Your string of lights is still bright to me

I so very rarely get excited for new music. If I hear it on the radio and learn the lyrics, I grow to like it and sing along. 

 It's unusual for me to be like "I can't wait for this album to come out!"

I SO cannot wait for Taylor Swift's new album, Speak Now. 

I've already heard two of the songs (Mine and Innocent) and they are amazing!!

I wish I could switch generations and have Taylor Swift for my generation, and give Britney Spears to this generation:) 

Lori Ann

p.s.- My nephew James is having a hard time adjusting to his new school. He is autistic.(but the brightest and most beautiful child I have ever seen!) Can everyone keep him in your prayers? He is so sweet and I think that if we all pray, he will be ok. 

I don't know what to do

Random Thoughts Sunday Night:

I made myself a weird potato soup tonight. Then I served it up with a wooden spoon. I love wooden serving spoons. They remind me of Yoda. 

No movies sound good. I keep flipping through my netflix, trying to find something that sounds entertaining. Blah.

I've been reading crafting blogs. It's so bittersweet for me because I love to craft, but I have no orginality or skill.

It's still in the 80's here. Damn you, South. Why won't you let me have my fall weather???

I tried to watch Twilight today, but Kristin Stewart just annoys me too much. 

9 days until GLEE!!  Oh course, I don't have tv channels, so I hope hulu puts it up the next day. 

I haven't eaten chocolate in weeks. It just hasn't appealed to me in a long time. I don't know why.

I'm taking a candle lit bubble bath tonight!! I think I will start reading Moby Dick..I still can't find Walden, and I need to get moving.

Speaking of books, for every "good" book I read, I probably read about 15 romance novels. I buy them at the thrift store. They are my only enduring life passion. I hope to write one eventually. ANYWAY, I read possibly the WORST romance novel the other night. It was some bizzare story about a rich man and his sister is a social worker and she tells him that even though he gives money to the poor, he needs to experience it..blah, blah, blah...rich is evil, poor is wise and good. The LAST thing I want from a romance novel is a heavy handed poltical message. 

In closing, I have a feeling its going to be a festive week. Hold onto your hats, people! 

Lori Ann

These are my confessions..Part 17494278..

I confess:

There has been a lot of drama at work lately, including, but not limited to: a "come to Budda" meeting with my immediate supervisor, an  intern named Laura who is JUST like me (she's LDS, working on her MSW, and she came out here to help her sister!), late night texting, and crying in supervision meetings.

 And the cantaloupes..how could I forget them?

Free cantaloupes from my mortal enemy.

I think I am over my grape fetish.

Now I am obsessed with tacos.

Trying to get this blog the way I want it is going to kill me.

And then I'm going to make national news as the very first victim of "death by blog":)

The fall packages are ALMOST complete.

Just a few more things...

Glee starts soon.

 I am so excited that it's keeping me up at night.

You know what word I hate?

 "Grimace".

Seriously, have you ever heard anyone say it?

And it always sounds annoying when written
. (No disrespect to that purple creature from McDonalds)

68 days until my parents go to Europe.

 Enjoy it, Europeans.

Things will never be the same after November 17th...

Lori Ann

Time after time

Ok, I'm obsessed with fall.

It's undoubtedly gotten BORING by now.

At least for all of you.

For me, it gets more thrilling by the day.

Here are some photos of my apartment.

 It's half way through the process of getting all 'falled up'.

This is a candle I got my sister Erin.

 I just wanted you to see what it looks like, Eri!

I love red sparkly drinks in the fall.

 I don't know why. 

This is cranberry and ginger ale!

I put up some lights! Both clear and orange.

  Lights and sparkly things make me feel like the holidays are about to begin!

There is some other stuff, but I'll let the anticipation build!

thanks for putting up with my fall obsession..you people rock!

Lori Ann

I'm with the band

My pet makes me breakfast 

That's the name of my band. 

Now all I need are band mates, instruments, and someone to sing. 

Lori Ann

I have a family here on Earth

So...

It all went down at work today, people. 

I won't get into detail because I just know I would the person who got fired for writing too much about work on her blog. 

However, the reason I bring it up is because, seriously..

Sometimes I have the BEST family ever.

I called my Dad crying because of work and he told me..and I quote "Get your license, and once its in your hands, I'm going to come down there to help you move home and then go and have a talk with those people". *when my dad says "have a talk", he means "intimidate someone with his size and  with threats of violence". *

My sister Erin immediately began berating the person I was talking about with all sorts of creative bad language. "Oh my gosh, what a #%*#Q &(#   &()# er! I am going to #$()#% his ()#$& and then #%()#% because he is such a &()$#&_ *  She then made a number of wild threats which I talked her down from, as I don't want to have to visit her in prison.:)

I then got a call from my other sister Danielle, who informed me that the person I was talking about "doesn't sound mentally stable" and that she felt like it must be hard for me, being smarter  than my coworkers (in her words) to have to sit there and listen to "their crap". 

My sisters told me that my mom was "fired up". 

My brother in law called me with his ideas for revenge. Thanks, Jackie. 

It is so amazing to have a family like that.

 To know that I have people who care about whether I had a bad day at work or not.

Who would defend me, even if I were in the wrong. 

I have sometimes wondered why I am in the family that I am.

There are moments when I feel like I don't belong.

That I am nothing like any of them. 

But it's moments like this that I know why I have the family that I do.

It was God's plan.

 He knew I needed them and they have always watched out for me. 

Thank you, guys.

 You are all so crazy, but that is what makes you amazing.

Lori Ann

Here I go again..

Well, its happened again.

I can't say that I am surprised. 

I'm getting another intern, people!!

This girl doesn't know it, but she is LUCKY.

She should have had MY internships. 

I had to intern in a psycho-social rehab with an insane field supervisor named Eleanor
 (at least that was her English name)

I couldn't pronounce her Polish name.

 That's right, she was Polish. 

The whole goal of my internship was to avoid her. 

It wasn't hard most of the time..she spent every afternoon on the phone yelling at someone in Polish. 

It's my personal belief that she was calling Poland itself.

On the company phone.

When I did interact with her, it was bad. 

It didn't help that the entire time I was interning there, I happened to be obsessed with Brokeback Mountain.

She told me that I needed to stop talking about that #@%* movie.

She made me start a baking club.

 With schizophrenics. 

Have any of you baked with schizophrenics?? 

Nothing like dying rice krispy treats green in an overheated third floor kitchen in the middle of Norristown, Pennsylvania.

With schizophrenics!!!

So, if I nap in my office..3, maybe 4 hours per day, while she runs my

 therapy slash arts and crafts empire,

 she should not hesitate to consider herself the luckiest intern this side of the Mason Dixon:) 

Lori Ann

p.s.- In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I may have brought bad interning luck upon myself. In my office (aka "the game room") at the above described internship there was a ouija board ( I have NO idea why) and I may or may not have used it to try and find out what I was getting for my birthday. So yeah, God may have been punishing me with a crappy internship.