Disaster Movies are Easily Forgotten, Apparently

This was a recent conversation between my mother-in-law and me.  Hilarious (in the good way).

A couple weeks ago, we were at my in-laws' house.  My MIL walked up to me with a library copy of Into the Storm and asked me if I'd seen it yet.

I stared at her incredulously for a moment before replying, "Yes, I have.  You gave it to me for Christmas two years ago."

Just as incredulously, she replied, "I did? I don't remember that..."

"After I opened it, we watched it together before the family showed up," I said.

"Oh.  Really?  We really watched it?  Okay... Do you want to watch it again?"

"Yes."

Then we watched Into the Storm in her bedroom while eating watermelon.  Haaaa.  (This is especially funny because when she gave me the movie, she'd recently discovered we both love disaster movies and was super excited to have someone around who also likes them.)

Skittles Blanket - Quick Update

Not going to be a lengthy post, but I just finished construction of the skittles blanket.  I still have 203 ends to weave in, though.  But the time-consuming part is completely done!!!  Here's a picture I took a few minutes ago, and then this post is done.

I also chose to make an edging all the way around, and I'm really glad I did, it looks much more finished than my other completed granny square afghan.  (Why are they called granny squares, anyway?)  It's also quite heavy, I wasn't expecting it to have so much weight.  I am now going to try to weave in all those ends tonight in the hopes we can take it to Matt's parents' house and give it a quick wash tomorrow since we're going to be out that way anyway.  (It needs to go in a washing machine without an agitator so it doesn't get mutilated.)

Woo hoo!!!

Liquid Oxygen and Silver Vapor

Hi.  So, it's been awhile.  Before you read any further, I just wanted to say that this is a science-heavy post.  I will be using technical terminology, which I have attempted to explain, but if you're not all that into science or don't want to hear a whole lot about temperature scales and states of matter, you might want to skip this one.

Anyway.  Today my chemistry lecture started the subject of gases and gas laws, so my instructor (who, sadly, is a temporary one who is leaving after this Friday to be replaced by the person who was originally supposed to teach this class) did a demo showing what happens when a balloon is cooled rapidly.  (Obviously I understood the gas law stuff VERY well.)  And she showed some other cool stuff that had nothing to do with what we were covering but it was AWESOME so whatever.

Anyway, she started with 3 balloons and did the same thing with each one in succession.  These balloons were not filled with helium, though.  They were filled with oxygen.  I'm going to assume anybody reading this knows what oxygen is, and if you don't, bless your heart and go Google it.  For those not in the know, it is possible for oxygen to exist in a solid and liquid state as well as the typical gaseous state, but it has to be very, very, VERY cold.  To explain how cold it is, I have to explain absolute zero and the Kelvin temperature scale and how it relates to Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Absolute zero is a theoretical temperature (I think it's been done in laboratory conditions) at which all molecular movement stops.  What I mean by this is that when water freezes, the molecules are in a solid formation, but they are still vibrating.  Not so with absolute zero.  Absolute zero is typically used along with the Kelvin temperature scale.  The degrees of the Kelvin scale are the same size as the degrees on the Celsius scale, so going up 1 on the Kelvin scale is just adding 1 to the converted number on Celsius.  0 K is absolute zero.  That is -273.15 degrees Celsius, or -459.67 on the Fahrenheit scale.  That is unfathomably cold.  Anyway, if the temperature on the Kelvin scale was 1 K (degrees are not used in the Kelvin scale), the temperature on the Celsius scale would be -272.15 degrees Celsius.  Conversely, 0 degrees Celsius is 273.15 K, and 1 degree Celsius is 274.15 K.   I think I've made my point.

Oxygen exists as a gas at room temperature (22 degrees Celsius is considered standard room temperature, it's about 72 degrees Fahrenheit), that is something that is taken for granted.  The freezing point of oxygen is 54.36 K (-222.65 degrees C), and the boiling point is 90.19 K (-182.96 degrees C).  This means oxygen exists as a liquid between 54.36 K and 90.19 K.  In case you haven't caught on, that is VERY VERY VERY cold.  On this planet, oxygen cannot exist as a liquid or a solid except in laboratory settings.  I saw liquid oxygen with my own eyes today.

So, back to the oxygen balloons, which, by the way, do not float!  How cool is that?  Pure oxygen is heavier than air, since air is about 78% nitrogen, which has a lower atomic weight than oxygen.  (Oxygen only makes up about 21% of our atmosphere.)  Anyway, she took a balloon and placed it on a table at the front of the room, then grabbed a jug of liquid nitrogen (exists as a liquid between 63.15 K (-210.00 degrees C) and 77.355 K (-195.795 degrees C)), poured some into a styrofoam cup, and then took that and poured it over the balloon, which shrank dramatically before our eyes, because the volume of the gas inside of it had decreased with a decrease in temperature.  They didn't put anything to catch the nitrogen, either, so it beaded, rolled off the table, and sizzled and steamed as it fell to the carpet, where it made very solid plopping noises as it boiled its way back to vapor.  Coolest thing I have ever seen, I could have watched her do that all day.  Anyway, she very quickly cut the balloon open, and poured the condensed (liquid) oxygen into a beaker to show us.  It was boiling and sizzling.  Apparently it is paramagnetic, which I didn't fully understand, but it followed a magnet she ran along the underside of the container and even stuck to it (sizzling and boiling the whole time) when she dunked the magnet in there.  AND IT IS PALE BLUE.  How cool is that?!

Anyway, she did that twice more, only she dunked cotton balls in the liquid oxygen this time and set them on fire.  They sparked like sparklers on steroids.  Seriously, this was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life.

As an aside, I'm pretty sure things like metals can also exist as a vapor.  Silver, for instance.  Silver is kind of the same thing as ice - all ice is is solid water, it's a state of being.  The point at which silver becomes a liquid is 961.93 degrees C (1763.474 degrees F), and the point at which it boils (in other words, becomes a GAS) is 2212.0 degrees C (4013.6 degrees F).  Silver can exist as a vapor.  (For reference, the sun's surface temperature is 5504.85 degrees C or 9940.73 degrees F.)  So for silver to exist as a vapor, it would have to be about half the temperature of the sun's surface (the core of the sun is 15.7 million K).  That's pretty hot.  BUT IT COULD HAPPEN.  Somewhere out there in this big, big universe, there is a place where silver exists as a vapor.  Hell, there could be a place with beings living on it that BREATHE silver.

Anyway, I've pretty much exhausted my science excitement for tonight.  I needed to share this whole thing with liquid oxygen, though.  Because seriously, that was cool as hell.  (I'm not changing my major, though.  I would be a horrible chemist.)

Music Post

This is not a real post and will have no useful information.  I have acquired my own transportation (not in my name, but that's another matter) and must therefore have tunes for when I'm finally not scared to have the radio on.  I wanted to share my playlists (I have to make CDs because the stereo doesn't have an aux thingy), so ... I'm sharing them.  Yay.

Happy Playlist
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
Pharrell Williams - Happy
Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Marianas Trench - All To Myself
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
Sublime - Santeria
John Mayer - No Such Thing
Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment
Josh Turner - Would You Go With Me
Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up
Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi - I See The Light (from Tangled)
Idina Menzel - Let It Go (from Frozen)

Nostalgia Playlist
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Eve 6 - Inside Out
Tonic - If You Could Only See
Semisonic - Closing Time
Robyn - Show Me Love
Everything - Hooch
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
Hootie and the Blowfish - Hold My Hand
Matchbox Twenty - 3 A.M.
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Smash Mouth - Walking On The Sun
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Jewel - Foolish Games
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
Tal Bachman - She's So High
Train - Meet Virginia

Silly Playlist
They Might Be Giants - Why Does The Sun Shine?
Weird Al Yankovic - The Saga Begins
Voltaire - The USS Make Shit Up
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Radio Mix)
Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains
The Lonely Island - I Just Had Sex (feat. Akon)
PSY - Gangnam Style
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
The Lonely Island - I'm On a Boat (feat. T-Pain)
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Voltaire - Screw The Okampa! (I Want to Go Home)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul
Moosebutter - Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man)
Jonathan Coulton - Chiron Beta Prime
GladOS - Still Alive
Voltaire - Death Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil, Song)
Psychostick - We Ran Out of CD Space

Rock Playlist
30 Seconds To Mars - Closer To The Edge
Incubus - Warning
Coheed & Cambria - The Running Free
Eve 6 - Here's To The Night
30 Seconds To Mars - Hurricane (feat. Kanye West)
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Muse - Starlight
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Everclear - Santa Monica
The Refreshments - Mekong
Owl City - Fireflies
Daughtry - Home
30 Seconds To Mars - From Yesterday
Coheed & Cambria - Feathers
Incubus - I Wish You Were Here
Serj Tankian - Sky Is Over
Coheed & Cambria - The Suffering
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings And Queens

I'm very musical today!

Gigantic Update Woooooo

I wasn't kidding when I said I suck at the whole "keeping up with a blog" thing.  So, things I didn't talk about when I posted last was actual life stuff.  So I'm going to start with that before the other things (I have pictures to post).

For those not in the know (so basically anybody who doesn't talk to me regularly or doesn't actually know me IRL or isn't my friend on Facebook), Matt and I are staying with his parents for the summer.  We moved in May 18th, and we move out August 7th.  We have 23 days to go!  You better believe I'm counting every second.  Honestly, it's not horrible, I just feel a little more restricted than I like, and I'm not used to living under someone else's rules, being 27 and all.  We had some initial bumps, and now we're either smoothing out or nobody is communicating anymore.  Not sure which.  In any case, that's the current living situation.

A few days before my last post, Matt and I were involved in a car accident.  Thankfully, we weren't hurt.  The truck also was not hurt.  We hurt some grass, though.  And we totally went on two wheels before we got very friendly with a ditch.  I thought we were going to roll and die, and since I'm not a ghost, I can tell you that neither of those things happened.  Basically, some girl (who I think was probably playing with her phone instead of paying attention to the damn road) randomly came into our lane (we were on a 2-lane highway going 65 mph), Matt swerved out of the way, and then she hit the two cars behind us.  She had to be medevaced to the hospital, and both other drivers also went to the hospital.  Here's what two of the cars looked like:

Red car is the girl who caused the accident, black SUV was the unfortunate guy who rolled.  Matt's dad didn't take photos of the other car or our truck because they were quite a distance away from where these two ended up.

It was a pretty scary experience, but we're fine and life goes on.  We still haven't used that road since that day, though, except when Matt's parents have been driving.

Moving on to happier things, at the beginning of June I went to a Backstreet Boys concert with my friend Erin.  We've been friends for about 18 years now, so it was a pretty cool experience.  Here's a photo:

We had a blast.  We've decided next time we have the opportunity to do this, we're taking Matt as our DD and we're going to get a little trashed and really let loose.  We totally acted like 14 year old girls instead of grown women, screaming and jumping and the like.  It was a fabulous night.

Also this summer, we went to our friends' daughter Vivian's first birthday party, which was pretty neat.  The birthday song freaked the birthday girl out and made her cry.  Aww.  We also took home from the party our other friends' daughter, Aubrey (all our friends are also friends with each other these days), who we were supposed to keep for five days and then give back, but we ended up with her for nine (and it was supposed to be like 18, but her mother couldn't stand being away for so long).  There were some family health issues Aubrey's parents were helping with, and it would have been very complicated to bring her into that situation, so we kept her since she was already with us.  Got to try on the parenting hat again and all that jazz.  We miss having her and plan to steal her again for a weekend sometime after we move.

After Aubrey went home, I went to visit Heather again for a few days, partly to get my curtains made finally and partly because we like hanging out.  While we were on the way, we stopped at a Sonic to get drinks and stuff, and we saw this:

I love classic cars.  They are just awesome.  They don't make them pretty like that anymore.

When Heather's grandma found out how much the fabric I bought cost, she decided to just do all the sewing herself, so I learned all about pinning.  Pinning takes longer than the actual sewing.  I spent probably five hours pinning, and I think she spent maybe a total of 30 minutes sewing.  But they're done and they're gorgeous and it is just killing me that I can't hang them until August.  And I kind of need to buy a curtain rod still.  Ha.  Here's a picture of the curtains hanging up:

I still have to iron them (oh goody) before I can hang them, so I'm going to have to leave them here until we buy a curtain rod and then I'll have to come back over to Matt's parents' house and borrow their iron because we don't own an iron.  I don't iron anything!  I love these curtains, and even though they cost a bazillion dollars, it was money well spent because they should last a long time and they're exactly what I wanted and I'll use them forever.

Speaking of things I'll use forever, I'm almost done making my Christmas tree skirt.  I underestimated how much yarn I'd need and need to buy another skein of the sparkly green I've been using to finish it off, but I'm just about there.  Here's the process (begun June 24th, last picture taken today):

Here's some other projects that are either finished or near completion:

Matt's Christmas stocking, two ornaments, purple placemat and matching coaster (all of these things are finished), and the pink placemat is nearly finished.

In terms of crafty things, it's been a pretty productive  few weeks.  I need to get a move on on the placemats, though, because I'd like to have those ready to go when we get moved.  I also want the tree skirt done before school starts so I don't have to scramble to finish it when it comes time to put the tree up for Christmas this year.

I guess I've exhausted the topics of life stuff (not much is happening so not exactly a whole lot to tell) and crafts (I still haven't finished that pillow, either, because I'm afraid to mess it up), so I guess I'll move on to weather stuff.  I'm still not paying a whole lot of attention to things, but I will say that it's currently unseasonably cool for Kansas right now and it's amazing.  I should be outside enjoying it but that requires wearing real clothes and I don't wanna make the effort.  I might try later though, when there's less sunlight.  What a vampire, ha.  I do have a lot of cloud pictures to show, though, since it's hard not to pay attention to the sky with that whole always being there thing.

June 25, 2014 - I took this because the clouds reminded me of the clouds Pixar uses a lot in their movies and it made me really happy.  This was the best picture I could get, since we were going 70 mph on the highway and things like trees and hills kept getting in my way.

June 26, 2014 - Not weather related, but we had an inch worm in the garage and he excited me greatly.  I made Matt take him to a plant (he was climbing the doorjamb) so he would have a chance of survival.

June 29, 2014 - Believe it or not, I actually took this picture with my cell phone camera, since that's all I had with me.  These mammatus clouds were part of a supercell that produced a tornado (I don't think it did much damage if any) later on in the evening.  I took this at about 8:30 PM.  Best mammatus cloud picture I've ever taken.

July 7, 2014 - Even with the edit, I can't make the picture look like it did in person.  The clouds were gorgeous.  The weather wasn't anything very special, just kind of wet and then just stupid hot because it's Kansas and it's July.

So, overall, nothing particularly special, looking forward to the next 3 weeks hopefully going by very, very fast.  Next week, we're going to see about getting my favorite ring repaired.  I haven't been able to wear it in 3 years because the band snapped (thankfully palm side) while I was vacuuming.  Yay.

Other than that, nothing exciting going on except laundry and crocheting until August gets here.  (Laundry never does seem to have an end.)

Project Overload

So I am not very good at making the time to formulate a post. See, it takes away from the crocheting, and that’s primarily what I want to do right now. I never get to make pretty things during the school year because I’m so focused on school and everything and being exhausted and cranky and I can’t work on an involved project during that time. But this summer… this is the summer of the projects. (I’m going to need to write another post later about stuff in my life instead of just crafts and weather.)

So many projects. I’m making Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon for my friend Heather, I've already made a Pinhead pincushion for Sondra (she’s actually paying me for that one because she’s giving it to someone I don’t know), I decided I’m making all those Christmas decorations I've been wishing I could make, I currently have 5 blankets in progress at the moment, I made mittens for myself to match a scarf I made, I made mittens for Matt’s mother, I’m making Matt’s mother a potholder (possibly 2), I’m making bookmarks for Heather (and maybe even myself), placemats, coasters, and I made myself a pincushion today and started Matt's Christmas stocking.  Here's a picture of all the smaller projects (some are completed and inaccessible and I didn't feel like digging all the blankets out).

These are all the small projects I'm in the process of or have completed recently - Matt's Christmas stocking, a potholder, a pincushion, a Pinhead pincushion, coasters, a placemat, and Toothless.

This is what all the parts of Matt's Christmas stocking look like right now.  I'm starting to worry if it's going to be way tinier than I expected.

Aside from all the crocheting, I’m also learning to sew this summer with the goal of making curtains for the sliding glass door in our apartment. Because I hate blinds with every fiber of my being and I’m sick of living in places with blinds. So my solution has become to make or buy curtains and move the blinds to where they can’t really be seen. I still need to buy or make curtains for the living room and office for the new place, but I need to be there so I can measure those. To the end of learning how to sew, Matt’s mother suggested I take some of my smaller pieces of fabric and make a pillow with them. I think she was expecting me to make something really simple because I’m pretty new at this, but I made this instead, and I think it’s pretty fabulous.

Hark!  A pillow!

Only problem is I didn't sew it in the right direction and the corners are all open and I don’t know how to hand sew at all yet so I can’t close it up. Here’s a view of the predicament this thing has ended up being in.

It also ended up crooked when it started out straight and with all pieces being equally sized.  I don't know what happened.

At least it's pretty, right?

Hopefully Matt’s mother will either have the time soon to help me or my book will arrive and I’ll be able to work independently. She’s not giving me as much instruction as I was hoping she would, so I think I might forego learning how to do it on the sewing machine and either just sew all three curtains by hand or have Heather help me at her house. I don’t know. I was hoping this project would be a chance to kind of get to know Matt’s mother a little better or maybe help us communicate more effectively, because I often feel a little shut out or brushed off by her, and I don’t know if it’s because she’s keeping me at arm’s length because I’m just her son’s girlfriend or if I’m just being crazy. Her method of teaching pretty much involves a quick rundown of where the parts go on the sewing machine and a quick “good luck!” before she runs off to do her own thing. And I’m left alone with this terrifying, daunting project. By no means was I expecting her to do any of the work, but I was expecting her to be a little more involved when she agreed to help me. But it’s okay. I’ll do it on my own and it’ll be fine. I’m probably being oversensitive, anyway. It’s not like I know how to deal with mother-type people in the first place. Anyway, here’s the fabric I’m trying to turn into curtains.

  

And I even artfully draped one of the sections! 

This is what it looks like when the sun shines through it.

On the meteorology front, I've gotten some pretty nice cloud pictures lately, taken a few videos. I feel like I’m forgetting everything I learned over the last several months, which scares me because I don’t want to end up with an empty head all over again. Especially not now that I’ve transferred schools and I’m going to the big, scary one instead of the small, laid-back one. Maybe I push myself too hard during the school year and that’s why I don’t want to look at or open any of my books during the summer. Or maybe it’s because I have horrible study habits from high school and I suck and don’t want to do things I need to do to get the things I want long-term. Ugh. I’m also thinking of double majoring, so I’d be majoring in both atmospheric science and mathematics. Because I’m totally insane.

We've been having some decent stormy weather of late, I don’t remember it storming this often at all last summer. I’m hoping we’re finally leaving the drought we've been in, because I really don’t want to experience Dust Bowl conditions first hand. Reading about it and watching videos of it was plenty. My weather radio even went off today right before we got the severe thunderstorms, though I think the chunk of the squall line that went through our area wasn't actually severe, it wasn't very exciting. Lots of lightning, though, so I’m glad I chose to stay in the house this time. I need to buckle down and make time to read my meteorology textbook from last fall and make sure it’s all fresh before school starts, since I’m only taking the lab and not the lecture of the introductory meteorology course. I hope I’m actually good at this instead of crappy at it like I feel right now. I haven’t been paying attention to the weather and I forgot everything I learned about the forecast models so I haven’t even tried looking at them and I have been pretty much entirely focused on crocheting lately. I’m allowed to have other interests, right? So if that’s true, then I shouldn't suck for not paying attention to the weather every single day. I hope. I don’t know.

I’m done with my crisis. Here’s some cloud pictures and stuff.

Still Alive!

Sorry I suck at posts.  It's because I'm laaaaazy.

Going to try to make a real post soon.  In case anyone cared or was wondering.  Since I'm not an exciting person at all.

Decided to change the name and url of the blog to something that fits me like a glove.  Even though technically I'm not a meteorologist yet, I'm a meteorology student, but this title was catchier.  :P

Expect the next post to be about crocheting projects and storm photos/videos.

I'm out!

Earth Science and Exhaustion

It has been awhile since I last wrote anything. This would be because between moving insanity, deciding to enroll in the summer semester, choosing a major, and putting in notice at Walmart, I haven’t really had time to devote to writing in my blog. I need to get back into writing more often, however, as I have to write speeches this fall for Public Speaking, and because I will be taking a creative writing class in the spring. I need to get my creative juices flowing so my crazy ass can write and learn all of the science at the same time.

Basically, everything is happening right now. I’m currently taking Intro to Earth Science. This is a 5 credit hour class. (Four hours for the lecture and one for the lab.) The summer version of this class is 5 weeks long. This is incredibly intense. My poor brain. Two days into this class, I decided I would in fact be choosing Earth Science as my major, which I have now done. I’m still deciding if I want to continue having it be a Bachelor of Arts or if I want to switch it to Bachelor of Science – I don’t particularly want to take ten hours of foreign language.

Today, I stayed after to ask my professor some questions about what I need to do to prepare for the Meteorology class I’m taking this fall since we’re going to zip right through the atmospheric science section in the intro class (primarily due to the extremely compressed nature of this class – we’re covering a chapter per day, on average, sometimes two), and she gave me some advice regarding that: scour the chapters in the book I already have, try to get the book for the Meteorology class as early as possible and read through it, that kind of thing. She also talked to me about some of the stuff that I need to worry about for the test I’m taking tomorrow morning (we have a test every Friday for the lecture and a test every Tuesday for the lab), particularly the geologic time scale because I’m a little fuzzy on that and that’s mostly what the test is over. Then she told me that I’m doing fine in the class (I feel like I’m not retaining this information well at all because I’m making more mistakes than I would like to be – I’m not used to making several mistakes on assignments), and that I actually have the highest grade in the class. I’m just floored by that, because I was completely convinced that I am not doing well at all, but apparently I’m doing amazing. She also said that I have definitely picked the right major, and that I’m doing very well in the accelerated version of this class, and that while she wouldn't recommend most majors to take this class in the summer (it’s a prerequisite for everything else), I am handling it very well because I’m so intelligent, and it shouldn't be a problem when I’m taking other classes related to my major.

I leave class giddy every day (or annoyed that I don’t understand topographic maps very well), and I just love all of this stuff. I’d probably love it more if I wasn't so tired, though. I’m working on fixing that, though, as I put in notice at Walmart (it’s just killing me to keep working there, and I feel like I’m doing something totally insane by quitting my job, but I can feel my joints breaking down and it’s killing time I could be spending doing homework or going to bed at a decent hour)… I have three shifts to go – tomorrow, Saturday, and next Wednesday, and then I’m done. I’m not saying more because I don’t really want to burn bridges in case I crash and burn and fail out of college (I’m basically becoming Hermione – my boggart would totally be a professor telling me I've failed everything), because then I’ll need a job.

Many people have asked me how I’m planning on supporting myself – I have financial aid and the best, most supportive boyfriend in the world. This summer is going to be kind of sucky, but I think we’ll be okay. At some point, I need to find the time to redo the budget I made a couple of weeks ago because it ended up not working on a pretty grand scale. It was great in theory, but lacked a gas for the car budget and would work better if we only had one bank account. So it’s a great individual budget and a horrible two person, two account budget. Plus, I’m not very organized.

We've been doing pretty well around the house – I've managed to totally avoid having to use the garbage disposal here because Matt is always the person who runs it. He’s such a good guy. I need to clean really bad because everything is so cluttered right now – we don’t know where to put everything. We lost my umbrella for a month because I forgot Heather put it in the furnace closet. We have a great symbiotic relationship here, though, and I can’t speak for Matt (he’s not even here right now, he’s visiting his parents today), but I’m very happy with being here and living with him. Having him not be here last night was like missing part of myself, everything was just wrong.

I don’t have much to say, sorry this is so boring. Too tired to be hilarious.