purging

Kevin and I just made it back to Muncie.  It is nice to be home, but it was lovely to be able to spend lots of time with both of our families.  

Today I am cleaning out my house.  I know that are at least five condiment containers that have exceeded their expiration date, hundreds of pieces of paper with information on them that I no longer need or want, drawers and closets that need to be reorganized, and old clothes that wish to be donated to Goodwill.  Things tend to accumulate over the semester, and I finally have the time to attend to the disaster area.  My goal is to be done before January 1st, so that I can start off the new year clean and tidy.

Kevin wants to sell some things on Craig's List as well.  I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better if we just waited and tried having a yard sale in the spring, but I don't see how trying to get rid of a few things before then could hurt.

Really I'm just writing this blog to avoid the disaster of a closet that I have.  A few months ago Moses knocked all of my hanging clothes, and most of the items on the shelves off while trying to get up to the top shelf were I kept excess cat food.  Today is the day that I finally clean it up. Ugh.

the best things.

-sam (my not quite two-year-old nephew) has a tradition of giving every one kisses before he goes to bed.  i guess while he has been living out in kansas, his kisses have been a little bit more selective, so i didn't expect him to be quite so willing to give them out to kevin.  during his rounds to every one before bed last night, he came up to me to give me a kiss, taking his pacifier out of his mouth because he knew that i would not accept such a barrier to our bed time kiss. them i said, "go give kevin a kiss!" and he ran right over to him and planted a big wet one on his cheek.  it was so wonderful.

-we are out of bedrooms at my parents house, so i had to sleep on the couch last night.  milo slept in kevin's room with him, but we figured moses could be trusted to roam the house last night.  even though she could have gone anywhere and done anything, she still chose to cuddle up with me on the tiny little couch and sleep.  i think she must like me or something.

-my brother-in-law kory, kevin, and i played scrabble last night.  at one point, i only had to use one letter (the letter "a") and it gave me forty-two points on the board. i still lost the game.

-sleeping on the couch has it's benefits.  although i was woken up by my mom quite early, she was cooking, and my nose was filled with delicious smells immediately.  

-kevin has a stocking over my family's fire place now. it was the first thing i noticed when i waked in the door, and it was lovely. 

here you go, ellen.

bah. this is not going to be a happy post. this week was finals week. i was finished with tests by wednesday morning, and finished with everything by wednesday night. i thought i had a pretty easy finals week. but today has absolutely kicked my butt, and it isn't even 11:00.

i am working in four different computer labs today. since i won't be able to work next week, i picked up a lot of hours to make up for the hours i will lose. this morning i was at the business building lab from 8am-10am. walking to the lab was awful. it was raining ice, and it was too dark to see puddles that i needed to avoid.

i had another shift at 10:00 across campus, and i was really hoping that whoever was going to take over for me would come early. he didn't. so i basically had to run as fast as i could to the other lab. i got there a few minues late, which was not that big of a deal.

almost immediately after i sat down though my boss called the lab saying, "the person that was supposed to cover the shift at northquad never showed up. jenna you need to go and cover for that person there." oy. i have an hour break at noon (hopefully) and then i'll be working from 1-6pm.

tonight i am making kevin cook dinner. and i might just finish off the three beers i have in my fridge.

read some happy stuff here:
-i think i'm going to make the dean's list this semester. both kevin and my father may be the only two people that care about this, but i think at least they are excited.
-i read franny and zooey all the way through yesterday. today i am reading nine stories. it has been so nice.
-milo learned a new trick. i'm not going to tell you what it is because we want to impress our family members with it over break and i don't want to ruin the surprise. but just trust me on this one- he is such a cute dog when he does it.
-i think i'm going to go visit my fiance and eat delicious chinese food on my break today. he'll probably be really busy at work, but i'll be happy to just see his face and stuff mine with lo mein.
-i got paid.
-someday i am going to work up the courage to bake these cookies.

nothing all that new.

it is getting close to the end of the semester. which means I no longer can procrastinate. sigh.

i miss my sister.  it was weird not seeing her over thanksgiving.

i miss ellen.  she's coming over to cook with me tonight.  we are making 44 clove garlic soup and oatmeal coconut cookies. we didn't get to cook together last week because of the holiday.

i cut my hair a little.  the scissors are a temptation every time i look at them. i just could resist.

my conflict and communications professor told me that i was very good at handling conflict today in my final.  and not in the, "must pay every one a generic compliment" kind of way. she gave us a conflict scenario between two people, and we had to pick a partner, and work through the conflict. i think she was genuinely pleased with how i handled myself.  it made me feel really good.  i guess i might be picking a good career for myself.

i found christmas ornaments at meijer that are the exact colors that i picked for the wedding.  i begged kevin to let me get them. it was fun to pick all of them out and look at them next to each other.  we didn't buy them, but i'm still tempted. 

we made a really delicious curry sauce yesterday for dinner.  1 cup of water, 1 tablespoon of curry powder, 1 teaspoon of cayenne, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and a dash of salt.  heat that all up, then add some corn starch to thicken it.  we poured it over rice.  it was sweet, and the spicy. we have an excess of curry powder, so we'll probably make it a lot in the coming days.