I'm 30

I had a moment. Today I recognized this: I've always been a nervous person with a penchant for panic. Lately, something will trigger me to freak out about something, but I will forget what the trigger was for like 10 minutes at a time. I'll feel all nervous and crazy and rack my brain trying to figure out what made my heart start palpitating. Then, much later, I'll remember. It could be good or bad: "Oh yeah, so-and-so emailed me out of the blue and I was really excited to hear from her." "Oh yeah, I forgot to do such-and-such at work." "Oh yeah, I forgot to pay the electric bill."

This is really bad, actually.

2010

Yeahh

Czech this out

Matt and I were at the mall last night, and we passed an older couple who looked very much like they just arrived from Eastern Europe. I say so and Matt responds "He still had sauerkraut in his nose hair."

Let's get famous

My brother in law is the new Bachelor!

You and me and the cat makes...two, because you're living in California for a month.

So, my husband has been in Palo Alto since mid-September, working at a fancy Ivy-league school hospital that shall remain unnamed on this blog (but starts with an "S" and rhymes with "Manford") in the hopes of gaining some experience and possibly references/LORs for his residency applications.

I would like to take this opportunity to offer thanks to many things that have given me support during this time.

• Skype
• Friends
• Texting
• Mom
• (and Dad, and Ryan)
• My in-laws
• Forever 21 (I could write a separate blog just on Forever 21, the gist of which would be: "Forever 21 is an oxymoron."), even though I am the oldest person who shops there - what can I say, I can afford their clothes.
• PB&J's
• Prewashed, prepackaged mixed greens
• Any and all food
• The Army wife in my sewing class who gave me a "you've got to be f***ing kidding me" look when I told her that I was having a hard time with him being gone for what I believed at the time would be two months.
• Fela the cat
• Beer

Now back to my beer. and cat.

Happy.

It was a year ago today that Ike hit Galveston.

It's so hard to believe a year has passed, despite the fact that our lives have completely changed. We've been living in Austin again for nearly a year now.

We have so much to be thankful for, and so many people to whom we are thankful. I started to write a list on here, but I was completely overwhelmed.  

I hope to give back to you all in the same way that you have given to us.  Well, not exactly the same way...I'd hate for a hurricane to hit your house.

Really, thank you.

9-11-08

from: Lindsay
date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:48 PM
subject: Evacuation!!!

Hi friends & family,

Just a quick note to let you know that Matt, myself, and our kitty have safely evacuated Galveston. We woke up early this morning and packed up and left around 7 AM. We missed most of the evac. traffic, thankfully. Some of our friends have been stuck on the freeway for hours...ugh.

We're staying in Waco with our very good friends Robert and Kelly until late Saturday or early Sunday, weather permitting!

:)

Lindsay

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Meanwhile, this was happening: