Frogs and the house

So, I think I'm gonna be not as good this year about posting, but oh well. In overview, I finished work, saw my aunt, uncle, cousins, and grandma, packed, moved back to school, celebrated one year of togetherness with Ian (I'd like to state, for the record, he's got to be the most incredible, sweetest, bestest boyfriend ever, and I would have said that before the cards and flowers!!) which was an amazing day, started classes, got my frogs, peanut, butter, and jelly, who are currently tadpoles but are at various stages of sprouting limbs as of this afternoon. I love my frogs. And for any of you who know how weird I am about my pets, yeah, nothing's changed. Moving right along, I've also been able to catch up with people. I've missed my roomies, and even if they're gone a lot for work, I get to see them more than I did this summer! Church is great, I've missed it, and I'm really looking forward to small groups, the girls I know in it are amazing, and I can't wait to meet the rest of them! And Brit and I are finally enrolled in a dance class, after 2 years of meaning to sign up. And it's great. Ian and Phil are so fun, as are Daniel and Megan! Anyway, I think that's all the big stuff. Oh, and classes should be fun, hard work, but fun. Poetry writing, British survey for English majors (early period starting with Beowulf, ending at the Renaissance), French 3, and the intellectual history of early China.

On to the house. It's been quite the adventure. Our roof has leaked 3 times in 4 different spots, the lawn is never mowed, the upstairs toilet started leaking, which is right above my bedroom, and threatened to drip through onto my bed, and Ian found a brown recluse to add to the list of unknown spiders that we have viewed throughout the house. No Ian, you cannot feed them to my frogs. So they fixed the roof, hopefully for good this time, the toilet is fixed, the lawn should be mowed in the next couple of days, and they are coming to spray at 11am on Friday, and since there was a brown recluse, they have to do something special, so we have to vacate for 4 hours. So, if you've got a free Friday afternoon, 3 girls, 3 tadpoles, and a Christmas cactus will be homeless... But don't worry, Karen and Kylie, it'll be safe and de-spidered when you guys arrived for the game. Yay football!

Now it's time for either homework, shower, or a nap. On a side note, that new perfume Beyonce is spokesmodeling for is potent stuff. So, if you spray in the store to smell it, make sure it doesn't get on you, or you could end up with a headache.

Le Fin.

Old Maids and Movies

So its been forever since I last posted. I've been keeping pretty busy with work (especially the 4 days I work at Dairy King, also, as they needed assistance), and other things, such as putting together my college scrapbook, hanging out a bit with everyone, and sleeping. But today is my day off, and I thought I'd catch up. So, since my last post, I've had my 20th birthday (thanks to everyone who has reminded me how old I am now), went to Denver for a day with Ian, went on family vacation to OKC, saw everyone here back home, and worked a bunch. I am now able to do basically everything at a dry cleaners, since Krystal and I were in charge of doing all that while Donna was out after surgery. It was stressful, because we got swamped (stupid wranglers still, plus winter clothes, and wedding stuff... I think I'll write a poem for my poetry class entitled "winter coats and wedding dresses"), and we aren't as good as she is. But she's back now! *much happiness*

Now, on to old maids. So, the other night, my mom finally showed me the pictures my Tito Nilo emailed from my cousin Paolo's wedding. ("Nilo asked what you kids thought about seeing all your cousins... what? You didn't see them? I thought you did!" But its okay, its happened with everyone else's weddings. "Ate Aileen's husband..." "SHE'S MARRIED?!" "yes, didn't I tell you?") And my mom told me that she told Tito Nilo that I said something about all my cousins getting so old, and getting married a bit older (as in late 20's, early 30's), and he informed her that it is 'a family tradition' to get married in that age range, and that I need to 'keep the tradition.' She was laughing, so I think they both thought it was a good joke. *crosses fingers* lol! On another note, mom told me that if I got married in the Philippines, I could have a really fancy wedding, because you can do more for the same money over there. It's a thought, as long as we could charter a big plane for cheap to get everyone over there... hmmm... well, according to 'family tradition' I have about 10 years to figure all that out, hehe!

Finally, movies. When The Notebook came out, Veronica told me that it was a life changing movie for her. I watched it, and while I did enjoy it (sorry T, I know how you feel about that movie), I didn't really feel that my life was changed. But Sunday night, I found my very own life changing movie. It was the network premiere of I Am Sam on CBS, and I think its got to be one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. Its so touching, and has really good life lessons about love and family. I highly recommend that you go out and watch it!

"I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob."