Monday, February 20, 2006

take me to a world that's filled with happy people

bonding is always a good thing. much of that this weekend. with the little brothers.. with mom and grace... with family friends.

saw patrick this weekend. never thought i'd miss my big bro so much. and thinking back to how much we really hated ... like truly hated.. each other when we were young, i don't talk to him nearly enough. and that really saddens me. i never thought that my family would need to be such a large part of my life. for four and a half years, i pushed my family away. i saw my @ bros and sisters more than i did my own blood. but i've found that since my departure from st. cloud state, most of those aiesecers were merely there through convenience.... and although i am very grateful and thankful that @ was such a large part of me, i really wish that i would've realized how blessed i have been all along. i have such a great family... disfunctional in all the normal ways... querky as they come. but i have parents who have been married since i was little, still love each other, that love their children (no matter how much they stumble along their own ways), and each of us love the others the same. i feel like that's a true rarity in today's society... and i'm lucky enough to have one of those rare families.

posted by Connie Mia @ 5:32 PM 2 Comments

Friday, February 17, 2006

I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

welcome to my world, kids. its soooo cold outside that if you breathe in through your mouth, your lungs hurt, but if you breathe in through your nose, the nostrils stick together.

-16f/-26.6666666c. chilly!

posted by Connie Mia @ 11:50 PM 1 Comments

i was finding out who you are

happy friday. wedding tomorrow. cities on sunday with my pa.. to see my sis play. mumken lunch with friends. that would be fabulous.

i feel a good weekend coming on. hope yours is wonderful too!

posted by Connie Mia @ 2:43 PM 0 Comments

Thursday, February 16, 2006

put on my blue suede shoes and boarded the plane

snowy condition lessons:

-don't walk normally on freshly fallen snow. there is most likely large sheets of ice just below it and you WILL fall on your ass.

-people with 4 wheel drive think that they're really cool and go idiotically fast on ice covered roads.

-semis on the roadways are scary as hell

-if everyone else is wearing hats, perhaps its for a reason and you should wear a hat too (hat being a winter/beanie hat that covers the ears)

-when its warm outside (between 28f/-1c and 32f/0c) its the best weather for snowball fights and snowman building as the snow gets sticky

-snowmobiling is GREAT FUN!

-while its snowing out, it is a grand idea to start stopping way before it seems you should actually stop (avoids crashes)


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so i'm currently talking to chris in new zealand and our housekeeper is here right now. she asked what i was doing which lead into a conversation about how i have friends all over the world (at least one on every continent at the moment). she's inquired where i've hooked up with all these people.

me: "AIESEC"
Bev (the HK): "oh my goodness, you have sex with all of them? how?"
me: "well, i've recently become a cheap whore."
dad: "i'm still HERE!"

posted by Connie Mia @ 1:25 PM 5 Comments

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

hey mr. dj, put a record on

thank you.

posted by Connie Mia @ 3:40 PM 0 Comments

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

O is for the only one for me

cheap bastards.


got promised an extraordinary wedding gift tonight by people that i've know before i can remember.... wealthy folk in this town. wanna get married to me and find out what it'll be?!?!.

my ass hurts.

i'm tired...

talked to my twin tonight. don't worry, she's alive.

i'm tired.

my ass and leg hurt.

people who are in love aren't very generous.. in medford, at least

whitnessed ONE proposal... both sets of teeth were shady (not the person[s]), but it was sweet anyway.

i've found that three beers does me in... no drinking with madison any time soon.

i'm a pansy whose leg and ass hurts from falling.

i suck.

posted by Connie Mia @ 11:54 PM 3 Comments

L is for the way you look at me

congratulations to all of you love-birds out there. i'm ever so happy that love is still present in this world. however, i am not a proud recipient of love this year (again).. but i do get to go make money off of the sorry bastards that are recipients.


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my day started with my shoe being stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, falling down a flight of cement stairs and receiving another large bruise on my other arm while donating today. i better make some damn money tonight to make this better.

posted by Connie Mia @ 3:20 PM 1 Comments

Monday, February 13, 2006

do you believe in magic?

its snowing... looks like silver glitter flying through the air. gorgeous.

posted by Connie Mia @ 2:49 PM 1 Comments

Sunday, February 12, 2006

five miles to school, up hill both ways

it always seems as though my blogs are so negative. that i'm always bitching about something. but i think its mostly my way of getting things off my chest. my life isn't really all that bad. its just that EVERY thing that is bad in my life somehow gets on here. just blowin' off steam, kids... no worries....

although...

my week was complete shit. to recap:
-couldn't figure out the computers at school
-parking's shit at school
-while giving plasma, the return of my cells missed my vein completely and resulted in a large lump on my inner elbo that is now a large bruise (that makes me look like a crack whore to all the people in the small town that i live in)
-broke my own heart
-got bills
-steering went out in my car
-came home to my little brother's party when all i wanted to do was sleep
-got invited to my aunt's m.k. party "just so [she] could hear my whole story" ... the school thing... don't understand why my agony is so many people's entertainment.
-had to work with the owner's son (and watch him grope his [hostess] girlfriend all night
-got screwed out of $60 worth of tips
.............yada, yada


...on a very positive note, though, i've found a way to do this hairstyle that i'm quite digging. its finally past that "tucks itself into the back of every shirt" length. for those of you that last saw me in august, its WAY past that soccer mom do and is now just below my sholders. [yay] (c:

... AND, i just finished watching just like heaven [complete chick flick, beware]... and its making me think that, just maybe, love is still possible..... if i sink into a coma and the dude is still a bit crazy and lost from losing his wife two years ago... moral of the story: GO LOVE.

posted by Connie Mia @ 11:30 PM 3 Comments

Friday, February 10, 2006

sometimes he forgets a chorus 'cuz she's shinin' like a beauty on the silver screen

i'm generally happy...

becoming more cynical every day regarding certain topics.

but, i'm generally happy...

posted by Connie Mia @ 2:11 PM 2 Comments

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

stupid girl, all you had you wasted

they do things differently here. not so much that i can't figure them out, but its weird. for example: parking is quite a bitch here... not that it wasn't in st. cloud, too, but this is different. i've been used to making laps through the streets and paylots looking for openings and snatching up the first one that i spot whilst making the rounds. here, they park at the end of the road and wait (like 20 mins) for someone on that stretch of road to get into their car and then pull up to take it. seems like a waste of time to me and a waste of so much potential in other parts of the streets. and in the paylots, they line up like 8 deep... the particular one outside the building that i'm in now has about 25 parking spots total.... and people are still 8 deep in a line waiting for people to move. i drove around for like 5 mins, found a spot after 2 circles of the roads near campus and walked straight past a guy that was still parked at the end of the street waiting for someone who had yet to return to their car to come and leave. he's probably still there waiting.

and in order to print here, you have to bring your own paper.... what's up with that?! i just want to swipe my card and pay for it with the $8.00 that the university gives you for a semester print allowance!!! :(

posted by Connie Mia @ 11:12 AM 3 Comments

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head (miss you, miss you)

so, i'm looking at harwood's blog today and i'm thinking to myself how much i miss aiesec. but i'm still in aiesec, you say?... this is true. i am. but before i had to go back for one class, i started to distance myself from things, delete emails without opening them, etc... so really, i have no clue as to what's going on in the nation. but my heart had some severe longing looking at the team salaam pictures.

i'm back to selling my bodily fluids for money. :( ....got some major bruises today, so that was fun. i like to call them battle wounds. i'm not sure what i'm battling, though.

posted by Connie Mia @ 4:34 PM 5 Comments

Monday, February 06, 2006

i wear my sunglasses at night

they sit at the end of the bar. they watch everything i do. i can hear them talking about me. every night i wonder if i'll have a job the next time i come to clock in. i never had proper training, so they make me question everything i do. i know that i'm good at it. but when eyes are constantly on me, i get very nervous.

posted by Connie Mia @ 3:58 PM 0 Comments

Friday, February 03, 2006

as we explode, as we let go

the trucking company (owned by a cousin of mine) that is just across our corn field went up in explosions and flames tonight. this WILL be the talk of the town for some time. not sure how it happened, but i guess they the semis kept exploding as they caught fire.... i was at the bar and didn't hear anything because it was noisy and music was playing.

posted by Connie Mia @ 12:06 AM 3 Comments

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Like the color purple,macaroni and cheese, Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees

i attended my first aiesec meeting at the university of wisconsin - eau claire on tuesday night. a few familiar faces were a joy to see, thanks eric and krystal! question to all the "old aiesecers"... do you ever feel like everyone knows you, but you know hardly anyone (at conferences and other @ events)? case in point -- the new community leader of e.c. came up to me ... her name is kim (found that out from listening to those around me speak to her)... and started chatting to me like we'd been friends forever. i don't remember seeing her ever before in my life. ...thus is the life of a conference oc memeber/facilitator, huh?. just kind of an odd feeling.

there's a british dude in medford that's a friend of beck's. mucho road trip wednesday. picked me up in eau claire, headed to st. cloud to get some good shots of the mississippi river, have lunch with patrick and yell happy birthday to mary. anyone that comes to the wisconsin/minnesota area MUST visit the MOA ... (mall of america). largest mall in the whole freaking country... and we just roll our eyes. whooopty ding dong, there's every store that you can pretty much imagine AND a theme park. i love the take that the movie drop dead gorgeous has on it. fabulous. BUT, it has a hooters restaurant... another must see to those of you that are foreign (men). decent food and kinda entertaining.

posted by Connie Mia @ 3:18 PM 6 Comments