Saturday Mourning

When we were in Wisconsin & Ludington my favorite part of the week was Saturday morning. After staying up as late as we could on Friday night, we'd sleep in late on Saturday. After we woke up we'd lay in bed for a long time, sometimes for hours, just talking, cudding, playing around, petting the cats... doing absolutely nothing. After we felt sufficiently ready to get up we'd get breakfast, take showers, get ready... all at the slowest possible pace. Then we'd go do whatever together - grocery shop, go to the beach, maybe fly our kites. I remember being in the car with him on Saturdays, looking at the clock and thinking, "Oh! It's 1:00. I wish that it was only 11:00 so that we could have more Saturday left together." All-in-all it was my favorite, lazy, hang out time of the entire week.

Since we've been here, though, Matt's worked every possible Saturday. Sometimes it's just until noon, sometimes it's not (today he won't be home until at least 3:00). It's been a really hard adjustment for me. Not only have we lost Saturday, but we've lost Friday night as well since Matt has to got to bed at 10:30 or 11:00. Matt's tried really hard to make the best of it. He tries to find times to see me when he can and he also tries to make our time together special. And ultimately it's not his fault - it's not like he's volunteering for Saturday work. He's low man on the totem pole at a company with a culture of working on Saturday. So I try not to blame him, but it's hard. I miss him.

My horoscope from yesterday:
Love may come easily today, but it probably won't turn out as expected. It's hard to tell whether you have changed, but apparently something is different now. Even if you don't like it at first, you'll quickly get used to the new situation as long as you don't stubbornly try to alter a course that cannot be changed.

But stubbornly trying to alter a course that cannot be changed is my specialty!

Three down, three to go...

Today we, at the peak of impulsiveness, went out and bought a Wii. So, obviously, that's what we've been doing pretty much all day and it's been awesome... other than the fact that Matt is way better than I am at every Wii game in history. I plan on downloading some old school Super Mario tomorrow while he's at work so that I can show him what's up. Although I just plain enjoy playing the Wii, I'm hoping it will help us make friends, too. It's a super-social activity and not a whole ton of people have Wii's so maybe people will want to use us for our Wii and then decide we're cool and be friends with us. Maybe, just maybe.

PS Katie and Tom got home from their honeymoon. Matt called them to see how it went and they said that they saw a woman get BIT by a SHARK! Can you believe that??

Things I Want

Last night Matt and I went out to try to get my new phone. They're all sold out, but we went to Best Buy anyway to try to get a case for it anyway. While we were there we were browsing around, which is the most dangerous thing to do at Best Buy. I found about a hundred things that I want, which just got me thinking about all the other things that I want. It's a sad, consumerist list, but it's true. So, in the spirit of honesty, here are all the things I am craving right now:

1. A Wii
2. A car
3. An iPhone
4. A Blue Ray player
5. A bike
6. A Macbook Air

Grand total for all my new boredom-relieving toys: $21,300.

Two days late and at least two dollars short....

Well it turns out that it's much harder to take a still picture of movement than I thought. Also, I'm a procrastinator. Shocking, right?




You can see the river flowing through downtown. That building to the far left is kind of characteristic to Houston. It has these three peaks. I like it. When I was taking this picture there was a girl next to me taking pictures with her super-professional camera. She gave the stink eye to me and my 5 year old Sony.

Every day when I hear the first boom of thunder I get so excited. I have always loved rain and to get to have rain every day down here is one of my favorite things. This is the view from our back porch. Almost every other apartment looks either into someone else's window or over the parking lot, so I think we got one of the best views.

The fireworks from our fantastic behind-this-tree view.

Ikea

Matt and I just tried to order a bed from Ikea but it wasn't in stock at any Ikea in Texas and the shipping cost more than the bed itself.

Will I ever not be sleeping on a mattress on the floor??

Maybe you should read a book...

It's almost 1am and I am up because, you know what, I just do not want to go to bed at a responsible hour. Sadly, staying up late is only fun when you have stuff to do or people to do that stuff with. So basically I'm just up... Facebook stalking with HGTV muted in the background. We've all been there. It's turning out to be kind of hard to just piss my summer away. I'm bored already and it's only been 2 weeks. I need a project, or friends, or something. Actually, there's plenty of stuff that I could be doing but I'm terribly resistant to it all. This is not only a summer of laziness, it's a summer of revenge. A time to even the laziness score. But I'm not sure if this system is really going to help me in the end.