internship interview tonight.
6:45 pm.

i'm straight bugging friends.

oh my lord...
i...
love?...
a capella pop songs.

who knew?



... huh

I'm listening to REM again.
if you ever really liked REM, you should try it too...

FDA clears herbal sweetener food additive

The Food and Drug Administration has declared that stevia, a new zero-calorie sweetener is safe for use in food and beverages. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FDA's decision applies only to a highly purified form of stevia known as rebaudioside A, supplied by other companies to Cargill and Merisant, which have further developed it for tabletop, food and beverage use.


Coke will introduce a reduced-calorie version of Sprite, called Sprite Green, and some Odwalla juice drinks with the new sweetener this month. Pepsi will launch three flavors of a zero-calorie SoBe Lifewater next week, and an orange-juice drink called Trop50, containing half the calories and sugar of orange juice, in March.


Information about the GRAS notices submitted by Cargill and Merisant is available at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~rdb/opa-gn08.html. The WSJ article was published yesterday.

oh yea... livejournal.

hello friends. it's been a while yes? sorry for the delay but here's a recap of some random things in the past month or so. how you enjoy.

this is my mama (right) and my paternal auntie (left) we went to bells to celebrate my moms birthday a little late but mostly because my mom had to put our dalmation down because she was pretty old. it made my mom real sad because now she really lives in the house alone. sadface.

this is a delicious chocolate cheesecake from food dance that she got her (familiar katelyn?)

here's me attacking a delicious pie at heather finch's birthday party at rosies house. i mostly put it it because tim LOVES this picture for some reason.

it was also a dance party and this is heather crull who's a pretty rad chic and also the garden manager at GMG. she was cuttin' a rug!!

my friend brooke who had just come back from thumbin and hoppin across the northwest and canada. she's pretty rad.

yup.

this is my apple peelerslicercorer. you have to say it all in one breath. we made a TON of applesauce with a whole bushel of apples which was going to be our christmas presents to everyone and then we burned it and the whole batch tasted like burn..sadface.

here's what the apple peelerslicercorer does to an apple! WHOAH! pretty much my favorite kitchen utensil.

i love this kid. this is from a picnic in zombie park with ramsey and daniel who live in chicago.

daniel

here's a beautiful lil prayin' mantis on the hood of heather colburn's car. that's heather in the reflection!

this is tim and his papa. his parents came down for an auction for his work (adventure center) the auction was a little awkward (Hannah Montana pink guitar for $800. what?)

and tim and his mama. sorry this is so TIM HEAVY tim.

here's another weird thing they were auctioning off. it was this huge picture of johnny depp walking out of some mysterious myst. that's ruth on the left and sara on the right. ruth is his boss's wife and the baby mama of olive and wallace- 2 rad kids i get to hang out with. sara drumm is having a baby real soon and she's also an awesome mama. i feel like most of the women i hang with are mama's and that's alright by me.
in summation...

it's our anniversary X 3. pretty exciting. mostly because i'm still really crazy about this kid.

here is where i start looking at my friends and trying to remember everything they say.
i'll be gone soon.
well not real soon. but soon enough.
i spent alot of time wishing myself out of this place with red slippers on.
i'm not wishing i weren't going because i've got lots of growing up to do. i've been wearing these same michigan shoes for 24 years. imagine wearing the same shoes you wore as a baby when you were 24. uncomfortable huh?

so here's what i purpose.
lets hang out everyone.
i want to miss this place. i want to miss you.
but i have to crawl out of my hole that i burrowed into when i started going to school and spend some more time with the people i love.
so here's where i start saying yes to invitations and actually writing things down so i remember i said yes to them.

i love you.

hey guys listen..
seriously...
i love herman dune again.


i said it. sorry tim.

so here's a random photo post with lots of things from who knows when... enjoy ( Read more... )

just so everybody knows, this is how i spent alot of my summer ( Read more... )

our neighbor just started pointing her crazy at tim and i.
we are "pieces of shit", "mother fuckers", "trouble makers"
oh and she wishes we were dead.
how do we keep finding these people?

i'm 24 now.
my birthday was saturday the 23rd.
if i could sum up my birthday with one picture it would be...
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i know it's been a while but i decided since i got a CAMERA for my birthday that i would take a bunch of pictures for you all..( Read more... )

theres a new record shop in kalamazoo which is real exciting. i bought a bruce springsteen album and it pretty much hasn't left our turntable since.

tuesday i'm getting my wisdom teeth out and amongst other 'adult' activities currently being undertaken and discussed, tim and i ate the first carrot of the year from our garden! I've grown many things but for some reason this carrot is perhaps my most remarkable accomplishment in the word of 'farming'. perhaps because it was kind of secretly brewing itself and then its little butt started backing out of the ground to let me know it was ready to eat and let me tell you it was the crunchiest and sweetest thing i've EVER EATEN!

my katelyn is moving away soon and though we've both been pretty busy this summer, i think it'll really start to hurt when school starts. wtf am i going to do without a dinkgrave in my life and why on earth did i wait so long to be friends? for those of you unprivy, we have been in the program together pretty much from the get go and our eyes always kind of wandered toward each other wondering if we should/could/would be friends until that fateful day when she asked me out on a friend date to see (correct me if i'm wrong, love) darjeeling limited. she was my first friend in the program quickly followed by three other lovely ladies who are now ALL graduated and in their internships. the point is this friends,i'm loosing a soulmate to the suburbs of detroit and she will be sorely missed.

oh yea. maybe amongst those adult things, i should start shopping around for internships again while i still have spare moments in my life before the fall semester. first pick is still keen state university in new hampshire

other upbeat news includes this: starting in september, i get fridays and saturdays off which is something that i can't remember EVER happening in my life. i've always been in school so it was more convenient to work weekends but now i have one class twice a week and my love has weekends off with his work so we'll actually get to hang out. RAD!

'i'm done' she says.
but shes not. and she wont be.
there's no end in sight. i don't know how to make our situation any better. it feels like running into a wall over and over again. exactly like that. we start out at a nice distance, just floating through the scenery and then all of a sudden, a fucking wall. in my face. slowly, wreckage is sorta dealt with but things are just kind of duct taped together and never really fixed. we float through for a little bit.. then.. another wall. probably the same one. definately the same one.
forward
crash
reverse
forward
crash
reverse
forward
crash...

i keep saying 'i need to accept that this is just who we are. i won't get her back the way she used to be. ever.'

i keep saying it but how do i do it?

now i'm saying 'we need to figure out when this went wrong so we can figure out how to make it better'
she says 'why dwell in the past?'

SUMMER TIME!
i'm done with my biochem class so i can start acting like its summer.
my garden looks rad and i'm super psyched about my internship at the growing matters garden. Now i can actually accomplish stuff there which is great timing because now is when things start happening!

tim is on a fishing trip to montana with his brother, his father, his uncle and some of his fathers obnoxious alpha-male friends. he likes it all except the alpha-male nonsense. i like it because i get to engage in my favorite single-hood activities... SLEEPING DIAGONALLY///!!!

we were dog sitting murray who is a small black wirey dog that looks russian with big eyebrows and a beard. he belongs to a friend from work. he really grew on me but this experience definately reaffirmed that i am a big dog woman.

i took a break from reading books about food and agricultural policy propaganda and am reading novels. i read 'brief history of the dead' which is about this pseudo pergatory after death but kind of a limbo where you hang out in this city until everyone that ever knew you dies too. then you move on. but then theres this plague... i wont tell you anymore but its really good. next i'm reading housekeeping which should make sara bijani happy since this was a book club book she suggested and noone read. i also rounded out the last issue of 'Y: the last man' it didn't end how i expected it to but it was pretty good. i'm excited to see the movie but also a little scared that they won't do it well.

tim and i are learning spanish. this consists of putting up index cards all over our apartment with spanish vocabulary. we are going to learn verbage next. being monolingual really blows. in addition to that, i'm taking the ukulele a little more serious and i'm learning a few songs (Cannon in D, Somewhere over the rainbow-israel kamakawiw'ole's version, some john prine songs) an sugguestions?

thats my two week life update. i would classify this as an abrupt ending. yup.

last night i met



... wonderful

life updates...
*tim and i got a car. together. it is small and fuel efficient and cute.
*said car has a tape deck so we'll be looking at ways to put music onto cassettes and scrounging at garage sales for old michael jackson tapes.
*my neighbor is yelling 'redd wiiiings' with this real grovelly throaty voice and lighting off fireworks. i guess they won?
*my friend radar is in town and life always gets a little funner when he's around. makes me want to move to alaska just to hang out with him.
*i'm in a biochemistry class which is proving to be not such a grand idea for summer reading and socializing but which i did mostly out of solidarity and am not regretting it thus far. (read: you are worth it my dear)
*i now own the motorcycle diaries on dvd which i think may become the most viewed movie in my home.
*my garden is popping up like 'gangbusters' this is the term tim uses for it. this means things are growing fast apparently
** on a side note, we have to thin out our green beans and we have a lot that need to come out. do any of you need some purple and green speckled green beans and also some purple string beans as well. lemme know cuz they gotta come out SOON

ive done it before and it was a success so...

tell me what song you think of when you think of the first time you fell in love. it could be "your" song or just one that reminds you of the time when those feelings were new and alive and electric pulsing through your whole body. thats right, next weeks mixtape massacre will be version 2.0 of the first love mix.

let me know what they are by this saturday and i'm going to make a big ole mix and narrow it down to 45 minutes worth of pure teenage love! also, i'm sorry if this will alienate you but there can't be any swear words since it's on the radio and also, no commercial music since we're a college station and we'd have to pay royalties we can't afford. but feel free to tell me anyway because there are probably covers of just about every song ever made and probably radio edits of them too.

thanks for your help friends!!!

and then i told you all how well i did

I got all A's.

yes another semester on the deans list. this is something i'm real proud of. I don't mean to sound cocky. Just that I'm real proud of myself and I wanna say thanks to everyone who calmed me down when I was freaking out about projects and due dates and tests. Thanks for reminding me that it would be over soon and also that it would REALLY be over soon... all of my schooling... and so I should enjoy this time to makes mistakes that won't get me fired etc. I really feel like the hard stuff is over, though my one big scary class still isn't until next year, it is the ONLY class that stands between me and a stage wearing a really ugly frock of a dress where someone inevitably hands me a piece of paper that i'm about $30 grand in the hole for. and undoubtedly, my mother will weep, fore it's quite likely that this will be one of her very proudest moments in life. and though she can be a pain in the ass (as I'm sure your mother can too) I'm happy to give that to her.

well not the only one i guess, i'm taking biochem this summer but i've got katelyn with me one last time. there is much ruckus to be created.