that God likes them "extra special" or something.

-FARIS BUELLER