Triple 7's, today. Even waking up, today, I felt better because of that.
Anything compared to yesterday might be good, though. It was just long, and sad, and not at all what I had planned for the day: babysitting longer than the 3 hours I was supposed to without knowing she was going to be late, missing lunch with Cliff in Cool Springs before he was off to Cleveland for the weekend, and finding out about John's dad passing away. Things took an even greater turn when I talked to John and realized there just are no words to express sympathy for such a great and unexpected loss. Regrettably, they'll be missing our wedding because they had to schedule his memorial for the same day, which means he won't be reading scripture for us. And I can't help but think that I might occasionally think about his family on the big day and feel sadness that something so sad is happening on such a happy day.
I think Cearra's mostly enjoying her time around here. It's hard, with such a length of time and not a ton of things to do. I'm trying to think of a million things for us to do, and when I come up short and take her over to a friends house for dinner and conversation on a Friday night she complains that we're just "going going going" all the time and out of the same mouth she'll mention she's bored. But whatever. I think she enjoyed her birthday, which is mostly what matters to me - birthday breakfast danish courtesy of her dad and Jodi that was mailed to us in a package, a few hours at the pool, shopping at Old Navy (also courtesty of Bob and Jodi), a dinner of her favorite foods specially prepared by me, a showing of "Ratatouille" (which I LOVED), and capping the evening off with Maggie Moo's.
We just finished hanging out with Nat at the pool and are getting geared up for my big night which I am very excited about (although I'm still questioning my decision to make things doubly awkward with my seventeen year-old sister being in attendance). I can tell a ton of things make her feel awkward, just the age gap between myself and my friends and her. So I don't know why, but I think she's convinced tonight is going to be "wild and crazy," which I guess I've got to have some perspective and realize it may be for someone her age. But really, I'm just excited to hang out with some great friends tonight who have all sorts of fun things up their sleeves to help me celebrate these closing times (and stock up for, well, you know).
Here's to two weeks and counting!
2 comments:
how can i e-mail you these days?
we need to go hang out with mal again, you and me. because if you remember, i told you she had a special activity for your party.. but since there were so many people she didn't know, i didn't make her follow through.
it's lap dancing. she knows how to lap dance.
you should definitely know how to lap dance in less than two weeks. ahahaha!
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