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Degree Check

Well, I got my degree check today and it looks like I have put together a perfect schedule to graduate by December. Yay! I will even complete a history minor!
It is about time! I am so ready to have my diploma like all the other people my age. Sigh.

Dan is taking me on a date tonight. He also does the dishes after dinner. Isn't he great?

HUGS!

Amy Hay

Searching for Kristin Eidemiller

I have become an internet stalker. Anyone with Google can become an expert on people they barely know. It is frightening really.

I mean, have you ever googled your name?

I have been looking for a friend I used to know in Seattle for months! I spend hours scrolling through Myspace browses for her or her siblings. For $24.95 I can look up her criminal history and see her credit rating along with her last four addresses but this, for me, is overstepping the bounds just a little bit.

Kristin, Where are you?

During this whole process though I have reconnected with a ton of friends from high school and some even from middle and elementary school. There is something therapeutic about forming a new mental image of people when they have been perpetually twelve in your mind.

I found a girl I used to know who became a swimmer in college and married a pro football player. Another of my friends, whom I adored at age 10, is an accomplished Ivy league graduate who has been published many times over. I am stunned! Some are married with kids already.

I just wonder if these new inventions like Myspace and Facebook will keep people interested enough in each other to actually have something to talk about at their 10 year reunions....Or even to show up at their 10 year reunions.

Okay...I think I am done. My new obsession is Myspace. You can find all sorts of people, blog, put up pictures and music and edit the html in any field. It is a thing of beauty.

I miss you friends. Please say hello.

Love from Amy Van Hizzle.

P.S. Irony of all ironies...I just spell checked this post and the checker didn't recognize the word "blog." Hello!

We're Home!

We made it home safe! Honeymoons are great! I just never ever ever ever want to get married again!

I thought I would add a few pics so you could live the vacation with us!








Dan and I saw a Houston Astros Game!















Dan spent a few hours in a hammock on a private beach. Ahhhh...vacation!







Dan on Stateroom Balcony...the most common sight! He was fascinated with how the ship worked and he loved the water!




















This was our dinner group. Meeting new people is fun! We ate every night in a formal dining room with fab food like steak, lobster, shrimp, etc. Coming home was very hard!















We met a pirate near Tortuga!

















And we weren't the only ship in port. Imagine an extra 10 thousand people coming ashore from just these four boats! Go economy go!

We got a chance to swim with the StingRays! This was soooo cool. They were super soft on the bottom.








I even got to hold one!













Dan was keeping it real!














I was trying to get a self portrait but saltwater/sunscreen was burning Dan's eyes out of their sockets...sooo...this is what came out. I am sure my goggles in his eyeball really helped the situation.

All in all we had a great time! I hope you thought these were a laugh. I should really take a picture of the apartment that awaited us when we got home. Man O Man I thought we had a tornado in there.

Anyway...more later.

Love from the Hays

CRUISE! not like tom!

Dan and I are on our balcony aboard our cruise ship in port at Key West Florida. While we are waiting to get back at sea we are mooching internet from a hotel rigt across the dock. 'Tis very funny. We are having a great time but also are eager to get back home and start our life in Norman...but not for long because we are leaving next weekend for Phoenix to attend Dan's dad's memorial service.

Thanks for all your prayers and for your support at our wedding! Hope everyone's summer is going well.

Love from Dan and Amy Hay!!

There are so many things in my life that I don't understand...this is one of them.

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Uh...umm....shuh...?!

What?!

Nineteen days? That is less than 20 days which is less than 30 days. No wonder I am on the verge of insanity!

Will you guys please dance at my reception? It'll make me feel like a bit of a success.

A public apology

The time comes in every blogger's life when a post turns sour and controversial. This is my public apology for writing misleading threads that make me seem like a hater.

I love reading all of your blogs. I really am just asking for more! Clayton says he will give a little more when he posts songs...that will make me smile.

Anway, I love you all. And melancholies are my favorite people in the world...that wasn't a slam. All of my best friends are melancholies and it is one of my future husband's most attractive features. Amy and Melancholies are like peas and carrots. They just have a tendency to be cryptic and happy go lucky, apt to be a bit dim-witted sanguines like myself need a little help understanding your meanings.

I wish I could just bake a cake of rainbows and sunshine and we can all eat and be happy like we were in junior high...

Happy Birthday Allison!

Today is Allison's birthday. Consider this an official sanction to drive her to tears with positive attention! You should ask her about the geenie that gave her three wishes this morning...top that people.

Allison. I love you! You are the marshmallows in my lucky charms, the chocolate in my milk, the

whipped cream on my sundae.

Happy Birthday!

My Two Cents

Okay. I have to put my two cents in. I gotta be honest pals....all the song lyrics as posts are beyond getting annoying.

I know music is important to all of you melancholies but it is like an ongoing mystery as to what the heck you mean by them.

Are you trying to be aloof? Do you want us to google the song and find out what the artist meant by it? Are we supposed to examine your life and guess at the correlations?

I am not trying to be a butt, I really want to know! Because to continue with the honesty thing I just skip right over the lyrics....especially if you put the chorus in over and over.

Maybe I am asking too much to desire to read your actual thoughts when I go to your blog. But I really do.

If this is asking too much maybe if there was just one lyric post per every 5 normal entries...that would be better.

Tell me what you really think or I'll send this guy after you...and nobody wants that!

Bad News

Been getting some really bad news lately. But this makes me feel a little bit better or a little bit worse...depending on your perspective.

Rusty

Glorious!

I love it when I see college students sleeping on thousand dollar leather couches all over campus.

I like how it smells of "my ridiculously high tuition paid for this thing!"

I like how there can be a complete stranger 2 feet away reading War and Peace and they don't care.

I want to be one of them. Random Before-I-Graduate-Goal: Take a nap in public on a really really nice couch.

I finally put my name on the Spring Banquet list. Get this...there will probably be pictures of me on the slideshow while I was in college before digital cameras were invented. I know you don't believe it...but it is true. They'll have to be, like, manually scanned in or something.

And yes, I did start my university work before the 21st century.

Sweet diploma- come to Mama!

Bongos

This is a hilarious game. I played it for like 20 minutes.

Sleeeepy

Hey Friends,

Life is pretty peachy. I am having a great time winding down towards the wedding. Me and Dan found a place to live and everything is falling into place.

I felt like Wanda Strappazon's message last night about being content in my circumstances was directed right at me. I am hoping to choose happiness and contentment in my life to come!

Meanwhile, I am struggling to sleep. What is wrong with me? Argh!

I try the whole counting sheep thing but sleep evades me for other reasons...That I won't go in to. I am just like a cranky two year old. I have even taken to despising myself.

Anyway, I am looking forward to my bridal shower tomorrow and some time with good friends.

Sigh. Life is beautiful.

Online Registry

Okay, Soooo registering is not my favorite things. In some ways you feel like a kid again, making a Christmas list for Santa long after discovering he doesn't exist.

What does exist is your mom and your dad and their already-stretched checkbook...so you start gentle negotiations. The pony comes off of the list and something more reasonable goes on.


Dan and I registered at JC Penny and Target. Dan's tools are all at Sears (where we also scanned a $2,000 big screen... our modern day pony)

A quick note for you who read my blog...By reading this you are already assuring me that you are internet savvy. If you were thinking of getting me and Dan a present and you hate the mall...CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE REGISTRIES!

Actually my most favorite items are only available online...some of them are a lot cheaper than in store stuff too. So, there you go. If you don't get us anything, we'll be fine...we just thought you should know about it.

Love from Amy

The Simpsons!

This is hilarious!

Feeling Better

Feeling much better but still not completely better. I may not see you around the office but I'll try to be there as much as I can.

I miss you all. Hope things are going well.


Amy

Need your prayers

Well, I felt like I was supposed to come home for the break and I am really glad that I did. I have a huge medical issue that is being taken care of by the team of doctors that my mom works with here in Corpus. I still haven't been diagnosed but have an appointment first thing Friday (tomorrow) morning.

Most of you will be heading back to Norman from Glorieta. Please be praying for me. My dad may have to drive me home and then fly back and I am in a lot of pain.

Thanks for all of your texts and calls this week as you are soaking up His goodness on Spring break. Love from me!

New Glasses on me

Well...As you can probably see from my profile pick my glasses have arrived. To those of you who haven't seen them in person here ya go:


I am leaving this afternoon for Ft. Worth to stay with Ann and E.Hill (crashing more like) and then up at the crack of dawn to head to Corpus for a doctor's appointment. Pray for me. I am nervous.

Have a great trip to Glorieta, those of you who are going. I am praying especially for your travel that it is easy and accomodating. BE SAFE.

Amy