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So crazy in love with KEXP.

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    When I moved to Seattle in October of 2003 from the cold tundra of the Kenai Peninsula I didn’t know what real radio was like.  I had become attuned to stations that boasted playing songs form the 80’s 90’s and today.  After seeing numerous Subaru station wagons with a yellow KEXP bumper sticker on them I decided to check it out.

    The gift of music was given to me that day.  The Flaming lips, Antony and the Johnsons, The Smiths, The Vaselines, Modest Mouse, Dyme Def, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Nina Simone and may others!  I couldn’t get enough.  Shake the shack is my favorite show on the station.  It plays old rockabilly and blues.  World music was never anything that interested me until I heard Thievery Corporation and Sigur Ros.  Sigur Ros live is something everyone must do before they die just sayin’.

    The other night while listening to KEXP on-line,  a cover of Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” came on.  The artist covering the song was Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons.  Never has such beauty come from a pop song.  It’s really amazing when someone can take a song most of us have heard one thousand times and make it new.  I felt like I was in a musical slump not hearing much good music makes me sad.  Antony and the Johnsons have picked me up from my musical depression and put a smile on my face.

Knots in stomach not fun.

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I applied to become a dispatcher for 911 a year ago. I was subjected to all the tests and interviews and ended up being approved for hire. Unfortunately I didn’t get the 90% that was needed to be hired the first round. So I was put into a pool of people to be hired, and since August of last year I have been told to call every month to see if or when I was up for hire. Twelve months of calling in and being told to call next month. Due to the “economic situation” it has taken this long, but I believe it has come to an end. A few weeks ago I was told they will be hiring sometime in October and that I am first on the list!

I have had this never ending knot in my stomach. It’s been so tough because where i am at right now financially is the ghetto and this job would be an upgrade to a gated community. Three time more than what I am making now I would make there. I need that. I feel like I work so hard for so little and I need out! I feel like I want to do something more important than serve coffee. I want to help people in need. I have been doing the coffee thing for four years now and I feel I have hit the plateau. I don’t want to make money for someone else anymore. I want to make money for me. I want real responsibility.

Owning a home is great!

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So we have finally moved all of our things into our new house. It feels great! I never thought owning would be this great! We spent about two and a half hours at World Market picking things out for decorating our new home. Soo much fun! It helps that we both appreciate design. Bebop is totally loving his new found freedom the yard is giving him. He did try to dig to China yesterday which isn’t so good. But all on all great feeling.
So I installed not only the refridgerator but also the washer and dryer. Not completely by myself but under the supervision of my fiances father. It was really fun to do these somewhat macho things. It’s all new to me and it was nice to have male bonding time. I know that sounds kinda lame but I don’t care I had fun and I learned some things.