Matt and I are now on vacation for a week and a half. It's wonderful! Yesterday we painted our bathroom. It was supposed to be a kind-of gray-ish blue, but turned out to be a perry-winkle color. Oh well. We're renting, and really, it's an improvement from the half-painted mint green coupled with incessant mold and nicotine running down the walls. It's nice thinking that we won't have to scrub down our walls every 2 weeks with bleach water.
This weekend Matt, our friends Lindsey and Chris, and I are going to Seattle. A while back after entering a drawing at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Matt won 4 tickets to a bunch of museums in the Seattle/Tacoma area. We'll be going to the Museum of Flight, Museum of History and Industry, Museum of Glass, the Experience Music Project (maybe, if we feel like going again), and Wild Waves. On the agenda is also visiting a friend who is suffering from lukemia and is checked in to the UW hospital. Even if we can't see him due to him being quarantined, it would still be wonderful to see and encourage his parents who are there with him.
Tonight Matt made shish-kabobs and they were great! Here are some photos of their goodness (of course they weren't cooked at this point):
Today was the first day we were able to eat outside. It was great to sit in the warm weather. Matt barbecued and I made chocolate ice cream in our ice cream maker. I love homemade ice cream. It is so much better than store bought stuff. Matt's brother Sam and his fiance Carman came over to have dinner with us. Well, I suppose we had better enjoy the rest of the day because it's back to work tomorrow morning..!
The weekend was great and Matt and I had a good time, but the wedding we went to was so bizarre! The priest obviously didn't have English as his first language, which was fine, but then he kept pronouncing "Felicia" as "Fecilia". Along with that the singer for the praise songs was horrible. He must have been family.
To top it all off, at the end of the ceremony when the priest is supposed to pronounce them as Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so, he pronounced them as man and wife under HER MAIDEN NAME. Talk about embarrassing!
After that we found out that the bride and groom forgot to give him the marriage certificate. It was a cute wedding besides the big mistakes which were made.
My schedule recently has been quite bizarre. Since Matt has class Mon, Wed, Fri, and he's doing homework on Tue, Thurs, I have had to somewhat make my own schedule. It's really strange because I'm so used to spending any free time with him or checking with him before I plan stuff. But because he's busy all fine of the weeknights, it's pointless for me to stay at home and bug him while he's trying to do his work. So...I've started spending time with friends, and it's wonderful, but I feel bad leaving Matt at home! I especially felt bad when he called me while I was watching a movie with my friend Leona and I told him I had to call him back later because the movie was almost finished. I feel like I'm ditching him! But I guess it must be done for the next 5 weeks. I'm fine having my own schedule, but I just feel bad like I'm neglecting Matt or something.
Today we get to spend time together, though, which is great! We're going to a wedding later on this afternoon, and it's the first Catholic wedding I've been to. I hear it is to be long, though...
Then we're off to a BBQ! Unfortunately I still can't eat really tough stuff...but yesterday I did leap out and eat a bean burrito! Woo hoo!
today i got up hoping to see some friends, but they never got back to me in time and some couldn't hang out because they have class. sure, just leave the puffy-cheeked girl to wallow in her loneliness!
so i made some cream of wheat -- haven't had it in a while. man, i forgot how much i love the stuff! it's a lot better than jell-o and pudding constantly!
then i watched star wars: the empire strikes back. i feel like a baby, but i definitely skipped the first part where luke cuts off the monster's arm and han cuts open the tauntaun and puts luke inside. i don't care how fakey it is, it's just gross. especially while eating a bowl of cream of wheat!
so i finally finished the movie, and my nerdy self will say "it was great!"
now i'm trying to get up and do something, but my energy level is just shot. i did one sink of dishes...but now what am i doing?
recently a friend told me about regina spektor. while some of the things she does with her voice are somewhat annoying, for the most part she's amazing. her music really is very unique and unlike anything i've ever heard before.
I don't feel sick or anything, but I hate being cooped up at home. I just hate it. It would be one thing if I was cooped up with my husband, but I'm sitting here alone and I've watched about 4 movies, tried to learn how to crochet, tried reading for a bit, slept for another little bit, and I've played around on the internet....but now I'm so bored. I really want to go somewhere, go shopping, or something outside of this house. But unfortunately, I know I should be good and rest up, take care of myself, and not strain too much. Plus driving on hydros probably isn't a good idea. Ugh, I am so much like my mother--I can't sit and relax for more than one day, or I start to go crazy. The thing is, I don't really have the energy to clean, which is something which needs to be done, but I want to do SOMETHING.
Well, maybe I'll go and read some more...
I'm awake at 12 midnight because I'm nervous about tomorrow. I know it's usual for people to get their wisdom teeth out, but of course, I'm worrying again. I can't sleep. The things I worry about:
1. Waking up during the surgery
2. Getting sick after the surgery
3. Getting sick so badly that I get dry sockets
4. The oral surgeon hitting a nerve and a portion of my mouth going numb
5. Spouting off things to the surgeon that are either awkward or things that shouldn't be said
But tonight I had an amazing time with friends. Yes, Matt and I were really tired by the end of the day, but here are the things I am thankful for:
1. A husband who looks out for me and takes care of me
2. Friends who are willing to do things for me and help me out when needed
3. Friends who will pray for me
4. Bonfires + s'mores + husband + friend = amazing
5. Anyone who puts up with me
last night was wonderful. matt, my friends and i went to see prince caspian which was amazing. i haven't read the chronicles of narnia besides the lion the witch and the wardrobe, so i didn't know it was any different than the book, but i plan to read at least some of those this summer. afterwards we all went to applebees for drinks and appetizers. about 30 minutes into being at the restaurant we all were getting really tired, though, so we ended our night at about midnight. yes, i feel old, but in my defense, i did finish finals only yesterday at 4:30.
so today is doing all the things which have been ignored for the past semester, but in particular, the last week. cleaning, mostly, is something which needs to be done immensely. but it's going to be about 89 F today, so it might be difficult to stay cooped up this morning. we'll see...
...and I am so relieved. After spending this week writing about semiotics in The Picture of Dorian Gray and North and South and discussing the mirroring of courtly behavior in Shakespeare's plays, studying grammar and tying James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and other authors into the main details of modernism, I am finished with the semester. This semester was really difficult. I loved Shakespeare, but the paper kicked my butt. English Novels was ok. Only a few of the books were enjoyable (well, those were probably the only ones I finished). Grammar was a joke of a class. The professor kept putting off assignments, changing things, cancelling papers, etc. Find with me, it was an easy A, but I wish I had been able to do more. British Literature was super difficult, mostly because most of the information on the exams were never even mentioned in class. And some of it was abstract and not talked about...glad it's over!
So tonight Matt and I are going with a newly engaged couple friend of ours to see Prince Caspian. It will be great to lean back and be able to watch something without having to critically think or analyze anything.
I stayed up until 3:45 AM in the morning working on my FABULOUS paper for Shakespeare Seminar.Well, I expected that I was to show up for the "final exam" (basically, turn in the paper and talk about it) at 8:00 AM. Well, I am here at school and no one was in the classroom. I went to ask the English Department secratary if she knew anything and she didn't, so she made some calls. Well, I called some class-mates and one said that our professor sent out an email last night saying that we could turn in our papers in his box by 5 PM. So, what happens when I get 2.5 hours of sleep and find out that I have an extention I didn't know about because I didn't happen to check my email last night due to writing writing writing??? I cry. Yes, and in front of the secretary, too. So, I can't really go home because I work at 10:30 and it would be pointless.
So, I guess I'll work on finishing my papers right now and then sleep today? No, bad, because then I won't sleep tonight. Gosh, this finals week has messed up my life, it feels like! Well, if anything, I'm going to take pride in my 3 page long works consulted page with appendices. And I'm going to nap on the English Lounge's sofa....
