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Today is such a busy day! Steve and I managed to sleep in until almost 11, the comfy bed, snuggles, and thunderstorms all night soothing us into comfort that we were both incredibly reluctant to leave. But leave we must, because as I said, so many things.
First on the agenda was food, coffee, and writing up the entry for yesterday. I confirmed the time of Pokémon Go for Larvitar as well. Shower was had and clothes were donned, entries were posted and off to Mall of America - which is really the only way to do it, what with the MANY pokestops, lures, people and Pokémon. Why waste your time anywhere else??
Holy crap it was INSANE there today! The parking ramps was already crazy full with a huge line, but I beelined for the roof, because I didn’t ant to waste any more time than we had already, and there was like basically no one there. It is really muggy out today, very VERY humid. Once inside, it was quickly discovered today was the regional yo-yo competition, which is always entertaining but SO. NERVEWRACKING. Steve says I make the best audience because I am so animated while watching - I gasp and cheer and hide my face and have running commentary. Yo-yo is actually a really impressive hobby. We spent a good deal of time on the 4th floor catching so many Larvitar and other Pokémon before heading to the 3rd floor, where we spent most of our time. The mall was filthy with Larvitar. I got a really good shiny as my second catch of the day, and I never did find one better. I found a better regular Larvitar as well, though I didn’t have as many terrible ones as Steve did. In the end I evolved three and buffed up 2. Then we walked around doing a couple raids, which didn’t show up until after the event was over. As usual, when the first Kyogre raid started, my phone borked out and we had to move everywhere. Steve didn’t catch his first one. Once I got into a raid, I did, and it was pretty good. Then we went to another one, and I got another good one, and Steve got a SHINY Kyogre. So jealous!!! They’re purple! I love purple! AND it had good stats. So lucky. On our way out I spotted Pa and Carrie, Parkway coworkers of mine, who were also playing Pokémon Go. We stopped and chatted with them for a few minutes before heading out.
Next up was my brother Jack’s graduation party at my dad’s house. We made the 40-minute drive out there, feeling kind of bad that we wouldn’t be able to stay long because I had to be home before 8 to tutor. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Jack had several friends over and there were people there for Dad and Tammy to hang out with too. They made sure to have rice for my tacos and Jack’s cake was pretty good too. Jack’s friends were decently funny, and apparently the running joke of his childhood was that he always talked about having so many siblings, and his friends were over often enough, and yet they NEVER saw any of them. So Jack was excited to show me off as one of the “fabled mysterious siblings”. To be fair, Jack is much younger than the rest of us. Bethany, at 26, is his closest sibling and still almost 9 years his senior.
After hanging out eating, and watching his slideshow that Dad made, we had to head out all too soon. The children were loudly playing Smash bros downstairs, and Jack seemed a little bummed we had to go so soon but took it in stride. I told him that since he’s going to a college nearby y house that he HAS to come by and hang out. I’m so easy to hang out with; we barely even have to talk lol. Just play games quietly and have fun.
I took a daiquiri to go (it was delicious) and Steve and I listen to Name of the Wind on the way back (we also listened to it on the way to dad’s, and I may or may not have gotten tearful right before we got there. It’s a POWERFUL book). I was in the best mood. My lesson with Shinpei was pretty good, he was distracted at first but eventually got into it, and we had fun. After that I went downstairs and we chilled until it was time to go to Minneapolis.
Oh yeah, we had also bought tickets to the midnight showing of Howl’s Moving Castle. I think the Uptown theatre might do this every year or every few years, but they show Ghibli movies as midnight showings, subtitled, one weekend a month. Howl’s is my favorite, along with Spirited Away and Nausicaa (Only Yesterday is a strong contender too). Steve couldn’t even remember the last time he saw it, and I’m a HUGE sap for this movie. It is so romantic and tender in my heart. Like, the themes really get to me, and I wondered if the type of person I am makes me view the movie a certain way. Ugh, just so good. After the movie I talked at length about the various depths and details I feel, and he said I have a “really strong headcanon.” Lol.
Before the movie, we were both so tired, and the Uptown is on Hennepin ave, one of the most happening streets in Minneapolis. Loud people everywhere. Huge crowds everywhere. We were both super tired but happy during the movie, and were (stupidly) surprised to see that the activity had not died down, or even so much as slowed down one bit when we left the movie. It was 2:30am! How are you people still active??? It was like I knew the dichotomy of being an old tired person placed against my own alcohol-fueled energy going out to party... but still!
You think we went home and went to sleep, but you’d be wrong. Father’s Day is tomorrow and I promised a dessert. The dessert I decided to make is no-bake, but it requires 8 hours of refrigeration. So to Cub we went for a couple of ingredients I needed. I made a simple but amazing-looking chocolate pie thing. Vegan, of course. That meant us finally flopping into bed at 4am. Oh my god.
First on the agenda was food, coffee, and writing up the entry for yesterday. I confirmed the time of Pokémon Go for Larvitar as well. Shower was had and clothes were donned, entries were posted and off to Mall of America - which is really the only way to do it, what with the MANY pokestops, lures, people and Pokémon. Why waste your time anywhere else??
Holy crap it was INSANE there today! The parking ramps was already crazy full with a huge line, but I beelined for the roof, because I didn’t ant to waste any more time than we had already, and there was like basically no one there. It is really muggy out today, very VERY humid. Once inside, it was quickly discovered today was the regional yo-yo competition, which is always entertaining but SO. NERVEWRACKING. Steve says I make the best audience because I am so animated while watching - I gasp and cheer and hide my face and have running commentary. Yo-yo is actually a really impressive hobby. We spent a good deal of time on the 4th floor catching so many Larvitar and other Pokémon before heading to the 3rd floor, where we spent most of our time. The mall was filthy with Larvitar. I got a really good shiny as my second catch of the day, and I never did find one better. I found a better regular Larvitar as well, though I didn’t have as many terrible ones as Steve did. In the end I evolved three and buffed up 2. Then we walked around doing a couple raids, which didn’t show up until after the event was over. As usual, when the first Kyogre raid started, my phone borked out and we had to move everywhere. Steve didn’t catch his first one. Once I got into a raid, I did, and it was pretty good. Then we went to another one, and I got another good one, and Steve got a SHINY Kyogre. So jealous!!! They’re purple! I love purple! AND it had good stats. So lucky. On our way out I spotted Pa and Carrie, Parkway coworkers of mine, who were also playing Pokémon Go. We stopped and chatted with them for a few minutes before heading out.
Next up was my brother Jack’s graduation party at my dad’s house. We made the 40-minute drive out there, feeling kind of bad that we wouldn’t be able to stay long because I had to be home before 8 to tutor. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Jack had several friends over and there were people there for Dad and Tammy to hang out with too. They made sure to have rice for my tacos and Jack’s cake was pretty good too. Jack’s friends were decently funny, and apparently the running joke of his childhood was that he always talked about having so many siblings, and his friends were over often enough, and yet they NEVER saw any of them. So Jack was excited to show me off as one of the “fabled mysterious siblings”. To be fair, Jack is much younger than the rest of us. Bethany, at 26, is his closest sibling and still almost 9 years his senior.
After hanging out eating, and watching his slideshow that Dad made, we had to head out all too soon. The children were loudly playing Smash bros downstairs, and Jack seemed a little bummed we had to go so soon but took it in stride. I told him that since he’s going to a college nearby y house that he HAS to come by and hang out. I’m so easy to hang out with; we barely even have to talk lol. Just play games quietly and have fun.
I took a daiquiri to go (it was delicious) and Steve and I listen to Name of the Wind on the way back (we also listened to it on the way to dad’s, and I may or may not have gotten tearful right before we got there. It’s a POWERFUL book). I was in the best mood. My lesson with Shinpei was pretty good, he was distracted at first but eventually got into it, and we had fun. After that I went downstairs and we chilled until it was time to go to Minneapolis.
Oh yeah, we had also bought tickets to the midnight showing of Howl’s Moving Castle. I think the Uptown theatre might do this every year or every few years, but they show Ghibli movies as midnight showings, subtitled, one weekend a month. Howl’s is my favorite, along with Spirited Away and Nausicaa (Only Yesterday is a strong contender too). Steve couldn’t even remember the last time he saw it, and I’m a HUGE sap for this movie. It is so romantic and tender in my heart. Like, the themes really get to me, and I wondered if the type of person I am makes me view the movie a certain way. Ugh, just so good. After the movie I talked at length about the various depths and details I feel, and he said I have a “really strong headcanon.” Lol.
Before the movie, we were both so tired, and the Uptown is on Hennepin ave, one of the most happening streets in Minneapolis. Loud people everywhere. Huge crowds everywhere. We were both super tired but happy during the movie, and were (stupidly) surprised to see that the activity had not died down, or even so much as slowed down one bit when we left the movie. It was 2:30am! How are you people still active??? It was like I knew the dichotomy of being an old tired person placed against my own alcohol-fueled energy going out to party... but still!
You think we went home and went to sleep, but you’d be wrong. Father’s Day is tomorrow and I promised a dessert. The dessert I decided to make is no-bake, but it requires 8 hours of refrigeration. So to Cub we went for a couple of ingredients I needed. I made a simple but amazing-looking chocolate pie thing. Vegan, of course. That meant us finally flopping into bed at 4am. Oh my god.
19//An off kind of day
May. 22nd, 2018 11:01 pmThe weather was cooler again today, but with the sun it ended up warming up and I was fine in a 3/4 sleeve. Steve and I did the thing where we let the laundry get all over the place and barely had any clothes that we could wear to work... whoops! The morning was off to a lame start when I realized that I forgot my coffee at home and didn’t prepare anything for breakfast! I was able to make some muesli cereal and that was good at least.
First block was spent getting everyone organized again and talking about how we wanted to organize the rest of the year, and I think we came up with a good plan. 2nd block was fine. Nokomis is doing field days and concerts and other things this week, so my schedule there is a little wonky. I ended up spending a lot of time looking for pics of the students graduating from 8th grade from the past few years. That was fun!
When I got home, I was super tired and decided to nap. I’m struggling with sleeping still, constantly dozing in and out and feeling like I’m never really sleeping. It leaves me feeling so damn tired by the end of the work day. I slept more than I anticipated, getting up at 5:15 after having fallen asleep probably around 3. It felt good though, and when I woke up, I found Steve downstairs and we decided to get some food. It was Naf Naf again. Steve, being sweet, offered to pick it up for us, but I was thinking it would be nice to eat outside! On the way, we stopped at a gym in Pokémon go, and Steve mailed a package. We had a really funny moment when I told Steve I was gonna get my excellent curveball throw on this random wheedle (for my Mew quest), and I TOTALLY did. It was hilarious and also I’m a bamf.
Naf Naf was good, but since I’ve continued to feel gross about myself and STILL keep eating out and not making my own food and exercising not that often. I know part of it is my energy struggles, especially when I’m sleeping worse at night, I end up using so much of my available free time then catching up. Ugh. Haley was just chastising me and Bethany and most people yesterday how we don’t have as “intense” of personalities or extreme willpower to follow through but she does. I declined to point out that Haley literally has no other hobbies other than laying in bed and watching YouTube videos (no, really) so of course she doesn’t feel like she’s giving up one enjoyable thing for the cooking or working out or whatever. It’s annoying that there’s so little time in the day to split things up, but I really, REALLY want to get going. I know summer break is coming and I’ll have more time available to get it together, but I don’t understand how other years I made time for yoga or ITG and it’s so much harder now. Part of it is probably how into knitting I’ve gotten into and how much time it takes, but still. Sucks!
Speaking of knitting, I started the Local Yarn Shawl tonight. It is really amazing so far. The yarn from my last post is super pretty, and feels light and easy to knit with. I completed one round of the repeats and can’t wait to do more.
Tomorrow Steve’s company is doing a happy hour for him at 4:30 and I’m meeting them there! Now that he’s leaving I’m gonna meet his coworkers :P
First block was spent getting everyone organized again and talking about how we wanted to organize the rest of the year, and I think we came up with a good plan. 2nd block was fine. Nokomis is doing field days and concerts and other things this week, so my schedule there is a little wonky. I ended up spending a lot of time looking for pics of the students graduating from 8th grade from the past few years. That was fun!
When I got home, I was super tired and decided to nap. I’m struggling with sleeping still, constantly dozing in and out and feeling like I’m never really sleeping. It leaves me feeling so damn tired by the end of the work day. I slept more than I anticipated, getting up at 5:15 after having fallen asleep probably around 3. It felt good though, and when I woke up, I found Steve downstairs and we decided to get some food. It was Naf Naf again. Steve, being sweet, offered to pick it up for us, but I was thinking it would be nice to eat outside! On the way, we stopped at a gym in Pokémon go, and Steve mailed a package. We had a really funny moment when I told Steve I was gonna get my excellent curveball throw on this random wheedle (for my Mew quest), and I TOTALLY did. It was hilarious and also I’m a bamf.
Naf Naf was good, but since I’ve continued to feel gross about myself and STILL keep eating out and not making my own food and exercising not that often. I know part of it is my energy struggles, especially when I’m sleeping worse at night, I end up using so much of my available free time then catching up. Ugh. Haley was just chastising me and Bethany and most people yesterday how we don’t have as “intense” of personalities or extreme willpower to follow through but she does. I declined to point out that Haley literally has no other hobbies other than laying in bed and watching YouTube videos (no, really) so of course she doesn’t feel like she’s giving up one enjoyable thing for the cooking or working out or whatever. It’s annoying that there’s so little time in the day to split things up, but I really, REALLY want to get going. I know summer break is coming and I’ll have more time available to get it together, but I don’t understand how other years I made time for yoga or ITG and it’s so much harder now. Part of it is probably how into knitting I’ve gotten into and how much time it takes, but still. Sucks!
Speaking of knitting, I started the Local Yarn Shawl tonight. It is really amazing so far. The yarn from my last post is super pretty, and feels light and easy to knit with. I completed one round of the repeats and can’t wait to do more.
Tomorrow Steve’s company is doing a happy hour for him at 4:30 and I’m meeting them there! Now that he’s leaving I’m gonna meet his coworkers :P
18//The most Monday of days
May. 21st, 2018 10:07 pmI spent this morning being stressed about work because I knew it was going to be a ridiculously busy day from start to end, and then we would immediately segue into Gamer Monday. Because I had gotten so much sleep during the day on Sunday, I wasn’t as tired as I could have been even though Steve tossed and turned forever, to the point that every time I’d fall asleep he’d roll over and wake me up, and then he tried to turn Hearthstone on his phone after having built a little pillow wall to block the light from me (this failed because I just woke up to his movements lol). Eventually he left for awhile so I could fall asleep and he could get tired. I assume he tried to sleep on the couch and when that failed he came back and I was sleeping enough to stay asleep after he got back into bed.
The morning was pretty similar to Friday - morning basketball with the boys, Josie as the sub, running various boys back and forth to reset and teaching Malik more 2-step equations patterns. Jane, the nurse, told me she visited with my Nokomis principal over the weekend (they’re friends outside of school) and Melissa told Jane that she was going to miss me. Aww. 2nd block was decent, again with walking through 2-step problems with the groups. Seriously, do you remember learning 2-step equations? Not only are they really fun and easy. Once you know the pattern, but they’re directly applicable to a myriad of real-life situations. I was in advanced math all throughout my school age years, but I did not internalize these concepts AT ALL when I was learning them. I really enjoy them now as an adult and I try really hard to impress the value of specific concepts like this that are valuable to everyday life.
Best part of my day: coming home to see Steve for 10 minutes as I grab food for lunch before heading to Nokomis. I cut up a giant apple and gave half to Steve and added the other half to some cantaloupe and took my Naf Naf leftovers. We talked about the rest of the day plans and professed how much we were missing each other. I did get to talk to him on the phone several times today while transitioning between schools and that was really great.
Nokomis was really busy, as Mondays are my busiest kid days. Any spare second I had was spent working on the evals and IEP for the afternoon. All too soon it was 2 and I needed to run back to Parkway to present my academic findings for Kee, one of Molly’s OHD students in her setting III ASD program. That went a lot better than expected and I was able to leave by 3. Elba, the assistant principal, and I walked out together and she put her arm around me and said she understood how hard it was to go between two schools and that everyone wants you full-time and you work so hard, etc. She’s never been affectionate with me before and it was really cute.
Okay, BACK to Nokomis and finishing up some last-minute things on Jeremy’s IEP. Jeremy’s parents are the cutest, and they were actually really relieved when we told them that Isabella doesn’t qualify for SpEd at this time. You never know whether parents will be happy or upset to find out their kid doesn’t qualify for services, because some parents see the benefits of SpEd while others worry about stigma, etc. But thankfully they were happy and we talked about how at the very least, Isabella has no delays and is in fact above average in some ways, but she’s young and immature and struggles with focus and it will be a good idea to keep an eye out for changes in the future, whether her attention improves or worsens. Jeremy’s IEP went well; he’s old enough that I felt confident speaking to his 5th grade year and beyond to middle school (and Jeremy has a sister that goes to Parkway so parents are familiar with it). By the time they left it was 5pm. Ugh, such a long day ;A;
Raced home to Steve, watered my plant, and we went to pick up Tyler for game shopping. We also played and talked Pokémon Go, did a Gengar raid, and Tyler opened my whole world up by notifying me of an app that rates your Pokémon’s IVs and potential. Weeeee! No games were found today and we only went to Level Up, but burritos were had and they were delicious. After we dropped Tyler off, Steve and I came back home. He played a couple arena games in Hearthstone and I wound yarn for a shawl I want to start. I got a tangle in one of the yarns right at the end of winding (I believe it started that way, lame) and that took forever to fix, so I didn’t actually get to start the shawl today, but maybe that’ll be a thing tomorrow. I’ve been really wanting to start one of my cool new knitting projects with the beautiful yarn.
I participated in a sock knitting contest, where you try a technique you haven’t done before and post it in the thread on Ravelry - it was aptly named the “Never Have I Ever.” It was super easy for me, having only knit one pair of socks prior to the contest, lol. I had a feeling I’d win something even though over 150 people entered (I am generally a lucky person with contests and such), but often times I get the Monkey’s paw when I do win. That’s a tad dramatic, but what I mean is, often I get the “worse” or lamer thing, and I would say I definitely DID win the lamest prize - a slipper/sock/foot covering book. But I haven’t actually SEEN the book yet and I could easily just be a crybaby because I ALWAYS want to win yarn, basically exclusively, lol. Anyway, it’s still exciting to win something and hear your name read over a podcast. Pretty sweet.
The morning was pretty similar to Friday - morning basketball with the boys, Josie as the sub, running various boys back and forth to reset and teaching Malik more 2-step equations patterns. Jane, the nurse, told me she visited with my Nokomis principal over the weekend (they’re friends outside of school) and Melissa told Jane that she was going to miss me. Aww. 2nd block was decent, again with walking through 2-step problems with the groups. Seriously, do you remember learning 2-step equations? Not only are they really fun and easy. Once you know the pattern, but they’re directly applicable to a myriad of real-life situations. I was in advanced math all throughout my school age years, but I did not internalize these concepts AT ALL when I was learning them. I really enjoy them now as an adult and I try really hard to impress the value of specific concepts like this that are valuable to everyday life.
Best part of my day: coming home to see Steve for 10 minutes as I grab food for lunch before heading to Nokomis. I cut up a giant apple and gave half to Steve and added the other half to some cantaloupe and took my Naf Naf leftovers. We talked about the rest of the day plans and professed how much we were missing each other. I did get to talk to him on the phone several times today while transitioning between schools and that was really great.
Nokomis was really busy, as Mondays are my busiest kid days. Any spare second I had was spent working on the evals and IEP for the afternoon. All too soon it was 2 and I needed to run back to Parkway to present my academic findings for Kee, one of Molly’s OHD students in her setting III ASD program. That went a lot better than expected and I was able to leave by 3. Elba, the assistant principal, and I walked out together and she put her arm around me and said she understood how hard it was to go between two schools and that everyone wants you full-time and you work so hard, etc. She’s never been affectionate with me before and it was really cute.
Okay, BACK to Nokomis and finishing up some last-minute things on Jeremy’s IEP. Jeremy’s parents are the cutest, and they were actually really relieved when we told them that Isabella doesn’t qualify for SpEd at this time. You never know whether parents will be happy or upset to find out their kid doesn’t qualify for services, because some parents see the benefits of SpEd while others worry about stigma, etc. But thankfully they were happy and we talked about how at the very least, Isabella has no delays and is in fact above average in some ways, but she’s young and immature and struggles with focus and it will be a good idea to keep an eye out for changes in the future, whether her attention improves or worsens. Jeremy’s IEP went well; he’s old enough that I felt confident speaking to his 5th grade year and beyond to middle school (and Jeremy has a sister that goes to Parkway so parents are familiar with it). By the time they left it was 5pm. Ugh, such a long day ;A;
Raced home to Steve, watered my plant, and we went to pick up Tyler for game shopping. We also played and talked Pokémon Go, did a Gengar raid, and Tyler opened my whole world up by notifying me of an app that rates your Pokémon’s IVs and potential. Weeeee! No games were found today and we only went to Level Up, but burritos were had and they were delicious. After we dropped Tyler off, Steve and I came back home. He played a couple arena games in Hearthstone and I wound yarn for a shawl I want to start. I got a tangle in one of the yarns right at the end of winding (I believe it started that way, lame) and that took forever to fix, so I didn’t actually get to start the shawl today, but maybe that’ll be a thing tomorrow. I’ve been really wanting to start one of my cool new knitting projects with the beautiful yarn.
I participated in a sock knitting contest, where you try a technique you haven’t done before and post it in the thread on Ravelry - it was aptly named the “Never Have I Ever.” It was super easy for me, having only knit one pair of socks prior to the contest, lol. I had a feeling I’d win something even though over 150 people entered (I am generally a lucky person with contests and such), but often times I get the Monkey’s paw when I do win. That’s a tad dramatic, but what I mean is, often I get the “worse” or lamer thing, and I would say I definitely DID win the lamest prize - a slipper/sock/foot covering book. But I haven’t actually SEEN the book yet and I could easily just be a crybaby because I ALWAYS want to win yarn, basically exclusively, lol. Anyway, it’s still exciting to win something and hear your name read over a podcast. Pretty sweet.
Today was definitely a lazy Sunday, considering we went to bed so late. I woke up a bunch of times in the morning but was far too comfy cuddling with Steve to bother actually getting up. At 11 I felt guilty enough to FINALLY wake Steve up. We took our time but I'd say we were up by noon. Lol.
To ease into our day, there was coffee and Rummikub. Perfect. It looked like I was going to win for the longest time, but Steve pulled it out in the end, getting a solid 29 points from me and pulling ahead on the leaderboard. Oh well, that just means that his embarrassing picture is up on the board and not mine. Hehehe.
Hunger struck about then, and Steve was jonesing for some Naf Naf, so off we went. But not before stopping at the park for a little Pokemon Go. We were just gonna spin the stops there, but there was a raid at the police station across the park, and I needed 2 more raids to complete my next Mew quest. Now I'm down to 1! Getting closerrrr. It turned out to be a LOT nicer today than it was yesterday, sunny and decent temp and only a little windy. It was definitely far more ideal for eating outside.
Naf Naf was delicious as always, and the guy making our bowls was either new or feeling particularly generous, because my bowl was basically overflowing. Needless to say, I took home a ton of leftovers. Naf Naf is right by Whole Foods, and we needed some necessities. I ended up grabbing a bunch of fruit (summer weather really gets me craving fruit), a few other random things and we decided to take a tour of the mochi. My flavor preference went: 1. Strawberry 2. Mango 3. Pistachio 4. Red Velvet 5. Chocolate Mocha 6. Passion Fruit. Steve's favorite was mango. They were very good.
After that, Steve asked if I wanted to accompany him to scout for another media shelf for the game room. Of course!! So that took us to Savers, where he didn't find a shelf, but DID find a couple games - one for reselling and one for silly curiosity play. Next was Goodwill, which was a total bust and we were out within a few minutes, and then we went to Gamestop because it's Nick's birthday today and Steve wanted to look and see if there were any games he might want to get for Nick. He did end up buying the remastered Shadow of the Colossus, not entirely sure if Nick owns it already or not, but saying we can just take it if he does, and get him something else. He ended up getting a few other games, including one called Snipper Clips.
Suddenly, from all that activity (lol) I got tired and really wanted to snuggle on the couch and maybe nap. So we went home and put on some Hearthstone and I dozed in and out. Steve didn't fall asleep as far as I know, but he lay with me for awhile, and that was really nice. I really felt good nestled against him with his arm around me and it was just what I needed. Eventually he decided to sit up and played some Hearthstone on his phone while I napped some more with my head in his lap. That was also quite nice.
Neither of us were super hungry for dinner so I just cut up some fruit and Steve had a muffin and we snacked while starting Snipperclips. The game is for the switch and is ideal for 2 people, because you work together to solve puzzles. Each person is this like kind of wine tumbler-shaped paper guy, and you can like, cut each other into various shapes (circle, bowl, pointy object, etc) to fulfill whatever purpose is given. So, for example, if you need to get a ball through a hoop, the easiest way is to cut one of you into a bowl shape to catch the ball and then dunk it. To pop balloons, you need someone to be pointy. Etcetera. They require you to work together to solve it, and it's already made for some really fun puzzles. We beat the first world tonight and I can't wait for more!!
Tomorrow is gonna really blow, so busy with IEP and eval meetings after school and Tealie is gone again. Trying not to panic with suffocation. Only three weeks left until the end of the school year, and I'll have two more days off next week. I can do it. But it's sooo stressful. Ugh. This is why I need relaxy ideal days like today. They're so nice and fill up my soul. I'm really looking forward to summer with Steve, it's gonna be awesome.
To ease into our day, there was coffee and Rummikub. Perfect. It looked like I was going to win for the longest time, but Steve pulled it out in the end, getting a solid 29 points from me and pulling ahead on the leaderboard. Oh well, that just means that his embarrassing picture is up on the board and not mine. Hehehe.
Hunger struck about then, and Steve was jonesing for some Naf Naf, so off we went. But not before stopping at the park for a little Pokemon Go. We were just gonna spin the stops there, but there was a raid at the police station across the park, and I needed 2 more raids to complete my next Mew quest. Now I'm down to 1! Getting closerrrr. It turned out to be a LOT nicer today than it was yesterday, sunny and decent temp and only a little windy. It was definitely far more ideal for eating outside.
Naf Naf was delicious as always, and the guy making our bowls was either new or feeling particularly generous, because my bowl was basically overflowing. Needless to say, I took home a ton of leftovers. Naf Naf is right by Whole Foods, and we needed some necessities. I ended up grabbing a bunch of fruit (summer weather really gets me craving fruit), a few other random things and we decided to take a tour of the mochi. My flavor preference went: 1. Strawberry 2. Mango 3. Pistachio 4. Red Velvet 5. Chocolate Mocha 6. Passion Fruit. Steve's favorite was mango. They were very good.
After that, Steve asked if I wanted to accompany him to scout for another media shelf for the game room. Of course!! So that took us to Savers, where he didn't find a shelf, but DID find a couple games - one for reselling and one for silly curiosity play. Next was Goodwill, which was a total bust and we were out within a few minutes, and then we went to Gamestop because it's Nick's birthday today and Steve wanted to look and see if there were any games he might want to get for Nick. He did end up buying the remastered Shadow of the Colossus, not entirely sure if Nick owns it already or not, but saying we can just take it if he does, and get him something else. He ended up getting a few other games, including one called Snipper Clips.
Suddenly, from all that activity (lol) I got tired and really wanted to snuggle on the couch and maybe nap. So we went home and put on some Hearthstone and I dozed in and out. Steve didn't fall asleep as far as I know, but he lay with me for awhile, and that was really nice. I really felt good nestled against him with his arm around me and it was just what I needed. Eventually he decided to sit up and played some Hearthstone on his phone while I napped some more with my head in his lap. That was also quite nice.
Neither of us were super hungry for dinner so I just cut up some fruit and Steve had a muffin and we snacked while starting Snipperclips. The game is for the switch and is ideal for 2 people, because you work together to solve puzzles. Each person is this like kind of wine tumbler-shaped paper guy, and you can like, cut each other into various shapes (circle, bowl, pointy object, etc) to fulfill whatever purpose is given. So, for example, if you need to get a ball through a hoop, the easiest way is to cut one of you into a bowl shape to catch the ball and then dunk it. To pop balloons, you need someone to be pointy. Etcetera. They require you to work together to solve it, and it's already made for some really fun puzzles. We beat the first world tonight and I can't wait for more!!
Tomorrow is gonna really blow, so busy with IEP and eval meetings after school and Tealie is gone again. Trying not to panic with suffocation. Only three weeks left until the end of the school year, and I'll have two more days off next week. I can do it. But it's sooo stressful. Ugh. This is why I need relaxy ideal days like today. They're so nice and fill up my soul. I'm really looking forward to summer with Steve, it's gonna be awesome.
11// Such a tired day
May. 14th, 2018 10:57 pmToday found us completely unprepared to be adults. I wasn't able to get out of bed until 7:05, which is completely terrible for me but the cuddles were TOO good to pass up.. so snuggly. I was also up in the night with heartburn, and I had a thousand random nothing dreams that could have been real life mundane situations. We STILL had no coffee and we also didn't have breakfasts or lunches prepared. Nice.
Got to work at 7:30 on the dot somehow, but of course I walked all the way up the hill to discover I left my key card in the car, so Ihad to go all the way back down. Gym time was kind of annoying, the boys were all amped up at each other. Thankfully Todd has been coming down because he's got that louder man voice and also the man size so he can intervene much better. When it's just two boys I will step in (lord knows how many times I restrained kids or made myself a physical obstacle during my first two years), but when it's a group of them, the feeling of being ineffective is overwhelming. I realized that I've had to break up so few fights this year that I feel out of practice, which is a good thing, but it's a really strange feeling. Last week I stepped inbetween a couple of boys in math and realized how WEIRD it felt to be positioning myself between kids. I'm happy that it's not part of my daily job now, but it also makes me feel like I'm not prepared/ready.
Tealie and I had the kids present their projects no matter how much they had done. It was really awkward for some of them, having basically nothing even after a week of work. This is the second week in a row where we've been strict with the guideline of no extra time, so hopefully by the end of the next project the kids will get it.
I just could not wait to get out of there. Unfortunately for me but awesome for Steve, he decided to go in to work today. He got his background check back this morning and decided he would put in his two weeks' notice in person, which meant I wouldn't see him when I stopped home. Booo! But happy for him. He now knows he'll start on June 4, and he'll have a week off between jobs which is awesome. Yay!
Nokomis was pretty uneventful, only Jeremy came down today (Leon was absent and the girls were in lesson), so it was pretty quiet. He didn't have a bunch of work to do and he really doesn't want me to help him with anything unless expressly asked, so on the math stuff I have for him he only let me read the word problems and talk him through those. The 2nd and first grade girls were fine, and the kindergarten boys were same as always (bickering, whiny). My principal came in to congratulate me again and say she was so happy for me, and that she's going to miss me and that if my circumstances change in the future to come back and work for her, which again is a high compliment from her. She told me my going-to-be principal was poached by ISD 622 and that they better have offered me what I'm worth (even though she KNOWS that contracts don't actually work like that haha).
I left as soon as I possibly could because I was so tired all day that I was dizzy and disoriented. I just really have not been sleeping well. I came home and took ibuprofen for a headache and flopped into bed with Nero. Then Steve, Nick and I went game shopping. It was a bust, but fun to walk around and talk. We chatted about Game of Thrones, and how Noah asked the meanest memory card question yet that I have ZERO answers to. Got Catrinas and went to play Pokemon Go.
After we got back, Nick played Uncharted 2, Steve played more Prince of Persia and I tooled around on the computer, looking up iPads and LJ icons. It was super relaxing. I really wanted to knit too but I think my fingers need a day or two off, they're pretty sore and achey.
Steve and I dropped Nick off around 9:45 and caught a couple more Pokemon. We stopped at Cub to FINALLY get coffee (and snacks for my math kids). We were in a really silly place, just goofing off and laughing. It's been really nice and fun with him, he's so damn funny and I've been in some goofy moods lately. Like just joking and teasing, and somehow Steve is ALWAYS in the car when my low gas warning comes on, which is always funny. He pumps my gas for me most of the time because he knows how much I appreciate it, and he thinks I time it on purpose to need gas when he's in the car but I swear I DON'T!!!!! Lmao. It never gets old.
Got to work at 7:30 on the dot somehow, but of course I walked all the way up the hill to discover I left my key card in the car, so Ihad to go all the way back down. Gym time was kind of annoying, the boys were all amped up at each other. Thankfully Todd has been coming down because he's got that louder man voice and also the man size so he can intervene much better. When it's just two boys I will step in (lord knows how many times I restrained kids or made myself a physical obstacle during my first two years), but when it's a group of them, the feeling of being ineffective is overwhelming. I realized that I've had to break up so few fights this year that I feel out of practice, which is a good thing, but it's a really strange feeling. Last week I stepped inbetween a couple of boys in math and realized how WEIRD it felt to be positioning myself between kids. I'm happy that it's not part of my daily job now, but it also makes me feel like I'm not prepared/ready.
Tealie and I had the kids present their projects no matter how much they had done. It was really awkward for some of them, having basically nothing even after a week of work. This is the second week in a row where we've been strict with the guideline of no extra time, so hopefully by the end of the next project the kids will get it.
I just could not wait to get out of there. Unfortunately for me but awesome for Steve, he decided to go in to work today. He got his background check back this morning and decided he would put in his two weeks' notice in person, which meant I wouldn't see him when I stopped home. Booo! But happy for him. He now knows he'll start on June 4, and he'll have a week off between jobs which is awesome. Yay!
Nokomis was pretty uneventful, only Jeremy came down today (Leon was absent and the girls were in lesson), so it was pretty quiet. He didn't have a bunch of work to do and he really doesn't want me to help him with anything unless expressly asked, so on the math stuff I have for him he only let me read the word problems and talk him through those. The 2nd and first grade girls were fine, and the kindergarten boys were same as always (bickering, whiny). My principal came in to congratulate me again and say she was so happy for me, and that she's going to miss me and that if my circumstances change in the future to come back and work for her, which again is a high compliment from her. She told me my going-to-be principal was poached by ISD 622 and that they better have offered me what I'm worth (even though she KNOWS that contracts don't actually work like that haha).
I left as soon as I possibly could because I was so tired all day that I was dizzy and disoriented. I just really have not been sleeping well. I came home and took ibuprofen for a headache and flopped into bed with Nero. Then Steve, Nick and I went game shopping. It was a bust, but fun to walk around and talk. We chatted about Game of Thrones, and how Noah asked the meanest memory card question yet that I have ZERO answers to. Got Catrinas and went to play Pokemon Go.
After we got back, Nick played Uncharted 2, Steve played more Prince of Persia and I tooled around on the computer, looking up iPads and LJ icons. It was super relaxing. I really wanted to knit too but I think my fingers need a day or two off, they're pretty sore and achey.
Steve and I dropped Nick off around 9:45 and caught a couple more Pokemon. We stopped at Cub to FINALLY get coffee (and snacks for my math kids). We were in a really silly place, just goofing off and laughing. It's been really nice and fun with him, he's so damn funny and I've been in some goofy moods lately. Like just joking and teasing, and somehow Steve is ALWAYS in the car when my low gas warning comes on, which is always funny. He pumps my gas for me most of the time because he knows how much I appreciate it, and he thinks I time it on purpose to need gas when he's in the car but I swear I DON'T!!!!! Lmao. It never gets old.
Today was the first Saturday of garage sale season, which for us means that Steve woke up early (for a weekend — it's still two hours later than we wake up for work). We meant to get up at 6:30 for coffee time, but we went to bed past midnight and I continue to suck at sleeping.
My tracker caught 2 times of me being awake. Usually my sleep tracker doesn't even recognize when I'm awake, because I don't move around enough. As I said, I usually find myself staring into the dark. You will note the 158 audio catches, which include snoring (from either of us), but are usually me tossing and turning. The light sleep is often me being awake. I've tried calibrating it multiple times to track my wakefulness, but the app just won't believe me when my heart rate isn't spiking. /rant
You'll note that I have a giant orange bar on the right. When Steve left, I decided to go back to sleep until 9, at which time I'd go to the farmer's market. Instead I laid there anxiously as Connie, Grandma, or Ronnie came in and out of the house 100 times as the garage sale got underway. I stubbornly stayed in bed anyway, desperate for more Z's, listening to Day9 play Hearthstone.
When that didn't work, I invited Haley out with me and went to pick her up. She was in a decent mood, updating me on the Derek situation and I updated her on the garage sale situation. She also described her horrible experience at the doctor about her possible fibroids or cysts, and I started to actually feel faint/dizzy/gray as my trauma reaction to anything in the cervix/uterus area spiked.
We got a parking spot a bit away but not terrible, and we wandered around the market. It's still too early for most of the produce, especially with such an extended winter and literally no spring, but the flowers were out, and that's what I was there for. We started at the front, which is comprised of vendors of various goods - clothing, jewelry, honey, meat, cheese, bread, sauces, tea, etc. I bought some sticky rice and veggies from my favorite Hmong food place (and they put out a new curry spice mix to go with their sweet potato noodles so I bought both), and Haley bought a lemon poppyseed muffin. She also bought a mug from our "Mug Lady" before we went back to the flowers.
This year I decided to go with a brights theme - orange, red, and yellow. I bought some Dahlia, Merigold, one other, and I bought some medium-sized white flowers as filler to mix it up. I hadn't cleaned out my garden at all yet this year so I wasn't sure how many perennials had come back, and I didn't want to buy too many. Haley and I spent a lot of time going back on forth on what was ugly and what wasn't. I also ended up, for the first time, buying a plant that goes in a hanging pot and should cascade out of it. When I asked the woman if it could be indoors, she got REALLY weird about it and stammered that they only raised plants to go outside. ...okay, that's what I was asking. Haley has a bunch of plants that go indoors in hanging pots. Her response had the tone of complete shock at the idea of an indoor plant, like my question was WAY out of left field. Steve has called me out a few times lately for being unnecessarily snappy to customer service people (I dispute one for sure) so I made a concerted effort not to react to her and just said thanks (in a not-bitchy tone) and said I'd put it outside.
After the farmer's market I dropped Haley off at home, got gas and a car wash (discovered that my driver window has several weak spots in the seal, lol), and bought a hanging container for the new plant as well as compost and potting soil from Menards. When I got home I had to quickly drop all the stuff off before driving Steve and myself over to Baker's Square for lunch with Steve's parents and grandpa. This is a bi-monthly thing, as Steve's grandpa is 90 and still living independently and his parents live 4 hours away. Before we got there Steve and I made our "Bingo cards" on what phrases or topics would be brought up at the lunch.
Steve's mom won the bingo game, though she doesn't know it. At the end, we were doing the Minnesota Goodbye aka standing outside of the doors of the restaurant, half blocking them, and continuing to talk while edging in the direction of our cars before coming back in for hugs, and Mama Aker started shotgunning phrases and topics at us, as if she remembered about it and needed to squeeze in as many phrases as possible. She ended with, "I haven't seen you in so long I was gonna ask if Steve got a new girlfriend!" and right at that second, a woman was walking toward the door. Mama Aker pointed at her and said, "You really should get that shirt!" The woman's shirt read, I didn't want to come. We both burst out laughing, knowing how fucking good she got me. It was amazing, I'm proud of that super sick burn. Shows me that Steve and Amy didn't get their humor from nowhere.
After that, Steve and I got Starbucks (he got his usual Americano and I got the new cold press with foam drink) and I took us to Half Price Books. I didn't find anything - I was looking for a specific sock knitting book - but Steve ended up with a couple cheap games.
We headed home and hung out outside while the garage sale wrapped up. I started weeding the garden: cleaning out the leaves, clipping the dead perennials and moving the old stuff out of the new growth, managing the ants with my cinammon spray, and ignoring my cousin Danny's awkward stares as much as possible. Steve sat nearby. They started packing up, and Danny and Ronnie (Danny's dad) started bickering about whatever, and I didn't see what happened but Ronnie is so damn unstable and as he tried to stalk up the driveway (at best he can manage a painful-looking lurch) he lost his balance and fell on his "good" side. It was extra embarrassing because grandma got all stressed and he couldn't stand easily and Danny just stared and there were people AT the garage sale still looking. It was sooo awkward. He was at least agreeable for a few minutes to sit down, but he almost fell at least two more times before they left. God! Just stop!!! Soon after that it started lightly raining for no reason so we had to bring everything in while my aunt and grandma muttered about mold... kayyyy. It let up soon enough so we could finish packing up the stuff and I could get back to the garden.
They got everything out of the garage to take to Ronnie's to try to sell there, which was surprising and a huge relief. Connie still has stuff in our guest room, but not nearly as much and she's promised to get it all out in the next couple weeks. So I finished the garden. It looks good, but I think will need a couple more flowers. Oh well, guess I have to go to the farmer's market again (yay!).
I got done planting with 10 minutes to spare before my tutoring lesson with Riria (she's been my student for almost 4 years). Lesson was good, but her connection wasn't great. We finished Charlotte's Web and I made the mistake of asking if she had an English book she wanted to read, and of COURSE she chose Hachiko, so I'll probably cry.
Nick and Scott came over, I ordered a pizza and Steve went to get it while I finally took pictures and posted my haul from Yarnover on Instagram and updated my Ravelry. Soooo excited. After that I came down here with the boys and started my newest project. I REALLY want to start like 2 different shawls and another pair of socks (and I have Steve's socks on the needles), but I was a responsible person and cast on for Mom's Mother's day gift: Curious Cats fingerless gloves. I'm already done with the cuff and am about to start the pattern. The wonders of worsted weight yarn and larger needles!!
During that time, Nick started Uncharted 2, Scott played something handheld, and Steve fell asleep (he had a big day!). We chatted about woodshop classes we took in school and other random things. Eventually Steve woke up from his nap, we all talked a bit more, and then it was P-gas time*. Steve and I had planned to go Ghost Hunting in Pokemon Go tonight, but we're both too beat. There will be other nights for spooky romance!
*P-Gas = poison gas. A method of kicking his friends out since the beginning of time, wherein at a certain point in the night the room fills with a toxic gas that forces everyone but us to evacuate. Steve has prevented so many tragic incidents from occurring by being vigilant all these years.
Hgghrngnnfnnn.
Feb. 22nd, 2011 03:05 amWow, it feels like forever since I've really been on the internet. And with that said, I'm only partially able to be on. As I've mentioned in the past, the work computers are woefully not updated, so I can't see half the things you guys are posting (such as tumblrs, pics, etc.). D: I'll have to catch up more tomorrow - normally it'd be fine but I'm not working with Isaac tonight so I'm in a different office with internet that is apparently incompatible with my laptop.
Soooo.... we got ANOTHER death snowstorm snowpocalypse. About 12 inches yesterday. AND IT WAS IN THE 50's LAST WEEK. For like a day, BUT! It was WARM, and melty, and great. And now it's like we're back in December. UGHHHH.
I wasn't able to go work yesterday then. Like, LITERALLY was not able to leave my driveway. Actually, I left my driveway, buuuut only about a foot. Then I was stuck. And Steve and I spent a half hour unsticking me so I could get back into the driveway. It just wasn't happening. So poor Chuehue had to stay a whole extra shift. That's the risk we run working in a stupid 24-hour facility or a place that houses people who need supervision. The plows didn't even come by until my shift was completely over. Jerks.
Steve had the whole weekend off, so it was really really nice otherwise. Mostly just attending to and monitoring Grim and playing games. On Saturday we went to my parents' house and had my nephew Cayden's 1st birthday party. It was low-key and fun (with plenty of inappropriate talk by my hilarious 16-year-old cousin - the last discussion I was a part of was when she asked if any of us women had hair in their butt cracks because she does. I told her to shave it.), but apparently every person at the party now has the stomach flu, with the exception of Steve and myself. FINGERS CROSSED!
We watched a good chunk of Scrubs this weekend and finished Gangland. I've slowly been working through Final Fantasy VI, leveling my Druid (almost to 69!), I got all "S" ranks in Elite Beat Agents, and now I'm gonna finally beat SoulSilver before I get White (pre-ordered awhile ago). All I needed to do was fight Lugia and beat the elite four. I caught Lugia. Now, onward! Omg it was so funny when I turned the game on and I didn't know what to do, so Steve talked to professor Elm and he said, "You need to see the kimono girls at the dance theater." And I was like, "Buuuut I already weeeeent there and no one was hooooome!" And he was like, "You should try again." So we both hovered over the screen and when the theater was empty (AGAIN), it was lolsville.
Currently I'm tired and irritable and am worried I'm starting to give into hypochondria. Sleep the past two nights has been awful for us. We just can't fall asleep! It's broken and lame. We're hoping tonight's the night that our bodies finally give in and let us sleeeeeep.
Soooo.... we got ANOTHER death snowstorm snowpocalypse. About 12 inches yesterday. AND IT WAS IN THE 50's LAST WEEK. For like a day, BUT! It was WARM, and melty, and great. And now it's like we're back in December. UGHHHH.
I wasn't able to go work yesterday then. Like, LITERALLY was not able to leave my driveway. Actually, I left my driveway, buuuut only about a foot. Then I was stuck. And Steve and I spent a half hour unsticking me so I could get back into the driveway. It just wasn't happening. So poor Chuehue had to stay a whole extra shift. That's the risk we run working in a stupid 24-hour facility or a place that houses people who need supervision. The plows didn't even come by until my shift was completely over. Jerks.
Steve had the whole weekend off, so it was really really nice otherwise. Mostly just attending to and monitoring Grim and playing games. On Saturday we went to my parents' house and had my nephew Cayden's 1st birthday party. It was low-key and fun (with plenty of inappropriate talk by my hilarious 16-year-old cousin - the last discussion I was a part of was when she asked if any of us women had hair in their butt cracks because she does. I told her to shave it.), but apparently every person at the party now has the stomach flu, with the exception of Steve and myself. FINGERS CROSSED!
We watched a good chunk of Scrubs this weekend and finished Gangland. I've slowly been working through Final Fantasy VI, leveling my Druid (almost to 69!), I got all "S" ranks in Elite Beat Agents, and now I'm gonna finally beat SoulSilver before I get White (pre-ordered awhile ago). All I needed to do was fight Lugia and beat the elite four. I caught Lugia. Now, onward! Omg it was so funny when I turned the game on and I didn't know what to do, so Steve talked to professor Elm and he said, "You need to see the kimono girls at the dance theater." And I was like, "Buuuut I already weeeeent there and no one was hooooome!" And he was like, "You should try again." So we both hovered over the screen and when the theater was empty (AGAIN), it was lolsville.
Currently I'm tired and irritable and am worried I'm starting to give into hypochondria. Sleep the past two nights has been awful for us. We just can't fall asleep! It's broken and lame. We're hoping tonight's the night that our bodies finally give in and let us sleeeeeep.
Hgghrngnnfnnn.
Feb. 22nd, 2011 03:05 amWow, it feels like forever since I've really been on the internet. And with that said, I'm only partially able to be on. As I've mentioned in the past, the work computers are woefully not updated, so I can't see half the things you guys are posting (such as tumblrs, pics, etc.). D: I'll have to catch up more tomorrow - normally it'd be fine but I'm not working with Isaac tonight so I'm in a different office with internet that is apparently incompatible with my laptop.
Soooo.... we got ANOTHER death snowstorm snowpocalypse. About 12 inches yesterday. AND IT WAS IN THE 50's LAST WEEK. For like a day, BUT! It was WARM, and melty, and great. And now it's like we're back in December. UGHHHH.
I wasn't able to go work yesterday then. Like, LITERALLY was not able to leave my driveway. Actually, I left my driveway, buuuut only about a foot. Then I was stuck. And Steve and I spent a half hour unsticking me so I could get back into the driveway. It just wasn't happening. So poor Chuehue had to stay a whole extra shift. That's the risk we run working in a stupid 24-hour facility or a place that houses people who need supervision. The plows didn't even come by until my shift was completely over. Jerks.
Steve had the whole weekend off, so it was really really nice otherwise. Mostly just attending to and monitoring Grim and playing games. On Saturday we went to my parents' house and had my nephew Cayden's 1st birthday party. It was low-key and fun (with plenty of inappropriate talk by my hilarious 16-year-old cousin - the last discussion I was a part of was when she asked if any of us women had hair in their butt cracks because she does. I told her to shave it.), but apparently every person at the party now has the stomach flu, with the exception of Steve and myself. FINGERS CROSSED!
We watched a good chunk of Scrubs this weekend and finished Gangland. I've slowly been working through Final Fantasy VI, leveling my Druid (almost to 69!), I got all "S" ranks in Elite Beat Agents, and now I'm gonna finally beat SoulSilver before I get White (pre-ordered awhile ago). All I needed to do was fight Lugia and beat the elite four. I caught Lugia. Now, onward! Omg it was so funny when I turned the game on and I didn't know what to do, so Steve talked to professor Elm and he said, "You need to see the kimono girls at the dance theater." And I was like, "Buuuut I already weeeeent there and no one was hooooome!" And he was like, "You should try again." So we both hovered over the screen and when the theater was empty (AGAIN), it was lolsville.
Currently I'm tired and irritable and am worried I'm starting to give into hypochondria. Sleep the past two nights has been awful for us. We just can't fall asleep! It's broken and lame. We're hoping tonight's the night that our bodies finally give in and let us sleeeeeep.
Soooo.... we got ANOTHER death snowstorm snowpocalypse. About 12 inches yesterday. AND IT WAS IN THE 50's LAST WEEK. For like a day, BUT! It was WARM, and melty, and great. And now it's like we're back in December. UGHHHH.
I wasn't able to go work yesterday then. Like, LITERALLY was not able to leave my driveway. Actually, I left my driveway, buuuut only about a foot. Then I was stuck. And Steve and I spent a half hour unsticking me so I could get back into the driveway. It just wasn't happening. So poor Chuehue had to stay a whole extra shift. That's the risk we run working in a stupid 24-hour facility or a place that houses people who need supervision. The plows didn't even come by until my shift was completely over. Jerks.
Steve had the whole weekend off, so it was really really nice otherwise. Mostly just attending to and monitoring Grim and playing games. On Saturday we went to my parents' house and had my nephew Cayden's 1st birthday party. It was low-key and fun (with plenty of inappropriate talk by my hilarious 16-year-old cousin - the last discussion I was a part of was when she asked if any of us women had hair in their butt cracks because she does. I told her to shave it.), but apparently every person at the party now has the stomach flu, with the exception of Steve and myself. FINGERS CROSSED!
We watched a good chunk of Scrubs this weekend and finished Gangland. I've slowly been working through Final Fantasy VI, leveling my Druid (almost to 69!), I got all "S" ranks in Elite Beat Agents, and now I'm gonna finally beat SoulSilver before I get White (pre-ordered awhile ago). All I needed to do was fight Lugia and beat the elite four. I caught Lugia. Now, onward! Omg it was so funny when I turned the game on and I didn't know what to do, so Steve talked to professor Elm and he said, "You need to see the kimono girls at the dance theater." And I was like, "Buuuut I already weeeeent there and no one was hooooome!" And he was like, "You should try again." So we both hovered over the screen and when the theater was empty (AGAIN), it was lolsville.
Currently I'm tired and irritable and am worried I'm starting to give into hypochondria. Sleep the past two nights has been awful for us. We just can't fall asleep! It's broken and lame. We're hoping tonight's the night that our bodies finally give in and let us sleeeeeep.
I am tiiiiired. TIRED TIRED TIRED. I got an okay amount of sleep yesterday, because I napped while Steve took my car for some bday shopping for me, and then let me be a bum and lay there while he played CoD. Then I went to class, and did my pointedly not listening to half of what the professor was saying because it was stupid and I was trying to sift through all her bullshit papers. And then because I was only half listening I had to go to the front as the only person who didn't use the previous half-hour to sign up for a presentation time. Which was much more funny than embarrassing because I always blush like mad, which makes Ana laugh, and make horrified faces at her, which makes her laugh harder. She completely shut down when she thought I had to go up to sign up for the pot luck too, but turns out THAT paper was being passed around (which earned her an even more exaggerated shocked look). Our class had about 10 people yesterday, and anyone who thinks a bigger class is more embarrassing to be in front of, I think you need to rethink the amount of space a small class gets, and because it's so small, it's more intimate in general. And therefore scarier. Oh and she's usually really cute and well-spoken, but when we were doing group work in a study area and were WHISPERING (the area is not a library or even recommended for quiet), this guy kept turning around to glare in our direction. While I would giggle at him every time he did that, Ana got miffed and muttered, "Yeah well he can lick me where I pee!!! *scowl*" Dawnielle was like, "...WHAT?! Where you PEE?!" "Well, it's better than where I poop!" Yes, she 25.
After class I came home and Steve and I took a walk around the horseshoe of the neighborhood because it was really nice out - it's gonna get real cold real soon, and we gotta cherish our warmer days now. Then we layed down for sleep. It would have been a delicious 4-5 hours of sleep, except I kept waking up in a panic thinking I was late for work, and Steve was having very active dreams which caused him to speak out in his sleep at least three times - one is my subject line, another was SINGING about some dream nonsense, and the other I can't remember because I was sleepy too. And I had some weird dream where his ex BFF Andy would hide in the neighborhood and take pictures of him when he was riding his bike XD wtf. I've never even met Andy. When I got up to shower I asked Steve if he wanted to come (we shower together nearly every day - it's one of the places where we can just chat and relax. The shower is not a fun place IRL to for real mess around in) and he said yeah, so I started the shower, got in... did my shampoo... did my conditioner... no Steve? So I hopped out and he was like half sitting up with his eyes half-open, looking confused. I asked him if he was coming and he popped up and walked dazedly to the bathroom. A few minutes later he told me he'd been dreaming that we weren't in the shower yet, but sitting next to each other to wake up, so when I was suddenly in the doorway, wet and wrapped in a towel, it was very surprising. :P Silly boy.
I am not motivated for anything but sleep right now! It's all I can think about omg. I already told Steve that I'm probs crashing when I get home until my meeting at 6. Steve doesn't work tonight so he fell back asleep when I left even though he said he didn't want to.
Oh! I finally get to get my hair done tomorrow. I'm meeting Mom and we're going together. After that Steve and I are going to Nick's sister Megan's for a get-together. Some drinking and rock band, although it'll be very low-key. Megan just invited people from Spoogie's wedding party (and me) to hang out since there wasn't really a fun reception or anything. I'm excited because Megan and Ross are super cool. It starts at 7 so I think it'll be over around midnight. Megan and Ross are parents, after all!
After class I came home and Steve and I took a walk around the horseshoe of the neighborhood because it was really nice out - it's gonna get real cold real soon, and we gotta cherish our warmer days now. Then we layed down for sleep. It would have been a delicious 4-5 hours of sleep, except I kept waking up in a panic thinking I was late for work, and Steve was having very active dreams which caused him to speak out in his sleep at least three times - one is my subject line, another was SINGING about some dream nonsense, and the other I can't remember because I was sleepy too. And I had some weird dream where his ex BFF Andy would hide in the neighborhood and take pictures of him when he was riding his bike XD wtf. I've never even met Andy. When I got up to shower I asked Steve if he wanted to come (we shower together nearly every day - it's one of the places where we can just chat and relax. The shower is not a fun place IRL to for real mess around in) and he said yeah, so I started the shower, got in... did my shampoo... did my conditioner... no Steve? So I hopped out and he was like half sitting up with his eyes half-open, looking confused. I asked him if he was coming and he popped up and walked dazedly to the bathroom. A few minutes later he told me he'd been dreaming that we weren't in the shower yet, but sitting next to each other to wake up, so when I was suddenly in the doorway, wet and wrapped in a towel, it was very surprising. :P Silly boy.
I am not motivated for anything but sleep right now! It's all I can think about omg. I already told Steve that I'm probs crashing when I get home until my meeting at 6. Steve doesn't work tonight so he fell back asleep when I left even though he said he didn't want to.
Oh! I finally get to get my hair done tomorrow. I'm meeting Mom and we're going together. After that Steve and I are going to Nick's sister Megan's for a get-together. Some drinking and rock band, although it'll be very low-key. Megan just invited people from Spoogie's wedding party (and me) to hang out since there wasn't really a fun reception or anything. I'm excited because Megan and Ross are super cool. It starts at 7 so I think it'll be over around midnight. Megan and Ross are parents, after all!
I am tiiiiired. TIRED TIRED TIRED. I got an okay amount of sleep yesterday, because I napped while Steve took my car for some bday shopping for me, and then let me be a bum and lay there while he played CoD. Then I went to class, and did my pointedly not listening to half of what the professor was saying because it was stupid and I was trying to sift through all her bullshit papers. And then because I was only half listening I had to go to the front as the only person who didn't use the previous half-hour to sign up for a presentation time. Which was much more funny than embarrassing because I always blush like mad, which makes Ana laugh, and make horrified faces at her, which makes her laugh harder. She completely shut down when she thought I had to go up to sign up for the pot luck too, but turns out THAT paper was being passed around (which earned her an even more exaggerated shocked look). Our class had about 10 people yesterday, and anyone who thinks a bigger class is more embarrassing to be in front of, I think you need to rethink the amount of space a small class gets, and because it's so small, it's more intimate in general. And therefore scarier. Oh and she's usually really cute and well-spoken, but when we were doing group work in a study area and were WHISPERING (the area is not a library or even recommended for quiet), this guy kept turning around to glare in our direction. While I would giggle at him every time he did that, Ana got miffed and muttered, "Yeah well he can lick me where I pee!!! *scowl*" Dawnielle was like, "...WHAT?! Where you PEE?!" "Well, it's better than where I poop!" Yes, she 25.
After class I came home and Steve and I took a walk around the horseshoe of the neighborhood because it was really nice out - it's gonna get real cold real soon, and we gotta cherish our warmer days now. Then we layed down for sleep. It would have been a delicious 4-5 hours of sleep, except I kept waking up in a panic thinking I was late for work, and Steve was having very active dreams which caused him to speak out in his sleep at least three times - one is my subject line, another was SINGING about some dream nonsense, and the other I can't remember because I was sleepy too. And I had some weird dream where his ex BFF Andy would hide in the neighborhood and take pictures of him when he was riding his bike XD wtf. I've never even met Andy. When I got up to shower I asked Steve if he wanted to come (we shower together nearly every day - it's one of the places where we can just chat and relax. The shower is not a fun place IRL to for real mess around in) and he said yeah, so I started the shower, got in... did my shampoo... did my conditioner... no Steve? So I hopped out and he was like half sitting up with his eyes half-open, looking confused. I asked him if he was coming and he popped up and walked dazedly to the bathroom. A few minutes later he told me he'd been dreaming that we weren't in the shower yet, but sitting next to each other to wake up, so when I was suddenly in the doorway, wet and wrapped in a towel, it was very surprising. :P Silly boy.
I am not motivated for anything but sleep right now! It's all I can think about omg. I already told Steve that I'm probs crashing when I get home until my meeting at 6. Steve doesn't work tonight so he fell back asleep when I left even though he said he didn't want to.
Oh! I finally get to get my hair done tomorrow. I'm meeting Mom and we're going together. After that Steve and I are going to Nick's sister Megan's for a get-together. Some drinking and rock band, although it'll be very low-key. Megan just invited people from Spoogie's wedding party (and me) to hang out since there wasn't really a fun reception or anything. I'm excited because Megan and Ross are super cool. It starts at 7 so I think it'll be over around midnight. Megan and Ross are parents, after all!
After class I came home and Steve and I took a walk around the horseshoe of the neighborhood because it was really nice out - it's gonna get real cold real soon, and we gotta cherish our warmer days now. Then we layed down for sleep. It would have been a delicious 4-5 hours of sleep, except I kept waking up in a panic thinking I was late for work, and Steve was having very active dreams which caused him to speak out in his sleep at least three times - one is my subject line, another was SINGING about some dream nonsense, and the other I can't remember because I was sleepy too. And I had some weird dream where his ex BFF Andy would hide in the neighborhood and take pictures of him when he was riding his bike XD wtf. I've never even met Andy. When I got up to shower I asked Steve if he wanted to come (we shower together nearly every day - it's one of the places where we can just chat and relax. The shower is not a fun place IRL to for real mess around in) and he said yeah, so I started the shower, got in... did my shampoo... did my conditioner... no Steve? So I hopped out and he was like half sitting up with his eyes half-open, looking confused. I asked him if he was coming and he popped up and walked dazedly to the bathroom. A few minutes later he told me he'd been dreaming that we weren't in the shower yet, but sitting next to each other to wake up, so when I was suddenly in the doorway, wet and wrapped in a towel, it was very surprising. :P Silly boy.
I am not motivated for anything but sleep right now! It's all I can think about omg. I already told Steve that I'm probs crashing when I get home until my meeting at 6. Steve doesn't work tonight so he fell back asleep when I left even though he said he didn't want to.
Oh! I finally get to get my hair done tomorrow. I'm meeting Mom and we're going together. After that Steve and I are going to Nick's sister Megan's for a get-together. Some drinking and rock band, although it'll be very low-key. Megan just invited people from Spoogie's wedding party (and me) to hang out since there wasn't really a fun reception or anything. I'm excited because Megan and Ross are super cool. It starts at 7 so I think it'll be over around midnight. Megan and Ross are parents, after all!
