What’s your idea of the perfect proposal?
Brought to you by Leap Year. In theaters January 8th.I never dreamed of the way it would happen, I never thought too much about it. I guess it's one of those things where you just think less about it so that when it happens you'll be all the more surprised. To be honest, I don't expect much and it takes very little to make me happy. So- the way it happened for me - the simple sweetness of the way Bobby proposed to me and way it was so unexpected - that was perfect.
Speaking of Leap Year, I really like Amy Adams for some reason. Out of utter boredom and nothing else to watch on the treadmill, I watched Julie & Julia and decided I like her. I still haven't even seen New Moon. I haven't wanted to put him through that - haha.
BUT IN MY DEFENCE I HAVE BEEN BUSY
I know its almost been three months since I last posted and all, but lots of things have been going on.
I'm still pregnant, 29 weeks 5 days, and we found out that I am expecting another boy! I'm quite pleased to be honest. I know I said I wanted a girl but when the ultrasound tech said it was another little boy I cried, happy cried, not sad cried. I dont think you can really be upset either way, babies are awesome no matter what.
We have decided on a name, we thought Callum was an unusual name but this name I've only ever heard once, I went to school with a girl whose younger brother had this name. I dont particularly remember the kid, I dont remember if he was nice or a little turd kid (he probably was just going off his uber bitch of a sister) but they say you shouldnt let other people with the same name influence the way you pick a name, they say (they being the baby name book people) if you like the name *richard* and you know a real jerk named richard then you can still name your child richard cause that richard is a jerk but your richard probably wont be.... But anyways I digress, the name we picked for the new baby is Corban.
It took me only about a week after I found out it was a boy to decide that, that would be the name I picked. Bryce had promised me after Callum was born that the next baby we had I could name whatever I liked, because I hated the name Callum (though now I love it because my son is definately a Callum, not a Hamish or Angus like I wanted to name him.) I was talking to myself saying out loud 'These are my sons Callum and Luke... no I dont like that... Callum and Bryce Jr... Nope.... Callum and James....' and this went on for a really long time until I had exhausted all the names I liked, none of them sounded right, and I was sitting infront of my computer feeling pretty sorry for myself, when all of the sudden I just thought of the name. I then continued to talk to myself 'These are my sons Callum and Corban... Callum and Corban.... CORBAN IF YOU'RE NOT OUT OF BED IN FIVE MINUTES I'M COMING UPSTAIRS WITH A JUG OF COLD WATER!... Corban have you done your homework?... Corban, put your dirty football boots in the garage!' Then I jumped out of my chair and ran out to Bryce and yelled five times fast 'CORBANCORBANCORBANCORBANCORBAN!' and by then even to me the word had lost all meaning cause I said it out loud too many times! Bryce looked bewildered and I told him I wanted to name the new baby Corban, then he started talking to himself 'Callum and Corban huh?' and he immeadiately agreed, YAY! I thought I was going to have to fight with him about it because Corban isnt a hugely common name here as I said earlier, and in the City near where I live the biggest car yard and the most prominent is called 'Corban Automotives' because Corban is probably a more common last name than first name. But that didnt even factor in for Bryce who liked the name as much as I did.
Callum knows Corban (or Corbie as Callum has nicknamed him already) is coming after Santa comes. Its so cute, he says 'Corbie can't come home yet, cause hims at layby in the hops-tall' I dont think he knows Corbie is a baby or that he will be Callum's little brother and stay with us forever. I am worried though about jealousy, a friend of mine Michelle, has a foster child only a few weeks old and I went to a BBQ at a mutual friends house, when the baby started to cry I offered (more pleaded) to feed her. Callum seen me holding her and said 'Give baby back now mum, we cant keep it, dont like' and when I asked him if mummy can get a new baby, He tried to climb up on my lap and said 'Cammy you baby mum' it was really cute but a little bit concerning.
In other non-baby related matters, I am moving house in less than a week. My little 2 bedroom place is wayyyyy over-crowded now as it is. Bryce, Callum and I all live here, plus my mother just recently moved in with us after she got burned and she has been sleeping on the lounge for some time (Because I offered to put her in Callum's big boy bed and put Callum back in his crib in our room, but she refused) so we're moving to a 2 storey house with three bedrooms upstairs and a granny flat downstairs, with a double garage and a massive backyard. The rent is pretty expensive, but we can't keep living here anyways, we were going to move in May anyways because thats when my lease here ran out but mums injuries pushed the move ahead because she needs her own space.
This has probably been too much of a post for now anyways so I'll post more later...
I worked this morning until 1:30, and after that I went to my grandmothers to have dinner there. It was my moms side of the family. It was okay, it just felt different this year. Things were crazy. I felt bad for my mom because she cooked most of the items since my grandma is not well lately. The food was okay, turkey was super dry but if I were my mom I wouldn't be too worried about that either... I picked at my food... eventually left to go home and get ready to go over Bobby's. I love my family but I felt kind of awkward this year. Not too many people actually take an interest in what goes on - they mostly just chastise you for not coming around lately.
Anyway.
So once I got there, his family was already home from his grandparents house. The first thing he did was feed me his grandmas "green jello". I recall seeing it last Christmas actually, but I didn't eat there so I never tried any. It's DELICIOUS! It's made with lime jello and cream cheese and pineapple and walnuts and coconut I think. It tastes like a fruit snack only in .. fluffy jello with pineapple and nuts style.
Then we watched..... CHRISTMAS VACATION!
I was secretly super excited about this because no joke, I had visions of watching this with them soon and I kind of hoped we'd watch it tonight but I never even mentioned anything, Bobby brought it up! After the movie, his parents brought us a big piece of his grandmas pumpkin pie to share. It's as tasty as my grandmothers is, only maybe not quite as sweet. Also, there is more to it. His grandmothers is bigger in general. It was delicious!
So after that, myself, bobby, and his mom and dad played a couple games of apples to apples. During the second game Bobby decided he wanted a turkey sandwich and this is when I sampled some of their leftovers.
The turkey was sooo good. I never knew turkey could taste that good. It was juicy too. Definitely not used to it! His grandmother makes a sausage stuffing and she puts like 12 eggs in it. It's more dense and seems more like egg than bread but it was very tasty. Oh and his mom also gave me some of the green bean casserole she made.
Then we all went back in the living room and started watching something else - i forget what - i was mostly cuddling with Bobby.
Eventually they went to bed and we just relaxed together the rest of the night.
But the cute thing - during the leftover break - Bobby's mom was like "So, your guys anniversary is coming up soon huh!"
Later I mentioned to Bobby I was surprised she mentioned that, and he was like "yeah! me too!"
His dad was asking me if I like fish and everything because they do the italian 7 fish thing. So I guess I'm invited over for Christmas again this year. I wasn't TECHNICALLY invited over last year as we'd only been dating for what - 15 days haha... but uh it all worked out =). They didn't have a problem with me coming over for christmas and they were going back to his grandparents house later that night (they live right down the street) and they just had me come along.
I love his family... they are wonderful people.
Oh and then I was cracking up because I guess earlier that day Bobby and his dad were walking up the basement steps (their garage pretty much is their basement) and his dad saw his pants hanging on the line that have a big hole in the crotch. Well his dad was like "What, she didn't want to wait?" or SOMETHING like that, LOL.
He was kidding of course.
But omg - that made me laugh. I wouldn't expect it of him.
Anyway I'm done blabbing. I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving =)
And of course I love this song
Ok. Loathes first:
I'm alone in my bed. (No cuddles for me.)
It's cold. And dark.
All the children in my life have Swine flu.
Some customers are just no fun at all.
Eric Cantor. He looks like a smug asshole. Maybe he isn't always that way, but every time they stick him on a TV screen, I want to spit on him. (That's how I really feel.)
Loves to end with:
It's fall and I will adjust to the cold and dark thing.
The shed's almost done, so I'll be painting soon. (This will probably become a loathe in a little bit, haha.)
I got some of my Christmas presents in the mail (I might have mentioned this already) and they are SUUUUPER cute. (Any etsy fans? Check out Down & Out Chic.)
I'm getting ready to curl up with Time Traveler's Wife. (I was going to start a few minutes ago...)
Things to look forward to:
Creating a packaging technique for the cute Christmas gifts I've received, since they all came in one box. (Time to get festive and creative... a bit early, I know.)
The weekend. I have off again on Saturday and I think I'm going to block off my morning for breakfast. I want baked oatmeal because it's delicious.
bobby and I were enjoying one another and walking to class together this morning and remember the girl I mentioned a a few days ago, who saw us and yelled his name and who didn't acknowledge me at all even though I smiled at her the whole time and then finally gave her a dirty look at the end?
yeah well we had a brief moment with her again today as we walked by (i saw her coming from farther away but I distracted bobby with loving glances) and she yelled his name again and said hi what's up, etc, ignoring me again. SO this time Bobby was like "Sorry" and I was like "That's okay. I gave that girl a dirty look the last time" LOL
and then I explained what happened the last time we saw her about how i was smiling the entire time and she didn't so much as glance in my direction so i finally gave her a really dirty look before it was too late. he laughed and said he was sorry, though why he is apologizing is lost on me. it's not his fault every girl hates me for having him all to myself and pretends I don't exist when they see us together.
class was okay. my teacher really likes my color scheme for my senior project. various blues and the text on a nice pale yellow background. they work together. thank you artistically minded boyfriend.
i'm really super nervous about getting my latin test back.
bobby grabbed me lunch before i left school and we ate together. we were talking about my schedule for next semester and pre-reqs. he said he gets chills whenever he thinks of how it worked out with me and that graphic design class.
technically i was supposed to take fundamentals of 2-D design first but no one told me that before i took it, and when i found out mid-semester no one told me it wasn't okay. so i shouldn't have been in that class at all, but i was and i found him. =) thank you universe.
my FINAL SEMESTER classes (!!!) are these:
-latin 2 (yes! i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it!)
-poetry (SIGH)
-medieval times (hopefully not TOOO writing intensive.. it's an english course.. i don't want a lot of useless work my last semester... i am only taking this to fullfill the 12 hr full time req!)
-computer literacy (from my "other studies" quota to fill. i'm pretty sure this will be easy folks)
this week is busy and it had BETTER be productive!!
"So... I have a theory. If we were to move in together right now... we would be eating ramen noodles every day for a year ... and I would be completely fine with that"
who'd have ever thought the sweetest thing would include the words "ramen noodles".
(in case you don't get it.. he's saying we'd be so poor we couldn't afford groceries, save for 40 cent packs of ramen noodles, lol... but he would gladly eat ramen for a year to be so close to me all the time) i feel the need to include the explanation because upon second thought, some might interpret this as "bobby really loves ramen noodles a lot".
Have you ever had a premonition? Did you heed it?
Submitted by aynge.
I have some scarily accurate dreams at times... but I think it's usually when my subconscious has sneakily launched into overdrive after being brought to attention by things it refused to brush off as unimportant. A woman's keen perception...
It can be a powerful thing =)
Had my senior evaluation today. I am officially on the lists to graduate in the Spring =).
I only need 7 hours... With my remaining requirements (another poetry class, the second latin course and one more support course (currently undecided) I will be all done... but to remain full time I will need an additional class to take just for the full time status that financial aid requires of me... so I get to pick something else retarded to take.
I was smiling from ear to ear today. I know it's been 6 years and I shouldn't be all that proud of myself for taking so long, or surprised that it's finally happening.... but I feel so good about the fact that I'm finally going to wrap it up and move on.
I've experienced so many lessons in life in the past six years. It's amazing to look at the full course of things from this "on the other end" perspective. I was almost an entirely different person when I started college my freshman year.
I picture that girl in my head and she's almost a stranger to me. I knew so little then, was so naive about life and love and everything really. I'm still naive and I still know little in the great broad spectrum of things, but I can say I have come quite a long way.
This December, after the fall semester ends, I will spend the time off putting together my portfolio and making my resume. In the spring I will send it out and cross my fingers.
Soon, Bobby and I are going to visit the apartment complex we chose and view a room and tour the grounds. I figure doing this now would be a good idea, because as soon as the Spring semester starts, life will be passing more quickly than ever. I'll get this part out of the way at least, to see if we actually like it. Hopefully there will be an opening when I'm ready to take the leap.
