You know, I really like Obama. I kind of want to hang out with the Obamas at the White House and have a nice meal of burgers and fries with them, sneaking an occasional tidbit to Bo now and then. This, what is about to happen, is not a personal grudge.
But I was annoyed by his State of the Union address. Annoyed because he seems to have forgotten that there are reasonable adults in this country who are intelligent and will refuse to fall into jingoistic nonsense. Once upon a time, candidate Obama had bold, brash ideas. Now he tows the ideologically neutral line, mentioning only things we should be able to agree on, and pisses me off.
“Our troops come from every corner of this country – they are black, white, Latino, Asian and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.“
I’m relieved, seriously I am, that the rights of our gay and lesbian citizens are starting to be recognized, albeit in small steps and not fully and completely. But what about people who are not part of those mainstream religions? The Taoists, the atheists, the agnostics, Native American religions, pagans, and all the rest? Do they not deserve to be part of the military? Are we going to take away citizenship rights one by one because someone's religion doesn't match the mainstream religion?
“We may have differences in policy, but we all believe in the rights enshrined in our Constitution. We may have different opinions, but we believe in the same promise that says this is a place where you can make it if you try. We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.”
If there was a place in the speech where I felt it was most appropriate for someone to yell “you lie,” I really feel like that place was here. We don’t agree about the rights enshrined in our Constitution. The old Obama, candidate Obama, the one who I voted for, he would have not made this oversimplifying, pandering statement. The fact that my father and I could not have a reasonable discussion about what “freedom of religion” and “right to bear arms” indicates that to me as fully as the vitriol spouted off on Fox News and CNN every night. Ever try to explain the electoral college to someone? The rights that we all agree on? We really don't agree on at all. Frankly, I know a great number of people who disagree about the legitimacy of the document itself.
I, for one, do not believe that for every child born in this country, anything’s possible. I hate it when we spout this lie to our children. Our children should be able to trust the adults in our lives, and to lie like this takes away that trust. My niece, the one who cannot walk without assistance, she is not going to be a firefighter. She is not physically capable of it. The teenage boy in my high school class who could not read or write, he is not going to become the next Supreme Court justice. He is not mentally capable of it. The boy who lives in poverty, surrounded by abuse and little hope, he's not going to grow up and be a millionaire. Why do we lie? If you work hard, sometimes, you get nothing. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, but it doesn’t mean you will always succeed.
“And yet, as contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be, I know there isn't a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth.”
I don’t know. Canada doesn’t seem so bad. I’d trade for a Scandinavian citizenship pretty quickly. The United States is a fine place, maybe even a great place, and I enjoy a lot of the perks of a U. S. citizenship, but there are other great places on Earth.
Obama finished up with a traditional political blessing for god to bless us and this country. You know what, Obama? I don’t believe in your god. I don’t believe in entrusting my future to a nonexistent deity. I get that you do. I’m really happy for you. But in this country, I wish you would understand that we are diverse in not only race, gender, and sexual preference, but also religion.
I voted for Obama after a great deal of soul searching. But I’m tired. I’m tired of being marginalized. I’m tired of politicians talking down to me. I’m tired of trite rhetoric about what a great nation this is. I want candidate Obama back, the one who talked about race, who talked to high schoolers about the realities of their lives, the one who was inclusive. I had so many hopes for that speech on Tuesday night. But my hopes were dashed and replaced with resignation and sadness.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Why Here? Why There?
The DJ slides in between Carrie Underwood and Jared and the Long Road to Love to let us know that the high today is going to be a balmy zero degrees with mostly sunny skies. Of course it is. It's Minneapolis in January. Our cars are all coated in a thick layer of salt, indistinguishable white/gray sedans next to indistinguishable white/gray SUVs. With every gas tank refill we put in another bottle of windshield washer fluid. Long underwear no longer hides in the back of the closet, but is a staple of every day wear. Every other morning a fresh layer of snow falls upon our huge snowdrifts and the bright sun reflecting off the white, white snow blinds us as we frantically try to clear the snow off our cars, porches, and sidewalks. Those new sunglasses better be polarized or you'll spend the whole day squinting. Once you do put on your sunglasses, you'll be annoyed because the earpieces will painfully dig behind your ears as soon as you put on your fleece-lined hat.
But there are so many things I'd never done until I moved here.
I'd never ice skated outside.
I'd never snowmobiled to the middle of a lake and hopped off the snowmobile to walk around.
I'd never gotten my car stuck over and over again attempting to drive around the block.
I'd never had perfect strangers help me unstick my car over and over again.
I'd never pushed a stranger's car out of the snow over and over again.
I'd never walked around a lake lit by luminaries in the middle of the winter.
I'd never driven a snow covered road without a knot in my stomach and terror in my heart.
I'd never made snow angels in the front yard with the man I love.
I'd never stored food on the front porch because it was just as good as being in the freezer.
People ask me all the time why I still live here. Sometimes I ask myself that, too, especially in January and February. But the truth is I live here because I love it here.
But there are so many things I'd never done until I moved here.
I'd never ice skated outside.
I'd never snowmobiled to the middle of a lake and hopped off the snowmobile to walk around.
I'd never gotten my car stuck over and over again attempting to drive around the block.
I'd never had perfect strangers help me unstick my car over and over again.
I'd never pushed a stranger's car out of the snow over and over again.
I'd never walked around a lake lit by luminaries in the middle of the winter.
I'd never driven a snow covered road without a knot in my stomach and terror in my heart.
I'd never made snow angels in the front yard with the man I love.
I'd never stored food on the front porch because it was just as good as being in the freezer.
People ask me all the time why I still live here. Sometimes I ask myself that, too, especially in January and February. But the truth is I live here because I love it here.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Six months ago
Just over six months since I wrote this, describing how my experiences teaching at a performing arts high school left me emotional and physically drained. I walked out of that building, got into Monster, and turned off the radio, and didn't turn it on again until we purchased Agnes in December.
I would sit at home, stare vacantly, and listen to the sound of silence. No screaming guitar plugged into the loudest amplifier in the universe in the hall, no pattering of feet as ballet dancers step down the hall, no monologues told at the top of voices, no voices singing a Led Zeppelin song accompanied only by a tambourine. No one screamed my name, no annoying pinging when yet another unanswerable email arrived in my inbox, just silence.
I've only recently started listening to music again, to adding noise to my life.
Saturday night we went to a belated holiday party at the local bike shop where my husband works and amid the music pumping through the sound system, the balloons popping, the babies screaming, drunk bike mechanics screaming in agony as they wiped out during tricycle races, and dogs barking, I laughed and danced and never even once questioned the volume.
This afternoon, as I put the finishing touches on my syllabus I listened to my Pandora station and enjoyed every second of it.
Let the music back in.
I would sit at home, stare vacantly, and listen to the sound of silence. No screaming guitar plugged into the loudest amplifier in the universe in the hall, no pattering of feet as ballet dancers step down the hall, no monologues told at the top of voices, no voices singing a Led Zeppelin song accompanied only by a tambourine. No one screamed my name, no annoying pinging when yet another unanswerable email arrived in my inbox, just silence.
I've only recently started listening to music again, to adding noise to my life.
Saturday night we went to a belated holiday party at the local bike shop where my husband works and amid the music pumping through the sound system, the balloons popping, the babies screaming, drunk bike mechanics screaming in agony as they wiped out during tricycle races, and dogs barking, I laughed and danced and never even once questioned the volume.
This afternoon, as I put the finishing touches on my syllabus I listened to my Pandora station and enjoyed every second of it.
Let the music back in.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Quiet Place
It's quiet there. We retreat there when the time between appointments is long and we have no place else to go. There's art on the walls, couches to sprawl out on, and although there are no posted signs with admonitions or warnings, everyone speaks in a whisper when they walk in.
He has an autoimmune disorder. We make jokes and laugh about it, because that's the only way we know how to deal with it.
For the day long doctors' appointments, I pack books, games, snacks, a cooler of drinks, a list of questions, and my anxiety. We walk back and forth, always grateful that we are not the young couple sobbing quietly in corner, the old, worn woman pushing the bald child in the wheelchair, or the man who must rest heavily on his cane after each step.
We call the quiet place base camp. For the tests that they won't let me stay by his side, we separate with the promise to meet at base camp at thirteen hundred hours. While he is gone, I compulsively check my phone to make sure he hasn't called while I pace and bite the inside of my cheeks raw.
The outcome of the tests was good. The weight is coming back. The exhaustion and inability to sleep has gone away. It was a bump in the road that we've motored on past. Hopefully we will not have to see base camp again.
He has an autoimmune disorder. We make jokes and laugh about it, because that's the only way we know how to deal with it.
For the day long doctors' appointments, I pack books, games, snacks, a cooler of drinks, a list of questions, and my anxiety. We walk back and forth, always grateful that we are not the young couple sobbing quietly in corner, the old, worn woman pushing the bald child in the wheelchair, or the man who must rest heavily on his cane after each step.
We call the quiet place base camp. For the tests that they won't let me stay by his side, we separate with the promise to meet at base camp at thirteen hundred hours. While he is gone, I compulsively check my phone to make sure he hasn't called while I pace and bite the inside of my cheeks raw.
The outcome of the tests was good. The weight is coming back. The exhaustion and inability to sleep has gone away. It was a bump in the road that we've motored on past. Hopefully we will not have to see base camp again.
Monday, January 10, 2011
$146.79 - Why We Spent That Much on Groceries This Week
$146.79 - That is what we spent at the grocery store on Friday night. That doesn't include the $5.99 we spent at an alternate grocery store buying edible gluten-free bread.
Here is our dinner plan for the week:
Saturday: Meatloaf, baked potatoes, broccoli
Sunday: Leftover meatloaf, baked potatoes, broccoli
Monday: Broccoli and goat cheese frittata with Bisquick biscuits
Tuesday: Vegetarian lasagna
Wednesday: Leftover lasagna
Thursday: Chili
Friday: Chili
Here is our lunch plan for the week:
The boy will bring with him an apple, a sandwich OR a block of cheese and some summer sausage to eat with Nut Thins, nuts, pretzels, Lara bars on his extra long days.
I will eat a piece of fruit, a yogurt, and some sort of protein (cheese, peanut butter, or leftovers from the day before are common).
Here is our breakfast plan for the week:
The boy will eat two of the following three items - Jones sausage links, two eggs, two pieces of toast with a cup of tea and a glass of milk.
I will eat fruit and two mini bagels with peanut butter.
Here's the breakdown of what we spent:
12 pack of Mug root beer: $4.29 (for the boy, not me - empty calories through beverages makes me sad, but he's on a 3000 calorie a day diet, so he takes calories where he can get them)
Gluten-free Bisquick: $3.99
Newman's Own Sausage pasta sauce: $2.89
Hunt's crushed tomatoes: $2.09
Ruffles potato chips: $3.99 (fine, this was for me, but it was playoffs this weekend - a girl is entitled to snack food once a week, damn it)
Blue Diamond almonds: $3.69
Amy's cream of tomato soup (one can): $3.29 (for the chili - not to eat plain because canned soup is the absolutely in disgusting)
Thomas cinnamon raisin mini bagels: $2.99
Chipped walnuts: $3.99
Celestial Seasonings green tea with honey, lemon, and ginseng: $3.19
Strawberry preserves: $4.79
Kitchen Basics chicken stock: $3.15
Kitchen Basics beef stock: $3.05
Kemp's vanilla ice cream: $3.00 (him, not me, of course)
Goat cheese: $4.49
Jone's mild breakfast sausage links x 2: $5.18
Old Wisconsin summer sausage: $6.49
3 pounds ground beef: $9.42
1 pound ground chuck x 2: $4.21/each
Lara cinnamon roll bar: $1.69
Lara cherry pie bar: $1.69
Nature's Bounty Fish Oil pills 1200 MG x2: $15.49 total
Lemon: $0.50
Broccoli: $2.49
Zucchini: $0.44
Idaho potatoes x4: $2.55
Portabella mushroom: $1.21
Onion: $1.28
Garlic: $0.39
Red pepper: $1.05
Italian parsley (improperly rung up on our receipt as cilantro): $0.59
5 pounds clementines: $5.00
Unsalted butter: $3.49
Whole milk: $2.49
1 dozen large eggs: $1.69
Dean's onion dip: $1.99 (but I had a coupon so it was really free)
Jello pudding snacks: $2.50
Yoplait yogurt x9: $0.69 each
Something labeled farm cheese (hmmm...not even sure what that is): $2.69
Cheese sticks: $3.75
2 blocks of sharp cheddar: $2.90 each
Glad cling wrap: $2.90
Charmin toilet paper: $3.39 (if you even dare to suggest we should use one-ply, I will politely ask you to leave my blog)
Could we save money? Sure. I could clip coupons. Frankly, we could have bought a carbonated soft drink that was on sale. We could do more sale shopping. We could buy more generic labels. If I didn't include the brand name, we bought our local generic version. But we don't. Here's why.
1) Most of the items on the above list are gluten-free, with the one except of the mini bagels that I eat for breakfast and are kept in a separate breadbox on top of the fridge, away from any other grocery item. We're not going to get the Ragu/Prego/what's on sale, but we trust that the brand we use will be safe every time for my husband and Newman's Own has the benefits of no high fructose corn syrup in it.
2) I value my time. Attempting to look up coupons for the following items: Amy's tomato soup, Glad cling wrap, Old Wisconsin summer sausage, Yoplait, Dean's dip, and the Bisquick took me ten minutes and netted me only a $1.99 coupon for Dean's dip. I'm pretty sure that's not worth it.
3) We refuse to sacrifice on food. We have talked our budgetary priorities to death in the NGS/Dr. BB household. The truth is that food is important to us. No, we're not the most healthy eaters in the world, but we are careful about what we eat, we meal plan, and each item on the list is carefully thought out and researched.
4) I don't know that we are spending that much. Normally our budget is about $100-$125 dollars a week. This week we spent more than that, but even so, we are feeding each adult in our household on $75 a week. Is that too much? Is that a lot?
5) There are some things that are worth spending money on. I believe that Glad works better than the generic cling wrap, so we spend the extra fifty cents. Kitchen Basics stock is way more expensive than Swanson's, but it's gluten free AND tastes hella better. So, there you have it.
Here is our dinner plan for the week:
Saturday: Meatloaf, baked potatoes, broccoli
Sunday: Leftover meatloaf, baked potatoes, broccoli
Monday: Broccoli and goat cheese frittata with Bisquick biscuits
Tuesday: Vegetarian lasagna
Wednesday: Leftover lasagna
Thursday: Chili
Friday: Chili
Here is our lunch plan for the week:
The boy will bring with him an apple, a sandwich OR a block of cheese and some summer sausage to eat with Nut Thins, nuts, pretzels, Lara bars on his extra long days.
I will eat a piece of fruit, a yogurt, and some sort of protein (cheese, peanut butter, or leftovers from the day before are common).
Here is our breakfast plan for the week:
The boy will eat two of the following three items - Jones sausage links, two eggs, two pieces of toast with a cup of tea and a glass of milk.
I will eat fruit and two mini bagels with peanut butter.
Here's the breakdown of what we spent:
12 pack of Mug root beer: $4.29 (for the boy, not me - empty calories through beverages makes me sad, but he's on a 3000 calorie a day diet, so he takes calories where he can get them)
Gluten-free Bisquick: $3.99
Newman's Own Sausage pasta sauce: $2.89
Hunt's crushed tomatoes: $2.09
Ruffles potato chips: $3.99 (fine, this was for me, but it was playoffs this weekend - a girl is entitled to snack food once a week, damn it)
Blue Diamond almonds: $3.69
Amy's cream of tomato soup (one can): $3.29 (for the chili - not to eat plain because canned soup is the absolutely in disgusting)
Thomas cinnamon raisin mini bagels: $2.99
Chipped walnuts: $3.99
Celestial Seasonings green tea with honey, lemon, and ginseng: $3.19
Strawberry preserves: $4.79
Kitchen Basics chicken stock: $3.15
Kitchen Basics beef stock: $3.05
Kemp's vanilla ice cream: $3.00 (him, not me, of course)
Goat cheese: $4.49
Jone's mild breakfast sausage links x 2: $5.18
Old Wisconsin summer sausage: $6.49
3 pounds ground beef: $9.42
1 pound ground chuck x 2: $4.21/each
Lara cinnamon roll bar: $1.69
Lara cherry pie bar: $1.69
Nature's Bounty Fish Oil pills 1200 MG x2: $15.49 total
Lemon: $0.50
Broccoli: $2.49
Zucchini: $0.44
Idaho potatoes x4: $2.55
Portabella mushroom: $1.21
Onion: $1.28
Garlic: $0.39
Red pepper: $1.05
Italian parsley (improperly rung up on our receipt as cilantro): $0.59
5 pounds clementines: $5.00
Unsalted butter: $3.49
Whole milk: $2.49
1 dozen large eggs: $1.69
Dean's onion dip: $1.99 (but I had a coupon so it was really free)
Jello pudding snacks: $2.50
Yoplait yogurt x9: $0.69 each
Something labeled farm cheese (hmmm...not even sure what that is): $2.69
Cheese sticks: $3.75
2 blocks of sharp cheddar: $2.90 each
Glad cling wrap: $2.90
Charmin toilet paper: $3.39 (if you even dare to suggest we should use one-ply, I will politely ask you to leave my blog)
Could we save money? Sure. I could clip coupons. Frankly, we could have bought a carbonated soft drink that was on sale. We could do more sale shopping. We could buy more generic labels. If I didn't include the brand name, we bought our local generic version. But we don't. Here's why.
1) Most of the items on the above list are gluten-free, with the one except of the mini bagels that I eat for breakfast and are kept in a separate breadbox on top of the fridge, away from any other grocery item. We're not going to get the Ragu/Prego/what's on sale, but we trust that the brand we use will be safe every time for my husband and Newman's Own has the benefits of no high fructose corn syrup in it.
2) I value my time. Attempting to look up coupons for the following items: Amy's tomato soup, Glad cling wrap, Old Wisconsin summer sausage, Yoplait, Dean's dip, and the Bisquick took me ten minutes and netted me only a $1.99 coupon for Dean's dip. I'm pretty sure that's not worth it.
3) We refuse to sacrifice on food. We have talked our budgetary priorities to death in the NGS/Dr. BB household. The truth is that food is important to us. No, we're not the most healthy eaters in the world, but we are careful about what we eat, we meal plan, and each item on the list is carefully thought out and researched.
4) I don't know that we are spending that much. Normally our budget is about $100-$125 dollars a week. This week we spent more than that, but even so, we are feeding each adult in our household on $75 a week. Is that too much? Is that a lot?
5) There are some things that are worth spending money on. I believe that Glad works better than the generic cling wrap, so we spend the extra fifty cents. Kitchen Basics stock is way more expensive than Swanson's, but it's gluten free AND tastes hella better. So, there you have it.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Year in Review
I answered these questions for 2009 and 2008, so I thought I'd keep the tradition alive.
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Bought a car. We named her Agnes.
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Bought a car. We named her Agnes.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I was more mindful of my health last year and I intend to keep up with that. I'm also pretty determined to lose these pesky 10 pounds.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No. But don't worry. My sister-in-law is due to have her baby any day now. I'm already stockpiling the gifts!
4. Did anyone close to you die? My dad died in June. That was a pretty crappy way to start the summer, I must say.
5. What countries did you visit? Ummm...well, I stuck close to home again this year with no stamps in my passport again.
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010? An tenure track position for my husband in a department where he will enjoy the students, his work, and his co-workers.
7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? The day my father died and the day my husband defended his dissertation. June was a big month, yo.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Not murderizing anyone in my family when I had to see them all.
9. What was your biggest failure? I have slacked on a lot of things this year - writing letters, returning personal phone calls, and sending out birthday cards. I intend to rectify all of the above this year. I just want people I love to know I'm thinking about them. Even a simple card that takes five minutes to send out accomplishes this and I feel kind of guilty when I think about how often I chose to do something other than take that five minutes to do that.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nope. And, my husband and I just got back from Mayo tonight and the doctor told us there is "nothing to worry about" with his health. There are a few modifications in diet we need to make (sigh), but he's just as fine as I am!
11. What was the best thing you bought? Agnes.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? My mother who has handled my dad's death with far more grace and good humor than I would have ever predicted.
My sister-in-law, the one who has two twenty-month old twins who were born prematurely, who manages to be a great mama to two awesome babies while maintaining some semblance of a professional life AND send out thank you cards for gifts, is someone I greatly admire. I should probably tell her that to her face instead of assuming she knows it.
Also, my sister-in-law, the physician, who calms me down repeatedly when there is no one else I can talk to about how scared I am when my husband is sick. She is funny, compassionate, and I am so lucky I am related to her.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? The Israelis that attacked that aid ship bound for Gaza, the people who voted for Christine O'Donnell or Michele Bachmann, people who protested about the signing of the health care law, the oil companies and the captured oversight agencies that allowed the Gulf Coast oil spill to happen, and countless other newsmakers who forced me to grit my teeth and turn off NPR before my blood pressure caused a bloody nose (I may or not be referring to the former governor of Alaska right now...)
14. Where did most of your money go? Rent, food.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? The trip to NYC with Bestest Friend and the trip to the beach with my sister, aunt, and cousins.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010? "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry because it was my sister's cell phone ring every time her phone rang while we were at the beach together and "Yankee Sailor" by Great Big Sea because that is totally the best song on their new CD.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? probably the same
b) thinner or fatter? thinner!
c) richer or poorer? the same
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Spent more time in Michigan with my mom and sister.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Spent less time in Michigan with my mom and sister. Ha ha! I'm so mysterious.
20. How did you spend Christmas? At my in-laws'. Our nieces and nephews were hilarious with the present opening this year.
21. Did you fall in love in 2010? Oh, blech. You can tell I'm no longer officially a newlywed because I can't take this question seriously. I love my husband. I love him dearly. But really? I love our car a lot. Go Agnes!
22. What was your favorite TV program? Sunday Night Football. There's something about the ritual of a Sunday night game that just strikes a chord with me (even when it is Eagles versus Cowboys and the whole time you're wondering if it's possible for BOTH teams to lose).
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? I don't think so. I'm much more mellow this year than in the past.
24. What was the best book you read? The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. You can't make me pick just one.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery? I think I'm all played with musical discoveries. I need to listen to Pandora more to learn more about new artists, I think.
26. What did you want and get? A sedan! Monster was reliable and I don't want to speak ill of him, but having a trunk and a back seat is life altering.
27. What did you want and not get? Eh. A job for me. A job for him. It will all work out in the end.
28. What was your favorite film of this year? Toy Story 3, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was in North Carolina with my family and my aunt took us out to eat; I was 31.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? A pet.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? Purple shoes.
32. What kept you sane? Knowing that at the end of the day, I would get into bed next to my husband and the rest of the world would go away for a few precious hours.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? The Radio Lab guys, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. Wait? Are they even famous to anyone else?
34. What political issue stirred you the most? The silliness of Tea Party supporters who haven't even read the U. S. Constitution while they slammed others for not respected it. Grrr.
35. Who did you miss? My dad. My Uncle Lenny. My friends who love far away. My mom. My sister. My nieces and nephews who see us all too little. I even kind of miss Monster. I hope he's with a family who loves him.
36. Who was the best new person you met? Dudes, I have a new friend here in the Twin Cities!! Her name is Molly and it's a new friendship, but I hope it lasts.
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