an update, though brief
Jan. 16th, 2005 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrypurple73Here I am, sitting at the internet cafe two blocks from my house, checking my email, and out of the corner of my eye, seeing my new red hair. :) (Dyed twice last night- the first time, it turned pink unintentionally, and the second made it the beautiful red that I'd been hoping for.)
My dearest Victoria was in town this weekend, and combined with Cathy's visit last weekend, I'm feeling quite loved with visitors. I put them both to work at my various places of volunteering/work, and a good time was had by all. It feels so good to be with people who know me, who've known me for longer than five-ish months, and who still seem to know the me that I'm becoming. There's something to be said for people who will sit with me at my new Community, listening to The Best Band Ever, called "Studio B" play in my living room. And there's something to be said for people who will wander this new city of mine with me, browsing at shops and making fun of/with me. And then we ate good food.
I was missing Omaha and my strong connections there like crazy the other day, but I've been feeling better. It's hard to have so many places that count as 'home.' Not always hard, and often wonderful, but difficult at times, and especially when the missing comes in waves that I don't expect.
Work is going well; I started new job duties at the beginning of the new year, and they're going well. I don't manage the Card Project anymore, which relieved me in more ways than I thought possible. I finished off most of my final duties for that with a bang, and now I am stationed much more on the first floor. I know I tried to explain my need for that sort of work back at the beginning of October, but now it's really happening, and it's so much better. I don't do hard things, or things that are too challenging, but just the interaction with the ladies is so much more present. I do things like serve lunch, hand out bus tokens, work in our food pantry, help out with the clinic that comes every week, things like that. But I'm not completely removed from programs; I've held onto Writers' Group and doing its monthly publication (the Day By Day). I've kept the aspects that were my strengths, and The Gathering Place is working with me to recognize those and find where they can be put into practice at the agency. It feels better, even though it was hard for a while in my head to know that the Card Project wouldn't be mine anymore. Then I remembered that managing a small business (which is what the CP pretty much is) isn't exactly a strength of mine, and that's okay and not something I should be ashamed/worried about.
Jake is doing well- out of the hospital for almost two weeks now, with all stitches and tubes removed now. Hopefully he'll be able to come to Juarez/El Paso over Presidents' Day weekend with the group. We'll just have to wait it out, but.... Talked to him for just a minute the other night, and I appreciated that plenty.
I've also been waking up to Simon and Garfunkel on my new CD-player-radio-alarm-clock named Olivia for many mornings recently. This pleases me greatly, and dancing to Ani DiFranco curing the day also adds to that.
And by the way, I'm continuing to declare that people need to stop killing each other, people can be in love with whoever they want, and yes, I even think that abortion is okay. These issues seem to keep coming up. Plus, I'm in love with everyone.
Time to get going, but know that there are too many people I miss, and too many people who I wish could see pictures of me with my new red hair, and too too many people I wish I could see, either in Denver or in Omaha, Michigan, Minnesota, Portland, or Costa Rica. Once Shannon and I complete the invention of teleportation, all these places will be located in the same place, for all practical purposes. Man, I miss you people.
My dearest Victoria was in town this weekend, and combined with Cathy's visit last weekend, I'm feeling quite loved with visitors. I put them both to work at my various places of volunteering/work, and a good time was had by all. It feels so good to be with people who know me, who've known me for longer than five-ish months, and who still seem to know the me that I'm becoming. There's something to be said for people who will sit with me at my new Community, listening to The Best Band Ever, called "Studio B" play in my living room. And there's something to be said for people who will wander this new city of mine with me, browsing at shops and making fun of/with me. And then we ate good food.
I was missing Omaha and my strong connections there like crazy the other day, but I've been feeling better. It's hard to have so many places that count as 'home.' Not always hard, and often wonderful, but difficult at times, and especially when the missing comes in waves that I don't expect.
Work is going well; I started new job duties at the beginning of the new year, and they're going well. I don't manage the Card Project anymore, which relieved me in more ways than I thought possible. I finished off most of my final duties for that with a bang, and now I am stationed much more on the first floor. I know I tried to explain my need for that sort of work back at the beginning of October, but now it's really happening, and it's so much better. I don't do hard things, or things that are too challenging, but just the interaction with the ladies is so much more present. I do things like serve lunch, hand out bus tokens, work in our food pantry, help out with the clinic that comes every week, things like that. But I'm not completely removed from programs; I've held onto Writers' Group and doing its monthly publication (the Day By Day). I've kept the aspects that were my strengths, and The Gathering Place is working with me to recognize those and find where they can be put into practice at the agency. It feels better, even though it was hard for a while in my head to know that the Card Project wouldn't be mine anymore. Then I remembered that managing a small business (which is what the CP pretty much is) isn't exactly a strength of mine, and that's okay and not something I should be ashamed/worried about.
Jake is doing well- out of the hospital for almost two weeks now, with all stitches and tubes removed now. Hopefully he'll be able to come to Juarez/El Paso over Presidents' Day weekend with the group. We'll just have to wait it out, but.... Talked to him for just a minute the other night, and I appreciated that plenty.
I've also been waking up to Simon and Garfunkel on my new CD-player-radio-alarm-clock named Olivia for many mornings recently. This pleases me greatly, and dancing to Ani DiFranco curing the day also adds to that.
And by the way, I'm continuing to declare that people need to stop killing each other, people can be in love with whoever they want, and yes, I even think that abortion is okay. These issues seem to keep coming up. Plus, I'm in love with everyone.
Time to get going, but know that there are too many people I miss, and too many people who I wish could see pictures of me with my new red hair, and too too many people I wish I could see, either in Denver or in Omaha, Michigan, Minnesota, Portland, or Costa Rica. Once Shannon and I complete the invention of teleportation, all these places will be located in the same place, for all practical purposes. Man, I miss you people.
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Date: 2005-01-16 04:13 pm (UTC)So...people need to stop killing each other, unless "each other" means their own children???
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Date: 2005-01-17 09:50 am (UTC)with love,
~Theresa
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Date: 2005-01-16 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-17 09:18 am (UTC)Love you loads, and I super appreciated the mail the other day!
~T-Dawg
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Date: 2005-01-17 09:32 am (UTC)tons of peace,
~Theresa
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Date: 2005-01-16 08:34 pm (UTC)I've been missing you too, Dorothy, to the point that I almost called you yesterday but then remembered that I'm beyond broke. This afternoon I put up the cards that you gave me, and my kitchen is so much prettier than it was before. I'll try to send you a picture of it sometime soon.
Also, yay for red hair! And thank goodness for Ani DiFranco dance parties. That's been part of my daily routine for the past week. If only we could get the teleportation thing down, we could have one together.
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Date: 2005-01-17 09:39 am (UTC)Maybe we can have an Ani party via the phone. :)
love,
~Dorothy
Pigtail Thursdays!
Date: 2005-01-17 08:31 am (UTC)I am going to grow my hair out so that I can celibrate pigtail thursdays!
Miss you.
Re: Pigtail Thursdays!
Date: 2005-01-17 09:40 am (UTC)I expect to see pics of you with pigtails, once you start wearing them! :):)
Hope you're doing well, Zac.
peace and hugs,
~Theresa
Hardly Recognizable
Date: 2005-01-17 03:14 pm (UTC)I love that within a few weeks of each other both of us have hardly recognizable hair! Mine is so short that I look like Peter Pan. I need to get some Ani. I'm dissapointed that Monique doesn't have any, but we do dance to Tory Amos in the kitchen.
Re: Hardly Recognizable
Date: 2005-01-18 09:06 am (UTC)I would send you some Ani (that Shannon had sent to me last year), but I don't have a burner, so unitl then, um, good luck at thrift stores! :)
love you lots,
~Wife