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what home is for.

February 22, 2010

I moved a couple times growing up, at pretty crucial stages. Elementary school in Pittsburgh, middle school in Indiana, high school in Chicago. I don’t remember the first house I lived in and I’ve had more phone numbers than relationships. As a result, home has never had a geographic location for me, but rather a [...]

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sometimes…

February 18, 2010

Sometimes you’re not yourself.
Sometimes your naturally bubbly personality seems a little bit forced.
Sometimes you sit at lunch with your friends and are witty and funny but struggling on the inside.
Sometimes you take furious notes in class but don’t absorb anything the professor says.
Sometimes you find life just a little too overwhelming.
Sometimes you just go through [...]

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living life in color.

January 26, 2010

When I was younger, my dad used to tell my sister and I that back when he was a kid, there was no color. Not that there was no color TV, but no color in life. It was his little variation on the whole “When I was your age, we had to walk 5 miles [...]

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a double weekend update because i'm a slacker.

January 25, 2010

Let’s rewind a bit here and take a look at the weekend before this weekend. You know, the one where awesome things happened and I just skipped over all of them entirely because I suck.
Two Weekends Ago Recap

Ashley came to visit and we said goodbye to Derek. There might have been tears and there was [...]

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a dog can whistle better than i can which is pathetic.

January 7, 2010

I landed in Chicago today, officially ending my tour of the South and the warm weather. I promise updates soon (haven’t I been promising this for far too long?) but I WILL DO IT.
In the meantime, check out this video my mom showed me today (after we spent half an hour watching cat videos.)

I may [...]

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from my family to yours.

December 23, 2009

I’m in full swing of family time during the holidays.
My parents run and bike together in the mornings, my sister cooks us all dinner, and we rent movies to watch as a family. Today I helped my mom address Christmas cards while my dad helped my sister cook. We’re in that stage where we enjoy [...]

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