This is the Turk, pwning the other team.





Many thanks to the strangers boss who gave us 7th row tickets for vday!

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Valentines weekend has started early at Lockwood drive! Bc both the stranger and I suck at waiting to give gifts, we went ahead and did part of valentines day.





How cool is this? It's from the 1930s and is actually a locket. You pull the wing into "flight mode" to open it. I love weird old things. And all I got him was a bunch of zombie books. Haha

Maybe this whole lovey dovey holiday won't be so terrible after all.

I hope you all have a great weekend!


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Gladys!!!




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i feel like all i talk about anymore is snow. i'm going to have to start sleeping in one of those seasonal depression light booths.

do you ever take a step back from your life and wonder how exactly it is you got there? believe me, i know this is a good place. a very good place. but is this what i pictured when i was a little girl? hell, was this what i pictured three years ago? or am i just over thinking things, like i do everything. bc i always feel like whatever i do isnt enough. but what if it is? what if it's more than enough? why am i asking so many damn questions??

this is one of those times i wish i could paint. bc then i'd paint something, and then take it to someone else and ask what it means.

i dont like that where my life physically will go in the next several years depends on what the stranger wants to do school/occupation wise. at the same time, its nice not to have to choose myself. as it stands right now, i think we will stay in morgantown at least one more year, so that the stranger can either finish his mba with some special emphasis that i dont understand and/or start law school here. after that year however, the sky is the limit, and it seems like the strangers sky is lexington. while i love the town and the friends and family i have there, we all know how well i really deep down deal with change. but the stranger isnt really happy here, and i can be happy anywhere (well, anywhere that isnt anywhere north of here. have i mentioned i hate snow?) so i'd go wherever he wants. its not the first time i've been willing to uproot for someone, but at least this time its worth something.

good things i have accomplished today: drinking the prescribed 103 ounces of water that i'm supposed to each day, not bite my nails, not taken a nap even though i wanted to. these are little things i guess, but soda, nail biting, and sleeping are all a stupidly embarrassingly large part of my life, part of keeping my stress in check. but i've been trying. now i take my aggression out on ice cubes and pistachios.

i'm in one of those moods where if i saw one of those commercials about homeless dogs i'd probably break down.

the sun will come out again. and we'll get warm and happy.

stay warm and happy everyone.

lovelove

oh monday.

so we now have a reception location. its the surf center at the beach. its ocean front, so we can get married 30 ft away from the reception. this is a good thing for my laziness. now that things make sense and i have a goal, it's all coming together so much easier. and i'm actually enjoying it.

and i've started on the spa stuff for laura's shower. so far we have lavender bath salts complete and packaged prettily. next comes honey almond and eucalyptus. and then we venture into the world of beeswax to make some lipbalm. sometimes i want to quit my job and make crafts all day. but then i remember how much i like shoes. shoooooes.

in good news, the stranger and i are finally healthy, after around what, three weeks of being sick?

also, the underwire of my bra is killing me. i want to invent something that reinforces the sides so you dont get stabbed to death. i'd make millions.

the family unit came to visit on saturday, which means it poured the rain. this is because (and this is a statistical fact) whenever my mother comes within a ten mile radius of motown, it starts to rain. maybe we should send her places that are facing a drought. at any rate, it was a good day overall. plus they took us to dinner which is always a win.

the stranger takes the LSAT on saturday, which i am sure means we are going out on the town saturday night. i think we're going to do something special for valentines day on sunday, even though it's not til monday. but. first vday together and all that sappy shit, gotta make a big to do about it all.

i'm trying to think if there is anything actually interesting going on around here. work is the same, my fish at work Gladys is not dead yet so thats always a plus. it's supposed to snow tonight, though thats no shock. the lady gaga concert is in 3 weeks and the tosh.0 show is in 4 weeks (yes, that does mean i get pburgh perogies twice!). and there is presidents day in there somewhere, which means princess gets a paid day to stay in her pjs and watch golden girls.

hope all is well wherever you are. lovelove!

I forgot that as much as I dislike sports, I get in this zone when I watch them in person. But of course, I want to watch dirty basketball. I want Huggs to get thrown out and I want Kilicli to throw some elbows in ppls faces.

This is why I could never play team sports and had to be a dancer instead.




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So we didn't get snowpocalypse 8.0 like was expected, but I think everyone else in the country did. This is me not sorry that it's pouring the rain. If it keeps this up we might be able to actually find our Christmas decorations and take them down!

I've noticed that I blog less since I started doing that Shuttercal photo of the day. Looking over the last month you can (or at least I can) recognize all my moods. It will be interesting to see at the end of the year what all I have photos of.

So after a stupid fight where we threatened to leave each other, the stranger and I have officially set a wedding date for august of 2012 at the beach. I think deciding that was the biggest pain in my ass. At least now I have something to work toward. And in the short term I have lauras shower to throw together, so there will be much crafting St this house in the coming months.

I'm going to a wvu bball game tomorrow. I haven't been to one since my senior year of high school. Some school spirit, huh?
But let's be honest. We are only going bc we got free tickets.

Today was my official one year anniversary at work. I got cake and it was delicious. Plus we got a 55gallon fishtank in our office today, and we each get to pick out a fish and name it. I'm thinking Ferdinand?

Hope everyone is staying warm out there in Internet land. Spring has to happen sometime... Right?

Lovelove

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