quick computer appreciation note

For the first time since I can remember, I am the only person who uses my computer. I love knowing where everything is, and anything not running properly is nobodies fault but my own.

I LOVE YOU, COMPUTER!

Perhaps cursed, but happy nonetheless.

I think I may be cursed because last night I had a few horrible nightmares and was unable to sleep soundly. One of them was about evil spirits and in the dream I actually thought I was cursed from entering tombs in Egypt. I think this also may have been fueled by my conversations over the past few days about spiritualim, magic, and pretty much everything supernatural that I tend not to believe in. The second nightmare revolved around the idea that I was mentallyl unstable, and my friends trying to convince me that I had never met a person named "Ted." And the thing is, for all my friends here know, there IS NO person named "Ted." I may have just made him up! I thought I was going crazy, and Michelle just emails and says, "You're not crazy, you're CURSED! NO TED!" And I was like, man, worst decision of my life: tombs.

Anyway, everything actually IS really great here, and I can't imagine thigns being better. Well, yes I can. If I had more money that woudl help. The speaker on my cell phone is broken, and I can only send text messages. There is a 1000 Kc depostit in order to have it repaired, and I actually don't have teh 1000 just to give to Vodafone for a month. So I will text. Next, I don't know when I will work again. I am nervous I will not make enough money at the bar, and may need another job. Crap! But it's all okay, I can still enjoy my Egypt and birthday highs. I probably had the best vacation plus birthday ever. I have so many stories, and when I get access to fast internet I will post the photos and stories. Look forward to that. My friend Adriana just cut my hair yesterday, and thats great. I hung out at Sofit last night with Rebekah, Rebecca and a little bit of Dennis and Dad, and had a lovely time. I also cleaned and got a lot of laundry done. I was feeling really good. Until I woke up to my mom calling at around noon, and I got sort of scared. I don't like it when I get phone calls at weird times from my parents. So, of course I couldn't hear her, and had to run to plug in my computer and Skype home to find out what was going on. There was a phone message for me. It's okay, just a phone message.

Now I am doing better and am thinking about getting soem stamps to send some postcards to some people. Possibly you! I feel bad for the people who won't get the authentic Egypt post mark, but I really ran out of my Egyptian pounds and plus it's really expensive to mail from there. So there.

I just read that John Edwards was in St. Paul yesterday. What was that like, friends? And I just got a message from Grant about MN and an update. Sara, what is my lawyer working on lately? Anything exciting?

I am goign to go, and I hope you all have nice days and evenings. I love you.

cursed?

Funniest thing that happened to me today: I got a text, presumably from my bar's manager (didn't actually recognize the number), and it read like a clue to some fictional mystery puzzle you might see on television, leading me to think that the way I reply could determine the future of my employment.

• It read: Hello carrie,got a question-andy left on friday a box of cigars in zero-next to the cigarettes. And then he didnt touch them. and i found out today there are five missing and the box is all open. Anet told me she didnt even know they were there. do u know who took them?

You know, I don't. And, like Anet, I don't remember them being there either, which is the reason I cannot say much about this, except that it made me laugh out loud on two occasions on the way out this evening. I love my job. And my life. And I am home now, I am going to Egypt on Thursday. How great is that?!

I think about how amazing my life is a lot. I think that I have always felt this way, or known this solid fact, perhaps without acknowledging it. But I can't imagine anything else. Everything is perfect.

dance your pants off, dancin' janson.

I don't like it when people take your photo and say they will email it to you, but really they just keep it for personal pleasure. Do they? Why do people do that? And I don't mean the online scene photos. I mean just plain people, ha, yes, plain. I don't think I've ever asked to take strangers pictures. Just their dogs. Dogs carrying sticks in their mouths. Wearing scarves, hats, sweaters, whatever. Photos and pictures of dogs are my favorite. I was starting to get into cats and kittens (photos and drawings only), but after Sara's Christmas present arrived today, I'm stickin' with the dogs. Thanks for keeping me in line on my favorite little buddies, puppy.

I'm going dancing tonight, I am excited, my social life was sent into a mild shock by a friend of friend coming into town this week, and left me wondering why I kept drinking so much beer and dancing on tables at Double Trouble (to be honest, I actually dance on the benches there, the tables really could fall over). I hate that place SO much, and yet I've been there maybe 3 times in the past 1.5 weeks. No more!
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And when you come, I will probably take you there.

as if 2007 could have been any better

Seriously, the best year I´ve had in a long time. Probably the best ever. Actually it might be. 2006? Hmmmm, I can´t really remember too much. Justin was there. Charlie was there. Cinco was there. I lived with Charlie and we had our friends over a lot. It was really fun- but 2007? Too good to be true, really.

What did you guys do to celebrate? I was at work, but had a blast. It was probably my favorite NYE of all time (except for the time Justin and I drove to Chicago. Remember that board game we played with Rosco? Something with cards? And those burritos!). When I went home at some point this morning, Prague was surprisingly bright (yeah, it was morning, but its very cloudy here constantly), and the biggest, laziest, prettiest snowflakes were everywhere. It was a shame to take the subway home, but I was probably about to die at any moment. I get that way when I go out after work. Its not a traditional after work happy hour, really. But what if it could be? Wouldn´t that be funny if, say Justin and Michelle could get done with work at 5 and go straight to a party and just be wild and crazy? When I come visit you guys, I want to see you getting off work, going straight to the bar, and just taking shot after shot after shot, truly celebrating the end of the work day.

The point is, following a year like 2007, 2008 is going to be amazing. I can´t wait to see what will happen.

Upcoming events include:

1. Hunter moving in with me. Tomorrow.
2. Going to dinner at Dennis and Rebecca´s tomorrow.
3. Dancing tomorrow night.
4. Talking to the people at my teaching job and possibly quitting in order to bartend more. The money IS better.
5. Going on a trip with Rebecca, and whoever else wants to come?
6. My birthday.
7. Justin and Anna coming to see me in March. I am so excited. I wonder if having someone from my old life here will help me realize my real life is not a dream. It really, really feels like it most of the time. Like it´s too good to be true. But then again, having them here will be so fun that even THAT will be a dream. Oh dear.
8. I got rid of number 8, because it´s not for sure. This is a list of for sure things only.
Oh, 9. Erin moving to England and possibly coming to stay with me again. I think it is a {probably[ and not a for sure, but she is definitely moving. I think I will be able to feel her, closer to me.

Other than numbers 7 and 8, the rest all will be happening within the next 26 days. Great!

I also joined a Mexican gang, called the Puppies.

And I also am having a lot of trouble with the punctuation on this computer. It belongs to a Mexican gangster, but it{s cool, hes a Puppy.