Quick note before church...

I told someone recently that it feels like my blog has become hospital and school updates lately. I guess that just happens sometimes. Anyway, I'm making a hospital update this morning.

My dad has been acting really strange lately and wanting to sleep non-stop. He usually sleeps a lot but lately he can't keep his eyes open for any length of time. He's even stopped eating because he's too tired. So my mom took him to the emergency room (I told her they should just give her an express lane) and he is back in the hospital. He has another (I think the same) UTI and they are going to re-evaluate his medication. I have voiced my opinion in the past about Huntsville Memorial Hospital and I continue to be reaffirmed in my dislike of their practices. I said all along they let him out too early last time and that I felt they hadn't really found the problem. After moving away from Huntsville, I increasingly feel that the quality of service in the town in general is sub-standard. I never realized it while I lived there but now I see it in the school system, the restaurant and retail industries, and the hospital. I wish my parents would consider moving away because I think their quality of life could be so much better. But they just bought a new house in Huntsville that my mother insists is just what she needs. blah...

I'll jump off of my soap box because I have to get ready for church. I wouldn't normally ever post before church but today, I don't have to make dinner because I did it yesterday. woohoo! I just have to pack it in my dinner box and I'm done!

Spring Break

Spring Break has been a bit of a bummer. Although I am thankful for the rest and the time at home, I would have loved to go on a vacation like Steven and I did last year when we went to Colorado. I just love Colorado. I bet I think of it on a daily basis. Sigh....

As it turns out, Steven and I don't have the same spring break this year. His is next week. Even crummier, this year he only has 2 days off instead of 3. So he has had to work all week and I have had to get up around the same time I usually do to take him to work since we only have one car and in order for him to park at his job, he must pay $600 a year. And he works in transportation and parking!!!! Texas A&M wouldn't want the transportation department to think they were getting any special privileges even though they maintain the garages, the gates, the ticket booths, cameras, etc. It has been a bummer week because it went way too fast and I was alone all week. But there is always a silver lining and mine is that at this time next year I will be graduated and hopefully have a job, taking spring break with the school district I work for. And that means more moolah which also means a greater chance of taking a vacation!!! Like to Colorado..... or wherever. :o)

Ok, so I really shouldn't be complaining so much, I know. At least I got a break from school and driving to Huntsville every day. But unfortunately I am writing this entry on the down slope of the break so all I am thinking about is having to go back the day after tomorrow. Impending doom..... cue scary organ/string music Alfred Hitchcock style. Ok, another silver lining - 8 more weeks of school! See, I really am optimistic. haha. And I really wasn't alone all week. Steven took Friday off of work and we went to the movies. However, winter decided to pull an encore and the high yesterday was 43 degrees with rain, rain, and more rain. The lawn area outside of our patio looks like a mini-lake. I guess that would be a pond, duh. Or would it be a tank because we live in Texas? Does anyone else know about tanks?

Wow, I'm all over the place today. Anyway, we went to see the "Watchmen." I highly DO NOT recommend this movie. It was unbearably long, did not have a developed plot or characters, and was extremely, EXTREMELY violent and had a great deal of nudity/adult "situations." Now, I can handle violence and nudity and am not usually offended by it but this was excessive. One character was unclothed almost the whole time and they did not even attempt to hide anything - at all. I guess they thought it was ok because he was radio-active and bright blue (and computer animated) but it really only made it worse. Halfway through the film I had to ask Steven if this film was rated R or if it didn't have X's in it's rating. And what was worse is that there was no development of characters or a story. Steven and I were both thinking separately about leaving the theater and had we communicated, that is exactly what we would have done. Usually we research movies before we see them but this was a spontaneous venture. Now we know and so do you....we give it four thumbs WAY down.

A highlight of the day was having lunch at Jason's Deli. For a few weeks we have been getting Jason's to go on Saturdays and going to the park to feed the ducks. We are not feeding them Jason's Deli but bread we bring. We love the ducks but not that much! Yesterday, since it was raining, we ate in the restaurant and it was nice. I love their California club with avocado and sprouts. I really enjoy our time on the weekends when we don't have anywhere to go or much to do and we can decide to just go for lunch or stay in, or whatever. Steven is my light in the darkness, my sun through the rain. I had many rough years before I met Steven and I think I will always define them as being pre-Steven years. My life has been divided as the time before I was married and the time after I got married. I am a better person having married him because he has showed me how good I am and how great I can be. I also feel as if daily life isn't so urgent and that it is important to enjoy it. He has taught me what living really means. There is no doubt that he is a blessing from God.

See, I made my way to something happy! I knew I would. :o)

Square peg in a round hole

This is how I feel most of the time. But I yam what I yam and I can't be nuthin else.

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." -- Shakespeare