new address

we officially have a new address. i emailed it out to several people. if you didnt get it, thats because you arent in my yahoo address book - nothing personal i promise! and for obvious reasons i dont want to post it here but let me know if you need it and i can try to email it to you or send it via facebook etc.

weve been setting up the apartment but i still havent slept there yet. last night we went to massachussetts to go to trader joes. i felt right at home (except for the super wide aisles) and got a bunch of good stuff for the pantry. no liebfraumilch though. boo.

i imagine i will sleep there soon but im having fun staying with mark and lanelle. we have a great deal going - i make dinner and do laundry and they show me all of the wonderful things new hampshire has to offer. mutually benefical arrangement.

the job search is still on. i am really really missing jeremy and cricket. i talk to jeremy several times a day but it just isnt enough. :( as soon as i can find a job he can get on the road out here. being down to one income right now is hard enough so ther eis no way he could quit his job there before i find something here...

i miss all my peoples in california. a lot. i even miss working. i like schedules and knowing what to expect everyday and having things planned out days in advance. this break is starting to feel less like a vacation and more like im slacking off, even though i am making phone calls and sending resumes out everyday. very frustrated!

your friend meaghan, local celebrity

yesterday lanelle and i took sam running at livingston park around dorrs pond. it was a mile loop, and we were planning on going around twice. sam and i were a little bit ahead of lanelle, so while we were waiting he jumped in the pond to cool off and fetch his stick. lanelle caught up and a man approached us asking if he could take some photos of sam for the paper. lanelle agreed and we gave him our names. he also staged some pictures of us running on the trails through the park. we made page 2 of the union leader today! this was the picture he used. great facial expressions huh?

i was trying to act natural. i have a couple copies of the paper, one for me, one for my parents, and one extra for something.

i've lived in new hampshire for a week and i am already a local celebrity. fun huh?

we went to the dog park tonight. sam had a blast. there were tons of dogs running around. a couple owners had their dogs running through the agility training course but mostly the dogs just chased each other. hilarious. the bourgeoises know all of the dogs and owners so i got to meet some dog park friends. i dont think i will ever be taking cricket there though. some of those dogs were big bullies and they could eat her in one bite. :D

all the news that is the news

this afternoon i sign our rental agreement for our new apartment in manchester. once everything with that is finalized, i will email everyone our new address. jeremy is still at our north hollywood address in case you desperately want to send us stuff in the mail. :)

yesterday we spent the day exploring the mountains in northern new hampshire. from about an hour away from our new home, we can be camping, fishing, canoeing, etc in the mountains and mountain lakes and ponds. there are 200+ lakes in new hampshire and waterfalls, ponds, rivers, etc everywhere. very different from living in the desert! we went on a hike into greeley pond. tragedy: about a quarter mile in, i slipped and fell into a stream we were crossing and dropped the camera into the water. i'm recharging the battery and i opened it all up and let it dry overnight. im going to try putting it all together and seeing if it works, but i imagine our camera is toast. so i will only be able to post pictures from my phone for a while which sucks, but oh well. there were some cute pictures on there i wanted to share, including a picture of me and sam on my first covered bridge.

still trying to find a job. i sent in my resume yesterday to a place i really really really want to work at and will call them on monday to see if they want to meet me. it is in manchester and easy to get to on the bus route so i wont need to buy a car like jeremy and i were thinking. i may be buying a new bike though which is kinda fun. then when jeremy brings the one we have with him we can go on bike rides together. there are great parks and bike trails in our new neighborhood.

anyways, thats all the news that is the news, at least for now.

Yesterday's Entertainment

Sam, my new family's dog, loves to swim and fetch sticks. We spent the day in white mountain national park and he swam in every pond we came across.

**there was supposed to be a video with this post but it wont upload from my phone. grrr!**
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day 3

i was greeted at the airport by friends of my parents. mark and lanelle have opened their home to meand have been showing me around nashua and manchester. lanelle is a real estate aent so she took me out today looking at rentals. i think we found one but havent signed anything yet so nothing is set in stone.

i have been applying for jobs and looking online. so far no one has called me back but i am trying to remain optimistic. thats the nitty gritty...

the fun stuff.

i am majorly in love with new england. it has been rainy and cool and we went trail running and apartment hunting and walking around the town. my new family has a dog named sam and hes great, especially since i am majorly missing cricket.

the towns aare rural and friendly and i have already been to my first fish fry at their church. it was great (duh!). i have been introduced to the wonders of dunkin donuts iced coffee and my new mantra: yankees suck. go red sox!

we watch jeopardy every night and see who can guess the answers first. sam sits next to me on the couch and keeps me warm. tonight we sat on the back porch with the chiminea and talked - it was lovely.

there is so much more to say but i am still trying to process everything. i will try to keep you all posted on the apartment/job/possible car search. your prayers and thoughts are appreciated!

First view of boston

There's water everywhere! Can someone remind me what this "rain" is again?
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Oh boy

Woke up late and had to rush around. Only got about 3 hours sleep. I'm cranky, my throat hurts and I just left my husband (only temporarily). The good news: from check-in through security to the gate was about 20 minutes. These virgin america people are awesome. They even had flowers at the baggage check-in stations. Love it.

Thankfully I have a window seat. Me & pillow = happiness in about 30 minutes.
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(almost) final goodbyes

sunday morning we served at church for my last time. the music was amzing, the message was great and it made me sad because i dont think i will be able to find a church like mosaic in new hampshire. after church sarah had arranged a picnic. jeremy and i ate lunch with sarah, sandra and lynn. it was really nice and the day was the perfect socal day sunny with a gentle breeze, not too hot. sarah walked us to our car. its funny how saying goodbye to someone i didnt even know existed three years ago could be so hard. she has been a great friend and leader and im gonna miss her!

sunday night jeremy and i went down to hollywood & higland for our last date. w

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e ate shabu shabu then went over to uwink, this bar and grill place where you order everything from individual touch screen computers and just pay with your credit card - selfswiped! - and you can play games, both individually and with other patrons, from the computers too. i had gone before with missy but jeremy had never been. we had a great time doing that.

when we got home from our date it started to hit me that this was the last real quality time i was going to get to spend with jeremy for a long long time. i had a (small) breakdown and he even got a little teary. cricket was flipping out the entire time because i was packing my suitcases and she knows that means something bad for her is about to happen.

today i did more packing and some cleaning and ran my final errands. turned in all my books at the library - that was a sad trip! i was realy glad my favorite librarian, david, was there so i could say goodbye to him. doug and christine brought baby jade over for about 45 minutes (it was a mess getting here and i am so thankful christine stuck it out and came anyway). it was great to spend a little more time with them before we leave. cricket loves babies so she was happy jade came over too. they are planning an adventure themselves so next time we are in la they will prolly already be gone to texas.

i have about 12 hours left in california...

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new hampshire here i come!

Packed up

My bags are (mostly) packed and I guess I'm ready to go. My flight leaves at 7am and jeremy is taking me to the airport. Cricket won't know what hit her when he comes home without me.
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happy independence day!

ryan and kim had us over for dinner on saturday. we got to hang out with a couple of her friends and her parents too. SO fun! we cooked out hamburgers, had cole slaw, chips, fruit and angel food cake. kim's dad was entertaining us with the most amazing stories from his days hanging out with john wayne, gerald ford, and many other insanely famous people. he is SO funny! jeremy loved his stories and all hid country/cowboy memorabilia. kim's mom has some really beautiful pieces of furniture and her dad has some really fun stories about where he got his chaps, his guns, his canteen, his saddle, etc which are now all on display.

seeing ryan and kim living with her parents is a really interesting marriage dynamic. we have shared a home with many people (knoxes = 6 weeks, andy and russ = 6 weeks, england ladies = 1.5 weeks, zac and tabitha = 2.5 weeks, etc.) but never with our parents longer than a few nights on vacation. i love our parents but can't imagine staying with either of our parents for more than a couple weeks. kim and ryan are super brave and i think it is going to work out really well for them. i get to see the shivelys and her parents one more time before i leave so leaving their house on saturday night was easy-ish.

goodbye, blue room!

friday night was our goodbye party at the blue room. dan and emily came with salsa, guacamole, and chips, i brought cupcakes, and ellen and jim came with a card and gift. ellen introduced me to the wonderful world of gin and cranberry (sippin on gin and juice). we got all of our songs played on the jukebox - all the rap and r&b you could ask for! someone else in the bar was a huge journey fan and put a entire one of their cds on below is a picture of us singing "don't stop believing...hold on to that feeling...

almost as good as karaoke - except people around us werent planning on hearing us singing. oh well. since we know all the bartenders and waitresses and i brought cupcakes no one said anything to us. :)

good time, but sad to see the last of emily and ellen (at least for a while).

Last date

You can't really see it but we are at h&h looking at the hollywood sign for my last time before dinner at the shabu shabu place. Sad!
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last wednesday in los angeles

the girls at work took me out to luch one final time. we went to olive garden, always a winner. our server was mildly cute and had a really nice voice and cara and karla were giggling the entire meal. it was like returning to junor high and i loved every second. i was finisheing up things at work and it was nice to get away for an hour or so and just laugh together.

last night we went to my final scene, the live production team meeting for mosaic. israel cooked great food, we hung out, and after the scene was officially over we busted out the hookah. israel had never tried it before and wanted jeremy to bring it over some time.

i got to see doug and jade for maybe the last time, and everyone else. it was once again a bittersweet time. they gave us a great card with some really beautiful things written in it. we are so lucky to have found this community here.

i love you all!

last girls' night out

tuesday night kris, kim, lottie and gaby met me for dinner at robin hood, a british pub in the neighborhood. we had a great dinner and lots of laughs. it was one more night out on the town and was super fun. we had great food and drinks. the boys came a couple hours later for darts.

i'm trying to come up with more to write about the night (we really did have a great time, and what i mean by great time is...) but i am so overwhelmed with the thought of leaving these people (and so many others) behind i cannot even process it. so suffice it to say this is what i look like these days and it aint pretty.

For Beka

Monday night after the gym kris and I went over to kim's new house and played with the hyfurcater then kris dressed up in all of kim's mom's clothes from the seventies. Hilarity ensued.
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