So, I have to tell you that today was a funny day, for me (so I am sorry if it is not funny to you!)
Today was the day of Girl Scout cookie delivery. Always a celebrated day in the Davey Household. So Anna, our neighbor kitty corner from our house is very adminant about selling as many as she can so she came over a few weeks ago and sold something like 10 boxes to us....though I am sure we would have bought many more if we we're concerned about the damage those thin mints can do. So Anna, a very precousious and stright-forward adorable 9 or 10 year old knocks on our door while her younger brother John stands waiting and her dad out on our driveway. She announces, Girls Scout Cookies have arrived and MJ and I run to the door excited to snatch them right out of her hands. So she hands us the box, yes a box is needed for our order, then somehow one of us brings up how and if we paid. I said I didn't think so and MJ said she though we had, but just as we put our cooking inside the doorway for safe keeping Anna blurts out something to the extent of YOU CAN'T KEEP THEM IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID as she take them back. Man, im all thinking bummer, we have to wait to get them until we pay and who knows how long that could be since everyone is running out of our house to Callan's lacrosse game- yes, unfortunately the cookies came at a bad time. But you should have seen Anna's eyes when she said we couldn't have our cookies until we paid. But that is not the really funny part...
Ten minutes later, after all is calm and my doofy coach of a dad realizes his son's lacrosse game is not for another hour, MJ yells from the entry way to the kitchen where I am that Anna took the cookies back again, after we had paid. My response
'WHAAAAT!?' in a loud screetch. MJ is just craxking up at this point and she tries to get out how funny my reaction was. Well I am in disbelief and really it wasn't that we did not have cookies but that after that whole debacle the paid for amazingly yummy girls scout cookies we taken back. I am not sure if you are familiar with MJs laugh, but it is huge and about half or more of the reason why this was all so funny. Because when she laughs, it is infectious, giant, wheezy or hysterical depending, and once she starts it is hard for all of us to stop.
So point being, Girl Scout Cookies arrived today!
Another funny incident was MJ calling me Narnia today and me aswering. Backstory: when callan was younger he used to call me Nonny (like Naw-nee) and so MJ comes up with derivatives all the time just on a whim and today on our family failed attempt to go to cosco, because it closes at 6pm on Sat. (yes this is my sad life at home),she calls upstairs to me: "Narnia are you ready?" and I answer plain as day, yes! Then I think about it and we were laughing at how she called me Narnia.
Sorry that last one was really not funny, you had to be there, or...i guess you had to be me.
Well, I better quit while I am ahead.
One more thing. Quote of the day.
"He is a really bad singer!" - Audrey, 7, talking about the pring in Snow White.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
It's All White
Here is 5 seconds of Callan filming me while sledding...we had races, spills, and cold butts by the end....definite fun!
Park City, Utah
Park City, Utah
sometimes gmail hates me....though I love gmail
I have to say I am really sorry for sending out the email (you know the one about my blog) and not BCCing it....I accidentally CCed not BCCed everyone....SORRY!!! though we are all friends here...but ummm, if you did not notice (hard to do)-- good! but can we just pretend this never happened?
thanks.
thanks.
Monday, February 15, 2010
and....work!
Wow great times over the last few months, but you may have been thinking....how the jeepers is she supporting herself?
Good question....oh work!
Well, although I have not found my first great full time job since graduation (besides being an Au Pair and traveling and being a member of my crazy family), I have some great part time jobs I love and that support me well!
In September I started an internship and a part time job. The internship is with an amazing organization my former professor, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg runs called Akili Dada. The org works to empower impoverished brilliant young women in Kenya through solid secondary education and mentorship. I work with a few other interns and we meet once a week in the city. Being with a group of like minded and strong women has been great, especially now that I am not always surrounded by that at school. Then, in Atherton I am tutoring in Spanish and Geometry. I really enjoy working one on one with students and love reviewing and teaching Spanish. I have also been babysitting, a lot especially over the holidays, which I love. Being with adorable kids and having fun and getting paid to do it is ideal!
www.akilidada.org
In the last post, I talked about graduate schools...these are the ones I applied to.
SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont
University of Denver- Josef Korbel School for International Development
Brandeis University
Clark University
American University- School for International Training
George Washington University
I am looking to get a degree in International Development-- with a focus on youth and human rights and education.
So we will see if I will be at one of these crazy competitive schools next year or if I will be working in San Francisco at a related organization.
If you know anything about these schools or anyone who attended them I would love to hear about it and get as much info as I can!!
Good question....oh work!
Well, although I have not found my first great full time job since graduation (besides being an Au Pair and traveling and being a member of my crazy family), I have some great part time jobs I love and that support me well!
In September I started an internship and a part time job. The internship is with an amazing organization my former professor, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg runs called Akili Dada. The org works to empower impoverished brilliant young women in Kenya through solid secondary education and mentorship. I work with a few other interns and we meet once a week in the city. Being with a group of like minded and strong women has been great, especially now that I am not always surrounded by that at school. Then, in Atherton I am tutoring in Spanish and Geometry. I really enjoy working one on one with students and love reviewing and teaching Spanish. I have also been babysitting, a lot especially over the holidays, which I love. Being with adorable kids and having fun and getting paid to do it is ideal!
www.akilidada.org
In the last post, I talked about graduate schools...these are the ones I applied to.
SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont
University of Denver- Josef Korbel School for International Development
Brandeis University
Clark University
American University- School for International Training
George Washington University
I am looking to get a degree in International Development-- with a focus on youth and human rights and education.
So we will see if I will be at one of these crazy competitive schools next year or if I will be working in San Francisco at a related organization.
If you know anything about these schools or anyone who attended them I would love to hear about it and get as much info as I can!!
6 Months Later...
I really cannot believe it has been six months since I moved back home to Atherton. And it has been almost ten months since I graduated from the University of San Francisco. Weird. That's all I can say.
Since I have been home, a lot has happened.
September: I came home just before my birthday on September 20th because it was time. My Au Pair gig in Barcelona was up, my grandmother was having her kidney removed / serious surgery for an 80 year old, and after 5 months in Europe I was ready to come back to my bed.
I said goodbye to my little Spanish girls and was on my way...
So I had a nice lunch at Plutos in Palo Alto with my dad on my Bday and he told me stories of my mom which was nice, then a family dinner...and let me tell you 22 is not that exciting. September and October seemed like a lot of commuting from Los Altos Hills to the hospital and my grandparents house. After a little longer than we expected my Grandmother Mary to be in the hospital, I drove her home with my grandfather in the back seat and she was on her way to recovery.
Here I am with my grandfather.
She is a very tough woman, very inspiring. She was out of commission for about three months and is now back to her board meetings at the Committee for Green Foothills and the Mid Peninsula Regional Open Space District saving our land!
October: Starting to get cold from a very warm summer in Europe and on the Mediterranean, I flew to Pittsburg, PA for my friend Katie Warner's wedding.
It was a very nice quiet and nontraditional beautiful ceremony at a little Inn downtown. She is a year or two older than me and met her husband Tim in College. Katie and I actually met working in the same town as interns for the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Nicaragua. 
We stayed in touch and I was honored to be at her wedding. I got to help her put the veil on and everything, it was great! The first wedding really of many to come for my good friends. There were great stories of sister-in-laws crying while drunk and ex-boyfriends saying now I quote "it should have been me" during the vows, oh and girlfriends of the ex-boyfriend drinking a little too much as well....and passing out....I should have taken more pictures. Katie is from Michigan and it was nice to meet people from that area and learn about their lives.
Halloween: I flew to Kansas for my cousin Samantha's Halloween party that she has every year at her appropriately scary and cobb webby lake house near Lawrence, Kansas (Where Kansas University is). That was definitely fun, since the last time I was out there was the 4th of July. My cousin is a grade school teacher and a lot of her friends were there, one lady being from Asia, she brought about 10 of her cute little international teaching students who just made the party. They had definitely never celebrated Halloween this way before, perhaps maybe not at all.
November: The 12th John turned 25...he was in the Ukraine (where he lives in Odessa with his gorgeous Ukranian girlfriend) and HE LOST HIS TRAVELING BENEFITS.
So now we know for sure that at 25 I will not be able to fly on United anymore, that is when out benefits from our mom expire. So I need to get every last trip in that I can.
Then the 26th was MJ's birthday and we celebrated Thanksgiving with my whole family at my Aunt's house in Redwood City. Here I am with Kit!
Earlier this month, I went with my aunt and Uncle to pick out a "Bailey look alike."
Bailey, my family's terrier mix was sadly hit by a car in ,front of our house August 18th while I was in Spain. :(
My aunt and uncle would always dog sit for us and really loved Bailey, so they wanted another one like him. So we went up to Sacramento to an Irish Terrier breeder and picked out a little boy and named him Darby. So Darby had his fist Thanksgiving with us. My friend Steph, from Jacksonhole, Wyoming, and who I have known since Freshman year at USF, did not have a place to go to Thanksgiving so I invited her to be with us and she fit right in!
December: Mary Ellen Middleton, MJ's mom, came to visit us the week before Christmas and it was a blast.
Mary Ellen and Callan are in Ireland here last summer.
I took her to the city for a shopping day (and also played Santa's helper and delivered presents since all my friends lives in the city) and we got our nails done, ate at Crepevine on Fillmore, shopped on Union street and really enjoyed ourselves...she spoils me, that's all I can say. Then we took a family trip to Yosemite for three days and stayed in little cabins and skiied at Badger Pass. It was very fun and cold! Yosemite is really beautiful and Callan is getting to be a good skiier! I tried snow shoeing for the first time with Mary Ellen and boy does she keep up! I hope to be as active as her when I am a little older!
Christmas was great with Callan, he gets so excited. I was excited too opening presents, especially since the night before I had a dream my parents bought me a new prius hybrid- my dream car! Though that did not happen...I don't have a care currently so sharing with my parents has been pretty hard but it won't be forever! MJ made a delectable breakfast for us Christmas morning, she made brown sugar french toast with so much butter and yummyness it was great.
New years was good too, but not like last year.
(Here is Deborah, Noemie, Me and our other good french friend Juliette)
Last year I flew to France and spent it with my good french friend Noemie, who I studied in DC with, and Cecily my good friend from USF who was studying in Egypt came and met us. So I was with two great friends drinking Champagne in Paris! This year we had game night with the Ferandos our neighbors and I was dog sitting at the time so it was low key.
January: Happy New Year! Crazy we are in 2010~
So I had 15 days to finish my grad school applications and by the 15th I was exhausted of writing and applying so....what would you do in this situation?
I flew to Hawaii! My good friend Jason from High School-
who was my first boyfriend in middle school and one of my oldest friends, well his mom and I have always been close and she recently moved to Hawaii and I went to visit her.
She lives in Waimanalo just East of Honolulu on the south side of the island and I had a fabulous time! We went snorkeling, swimming, sun bathing, eating, drinking, driving, shopping, reading...anwyays all the great things we did. Jane Burks is really an amazing woman and she is so young and beautiful at heart! So I stayed for four days and would go back in a heart beat!
February: For just about every President's day week we go skiing in Park City. It has been a tradition since we bought our Marriot time share and since John was in high school out here in 2003. So we are in snowy Park City wacthing the Olympics and having a blast. Skiing, sledding, snow showing, shopping, staying warm, and seeing everything we can see is on the agenda.
I also hope to see our food family friend, Lena. She and my brother moved out here after they graduated college, and she actually went to Germany to be an Au pair but ended up back here...yah Lena, you rock!
That's the long short of it....
Since I have been home, a lot has happened.
September: I came home just before my birthday on September 20th because it was time. My Au Pair gig in Barcelona was up, my grandmother was having her kidney removed / serious surgery for an 80 year old, and after 5 months in Europe I was ready to come back to my bed.
I said goodbye to my little Spanish girls and was on my way...
So I had a nice lunch at Plutos in Palo Alto with my dad on my Bday and he told me stories of my mom which was nice, then a family dinner...and let me tell you 22 is not that exciting. September and October seemed like a lot of commuting from Los Altos Hills to the hospital and my grandparents house. After a little longer than we expected my Grandmother Mary to be in the hospital, I drove her home with my grandfather in the back seat and she was on her way to recovery.
Here I am with my grandfather.
She is a very tough woman, very inspiring. She was out of commission for about three months and is now back to her board meetings at the Committee for Green Foothills and the Mid Peninsula Regional Open Space District saving our land!
October: Starting to get cold from a very warm summer in Europe and on the Mediterranean, I flew to Pittsburg, PA for my friend Katie Warner's wedding.
It was a very nice quiet and nontraditional beautiful ceremony at a little Inn downtown. She is a year or two older than me and met her husband Tim in College. Katie and I actually met working in the same town as interns for the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Nicaragua. 
We stayed in touch and I was honored to be at her wedding. I got to help her put the veil on and everything, it was great! The first wedding really of many to come for my good friends. There were great stories of sister-in-laws crying while drunk and ex-boyfriends saying now I quote "it should have been me" during the vows, oh and girlfriends of the ex-boyfriend drinking a little too much as well....and passing out....I should have taken more pictures. Katie is from Michigan and it was nice to meet people from that area and learn about their lives.
Halloween: I flew to Kansas for my cousin Samantha's Halloween party that she has every year at her appropriately scary and cobb webby lake house near Lawrence, Kansas (Where Kansas University is). That was definitely fun, since the last time I was out there was the 4th of July. My cousin is a grade school teacher and a lot of her friends were there, one lady being from Asia, she brought about 10 of her cute little international teaching students who just made the party. They had definitely never celebrated Halloween this way before, perhaps maybe not at all.
November: The 12th John turned 25...he was in the Ukraine (where he lives in Odessa with his gorgeous Ukranian girlfriend) and HE LOST HIS TRAVELING BENEFITS.
So now we know for sure that at 25 I will not be able to fly on United anymore, that is when out benefits from our mom expire. So I need to get every last trip in that I can.
Then the 26th was MJ's birthday and we celebrated Thanksgiving with my whole family at my Aunt's house in Redwood City. Here I am with Kit!
Earlier this month, I went with my aunt and Uncle to pick out a "Bailey look alike."
Bailey, my family's terrier mix was sadly hit by a car in ,front of our house August 18th while I was in Spain. :(
My aunt and uncle would always dog sit for us and really loved Bailey, so they wanted another one like him. So we went up to Sacramento to an Irish Terrier breeder and picked out a little boy and named him Darby. So Darby had his fist Thanksgiving with us. My friend Steph, from Jacksonhole, Wyoming, and who I have known since Freshman year at USF, did not have a place to go to Thanksgiving so I invited her to be with us and she fit right in!
December: Mary Ellen Middleton, MJ's mom, came to visit us the week before Christmas and it was a blast.
Mary Ellen and Callan are in Ireland here last summer.
I took her to the city for a shopping day (and also played Santa's helper and delivered presents since all my friends lives in the city) and we got our nails done, ate at Crepevine on Fillmore, shopped on Union street and really enjoyed ourselves...she spoils me, that's all I can say. Then we took a family trip to Yosemite for three days and stayed in little cabins and skiied at Badger Pass. It was very fun and cold! Yosemite is really beautiful and Callan is getting to be a good skiier! I tried snow shoeing for the first time with Mary Ellen and boy does she keep up! I hope to be as active as her when I am a little older!
Christmas was great with Callan, he gets so excited. I was excited too opening presents, especially since the night before I had a dream my parents bought me a new prius hybrid- my dream car! Though that did not happen...I don't have a care currently so sharing with my parents has been pretty hard but it won't be forever! MJ made a delectable breakfast for us Christmas morning, she made brown sugar french toast with so much butter and yummyness it was great.
New years was good too, but not like last year.
(Here is Deborah, Noemie, Me and our other good french friend Juliette)
Last year I flew to France and spent it with my good french friend Noemie, who I studied in DC with, and Cecily my good friend from USF who was studying in Egypt came and met us. So I was with two great friends drinking Champagne in Paris! This year we had game night with the Ferandos our neighbors and I was dog sitting at the time so it was low key.
January: Happy New Year! Crazy we are in 2010~
So I had 15 days to finish my grad school applications and by the 15th I was exhausted of writing and applying so....what would you do in this situation?
I flew to Hawaii! My good friend Jason from High School-
who was my first boyfriend in middle school and one of my oldest friends, well his mom and I have always been close and she recently moved to Hawaii and I went to visit her.
She lives in Waimanalo just East of Honolulu on the south side of the island and I had a fabulous time! We went snorkeling, swimming, sun bathing, eating, drinking, driving, shopping, reading...anwyays all the great things we did. Jane Burks is really an amazing woman and she is so young and beautiful at heart! So I stayed for four days and would go back in a heart beat!
February: For just about every President's day week we go skiing in Park City. It has been a tradition since we bought our Marriot time share and since John was in high school out here in 2003. So we are in snowy Park City wacthing the Olympics and having a blast. Skiing, sledding, snow showing, shopping, staying warm, and seeing everything we can see is on the agenda.
I also hope to see our food family friend, Lena. She and my brother moved out here after they graduated college, and she actually went to Germany to be an Au pair but ended up back here...yah Lena, you rock!
That's the long short of it....
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Long time No type or Skype
I know it has been forever since I have written...I promise I will catch you up on everything since my Bday September 20th and my crazy adventures of living at home again, but before I do....
I was laughing so hard because my brother was talking to a credit card company with him in the Ukraine via our home to a squeaky sounding man at a call center in who knows where.
John "Can you hear me now?"
Squeaky Asian Man "I am sorry how do you spell your last name?"
John "You know what maybe we should do this another time. I will call back."
Squeaky sounding man far away "Sir, since I have you on the phone now, it is in your best interest to sign up right now..."
Annoyed John "Fine. It is DAVEY. D-A-V-E-Y. not baby."
Hilarious. So here is the back story.
John calls my dads computer by the kitchen on skype and this nice "floating to heaven" ring tone starts. So I am cooking hard boiled eggs when I answer John's call to my dad. He is on speak phone on our desk top so the whole house can really hear him. We start talking, then MJ comes in and brings in this whole credit card business and they call the credit card man while I am intermittently talking to him while MJ runs to her office to get information for the call. Then we are interrupted and MJ is talking to the call center guy, then John, then just John and the guy. So MJ and I are standing by our computer by the kitchen while John is on speakerphone on skype in the Ukraine talking to a call center guy in India probably on speaker phone on our home phone, and all through our own call center in Atherton. So anyways, MJ and I are just laughing about this situation trying not to interrupt the sound quality between these two guys talking on opposite ends of the world.
I love technology! and I love you John!! haha
I was laughing so hard because my brother was talking to a credit card company with him in the Ukraine via our home to a squeaky sounding man at a call center in who knows where.
John "Can you hear me now?"
Squeaky Asian Man "I am sorry how do you spell your last name?"
John "You know what maybe we should do this another time. I will call back."
Squeaky sounding man far away "Sir, since I have you on the phone now, it is in your best interest to sign up right now..."
Annoyed John "Fine. It is DAVEY. D-A-V-E-Y. not baby."
Hilarious. So here is the back story.
John calls my dads computer by the kitchen on skype and this nice "floating to heaven" ring tone starts. So I am cooking hard boiled eggs when I answer John's call to my dad. He is on speak phone on our desk top so the whole house can really hear him. We start talking, then MJ comes in and brings in this whole credit card business and they call the credit card man while I am intermittently talking to him while MJ runs to her office to get information for the call. Then we are interrupted and MJ is talking to the call center guy, then John, then just John and the guy. So MJ and I are standing by our computer by the kitchen while John is on speakerphone on skype in the Ukraine talking to a call center guy in India probably on speaker phone on our home phone, and all through our own call center in Atherton. So anyways, MJ and I are just laughing about this situation trying not to interrupt the sound quality between these two guys talking on opposite ends of the world.
I love technology! and I love you John!! haha
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