So, I should definitely be sleeping and not writing, but I figured it was about time for another update. One a month, apparently. Again there are things I could say, but too many of the wrong people read this and I’ve kind of lost my nerve for putting everything out for public perusal. Right. So life between the last post and now.
We’ve been settling in well, or at least I have. Not so sure about Miranda. She’s been spending huge amounts of time with her parents–she hasn’t been here since Friday afternoon except just for a few minutes because she’s been at their house. I think she’s liking it here though, her mom’s the one having so much trouble letting her go. We went to do a bit of mobility a couple weeks ago and she was so nervous, she kept being like, ‘I really don’t know how you’re going to do this … this is so hard … it’s so busy’. Lol. But anyway, it feels like home now, I’m supposed to house-sit for my parents while they’re on vacation, starting Thursday, and I actually think I’ll miss it. We still haven’t started our cooking adventure because everyone’s been too busy and we’d burn the entire place down if we tried it on our own, but I’m still bothering my mom about it and being generally annoying so hopefully it’ll come soon, we’ll see.
I had to go and be fitted for a dress for my sister’s wedding, that was annoying. It only took five minutes or so (size 2, if you’re intrested), but dresses are so uncomfortable to me and this one … has no straps or anything. Ugh. Plus it’s all long and traily and I’m afraid I’ll step on it or something, I’m sure I will. And I have to walk down the aisle with some guy I’ve never even met (that makes it sound like I’m in an arranged marriage) so yeah, awkward. I’m not a fan. But, I got to pick out all the music … well, I got a bunch of songs together and then my sister picked the ones she wanted. Jack Johnson and The Beatles and MRAZZZ (not one of his better songs, but oh well), others I can’t remember right now. And she wants me to find her a ‘jazzy’ version of the wedding march, which I haven’t had much luck with so far but I’m amused by the request. She wants it to be ‘fun’. Haha. She’s like, anti-tradition in all things, it kind of annoys my mom. Which is probably a lot of the reason why she’s doing it. And while we were there for my dress, my mom bought this cake topper that’s just a B, for Brown, and it cost $50. That’s ridiculous. I died a little.
Umm. I’ve been doing a lot of socializing, way too much if you ask me. Which no one has, lol. Miranda and I went to the movies with Whitney and Robbie (from Bible study), we saw “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian”. It was adorable. And then we went to Braums and Robbie was super amazed that we could put straws in cups by ourselves and that I could text. We also went to the water park, Miranda and her mom and I, but I never went fully in the water because it was completely freezing and I’m lame. We floated around on the Lazy River for ages and listened to mostly decent music and bumped into lots of people, and also swam around in the shallow part of the pool with all these kids around us. They kept screaming really loudly right behind us and it was scary lol. And we had a conversation about how it would be nice to have kids of our own and introduce them to Disney and buy them Flinstone vitamins (I want to know if they still have those), and teach them things and save them from the horrors of Sponge-Bob and Fairly Odd Parents. That conversation was more than scary, it was terrifying. And ridiculous, because Miranda’s depressed by the thought of marriage and I’m horrified by the thought of kids. Umm umm. Chelsea came to our apartment the week before last and that was amusing times, she played Hide and Seek with Miranda and was very unfair, sitting out in the open and winning anyway because Miranda couldn’t see her. Haha. So finally I led Miranda to her because she was just wandering around and around looking in random places like the little space where our washer and dryer are. Chelsea couldn’t even fit there. I also got recordings of Chelsea even though she kept trying to press buttons to stop it, I have her laughing (which is definitely worth recording) and singing and then totally boring parts of us just talking an sounding dead and blah because we were tired. And I’ve been going to Bible study and Wednesday night church and today we went to visit my stepdad’s parents whom I love so much, which was a good visit even though I didn’t see enough of my grandpa John, and then we went to IHOP because it was Father’s Day. I had French toast and scrambled eggs and bacon, and I feel hungry again now. Ridiculous.
Sooooo yeah, I’m exhausted. It’s been a really fun month in its way, when you don’t factor in all the horrible shattering stuff I’m not putting here, but being around so many people so often is draining to me. This weekend was my recharging time, I spent most of it reading Joe Hill, which, although it’s not really scary, made me feel very jumpy and in need of company at about midnight on Friday. Lol I’m ridiculous. I also watched “High School Musical” and “High School Musical 2″ last night and they were both horrible, none of those kids can sing very well. But I watched it all anyway, so I’m pretty sure someone should send me a life, ASAP. My stepdad saw this toolbox at Low’s that he’s been salivating over ever since, it’s got speakers and a stereo and refrigerator attached. How stupid is that, haha. My sister asked him what he would even do with it and he said he would show everyone how he has a toolbox with a stereo and fridge. So lame. But it was insanely expensive and they’re doing a lot of house remodeling and taking their vacation, so fail for him. Anyway this has been quite the month for finding out real friends / throwing away not-meant-to-last ones (I don’t call them fake because I think they were real in their time, just not anymore), so I love you all, really. Also I’ve been so bored and frustrated with life, I don’t know exactly why but I really just feel like I should be doing something I’m not doing. I think possibly I can find it, whatever it is, with Eric and this lovely group of people, I guess we’ll see. It’s driving me crazy.
I hate these posts that are just like, ‘this is what I did today, and this is what I ate, and this is what I wore …’ but really, that’s all I can write right now. I’m so tired. I’ve been staying up too late for no real reason and then sleeping the mornings away, I don’t like it. Mornings are the best time to be awake, and breakfast is amazing. My parents made Father’s Day plans this weekend and then canceled them all at the last minute, so I missed out on river canoeing and the very first Lifechurch day, but hopefully there will be more of both very soon, and also the previously mentioned house-sitting and whatever’s up for the Fourth of July. Parents will still be gone so I’ll probably be with Miranda and her family with grilling and fireworks. Busy times. I swear I intend to update this thing more often, but I update LJ all the time and it just seems like so much now, even though here I write about my day to day life and there I don’t. Sleep now. Next update whenever, probably next month or something.
