Monday, July 23, 2012

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”


— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

good news/bad news

good news.
i get married in 45 days! (anyone sick of this countdown yet? be sure to not let me know)


bad news.
i get married in 45 days. it's seeming more and more likely the wedding won't be so much...planned in time.


good news.
cinnamon life was on mega sale yesterday.


bad news.
i only bought two boxes.


good news.
got to spend the weekend in boise with the sweetens. i just love them. and their beagle. and their unborn child.


bad news.
we can't move to boise for several years. (brian would have already packed up and left if it was at all feasible)


good news.
i sometimes think i finally "get" my job


bad news.
having my boss give me a looooong explanation about a task. and then having to tell him that i had stopped listening halfway through.


good news.
spending time with a happy married couple made me happy.


bad news.
pretty much everyone at work (and any random who finds out i'm engaged) feels the need to tell me how terrible marriage is. it's kiiiind of a huge bummer. i'm going to have an awesome marriage just out of spite.


bad news.
i've typed 'news' so many times it has stopped looking like a word.



Tuesday, July 3, 2012

confession.

i had a lot of alone time this weekend. brian had band practice and other plans for both saturday and sunday afternoons. two of my roommates were in california. and my third and newest roommate worked what seems like a bajillion hours. (her cat, however, did take up residence under my bed for the duration of the weekend)

so it was just me and oskar. and he mostly ditched me to sleep in the saucer chair or chase eat bugs.

so what did i do with all this free time? i scrubbed the kitchen counters. folded some week old laundry. finished my book. organized my fridge shelf and my bathroom shelf. (it will be so strange when an entire fridge is mine to organize, not just half a shelf.)

i also got pretty excited to watch whatever i wanted on tv.

this is actually a bad thing. because then i watch four consecutive episodes of four weddings. (these have given me exactly zero pointers on throwing my own wedding. except that people will really complain if they get attacked by ants during the ceremony)

or i watch dear john, because it was on tv, and i've never seen it, and there wasn't anything else on, and it was too hot to go outside, and hey, channing tatum was cool for a while.

or i start watching bunheads because gilmore girls is my heart song and i've missed amy sherman palladino, and i enjoy being ridiculed.

what i'm saying is, someone needs to monitor my free time more closely. oskar is doing a terrible job. (he watched all of dear john with me)