Can I send a big hell yeah to The Office tonight?

SQUEEEEEAAAAAAAL!


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I didn't think I'd have something to say so soon but guess what?! I do! Bear with me.

I have never been one to say that people shouldn't be monogamous because that I think is very important for health and sanity reasons. However, as of late with many new developments, I wonder if people are meant to find one person and actually stay married to them for forever. To be more specific, I guess I just think that maybe long term marriages shouldn't be the norm.

For one, divorce is so casual these days. It's a very "throw away" society that we live in today and if something doesn't work, you toss it.  Second, the amount of people who call my job for martial counseling is astounding. You. would. not. believe. It is insane to think that so many relationships are having so many problems. It's because of his family, her family, his drugs, her drinking, his anger, her affair, his mistress, their children, their work, their house, their debt, his health problems, her inability to have children, their ages, their sex (more likely the lack thereof), his addiction, her lying, his inability to trust, the list goes on and on and on and on. Third, as we all know, you can have a baby with out being married. Heck, you can have 10 babies with 10 men who you never even say 'I love you' to. 

So if you think that if we do away with marriage then we do away with family, you're wrong. I mean, what if instead of ever marrying we decide to have babies with the man or woman that we like the most, that we laugh the most with and get along best with. But instead of always coming home together at the end of the night you compromise with your best friend on who takes the kid for the weekend and if they want to join you and the children at the zoo on Sunday.

This would require a great amount of responsibility and care for one another but because that is already absent in so many marriages maybe this is the best way to go about respecting the person you are tied to for the rest of your life...by not actually being TIED to them for the rest of your lives. Instead you want to see this person as often as is appropriate for two people who have a child/children together but at the end of the day, you can go to a bar and pick up whatever beautiful man or woman you see and take as much time as you need to indulge in what you want without cheating on your spouse or being a dishonest trash bag. You really can have it all, I think.

I haven't posted in so very long. Here are some photos that really don't describe what I've been doing. But they'll suffice.


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Oh, and you can find me here more often than not:
anniehinton.tumblr.com

I'll try and write something noteworthy soon.

Seacrest out.

I happen to have on a pair of jeans that belong to a fine young gent.

& finally my frickin' B of a camera is fixed!

Hello my prettiest friends!

Yeah it's 2008, so instead of talking about what really happened in the year of 07, here's my best and worst of's list!

Best Movies (Juno was the absolute top but the others have some flexibility in their positions):

Hello

Observation: There's something to be said about boys who wear watches (although zero of the boys I am close with wear one). I don't know what it is but I think it's just great.  It's a very "I can't be bothered to actually take my cell phone out of my pocket to see what time it is" type thing. 

I've been thinking about when would be a good time to visit Iowa City.  About two months ago I kept saying how I never wanted to go back and I didn't care if I didn't go back but I think I might have been lying and right now I am trying my best to remember what it was that made me love what little I loved there. Hey, it was and I guess still is, home.

Tomorrow I've got to make my Christmas cards and get them in the mail, hopefully that will be a good bit of distraction for me.

I feel weird, they say that sometimes you can tell days in advance when you're going to have a migraine and I am pretty sure if I were going to be able to guess it would be soon because I feel so strange.  I might just be very tired because I couldn't sleep at all last night so that always throws me off.  I also might be worrying myself sick about it, I think I become most worried when I think I'm going to have a migraine, not much else worries me more.

I am going to write in an unbreakable code now:
d iddk iaee mrpe keqp d wexr hopguta iossbekq.

End.

Love,
Annie J. Hinton

p.s. I will always, always I will watch over you.

It's freezing, literally, in Chicago. Snow and ice and rain and cold and wet and winter and December.

I definitely had the best times in Iowa City when it was cold and snowy and this weather is actually making me miss all of that. Winter always worries me for the most part. I mean, it's cold and cloudy and there's not a whole l lot to do but sit and wait for spring and nice weather to come back and the fact that it's almost Christmas is sort of lonely too. I want to bake things and look for Christmas presents but in Chicago it's not like you can just drive over to the mall and avoid ice puddles and icy walk ways and walk into a well lit, warm mall. In Chicago, there are cold trains and people sniffling and sneezing and being cranky.

However, as I mentioned, Christmas is on its way and hopefully that will be good. I mean, there's nothing bad about baking and wrapping presents and listening to Christmas music until you sort of want to pull your hair out. And I can't complain about movies like Elf and A Charlie Brown Christmas and Home Alone and Christmas Vacation and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and A Christmas Story and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Could that sentence have had more of the word 'Christmas' in it? Probably not.

What I want for Christmas:


What I've received for Christmas so far (from the great Brian "the brain" Ellis):


Winter is always tough, tough, tough but hopefully I can make the most of it...right? Right.

Love,
Annie

At work today I used my mouse left handed all day. I hope by next year this time I can write with my left hand nearly as well as I can with my right hand. I think I smell a New Years Resolution in the making here.

However, I do remember doing an entire painting with my left hand that I have since painted over. Oh well, maybe I can make my new years resolution to learn to write well with my left hand and to learn to never cover anything up, no matter what.

Sound good? Yes.

I had an excellent weekend, and a great Monday and now it's only 3 days until Thanksgiving and then it's almost Christmas and then we can say goodbye to 2007 because it was sort of gross and mostly quite awkward. The end has been quite fruitful though, I love the way things are working out. Perhaps I haven't mentioned it but if I have I'll say it again: Moving to Chicago was the best thing I've ever done.

Now that we've had this talk, I definitely may...
Annie J.