Tricia's Partial Mutterings

Tuesday

You know, I realized that I never seem to write on tuesdays... so that's what I'm doing. I don't have anything really exciting to say, but I do owe two public announcements...

1. Kellie! I'm still SUPER embarassed and I think you are the raddest chick ever and I'll try not to get my clepto side in trouble your way again! (tip to my readers: never take anything from a friend that lives in the dorm without fully knowing that it's your friend's item you are sneaking off with)

2. Props to Brandon up hitting up my site! You're still taking it by a landslide. (see, happy now with the public recognition?)

Going out tonight... tee, hee. Text message me (Linds, I know) later if you want to know how it's going!

My sign of Affection...

cuddle and a kiss on the forehead - you like to be
close to your special someone and feel warm,
comfortable, and needed


What Sign of Affection Are You?
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Pondering on Wondering

It seems I always get my best thinking done in the peacefulness of my car... but when I leave the safety of the silent walls of thought and solitude my revelations and enlightenments scatter and fade. I feel a new desire to express myself in ways I don't know how and haven't yet imagined. But where does that leave me? In the longing for something new?

Can one walk through life not knowing where to go and still make it? Or are our goals and dreams the gateway to our very existance?

What's in a name?

Well isn't it nice to share the love? Mary found this name analyzing webpage on her friend's page and now I send it on to you. I too am going to highlight the things that I think are dead on about me:

The first name of Tricia leads you to assume considerable responsibility and to prefer to work independently, without direction or interference from others because you have very definite ideas of your own. Your mind is quick to comprehend and you can be depended upon to do any job well. Because you tend to be somewhat of a perfectionist, you might insist on doing too many things yourself instead of delegating jobs to others who might do less satisfactory work. This name does make you quite direct and straight-to-the-point. Your verbal expression does not reflect your inner thoughts and feelings, and you often wonder why people react to what you say. The influence of this name does not promote the friendship that you desire or the relaxation and naturalness you should enjoy with people. It is a name that makes you far too practical and serious-minded, and makes it difficult for you to act with spontaneity.

Health Weaknesses for the name of: Tricia

You could suffer physically through head tension, with eye, teeth, or sinus problems, headaches, or mentally through worry.

Ok, I couldn't resist!

Your name Frisbee has given you tenacity of purpose and has made you extremely independent. Whatever you undertake, you approach from your own point of view, and others either have to conform to your ideas or go their own way and leave you to work things out for yourself. You are so narrowly focused in your pursuits that you frequently overlook the little personal considerations and attentions that create a bond of understanding and sense of companionship. Thus it is difficult for you to merge your efforts harmoniously with others. In the home, you can inadvertently be offhand and abrupt when you would really like to show your affection. In circumstances that require a little finesse, you find that you are inclined to be too direct and straight to the point and suffer frustration in your personal relationships as a result.

Health Weaknesses for the name of: Frisbee

Tension could affect the eyes, ears, teeth, or sinuses. Frequent head colds or severe headaches are potential problems.

(Ouch! Poor Frisbee!)

Death by Stick

So that little title sounds... yah... but really it's not, it's just fitting of Ash. For the second time in my car history I tried to teach someone to drive stick. The first experience was with Liz in a parking lot. It was rather amusing. There was this one point where she had a little trouble going up a slight hill and some punk kid came over and asked us if we were ok. We just laughed. Then he asked who's car it was like we stole it or something.

Last night I let Ashleigh drive my car! Now that was fun! I practically had to force her to do it though. She did VERY well. Only almost killed us once, on a little bit of a hill in a parking lot. Well that sounds familiar. She was at a stop and was trying to go forward and some guy got on her ass behind her. Well I don't think he'll ever do that one again. Slowly rolling back almost into his car can scare the best of us I do have to say so myself. She swears she's never going to drive a stick again... heh heh *add dirty thought here*... but she was great and I'll probably get her behind the wheel again soon! Right ACP?

home alone

So my parents left town for like two weeks, and as this time is almost to a close it makes me think about living by myself. No roommate, just me. Think I could do it? Sometimes I totally think yes, but then I think about Jaclyn and Lori (Katie too) and how I would be much happier with a roommate. It was a hard transition to move back home without anyone there. My parents and I aren't super cozy, so I miss the one on one time that I spend with people in the quiet hours of the day. Anyone that spent some time with me at camp right before bed knows what I mean. I like to have story time. =0Þ

On the other hand, an after college roommate kinda freaks me out. Is this the time in our lives where we live with friends and everything is revolved around the same radius? Or is it the time to venture out on our own... *sigh* Who knows. Now a little shout out to all my roomies... if you're out there, give me a holla! Miss you all tons!

Freshman roomies - Holly, Crystal, Mags, Lo, Scotty, Mart-in, Pucci, Napat, Zach (Elise, you count too!) Those were the days! I miss you all!

Soph - Mags, Paige, Lo. Yes I know I missed someone... Paige, you still owe me a home cooked dinner!

Palace Girls - Lo, Katie, Jaclyn, Kimberley, Amanda. I wish we still had the palace, random honks from the street, dance parties, rollar durby, the secret room, leaky roofs, freezing our cheap asses off!

Crossbrook - Katie and Lori. Hope you two are doing well in NY, I want to visit soon.

Windsong - Cracklyn and Lo. *Sigh* I could go on and on... drunk basketball, free extra cable, tennis, SHEEP, movie and wine nights, blah blah blah.

how are your senses?

Here are two small things from my two favorite ladies.

Aoccdrnig to renect rsereaeh dnoe at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the llteers in a wrod are. The olny ipomratnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but rtaher the wrod as a wlohe.

and

Test your senses!

frustrations

Today was a really frustrating day in a really odd way. I mean, just looking back on the whole day I just have to sigh. Other thing is... I love you all dearly, but sometimes I think I have to censor myself at times on here. Which really sucks, so I don't think I am going to anymore. Hmmm... we'll see. I really don't know who exactly reads this thing. (Give me a shout out once in a while!)

I want to talk about work, but I've kinda noticed that's not such a good thing to do all of the time, right Mary? Never know who's out there watching or snooping... Nah, it's going well. I just don't think that my strengths are really being utilized at the moment. I'm such the people person, not so much the homework person. There's something in the works concerning this whole subject, but I don't really want to go into it now... but if it all pans out, it's going to be rad and I think I'll be really happy, but as of now, I don't want to jinx it! :o)

So I started my workout program from my trainer on the east coast. Take a look and give me some encouragement. Maybe it will help release some of the frustrations. Let's only hope!

me the staller

first day of work... are ya ready for the story? well, first of all, i get really nervous before big days, so of course i couldnt sleep. you know me, im such the staller. i think i was up until 1am before i decided that i would try to go to sleep. i do this all the time, especially before long car trips. nice, when i really need the sleep i know. so i think the first time i woke up was at 3:40 and looked at the clock and turned back over. the next time was early, still dark and i was debating if i should look at the clock or not, and at the very moment my alarm went off! still dark! nuts! it was like 6:05. damn early! so i rolled out and grabbed a shower and a bowl of cereal and went on my merry way.

got there at the same time as heidi. shes great. :o) morning was a little weird. she put me in the learning room with all the computers and i chilled in there all by my lonesome until about 9:30 or so. kids came and went. did homework, played on the computers. yah, they looked at me kinda funny. like whos the new chick? i think one of the best parts of my morning was when i talked to this little boy. he was really shy and a girl told me it was his first day... and i was like, you know what? today is my first day too, so its ok. it was just super cute. awwwwww, i know.

so all the kids disappeared at about 9:20 and we cleaned up. then heidi took me out for bagels and coffee... well, i had a muffin and no coffee, but its all the same. we went back and talked and ate. i was off at 10, but i ended up staying until about 11:15, yes, me the staller once again. :o)

the afternoon was pretty cool. i had to be there at 2 and ended up sleeping in between with numerous snooze hits. maybe i should get to bed a little earlier... nah, i think that liquid crack called starbucks was pretty good today. i was in the learning center again. well, thats where i am always going to be. i met my coordinator person. shes super nice and knows what shes doing so that was really good. i also got introduced to all the kids at announcements so now they dont look at me so weird. it made me feel more at home which was nice. so the afternoon i played connect four and helped kids with math mainly. dude, its been a while since ive done algebra. you tell me what the property of 9x6=6x9 means... yah, then you feel lame for wanting to read the chapter to help the kid.

the kids seem pretty cool and they are starting to warm up to me already. im learning names pretty quick, so hopefully by the end of the week ill have them all down. which would be pretty darn impressive because i would say there are like 80 kids maybe more... dont quote me on that because i cant count!

oh! its also super weird to work with boys... and there are so many more boys than girls! yay for girl scout camp.

yah, heidi liked the shoes... she was like whoa when she first noticed them... they are super bright. i was tripping all day though because ive noticed i drag my feet a little bit and the tred gets stuck on the carpet. oh yah... she told a kid to call me frisbee. and this other chick tossed a scrunchie to her friend and said, "FRISBEE," yah, i totally looked and almost answered!

Butterflies and Kicks

So Deanne is rad and made me that nifty header. :o) You rock Dee! I don't really know how long it is going to stay up there. I love her dearly, but when she asked what I wanted and suggested butterflies... yah, we need to work on some sarcasim classes over IMing.

Got some new kicks today. You all are going to hate them. Well except for Deanne because she's in love with orange! But here's a picture of them... they were $19.99, oh yah baby. I still need another new pair, well, want I should say. Go shopping online for me! Find me a pair and I'll go take a look!

Reality?

Picture this... Tricia making some lunch completely innocent. Sits down. Channel surfs. Hey MTV, Road Rules. Sure, wow the very first episode of the season... odd... watches it, another one, and another, CRAP it's a marathon and I just got sucked in! Yes kids, I think I watched twelve straight episodes of that stupid show. Makes me want to get all dangerous and jump from buildings and be buried alive and have my friends find me somewhere. Hey Rocket, that would be a good group dynamics activity for next year! Hee hee. Well as I was watching I wondered around the house, rode the stationary bike, had a few snacks, few phone calls. Thankfully Tarah called and sucked me back into reality.

Went out last night with Jamie Dawg, her roommate Carrie, and her friend Shannon. Today's her birthday! Yay! Happy birthday James! I think everyone in Newport knows it too. Only because we told everyone we ran into. :o) Fun times, but an early night.

I've learned I tend to talk a whole lot and get very friendly with people as the night progresses. Not touchy feely friendly, just the, hey you there, yah you, let's talk about life. And yes Ashleigh, I do remember talking to you, I still think you should go to a Real World casting call... maybe now you'll understand why it was on my mind last night.

Beep! Beep! Toot! Toot!

There goes another one...

As I sit up at my computer, it's right by the window, I tend to do a little watching. There HAS to be some guy around here with some sort of golf cart collection. I've seen covered ones with like 6 seats. I've seen sporty two seater ones. Ones that I am scared that won't make it over the speed bumps. I even have seen one painted with the Ram's colors and logos. They all just seem to take their time just making their way around the circle. Every loop there are different people in them.

HEY! Maybe they are having rides down there. I should definately look into that! Well, only if they would let me bring a guest driver. I sort miss hanging on for dear life and playing Indianna Jones in the mountains through paths we didn't even know existed with Heidi driving. She's crrrrraaaaaazzzzzy. (Crazy? I was crazy once...) Well now that I've been thinking about it, those poor carts... they are like those ponys that have to walk in circles with kids in cowboy hats posing for a lame ass picture that in 10 years their friends will look back on them and laugh. Let them run free!

Good Morning Sunshine

Yes, I really am up this early and typing away... call me nuts... ok, that's enough, you only have to call me nuts once! I have my orientation this morning for my new job. The people at the administrative building where I had my interview yesterday all seem super nice so I'm not really nervous at all.

You know when someone is super nice and happy how it spreads? Like one of those dumb email forwards everyone sends that's supposed to say, you are my friend, send this back, you are a great woman, blah blah blah... Well those don't really work for me because I never really was a reader and sometimes they are just so damn long. Basically I only read them if they are from someone that never ever sends crap like that. Dang I got side tracked.

Well one of the women that interviewed me gave me such nice compliments and was full of life and smiles. She just seemed so genuine. She just got a the new position and is getting married in a few weeks. Wow, I just hope one day I'll be able to touch other people like that. We'll that's my sappy story for the morning. Peace.

Catchy Catchy?

So Alex told me that I have to write more on the blog before the darn thing starts to wrap so here is my attempt.

(Here's Alex and Dee by the way)

Deanne you rock. Love the blog and the catchy song title theme. I wish I was clever like that. Hopefully by working this thing I will be picking up some more knowledge on HTML. I do have to give a big shout out to Mary who is the one that taught me most of the stuff I know. Yay Mary!

So I did get that job I wrote about earlier. I'm going to have a funk schedule though... 7am-10am and then 1:30/2pm-6pm. In the morning I'll be working for Heidi and in the afternoon I'll be working as an educational aide. Working for Heidi is going to be rad. She was my Ad Staff all summer and we had a lot of laughs. As the aide thingy I would be helping kids with their homework and putting together projects and such. It does sound like a lot of fun. All of this at the Boy and Girls Clubs. Any suggestions on what the heck I'm going to do for three or four hour break? A new hobby perhaps? :o) Do let me know... there's that cool little posty thing right there to send me some love! *HINT*HINT*

Up and Running!

Hey there people! Lookin' good I do have to say! :o) This is the new blog courtesy of the one and only Alex. He rocks! It's all spiffy in here and I get to look through a lot of stuff. As Tony the Tiger would say... it's gggrrreeaaaaaaaat! Yay! So hit me with some love folks and I'll tell you more about my day later. (Got a job, yes, me, work!)