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kayjays

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About Me

I am honestly happily married to my husband of 24 years - We live in the gorgeous city of Walla Walla, WA and we LOVE it here - we have recently realized our long time dream of working together full time - we work part time for a local family here that is famous for their Walla Walla Sweet Onion Sausage - we are managing a lunch counter for them Tuesday - Friday from 11-2 in the heart of downtown Walla Walla on First & Main - to supplement our income Jackson does web design on the side and I sell books on Ebay - so we are keeping very busy - but we are BLESSED to finally be able to hang out together 24/7... we are young empty nesters because in some sort of major lack of foresight we decided to have only ONE CHILD - so when she decided to grow up and (GASP) - - move out - - we found ourselves shocked and alone - LOL -- it has been an adjustment to be sure - but we are getting the hang of it and remembering the good parts of living with "just us" :o) - Our beautiful daughter Karianna recently married the love or her life - Brandon Allum and we could not be more thrilled! Life is so much about choices and marrying Brandon really was a quality good decision to be sure.

My Interests

Boating - hiking - fishing - race car driving - any extreme sport - just call me - I am UP for it - - ROFLOL - - jk - mostly it is all about God, family, friends, and politics - :O) I spend a lot of time online - not sure if that would be an interest or a compulsion - - or just my jaaaarb....

I'd like to meet:

Myself, 25 years ago - so that I could warn me about approaching stupidity - but I know me - and I prolly still would not have listened to reason - - :O)

Music:

My favorite hands down is when Jack and Dave play worship together - next to that I love the Heart of David series from MorningStar - we listen to some Jazz - mostly Miles Davis - Ray Charles - I still like my old favorites - The Beatles - Fleetwood Mac - The Eagles - Carol King - James Taylor - Van Morrison - The Indigo Girls - - and I will always have room in my musical heart for Willie - okay this is making me feel old - I think I need to listen to something new for a change - hey - - I heard the Dresden Dolls on Joe Trudeau's myspace one time and I LOVED Coin Operated Boy - does that count?

Movies:

Quite honestly the best sleep I ever get is when other people are watching movies "with" me - - BUT there are a few that I liked enough to stay awake for - and a couple that I am willing to watch again - I LOVED Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant - I can watch that any time - I really enjoyed the entire Lord of the Rings series - we still speak like Gollum around here too frequently - Thought that Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was very good - Knotting Hill can still be fun - but it is all about Hugh Grant's room mate - - "There is something wrong with this yogurt..." The first Matrix was amazing - there are more - but I am bored of this - - "sSSSSSSOooooooooooooo BOWING" - Homestar Runner - 2004

Television:

I would say that I really do not watch television - but that is what everyone on myspace says before they begin to list off the shows that they like to watch - - which as disturbing as it is, quite often contain the initials CSI - - ? ANYWAY - I will say that I really do not watch NORMAL television - I am hopelessly addicted to CSPAN - and of course we monitor the 24 hour news networks - I LOVE infomercials - I would tell you that I do not fall for them anymore - but I have a piece of cwap MAGIC TURBO BULLET WHATEVER on my counter right now that would make a liar out of me - we watch some HGTV (Designed to Sell) but for the most part we are a NetFlix household - so what this does is to SPOIL you for regular television - I HATE commercials now more than ever - have no patience for them - PLUS I have lost the abilty to wait a week for the next episode of anything - WHY SHOULD I - when I can watch a whole season of whatever I want at one time with NetFlix?? We have mowed through almost all of the available West Wing episodes this way - NEVER had watched it before - - we did the same thing with The Gilmore Girls - which we ended up buying because I liked it so much - - so we are always looking for new/old tv series that we can fall in love with and CONSUME - - but they are hard to find - we had never seen a single episode of Friends - (I know?!? See? NOT normal...) We figured what the heck - lets just try the first disc of the first season - - imagine our surprise to find out that IT IS JUST A REGULAR STUPID SITCOM? Wow- - - so the search goes on - :P

Books:

Well - I love books on CD right now , Jack and I like to drive around aimlessly and listen to someone else read us a good story now and then - the last book we listened to like that was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - LOVED it! I like a good Grisham once in awhile - feel like I can trust him to not waste my time :o) I love Anne Tyler - the way she can make a normal week in an "average life" so deeply touching and layered with relevence - remarkable gift really... The Bible is the mainstay - I have a hard time with Christian fiction - not sure why - I did like Deadline - and my sister Karrilee just bought us Blessed Child for Christmas - which I WILL read - :O) I think I am more of a non-fiction person though - I enjoyed "Mega Shift" by James Rutz about the ways that the Christian church is changing and becoming less of a pastor-centered spectator religion - and more of a relational biblical expression where we ALL participate and connect with God and one another - - I find political, mainly conservative leaning books endlessly challenging and entertaining...

My Blog

We Lost a Friend Today

One of our best friends died last night - I really do not even know what to say - we are stunned and shaken, we are sad and confused - and yet all the while we are truly thankful that we were giv...
Posted by kayjays on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 04:08:00 PST

BUSY-NESS - CAMPAIGN 2006 - NEW LOVE & IMMIGRATION REFORM

Things have been incredibly busy lately - we are not even all the way unpacked from our very recent move (Loving our new smaller digs in the heart of downtown!) - and yet - life marches forw...
Posted by kayjays on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:21:00 PST

A little twist here - a white lie there - and we are all moonbats

I am posting this entry  -  only because there are two sides to every story - and Republicans / conservatives can be "moonbats" too if we stop thinking for ourselves - if we get our news and...
Posted by kayjays on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:02:00 PST

TAG GAME BLOG

Tag! you're it! myspace tag: the rulesonce you are tagged, you are to write a blog with 6 weird things/habits about yourself.  then, at the end of your blog, you write the names of the next 6 p...
Posted by kayjays on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:36:00 PST

MULLAHS WITH NUKES AND COX & FORKUM

IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)Member Nations Unite!!The campaign tour (along with the obligatory and possibly endless photo-ops) seems to have officially heated up - so as to get...
Posted by kayjays on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:12:00 PST

PAT BOONE, WMD's & PAYCHECKS ....

Okay so I am just going to start doing this blog thing that EVERYONE else has been doing forever - it is intimidating to just jump in - - but Pat Boone has just nudged me over the proverbial edge so I...
Posted by kayjays on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:10:00 PST