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Name: Marian
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Birthday: 8/15/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: Why live life from dream to dream and dread the day when dreaming ends?
Expertise: how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop...
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AIM:  YaGottaLuvMarian
Member Since:
12/4/2004
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| I've recently discovered the world of adult Lego fans and it makes my heart quite happy. Apparently, they hold conventions and everything. Jason and I are looking at making a road trip of it and attending either the one in Chicago or the one in Seattle. Chicago is more likely right now, I believe, because it is closer and in the summer. I spent most of yesterday looking at the Lego castle MOCs that people have built - huge and ornately detailed castles, forests, villages, and the likes, so imagine my delight when Jason's family gifted me the Medieval Market Village and King's Chariot for Christmas. Huzzah! I'm really loving them; Lego did an amazing job with the Market Village especially - so much detail and pieces used in new and unexpected ways. Can't wait to get it all built - but where to put it when it's done? I'm already out of space for Legos, and most of my sets aren't even together right now!
Speaking of Legos, did you know the partnered with Disney and recently released a series of TOY STORY legos? I think I might have squealed with glee when I saw them at Walmart. Of course, these sets automatically went to the top of my Must Have! list. Jason got me Zurg (sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance!) for Christmas, and I can't wait to get the set with RC. So cool.
I bought Jason one of the construction cranes Lego has out right now and he's in love with the thing. He tried earlier to use it to build the motorized, walking AT-AT set that his grandparents got him, but it needs weights added to the body so that it can lift more. I think he also wants to add a motor to it, and he was quite pleased that the set itself has accommodating space for one. As I perused Lego's site yesterday, I noticed that their other construction crane set is on backorder until May - how crazy is that? He looked just like a little kid when he opened his AT-AT last night; it was too cute. We spent part of the afternoon putting our respective sets together while we watched movies, but I had to go to work for an inconvenient two hours today (I got off quite early - the groom shop is emptier than I have ever seen it).
I've got some ranting and raving to do, but I'll type up a restricted post later. As Gandalf says in The Fellowship of the Ring, "We do not know who else may be watching!" Now I will go spend some time with my chitlins (read: try to keep the dogs from damaging anything valuable).
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| I never understood why we weren't better friends. We liked the same things, had the same sense of humor and spirit of playfulness, even many of the same friends...but we never did more than mingle from afar. Perhaps it is because I am a shy thing, and certainly an awkward one. Back then, I was struggling to establish my own identity, to understand what I could do and who I would be. I was so many different people back then. I don't think you would have liked me very well at that point. I didn't like myself very well at that point. But people grow, and we change, and if there is one thing I discovered - the hidden treasure of life, as it were - is to be yourself; unapologetically yourself, even if you don't know who you are. And when I did, I found myself - not suddenly, but quietly, slowly, and I was awkward, and I loved it, because it was pure. It was me, not an act I put on because that was what others would accept. And as I discovered myself, I lost my religion and found my faith and realized that seeking truth and purity was more important than seeking acceptance from the Christians that will never accept me.
Looking back, it's probably best we kept our distance. Besides the obvious fact that I would have clearly embarrassed myself around you, I needed that space from people. I needed that distance, that moment to figure things out, which is exactly why I pushed everyone away and built my walls. I think I would have hurt you, or dissapointed you. And perhaps, because I never truly knew you, you are not really who I perceive you to be, but there is a part of me that yearns to know you, whether you are who I think you are or someone different. Because it doesn't matter who I think you are, it only matters that you are you. Because you fascinate me. Because I love you; not in the romantic way that society claimed that term for, but in the brotherly way that Jesus once taught about. I love you in the way I wish I could love everyone. I wish we could know one another.
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| Xanga is dead. And, really, how could they have stopped the inevitable? Once Facebook became global, they really didn't have a chance. Poor, poor Xanga.
Oh, and also -
I'm married now. Yay me! And Jason! Yay for Jason and I!
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| So. No one writes on Xanga anymore.I feel like I showed up to a meeting that got postponed, but no one bothered to give me that memo. Oh well. Truth be told, I haven't really been blogging of late, on Xanga or otherwise. But, if anyone cares to know updates:
-I'm still not married. I still have no idea when we will be married.
-I work at Petco as a grooming assistant now. It is not the most pleasant of jobs, but has given me valuable insight into which dog breeds I do and do not ever want to own. Shih Tzus are still on the list; Labradors got crossed off.
-I am 21. Yay me.
-Most of my stuff is still out in the garage.
Ummm, yeah. That's about it, really.
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| I never really update this anymore. =( probably because no one else does either =( =( =( well, except for like, a Twilight fan site and a random person I don't even know. Sooooo, what's the use of updating Xanga anymore?
Let's be brief, shall we?
-3 weeks until I move to OKC
-seeing Jason every weekend until then
-walked at graduation last weekend. didn't trip.
-haven't been to the shelter in two weeks and I miss Preacher!
-may term blows, but only 12 more days of class.
-considering getting a green cheek conure. wondering how much Jason will lecture me if I do. wondering if I'm ready to take on another bird. wondering if the conure would make a good friend for Emmy, my cockatiel.
-new dog toy day is the best day of the month. i have as much fun watching them play with their new toys as they have playing with them.
-my life pretty much revolves around my pets now. yup.
-still no set date for the wedding. eh, it'll happen. eventually.
-Jason and I are going to look into possibly buying a house soon. BIG decision.
-Mostly pescatarian again. The thought of meat makes me want to vomit. It came on suddenly, strangely. I can eat fish fillets, but hardly any beef and I can't even stand the thought of chicken or shrimp. I can't say I'm crying about. Being a vegetarian is just who I am. I'm not a slave to meat like most Americans.
-sleep tonight, tennis and spanish tomorrow.
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