Memorial Day

Stranger tread lightly,
'tis holy ground here;
in death's cold embrace
a soldier sleepeth here.
And you who are listening:
may you look upon his grave
and be proud of the fallen soldiers
brave.

Summer and long weekends..

It's been a couple weeks since my last post. I think. Lol. I didn't happen to check to see...seems like a long time for me. Business with the end of school, beginning of summer, long weekend (hooray!) and just life in general. Had some crazy stuff happen in the last few days that I wasn't expecting. Pretty draining but l'm glad I was there for them.

So...summer's looking to be a pretty busy time. All of June is pretty booked, July looks to be relaxing, and August is my birthday and our wedding anniversary. Then school starts...and suddenly, summer seems a lot shorter than I wish... Heh. Remember as kids, summer seemed to last forever and everything was magical. Though, summer is still pretty magical for me, but it's that type of magic that's more grown up? Not sure what the right term for it is.

Just finished reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Amazing book.Very intriguing storyline and the way he deals with death and mythological things in a very...understandable way. It's a children's book, and talks about death in a very non amazing way, also his interactions with ghosts and Vampires and Werewolves...all portrayed as nonamazing things, sometimes bad, sometimes good. It's a book I will read to my kids eventually.

Sunday...

Ah, weekend. It's a wonderful thing, especially when knowing there's only one more final and then it's officially summer-time! Good thing too. Starting to get hot outside. Meh. My poor hubby has till Thursday or Friday though...so that sucks. But only one more week till summer!

I'm sitting here on the couch, drinking french press coffee with homemade whipped cream and having some yogurt. Good breakfast. And this coffee is really good. I'll probably never go back to drinking drip coffee again.

Nothing too exciting going on. Tired. Watched Sweeney Todd last night. Summer's just around the corner and everything feels like it's holding its breath, waiting for something to happen....

Only one more week.....

Testing? Hooray! It's working again. Something was screwing around with the Template. Anywhoo, fixed it!

It's almost summer time! Just 2 finals and 2-3 papers to go!! And one more week. Just one more week, and then all I have to worry about is going to and from work. I'm so happy and excited. I have all these projects planned out.

The first being finishing organizing and cleaning our apartment so it's more manageable and uses the space well. I already cleaned up our bedroom as best as I could, with the exception of going through old clothes that I need to, it's all set and ready to go. I'm basically going room by room. So next up is our living room. Going through it, cleaning it, and moving Aaron's desk into our bedroom so he can be working in there while I'm reading in bed and stuff like that. I think we'll put it up against hte window or something....Anyway, that's the plan. Then the other bedroom. It's full of random boxes and stuff we need to clean up. I'm going to enlist the help of a friend. Hehe.

Then I can decorate! That makes me happy. I have loads of pictures and stuff I want to do/make to decorate our place. Also get a good little coffee table since we really don't have a dining room, that's usable at least. It's perfect for two people but...we don't even eat in there. We enjoy eating on the couch. So need to get a nice coffee table or something I can decorate. I also am going to get some slipcovers for our wonderful couches. So...plans are all there. It's just starting them that's hard because of school and business. Hopefully this week/weekend.

One of my favorite plans for this summer is taking a dance class with my friend Janelle. I'm really excited about it!

Back to work. Need to do some projects and then back to studying.

Happy Birthday!

Is wishing her sister a very happy 19th birthday!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!! We love you and miss you...

*hugs*

Life the Universe and Everything....

So...apparently I update about once a week or so... Guess that means that nothing too excited happens until then. Or I let it build up till there's actually something exciting to write about. Nothing really now, but oh well! Updating anyway...

Doing laundry at a friend's house because I can get it all done in four loads for free vs. doing 8 loads for $10 at our laundry for our apartment. Yah....free wins. Hehe. And I get to hang out with friends while I do and enjoy coffee while I do. So I think this will be the plan from now on. Hooray for fun times of coffee, laundry doing, and laundry.

On a happy fun note, I'm typing on our new laptop. Though technically it's a netbook, and it's this little small laptop that's amazing. We named it Bree. It's just the right size to easily fit into your purse or bag or whatever and I can use it to write on my stories easily without having to lug a big laptop around. The keyboard is just perfect size and the screen is too.

I'm currently plotting/working on a new story idea. I've decided to try my hand at writing a murder mystery and I already have the twist figured out (yay!) and I can't wait to start writing on it. I still have to do some more expending of characters and all that, but for the most part I'll start working on the first chapter and see what comes of it. Exciting!

Anyway, time to check my laundry.

Summer in April?!?

It's 90 degrees outside. Yesterday was 102. Apparently it's summertime. Wait...it's APRIL. I don't understand it. I swear, the weather is bi-polar or something. One minute it's freezing, the next you should be spending the days at the beach till they close, because it's unbearable anywhere else. But of course...the heat wave only comes on weekdays. Meh.

Spring break was nice. Nothing crazy happened. Just worked, and slept, and hung out with friends, and slept some more. And worked. Last weekend we drove down to Escondido to spend time with some friends, go shooting at their parents' place (FUN!), and do some airsofting. The weather was gorgeous, and everything was so green and pretty. It was a very fun relaxing full weekend.

While we were down there, I had some time to just have some solitude and quiet time. They had all this property with roses and trees, and four dogs running around. I could hear birds singing and the wind blowing through the leaves, and it wasn't broken by sirens, car horns, yells, or anything like that. I had time to just go walking, thinking, enjoying the quiet of nature, while being close enough to people to not feel all alone. I could live up there. I wish I could. Being close enough to the city to not feel far away, but having a place almost to retreat to when you need to, to get away from the hustle and bustle of everything, and have time to hear your thoughts, essentially. I miss that. I used to have that, but don't anymore... There's just not many quiet away places around here. Everything's so bunched in and tight that there's no real places where you won't run into anyone...so I hope to find a place like that someday. I would adore living up in a house like that...or just in the country. Maybe someday...

I keep wondering what I want to do with my life...I want to help people, but my helping people is more in just blessing them and healing them and being there for them. I don't want to be a psychologist or an attorney or anything like that. I'd want to open a bookstore/bakery and just bless people like that. Maybe someday I will...I hope I will. I wish I had a bigger place so I could open it up for people to come over, grab a cookie or coffee, and just relax. I think whenever we get a bigger place (whenever that may be) I'll make it a point of doing that. And maybe even have kids running around in the backyard as I talk with the moms and all that. I really love baking and wish I could do it more, and also do it for family and friends. I just don't have the time right now. Which is sad cause it helps me calm and be relaxed. Kinda like playing piano. That's something I have thought of. Maybe teaching piano lessons (beginners) whenever I have a piano. Or working in a daycare or as a mother's helper or something....

As you can tell, lots of random things have been going on in my head lately. Just a lot of processing, reassessing, figuring out where/what I'm supposed to be doing. Lots and lots of prayers...

On the bright side, God's been really blessing me lately. He brought an amazing woman into my life who I can relate to and talk with, and actually understands. I don't feel so alone anymore...and it's amazing. It feels like God just said, "All I wanted you to do was to ask..." *bam* I'm still hurting and I'm still working through a lot, and a lot of things are fresh and hurt so badly...but...I'm trusting God. I know, even if I don't know how, that He will work things out and heal.

On that note, I'm going to finish up at work and then head off to class. Bleh. I wish I was at the beach right now...instead of getting off work and then running straight to class. But I'm having coffee tonight with a good friend! So that will be fun!

Heat wave is supposed to break tomorrow. Hooray!! Let's see if it actually does.