housewarming
so yesterday i felt reluctant to do anything because i had so much to do. that's the kind of backwards person i am. it took me quite a while to get my motor running. i felt resentful of any kind of nagging from karey said or unsaid. because if she didn't say it, i knew what it would be. but eventually i had a shower and cleaned the bathroom and my bedroom, and took my shoes out of the front area (only for the sake of the party) and washed my duvet cover, and went to the bank (to pay my debtors back in cold hard cash because you can't bounce cash.), bought some ice and some ranch dip, got threaded (a wonderful, blessed but painful releif as always). when i got back the house was looking probably it's cleanest ever. for some reason it was at this time that i felt like pruning the mold off of our rose bushes. so i did. it was so sad. there's not much left of our yellow and small pink bush now. every time i cut off a bud or blossom that had so much promise of beauty, i mourned. so i laboured for over an hour on our rose bushes and received many wounds at the hands of the sometimes vicious thorns. one time i was totally caught because i was reaching around the back of the bush to clip off some rotten branch and a thorn caught me in the tender flesh abover my outer elbow. it dug in and i couldn't move. i called for help from karey who was on the front steps but apparently her phone call was more important than my pain. instead of coming to my rescue she called inside for elicia, and then just continued talking. when elicia finally got there i had de-hooked myself. i guess you find out who your real friends are... :)
people started arriving while i was finishing up my task and when i went inside with a few roses that i had salvaged, people were all busy chopping things and putting things on platters. we had so much food, that i wasn't even hungry for a bbq. we had chairs and tables of food all set out in the back yard and sarita's tikki lanterns were all hanging and then it started to rain. karey and sarita panicked and brought all the stuff into one of our garages, and then the rain stopped and that was all we really had. typical eh. so the garage location stayed where it was and turned out to work quite well. i ate a lot of water melon. gabby and her friend chris gave us a tomato plant in a hanging basket and randy gave us some tp. you can never have enough tp. lots of people came and most seemed to have an alright time. we just talked and ate and hung out and told stories and bbq-ed and some people watched csi, and others watched while you were sleeping. i just kind of wandered around and ate a lot of watermelon. it was really good. by the end of the night i was so tired and sitting in our living room on the floor with tania on one side of me and fox on the other. fox is going to spain in august for a conference and he was asking tania how to say all these dumb things and she was laughing. the room was mostly full of girls, and they often giggled at the antics of the fox. he hasn't changed much although in my mind he's still 22, not 26. eventually the room started filling up with the garage people like pat and andrew ray and wyatt and karey and pete and it was time for some more stories. most stories were hector stories or some kind of road kill story, but when chris stood up to go, almost everyone else did too. we were left with tania, selina and charlotte. and that's when elicia asked charlotte to tell her courtship story. it was an interesting look into who charlottle is. when she was talking it was like i was seeing her for the first time. that happens to me sometimes. she had a funny proposal. funny because it was on her terms and the way she wanted it. anyways they all left together and then i came down here and was too tired to write in my journal and went up to read oprah and fell asleep.
i woke up at 8 this morning to work on my lesson and something just felt wrong. eventually i realized that i had the queezies and just felt sick. i kept trying to prepare the lesson, but it soon became apparent that i wasn't going to church today, so i woke up elicia and told her at 9:30. by 10:30 i was back in bed and i didn't wake up until 2:30 when heather and sarita (who only went to sacrament meeting at the 41st street chapel) came back. i still feel the queezies but i really don't want to. i'm not looking forward to work tomorrow, but i do really need to go because i need to train our member at the dish pit. i think i may be doing this all week. joy joy joy.
people started arriving while i was finishing up my task and when i went inside with a few roses that i had salvaged, people were all busy chopping things and putting things on platters. we had so much food, that i wasn't even hungry for a bbq. we had chairs and tables of food all set out in the back yard and sarita's tikki lanterns were all hanging and then it started to rain. karey and sarita panicked and brought all the stuff into one of our garages, and then the rain stopped and that was all we really had. typical eh. so the garage location stayed where it was and turned out to work quite well. i ate a lot of water melon. gabby and her friend chris gave us a tomato plant in a hanging basket and randy gave us some tp. you can never have enough tp. lots of people came and most seemed to have an alright time. we just talked and ate and hung out and told stories and bbq-ed and some people watched csi, and others watched while you were sleeping. i just kind of wandered around and ate a lot of watermelon. it was really good. by the end of the night i was so tired and sitting in our living room on the floor with tania on one side of me and fox on the other. fox is going to spain in august for a conference and he was asking tania how to say all these dumb things and she was laughing. the room was mostly full of girls, and they often giggled at the antics of the fox. he hasn't changed much although in my mind he's still 22, not 26. eventually the room started filling up with the garage people like pat and andrew ray and wyatt and karey and pete and it was time for some more stories. most stories were hector stories or some kind of road kill story, but when chris stood up to go, almost everyone else did too. we were left with tania, selina and charlotte. and that's when elicia asked charlotte to tell her courtship story. it was an interesting look into who charlottle is. when she was talking it was like i was seeing her for the first time. that happens to me sometimes. she had a funny proposal. funny because it was on her terms and the way she wanted it. anyways they all left together and then i came down here and was too tired to write in my journal and went up to read oprah and fell asleep.
i woke up at 8 this morning to work on my lesson and something just felt wrong. eventually i realized that i had the queezies and just felt sick. i kept trying to prepare the lesson, but it soon became apparent that i wasn't going to church today, so i woke up elicia and told her at 9:30. by 10:30 i was back in bed and i didn't wake up until 2:30 when heather and sarita (who only went to sacrament meeting at the 41st street chapel) came back. i still feel the queezies but i really don't want to. i'm not looking forward to work tomorrow, but i do really need to go because i need to train our member at the dish pit. i think i may be doing this all week. joy joy joy.
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