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Whatever Pre-school Flula works for, that is where Woody and I will send our future children.

Rusty

When I said that my relationship with Woody was the most serious I have ever been in, I wasn't kidding.

We adopted a dog on Wednesday. His name is Rusty (now... It was Doumar.) anyway we love him to pieces and he is a sweet, playful little Scottie mix.

I love my two boys more than I can express in words - and we are one happy little family.

Soundworks

You guys, my dad is totally famous. They rocked this show last night!

St Patrick

I jumped Patrick for the first time yesterday! It was awesome, he was perfect. I am so thrilled. Here he is with one of the barn kids. Photo credit to Miss Elizabeth Brennan! She took this for me and sent it to me in a text today.

I can just see him in 10 years carting my kids around in leadline :)

Detective Fact

I figure out who the bad guy is on the Law & Order shows 100% of the time.

This is my claim to fame and makes me believe that I would make an excellent real life, crime-solving detective.

the best day

I am really just updating this blog to put it on record that today was one of the very best days of my life. It's not that anything specific happened, really, but from the moment I woke up, everything just went, well... perfectly.

Love from my man and a cheeseburger for lunch, free hot chocolate given out on campus on a cold day, and my classes went well.
Made a wish at 11:11 on 11/11/11
The best Pop Culture lecture we've had all semester - and there have been a lot of good ones - but this one on advertising topped them all. It was fantastic, and hilarious.
Called my boyfriend after class to let him know that I was thinking of him.
5 minutes later ran into him unexpectedly on campus and it completely made my afternoon because I wasn't expecting to see him again for awhile - he drove me to my car and we talked for a few minutes before he had to go in for work.
I got a kiss goodbye and then didn't run into traffic on my way to Richmond
Snuggles from my doggies

And now I'm waiting for W to get off of work and come to Richmond for the night, watching SVU on Netflix, all cozy in bed and happy.

I wish every day could be like this.  <3

House Arrest

You know, I was staring at my blog earlier this morning and wishing I had something interesting to write about, and I have to say that will be the last time those words ever cross my brain. Be careful what you wish for, and all that.

I let Woody take my car to campus today, mostly so there would be more sleep this morning, but my car has a parking decal and his doesn't so it made sense for him to take it when he wasn't going to ride his bike. So I gave him the keys to my car and kissed him goodbye and wished him good luck on his test and then rolled over and went back to sleep.

Cut scene... couple hours later... I've eaten lunch and noticed a few things:
1. The trash is full
2. I am almost out of diet soda
3. Mac and cheese is the greatest lunch of all time (OF ALL TIME)

Anyway, I decided to take the trash out because I make an excellent little housewife. I went to the door to get my keys - wait, not there. Hmm. You see, I live an old house which locks and unlocks from the inside only with the use of a key. And I had given my keys to boyfriend so that he didn't have to bike to school this morning. Then I remembered that W had left me his keys today in case I needed to drive anywhere. Most excellent, I thought, crisis averted! I grabbed his keys and realized he had left me JUST the keys to his car, and none of his other keys which does make sense I guess, since I don't really need the keys to his place or anything - but it was another escape route I didn't have. I frantically checked all of the doors - all of which require a key to lock and unlock from inside - all of which are locked.

You guys, I am LOCKED IN.

I realize that I have one final option: I could climb through a window and hunt down the last key which is hidden outside somewhere. For use in case of emergency. This totally and completely qualifies as a case of emergency, you know. I talk myself down from this option because the windows in this house are really hard to open and also, I don't want to frighten the neighbors.

Recap:
My key: with Woody
Spare key #1: with Woody
Spare key #2: Outside where I can't get to it


I sent him a text message informing him of this situation, he calls me not 10 minutes later (he should be in class, you know) and was like, "How is your house?" and after I laugh and tell him it is excellent he offers to come set me free. Glad to know that humor comes first on his priority list, because it certainly does on mine, and he makes me laugh more than anyone I've ever known.

So here I am, stuck in the house with a full trash can and several hours until my knight in shining armor rides home to my rescue. I wish I could end this story with, "and then I checked the door and it was never locked in the first place and I was free at last from house arrest," but sadly that just isn't the case. Not every story gets to have a happy ending, you know.

Kitchen

Woody and I started working on the kitchen this weekend. I have the most fun doing projects around the house with him- I think because it makes me feel domestic, and grown up, and we bond over it.

We started going through the cabinets and getting rid of old food. Things that had expired in 2005, you know. We found a jar of pickles from 1983. I'm not kidding, it was disgusting. We go rid of all of this old stuff and then laid on the kitchen floor together before we made dinner. We aren't nearly finished yet- not even halfway- but it is a lot of progress.

Life is excellent.

Bed observation

If I can comfortably share my twin bed with a 6'4" man, you would think that a double bed would be enough space for me and the 20 pound cockapoo to take a nap, but you would be wrong.

Magic Words

So W had a debate this morning in one of his classes and had to defend marketing towards children. He has been preparing for this for awhile now and I asked him to text me when it was over to let me know how it went - I have been up today "working on a paper" (Those are air quotes.)

Well fine, those are just regular quotes, but I made air quotes when I typed that.

My point is, I share personal conversations on my blog when they amuse me.

W: Debate went well! We successfully paved a way for companies to brainwash children! Yay!
L: Yay! I'm so proud of you and our future children would like you to bring home that toy from tv that all the other hypothetical kids have
W: Umm... They will not know what a tv is.... Just sit them on a pony


Um, guys? Yeah. . . 

<3

Boring Post

 Because we are adorable, mostly.

I have a paper due this week and I really am struggling with it - have been all semester. Due Thursday at midnight.

I attempted to get work done on it today but instead ended up studying for a test that I have tomorrow in Pop Culture for like 3 hours - so at least I was productive. But Thursday is going to be a REALLY long day. Chances of me getting much more work done before then are not great, to be honest. Maybe a little bit tomorrow night on this paper - at least I have some sources since he made us find them first?

Oh, and regarding Pop Culture - best class ever. On this test material includes: comic books and super heroes, the Beatles, Elvis, and I Love Lucy. It's okay- I know you're jealous. Also my paper on baseball for this class needs to be started - there are like 5 weeks left in this semester and they are going to be rough rough rough.

Other things I accomplished today: researching pug rescues in the area (there are none) and taking an accidental, 3.5 hour nap. It was glorious but I was really happy to have been accomplishing something with my time other than sleeping so I guess that is bittersweet.