23rd Birthday

So I am one year older.  And I feel no different.  For some reason, I liked being 22 but I feel like 23 is a weird number.  I don't know why.

But my birthday was pretty great. 

In the morning I met my friend for breakfast at Le Peep then we went shopping at Flatirons Mall.  I bought myself a shirt and ran into my sister-in-law.

When I got home, Scott was planning things and discussing secret things with his mom and with his sister and my mom over the phone, so I was evenutally made to leave the house.  I drove my sister's car to the church and met her as she came home from Mexico.  I helped her unpack and take everything home.

I got a surprise call from my friend Telah who is my exact duplicate, just 9 years older. It was exciting to get to talk to her for a bit.  I spent the rest of the afternoon with my family at their house because Scott was busy getting ready for the evening.

He picked me up at 5pm or so.  He told me I needed to dress for warm weather, since it had been so hot lately.  He began to drive North, but then got on the highway and drove South.  We drove toward the mountains and I had no idea where we were going.  I kept yelling the names of places I thought we could be headed to.  These included, "Colorado Mills Mall! Arby's Headquarters! Buffalo Bill's Grave!"  We got all the way to Idaho Springs, and I really thought we were going to Beau Jo's Pizza, but I wanted to go to the Argo Mill Mine.  I love the mine, so I kept asking about it, but Scott told me, "We're not going there!"

Anyway, he took me to Echo Lake Park (on the way to Mt. Evans).  I opened the trunk of the car and there was a picnic basket with a blanket, basket of flowers, a gift and clothes for me to change into.  I was so excited, he had really fooled me the whole time.  I had no idea what we were going to do. We sat down and had our picnic.  There were champagne glasses for the sparkling apple cider(!), homemade brownies and chargrilled chicken pesto paninis!  It was so great.  We then went for a little hike around the mountain and the woods.   We headed back to town around 8pm.  Back in Northglenn we walked to The Glenn where I got to drink for free (since it was my bithday).

Sunday afternoon my mom hosted a party at her house with Scott's family and mine.  And it was fun too!

I still have no job, but things are good!

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Home from China!

Hello hello! 

I am not entirely sure anyone even looks at this anymore, especially since its been almost a year since I posted.  But here it is anyway:

My self-esteem is pretty low today.  I have been home from China for exactly 3 weeks and I still have no job.  It wasn't a high priority there for awhile, but we are looking at buying a house and we can't even consider it until I have a job.  So I feel some pressure there, and I am qualified for very few things.

I was excited to come home and see my sister, but she has totally changed in her attitude toward me lately.  Like she is angry that I am here now whereas before she was so excited.  One thing about her is that when she is in a bad mood, she is incredibly mean, and I don't respond to that well.  I get really hurt.  So our church is going to Mexico in less than a week and there is an open spot I could take, and everyone wants me to go but her, so I probably won't go.  I am not quite sure how to deal with her since she's 16, and so won't take what I say seriously anyway.  I tried to talk to her today and it just didn't go anywhere.

Living my in-laws is not the easiest thing as well.  Its not too bad really, except that I don't want to make his dad upset and as Scott told me last night "there is no way to please him."  So that makes it harder for me.

Last night Scott came to me and said "we've lost all our China pictures."  Somehow, in the fixing of the computer, all but about 1000 of our pictures from China are gone (there are over 10,000). 

I also have no car.  So there is no way for me to really go anywhere unless I walk there or someone picks me up.  That makes finding a job a little more difficult.

So I am really down today.  I developed a cold which is never fun and my throat really hurts.

Not to come off complaining at the very beginning, but that is just what is going on with me.  Any of these things by itself would be managable, but they're all hitting me at once so it feels like so much.

I have a phone, which is exciting.  Its a nice phone too.  And I get to go shopping for clothes soon.  Thats going to be good too.

Well, good to be back I guess.  :)

Hello from China

"Hello - thanks to my wonderful mom this is getting posted.

Xanga is blocked here in China so I will probably not post on here until July of 2008.  You can go to http://snkadamson.blogspot.com to see updates from China.  Funny thing with blogspot - I can go to the pages to update my blog but I can't actually go to the page to look at it.  This place is just silly.

I would still like to know whats going on with all of you so please feel free to message me on my myspace or facebook (both work pretty well here).

Hope you are all well and I'll see you in 11 months!"

We're staying with my parents until we move so these posts will be few and far between for a little while (as if they weren't already)

I say that now but perhaps this computer and I will once again become friends and put the past behind us....or maybe not.

And halfmom - I will get back to you its just taking longer than one might have hoped.  I do appreciate the concern though.  :)

its late and I smell like bleach from cleaning all day.