Fadedwords

Me: I want an i*Phone now.
Jake: OK.
Me: If I got one, we could lightsaber battle.
Jake: You’re the coolest girlfriend ever.

You know it’s true love when you’re on a date and your significant other lets you take the first bite of their dinner.  And it’s a dinner they’ve never had before.

Ahhh true love.

I’m glad it’s Friday.  The weeks do seem to drag on sometimes, and this week was another one.  It was a good week, for the most part even though I was looking forward to today.

The little girl I do homebound service with, L, had a better week this week.  Monday was a rough day, as she had to go to the hospital.  The rest of the week was very good; she was very much her usual self.  It was really good to see her in such high spirits, especially after seeing her have such a difficult week.  I ate dinner at their house on Tuesday, and ended up babysitting for a little while so her parents could go out and arrange a surprise for her.  Yesterday we couldn’t do any school work, because unforutnately L’s white blood cells were incredibly low and she was neutropenic.  These things (amongst others) led to her being way too tired.  I did stay for about an hour and a half.  Her mom had to take her grandmother home, so we played with barbies and just had a nice time.  There is a fundraiser for her on Sunday afternoon, and I’m looking forward to going.  I’ve been working with her for over a month now, and I cannot begin to explain how blessed I feel that I’m part of this.  It breaks my heart to see what her and her family go through, but more often than not I am amazed and awestruck at the beauty I’m shown.

After playing email tag, Joy and I got riding figured out.  I am riding tomorrow at 2pm with Mattie.  I will be in Mattie’s lesson group, which I’m kind of bummed about.  I had really hoped to ride with Deb, who I did my lessons with when I first started up riding.  I really got along with her well.  I’m keeping an open mind though; I’ve had very positive experiences with everyone I met at this facility.  I’m looking forward to being in the saddle again, more than I can say.  Joy did say in her last email that it would be good if I could jump with Mattie once or twice before group begins on the 20th… so I’m pretty nervous about that.  Yes, I’ve jumped hundreds of times before… but I have not done that in well over two years.  We’ll see how it goes.  I’m just excited to be back near horses and on a horse, and I’m hoping for another positive experience.  My friend Steve said he might come tomorrow, so it’s possible there will be pictures.  We’ll see.

I went to a conference today in Raleigh about bringing out the best in students.  I truly enjoyed it; there was a lot of information that I found valuable.  Quite a few people from my county went, including my former principal.  It was quite interesting to see her, and I admit that I had a nice conversation with her.

I have worked out hard this week, starting The F*irm dvd set that I bought many months ago.  I’ve pushed myself hard this week and I really hope it pays off.  Tomorrow is weigh in, and I’m nervous/anxious as I always am.  I would love to be down another 1.6… that will give me my 10%.  So we’ll see about that too.

Aaaaand… Jake just called me :)  I wasn’t expecting to hear from him, other than his nifty tracker thingy, until he pulled up in the driveway next Friday.  He’s having fun and says there are tons of pictures.  He and Brian are camping in Alabama right now, and will go back to Mississippi on Monday.  He said he’s thinking of heading back up this way early, so we’ll see on that.   It was incredibly good to hear his voice.

For now I’m off to hop in the shower, so I can try to be in prime shape for the lesson tomorrow.  Wish me luck.

Jake left yesterday for his big motorcycle trip.  He’s driving down the east coast and then cutting across to Mississippi.  He’s going to stay with his Dad and Thelma for a bit before meeting up with our friend Brian.  They’ll then travel together to Florida to camp and have fun for a couple days.  Then Jake is going to come back up to NC, but go around through Texas and up through Tennessee and whatnot before coming back into NC.

You can read about his adventure here.   There’s a section that says October 2008 Trip overview in the right hand sidebar.  If you click on that you can access his tracking system to see where he is, or at least where he was the last time he did a check in.  There will be many pictures, and I anticipate getting quite a few postcards (I made him promise to send me one from every state, but we’ll see if that happens!).

Merlin and I are lounging around today.  We spent nearly an hour snuggled up together on the couch, both of us half asleep.  I’ve folded laundry and cleaned out my car, which was on the top of my list of things to get done.  I plan to clean the bathroom later, as well as do a little more laundry on like bedding and things of that nature.  I’m not sure any of those things are going to get done, because I feel like laying around.

I went to a crop yesterday after my WW meeting**.  I got the Biltmore album done, and got almost completely caught up in mine and Jake’s album.  I have some pictures to print from Bikefest to add to our album, and I need to finsh up Merlin’s 2nd year.  I have an album I’m trying to work on for my friend Andrea, but I haven’t been able to afford to do too much with it.  There are also a couple other projects that I want/need to start working on if Christmas is going to happen this year.

The grind starts again tomorrow.  It’ll be a busy week between tutoring L (which I love doing), test make ups, meetings, and a symposium on Friday.  All of these things will keep me busy since Jake is gone.  On one hand it’s really nice to have all this time and all this space.  On the other hand, I really miss him.   Really really.  I woke up at like 3 am and I thought someone was in the house.  It turned out that the dog was just scratching, but my first thought was “EEP Jake!”

When I woke up this morning the dog was laying at the end of the bed on the floor, on the body pillow.  He was clearly keeping a close eye on me throughout the night.

In any case.  I should do something productive.  Or lay on the couch and nap.  Hmm…

Today is Jake’s birthday.  Here is a photog of what we did…

 
Opening Presents

Going to Lake Wheeler

Taking Merlin Swimming (more on this Monday)

Going out to dinner

Jake exercising his photo-whoredom

Being very, very happy.

Happy birthday to my handsome, wonderful boyfriend.  I hope your day was wonderful.