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Name: Rachel
Gender: Female
Interests: My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my husband Michael, being a mommy sometime in the near future ,scrapbooking, sculpey clay, arts and crafts, organizing things, campfires, Dunkin Donuts iced coffee,EBAY!!!!, collecting pig figurines, my cats Peppermint and Twix, drawing, WORLD OF WARCRAFT, The SIMS, wathcing TV, ARe you Being Served? and American's Next Top Model, The I Love Lucy Show...swimming, being out in nature, fishing, and picnics
Expertise: art!
Occupation: nanny
Industry: childcare
Message: message me
AIM:  starlight11500
Member Since:
9/14/2005
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| The things I have done are highlighted in pink. How many have YOU done? 1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
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
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
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
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
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt I LOVE that I can now say I did this!
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
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
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
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
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
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
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
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
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| Well HELLO everyone! Suprise! I"M BACK! I have to apologize to everyone for putting xanga on the back burner. I was just incrediblly VERY busy with my polymer clay business . I hope you all understand and that I haven't lost any friends on here becuase of my absence! But I'm here to do a big picture update! My polymer clay business is BOOMING big time! I just ordered real business cards in the mail. I got sooverwhelmed with orders that I had to pull of my Christmas merchandise off of my website and can't accept any more custom orders at least until a couple of weeks after Christmas! I'm so thankful for a couple of big orders that really helped me get through the holidays with a few extra $. Here is the latest thing that a lady ordered that took me forever, but was worth it! I have never done something so big, there are 16 people and one dog on this thing!
* Michael is STILL away at school, but only for 4 more days!!!! I'm SO ready to see him, I have missed my husband dearly, I'm just not myself without him and life just is not normal. I pick him up at midnight on Wednesday! His birthday is on Thursday and I'm so thrilled to be able to do special things for him! That's all I can say, as he may read this!
* The other big news is that I spent 5 days in Ohio visiting my sister and her family and I got meet my new wonderfully adorable foster nephew, baby "T". I'll start from the begining: I flew in on an all night trip on a VERY crowded, noisy, and gross plane on which I only recieved 25 minutes of sleep. No exaggeration. I was SO tired with that and the 3 hours time change.
When I got there, Ellie came RUNNING down the corridor to meet me SO excited! She's getting so big! Then, I got to see baby T and I fell in love instantly. I am SO saddened that I can't post any pictures of him on here, I got some adorable ones!
* I had the opportunity of babysitting Ellie while Becky and Greg were out and we played Candy Land together. She's so funny.
*The next day, we went to this AWESOME antique mall that I could have spent all day in. I think I shocked my sister, as I have never really been interested in that sort of thing. But I am now and I loved it.
THIS is a deer leg lamp! I just had to take a pic of it....EW! WHO would have that in their house!!!???
After we took these pics, we saw a sign that said "PLEASE do not try on any of the hats"....ooops!
Here is some of the freakiness that I found! People back then must have been insane. That wreath......look at that wreath.....you think it's kind of pretty? Do you know what it's made of? CORPSES HAIR!!!!!!!! HUMAN HAIR! EWWWWWWWW
Demonic dolls that creep me right out
Here are just some random pics of the fun things we got to do after that!
THIS is Lucille. She's their puppy and was totally obsessed with me!
They decorated their tree when I was there!
I got to go to Becky's christmas show at church! IT was really good and they are all so talented! She put all of the pics of that on her page, I don't have any on my camera!
All in all it was exhasuting but SO fun! I'm glad I went!
* And then that brings me to today....I hardly ever get to do anything for myself so I decided to take some of my clay money and get myself a manicure! Felt so good, they massaged my hands and everything. How do they look??
I actually gre them long enough to actually have my OWN tips! These are my own nails and I am super excited about them!
And one last picture: here is what I did with my kitties last night. We laid in front of the cozy fire together and wished papa was there!
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| With the spurring on of my dear mother, I have broken down and decided to actually do a xanga post! YAY! I'm so sorry everyone....it's not facebook's fault. It's mine. I have been totally preoccupied, not really doing any social networking as of lately. Forgive me please. Here goes my update!
* My dear sweet Michael is coming home in only 19 days! It's hard to believe that when he'll come home it will have been 5 weeks! I have missed him terribly, but I truly believe that God has given me the grace and the busyness to not be too lonesome. He has given me TRULY wonderful friends here in Washington that have taken me under their wing. I feel like I acutually have a grown up life now.....let me elaborate. Before, I felt like I was "playing" being an adult, always wanting adult friendships and such, and always wished for friends. And now I actually feel like I belong here. I never felt like I belonged for the 3 years we lived in NJ....in some aspects, mainly in the living and the friendships department.
* Yesterday, I was invited for Thanksgiving dinner over to my new friend Suzanne's. It was at her husband's parents house. They lived in a condo that overlooked the entier Pudget Sound and I have never seen more of a beautiful view. I could see nothing but water and Pudget Sound. And it was so close to my home, I don't think I realize what a truly magnificent place I live in. But as I was driving, taking in the scenery, I was saying thank you to Jesus for where he has put us for now, for this beautiful state, and for the friendships.
Suzanne's husband is away in Iraq for an entire year. I almost feel guilty for missing Michael and it's only for 5 weeks. Her husband is in harms way, away from her and her 3 kids for a year, and they hardly ever get to talk. Little Caroline, 8 years old, was in tears at the Thanksgiving table yesterday, missing her daddy and thanking Jesus for him. Totally sad. I just really feel bad for missing my husband like I do, I get to talk to him every single day, about 5 times a day.
But they had this tradition at their house where they go around the table and drop a candy corn in a silver dish for every thing that they are thankful for. You go around the table until they are all gone from everybody's plates. I had 6 candy corns and it was very easy for me to say what I was thankful to God for. He has blessed me tremendously, with my salvation, my Christian family, my wonderful husband who totally understands me and for his serving of our country, for my country, and for the beautiful creation God has made that I got to see driving across the entire country this summer.
So all in all, I totally felt accepted, like it was my family. They accepted me without even knowing who I was, and for that I am in awe.
*This brings me to my horrible black Friday experience! This morning, I witnessed a gigantic fight at 4:30 AM in Walmart. When I got there, the entire parking lot was full, I barely found a spot. I headed over to the electronic section to pick out something for Michael for Christmas. B-I-G mistake. I could NOT MOVE. There were literally hundreds of people and I could NOT MOVE!! All of a sudden, there was this huge comotion, and all I could see were all these flat screnn TV's literally FLOATING in the air. There were so many people hovering over the pile of them , getting ready to grab them up, that they were passing them over people's heads and they were floating. And then a fight broke out, it was impossible to see what was happening, there were just too many people. I got out of there really quick, I went back to the garden center, where there weren't many people to check out.
Did you hear about the incident in NJ? Michael called me and told me, and then I watched it on the news. A Walmart employee was trampled to death as he unlocked the door. And a woman who was 5 months pregnant was trampled as well and lost her baby.
This is a truly sick society that we live in. People are SO greedy and are out for only themselves and don't care who they hurt in the mad rush to get what they want, when they want it. It's rediculous. I am so sad for those 2 families, this happening right during the holidays.
*Well, I must go, I have 2 little kitties here begging for some food. Are you all glad that you finally heard from me!? I'm sorry I promise to do better!
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| I'm SO sorry everyone. I feel so bad that I have neglected you guys, especially the ones that constantly leave me comments and I just never write back! I'm sorry, I have been really really busy with my polymer clay and I must admit, facebook.
SHORT update before I have to go to work:
Michael is away. He has been in South Carolina for a week and won't be home for 4 more weeks. He comes home ON his birthday , Dec. 18th and I REALLY am looking for some inexpensive ideas. I thought of having some of our new friends here when he gets back for a surprise, but i can't becuase he gets back close to midnight. And it's so close to Christmas and EVERYone is busy and can't come. We don't have a lot of money to spend and I just need to do something so special for him. I just don't know what at all. He has never really had a real birthday celebration like I'd like to give him . Sigh, any ideas?
Anyway, my kitties are keeping me company. It is lonely here, especially at night. But, my business online is booming and I've been really busy making and shipping orders. And the house is destroyed. I have come to the conclusion that the mess is me. When Michael is gone, I have no desire to clean. i know that when it IS clean , I feel so much better about myself. I just can't get motivated to do it. And when Michael IS here, I feel very motivated to clean it becuase I love him and want to be a good wife to him. Sigh
Anyway, gotta go, my boss called me in early to work today....yipee 3 hours of more pay. Big whoop. Oh well , I'll take whatever I can get!
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| HAPPY 35th WEDDING ANNIVERARY To the best parents in the entire universe! I love you!!
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