Currently Watching Little Miss Sunshine By Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Marc Turtletaub, Jill Talley, Brenda Canela, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Chuck Loring, Justin Shilton, Gordon Thomson, Steven Christopher Parker, Bryan Cranston, John Walcutt, Paula Newsome, Dean Norris, Beth Grant, Wallace Langham see related

just peeked out my window and it is sooooo beautiful out!  297 inches of white snow! okay, not that much but it's so nice. i can handle the cold sooo much better when it's snowing-- otherwise it's just miserable!

so i just celebrated my 27th birthday in north carolina-- it was brrrr there but i was all warm and fuzzy inside to be with friends for the weekend. our host was amazing and we just had the perfect time. we did head to a bar in winston-salem for the superbowl-- was so weird not to be in indy with the true colts fans! several folks in the bar did have on colts jerseys so that was lovely-- enjoyed the game and laughed at k-fed's commercial as well as prince's doo-rag

i am glad to be back in my home and looking forward to the rest of winter! hope to go xc skiing this wkend- that would be amazing.

going to watch a movie now even though i should be going to bed!

MLK Day

Currently Watching The Wire - The Complete First Season By Jeffrey Lorenzo, Michael Stone Forrest, Stephen Zaleski, David Ehrman (II), Richard DeSantis, Steve Staiger see related

Bye Bye 2006!

Happy 2007!!

If you have not seen The Wire --- rent it!! It has been a favorite show of my sister and her husband's since it came out on HBO in 2004. After seeing them rant excitedly about the show over Thanksgiving, it is now an obsession for my mom and I to watch all the seasons in 2007.  We are h-o-o-k-e-d.

Here are all my favorite moments of 2006:

January - ringing in 2006 with my mom and sister playing poker and drinking champagne - they refused to let me go party ha! But I had fun :)

March 2006 - Lauren Paris Ferguson was born! I remember exactly who I was with and what I was doing when I got the news at 1:30am GRIN

April 2006 -- with Joanne, Jazzy, and Jeremy in DC

May 2006 - graduating with my PsyS from Gally!

June 2006 - Jenee, Rachel and I volunteered at MICA Runway

June 2006 -- road trip brought me to Montreal for some family time -- with my cousins Kamil, Ryan, and Hasani (below), along with Mom and Auntie Brenda

July 2006 - representing Florida in the Miss Deaf America pageant at Palm Desert, CA

July 2006 - Joanne, Amie and I took off for Italy! We happened to meet these three deaf Italians while getting gelato in Naples -- Amie and I chatting in Florence

In Kandanos, Greece - outside of Joanne's cousin's restaurant - yum! Aunt Ellie is holding Sam's adorable baby girl

August 2006 - Happy Birthday, Kayla! She's all excited about her pool party the day before -- Jazzy's niece, Anaya, was also born around this time!

September 2006 - the entire family ran/walked the Montreal Marathon 10K and had a blast!

October 2006 - Mom came to Indianapolis for a visit and enjoyed herself at the RibFest

November 2006 - Thanksgiving in Silver Spring - Lauren has such a personality!!

December 2006 - Happy 90th Birthday, Grandpa!

Ahh.. good times.

Currently Watching The Family Stone (Widescreen Edition) see related

just finished my two-page to-do list and it includes a xanga entry. might as well start there! :)

i'm in montreal (quebec) this week having the greatest time in the city where i grew up. in a few minutes i will walk downtown to meet my two cousins and catch up with them -- can't wait! they are all big and buff now lol. the city is soooo different, though! the official languages while i was growing up were english and french, so street signs, store signs, billboards, etc were in both languages. since french is now the official language, you cannot find a word in english ANYWHERE.  feels like i'm in paris. but of course, talk to any salesperson or waiter, and they speak fluent english. go figure!

my aunt (i am staying with her, she's one of my 2 faves!) lives in a condo on a canal about a quarter mile away from the outdoor market.  my mom was here from miami until last night, so in the morning we could go for a walk/run, stop at the market for fresh fruit/cheese/etc, sit and watch the kayaks go by, have lunch with my grandpa (his old folks' home is so nice, i wouldn't mind living there!), and just enjoy the city. mom and i went over to my old school for the deaf on monday - i was invited there for a job interview. it was sooo nice to be there and see all my old teachers, audiologists, counselors (all of them since my first day there at age 4!) but i couldn't really work there - it's an oral school and they have such a medical perspective of deaf children. it's a very warm and loving environment, but doesn't fit who i am now. meaning i probably couldn't move to montreal to work - oh well. just as well since i can't read the street signs :)

bonsoir!