I am happy to report my grandma is home and doing better. Much better than I had hoped, actually. I was worried about her while she was in transitional rehab, but she’s been home for almost a week now and she seems to be doing great. She’s been in great spirits and I think part of that (aside from she’s doing physically better) is that we’ve started watching movies together each day. We’ve watched Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and some Jane Austen. Watching time period pieces that she really enjoys (I do too) have helped to to lift her spirits. It is fantastic to hear and see her being so happy and agreeable. In the words of Anne, we’re bosom friends. My mom tells me grandma can’t talk stopping about how grateful she is to have me and she likes to say we’re “two peas in a pod.” It makes my heart happy to hear that.
My old friend Stephanie is here for the weekend and I am so happy to see her. Having Steph around makes everything better. There’s thrift store shopping for us today (hoping for some fantastic Pyrex scores!), along with a trip to Moochie’s for the-best-cheese-steak ever, and tonight I will roast chickens for us. Hooray for the weekend!
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Mike played the guitar and sang to me. That pretty much made me feel like the luckiest girl ever.
I asked him, “Are you going to sing for me at our wedding?”
“At the ceremony or after we’re alone?”
“Either.”
“Will you still make me sandwiches?”
Later on…
“I’m registering us for all of the Rachel Ray cookware on Bed Bath & Beyond.”
“That’s grounds for annulment.”
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Mike and I have been planning our wedding for about the past month now. Come to think of it, we’ve been planning our wedding since we first met. Everything with him has been so different and wedding talk started naturally, pretty early on. My sister is going to marry us at his cabin in the nearby mountains, surrounded by our families.
The planning has been exciting, though a bit stressful because we are taking care of everything ourselves. So far we have our invitations ordered, quirky wedding cake toppers (vintage salt and pepper shakers!), photographer, and wedding dress. We had talked about doing wedding bands because the whole engagement ring thing just seemed a little over the top and what’s really important here is that we’re together. Putting off getting married to purchase what some politically unstable industry tells us we should spend on our love just seemed, well, retarded.
Yesterday we walked to the park where six months earlier we had our first date. Mike took a knee, pulled out a ring and did the old fashioned proposal. I think I scared him because my initial reaction was, “CRAZY BEANS! I love you!” before saying “Yes!” I wasn’t expecting anything and was so surprised and happy. The ring is yellow gold with an aquamarine in the center and diamonds on the side and it’s just fucking perfect. It really suits me. Making it even more sentimental: the ring was his mother’s. Nothing to let you know you’re really in with your future MIL like an engagement ring!
Here is a picture of the slide at the park six months ago.
This is what the slide looked like yesterday. HA HA.
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- Finding and rescuing Pyrex from thrift stores.
- Hearing Mike say he can’t wait to see my Pyrex treasures when I get home from work. Um yeah, Mike pretty much = FUCKING AWESOME.
- Drinking wine and taking drunken photographs of my new Pyrex!
- Beef Stroganoff. I remember liking it as a kid but we have both fallen in love with this recipe.
- Milk. Why on earth had I not seen that movie until now? It was incredible. It totally made me cry. Which is something, now that I’m not crying like everyday.
- We’ve started planning our wedding! It’s going to be a small family wedding at Mike’s cabin in the mountains in July. At first I was a little overwhelmed but now I’m getting really excited!
- Riesling. Seriously, what’s not to love?
- New pajamas. I bought the softest, most awesome pair of pj pants at Target for $4 dollars. HELLO LOVE!
- My niece’s curly hair. I love that kid. When she saw my new pajama pants she started poking at them with her little two year old fingers and squealing, “WHO GAVE YOU THESE PJ PANTS?! WHO GAVE YOU THESE PJ PANTS?!”
- Mike protecting me from this random creepy old sex offender dude at a friend’s house this weekend who kept looking at me like a fat kid looks at a sandwich. After the creep left we discovered nobody actually knew who he was. WTF?!
- C.O. Bigelow Mentha Lip Tint because it is the bomb.
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He called me from the nerd cave (across the hall) at 11:59PM to say, “I just realized I have a lot of weekend and anytime minutes I’m not using.”
LOVE!
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Tonight my guy chose a movie for us to watch while I was out of the room. When I returned, the movie was streaming.
“What movie are we watching?”
“There are Libyans in it.”
“Libyans? Is it Back to the Future?!”
I was right, it was Back to the Future. When we told our roommate he declared we are developing a hive mind. (Agreed!)
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I survived Christmas, still in one piece, didn’t cry myself to sleep, and I still have an awesome boyfriend who makes me extremely happy. He gets double awesome points for meeting my uber religious sister, her husband, their four (EXTREMELY LOUD) daughters, and STILL loving me.
He held up like a champ under a perverse and strange round of something my sister called “Getting To Know You” but was more like an intensive 25 point inspection. I sat down in between him on the couch and a herd of my female relatives ranging in age from 2 to 64 and he said something about needing to create a word estro-sault. He’s pretty fucking incredible.
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I traveled back in time on Saturday night to 1995! All with the help of Jägermeister AND Goldschläger.
It all started with “real” (alcohol percentage) beer from California which I alternated with “water”…also known as light beer. Then came the sip of Jager from someone’s Carl’s Jr. cup, no ice. That is some hardcore shit, yo! But that was just a sip. Then there were the Goldschlager shots. I can testify to the cinnamon-y goodness being a wee bit over powering. But Diet Mountain Dew seemed to really help that issue. Yes, I just admitted to shooting Goldschläger and Diet Mountain Dew. God bless Utah and their inaccessibility of booze that make booze so appealing!
We played Apples to Apples which is now my favorite new game OF EVER. I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants on their living room floor.
My favorite quote of the night was when Chris yelled, “Somebody get in here and give me a sponge bath!” It is impossible not to love that. IMPOSSIBLE!
I was pretty pissed off at myself when I realized I had forgotten my camera. Luckily, Aimee brought hers, and I took about a million pictures with it. I’m sure the photos all really super awesome because my photographic abilities increase exponentially when I start taking shots. It’s too bad we weren’t able to get photographic evidence of the party that their next door neighbors were having. It was like mariachi band meets rave meets house party. It was SO LOUD! And big! I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a house party that big. And I used to live in Oakland, so I’ve seen some shit. Frankly, the loud ass party made me miss California. It was damn fun to watch and listen from Sue’s back patio.
Weekends like that make my many weekends of hermit-dom worth it. Who needs a boyfriend when I have such an incredibly hilarious adoptive family? Seriously love them stupid.
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Too beat to give a proper breakdown of the camping trip, but I’d do the weekend all the same. I had a freaking fabulous time and loved getting to know everyone better.
Luckily this is a short week and I only have four days till the next weekend. Yay!
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“Yeah, that’s right, I said I like D’Angelo. It’s good fuckin’ music.”
“The way that guy looked at me directly violated the rules of Club Celibacy.”
“Couldn’t shake me.”
“Just like my vagina.”
Why you comin home 5 in the mornnn
Somethins goin on, can I smell yo dick
Don’t play me like a fool, cause that ain’t cool
So wat u need to do is lemme smell yo dick
Real live polygamists at Walmarts!
“Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a shaved sack.”
“Know what sounds good?”
“VAGINA!”
“He thinks you’re cute.”
“That’s because I am cute.”
“It’s weird watching a cat lick his own butthole.”
“Mommm! What’s for dinner?”
“Buttholes!”
“I could really go for some buttholes.”
“I baked a cake for you. In my pants.”
“Remember when you made me reverse 1/2 a mile in my car for a ‘Dangerous Curves’ sign and I wrecked my car? Wait, that’s because it hasn’t happened yet.”
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