
Seriously.
It's been a year and a couple of weeks since we moved home to Portland and it's been a very challenging year (and a couple weeks) for both us.
From what I know and what I've heard, I think it's safe to assume a lot of you have had a the same sort of year, filled with births, sickness, deaths, celebrations, unemployment, underemployment, not at all helped by this whole recession thing.
Through it all, I'm so glad we're here. I have more perspective here. I have more appreciation and a deeper understanding that this is how life is, here. Sometimes it (life) really sucks ass and sometimes it's freakin' awesome. And I know it's not just my longitude and latitude, but how I've changed as well.
But I also know that living in a house and a city that I feel comfortable and myself in sure as hell helps.
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This is Josephina, Amy's friend, who is just as funny as Amy is.
We met them after they went to a staged version of a Star Trek episode.
Oh Portland.
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The "W" is for Wallace Shawn.
Russ is a huge fan.
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Amy Nieto is about to kick my ass.
You can see it in her eyes.
Well, you could if she didn't have those Top Gun glasses on.
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Someone broke my SX70 on Thursday.
I'm not naming names (sounds like "Pannie") but it was shoved in someone's purse (sounds like "Fannie") when they went out for lunch. The person came back (sounds like "Tannie") and the viewfinder was hanging listlessly to the side. Part of the pin hold it in had broken off.
My heart sank.
Then I went home and brought out the latest SX70 my Uncle Bob had sent over with my mom last she visited and put a new pack in.
Uncle Bob is keeping this girl (sounds like "Bannie") in Polaroid.
[He seriously finds these cameras and gives them to my mom to give to me every time she comes over. It's awesome.]
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