Saturday

HELLO.

I missed blogging yesterday. OOPS. I didn't feel like doing it last night, and I justified myself by thinking that you (Julia) hadn't posted yet. BUT. I should have done it anyway.

YEAH.

So yesterday was a PLEASANT one. It started EARLY (especially for a Saturday). I went to this place to do some volunteer work. WOW. That was SPECIFIC, Leah. MORE DETAILS: There's this church that has this house called Hope Central, where they serve the community there church is in. They do things like watching kids after school and giving things away and WHATEVER. Yesterday morning they were having a clothes share. I didn't know what they meant, but it TURNS OUT that it's a yard sale where you don't charge people for the clothes. So I went there EARLY IN THE MORNING and helped lay out clothes and stuffed animals and shoes and things, then hung around for a bit while people came to get stuff. BUT THEN it started to rain, and we had to take everything inside VERY QUICKLY. I got pretty soaked. AS DID ERIC. And, Julia, you know how I feel about men in the rain, right? RIGHT?! Eric looked FREAKING SEXY. But I managed to NOT jump his bones, so congratulations to me. However, I also did NOT manage to not look like a drowned rat, so congratulations to me are negated.

ANYWAY. After that, Eric and I met up with my parents, uncle, and sister for lunch at Don Pablo's (AIAIAIAI). My parents were in town to look at places for me to live next year (again). I couldn't go with them to look since I was at the clothes share thing. I don't know. I'm honestly just STRESSED about the whole finding a place to live thing. I just want it DONE. I want to KNOW where I'm going to be. BUT. I really shouldn't be that stressed because I'm LUCKY in that my parents are doing basically everything for me. YEAH.

ANYWAY. After lunch, I went back by my dorm to get my homework. I brought that to Eric's but didn't end up doing any of it because Sydney called me. She initially called to tell me that she's going to Belize, which she was really excited about. BUT THEN she started talking to me about some issues she's having. Yeah...it turned into a REALLY long conversation. A DIFFICULT conversation, too, because I was trying to NOT tell her how I really felt about everything. And I BASICALLY succeeded, although the truth SOMETIMES slipped out.

Then I had to go back to my dorm so that I could make myself pretty for the formal. Limited success on that. Then Eric picked me up. He helped set up the tech stuff. I helped a bit with food stuff...they were missing chips and plates, so I took a couple of trips to the store to get those things. Then the party started. We ate food. We danced (well, he danced...I flailed). We watched the slideshow (which turned out really well!). We sat for the senior superlatives. Danced/flailed some more. Then we left and hung out in my dorm room for a bit, then he left to go home. And then *I* did some work on the Sekrit Project (that is no longer a secret) and went to bed early (well...sort of...it was 1:30).

AND THAT WAS MY DAY. Yeah. I just did an about my day blog. SORRY. I just wasn't feeling INSPIRED. Oooh. I should have done Survey Sunday. SAD. Maybe I'll do Survey Monday instead.

In response to your comments:

Don't worry about not blogging on BEDABuds for two weeks! I still say you have a legit excuse for BOTH weeks. But I hope you'll come back this week! :)

THANKS for being SURPRISED that I'd be doing a lot of taking in my relationship. I'm a BIT surprised you'd say that, given how LAME I am in our friendship on a pretty regular basis. But I don't know...I know I definitely AM really selfish in our relationship. Part of it is because of those THINGS. You know, the social customs of what a guy is supposed to do for a girl. SO for a long time, he was paying for ALL OF MY MEALS. And considering how much we hang out, that's a BIG DEAL. But now I'll SOMETIMES pay for his meals, which is a good start in me being less lame and stuff. And then there's the simple things like holding open doors and stuff. AND ALSO. I'm always getting UPSET about stuff, and he's always having to CONSOLE me or whatever. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?! I should be HAPPY and allow HIM to be HAPPY but instead I get upset about stupid stuff so that he can't have fun when he's with me, YOU KNOW?! And then I'm always DEMANDING that he VALIDATE me or whatever. All like, "TELL ME WHY I AM AWESOME!" I should just tell HIM why HE is awesome, and be comfortable enough in myself to not have to demand that all the time, you know? Although there will be PLENTY of me telling him why he's awesome in the Sekrit Project (that is no longer so secret). And then there's all the LITTLE things that probably STARTED mainly because I'm always hanging out at his place. So, it's like the normal HOST things, like getting me something to drink or being in charge of cooking dinner or getting me a blanket or WHATEVER, but now that I'm more comfortable in his place, I should be doing things like that for him more often...at least as often as he does them for me. AND THEN there's just little stuff that I COULD do, but I usually don't. Like buying him something small, leaving him nice messages, giving him massages, ETC. I should do these things more! UNFORTUNATELY, I'm finding with this goal that I'm not very CREATIVE. I have trouble of thinking of things to do for him! WHICH IS NOT GOOD.

Yeah, I guess that's true. Like your brother, I'd be freaked out to see someone in the hospital. I'd probably GO (depending on how close we were), but I definitely wouldn't LIKE it or be COMFORTABLE with it. And you could try giving blood! I feel like your iron might be too low with the vegetarian thing you've got going, but you can always take iron or vitamins for that. So yeah...go for it! Personally, I'm way too chicken. I'm afraid it will make me throw up. I think I could actually deal with it if it made me pass out, but NOT if it made me throw up. That's another reason why it was nice to help Eric after...he was doing something that I SHOULD do but haven't and I was able to make the experience less horrible for him. I did TRY to give blood once. My iron was too low. ALTHOUGH. I really didn't WANT to give it anyway. I went out of peer pressure. #sadfacts

It wouldn't be so bad that he's IN the apartment if he stuck to his room more! BUT. It's okay. We're ADJUSTING.

Oh man. I feel like these comments back are forth are going to become like the crazy comments we used to leave each other on the ning. Remember how LONG those things were? Actually, I've still got a few of them saved to my computer. hah

ANYWAY. BYE.

-Leah