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Name: Abbi
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: Raleigh
Birthday: 1/27/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: music, math, sports, Jesus, crocheting, reading, eating, bowling, playing games, rollerblading, and watching cops and forensic files
Expertise: going to school!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Banking/Finance
Message: message me
AIM:  frack40
Member Since:
1/18/2002
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| this is a good book, even though i did grow up with the best father ever...it helps me understand a lot of people who didn't. plus he's just really funny.
i'm going to copy off of ash and reflect on 2006 and all the events i can remember...
JAN:
i was living in raleigh and going to nc state
started working at consolidated laundry equipment as a receptionist part-time
hosted farewell flight for a few days after they played in raleigh (i think it was jan?)
my parents came down to visit during my bday
went to a carolina hurricanes game
FEB:
watched the steelers win the superbowl at jon & bekah's
got involved w/ my church, going to wed. night activities and joining a small group
MAR:
maryland to visit colleen w/ carrie, katie, kristen, and karen, and also saw beth smith for a little bit
lindsay came to visit me for a weekend!
we went to the beach to try out the skim board nick made for me, and made friends w/ little boy skim boarders.
APR:
deb's cousin came to visit
home for easter
my brother came home for his leave from iraq
helped at "joy prom" - a prom for mentally and physically handicapped ppl
cookout at jason's house and outdoor ping pong
MAY:
saw project 86 with jon & bekah and fell in love w/ andrew schwab
ash came to visit :)
mississippi to do hurricane katrina relief for a week and it was awesome!
moved back to pittsburgh
helped out at my cousin's h.s. graduation party
spent memorial day at my uncle john's playing ultimate croquet
interviewed at mellon on the trading floor and hated it
interviewed at 3928572 other places
JUN:
hung out with joel for the first time since college i think
took some civil service tests...in case i ever work for the government i guess
started our bingo tradition
pirates game w/ joel, kristen, kent, linds, and sb
cookout at jenna's (new) house
started my job at rc holsinger!
angels & airwaves and taking back sunday and MET TOM DELONGE
JUL:
parents came to visit and we went to the pittsburgh zoo
sara evans/brad paisley/josh turner concert w/ my girls
jenna came to visit
women of faith conference in cleveland
katie came to visit
ash came to visit
there were lots of visitors!! just the way i like it :)
PPG weekend in the hotel in pittsburgh
Trisha yearwood concert
AUG:
discovered pittsburgh's bike trails and went biking w/ joel
farewell flight show
parents came to visit again for a day
cruise w/ jenna to the bahamas!
katie and colleen came to the burgh for...
kristen's shower and bachelorette party
started my final year of grad classes at pitt
SEP:
went to the farm for labor day weekend
fort campbell, ky to see my brother get home from iraq
home to the vern for his surprise welcome home party
jenna & her friends came to the burgh for a day and i tried to show them around
went to grove city for the day w/ beth and jill
kristen's wedding!
OCT:
new found glory show...where carrie and i were the oldest ones by about 10 years (but it was still amazing)
beth's "huntin" camp w/ beth, jill and linds
my brother came for the weekend
took my parents to dinner for the first time ever (to celebrate the new job)
cassie's shower in harrisburg
3 days of work training in cranberry
NOV:
jenna and drew came and we went to ligonier to hang out w/ joel, cassie, and poozer
fundraising dinner for the pregnancy center kent's mom runs
katie's house w/ the geneva roomies and got to go to amish world
jill came to visit for a weekend and we went shopping for black dresses w/ lindsay's help
home for thanksgiving
grove city outlets and valont on black friday
DEC:
beth and i decorated our apt for christmas
katie came to the burgh
took horrible, horrible finals and came out with an A and a C+...sucks
went out to dinner for carrie's bday
NYC on a bus trip w/ malvern ppl and saw the black market first hand haha
joel came w/ me to my work christmas party at the lamont in mt washington, where i felt like i was on the oc the whole time
won $200 in bingo
home for christmas
cassie and poozer's wedding in harrisburg
jenna's house for new years eve
cool im glad i did that now, thanks ash for the inspiration!
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Beth and I went to B I N G O Tuesday night.....and won!
It was $15 for 3 1/2 hours of bingo and a free spaghetti dinner. Each game, the winner gets 100 bucks, but if 2 or more people get bingo at the same time, they have to split the money. I got four corners one of the games and had to split the money with 4 other people (we each got $20), then a few games later Beth won and got $50!! so we each went home with $35 because we had decided beforehand to split if we ever won anything. we have SO much fun going to bingo, and we don't even expect to win, so it was pretty exciting.
This weekend Katie came to visit :) Saturday I met her and Laura in Cranberry to look for bridal shower stuff for Kristen, which was kinda weird (we are getting old), but really fun. Then we ate Jr. Whoppers at Burger King - my first one ever - and talked about the end times, haha...interesting lunch topic! After that Katie and I went for a walk in Frick Park and picked a bunch of black-eyed susans. They made such a pretty bouquet on our guest book table! Then last night Carrie, Kristen, and Beth were here too and we all went down to Station Square to eat at Buca Di Beppos. It was my first time there, but the food was really good...we got a huge salad, margarita pizza, and stuffed shells with spicy sausage in them. I think I was the only one who liked the shells and they were delicious. Then we played "Boxers or Briefs" at our apartment, which I love, until everyone got sick of it. We ended by having girl talks until we were too tired to keep our eyes open any more, then got up like 5 hours later for church! Great weekend!!
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i have exciting news - I GOT A JOB!! no more sitting around in sweats every day watching dr. phil, eating cereal, and waiting for everyone else to get home from work...not that there is anything wrong with that, but it does get old, believe it or not. actually i've really been trying to have productive days off, so i've been doing a lot of biking, walking, reading, and cleaning.
i'll be working for RC Holsinger, a cpa firm in wexford. and i get to travel!! i'll go with a few other people about 3-4 times a year to American Samoa....yeah i definitely had to google that one - it's a 4x26 mile island in the south pacific, near the equator. sweet!!
and i met with the owner yesterday...he is a really cool guy who actually has morals and believes in using his business to help other people. i didn't even think those existed any more! i'm nervous about not knowing anything and looking stupid, but i know God got me the job, and that i'm where i'm supposed to be, and he wouldn't give me something i can't handle. so i just gotta suck it up! my first day is monday..wish me luck 
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well, the weekend has come to a close. even though i don't have a job (YET), it's still kind of sad when the weekend ends. everyone has to go back to work, and i get bored. but it could all end on tuesday....
anyway, friday night i went to a pirates game against the twins. we ended up losing 2-3, but i didn't lose much sleep over it. i save my stress for the steelers. the fireworks afterwards were awesome! hopefully my 80's camera captured a few of them, but i won't know until i get them developed.
saturday was a rough morning. to my horror, i found my first GRAY HAIR!!! is this normal at 24? ahhh what a bummer. then i went home and as i was telling the story to my parents, my mom reached over, pulled out a piece of hair and showed it to me, and sure enough...another one! oh, and also that morning i dropped an entire pot of flower seeds i had planted a few days ago - moist miracle grow all over my clothes, in my pockets, and in everything i was carrying (which was apparently too much).
despite saturday morning, my 2 days at home was nice. saturday night jenna had a cookout at her house, and i was the official burger-griller. i think they turned out pretty well, unless you like pink because i don't do pink. there was also some scattergories and euchre, so you can't go wrong with those games. this morning my brother called and i got to talk to him for an hour  then went to church, then had a little cookout with the fam.
it was a wonderful father's day in the vern, and i hope everyone else had a good one too!
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