For those of you who have not gotten the subtle hints of the last few days, it is my birthday today!! I am now the ripe old age of 24, or, according to my wonderful sister, I am 1 year away from being half way to 50. We had some people come over last night for cake and brownies and we watched a movie and stuff. I also got to catch up with friends I haven’t had time to really spend much time with lately (like since school ended). This morning we went to church and this afternoon the Korean church that meets at our church Sunday afternoon is puting on a fellowship dinner for all of us to go to! Kimchi is in my near future!

So I found this crazy weird site. Actually, my coworker found it and told me about it. But what you do is put your picture in and then it tells you what celebrities you look like. Me being the geek that I am, put a bunch of photos in. There were all sorts of interesting celebrities I apparently look like. Some more so than others I think. Some who appeared are ones I have actually been told I look like before (like Charlize Theron). Others I have never even heard of. I think that the celebrity depends on how my hair is and how big my smile is in the picture (and apparently wearing glasses in a picture automatically means you are matched with Elton John…it happened with a few people I was in pictures with as well as one where I had glasses). Anyway, so the ones who appeared more than once are: Anne Hathaway, Eva Longoria, Jessica Alba, Sofia Coppola, Evangeline Lilly, Eva Perron, Allyson Hannigan, Julia Roberts, Mariah Carey, and Jamie Lynn Spears. Yeah, I put about 5 different photos in, so there’s a bit of variety!

I think that’s what I need to change my blog title to. Well, not “soccer” per ce, but piano, homework, math tutoring, sleep-overs… those are just a few of the things I’m doing lately… Its called my crash course on parenting teenagers. It is a weird balance to maintain – we’re friends, but I’m also boss woman at the moment. Oh, for those of you who are lost, I’m house sitting right now, and staying with a 16 year old girl from my church while her parents are out of town (for a month-ish). Fortunately she is very cool. So yeah, about balance… On top of all of that, I’ve worked full time this week – 5 days, 8 hour days. Its almost more work than school! At least with school I could have been home in the afternoons etc. But now, alas not at all. That will change next week though, when I go back to my customary 1 or 2 days a week work. Oh the joys of being temp and not needed to do much. I work just enough to make a bit of cash, but not enough to get annoyed about working too much.

“Dear Ms Gillian Hoyer,
You are one of the lucky people selected to receive a “Flat Stanley” in the mail from Ms Walkling’s grade one class!
Who is Flat Stanley?
He is a character in books written by Jeff Brown. Stanley is a boy who gets flattened by a bulletin board, which falls on him while he is sleeping in his bed. He finds out that being fla can be useful. When he wants to visit his friend in California, his parents mail him there in a large envelope – along with a sandwich.
We have created our own Flat Stanleys to mail to people around the world. We love to receive mail and hope that you do too. Our Flat Stanleys came to the gym with us this week to watch the Skip-a-thon final competition. Some of them got hugged so much in the excitement that they needed ‘bandages’ afterwards.
In this envelope you will find my Flat Stanley and a page from his journal. Please keep him with you for a few days. Then write a journal page to tell me what he does with you, and mail it and Stanley back to me.
I can hardly wait to hear from you!
Mark-Anthony”

So this is me and Stanley. He arrived in the mail this morning and we’ve got a big week planned. I don’t know who is more excited about the whole Flat Stanley thing – me or the grade one kid who made him and sent him to me!