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Name: Linneth Dear
Gender: Female
Interests: Chocolate, chick flicks, checkers, chasing rainbows, changing lanes, choosing wisely, chopping vegetables, chalkboards, cheddar cheese, chicken parmesan, cheap groceries and challenging intellect.
Expertise: Operating on watermelons, making people laugh, facilitating world peace by putting everyone to sleep with back rubs, washing pots and pans, cooking for mass quantities, all things last minute, talking to myself, and being invisible. (No for real, I was counted absent while sitting in the front row. TWICE!!)
Occupation: Operations
Industry: Medical
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/21/2005
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| I just have to say, Christmas Eve, 41 degrees; I am loving this Global Warming thing. Bring it on! lol It's the first Christmas I've ever had without snow. Merry Christmas everyone and hugs all around!!  | | |
| Let's see....I haven't updated since July. Yikes! I've been remiss in my communications. Will you ever forgive me?
I finished my summer travels with a bang. We made a last minute trip to try out a pizza place we'd seen featured on TV. We took Thomas Kvamme with us as he is a fellow pizza connoisseur, and thanks to his GPS all went pretty smoothly until our return trip. Thanks to some sort of unknown, large debris left in the middle of the interstate, we ended up with some car trouble along with about a dozen other vehicles. We had to be towed, but thankfully we had wonderful friends in the area who took turns taking care of us and being our wheels until we got the car fixed. Thank you, you wonderful people you!! 
School is already over a quarter of the way over and speeding towards Christmas vacation. I do love teaching, but I confess to looking forward to vacations a little more this year. My kids have been a challenge for sure. The funny things that they say and the hugs that they give me definitely are the highlights of my day. 
Recently I got to dance the night away and had more fun dancing than I have had in 2 years. It was great! I only wished that it could have lasted longer. I think I have somewhat of a Cinderella complex. There is just something about music and dancing that absolutely releases vast amounts of stress from my body and makes all things sunshiney in my world. I definitely recommend giving dancing a try if you've had a bad day. Worries.......POOF!
Christmas is coming, and it's almost time to gear up for holiday baking again. I always wish for my huge camp mixer and oven when it comes to this time of the year. 300 cookies done at one shot. Yes please!!
This summer I was cooking out at the rival camp (GASP!!! I know! I'm just as shocked by my behavior), and I got to observe their camp family together, taking care of each other. It made me miss you all like crazy. I cherish all of our memories, all the stops you made in the kitchen to visit me, all the times you made me feel special, or all the times you came back for more food because you thought it was yummy. You guys changed my life!! Honestly, I would not be who I am today if not for you. Thank you.
I miss making cookies for all of my camp family and having our daily chats in the kitchen. Please know that I think about you all the time and that you are loved!!
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| I just want to put this on the table right now: I love vacation. I love all summer long vacation. I love traveling with my favorite road tripping buddy and discovering new photo opportunities. 
I also love going to visit my Emily. There's nothing quite like getting fresh bread chucked at your face to make you feel alive. Seriously, you should all try it sometime, but not in front of your mothers. Mothers tend to frown upon throwing things at the dinner table. A big thank you to Jason for being our dedicated chauffeur.
I also had some amazing potato salad and tried a new dish called cheesy corn. Amazing! What's even more amazing is that I haven't had pizza in almost a week, and I haven't even really had time to miss it.
While on my mission to get hot, fresh bread chucked at my face, I also found some peach syrup that I can't wait to try on some french toast. Yummy! 
All this talk of food makes me wish cooking for you all. As soon as I purchase a house, I think we shall have to implement annual summer camp staff get-togethers, so I can send some food love your way and store up on a bunch of hugs.
Until then....who's up for Chinese buffet and a long table filled with friends? Be on the look-out for further details. 
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| Where are you spring? How long will you keep on hiding your beautiful self from us. I long to see green grass and new leaves.
Come out, come out wherever you are!
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| So as it has been several months since my last update, I thought I would quickly encapsulate a few random ramblings for you.
1.) Speech season is inching its way towards completion again. My students are so talented, but it is SO painful to watch people stop caring.  I care so deeply about most things that I'm involved in, that it is really heartbreaking for me to see those that once were passionate about something, really just lose their zeal for whatever it is. I understand burn-out as well as the next person, maybe better (I actually think I might have co-authored at least a couple chapters of that book), but really? Choose what you love in life and stick with it. Grrrrrr!!! I guess it just makes me sad because when I see others stop caring, I feel like I have to re-evaluate my level of dedication. I don't like the person that I am when I'm not committed to something or someone 150%.
2.) Summer is out there somewhere. It's currently in the Witness Protection Program, but I will find it! I'm craving that first day of really melt-worthy weather that just makes you aware without a shadow of a doubt that Spring has well and truly arrived. I'm really looking forward to some quality time with the love of my life to just BE. To go for a walk at 2 in the morning or pick up and leave at a moments notice or read a book from start to finish in a day. I'm excited to hopefully have no schedules, spend time with family and TRAVEL! I've never had a wanderlust, but during this long, cold, interminable winter, I think that I cracked. The only thing I'm worried about is that jobs have a way of finding me....and I have a hard time saying no. I shall try to stay strong, but I've already had offers. 
3.) I miss people updating their Xangas. Bah alternate social networking sites.
4.) Ryan has promised to update soon, and I'm holding him too that.
5.) Chocolate, pizza, and ice cream are the three food groups of the newly Me-approved Food Guide Triangle.
6.) I have some of the best friends in the world! Seriously, they have been there to fill in the gaps for me when I've needed them so many times in so many situations. Most recently I have had some pretty awesome people judge speech meets for me. You guys are the best, and you know who you are. I love you.
Hugs!
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