A Smattering of Miscellaneous Stuff!

Wow, is the date on that last post right? Has it really been two weeks since my last post? How the time flies. Really, I have nothing of extreme importance to write about (yet just watch as I create an uber long post). So I'm just going to blurb about anything that comes into my head.

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Loralee is engaged! You can read her engagement story here if you like. It's a bittersweet thing for me, because I have a fear of losing friends once they are married. A fear which is not without merit, I might add. We have discussed this though and I am truly happy for her and excited to help her plan the wedding. I have already volunteered, or rather stated to her that I will be doing her cake and engagement photos. She seems to be okay with that. In fact we are taking her engagement photos this weekend. My wonderful and trusting aunt and uncle let me borrow their super expensive camera for the job. I am extremely excited about using it and Loralee is very grateful too. I promised to be super careful and if anything breaks that I will happily replace it. Well, maybe not happily because I am sure that I will be really upset with myself if I were to break something. But nothing is going to break because like I said I will be extremely careful. I will post some pics once I get them retouched or whatever.

I'm a little worried about the cake. Well, not too worried but it is more intricate then the cake Loralee had originally thought she wanted. Loralee is going to create a stencil for me to give her cake a jacquard look to it that I will cut out of fondant. She wants cream on white. Will definitely be doing some practicing once she gets the stencil done. I think it's a cute idea though for her to do the stencil because then it will have a piece of her in it. I'm sure she has thought of this but then she could have the stencil reflect in her invites and whatever else she has printed to tie everything together.

Due to Loralee getting married and moving, I have been considering moving myself. Not far, hopefully still within my ward boundaries. I just don't know if I want to deal with a new strange roommate since I have lived with Tamara and Loralee for four years. It's still in the "maybe" zone of things to come. Options are that I know my friend Carrie is getting kicked out of her place soon, really soon and we've talked about how fun it would be to live together. Another is trying to convince Alyson to move down here with me when her lease is up in August and then she can take the lovely new train to school. I fear that this is a dream that will never be, though. Honestly, either of these girls would be great to live with. I feel really comfortable with Aly and hate when I have to leave her place after a nice weekend visit. My worry with Carrie and any roommate is to not live up to their expectations of a good roommate.

I've always felt that I'm the bad roommate. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are far worse roommates then me, but I'm not the most contributory especially when it comes to house-work. Though Loralee and Tamara have trained me somewhat in this area. Now I am willing, of course to clean up after myself, but I'm not a big user of other rooms in the house mostly so I don't feel the urge to clean them regularly. I kind of decided (without really talking to Loralee about it) that she could be the cleaner of the bathroom since she uses it 85% more than I do if I buy all the amenities such as toilet paper and soap. She only has to live with that arrangement for another month or so, so I think she's okay with it.

Went to Annie Get Your Gun last night with friends and it was really fun. I really want to rent the movie now. I had never seen it before. The Hale Theatre really does put on pretty good productions for what they do. I laughed a lot. All of us girls are in for Into the Woods this Fall. Let me know if anyone else wants to join.

Went home for Memorial Day weekend and it was really fun though not too relaxing even though I didn't do much. I didn't get to spend as much time with my mother as she and I would have liked. I just let myself be pulled away to do other things. I needed to pay a much asked for visit to my friend Kaysie who lives in Colorado (about two and half hours away from home) to see her new baby. Gorgeous, by the way. Then came back the same day and went straight to my grandmother's house where family had gathered for dinner and games. Julie and her mom had come up so I spent a lot of time talking to her.

The next morning I woke up late and my mom had left. On the counter was note saying "Donuts on the counter and chocolate milk in the fridge. I'll be home around noon." There were other things in there (I kind of wish I would have kept it) that I don't remember. It hit me right then how lucky I am to have such a sweet mother. I have these moments from time to time. She really is so good to me and my brother. I know that I take advantage of it and also take her for granted at times too. Like I didn't do anything for her on Mother's Day except call. She told me she didn't like mother's day anyway so it was fine. My aunt has said this too and I think it's because they think they haven't been the best mothers. Well, I for one think and I'm sure my aunt's children would agree that they are wonderful women and mothers. They did the best that they could have with the cards life dealt them.

I am always so proud of my mom for raising my brother and I alone and getting her degree and always being there for us. I never felt like my aunt begrudged me coming over after school sometimes to wait for my mom to pick me up instead of taking the school bus home. I always felt welcome there and sure it might have been to watch the wonderful cable that we didn't have at home and sure I stole a mystic mint or two, but it was still just fun to be there. And once in a while we were even invited to stay for dinner. I have lots of good memories in my aunt's house of after school visits.

Anyway, not to get off track but I hope my mom knows how much I love her and forgives me for not showing it all the time. And thanks for all the little things. I do notice them but I just might not say so all the time. Okay well, I'm sure this post is plenty long and I'm getting somewhat teary-eyed. Gotta go.