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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 ( 12:41 AM ) shut up christine today words from Kolkata, pictures of a family, and closure. i am so thankful to have been a part of this journey    
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 ( 10:58 PM ) shut up christine Sonali....i can picture her taking the time out of her busy schedule to compile all these resources and write out this email...just....wow. subject: URGENT: Donations Requested for OC Fire Victims Friends, We're all in the same boat, asking "what can I do?" toward the current fire evacuations/crisis. Finally, the donation requests & needs are beginning to mobilize. In Orange County, here are the current needs, as of 10/24: Current Emergency Volunteer Needs The Orange County Rescue Mission is accepting all non-perishable donations, gift certificates to restaurants/fast food establishments, & gas cards. Donation drop-off hours: Monday through Friday, 8am and 6pm. Their immediate needs are: Ready-to-eat/non-perishable foods, infant care items, & toiletries/hygiene items. For a complete itemized list of needs, please see: www.operationoc.org. They DO NOT accept used clothing. Address: One Hope Drive, Tustin, CA. 92782. More info: (714) 247-4300. The Costa Mesa Fire Fighters Association & Council Member Katrina Foley are asking for the following donations to be donated for fire victims: New pajamas for adults and children, toys, toothbrushes, toothpaste, new blankets, towels, pillows gift cards to department and grocery stores. Donations will be accepted through Nov. 4 at the following locations: Lents & Foley, LLP 1600 Dove Street, Suite 101, Newport Beach; Newport Rib Co. 2196 Harbor Blvd.; The LAB 2930 Bristol St.; Office of Mike Schaefer, State Farm Insurance, 1551 Baker St., Suite B; Boys & Girls Club Lou Yantorn Branch; 2131 Tustin Ave.; Costa Mesa City Hall Lobby 77 Fair Dr.; Costa Mesa Senior Center 695 West 19th St.; Sonora Elementary 955 Sonora Rd., and Costa Mesa High School 2650 Fairview Rd. Donations will also be accepted at the Fire Fighters Charity Golf Tournament on Monday Oct. 29 at the Mesa Verde Country Club. Community Action Partnership is accepting food donations and personal items such as diapers, shampoo, soap, etc. for the fire victims. Address: 12640 Knott St., Garden Grove 92841. Hours are 8am to 5pm. Second Harvest Food Bank is accepting non-perishable food donations. When dropping items off please let them know it is for fire relief. Address: 426-A West Almond, Orange 92866. Hours are 8am to 4pm. Blenheim Farms in San Juan Capistrano is housing large animals and is in need of large tubs to give water to livestock and horses, food and water for volunteers, pitch forks, large bags of carrots, duct tape and black markers. They are located at Ortega and La Pata in San Juan Capistrano. Questions: please call Charlene at 949-443-1841. Giving Children Hope/Global Operations and Development is distributing aid to fire victims and asking people to donate cots, blankets, hygiene items, diapers, non-perishable food, bottled water, batteries, baby items, baby formula, and sleeping bags. Their distribution center/drop-off location is at 8332 Commonwealth Ave., Buena Park. Additionally, volunteers are needed to pack hygiene kits for distribution. 714-523-4454 Working Wardrobes is accepting clothing donations. Contact: Christine, 714-210-2460. Address: 11614 Martens River Circle, Fountain Valley, CA 92708. Please ensure donations are either new or gently used. Orange County Animal Care Services is housing an unprecedented number of evacuated animals and needs items including towels, blankets, small food and water bowls, buckets of cat litter, small litter pans, litter scoopers, dog waste bags, spray bottles, animal crates, animal exercise pens, timothy hay, alfalfa hay, goat food, llama food and hand sanitizer. They are located at 561 The City Drive South, Orange, CA 92868. Donations are being accepted from 7am to 11pm. Irvine Animal Care Shelter is housing evacuated animals and is in need of blankets, towels, newspapers and gift cards to Petco or PetSmart 949-724-7741 6443 Oak Canyon Road, Irvine, CA 92618. Mission Viejo Animal Shelter is housing evacuated animals, they have very limited storage and donations to support medical services would be greatly appreciated. Call 949-470-3045. The Orange County Red Cross is in need of monetary donations to support their relief efforts. Please visit the Orange County Red Cross at www.oc-redcross.org or call 714-431-5300 to donate. Please specify: Santiago Canyon Fire in the memo of your check. American Red Cross Blood Services is in need of blood donors, to make an appointment, please call (800) 448.3543 or visit www.GiveLife.org (My Sources: Red Cross, Orange County, Orange County Fire Authority & Volunteer Center of Orange County) # ( 1:11 AM ) shut up christine once again, my little boat has altered its course i must remind myself that there are an infinite number of routes from point A to point B, and i will probably try them all. also, today i spoke with my old boss, she said the office at our headquarters in Chicago had a nickname for me: Mouse Girl as in "Hey, Mouse Girl is on the phone." awww. endearing when i speak out loud, what i hear isn't soft-spoken or squeaky; the voice resonating in my ears is deep (like...a grown woman) and reasonably loud. can you not hear it? am i tone deaf?? talking is hella exhausting sometimes. my voice gets tired very easily # Tuesday, October 23, 2007 ( 1:00 AM ) shut up christine  sabs! and brian! two of my most favorite favorites # Friday, October 19, 2007 ( 8:06 PM ) shut up christine my dad wants to go to a Hannah Montana concert.  its one of his favorite shows on the disney channel. (he thinks she's real) i think i will buy tickets. how cute are we # Thursday, October 18, 2007 ( 1:58 PM ) shut up christine i woke up today and someone had scribbled in the corner of my agenda planner: lose control.
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( 2:15 AM ) shut up christine i don't know what it is or where its coming from, i've just been sitting here in this chair for the last hour but i feel like something happened, as if i was in a terrible car crash but walked away without any broken bones and i'm so happy and thankful and relieved that i have my whole life ahead of me # Saturday, October 13, 2007 ( 12:40 AM ) shut up christine thank you to Madhavi for reminding me of this. During my vocabulary lessons with Sandeepbhai, I would tell him a word or phrase in English, and he would give me the Gujarati translation. Sometimes we would come across a word that couldn't be translated; I learned that sometimes the words don't matter, it's how you say them. There aren't any words (English or Gujarati) that can fully explain my experience at Manav Sadhna. There's no way I could ever express how grateful I am for being given the opportunity to wash dishes with you, sing with you, laugh with you, cry with you, but most of all - serve with you. You are my heroes! I could say thank you a million times and it still wouldn't be enough, so instead I will repeat it in my heart, silently, over and over again until I come back. Thank you for making these past three months one of the happiest times in my life. Pachee malee shu! Love, Ganga. # Friday, October 12, 2007 ( 4:07 PM ) shut up christine i've been home for about a month lately i've been spending my time running! and cooking!! and gardening!!! and reading for fun!!! and volunteering, and studying, and catching up with friends, and doing things that make me really happy. and, my room is not a mess, for once in my life i kinda feel like i finally have my shit together! volunteering is starting to take up a central part of my life, which i think is a pretty good way to spend one's time, right? the question they love to ask, however, is: Don't you have goals? Dreams? Do you ever think about your future? how does one honestly answer questions like that, without sounding like a complete failure # Tuesday, October 09, 2007 ( 5:38 PM ) shut up christine aw man so i've spent a good part of the day spying on one of my dogs i don't have a job right now so i can get away with things like this anyway mentally, she's not all there she can stare at nothing, for hours and hours and hours and... i wonder what goes on in her head when she was younger, we would wait at the gate and she would get so excited and wag her tail so hard against the side of the house that there would be blood on the wall and when its time to eat, i KNOW she's freakin hungry, but she would rather be petted than eat, and the other dogs will eat all her food and she doesn't care!!! she'll sacrifice her food for a stupid pat on the head and she will jump on me and rip my shirt and scratch my legs because she is so happy and i'll yell at her and run away and she'll do the same thing the next day i have never known another living being that is so foolishly, stupidly, painfully loyal to me and i am in awe # ( 1:46 PM ) shut up christine exactly. i bow down to jeffrey who got up this morning and left for japan, with only enough money in his pocket for a few cab rides he's in the air right now, and my stomach is twisting in a nervous happy eeeeek way. as "impractical" as it may seem to you, would you have the balls to do it? jeff has balls! big ones! # Saturday, October 06, 2007 ( 5:48 PM ) shut up christine Happy Diwali! i know these are kinda costly, but you'd be supporting the Earn N Learn kids in India choose a design...  and message for the inside  there are more designs, if you're interested :)   
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Friday, October 05, 2007 ( 7:01 PM ) shut up christine 66838 # Wednesday, October 03, 2007 ( 12:23 AM ) shut up christine  how did i get so lucky? # Monday, October 01, 2007 ( 6:51 PM ) shut up christine people who've had heart attacks are.not.supposed.to.eat.HOT DOGS! orfreakinbowlsofbuffalowingsareyoukiddingme!!!!!! makes me so freakin mad stuff like this makes me wish i could ground my dad. or i wish i could say you're not getting up from this table unless you eat all your vegetables do you hear me?!? I SAID DO YOU HEAR ME!! LOOK AT MY FACE WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!! then i would send him to bed without any dessert. no TV either dammit why am i crying # |
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