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Name: Rachel
Country: United States
State: Alaska
Metro: Anchorage
Birthday: 8/31/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: social justice, volunteering, reproductive rights, women's health, female solo artists out of NYC, racquetball, reducing my consumption, peeking in tide pools, trying new beers.
Expertise: talking about syphilis lesions on the 2nd date, emergency contraception, sexual health, being a PK, staying sane in a remote place, scaring boys away, making my grandma believe I'm a lesbian and a crossdresser.
Occupation: mental health clinician
Industry: social work
Message: message me
AIM:  kohawkrachel
ICQ:  45223734
Member Since:
11/15/2005
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| Happy Thanksgiving Xanga friends!
I'm heading out for the long weekend tomorrow morning, so I wanted to make sure I got the chance to tell you how thankful I am for this outlet and for you, my flist/sub list.
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| So, sentences sound way too long right now so I'll do my famous listing posts!
- I went to the grocery yesterday for my "big trip" . . . I budgeted for $100 but ended up spending $155. But it was ok because I saved . . . $66.06!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- And as I'm getting home with my groceries there is a kid I've never seen before (about 9 or 10 years old) hovering around with a shovel. He didn't say anything and was just staring, sort of peeking into some cars. It was weird. So, I finally get inside with my groceries and my doorbell rings. It's the kid. He wants to know if he can shovel my driveway for $2. The snow REALLY isn't very oppressive yet, lol, so I asked him he'd help me with another chore instead. I told him I'd pay him to help me put my studded tires in my trunk instead. He was eager and quite the nerdy little kid. I gave him $5 because that's all I had -- I should have asked him to shovel my driveway too!
- Also, last night was poker night. It wasn't well attended - perhaps due to weather? It was about 13F when I left home for poker night and 7F when I headed home! BRRRRRR. Anyway, poker night is once a month at the home of a couple I know from church. They also know a guy I went to college with. What a twisted web we weave! Anyway, it's a $20 buy-in, low-stakes, and lots of fun. Especially last night. With so few of us we got to REALLY laugh about stuff and didn't feel pressured to go go go. I think I got a good ab workout from the laughter. And I came home with $15 -- only $5 down - YAY!
- Today wasn't quite as spectacular (went to the mechanic - you do the math!), so I won't talk about that, but just thought you'd wanna know how things are going with me!
- Soon . . . more to tell about boy.
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| So yesterday I get a phone call. I won tickets from Anchorage Press for a show being held tonight. Yeah, short notice.
Anyway, the tickets were for the Bo Burnham show at UAA and I'd never heard of the guy. Apparently he is quite the YouTube sensation. Here is a sample.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fg-dQxQOEs
If you like it, check out some of his other stuff.
Anyway, there was a lot of really un-PC jokes that kind of made me uncomfortable, but I realize I've been very social-work-ized and that's probably why. Overall his show was fun and the best part is that it was FREE for me! It was $25 for non-students. SCHWEET.
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| Oy, I've been busy! Need proof?
Here was Sunday's schedule:
Sleep in a little bit, but be at church at 10:30 to teach Sunday School
Church and coffee hour were done by about noon. As I'm leaving call my Lil Sis to say I'll pick her up about 12:30.
Mom said she would try and hurry up A, so I ran an errand on my way over - get there about 12:40.
Take Lil Sis to the Anchorage Museum. It's free for kids under 17, and I got in for $7 (a $1 off discount for having a AAA membership). I hadn't realized it was that affordable, so that was great!
We had fun and she would have loved to have stayed longer, but we'd paid $5 for 2 hours of parking and I wasn't about to pay another $5 to stay for up to another 2 hours. That would have meant we paid more for parking than for the museum.
Got her home about 3:30 and went to the gym on my way home. Worked out for 30 minutes.
Got home about 4:30 - showered - and still red-faced got in the car to go meet a couple (R & B) for dinner at a movie.
We met at 5 at Romano's - YUM. This is where the boy and I had our first date. Then we went to see Inglourious Basterds. They'd seen it before, but recommended I see it, so I did. Wow, if I didn't think Quentin Tarantino was effed up before, I do now!
Home by 10 p.m. Yawn!
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| Just finished this one last night on the plane:
Here is what I wrote for my BooksWellRead and WeRead review . . .
"In the style of "He's Just Not that Into You," this book *is* helpful in giving you more insight into your thoughts and behaviors while you're in the midst of a breakup. Good advice and really understands how hard it really is to be the dumper or the dumpee."
I did enjoy it, and it sure does make you laugh along the way. The next step comes from me!
Next book, started last night, is "I Know This Much Is True."
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