two months in greenbay
still no friends.
no happenings to meet anyone at. people only go to bars.
coffee shop people are friendly but seemingly uninterested in my attempts to befriend them. I overheard one of the girls talking about her potluck tonight and i'm trying to figure out a way to get her to invite me. to quote the magic 8-ball... outlook not so good.

finished my first rotation and this whole internship thing has turned out to be not really what i expected. With all these extras i've got to do, i dont know when i'll have the time to make friends. that said, my first review were all threes and fours (on a 1-5 scale.) i was told to expect 2s and 3s since i'm brand new so i was pleasantly surprised. while i was there, my pts included two new moms (YEA!), two people going through DTs, one dying of alcohol poisoning. and a prisoner, amongst others.

we're not working for that farmer anymore. partly because tim is subbing now and i'm working like a madwoman and partly because it turns out he's kind of a jerk. c'est la vie. our freezer, however, currently contains many quarts of broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, sweet peas, shredded zucchini, and a few loaves of bread. oh yea and about 30 pints of pickles. YES! expect 'em for xmas friends!

ok so everyone moves to a new city. most people.
secretly, i snuck back into kalamazoo for two days. it was so nice and i cried a little when i saw that 'kalamazoo downtown' sign on the freeway. it was lovely to see my lovelys but it sure was hard to leave it all again.
but the stars must have aligned because my split second decision to head to zoo put me there when my two very favorite out of towners were in town. radar and bradley had me up til 2 am which is pretty unheard of lately.
maybe i'll start a kickball game in gb. what a great idea. to give credit where it is due, it's a stolen idea from ramsey. however, it'd be sweet if we started a team and the green bay and chicago teams could travel and play each other every once in a while. hey kalamazoo, you should start a kickball league too!
LETS DO THIS!

last update 20 weeks ago!? holy moses!
well here's our update.
we went to california for some nolan family reunion and some yosemite camping/climbing.
then to portland for some penis shaped donuts, some lovely amy and helpful wayne who put us up on about an hours notice! and a 20 minute hang out with trent. all real nice.
then to seattle for a few days. saw my lovelies brittany and kim. got some damn expensive photobooth pictures at a teenage vampire themed bar. spent too much money cuz we ate out all the time but there was always such good food to eat!
then to the opposite end of the spectrum in slow-going west yellowstone, montana. for four relaxing days of fishing (i caught five fish!) and hiking.
then to wyoming for climbing. we missed the international climbing festival there by one day (thank heaven) and i climbed the highest and scariest and funnest thing i have climbed thus far.
then to colorado where i stayed with my brothers friends from high school (some dirty punk kids) and tim's sort of uncle (a fancy pants doctor in a big lush bed).
we woke up for a one real long haul from denver to champaign (i dont really remember but i think it was 16 or 17 hours) where we made it to the lovely arms of eric chapman and natasha jankowski, our former lovely southern neighbors who promised to come to our weddin' and stand up and make speeches that included at least one f-bomb.

now we're in greenbay. after some damn exhausting house hunting, we found a two bedroom on a tree lined dead end street. for those of you in kalamazoo, its like living in the stuart neighborhood but for $490 a month. yea that's TWO bedrooms!) it's got a fancy brown brick starway/landing, mostly hardwood floors, fancy windows, a back porch/stairway, a little back yard with a clothesline and a garage. theres a young couple who lives below us who we havent met yet but they have lots of plants in their windows and a Save Darfur poster on their front door. i'm inclined to like them. this place is also real close to the hospitals which will be great for my clinical rotations. we don't have any furniture and we dont know how we'll get any. we dont own a truck and we dont know anyone in town. we could buy a couch/bed new and they'd prolly deliver it but we aint got that kinda dough. so as tim's mama aptly put it, we're in quite a pickle.

so basically, we have an address now. feel free to write to us and give us your addresses and we will write to you.
we are:
Tim and Casey
609 W. Quincy
Green Bay, WI 54311

c'est tout!

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.