hello, lovely

Well, I started the new year off right - sick. I normally only get sick about once a year, so hopefully this is my one time. It’s turned into a slight cold, but I’m still a bit tired and I can’t wait until I can breathe normally again, without the assistance of meds and Kleenex.

Monday was the first day I sort of felt human. I ate about 3x the amount of food on Monday than I did the rest of the weekend (which is to say that I actually um.. ate). Getting sick is the easiest way to lose weight. Go me for sticking to that resolution. ahah [Just kidding, btw]

Joe and I managed to see 3 movies (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Good Shepherd, and The Illusionist) and watch the whole first season of 24 this visit. I’m now going to have to either get him the rest of the seasons, or plan my Netflix list around his visits so we can watch the next few seasons. The new season starts on the 14th, and as long as the show’s regular schedule is not on Thursday, I’ll have to add it to my short “Must-See” television list. LOL

We also made an executive decision regarding the wedding and it will not be happening in April. We are NOT breaking up [I have to say this because I mentioned it to Teresa this morning, and she gave me the most horrified look I've ever seen. LOL] but with my moving out to CA around the same time and either transferring or getting a new job, it’s too much all at once with the wedding on top of that. This past year was supposed to be our “together” time to find out if we could be together without killing each other, and …well, it didn’t happen like that. So we’re going to take a few months to settle in together and then worry about it from there. We’ll be together forever and ever, so I’m not worried about it. Dina, I know you were planning on coming out here at the end of April anyway, and…well, that’s still on. We can turn it into Teresa’s belated birthday party or an engagement party or a “YAY! DINA’S HERE!” party or an early going away party or a “happy spring!” party or … whatever. We all know it’ll be used as an excuse to go out drinking.

Tuesday, we didn’t do much of anything.. slept til damn near 1pm… finally got off our butts and out of the house around 2:30. We went to Costco for lunch and to walk around (I got a costco membership for xmas from his fambly!!), and then we went to the post office. Apparently nobody knew that it was closed down for Gerald Ford’s rememberance day or whatever, but I only needed to use the Automated thing anyway and I got my package sent out.

We ended up having to run him to the airport a little earlier than we thought.. his flight got bumped up and left earlier than it was supposed to! We made it in time, but ended up really doing a drive-by dropping-off.

After I dropped him off, I went to my mom’s, and my stepbrother and his family came over, and we all kinda hung out. it was fun seeing them… I pretty much only ever see them at Christmas… lol, so … it was nice to see them all again. I came home after that, and watched a few episodes of Boston Legal while I finished my first knitted object of the year - A UT Longhorns logo dishcloth for one of the guys at work. He was pretty excited about it today. I’m going to make one for Dennis too, so if he reads this…well, it wasn’t a huge surprise anyway. Just a “just because” kind of thing. It wasn’t the exact color orange, but it was as close as I could get it. I know you Longhorn Fans can be picky.

Well, I’ve gotten all typey and chatty, and now I have to get going. Back to the grindstone and all.