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June 30th, 2010

Good ideas…

I did take a nap. It was perhaps the best nap ever. Not because it was good quality sleep… but because I fell asleep SO fast. For some one who can lay in bed for hours with out falling sleep, it is a miracle that i can take a nap. It was probably a good thing too. B-man and I did go see the new Twilight movie this evening. I wouldn’t have gone, except that I had friends to go with. I’m not going to talk about it. I don’t think the poor writing deserves any more of my analysis, but that it was an entertaining movie. Don’t hate.

Big news. Literally. We harvested something from our garden today. After investing over $100, and plenty of time and water… well, we have one squash. It is a biggin though! About a foot long and definitly a couple inches wide. Much bigger than anything you would find in the stores right now. But it was just the one. I tried to pull up a potato… well, actually, I did pull up a potato, but it was not nearly as done as I was hoping for. I’m guessing my beats are done, and some of my carrots may be nice, and maybe like… two onions. Brandan set up the auto-water for me today though. Not because I am lazy, but because I don’t know how to set it up, and he’s leaving tomorrow.

We agreed to house sit for his sister in law. Which is all fine and dandy, but well… we haven’t spent one day apart since the night before we got married. Yeah… like almost a year ago. I think I’m in a good place, and I will be busy enough with school and finishing up my classes that I shouldn’t have TOO much down time, but ya know… it’s going to be annoying. I’ll have to wash my own dishes, and clean… and get my own drinks and popsicles. I am kind of lazy, but I hurt my back two weeks ago, and it really is a huge pain, physically, to stand up AND sit down. Thankfully my husband is the most kind and patient man in the world. I’ve been told that will change, but I’m praying it doesn’t. Any way, he is flying (gah! What? why did I agree to this? People die on planes!?) to Washington DC (what? people die there too! this is crazy talk!?!?!) and then he’ll be riding with my SIL down to their house. I on the other hand will be finishing up the last page of my paper, then going to classes. Yippee!!! Not.

I should go to sleep. But first:

I want to apologize for being a zombie. I haven’t been posting pictures, or writing coherent posts. Classes have me stressed out. Brandan leaving has me stressed out. Lack of sleep has me stressed out. So. Tonight I am going to go and snuggle my husband and hope for dreams that don’t involve vampires, or plane accidents, or… anything. Scratch that. I don’t want dreams.

just sleep.

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March 27th, 2010

Dragons and Skating

So yesterday, after all of my cultural events, B-man and I went out for a few social activities. First we went to the movies.
B-man had never seen old city Knoxville, so it was a nice little walk. We met up with a friend of mine from UT, and a bunch of his friends to see the movie “How to Train Your Dragon.” It was so cute and funny, I would highly recommend it.
Then it was time to drive to north Knoxville, where my friend Jamie was having a birthday party! To celebrate, Jamie invited people out to “Skatetown” so do a bit of roller skating, or roller blading. We went with the first choice.
I’ve done plenty of activities where you strip things to your feet and go. Roller skating, roller blading, ice skating, skiing, and snowboarding. So, I tied on the skates and got to orienting myself (it had been a while since I’d used roller skates, but the idea’s pretty much the same as skiing.).
B-man on the other hand, tied on his skates, then hugged the wall. I was torn between roller skating, and walking on wheels with my darling husband. I alternated.
Then, all of a sudden, these kids came out of nowhere!
There was one… then two…
Then he amassed this group of kids. His personal tutor being the girl right behind him. She said cute things like:
“You’ll never learn to skate if you’re hanging onto that wall!”
and

“Take the training wheels off, and get out here!”
Too cute.
Then this group really had big plans for him. Especially the girl on the right. After getting him off the wall she says “now let’s pick up the speed!”
Ha!

The evening was fun, and entertaining… until I fell while waiting on B-man, and I felt the pain shoot from my buttocks, all the way up to my neck. Then I decided it was time to stop. Funny enough, as we’re sitting taking our skates off, B-man says:

“I think I want to learn how to skate…”

Hmm… we’ll see how that works out.

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March 12th, 2010

The rest of the night…

So we did go out. But not before witnessing another “neighbor of the year” celebration. The people across the street like to have the firemen come out. Maybe they like the red flashy lights. Who knows. But apparently April 11 is a day worthy of fire works…
Sorry it’s not the best picture… but trust me. It was loud and obnoxious. Thankfully we were headed out for the evening and we missed the rest of the show.
First we headed to Olive Garden. I’ve heard so many people say “Olive Garden is my favorite restaurant.” Poop. lol, I guess I am just one to disagree on this. We paid over $30 for undercooked, greasy pasta. I do love the salad and bread sticks, but I have yet to experience a delicious meal from this restaurant.
I got the cheese stuffed pansotti and chicken (the new pyramid shaped pasta). The chicken was comparable to something I could buy at a cafateria, the sauce was completely separated, and the pasta had either sat out too long, or was not cooked, because it was a tad bit crunchy. And… the waitress spilled my drink every time she set it down. I know that’s not really food related. But it is annoying. Oh well. Brandan really likes going there, and I can’t complain too much if I don’t have to cook, OR do dishes… but I think I would rather cook. I don’t mind bad service, if the food is good. And if the food is just ok, but the service is great, I and good with that as well. But if both suck, I’m only going to tip 15% (coming from some one who usually tips a bit more).
Ok, enough of that soap box. I (still) don’t like Olive Garden.
After B-man’s Delicious dinner (he has lasagna… it was good) we went to Target to purchase our contraband.
I always like to have something to snack on at the movies, and it was a late movie! I went with the coca-cola gummies, and B-man got Reese’s candy. Go figure!
Here’s B-man gearing up to watch Alice in Wonderland.
I had heard quite a few people say that they did not care for the movie, I on the other hand thought it was a pretty good movie. The story is good, and it’s a different view of Alice in Wonderland – the cartoon version. It does have some tense parts in it, but it was not a scary movie, and there was only one part where I covered my eyes, but it turned out to be for naught. B-man, who was expecting a kiddo movie was pleasantly surprised, and said that he thoroughly enjoyed it. It is not as weird as some of Tim Burton’s other movies.
As we left Hannah Montana fans were lining up to see her newest movie. Oh boy.
Now it’s off to bed! Tomorrow I am going to go watch the middle schoolers give their presentations that they (and I) have been working so hard on! Yippee!

So tell me… do you like Olive Garden? What is your favorite restaurant of ALL TIME!?!?
I would also like to know, have you seen Alice in Wonderland? What did you think of it?

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February 20th, 2010

Journals…

I just watched Julie & Julia. It made me kind of sad, that he own idol didn’t even like her… was that true? Regardless, it made me think about blogging so I am in here again.

I only recently entered this “blogging” world. I have been blogging since July of 2004. I was looking through all 336 entries between July 2004, and July 2005. I did quite a bit of growing up. My husband only managed about 50 posts in his over a course of 2 years. It’s funny to look back. His first entry was while I was away in the Netherlands debating foreign policy… THIMUN! Awesome experience. But, I guess B-man was lonely, and I quote:
“Jessica’s gone on her MUN trip,
so the internet’s gotten lonelier.”
Awww…. he missed me 5 yeas ago! Over the course of my life I have posted (at least) 1157. That’s just adding up all of the blogs I’ve written in various journals. If I were to add the copious amounts of hand written musings I have recorded since the ride old age of seven…. I’m sure the number would sky rocket.
What’s the point? I am constantly begging my mom to keep a journal. I want to know about her dreams, her aspirations, her nightmares, he favorite color, her favorite foods, what she does when she’s bored, what she doesn’t do when she’s bored. I want to know everything. To be able to show my future children, “look, my Mother was an amazing woman.” And though I will do my best to remember stories of growing up, and what she’s told me of her own life, I will forget. On the flip-side, I write so much because I too want to be remembered. I want to influence some one. I want some one to know that my favorite food is Macaroni and Cheese (yes, Kraft. yes, I love it more than any fancy food I or you, or Julie Childs will ever cook.). I love it. I want some one to remember that I think my wedding was the best ever, and I would not ever change a thing about it. My comfort foods are wheat thins and bananas. I like jogging (gasp!). I love my husband. Like really love him. I don’t want to go to sleep at night because I know I will fall asleep in his arms and miss any where from 6 – 12 hours of our life together. I hate that thought. I’m scared of being alone. I’m scared of growing old. I’m scared that my dog will run away and never come home.
Who knew? I don’t think that a blog on the internet will be around forever, but my constant questioning in my aweful hand writing, jotted in my Vera Bradley (among others) journal will. Unless there is a fire. But, baring that event, hopefully one day my grandchildren (ah!) will be able to read about my growing up, and learning for my self, and feel connected to me in a way that kids and adults never can.
Maybe it’s just banter. Maybe there is something to this. Regardless, that movie made me realize… I need to become a better cook. I make chicken and rice curry tonight, but I forgot that the cumin doesn’t have a sprinkle lid, it just has an open top… so I accidently dumped a bunch in the pan. So we had chicken and ride cumin. Hmm… not as good. But, it tasted fine. I should do better.
I should be better.

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February 9th, 2010

I can't spell any of these words.

My list is long.

My list of things I would prefer to do is longer.
  • Tonight B-man and I watched “Memoirs of a Geisha.” It was a very interesting, albeit sad and kind of stressful, movie. I did not realize that Japan had such diverse culture during WWII even. The life of the Geisha, and the meaning and “rituals” behind it were very interesting. Though, is is based on the book… which was written by a man… who was definitely not a Geisha. So… take everything with a grain of salt. Especially things men say.
  • Today I turned in beautiful, honest work. We do these reading journals, and for the fist time I didn’t just do it for the sake of doing it. I really did my homework to learn and to ask questions. This is a new thing for me. There might be more of it.
  • Tomorrow I have a test, and a presentation. I’m not really sure what I am going to do. I will probably have to take my computer tomorrow so that I can work on it. But I know I will not be able to get a lot of work done just because I really need to pay attention in my class so that I can learn. That’s how I learn… the listening.

I wish I could write more, but my husband just pointed out that I have homework and sleep to catch up on. Boo. I was enjoying this blogging thing.

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September 16th, 2009

One month down, a bunch more to go!

So yesterday was our one month anniversary. I didn’t feel like cooking, and so we went to eat at the Texas Steakhouse. It was pretty good. Then we went back to the house and watched out Netflix, Baby Mama. I guess it didn’t get rave reviews, but I thought it was pretty funny.

School is definitely rolling now. I took my first quiz this week, and I got a 90% on it. I have two more, and I definitely need to study for them. I’m kind of frustrated because I ordered my books online, and I only have 3 of them right now. I definitely need the rest to get here ASAP. I guess two of them were sent to my parents’ home, so Mama is sending them to me now, and then the last two are coming from Great Britain… so they have quite the trip to make. If they don’t get here soon then I will be forced to go and buy them some where else. I should look and see if I can borrow them from the library. I guess I can do that after class this evening.

Other than school… life is great. Being married is so good for me – a person who hates to be around people, but hates to be alone. I know it probably bothers Brandan that I never want to go out and do anything, but I try to step out and have some fun. It’s hard. He spends all day at home, working, and wants to get out, and I spend all day out and about – and I just want to go home and stay there. We need to find the balance. Still working on it.

He is so good to me though, and I couldn’t have asked for a better man. Life, for the first time in… ever… is purely good, and I love it, and him.

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