voila. HOLA!

i'm here. and of all the silly things...googlemaps.com has NO idea where i am! can you believe it? if you wanna look me up, look for "hessel, michigan." googlemaps.com thinks cedarville is right on the border with wisconsin. NOT SO. i'm all the way over by canada--on the northernmost shore of lake huron. so anyway, hessel is just a little west of where i really am.

i'll write again soon. AND PICTURES WILL BE ON THE WAY TOO!

moving this pm

i'm leaving in a few hours. hopefully i'll hit the road before dark. i'll update this more frequently when i arrive. (i hope.) that's the plan, anyway. see y'all on the other side! watch out michigan, here i come.

in all my born days

i have never laughed so hard. my head still hurts more than 24 hours afterwards. what a fun weekend. nay, what a fun WEEK! being on the farm, being in amish country indiana, yeah. methinks it was just what i needed. and mind you, they were not just "screaming, flying monkeys" as they were last year. they are screaming, flying, AMISH monkeys. irreverent, yes. and for that i apologize. but it was hilarious to the max.

deadliest catch

okay...so tonight was the season opener for deadliest catch. i watched it and LOVED it. (as usual.) i wrote on my facebook that i was going to watch it and my friend amy (from college) told me her brother was the pastor who gave the bering sea blessing before all the fishing vessels from deadliest catch started their season. (her brother is dan; he is actually my age and was in my class @ eastern.) i miss them both. but it was really cool that amy mentioned that dan was on this episode; i may not have looked so closely otherwise. he shaved his head since i saw him last but otherwise looks the same.

CRAZY!!!

before the show i ran out to chesterton (from laporte where i'm staying) because my friend's 3-year-old locked her closet door shut. and they couldn't figure out how to get the door open. funny, though, it's just a closet door but it was a sturdy one AND had an actual LOCK on it. so we banged out the hinge pins (that what they're called?!) and just took the door off.

what an eventful evening!

rear view mirror

not in a long time have i watched what was behind me in my outside rear-view mirror. as i drove from valpo to laporte today, the sunset was pretty amazing. i decided to take a pic with my cell phone but that really didn't do it any justice. (as you can tell.) but it was a sweet sunset. you'll have to take my word. (and for any of you who know the route between valpo & laporte fairly well--route 2--this is right at pinhook, where the road goes by a church & cemetery and heads northwest instead of just west.)

but i have to say, this is also the time of day the most picked on deer gets to be the dummy to go see if any cars are coming so any random bunch can cross the road. well...tonight i saw the dummy deer come out to the road and it actually looked both ways. yes. it really did. and after it saw me coming, it still stepped forward onto the shoulder of the road. (hence the name "dummy" i suppose.) but after it somehow got spooked, it ran back to the others who were only about 10-15 feet behind and they ran off. i thought there were only 3 or 4. but then i looked again and saw a LOT more than that.

glad the deer decided not to play chicken tonight. at least with me.

YIKES.

so i have a new website...well, actually the domain name has been mine for years but i've decided to finally publish to it. and on my homepage i said that i'd update my blog. oh dear. so here's my first post in a long time. hopefully life will get more interesting and i'll be able to have something halfway interesting to write about.

so for now, i'm back. we shall soon see what my material will be.

hope everyone's well.

btw, the picture is of chicago from about 5,000 feet. my friend's a pilot and took this cool shot. hmmm...so who's flying the plane, eh? tsk, tsk.

new website: www.beckyhull.com

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY! have fun!!!

so we got a lot of snow...

over the past two days, we got 29 inches of snow. it was CRAZY. just the eastern part of our county and the western part of the county to our east. it was NUTS. it just kept snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing. of course, i'd be ok if it kept snowing for fifteen days straight! (but alas, some people look around and would swear that it did!) the picture of my car has only about 14 of the 29 inches on it that fell from 5pm tuesday to about 9am wednesday.

wow. it's been awhile. SORRY! but i've got a fun video to share from being away at cedar campus during new year's.

i also got to go iceboating for the first time and LOVED LOVED LOVED it.

how sweet, eh?

my uncle al

i'm sorry to anyone who reads this that i have not blogged sooner. i am quite poor at it now that i'm on facebook a ton more. SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME! and until everyone i know has a facebook, i'll continue to try to update my blog as much as possible.

I'M SORRY uncle al! you rock. and i'll try to do better.

(let me know when you get a facebook!)

and thanks so much for having us out every year for thanksgiving. i love coming out. the food is always awesome and the company is always fun.

happy thanksgiving to all, and to all, a GOOD NIGHT.

1st source bank should be your LAST resort

first national bank of valparaiso was bought out by first source bank. i've had a checking account with them since my senior year of high school. a good friend of my family's used to be a "higher-up" at the main branch, brian terpstra. i think he lives in texas now; man, do i miss him!

anyway, when the banks switched my account number from FNB to first source's new numbers, apparently someone else got my info as well. i'm just now realizing it and am PISSED. i'm making the big trip to downtown valpo tomorrow to open up a can. (please tell me you know this phrase.) cuz i can't think of a better way to express my anger that this wan't caught. nor was it even MY OWN CHECK. the guy who signed "hull" didn't even spend my last name right. he was trying to pose as my dad, whose name was also on the account. he withdrew money. and apparently first source was happy to oblige.

there is hell to pay for this. i am pissed. and although it's not hundreds of dollars, it's the principle of the matter.

AND I WANT MY MONEY BACK. i'll update my blog tomorrow to let you know what they tell me. i have no problem picketing their dumb bank just for fun. i need to be outside more anyway. and i love to talk to people. but i hope they do the right thing.

funny stuff

"Huh. So Iran just friended us on Facebook...Like, do I accept?"

lots of blog ideas, no time to blog

if anyone has been to brown's ice cream in valparaiso, indiana, hopefully you will have had the chance to use the restroom there and read what is on the bathroom door. AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! i just had to interject that!

i've got some great pictures of the popcorn fest so when i find my camera, i'll upload them. yeah, i got there really early so i could run in the lil' kernel puff. it's a race for kids but my friend's three-year-old felt more comfortable with someone running with her & holding her had. so that's what i did.

i am proud to say i came in last place running against a bunch of toddlers. (gosh, i knew i was out of shape but that's ridiculous!) the reason was cuz my little friend was so very excited/distracted with the roaring crowd cheering us all on, she wanted to run slowly and get a good look at everyone who was looking at her.

so we had a blast and i was glad to get up early for my little tike friend.

and i'm tired of blogging so much about the crap in this world. it's getting old and wearing me out! and of politics (heaven forbid mrs. palin takes us to war against russia!) and everything politics entails. so as much as i blog for my own good and have a great place to vent, i also want to blog about fun things. so i'll keep writing about the political crap and my take on things in the world as well as losing a giant race to a bunch of knee-high racers.

oh well.

are you kidding me?

what a joke. i'm sorry but if you have "CHRISTIAN" anywhere in your name or title, i would like to think you could almost live up to it. or at least be making an effort. instead of all the hypocrisy that surrounds you. the PRETENSE of being upstanding and having good morals, beliefs, or principles.

whatEVER. i was not impressed at all at one of our area "christian" schools and a certain player's performance today at my place of employment. and i use that term loosely. actually, there are two terms associated with this place that i use loosely. "christian" and "school."

what a farce.

get over yourselves. and be careful how you live. because believers who are watching you are EMBARRASSED to be identified in the same "grouping" as you and those who are not believers see you as complete hypocrites. i could not be more embarrassed and pissed off right now. not a chance. sadly. hopefully this school with either fold completely or improve tremendously. cuz i don't know what favors it's doing these kids anyway. and it can't get worse than it already is.

i am so disgusted.

but if certain people EVER come in again the way they came in today with the same horrible attitude and complete disrespect for the gym, their butts will be thrown out so fast it will make your head spin. same will happen to their parents when they come to try to rescue their children. and then the cops will be called.

TRY ME.

@ cedar...

having fun making a movie up here! (and spending time with people i love!)

fun before i head north

erin duey got married today...wow. i wish them well. everything was beautiful and fun. meanwhile back at the ranch, evan duey is getting close to being taller than me.

BUT NOT YET!!!

circle Y reunion of sorts...

saw some old schoolers last night at the beginning of teen week...

in the first picture: me, marque, jacquie, kelly
second picture: marque, chris, me, tyrus

freefallin

more to come. sorry i've been so awol! here's a fun pic from today!

superslowreflexes

so i got high last night more than i ever have before from secondhand weed smoke. the joe cocker/steve miller band concert last night at the old tweeter was awesome (even though steve miller forgot some of the words...) but since we got to the concert late, we got to park in the VIP section for free! which was at LEAST a $30 value. which also meant we got to park right behind the motorcycles AND got to be some of the first to leave. i was actually thankful for that cuz i'd rather not be driving around anyone who was in the state of most of the concert-goers. (high AND very drunk.) i could tell i was quite lightheaded and in a daze but flying down 80 with the windows down and music cranked helped. the fresh air was amazing. (as fresh as you can get in this populated of an area....)

surprisingly, there were few old schoolers there. bearded hippies and such. there were disappointedly a LOT of little teenagers there who were just there for a good time. not to enjoy the music. just to get drunk and high and have a little fun outside. so why wouldn't they just stay home and do stuff like that in their backyards? it's a little cheaper, safer, and less annoying to the rest of us. i was also surprised how many teenyboppers showed up with their parents too. it's unbelievable and unforgivable the number of parents who are all about being friends with their kids rather than being parents. that will so bite them in the butt later!

oh yeah, we were late to the concert cuz we decided to hit up the ikea in bolingbrook. that was pretty cool...although i like the one in schaumburg tons better tho! i forgot how small this one was. but i'm sure it was better this way otherwise we would have been REALLY late!

bunch of complainers we are

most americans are so self-focused. we're very ego-centric. our country can eat whenever. sleep comfortably wherever. entertain ourselves until hell freezes over. (how many billions of dollars go to ENTERTAINING US?) and yet all we do is complain....

Buh-BYE!

Saturday can't come soon enuf, dear Hillary! Good Grief. You've run a good campaign but you needed to congratulate Barack last night after he got all of his delegates. And CONCEDE. I'm not sure that Barack would make a good president, but I'd rather have him in office than Hillary. She's been in politics for too long. Can't remember what it's like to be a normal citizen. Barack's inexperience and ties to crazy people like Jesse Jackson and his pal Al also frighten me though. And that crazy pastor and that Catholic priest. UGH. How disgusting. I believe everyone knows that he is keeping his distance from them because they would bring him down. And the public is SICK TO DEATH of Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson. And of all the politics from behind the pulpit.

HOWEVER, I'm not sure about John McCain either. He's got the experience but he's been in politics for so long (and is subscribing to Dubya's foreign policy--domestic too--for so long) that he might make horrible decisions as well. Besides that, you age SO MUCH and SO FAST in Washington and John McCain is not going to hold up very well. He's too old to begin the oval office thing. He isn't going to get my vote. Yes, even as a registered republican, I cannot in my right mind vote for another republican this time around. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

I don't know that I'll vote for Obama either. I hate voting for the lesser of two evils. However, it's easier to see the least evil here. But I may vote for my dad again as a write-in like I did during the last presidential election. It's for the principle of the thing. Dangit.