Well, it's officially begun, and the countdown begins. Metaphorically speaking. I'm not going to count the days until there's a month left I think. To catch everyone up, Chad left yesterday on a study abroad for his major. He'll be in Cairo, Egypt until August 3, at which point we will be joyously reunited. I'm actually glad that it's finally begun. It was horrible just waiting around, watching as April 23 loomed nearer and nearer, having ever more frequent mini heart attacks and building tissue-mountains on the floor by our bed at night. Now, we're finally in it, checking off the days and getting it done. I feel way more like AA member than I thought I would. "One day at time."
I get kind of scatter-brained with big changes. This morning I misplaced a piece of bread and later found it on a stack of papers on the desk. Cool. Later, I came to campus to use a computer, but found all the labs closed. So, I walked to the Provo library to use their crappy computers and realized that the Harold B. Lee Library on campus always has an open computer lab (when the library's open anyway, and it definitely is). So smart. So, I trekked back up to campus and now sit in an HBLL lab, writing up this post.
Yesterday was hard. I filled up my time painting the living room. I was literally on my feet from 10am until about 10:30pm painting and cleaning up (with a dinner break in there somewhere). At first, I really didn't like the new color. It was much darker than I thought it was going to be, and I began to despair at the first brushstroke, just sure that even when it dried, it was going to be the ultra bright and saturated blue that then marked the wall. But, this morning, I was pleasantly surprised (ok, ecstatic) to see that it had fully cured and dried in the night to a much tamer and quieter blue :)
Pictures!
Icky and depressing before
Lovely and light after
(Do you like our giant, dinosaur heater? I'll tell you what; that thing gets the job done.)
Doesn't it look so good?! I am quite happy to no longer live in a masking tape-yellow dungeon. I love the light and airy feel of the living room now, after giving those dingy, gross walls a little TLC.Well, a lot of TLC.
Anyways. Hope you're all doing well. I'll be back from time to time with Chad updates, me updates, and ...you know, whatever.
It's awesome that he gets to go to Cairo, but stinks that you guys are apart :( Last year, Danny and I were separated for over 2 months before we were married (I was home and he was doing APX in Corpus Christi). We reunited a day before our wedding in Florida. It's no fun, but when it's over, it always feels like it flew by.
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