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Friday, 28 August 2009

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    nostalgia

    why is nostalgia so fun?

    i just went down to my calendar to read through the entries around this day in the last 6 years. 6 years is a really long time. i joined xanga on 5/4/2003. i was 17 years old, finishing my junior year in high school. that seems like such a long time ago.

    also, i just realized that i moved to miami 10 years ago. 10 years ago, i was starting my 8th grade year in an entirely new culture, and i was depressed. 10 years ago, i discovered nichole nordeman.

    today, i am at work at my full-time job, waiting until 7 when i can clock out, drive (in my borrowed stick shift toyota tercel) to pottstown (where i spent my whole childhood) for a bible study to see the most randomly awesome group of friends and wrap up a series on the grace of God, which is something that i've been trying to wrap my head around since childhood.

    everything moves in circles.

    by the way, where is my morning view incubus cd? i haven't seen it in years?

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    twitter

    in a reaction to the facebook blockage at work, most of my department has discovered twitter. i'm ok with this. i like new toys. :) and i get little news updates in my day, which is very helpful, since i'm more news-deprived here than when i was in the pbu bubble.

Friday, 17 July 2009

  • Posted by AbbyJean
    Currently
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    By J. K. Rowling
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    I'M BACK!

    dear xanga,

    words cannot express how sorry i am for leaving you the way i did. i promise that my return is not just because work blocked facebook on our computers but also because i really miss blogging. but mostly, yeah -- it's because work blocked us from getting on facebook.

    love,
    abbyjean

    plans for the weekend:

    • possibly get a new phone at KOP mall
    • go to Koinonia tonight!
    • lauren and jake's wedding tomorrow! (hang out with pam and jeremy there)
    • test drive chester's car/maybe buy it...
    • sunday morning church service at bible fellowship
    • after 2nd service, "interview" to lead ConneXion (our competition are the kontzes! weird!)
    • thane teaches on Hosea 4 at ConneXion in the evening

    i think i'll be writing a whole lot more now that work took away our facebook privileges. i've also jumped on the twitter bandwagon -- and so has nearly all of my department! exciting new (and old) toys.

     

Saturday, 06 December 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    random update

    thane is finishing up his first semester back. this week is finals week. :) i'm taking off on tuesday and wednesday to hang out on campus. i'm still working at aci, but last month i was promoted to supervisor of customer service. so now i take those "i want your supervisor!" calls and try to make people calm down. it's not bad. my raise comes in january, and i'm sure my review will go well, so maybe then i won't have to work so much overtime. i'm really looking forward to that.

Saturday, 29 November 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    rules:
    * grab the book nearest you. right now.
    * turn to page 56.
    * find the fifth sentence.
    * post that sentence along with the title of book and author.

    "'There may be a bit of reckoning against Jem for the matter of a hare or so, if anybody was bound to keep their eyes staring open, and niver to wink--but Jem's been a-sitting here drinking his can like the decentest man i' the parish, since before you left your house, Master Marner, by your own account.'"

    Silas Marner, by George Eliot

Sunday, 27 July 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean
    Currently Watching
    S.W.A.T. (Widescreen Special Edition)
    By Jay Acovone, Mario Aguilar Jr., Denis Arndt, Reg E. Cathey, Josh Charles
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    blogger, update

    so, i don't get blogger. at all. i have figured out how to post a blog entry. that's about it. i will be sticking with our beloved xanga indefinitely.

    wow, i can't believe we're moving out this thursday already!! the apartment is not nearly packed up enough, and i don't have enough boxes. i am so excited! i love moving and changes so much. we checked out the berean apartment today after church. it's even nicer than the one we're in now. that will be a fun memory.

    finally saw "the dark knight" last night with thane, brad, kristin, and isha. it really was as good as everybody has been saying! i was so impressed with heath ledger's portrayal of the joker. it's still creepy when i think about it. anyway, reallly good movie.

    after the movie, we went to applebees. brad works there now, so we got a really good server -- michelle. well, michal, but nobody can pronounce that. (amanda, do you remember your jewish friend? i remembered her from caroling!) she looked so familiar, and we mentioned pbu, and then she said she had a friend that went there. and i knew who that friend would be before she said her name.  what a small world. well, what a small town.

Sunday, 20 July 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    11 days till moving time

    we are moving out of this apartment in 11 days. i can't wait! but i didn't realize how much comes with moving: packing all the stuff, organizing it into destinations (pbu, quigleys/storage, day-to-day/berean), changing mailing address, deciding the new budget, realizing that my current payrate just isn't cutting it, starting my search for a new job that doesn't cost $4.50 in tolls every day... it kind of spirals. so, yeah, now i'm looking for a new job in the langhorne area. anybody know of anything?

     

Thursday, 26 June 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean
    Currently Watching
    Bella
    By Eduardo Verástegui, Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez, Ali Landry, Angélica Aragón
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    yay. a movie made by Christian people that's not reeking of "YOU NEED TO BE SAVED!!!" and/or sucky actors. (no offense, kirk cameron.)

Monday, 23 June 2008

  • Posted by AbbyJean

    please pray for thane. he gave micro-coax 5 months' notice, and they posted his job last week - starting at $3 more an hour than he's being paid now. it's insulting. he's been there about a year and a half. and then he'll have to train his replacement. he met with his boss on friday, who said it was a mistake. they took down the posting to fix the starting rate, and then they reposted it today - at the same rate! so he's emailing his boss again today. this is so frustrating! if they would pay him at the higher rate even for the next two months before he quits, it would help something. ugh.

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  • i'm abby. i love God. i'm married to thane. i work full-time as a customer service supervisor at an insurance company. i'm looking forward to going back to school at pbu and studying counseling! i like friends, chocolate, feet, and good music.

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