deer friend

happy birthday maria!!! today is maria's birthday. i am excited about this. i have sent her something through the post and she should receive it this week. i hope she has a wonderful day.

actually, i have just returned from the post office. there is a lovely gentleman who works there. he has blonde hair. he's so pleasant and polite. it was a very nice experience mailing things today. and i bought stamps FINALLY. so maybe i will mail something to you.

so, this morning was the normal morning. up at 6:30. there was a phone call immediately which made me very annoyed. so i had no time at all to have my morning drink of water before i went downstairs. i had to go down right away. not happy about this.

so then i hung around downstairs. did some morning french braiding. fun times. that's like, the best skill i have. forget about trying to relate to people, console them in hard times, having an important discussion or trying to be strict with them. FRENCH BRAIDING. that's all you need to know for this job.

and then i hung out in the kitchen for a while, while the toddler's mother told me this very long story. good story, though. and then i finally got my morning drink of water. it was in a mug, which made it more delicious.

and then we get ready to leave for our morning trip to daycare. and i have my new teal jacket with me. and so we're all putting on our coats to leave and the toddler says to me,

TODDLER: Julie, you got a new coat?
JULIE: I DID get a new coat! Thanks for noticing!
TODDLER'S MOTHER: Wow, is that really new?
JULIE: Yeah, it is.
TODDLER: It's a nice coat.

this little girl amazes me. she's not quite 2.5 years old and you can have an entire conversation with her. it was so funny. i can't believe she noticed i had a new coat! it was so amusing and wonderful.

and then before this, it was just the two of us in the staff office. her mother had gone to mop the kitchen floor. and so, me and the toddler. we're talking.

TODDLER: Oh, I'll take a tissue. (takes a tissue out of the box)
JULIE: You need a tissue?
TODDLER: Yeah. (she wipes her nose a little bit, but not really because she doesn't really need a tissue.) All done!
JULIE: Do you want to throw it away?
TODDLER: No. I'll save it for later.
JULIE: Save it for later?
TODDLER: Yeah. (tries to put it in her pocket) Where's my pock? (still trying to find her pocket) Oh! There's my pocket!
JULIE: There it is!
TODDLER: Uh oh.
JULIE: What?
TODDLER: I need my tissue.
JULIE: You do?
TODDLER: Yeah. (reaches for her tissue in her pocket. can't find it) Where'd my pock go? (still trying.) Oh! There's my pocket.
JULIE: There it is!
TODDLER: (wipes her nose again a little bit. she still doesn't really need it.) I'm gonna throw it away.
JULIE: Ok. Do you want me to lift you up to the trash?
TODDLER: Yeah!!!!
JULIE: Ok! (lifts her up so she can throw away the tissue.) Wow, good throwing away!

and that was the morning tissue saga. i JUST LOVED how she abbreviated 'pocket' to 'pock.' where's my pock? oh, i was laughing pretty hard. and she just looked so grown up. keeping a tissue in her pocket for later. haha. it was very funny.

so. what else.

sunday was kind of lame, i guess. i didn't do anything. turns out i didn't have to work. no work today either. tomorrow, though. from 12:30 to 10. and then thursday 3:30-10.

last night i watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona. so good. so much hottness. and then after that, i watched The Darjeeling Limited. again, so good. so much hottness. both very good travel movies. i enjoyed them a lot.

i had a scary dream last night. or actually, it was this morning. i woke up at 10:30 and i was scared. the dream was that i was driving around town. like, past Steve's Pet Shoppe area. and Jake's. and then these two men wearing long black coats ran out from a building and onto the sidewalk. and they had cameras. and they were talking pictures of everything. and then i drove past and one of them pointed the camera into my car, but it wasn't really a camera. it was a gun disguised as a camera. and he shot me. and i died. and this was the first dream i've had where i've been shot and actually thought, "man, this hurts." normally in my "getting shot" dreams (and i've had a lot of them) i think, "this isn't so bad."

anyways. i didn't like it.

it was actually a scary night last night. it was really windy. and really rainy. and there were lots of strange scary noises. my windows shake really bad when it's windy. and there was one time where i actually paused my movie and walked thru my apartment to make sure nobody had somehow gotten inside.

AND the worst part - there was no star on the mountain to comfort me. i think it's officially gone. it must have just been a winter thing.

although, that first night that it was gone, i had a dream that it was the middle of the night and these two men were lugging the star back up on the mountain on this big cart type thing. and i was so happy that it was back.

but, it was only a dream. there is still no star. although, i'm still looking for it.

and then this morning i woke up at 6am and i was very startled and i don't know why. and i thought, "aw, i only have 30 more minutes to sleep."

hhmmmm. what else.

apparently the girls here say that there is some creepy guy that lives in one of the houses close by. because the new girl here opened her window on friday night and then it got stuck open and nobody could shut it. so, of course, the girls started telling her all these scary stories about the scary people who live in this neighborhood. and how they hope he doesn't climb up the house and crawl in through her window.

and me and Courtney are like, "are you serious?!?! why would you tell her these things?!?!"

so, the poor girl was really scared all weekend and slept in the lounge instead of her room.

so, i thought about the "creepy guy" who is supposed to live in this neighborhood. and who it might be. not the dad across the street. not the other family across the street. not the lady next door because she's nice and has horribly bad allergies.

SO IT MUST BE - the ghost person next door. that's the only explanation. OMG, yesterday i looked out my kitchen window and saw that some furniture on their porch was moved around. i gasped really loud and scared Ruby Tuesday. i was nervous after that.

but, i even looked on the NH Sex Offender registry online to see if there were any sex offenders living on the street. and that was a negative. thank you, megan's law!

i really wanted to go to a lake this weekend. did i tell you that? and i tried to find one that looked nice. but i couldn't really. and then i got too nervous to go by myself.

it's scary doing things by yourself. i'm just gonna be honest. i don't like it. i'm getting used to grocery shopping by myself. that's kind of nice, i guess. and i generally like being by myself. it's just the doing new things part that i don't like. if i'm going somewhere where i've never been before, i like to have someone else with me.

or, i guess generally, if i'm going somewhere to "do something" i like to not be alone.

i think i'll wait until kara comes and visits me to go find that lake. i think we'll go to Fairlee, Vermont. that seems like a nice little place.

OH OH OH. this is important.

yesterday i spent much of the day planning my future life. in Pennsylvania, where i'm destined to live. and i found this place:

The Inn at Bowman's Hill Bed and Breakfast.

now, i found this place because it is in Buck's County. and i thought, Buck's County? Like Buck my turtle! I'll go there too!!! and so, i also found this inn.

so - if anyone wants to marry me at this place, let me know and i'll start making phone calls. this place looks like the most beautiful place ever. and i decided i want to get married in the Conservatory. the rooms run between $300-$500 per night. and, i'd really probably want to rent out the whole place for the wedding.

so, it won't be cheap. but i think it will be worth it. and then i'll probably get my dress at some upscale shop in Philadelphia. Rose, from Titanic, was supposed to get married in Philadelphia. i guess it's only natural that i will too.

SO - i'm looking at this beautiful place. and reading the rules of the Inn and everything, and there was one part that said, "we ask our guests to respect our local Township noise ordinance that requires quiet after 10pm"

and i'm like, "TOWNSHIP?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!?!"

am i destined to live in a township!!?? ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES YES YES.

i couldn't believe it. anyways. let me know if anyone is interested in getting married there. probably not this year, because i'm using up all my vacation time for my trip to Ireland. but, maybe next week. i mean, year. next year.

i really wanted to go somewhere today. but i can't think of anywhere to go. i went to the post office.

and man, there were some nice looking men at the post office at around 3:30. i think that will be my normal mail pick-up time.

right now Ruby Tuesday is sleeping in my bed under all my covers. right next to Buck.

i'm babysitting the 3-month old baby all day on saturday. from like, 8:30am until probably like, 9pm. i keep forgetting about this. that should be fun and terrifying.

i just learned that The Reader will be released on dvd on 14 April. UM, HELLO! that's totally the day that Titanic crashed into the ice berg. wow, i'd like to hug the person who planned that dvd release because they are awesome.

well, okay. i think that's all for the time being. maybe i'll talk to you later?

you all have been great so far. i'm loving your comments and new-blog excitement. pass the word along that this is the coolest place in the internet. let's reach out to the masses.

because, i think it should be everyone's priority to read about the conversation i had with a two year old. duh.


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