Patricia Danielle

…since this is coming from an english teacher, i feel i have the RIGHT to give my imput on all things having to do with the spoken and written english language. i would like to submit this. I think the word compet sounds so much better than competed. i know im no “oxford scholar” and i know that there’s about a nothing chance that competed will be cast out and replaced in the dictionary….but, at least i can voice my opinion and get others thinking about it, right?

…if i were a big black male nba basketball player, i would get SO tatted up. and i would for sure have a tattoo on my neck. i just know it.

…i know jeff probst….or whatever his name is has been around for 10 survivors or whatever, but who the heck is he? i mean, he’s never actually PLAYED the game…and here he is giving his ”get a goal first” advice/junk to the troop/cast/players/team/tribe. if i were one of them and he said that to me….i would want to punch his lights out….maybe break his nose. but im not. so instead. ill write it here for me to remember!

i am sitting here watching the first episode of survivor palau. within about the first 15 minutes of the show, already, 2 people were sent home. i want to cry. i HATE competition and i HATE that whole picking sides thing. that alone makes me want to cry. i dont know why exactly. as far as i can remember, i was never chosen last for anything…ive always been pretty average at things….not superb, not horrible……just average. i can play most sports, but im not a super-star. 

 i feel that my 2 best most closest friends balance me out in those areas…..like marin….shes tall and strong and the BEST person EVER to help get someone to the front of a concert! shes also really book smart and remembers EVERYTHING. (even some things that may or maynot have happened….like a certain chargers football game she likes to say she went to with my dad and i). then there is gina…..super funny…super loving….and we are super-like-minded about so many things. to me, gina and i are as funny as seinfeld. ( i said TO MMMEEE!!) to most everyone else, we are beyond funny, weighing in at annoying. i love that she warned steven about us together…..because, really, we can be a bit much…..actually,  come to think of it, the same is true with marin too!

survivor notes to self: i will not name my kid “bobby joe.” i love the chick with the tattoos. love her. and, why is the stupid “personal trainer” jeff, the only one who is worried abouthaving ”protein” and, i quote, being ”well nourished.” annoying.

-jennifer lopez and marc anthony-…….i just dont get the whole Ben Affleck thing and then the whole Marc Anothy thing just a few months later. AND what was Marc Anthony doing with even thinking of getting married to someone else practially the day after he was officially divorced from that Miss Universe lady. gosh…marriages….they just dont make ‘em like they used to.

-the internet-……one day tracie (my roommate from home) and i were talking about hooking up the internet on her new laptop. see, ive always had aol and, until japan, i always had the same computer. all i ever had to do was change the phone number that the modem would call, type in my password, and aol did all the work. as far as the internet in any other format or conventions…..i have no idea. i have no idea how to make it work to start it all up and i have no idea how to make it work when it doesn’t.

-prices for japanese products in japan- pretty much everything in japan is expensive. marin and i have come to the conclusion that, apart from fleece, tofu, and products at the 100yen store, things in japan are too expensive. and, ok. so we live on an island and the cost of importing foreign goods is high. got it. but someone PLEASE explain to me why all of japans nationally grown/produced products are considerably higher in price, here, in comparison to, well…..most of the world. tatoeba (for example): rice, green tea, fruit, sake, sushi,…..it all makes no sense to me. 10$ for a small bag of rice. can’t you get that in the states for .99 cents? 

it did. I say this because today, I woke up to a few inches of snow covering my Moka world. It wasnt technically “snowing”, so I rode my bike and opted out of the “free taxi ride” to school. As I rode through the city, I dodged big chunks of snow and ice as they fell from the power/telephone lines above. Praise music was blasting on my ipod as I sang lyrics like, “Every day, its you I live for” and “Lord, youre more than enough for me” and “I want to know your power….Let your light shine upon us” and “All I ever want, all I ever need, is you.”

Today, as I rode my bike, I thanked God for his majestic power and amazing perfect ways. Because, really… this…this  is worth living for.

This morning, when gina called, she told me that she had forwarded this site to her boyfriend Steven and he had read the email between gina and I about brice and told her something like, we “are brutal….to that poor guy, brice.”

(side note: yesterday while i was walking and praying, i was praying for my “power of 3″ (basically praying for the salvation of 3 people…mine are brice, brett, and mr english guy kimura) i thought about brice and i thought about the emails between gina and i. i wondered if they would be some kind of deterrant from his acceptance of salvation. then, i laughed. im sorry, gina and i emailing back and forth about that was funny! thats SO US! and i even called MY OWN SELF a jerk in that conversation!)

well…since gina and i had our say, here is the reply to brice after, per my arrangement with gina, i sent him a forward from her the next day! i also included a link for this site so he could read the email exchange between gina and i. i knew he’d remember why he loved up so much:

from: brice

to: tricia

sujcect: re: frwrd from gina

OK, that was pretty funny. But seriously, she hasn’t
sent me “like 5.” EVERY time I check my email I have a
half dozen forwards from her.And yeah, it’s annoying. I’m excited to see her name, thinking she sent me a REAL email, but no, it’s always dumb forwards that I NEVER look at. The thing is, if someone forwards me something once in a while, I might think, “Oh, this might be worth checking out,” but when I get three a day, well … Anyway, I was
trying to be as nice as I could about because I KNEW
she would have something to say to you about me being
“stupid,” but I was at work and already annoyed and
stressed, so when I checked my email and had all these
forwards, I had to say something.

Brice

frickin brice! gotta love him!

Every Friday, the kids give a weekly report of their pysical health to the nurse. On Monday, she hands out a report for all 3 grades, 9 classes, 243 students. There is a graph and notes. There are comparisons from last year’s health and specifics about who was out sick and excatly what caused them to be so. Since the amount has risen so much in the past 2 or 3 weeks (one class of 24 hod 9 people absent one day last week) there are now isodine stands all over the school. One of these little stands for each class to use as a gargle. I knew you could gargle salt water, and I knew you could gargle Hydrogen Peroxide, but I didnt know you could gargle isodine. You certainly can. I checked the label. Clear as day, right there in English, under isodine use:…gargle.

but for some reason, i am so INTO kid rock…i promise….i am not proud to say that, but there are just certain things in life that cant be denied.

“Everything is wonderful. It was a beautiful night.”
– Kid Rock, after his arrest on charges of assaulting a DJ at a Nashville strip club