Home

I am at home, as is Kelley and Chris. Nathan will be here Tuesday night and almost every definition of "home" for me will be met. We put together their room today and it still isn't convincing that this isn't just another visit. I hope this step is a good one for them. I think it will be. Anyway, it makes my sister more visitable. (: We have a lot of cleaning up to do here before my cousin's party. She got married last year at a small private wedding and is throwing a reception for the family at my parents' house.

I drove my mother's car some while I've been here and I actually had to readjust to an automatic. Very strange.

A smalller greener van, that is not a van at all.

Okay, so I'm not going to tell the meaty part of the story because it is not mine to tell, and everybody loves to see Nathan tell exciting stories. Nathan and I went to South Carolina to help a friend move and visit some other friends. After some deliberation, Kent decided to be spontanious and come with us. We suprised all of our SC friends wit the presence of Kent and a good time was had by all (when Kent wasn't too busy being sick). It was so great to see Katie ad Andy and it was the first time in a long time that we had all really gotten a chance to get some good visiting time in with them. Oh, and Adam was pretty cool too. (:

At some point of the trip all the guys except for Kent went to this RPG event and the girls and Kent did other stuff. At some point I had a bread bowl with vegetable soup. It was good even if there wasn't meat. I just really live the whole bread bowl concept. Oh, and Sean was wearing this cute dragon flamey diaper that he could take off at any given moment. It was so cute.

Anyway, eventually Katie and I were at their house with the Forester, Kent was at the hotel with the van and the boys were RPGing with the Echo. I asked Nathan to go pick up the van so he could bring me back to the hotel. So on the way home, Andy was by himself in the Echo and Nathan and Adam were in the van. Then it started pouring. Come to think of it, the lightning did give the night an eerie feeling. Katie and I get a phone call and the caller ID says that it's Nathan and this makes me happy. So I happily answer the phone and Nathan tells me that he had a wreck. Oh shit. Is everyone okay? Yes. Is the van okay? No. So I start trying to get directions to the crash site, and Katie does the smart thing and asks to talk to Andy. So now people who actually know the area are giving and recieving directions. We pack Sean up and get in the car and slowly start our way to the boys in the dark rain. Katie couldn't stop talking and I couldn't speak more than five words. We were both trying so hard to be calm, but when we finally got there I definately was out of my seatbelt and opening the door before the car was stopped. I closed the door again and chastized myself while I waited for Katie to park. I found Nathan in the rain and my first thought was how much he hates standing in the rain. He didn't seem to notice it. I gave him a big celeratory hug and he apologized about the van. I told him I didn't care, and that's when I saw it. At first, it didn't look that bad, just upside down, but upon closer inspection, it was a lot shorter. Then we went to the place where it all started. When we looked at the creek they almost fell into I wanted to vomit. There was at least a 10 foot drop into shallow mud and I don't think things would have turned out so well. then we went back to the van to start pulling stuff out of it. I had a flaslight and was peering into the van ans I noticed that a tree trunk was on the side of the van opposite me. You couldn't really see it unless you looked through the side and back window. Then I noticed the other sliding door was behind the tree. Nathan was the one who pointed out that that tree trunk was about a foot and a half from where Adam's head was during the accident. That earned more hugs for everyone. So we started searching for things worth keeping and hauling them to the Echo trunk. (We never found my glasses.) When I as bringingan armfull of stuff to the Echo I notice something hanging slightly out of the trunk. It was a pendant of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I asked and it didn't belong to Katie or Andy and nobody knew how it got in their trunk. They said I could keep it.

Geez this is long.

So we went back to their house and Katie found dry clothes for Nathan and I and Adam had to hang around in a towel until his clothed dried and we spent the rest of the trip very thankful and trying sucessfully to continue having fun. Dad offered to come get us (24 hours round trip) and rent a uhaul for Adam's stuff, but I got a hold of my family in Birmingham to see if they could come get us. (Adam will find another weekennd to move down) They were sweet enough not only for Rick to come pick us up, but they also gave us a car. It's a little green Tercel with great gas milage. So Nathan and I had to quickly learn t drive a standard. It really is a lot of fun. We both picked it up pretty quickly.

So yay for Kent surprise, yay for Katie and Andy time, yay for flamey dragon diapers, yay for loving and giving family, yay for little green cars, but most of all, yay for living Nathans and Adams.

for those of you who are interested...

okay, I doubt it, but this might fall under the too much info category. so just read cautiously... or something.

I broke my record!!!

Around the time I was origianlly supposed to ovulate this cycle I got sick, and then there was crazy finals stress. The strain on my body has apparently caused my body to stall ovulation and save it up for later. Anyway, I haven't had my period in 57 days. I'm not pregnant. I just had a second mucus patch about two weeks ago, so I should be starting any day now. Only there's no cramping, and I don't think I'm moody, so the end is nowhere in sight! What happens is you have your regular mucus patch and around the end of it you ovulate. (A mucus patch is when you secreet mucus from your cervix, and it shos up further south and provides a happy environment for sperm to live in.) But when it's really stressed sometimes, at the last moment, it decides not to ovulate and you have a second mucus patch later, pushing your whole cycle back and you ovulate then. I think that it might be possible that the events of this past month may have caused something that I've never seen recorded in any NFP literature I've seen! I'm on the lookout for a third mucus patch! Most of the finals madness happened while I was in my second mucus patch and it may have pushed it back further.

I have no reason to believe this has happened except that I see no sign of starting any time soon. I'll keep the oddly curious updated.

Just so you know, I think this is what caused a miscalculation on our wedding night.

Well, I did that.

I am officially DONE with school. (unless of course I get a masters and maybe a PsyD) But that doesn't matter now, because even if I do it won't be for another couple of YEARS. Do you know what that means? I will actually begin making memories that aren't fuzzily from my early early childhood, or from school, or from some break I had from school. Kick ass. How does it go? No more homework, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks? Yes.

So here's the results of my LAST semester. I got a B in that psych class that I was so concerned with. Now normally when I focus so much energy on one class, the rest don't do so well. Those rules didn't seem to apply to this semester- I got A's in everythin else. That brought my cumulative GPA from a 2.993-ish to a 3.089. YAY! So now I need a job. It won't have homework.

Kelley looks like she's going to be moving down by the end of the month. That is going to be sooo exciting. I cannot wait. We were thinking of going up to Seattle to help her pack, but I can't find the vouchers we were going to use, so that might not pan out. I'll still see her soon.

I WILL get to the rest of those memes, and I hope that youwill do mine, even though you are probably sick of them. I really wanted to play too when everybody else was doing them, but every time I thought about it there were several more pressing things that needed doing for finals week. So here's mine and I will get to yours soon.

:WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MY:
Personality:
Eyes:
Face:
Hair:
Body:
Clothes:
Voice:
Humor:
Choice of music:
Mannerisms:
Family:


1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. How have I affected you?
5. What do you think of me?
6. What's the fondest memory you have of me?
7. How long do you think we will be friends?
8. Do you love me?
9. Do you have a crush on me?
10. Do you know people who do?
11. Would you kiss me?
12. Would you hug me?
13. Would you do anything else to me?
14. Physically, what stands out?
15. Emotionally, what stands out?
16. Do you wish I was cooler?
17. On a scale of 1-10, how hot am I?
18. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
19. Am I loveable?
20. Describe me in one word.
21. What was your first impression?
22. Do you still think that way about me now?
23. What do you think my weakness is?
24. Do you think I'll get married?
25. What makes me happy?
26. What makes me sad?
27. What reminds you of me?
28. If you could give me anything what would it be?
29. How well do you know me?
30. When's the last time you saw me?
31. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
32. Ever held a grudge against me but never told me?
33. Do you think I could kill someone?
34. Do you think I already have?
35. Would you ever have sex with me?
36. Are you going to post this and see what I say about you?