the adventures of erin*carly

happy new year!

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:56:29 -0500

out with the old, and in with the new.

day349 :: year two

and with lots of bubbly.

New Year 09

and lots of singing. did you know there’s five verses to this song?

welcome, 2009!

may the new year bring us peace, joy, and happiness. even just one of those would be nice.

(also posted at wordpress)

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things i've done so far.

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:11:01 -0500

a variation on my 101 Things in 100 Days list . . . here's a list of things i've done so far in my 27 years and eight months on this little rock we call Home. happy new year, everyone! here's to 2009 and its potential adventures.

100 Things In Life
(as snagged from: dewitte)

Copy the list and highlight the things you've done.
Give your readers MUCH more than they ever wanted to know about you!

:: wow, 48! i feel pretty good about that number. ::

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (well, technically, it was raining)
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (Masada, the Ramapo Mountains - neither really big)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (guitar, piano, violin, photography...)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (ugh, never again.)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (i even photographed it for a newspaper in Colorado.)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (dinner cruise around Manhattan, yeah. but uhh, i get seasick.)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (yes! Israel in January of '06)
35. Seen an Amish community (i did go to college just outside of Amish country.)
36. Taught yourself a new language (to pronounce, yes. understand, no.)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (photographed the real thing, but tried it in a rock gym)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (painted, no. drawn, yes. photographed, yes.)
48. Gone deep sea fishing (but again, seasick!)
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (in the Red Sea, off Eilat. in 50 degree weather.)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (saw the Matrix there. it was so incongruous.)
55. Been in a movie (yay film student friends in college!)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (does freelancing count?)
58. Taken a martial arts class. (my parents are Karate instructors. i've taken many.)
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching (we opted not to do this in camp, since everyone got seasick the year before.)
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (almost - rent cleared too soon!)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar (as roe in sushi, sure.)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (from my first job. best thing that could have happened.)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (My saturn, in '00)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (both me, and my photographs)
85. Read the entire Bible (I skimmed it, plus I already know how it ends)
86. Visited the White House (i could only get as far as the fence)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (i rode an elevator with Christopher Walkin)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a mobile phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

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yes we can!

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:14:14 -0500

not only did we win Virginia, we, the american people, have elected Senator Barack Obama as our next president.

my goodness, what an amazing day in history. what an amazing two days! and i couldn't be happier to be a part of it.

yes. we. can!!

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on wordpress: exciting news!

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:52:45 -0400

guess who's going to Missouri!

a workshop, folks. not moving. don't worry. :)

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on wordpress: a return to childhood, for a moment.

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:45:25 -0400

only i could blog creatively about a ball i bought for fifty cents at CVS.

a return to childhood, for a moment.

love it.

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this is for dewitte and jamie.

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:59:30 -0400

Picture 4

i was looking to see where ashland is, since one of my sorority sisters is going to see one of my favorite bands there in august . . . and i found something oddly familiar about the name of one of the towns on this map.

can you spot it?

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the allure of metro

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:41:46 -0400

as posted to wordpress:

the allure of metro

shameless. i know. but it's related to project365. which i'm still doing, and will continue to update here. hopefully tomorrow. there's weeks and weeks you're missing!

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candide: awesome; voltaire: on drugs.

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:21:02 -0400

here's my lame excuse for a syndication feed.

http://erincarly.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/candide-awesome-voltaire-on-drugs/

bedtime for me. enjoy!

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an experiment . . .

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:13:36 -0400

. . . not a departure.

unfortunately, i haven't figured out how to syndicate yet . . . so here. have a link until i figure it out.

the new adventures of erin*carly

there's only two posts so far, and you'll all laugh at them, i'm sure. but still . . . eh. (the top photo is not what i want, but at least it's not a default photo.)

:: sigh ::

it's just not vox.

vox people, if you're reading this, i wouldn't be contemplating this move to a different platform if you allowed outsiders to comment. every other blogging site (or at least the ones i know about) has awesome ways to catch spam comments, if that's what you're worried about. i'm sure you can find one, too!

at first, the community of vox felt like a giant world open in front of me. now, it feels like an invisible fence.

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mercury, you can bite my ass

nobody@vox.com(erin*carly) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:37:42 -0400

i knew something was fishy.

mercury retrograde since May 27th, lasting until direct station on June 19th. then finally, July 4th, everything will be back to normal.

please, lords of Kobol [sorry, been watching too much Battlestar Galactica lately], don't let me do anything stupid during this retrograde, as i've done time after time. it's messing with my head, and work, and well ... everything - BIG time.

/sigh

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