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Name: Cathy
Birthday: 5/4/1982
Interests: Christ, my family, my friends, STARS, long walks, long talks, scrapbooking, salads, theatre, a good burger, nature, really good music, equally good movies, stars, cats, Borders, puppies, mountains, the ocean, Dr. Pepper, wierd science fiction books, horses, nicholas sparks, chicago-style deep dish pizza, eating out, long walks, long talks (i really like those two ;-) ), frisbee, high school football no matter who the team is, grenadine, fresh peaches, dashboard confessional (esp. the old stuff), relient k, photography (esp. black and white), strongbad emails, the harry potter books, reading almost any christian book i can get my hands on, challenging others to grow closer to God, listening to challenges from other people for me to be closer to God, the second story, living out "the vision" (second story-ers should know what i'm talking about), and the relentless pursuit of becoming the awesome woman God has called me to be
Expertise: theatre anything, cats, books (sort of), and trying to push others closer to where God wants them to be
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Entertainment
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Member Since:
6/10/2005
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I hope that this year we can all keep our eyes open to the blessings that come our way and that we remember each day to be thankful for what we have.
I love you all!
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|  | Currently Listening
Big Fish
By Danny Elfman, Various Artists
Man of the Hour-by Pearl Jam
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It's sometimes incredible to me to think of all the ups and downs that life brings our way. Most often, it seems that they tend to follow each other. It almost is as if God is trying to remind us never to get too proud of ourselves or take things for granted.
I have had a very difficult last week and a half. The day after Jeff and I and a bunch of friends went out to celebrate my new job, I found out that one of my closest friends in theatre at Bradley and after was killed while serving in the Peace Corps in Suriname South America. She was one of the brightest lights I've ever met. Her visitation was on Monday and her funeral was yesterday morning. Jeff and my friend Misty and I all went up for both of them. Though Jeff didn't know her, his comment after finding out was that when he met her at the wedding he was excited for when she would be coming back to the States because he wanted to get to know her because he could tell she was someone very special to me since I spent more time with her than with anyone else. It's so funny to me because our friendship was so up and down and funny throughout college, but when I moved out to Colorado to work for those 3 months, she was out there too and once she found out I was there, she wouldn't leave me alone until we hung out. And hang out we did! We did so much together that summer and saw each other at least once a week. It was like all the crazy of college was forgotten and we were just really able to have a great solid friendship-one that we kept up through email and calls until she left for Suriname and then continued to try to keep up through email while she was gone.
It's led me to reflect a lot on how people influence me and how different people come in and out of your life and that, if you're not careful, you can let some really incredible people slip away if you're not careful. I got to reconnect with a lot of those incredible people during the past couple of days. The tragedy of Blythe's passing brought Bradley people from all over to get together and celebrate her life and mourn her death. After the visitation on Monday about 25 people convened at TGI Fridays to hang out and catch up. After her funeral on Tuesday, about 20 of us (a different mix of people) went to Chili's to lean on each other and find comfort in memories and reconnecting with old friends. I had almost forgotten how truly amazing some of the people I have known are.
Blythe's death has been incredibly hard for me. I don't know if it's just that she's my first friend to have died-really the first person I've ever been this close to that has died. I don't know if it's just that I feel like we didn't have enough time or take full advantage of the time we had. I don't know if it's the reality of death and seeing her parents mourn her loss. I don't know what it is. All I know is that it hurts. That something in me feels like there is something missing after her death and that I know it'll get better, but right now it doesn't seem like it will. It's one thing to lose a grandparent-it almost seems that it's time-necessary-even in it's tragedy. But losing a friend so very young-it just doesn't seem right.
All I can think to do is to take comfort in the fact that she lived a very full life. She loved people well. She was loved by everyone that knew her-as was evident by how very many people came to her funeral. And most of all, she will be remembered fondly by all who knew her.
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| I GOT A NEW JOB!
I know...how many times can one person say that? But I did. And this time, it should be for a long long while. I am now the full-time Creative Director for the 2nd Story Church in Peoria, IL!!! It's been a long long time in the works and they announced that they wanted to hire me on Sunday during service which was so awesome! It'll take a bit to transition out of the office job I have right now. Since it's the holidays and things are really busy, they probably won't be interviewing until January, but still, knowing that it's coming is such a great thing! I should be starting for real sometime mid-January! I'm so pumped! I really feel like this is what I'm supposed to be doing. The kicker is that I'm the first person in this position for our church and really, in our area. So it's not like I have a lot of people to look at to guide me. I wrote my own job description (3 PAGES LONG!!! OMG!!!). I'll probably be reading a lot of books and trying to get a lot of input from other people. But it's so extremely exciting!!! I have to admit, it's been a bit of a funky last couple of days though because now that I know it's coming, I want to start RIGHT NOW and every day that I'm not I get a little more moody and crabby...which is not good... I already packed up most of the stuff from my desk at the office and cleaned things up and moved my files so that I can basically just be done when the time comes. It's a little bittersweet because I have really gotten to know some awesome people in my current job. But I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing so I'm doing it. Oh man, how awesome!
Question for those of you out there: If you have ever seen "In Good Company" there is a song at the end of it that has been in my head for 3 days. It's called "Trapeze Swinger" by a group called Iron and Wine. Does anyone know anything about them? Are they any good? Just wondered...
Woo hoo for new jobs and changes and doing things not many other have done before 
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| Hi everyone! So we have some pictures from our photographers that
everyone can look at. I'll give ya'll the links and all the ordering
info.
First, Andy's pics: They are available at www.pictage.com/379684. His pricing info is listed next to the pics and I think you can just order them right there if you want.
Second, Sara's pics: They are available for viewing at http://mamabaird.smugmug.com/gallery/3759353#216314366. The password for our "event" is "Love". If you are interested in ordering any, her prices are listed on her website http://www.mamabaird.com/.
You can email her at sarabaird5@gmail.com with the number of the pic
you want and the size you want. She'll process the order and get them
to you.
Both of them will stop taking orders for our wedding in February so if
you want something, order before then. Thanks to all of you that came
and made our day so very special!!!! It was great to see people we
hadn't seen in a long time and even though we couldn't spend a lot of
time with everyone, we really appreciate all of you that caught us for
pics or just to chat for even a couple of minutes. It was a crazy day,
but we wanted to make sure you all knew how much we loved it and how
you all made it the special day that it was.
love, cathy and jeff (mrs. and mr. earleson) | | |
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