somethings that got me down today

are the following:

1. I went to return something at a store & a teenage girl was excitedly talking to a friend on her phone about finding colored jeans with zippers at the ankle.
   
2. This reminded me of running in above mentioned jeans in elementary school gym while our teacher played one of these 3 songs: La Bamba, Achy Breaky Heart, & the one by the Beach Boys that says, "Hey baby why don't we go..." & then lists a bunch of islands. Seriously, that was it. It must have been a very short mixed tape made by her one true love & she played it all the time. No wonder I hate running.
   
3. At the same store another girl was wearing IN PUBLIC the same pajamas I just bought only with rocket ships on them. IN PUBLIC & with imitation Uggs!  Do I even need to reassure you that I have officially graduated from said store & will not be shopping there again?
4. I saw a woman buy 2 tallboys for herself & a hot cocoa for her 5? 6? 7? year-old daughter  at a 7-11 & then proceed to light up a cigarette & begin screaming into a cell phone before getting in to a car with her daughter.

Perhaps I'm being too judgmental or perhaps I'm running with the wrong crowd but these things made me think, "What is the world coming too?"

Hoping, hoping that it will be coming to something AWESOME with tomorrow's election. Which leads me to the last & final thing that got me down.

5. I realized that instead of obsessively watching the election results come in tomorrow (preferably surrounded by friends, likeminded & otherwise at a local watering hole since we do not have a television with a connection to, well, TV) I'm supposed to be in a class that is only loosely related to what I am doing with my life, that I am attending under duress anyway, & for which there is no credit at the end. 

MORAL DILEMMA! I really, really want to skip.  I'l probably refer this decision to Rebs, my own personal, Jimminy Cricket.

But my vote will be my own.

throwback

to schooldays.  My BBF & I would write our notes to each other in a thin Crayola marker in a color that represented the boy we currently had a crush on, because, let's face it that was mostly what the notes were about. 

Today I wrote my to-do list in this color which was the color for a boy I had a crush on in 11th grade. We meet at a coffeehouse we spent every Friday night at. We never actually dated. Unrequited, you know.

I could go for some coffee now. My office is COLD!

ok, the truth is

i've wanted to blog for a while but the true catalyst for this is that Rebs & I have a major desicion to make.  

HUGE. 

ENORMOUS. 

But I still don't know if I'm ready to hash it all out yet. Even though it is ALWAYS ON MY MIND.  So for now can I just say we're considering joining another volunteer program.

A volunteer program that would require us to leave behind nearly all of our possessions, travel across the country, live in a very simple & communal way on a farm, & work harder than we ever have in our entire lives ever for an undetermined amount of time.

Seriously.

I am not making this up nor am I exaggerating.

But like I said I'm just not ready to hash this all out yet. So for now let me say we are discerning Farmyland. (Farmyland because I don't want to get too specific yet.) And in discerning Farmyland we could use your prayers. Lots of them.

More hashing to come. Lots more.

saturday night fun

We found a Magic Love Reminder.  What is a Magic Love Reminder you ask? I'll tell you, they are scattered all over our abode by the lovely & thoughtful Arbusto who was kind enough to housesit for us whilst we traipsed through Thailand.  A Magic Love Reminder is a fun & loving activity to be completed by Rebs & I & then documented ( I won't say scrap-booked because I don't wanna scrap book).

Anyway, this MLR had us play a game of Jenga & tell each other one reason we are glad we are married for each block we pulled.  Some highlights:

We are glad we got married because...

• We will always & forever be known as the ------. (In the interest of staying anon I'm not going to finish this sentence.
  
• We are figuring out what our life will be like/include together.
  
• We are becoming better people by having to admit we're wrong sometimes & apologizing & being humble.
  
• We are learning new things from each other like cooking & hanging pictures & crating teambuilding boxes.*
  
• We get to sleep together. :)
  
• We get to plan & take many, many more vacation together.
  
• We learning more about love & how to love & how God must love us.
  
• We feel pride in saying, "That's my wife/husband."
  
• We get to wake up together.
  
• We get to come home to each other.
  

There were more but that's all I can think of right now.

We also added wine & eating the pumpkin seeds I had roasted after carving my pumpkins 1 day late to the mix.  Wine + Jenga = a tricky business. Of course, since I have a lower tolerance (ie. 1/2 a glass) I knocked over the tower.  It was bound to happen if wasn't the wine it would have been the cockiness...

*More on that later.

since you asked

Well, not really but I know you were thinking it. Rebs dressed up as a mug shot with a Mugs Root Beer hat & a t-shirt with a bullet hole in it. 

Total time spent making costume: 10 minutes, tops.

Number of times costume needed explaining: Many.

I went as a Geek Goddess. A traditional toga-type costume with dorky acessories, including pocket protector. Total time spent making costume: 1 hour- 1 hour 1/2.

Number of times costume needed explaining: Many.

Why bother?

last night

was Halloween.  Having gone to our costume party last Saturday, Rebs & I celebrated by staying home & handing out candy to all of the 6 kids that came to our door. Because we live on the second floor of the apartment building I'm guessing kids couldn't see  our sign that said, "Trick or Treaters welcome." Now I'm thinking of all the things we could have done to make it a bit more welcoming but it's a bit too late.

We also watched The Blob: very funny & surprisingly gory. I would have thought the blob would have just covered it's victims & that would be it but NO. The blob is acidic & people dissolve while being blobbed. So, so gross. But the bad acting, bad hair, & lose plot kept me in the game.

I made chocolate chip muffins but all the chips sunk to the bottom. I've never eaten a chocolate chip muffin like that so what's the secret to keeping the chips afloat? I must know... 

it's raining!

Here in California! Yay! It is beautiful! Perfect sleeping in weather which is what Rebs is doing right now. Although it does put a bit of a damper on our plans to ride our bikes to the farmer's market. Oh well, plenty of other fun things to do on a rainy day!

Like blog.

i'm a bit of an addict

to comics strips.  This is one of my favorite ones. I'd put an example in here but I'm a bit worried about copyright laws.  Wait, it's not like I'm saying I wrote it right? Good point.  Here it is:

best junkmail ever

A few weeks ago I lost my favorite pen. Although it was a freebie from a funeral home & I'm not sure how I ever got it since I've never been to that funeral home it was a pretty blue & fit into my paw perfectly.

Today a fundraising company sent me a freebie of their product. A pen that is an even prettier blue WITH MY NAME lasered onto it. Maybe I won't lose this sucker.

YAY! 

It's the little things,  people.

Also, the ministry will not be selling or purchasing any pens anytime soon so my keeping the freebie is not a bribe.

i want

this man to be president so badly I can hardly breathe.

And I want all his rhetoric to come true.

Is that too much to ask? 

Let's break now for a song lyric that applies to my life:

Be careful with me. I'm sensitive & I want to stay that way.

I missed the infomercial, workin' you know, but what did you think?