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Posted by: zbolin Original: 12/25/2006 10:02 PM Views: 56 Comments: 20 eProps: 22 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Monday, December 25, 2006

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Arrested Development - Season One
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This has been a really good Christmas. My mom asked me want I wanted and on a side note I mentioned that I had never seen Arrested Development but always heard how funny it was....so she got me all three seasons.

Stinkin hilarious. You should watch it.

That was a few weeks ago and today (since my parents are divorced) I had Christmas with my dad. What was strange with this year was that since October he and Theresa, my step mom, were talking about how we were going to "love" our present and stuff like that but I just couldn't figure it out. The thing is, I don't ever want anything, I like to get stuff but there is never something that I just have to have. Then he shows me this great gift under the tree...it was just a small box, like I was getting a watch or something (but it wasn't a watch b/c I picked it up and after much shaking determined it wasn't a watch). So now I really have no idea.

We had lunch on Christmas Eve over there and I showed Cameron my brother from my mom's side of the family (we have a complex family) the box and as I picked it up I pretended to take off the lid...only to find that it actually came off. Then I got freaked out b/c my parents would flip if I found out what it was b/c they were really excited about it and I would feel guilty for doing it....so I got Cameron to do it for me. hehehe. I kept guard and he looked in it.

It was a note.

Now my head is really spinning. A note?! That means it could be anything. He asks me if he should read it and I say no b/c of the fear/guilt thing kicking in again.

Well I found out today. They are taking the whole family on a cruise!

To be honest I feel weird even saying it b/c we're not the kind of family that does stuff like this. We grew up on Malt o Meal cereal (Frosted Mini Spooners, mmmmmm) and we had to pay for our own trips to CIY and take out loans for college...normal stuff. But Theresa got a new job and all the kids are out of the house so things have changed. I guess all those years of working in the Kansas mafia finally paid off (it's code name is 4-H).

Now all I need is to buy some swim trunks and to quit being so doughy and pasty and I'll be ready when October comes around.

Posted 12/25/2006 10:02 PM - 56 Views - 22 eProps - 20 comments

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So, where is this cruise taking you? And why aren't you going until October?

Posted 12/26/2006 8:13 AM by amy_from_montana - reply

thats awesome. where are you guys going on this cruise??

Posted 12/26/2006 5:15 PM by Anakalia_Lina - reply

ok...October should give me enough time to ask for the time off...j/k :)...I am jealous, though and wish I was going...but, hey I'll probably be in England, enjoying the wonderful overcast and rainy weather. :)

Posted 12/28/2006 3:20 AM by amy_from_montana - reply

I am still cracking up about the Kansas Mafia.

Posted 12/28/2006 11:33 AM by MeganRitchie - reply

haha. 4-H is serious business. And Malt-O-Meal? Oh yeah. We lived on that stuff as kids. I was in KC this week and thought of you. My family stayed at a hotel there- went shopping, and went to Snow Creek. Glad you had a good Christmas-- wow- a cruise! I am just a tad jealous.

Posted 12/30/2006 12:25 AM by JenniG96 - reply

Hey I saw that you got Arrested Development. I love that show, yep I do. Well hope you are doing well!

Posted 12/30/2006 2:11 AM by JenRo531 - reply

Great...Thanks for ruining it for me! :)

Posted 1/6/2007 5:19 PM by amy_from_montana - reply

no idea. it was taken in western kansas.

Posted 1/13/2007 12:39 PM by yffum - reply

I don't think I am ever graduating... Really, God willingly I will come back to Joplin May 2008 and walk. I am really sick of school at this point. I like college, but I guess I'm really excited for new things to come. Are you getting any of the ice we've been getting? It's crazy out! But very pretty. :)

Posted 1/14/2007 4:12 PM by JenniG96 - reply

soo.. your thoughts on the previous two days' events of 24...

Posted 1/16/2007 9:54 AM by melier - reply

Here are some of my thoughts re: 24 this season thus far:
- Chloe is not her usual strange self.. She's mainstreamed a little and while her loyalty for Jack is there, her personality disorder isn't and I liked her better when she was really strange..
- There is a LOT of violence.. the first time, I believe, there's been a warning at the beginning of the show..
- I like seeing some of Jack's humanity.. The fact that he's been tortured overseas for at least 2 years HAS to have some sort of effect on his work here.. culture shock, etc. He still maneuvers the streets of LA like they're nothing, like he's never been gone.. I want to see more of how the events are affecting him..
- I don't like a lot of the main characters so far.. I want them to bring back some of the other guys, like Chase.. I'm wondering if there's a mole in CTU (that new chick) but then again, you never know..
- Jack is great and all but if you kill off all the main characters besides him (like they have seemingly done last season), some of the magic will die.. So here's me hoping that Chloe's relationship will be explained and wondering how Jack's past will come into play..

I do like it and don't think I could have waited at all, but there's always a little something in watching the whole thing through on DVD.. so.. not sure yet.. nothing too big has happened yet.. so we'll see..

Posted 1/16/2007 2:10 PM by melier - reply

are you still alive?

Posted 1/17/2007 4:15 PM by arod828 - reply

so i'm a total stranger but i saw your site on my xanga footprints (i actually hate that thing!) and just wanted to tell you that your site totally cheered me up today. before reading your zany posts: day sucked. after reading said zany posts: day better. thanks! ~amy

Posted 1/20/2007 2:58 PM by inspiradodelcielo - reply

we met at a CMF missions internship back in 2003. it's weird, at that time i didn't even know ozark existed and now i have a few connections with that school. small world. God's good that way.

Posted 1/20/2007 4:50 PM by inspiradodelcielo - reply

i work in a legal department of a corporate office and sometimes have to deal with executives that have retired and still feel like we owe them something. last friday i had a particularly negative encounter and felt the need to vent.

Posted 1/22/2007 10:37 AM by melier - reply

it's been over a month. I say it is time for a new post

Posted 1/27/2007 5:09 PM by arod828 - reply

it's been over a month. I say it is time for a new post

Posted 1/27/2007 5:10 PM by arod828 - reply

you'd think that, huh.. but deep in my heart i have an uncontrollable need to please people buried by layers and layers of stubbornness and pride :)

Posted 1/30/2007 10:12 AM by melier - reply

Yeah, 15 minutes before a funeral I tried to superglue a hole in my pants shut. You can't wear a cumberbund down there, and it wasn't a tux anyway...

Posted 2/1/2007 4:33 PM by Squirrel_Herder - reply

ya, i have things on my mind - those were pretty strong words i know, but sometimes that's just the immediate feeling you get, ya know? i'm better now. :)

how are you? did you beat my brother in cards the other night?

Posted 2/18/2007 12:08 AM by farmgirl23 - reply

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