nic’s mom has offered to buy me a ticket to MI…a one-way ticket. in about 2 weeks, i’ll be heading back up there to stay until the end of october. then…nic and i will be road tripping back to texas to stay.

this is extremely awesome. the wait to see nic has just been cut from two and a half months to about 2 weeks. this long distance stuff was hard before, but after getting engaged just hours before i flew home in july, it’s been even HARDER. i absolutely can’t wait to see him again, and i’m already trying to figure out how i can thank his mother for doing this for us. i’ve been missing him so much. i’m really happiest when we’re together. pretty soon, i won’t have to worry about missing him anymore.

i’ve already blogged about this a little bit in the usual other places, but i am so happy and excited i had to post about it again! plus, this is the bestest blog. someone has to help me figure out how to get a subscription option on here so i can use this as my main blog…this and LJ so my family can see some of it, i guess.

so, yeah. once again it’s been awhile since i’ve posted. i don’t really have much to say, just felt like blogging for no real reason. i know this will end up being all kinds of long and random, though! there are a couple rants i’d LOVE to write, but i’m not confident in the privacy of this blog (sadly) so i don’t feel like i can. i’ll just say that i will truly never understand most people, and it’s exhausting to try sometimes.

i continue to be unemployed, but not because of any lack of effort. i’ve applied to several jobs, and the one i think would be best (which i am also extremely qualified for) emailed me today to let me know they’ve forwarded my resume on to the hiring supervisor for consideration. i think this is very good news. in the meantime i’m still looking for backups, but i’m really hoping for this one.

since receiving my engagement ring, i have not actually had it in my possession for more than a few days. first, i took it to kay jewelers to have it sized. after sending it off, they contacted me several days later to tell me that because of the nature of the setting, and the fact that i had not bought the ring there, they would not be able to do the sizing. if they messed it up, they couldn’t replace it. so i waited about 2 days for it to be sent back, then, the same day, i sent it off (via fedex overnight) to nic so he could have it sized with the store he bought it from. that took 8 days, then he sent it back fedex 2-day shipping. it arrived TODAY and i am so happy to have it again.

sort of on-topic, i have been spending much of my unemployed time planning a wedding that will hopefully take place in the spring. we’re thinking may 2009 but no exact date yet. i knew wedding planning was a lot of work, but it’s a lot more than i had expected! i’m mostly enjoying it, though…it’s hard having no idea what the budget will be, since we don’t have anything saved yet, but it’s still fun. it’s hard for me to believe i’m actually planning my wedding…i’m sooo happy but for awhile i almost thought it wouldn’t happen for me. it’s crazy! i can’t wait for it to actually happen!

what else…other than that stuff, i’ve been spending some time playing lots of video games, and missing nic. the next 2 months are going to be crazy hard until he moves down here…a lot harder than i thought. but, i will make it through this bit, after this it’ll be awesome. as long as he doesn’t hate it here!

um, what else…i ended up changing my cell number TWICE…once to a local TX number from the MA one i had, and then again because 99% of people who tried to call me couldn’t get through, just a weird error message. all fixed now, though…if you had my number or want it, let me know and i will probably give it to you!

i think that’s about it. unless anyone can tell me how to add a subscription option to my blog? for now i will cross-post.

as of today i am officially ENGAGED to the most amazing guy in the entire universe. I LOVE MY NIC!

i’m still sort of freaking out, so that’s all for now.

i haven’t posted in forever! well, since my last post, i have moved to texas. we’ve been staying with my brother in law’s mom. my parents are heading back to MA on tuesday, tying up some loose ends, and driving the truck down with all our stuff. once they get back, we’ll be moving into our new house, woo!

to make blogging easier, here is a list of the texas people i might mention:

duane= my brother in law, he lived with us in MA for several years and moved back to TX with us.

brandi= duane’s sister

dina= duane’s mom

terry= duane’s dad

nanny= duane’s grandmother, everyone calls her nanny

i think that’s about it. since we’ve been here, we’ve gone out for lots of yummy meals, gone to nanny’s for even YUMMIER meals, just hung around, and had a birthday cookout for nanny which was awesome. lots of food, lots of margaritas, and a fire with smores! duane says they do stuff like that all summer, so i am psyched. texas is awesome so far.

right now, it’s 2am and duane, brandi and i are watching flight of the conchords and eating chili cheese fries. so awesome.

everyone has been soooooo nice. i got sick for a little while with a bad cold, and everyone was taking care of me and stuff…so nice.

anyway, yeah. i feel like when i started this i had a ton to write, but now i’m all distracted by the TV. and i’m sleepy. so bye for now!

we are officially out of here on may 21st. which, holy crap, is like 11 days away. plane tickets have been purchased. packing has commenced, and i have to say, packing sucks ass. i knew that already, from previous experience, but doing it again is just crappy. the end result of moving will be rad, the prep work just sucks. i have 4 more days of work (10 hour days, wooo) and i can’t wait to be done. it’s very odd to think that i’m leaving massachusetts for really reals in 11 days. odd, but awesome. the macbook isn’t getting packed, it’s coming with me on the plane, so i will not lose any communication with anyone. so yay. so much to do…deciding what’s going into storage, and what i’ll need/want to have with me, which really won’t be very much aside from clothes and stuff like that. speaking of clothes, i don’t really have many summer things that fit or aren’t old. and since we’ll be moving down to 90 degree weather, i’ll probably need to do something about that. texas is a warm-ass place in the summer. excited, nervous, busy…lots going on!

lost odyssey is extremely addictive. i’ve heard it becomes quite annoying a bit later on, but so far, i’m loving it. the story is awesome (and incredibly sad in parts!). i’m about 19 hours in so far (yikes!) and i’ve only just started disc 2- it’s a 4 disc game. which is insanity. it’ll last me forever. i’m thinking about going tomorrow and getting the guide for it, because it’s such an involved game with lots of side things and items and….lots of stuff. so yeah.

that’s really about it at the moment. i stopped playing because i really need to go to bed. stupid monday, stupid work. BOO.

zooey lulu is ONE YEAR OLD today. i can’t believe it. i remember holding her minutes after she was born. i look at pictures of her from a year ago, and i can’t believe it’s the same child. i like to look at pictures from each month and watch her grow up, she looks so different in each one. she’s not my little girl, but i love her as if she was. <3

gah. these shows to raise money for stuff always make me cry. i have the hardest time watching stuff about kids…just watching these little tiny children, going through these awful things…it kills me. young kids, tiny babies…they didn’t do anything to anyone. awful things are happening to them. it just upsets me. it’s great that the celebrities come out and everything, because there are some people who will give money simply because a famous person says it’s cool to donate, but it’s like…srsly, they could donate HALF their money, still have an insane amount to live off of, and make a huge difference. but you know they don’t. they totally don’t need all the money they have, they probably couldn’t even USE all of it…it could definitely be put to better use. but whatever.

so yeah, i watched idol gives back and cried a bunch because of all the little kids and babies who are orphans, and who have to live in awful places…it’s just not right.

i dunno. i thought i had a whole bunch to say about all that, but i think it’s mostly just the same stuff over and over. and i have a headache now, so i’ll just leave it at what i said. it makes me so sad.

i stopped at the grocery store after work today to pick up some not-junk-food snacks to bring to work. after mentioning to my mom how sick and blah i felt last week after eating anything with a lot of sugar, she said she thinks i’m hypoglycemic. apparently that means i should eat something small every few hours. so, since we didn’t have much around the house that seemed like a good healthy-ish snack, i popped into the store. i picked up some pretzels (garlic-baked, yummm), some all-bran crackers (garlic and herb), whole-wheat saltines to have with sliced cheese (wooo protein!), breakfast lean pockets (much healthier than the bagel sandwiches at dunkin’ donuts, delicious as they are), and 100 calorie packs of cookies (to satisfy my afternoon chocolate craving- much healthier than a candy bar from the vending machine). for small meals, i also picked up a couple of lean cuisine southwest chicken paninis (they are SO GOOD) and some campbell’s soup-at-hands. i usually make something with chicken to bring to work with me for lunch.

so, that’s my start. no more hostess cupcakes, candy bars and doritos. well, maybe SOME, but a whoooole lot less. i decided that this time, i’m not going to be insanely strict with myself. when i deprive myself of things that i want to eat, ALL the time, i just get miserable and frustrated. i’m going to try super hard to eat a lot healthier, but if i get a little craving, i’m not going to always refuse myself. if it’s super unhealthy, i will definitely have a lot LESS. i guess this time i’m just trying to tweak the process to make it more bearable and make it more likely that i’ll stick with it.

my biggest obstacle is exercise. HATE. IT. i loooove my couch. my futon. my bed. hell, i’ll take the FLOOR if it means i don’t have to move. i am so lazy. it’s just sad, it really is. i think the most exercise i get at this point is chasing my one-year-old niece around, making sure she doesn’t jam her hand in a cabinet door or eat the cat food. we’ll see how that goes…

feel free to comment with yummy snack ideas or tips or anything.

i FINALLY picked up my wiimote again tonight and it was awesome. (yes, i know they aren’t really calling them that…they’re ‘wii remotes’, but wiimote is so much more fun. so that’s what i call them. so there. :p) i jumped back into the single-player story(ish) mode of super smash bros. brawl. that game hurts my thumb like katamari, it’s insane. i have a feeling it’d be easier to play with a different controller rather than the wiimote/nunchuck combo, but this is what i’m used to so far, so i’m going with it. in a few weeks, mario kart wii is coming out and that is going to be EPIC. one of the most anticipated games for the wii since launch. i can’t WAIT. i have loved every mario kart, starting back on super nintendo. good times. i still have my copy for my GBA, even though if i’m going to play on a handheld, it’s the DS one. mario kart wii will be the first wii game that i’ll actually be playing online, because i know a couple people who will also be picking this game up. i’m super disappointed that they aren’t enabling voice chat- that would be so awesome. i haven’t read a LOT about the game, but i did see that while they are enabling text chat, it’s apparently only preloaded phrases to choose from. it’s things like this that are making me prefer my xbox 360 over the wii…online multiplayer should be so much easier, and nintendo is kinda dropping the ball in that area.

anyyyyyway, now that i’ve bored any of my non-gamer readers (hi ali and dianne!)…i did clean up a bit and rearrange some stuff in the futon room. for those unfamiliar, i have 2 rooms in my house, across the hall from each other…there’s my bedroom, with (duh) my bed, and a dresser and all my clothes and stuff. then, there is what i call ‘the futon room’, which contains (duh) my futon, bookcases, and my entertainment center from when i lived in the basement apartment. and my huge plasma TV from the apartment, too. it’s pretty rad, but i do wish the apartment hadn’t flooded, thus necessitating a government loan to replace my stuff, and prompting my ex to choose this insane TV. but it’s still here, and he is gone, and i have much of the loan to repay (video games on this TV are effing awesome, though, i have to admit). anyway, going back to what i was talking about…i moved some of my stuff around on the shelves of the entertainment center…it still looks cluttered as hell but that’s because i have a lot of random shit. after we move, and nic and i have our own lil place with more room, it’ll be better. for now, though, the futon room is my absolute favorite room, because it has all my favorite stuff in it. when nic is here, it usually has him in it, too!

going back to gaming, i wish my sister had more time to play. she’s fun to game with. alas, she is very busy with my peanut niece, who is at the age where she is everywhere and into everything. i STILL can’t believe she’s going to be a year old in less than a week.

so yeah, i think that’s about it. no idea what the plan is for tomorrow, likely lots of sitting around, which is fine with me. i’m sure i’ll be playing some games!