Christmas is over... Bah humbug

So Im back in Arkansas, and have recieved the fabulous gift of a laptop. I've been busy with family and busy with friends, namely David. I'm in Little Rock right now, and I'm having a blast. It's so good to be back home. The break is too short. My camera still has dust particles living inside of it so I can't post many pictures. I'll leave you with a couple and Merry Christmas break.

I miss you so much my heart glows red

I really miss you! That's all I can say. I want to come home now. It's been a long time coming. I'll be in LR the 22 then I go home through the 26th, then I am in Little Rock until the 1, then I"m home through the 6th then I leave the 8th. So many friends, so little time. Jed is back home and doing fine, as is PJ.

What do you want for Christmas, enourmous girl?

So We had an ISP this weekend where Christina dressed up as Santa and people brought thier pets to take a picture with her. This raised money for the Humane society and provided me with endless hours of entertainment involving Christina getting clawed on the neck by crazy dogs and having her beard eaten by crazier ones. One particular dog a pug named "peanut" had on a jingle bell santa wreath. He ran in place as if on a treadmill and stuck his entire head into the plastic fishbowl that had doggie treats in it.. It was hilarious!

OH how I miss you Aqua Teen

SNOW, too bad I look like I live in poland in 1940

keep on keepin on

I know I know, I haven't done a blog entry all week. Sorry guys, I've been working at least 56 hours a week and this week I'm clockin' 60. The project we are on has been crazy and time consuming, it also feels like we never get anything done. By the time we actually start something meaningful, something that reminds me why I signed up and gave 10 months of my life away, (painting a clinic for low-income children, remodeling a school room, painting 40 doors for another school, planting trees in a park, etc.) we end up either not finishing it and leaving half the work undone, or not even starting at all. Most of our time is spent handing out a survey, with open-ended questions which, as any psychology/sociology major knows, are particuarly useless when gathering mass data. We walk door to door to these buisnesses and first round, made sure they were there, second round looked for new ones, third round asked for phone numbers, fourth round called to make sure phone number and address were correct, fifth round hand out a survey? I don't know about you, but I'd be sick of these "americorps kids" coming into my buisness, taking up my time, and never buying anything. Through this project we have shown the community of Adams Morgan that we never finish anything we start, and we go about gathering information in the most annoying, time consuming, way imaginable, and then apparently all our work is for nothing because the survey isn't condusive to statistical analysis and even when I ask the owner for the phone number and address, etc. I have to double check by calling them. All I can say is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Anyway, I think that helps explain the teams unrest.

At a meeting last night, Christina burst into tears and uncontrollable insane laughter stating "I left starving people in New Orleans to hand out a survey? A SURVEY?!!!!!!" At this point we all went a little crazy too laughing and realizing the ridiculousness of this project. I felt like you could have put us into a scene in One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest and we would not have been at all out of place. To top it all off, 3 week-old baby Jed has viral pneumonia and is in the hospital hooked up to IV's and an oxygen machine, so be thinking about him and my sister.

On a good note it snowed here and it was beautiful. We also got to go into work late one day! Our next project is disaster relief again, but I don't know where. After that we are going to Cleveland to build houses for Habitat. I"m really excited. Hope all is well

You better watch out!

So I know this is awful, but I'm going to post it anyway. I was shopping with some friends and walking down the street yesterday when we notice a person we met on Disaster Relief. We yell his name and he turns around to reveal some stellar shades and one hell of a black eye, not to mention some scrapes and brusies on his face. "what happened?" we asked. Apparently he was walking down the street dressed as Santa when a car full of thugs stopped, and beat the crap out of him. Talk about Bah Humbug!!!!!! Merry Christmas Washington, DC.

You drive me crazy

Picture this: pick out 10 of your coworkers. Imagine living, eating, sleeping, working with these coworkers 10 hours a day for a month straight with one day off, one vehicle, and one audio system. I can say with much confidence that the strain is significantly weighing on team 5. You start to go a little crazy. Things that you used to not be bothered by become HUGE issues. Fights break out over what time of day physical training will be held and if tag can actually be considered "physical training." Feelings get hurt, people go bezerk, and spending 10 hours a day scraping stickers and graffiti of of street signs in 20 degree-windchill weather isn't helping matters, besides, long-underwear worn under stylish BDU-government-issued pants (made is prison ;)) makes you look kinda fat. I've had several people stop me on the street and ask me "what did you do." insinuating that only a juvenile delinquent would be scraping off stickers and political posters. Four members of the team are out with "the black plague" which is what we like to call the pink-eye-bronchitis-sinus-infection-flu concoction New Orleans served our way. (you think I'm exaggerating, unfortunately I am not). Yesterday I had to drive because Nick accidentally ran into a parked Beamer (isn't that how it always goes). The first day I actually drive in serious DC traffic happened to be the lighting of George Dubyah's Christmas tree, so it took us 2 hours to drive 10 miles. It was fabulous.
Can't wait for Christmas, and 2 whole days off in a row. WHOO HOO Sunday and Monday baby. Who'd of thought 2 days would actually be a vacation?
P.S. Lucero is playing in Baltimore , but I can't find a ride since no one brought their car. POOOOO!