14 posts tagged “family”
Family left this morning. I'll see them in two weeks, going home for a race. But i'm sad now, everything looks so vacant without them here. lights are off where yesterday they were on and everyone was reading or knitting, just being.
...we're a family here."
but i think it's kind of cute... My sister's and my facebook walls, read from the bottom...
Kat wrote
at 8:16am
i'm not telling you! steal it from your own 1-year-old!
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 7:31pm yesterday
what the heck is melba toast?
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Kat wrote
at 7:09pm yesterday
WHEN YOU WERE A BABY I SOMETIMES STOLE YOUR MELBA TOAST AND ZWIEBAK COOKIES.
they were kind of good.
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Kat wrote
at 7:19am on May 20th, 2008
happy birthday my amazing, wonderful, gorgeous sister! i could not be more proud of the Quality Grown Up you've become.
ps i take most of the credit.
LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 9:49pm on May 17th, 2008
i knew scorpion didn't look right. Scorpion. with an o. stay in school.
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Kat wrote
at 9:41pm on May 17th, 2008
OH A NAP. yeah i totally took a 3 hour nap. it was teh awesome.
Hey just got off the phone with family. Dad's asleep on the floor. Melanie is watching a movie. Grandma got bit by a scorpian last night and called poison control.. She soaked her foot and it seems to be better now. She said it hurt a lot. but she didn't go to a doctor.. b/c you know.. she already went wednesday for her cough.
our grandma is pretty punk rock.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 9:32pm on May 17th, 2008
they are in relation to your status
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Kat wrote
at 9:30pm on May 17th, 2008
facebook keeps posting wall-notes from you, but i have no idea what they mean.
can i get my college-student-to-english dictionary, plzzzz?
Love!
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 9:25pm on May 17th, 2008
I took one. Did you?
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 5:56pm on May 17th, 2008
me too. lets take one.
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Kat wrote
at 8:15am on May 16th, 2008
ok the background checks are back. you can live with your friends.
You should all road trip to nashville and play music on a street corner (it's what they do, here). I'll make sure you have a place to sleep.
:)
I LOVE MY BABY SISTER!
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Kat wrote
at 8:10am on May 14th, 2008
i am pretty cool. i dunno what it is, i was just destined to be -this- awesome. Did you get my card??? Please say yes.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 3:22am on May 14th, 2008
you know, its a good thing you are cool, or I would be so embarassed.
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Kat wrote
at 6:43pm on May 4th, 2008
on the phone with daddy+melanie . we're talking about you. call me soon.
love.
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Kat wrote
at 7:49am on May 2nd, 2008
why is family the last to know? Ps i love how you misspelled 'University' in your education info. I ♥some good irony.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 11:36am on April 27th, 2008
wow nina. GOOD JOB! seriously. I loathe running. And it is me. MY sisnter ran a half marathon. I shouldmake a shirt or something.
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Kat wrote
at 8:35pm on April 26th, 2008
GUess whose sister ran the half marathon. ME. wait.. You? wait.. now i'm confused.
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Kat wrote
at 11:13pm on April 17th, 2008
i'm bored. come over.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 11:37pm on March 28th, 2008
Hi sister. Happy birthday.... again. I love!
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 12:32am on March 28th, 2008
It is one of those three pronged curler things. It is way fun
Happy birthday in an hour and a half! I guess wheere you are it is probably your birthday already though.... oh well. LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 11:17pm on March 27th, 2008
you're a good sister. xo
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Kat wrote
at 8:32pm on March 24th, 2008
on a scale of 1 to 10 you are an 11. this is the higher math I learned at ASU. LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 10:36am on March 23rd, 2008
people who wear chuck taylors don't eat meat. read your emo rules!!!
bye love. LOVE LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 1:16pm on March 9th, 2008
you're number 1.
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Kat wrote
at 8:23am on March 4th, 2008
i told everyone. i told like random people. everyone knows. u rock.
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Kat wrote
at 6:47pm on March 3rd, 2008
congratulations you awesome girl! i'm so PROUD OF YOU!!! You are seriously number one. I share genetic material with NUMBER FREAKIN ONE!
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 4:03pm on February 24th, 2008
I am glad that I am one of your interests.
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Kat wrote
at 2:44pm on February 23rd, 2008
you were in my dream last night. we were on the train in SF and your cell phone was like, the size of a shoe and purple with like big fisher price buttons. and i was like 'You use that?!' and you were like 'Nina. No. Omg. i use this one." and then you pulled out my cell phone. anyway it was weird. MISS YOU LOVE LOVE.
nina
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Kat wrote
at 12:38pm on February 16th, 2008
why is the 'single' icon a broken heart? Is this something to teach little girls?
LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 10:04am on February 9th, 2008
you're my favorite music major, and i'm hugging you like crazy!!!! LOVE!
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Kat wrote
at 8:39am on January 29th, 2008
Text Messaging :: (FREE TO VZW PEOPLE, 500 MSG'S PER MONTH TO NON VZW PEOPLE)
love!
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Kat wrote
at 12:45pm on January 26th, 2008
yay! my sister is so rad.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 12:43pm on January 26th, 2008
you did text me! I hope you had fun last night!
Yes, my phone is both rad and working. I LOVE IT! :-D Than you!!
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Kat wrote
at 11:46am on January 26th, 2008
heyyyy hah i totally txted you last night. Is your phone working and/or rad? love!
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Kat wrote
at 4:12pm on January 19th, 2008
Love!!!!11!!
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Kat wrote
at 8:57pm on January 15th, 2008
well it's not like you actually read email or anything. from now on if i need to tell you something, i'll just do it here ;-) heheeee! xoxo i love you. -nina
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 8:38pm on January 15th, 2008
haha! nice status nina. I will look for it right now.
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Kat wrote
at 9:13pm on January 9th, 2008
so. i understand you are married.
LET'S TALK SOON.
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Kat wrote
at 12:16pm on December 28th, 2007
hehe wiki says "illegally distilled liquor" also known as 'hooch'. it's supposed to make you go blind, but grandpa's not, and we aren't. (we only had a sip).
LOVE!
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 10:50am on December 28th, 2007
what is moonshine?
Kat wrote
at 10:46am on December 28th, 2007
about what you'd expect. BF and I tried some moonshine, ate a lot. Hugged people. It was fun, you were missed.
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 10:39am on December 28th, 2007
how was alabama and such?
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Kat wrote
at 11:46am on December 27th, 2007
there are so many buttons. at least in myspace half of them don't work.
muchos besos. love nina
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Shmoo (Arizona) wrote
at 11:23pm on December 26th, 2007
NINA!! I am so glad you have a facebook!!!! Now you can look at all of my pictures and we can write messages all over eachothers walls!!!
apparently Miss Melanie is now sick with the plague my dad had last week. A plague so intense that he couldn't even rouse himself to talk to his baby girl (that would be me) on the phone. Fevers, cough, general yuck.
Poor parents. I hope you both feel better, best, soon.
Last night I had some drinks with friends and I think we pretty much talked about... everything. Way fun.
Today our office is hosting a tour for some Enormous Business Customer so everyone ran around filing things and changing lightbulbs and making things shine. I'm wearing a shirt with a collar, and real shoes (not Chucks).
Tonight is running and maybe .. maybe i'll go for a tan. Last time i was laying on my headphone wire and i've got a curly tan line on my shoulder.
I'm off. enjoy the day.
In 13 minutes it will be my 32nd birthday. If you had told me 10, or 5, or probably even 3 years ago that I'd be 32, living in Nashville with a FANTASTIC guy, training for half marathons and being vegan, I wouldn't have believed it. As far as I knew, life stopped at 29.
I can't believe I'm this girl. What did I ever do to deserve the kind of awesome I get to wake up to every day? I talk to all my parents and associated parent counterparts, and they all love me. My sister and brothers return my calls. My boyfriend's parents seem to like me, for no reason i guess other than i sort of treat my man right. My cat is uberfantastic. My friends are amazing, and are constantly reminding me how many good, good people there are on this planet. They give me hope. I really love the work I do. I can dance, I can sing. I find joy in silly things... which may be silly, but it is first and foremost, joyful. I have great running shoes. I can do more today than I could last year, or in my 29th year, or possibly any year I've been alive. I have nothing but high hopes for the future.
I mean.. i know I've gone thru some drama this year.. but.. really, right now, i wouldn't trade who I am and what I've got for anything.
I wouldn't be anyone else today.
yay me, happy birthday me.
My daddy told me today that the family came together to say goodbye to our beloved Pugsley, aka, Pugs, aka Pugser-wugser-nugser-bugser-mugser. Since everyone's divorced and run off to college and spread to the four corners of the earth, this is not an easy feat; I wish that I could have been there with Pugs, daddy, grandma, my sister, and my ex-and-yet-forever stepmom, saying goodbye to our little pug. Who was not actually little. Nor a pug.
Pugsley was a pitbull-shepherd-mix (or something). She came to us ...gosh.. I would have had to be in late high school or early college... Pugsley was a recovering rescue dog; as I hear it, she was found tied to a park bench in the park, left for dead; someone had clipped her ears and tried to fight her, but Pugs was smaller than a real pitbull and probably not as strong. She didn't have a violent bone in her body, and she lost that fight. My parents took her home and she made herself a member of our family. I don't know who came up with the name 'Pugsley', but it suited her. There was no question, 'Pugsley' was her name.
Pugsley was not especially attractive. She probably wasn't destined for great beauty, anyway.. a little goofy and bony in the face, the fierce-ish crossbite of the pitbull and sort of a taut yet wiggly roly-poly body. Then someone clipped off her ears -badly- and left her looking kind of menacing. But she had tenderness, depth and soul behind her eyes and the softest fur, and she had a lifelong habit of wiggling herself into tiny spaces in arms, laps, and legs in order to be close to her people.
You could leave a room and enter it again two minutes later, and her tail would thump in welcome. Any homecoming was a celebration for the wiggly Pugser.... 2 hours, 2 days, 2 years.. Even when you were crawling through the doggy door in the dark at 2 AM because you forgot your keys, you could count on her to lick your face and wiggle her bottom in sheer joy.
She was a champion ball and cat chaser... and catcher. Incidentally, only one cat has ever survived an altercation with the jaws of the JabberPugsley, and that's my sweet baby kitty Jonas. (i cannot speak for his peace of mind or anything that haunts him in his dreams, however).
As she aged, she grew grey, knobby and arthritic. It took her longer to bounce up and wiggle a happy hello, and she didn't catch anything anymore, but she loved nestling into the bean bag chair with her family, or nuzzling them awake in the morning. She was still soft. Her tail still thumped. She still wiggled into waiting laps and open arms.
After so many years of making us smile and snuggle, my family said goodbye to our Pugser-wugser-nugser-bugser-mugser this month. Dad said she was happy and wiggling, and loving the attention as she was showered with love, hugs, kisses, tears, memories, and many many thanks for being such a sweet, unforgettable part of our family.
Good girl Pugs!! Who's a good girl!!?!
(that's not me, that's my baby sister and our beautiful Pugsley)
Guess whose little baby sister was just chosen as Drum Major for University of Arizona's marching band?
Oh yeah, that would be MINE.
What's the meanest thing you've ever said to someone?
back when I was the meanest, most terrible child on the planet, i used to tell my little brother that the reason his dad never picked him up on weekends was because he didn't love him. My dad, of course, picked me up every weekend. That must have broken his little heart.
the truth is, his dad is an asshole. and mine isn't. That's not his fault. Later in adolescence, my brother had some problems, some Big Bad stuff rooted in low self-esteem and sadness. I feel responsible for at least part of it-- i always will.
It's probably the one thing i regret most, in my life. I feel like crying, just thinking about it.
Well, whatever it is you people of assorted races and religions plan to be doing for the next 48 hours or so, I hope you're doing it with your arms around the people you love most.
happy days!
kat
Well, it's official. Mom is officially on my myspace friends list. i mean, i couldn't do it... there was her picture, smiling at me, next to the buttons 'APPROVE' or 'DENY'. HOW could i DENY my own mother? She squoze me out her vag people! her vag!!!
heh. I'll let that settle a moment.
I was in the stylists chair talking about how crazy my mom is, and later my stylist was telling me about how sick her mom is, and in chemo and etc. Goddamn. I'm such a tool sometimes.
I may make fun of my mom, and I may take issue with some of her decisions and we don't have a whole lot in common. but I love her to the end of everything, and she's my mom, my only one. She raised me, well most of the way, and I'm proud of the job she's done. She's loving and beautiful, and she'd die for me or my brothers. I mean, how many people can you say that about, right? I wouldn't trade her, and I'm proud to have her on my friends list. I'm very lucky to have her around.
