kissing in the rain

a friend told me once that boys just look more attractive when they're wet. i tend to agree with that statement. i'm not sure if the same goes for women though. especially in formal situations, there's a lot of time invested above the shoulders to just let everything melt. rain makes me want to go puddle-jumping.

i had to restrain myself. jeff helped.
anyway, when we got married, it seemed like the photographer took forever to get the pictures back to us. so here are a couple that i took:


i like these too.

gardening

i bought a flower packet the other day. i'm dying to be outside and play frisbee and garden a little bit. i'm trying to use it for motivation to pack and move faster, but it ends up just being distracting.

these are some of the cool things that i found looking up gardening flowers and herbs. i would have posted them earlier, but i was thinking about copying them. i think i'll do my own thing though.

coming up for air

yesterday, we were at school at eight in the morning and i started working on rewriting four papers that were due. technically, we're not supposed to be assigned work over reading days, but he gave us back our papers on friday.
anyway, review sessions started at nine, ended at two, when my shift at work started. work ended at six, and we went to the parents' house for dinner. quick pizza and back to re-writing. i submitted four revised papers and two scholarship applications ten minutes before they were due (11:50pm) and we drove home. in the snow.
today i finished the programming part of my methods final. and i'm peer-reviewing four students' papers before i can go home, write a study guide for my 490 class and study for my methods test tomorrow. it's a little overwhelming.

i was talking to stephanie on sunday about ways to relieve stress. gardening was one thing we came up with, and it's stuck with me the last couple days. i was looking for cheap to free planters and i saw a lot of cool stuff. they make me want to go dig in the dirt, but i have to do my work. and the ground is covered in snow from last night. *sadness*

engaged!

no, not me. i'm too old for that. gosh.
my friend kristy got engaged this semester. she and ashlee took our engagements, and today we switched it around. i got home and played with a couple of the pictures. and made up a fake announcement, because it's more fun than homework. i'm such a nerd.

doing the do

though jeff's been complaining about his hair for a while, and saying that he'd be willing to let me cut it, it was conveniently an inconvenient time to do it whenever we were around a buzzer and scissors. after a lot of badgering, i finally got him to go under the knife this weekend.

we're both pretty happy with the results. so are jeff's socks.

academia

school is vicious. and needy. and clingy for that matter. it makes for a love-hate relationship. i love going to class and learning new things, i even like homework, but it's such a time-consuming affair. i get to the point yesterday where i was reading and i would read a page and wake up five minutes later, even though i was interested in the story line. it made me sad at midnight to read the spark notes and go to bed (leaving the dishes and laundry still not done, but those never seem as pressing as homework even though they drive me crazy). books are so demanding. i could pass the class just from skimming the chapters fast and reading spark notes, but i want to learn it...
i was sitting in class today listening to a guest lecture, and i started thinking, "there's no way the year i have left is going to be enough for what i want, what i need to know." the natural conclusion then is grad school. fiends! tricked me into coming to college with the hopes of learning, sapping my time, money, and sink space. don't believe them when they say "it's just a four year degree." it's a vicious scholastic cycle and i can't get away. i want to say, "leave me alone and let me do my dishes!" but i know that mere suds won't satisfy me. i'm hooked.

fast thinking

as always, things are really busy over here. but, we both got through our first set of midterms, so things should be a little cooler for a week or so. school is going well though. i really like my classes this semester and don't mind doing my homework, except that i get really tired sometimes. i'm pretty sure jeff is the same. we actually study a lot of the same material, so sometimes (lots of times) we get into discussions and debates that tend to be on the existential side. nietzche and marx are really fun. jeff's decided he's newton reincarnated. i think he's silly.

we also debate about babies. neither of us know anything, so it's lots of fun. mostly it's just what's silly to do with babies (jeff doesn't like baby headbands. i don't like baby girls looking like boys), what kind of silly things we'll do as parents, and all the things we'll do when we or our children are rich. then the babies in church start wailing in the ears of their exhausted parents, or we have an assignment that keeps us up really late, and we're glad we don't have kids. we can wait.

in the meantime, we agreed that this is a cute family photo. we hope to copy it one day.