Thank God it's Saturday

Wow, this has been one helluva busy week! Even with J at work yesterday I was still running around for the better part of the day. I actually woke up at 6am and went to work with him - for which he was happy because he got to sleep in the car while I drove. I needed to fill a prescription at the base clinic, which opens at 7:30am so I just went along and read a book in a back room until they opened. I was in and out like a flash, no waiting, nothing. I think I'll always go early when I have prescriptions to fill there.

Thursday was just nuts. We went to the shop to try and pull the back left rotor off J's crashed car since mine broke in two, yes I'm not kidding, the wheel has been dragging for ages. Now while that means I've only had three working brakes and only one tire pushing my RWD car I have been able to do the most amazing drifts for a car with no LSD. But sadly that's no more because the new rotor is fitted on the car, no more sliding for now unless I really put my mind to it. We had to use a big flat head screwdriver looking power tool to cut off the panel behind the door just to get the tire out. (The reason that car is hitched up down at the shop is because it was totalled when someone rearended it.) We also took off the aftermarket struts and springs. The plan is for J to put them on his car and I'll get his Intrac suspension setup. I was filthy by the time we left. I feel off a car I was trying to climb over and banged up my knee and I also sliced my arm a bit on some jagged metal from where we had to cut away. Sometimes I really do with I was stronger then I could pull most of these nuts and bolts off myself!

Wednesday was just as bad. J and I spent most of the day hauling around 2 sets of rims and 8 tires in Luan's truck - he's Pam's boyfriend - and boy was I exhausted after that. At one point while we were waiting on the tires to be mounted on the rims and then I balanced I gave up and went to sit in the air conditioning in the truck :-) Besides it has a CD player and since the one in my car is still busted, hey I had to take advantage of it for the short time we had the truck.

Interspersed with all of that I've been playing the Sims 2 as usual. Now I've figured out how you can check out my sims page and see what I've been up to: http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/mysimpage.php?user_id=115821

Tonight we're going to try to go to the state fair. Last night J and I went to see "Saw" with the Shift_ Sideways gang. That movie was so harrowing it gave me a headache! I had to snatch two Advil from the bathroom afterwards before we went cruising. So I definitely need some moderate excitement tonight LOL

• Mood:we're going to the fair!
• Music:Usher - Caught Up (Launchcast)

Sim Accomplishments

Well today has been a busy day in Simsville. It's a pity that I can't make a link to my page over at TheSims2.com because then you could actually see what I've been doing with the various neighborhoods. Anyway, day before yesterday I'd made the Miller family. Cooper, the grandfather with a hunger for knowledge, his son Jacob, a knowledge buff as well, Jacob's wife Peaches, regular home-maker and their teenager daughter Julie who's intent on being Ms. Popularity.

Well the Miller's had a gardner named Meredith and before I realized what was happening, Cooper had romanced her and she was hanging out after work everytime she came over to do the lawns. So I said what the hell, and got them into bed together. And now they're married. Since Meredith and Peaches' is on her third child I figured I'd move grandpa out into his own house. And that's what I spent most of the day building :-)

On the school front, I still haven't heard back from the director of the MA program at LSUS with news about what immigration status I'd have to be in. I just hope that I won't have to pay that out of state tuition fee, $4000+ may not seem like alot to some but it's only J and myself to foot the bills and deal with life. So I do pray I get the in state tuition because that'll be the only way I can afford to do a masters. The way I see it, I got my BA without going into debt, no sense starting now.

• Mood:We're going out for dinner!
• Music:The Golden Girls on Lifetime

Dishwashers etc

The dishwasher is such a fabulous invention. Normally just wash all the dishes when I wake up and stick them in the dishwasher to dry since it saves space not having a drainer on the counter. J and I don't generate that much dirty stuff, especially when he's off working days but yesterday I cooked lunch and dinner and we had our neighbors over for some Jamaican food. Loooots of pots and pans and dishes, so I just rinsed them off and chucked 'em in the dishwasher. I mean it comes free with the apartment so why not? :-P

In other news, I'm seriously considering applying to LSUS to start my MA this spring. I'd do an MA in liberal arts and the good news is that I don't have to take the GRE to apply. When the director of the MA program called me back with that good news I nearly leapt to the ceiling with joy (1. because it's so expensive to take the general GRE much less a subject test, 2. that'd be some hard core studying to get everything in before Dec 11 and 3. I never do very well on standardized tests especially multiple choice tests)

Now I just need to call to find out which visa I need, if I need one at all. I hope not because instate tuition is SO much cheaper!!! *crossing fingers*

• Mood:my stomach's in knots
• Music:Talib Kweli f/ M.J. Blige - I Try

Blasted hormones

If you're a girl you'll know exactly what I mean. That one weel before the actual hell begins where you feel that the least infraction could diminish you to tears or make you scream your head off and you just feel quite unstable. That and you feel the urge to eat, and eat, and eat... good God I've been eating since 5:30pm!!!! I think I'm just going to take myself off to bed now so that this madness can stop... at least for today.

• Mood:restless or haunted says J
• Music:Watching The Transporter on HBO

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I'm bad with making up headlines or subjects so I'll leave that tag up there for now. Just woke up awhile ago, have my tea in front of me and I'm going through the email motions and seeing what's happening in Jamaica. God Bless the internet for that else I'd be so behind. Unlike my best friend in New York, who can tune into a Jamaican television station I have to catch my news on websites like the Jamaica Observer or the Jamaica Gleaner.

Jennifer and Tony's wedding was beautiful. The church was ablaze with many candles and it set quiet a romantic mode when they turned off the church lights. The ceremony was short and sweet with a liturgical dance and songs sung by various members of the wedding couple's respective families. I sat on the bride's side and her family is so nice. I didn't really know anyone there but everyone started chatting with me and telling me family anecdotes, it was quite nice. I nearly lost it when they pointed out Jennifer's mother though. And during the procession when she was ushered in to take her seat it was all I could do not to bawl. Moments like that really bring it home to me that my own Mommy's gone and that even if J and I renew our vows 10,000 times she'll never be there to watch. I didn't cry though. I feel quite proud too, especially since nobody in my pew had any tissue it would've been disasterous.

After the ceremony I offered to help carry the flowers from the church to the reception (which reminds me that I now need to vaccuum my back seat) and so I raced on base to drop them off because I also had to go home to pick up clothes for J and take them on base to him at work. He cleans up so nicely that I love when we have an opportunity to get dressed up and go out even if we didn't stay very long at the reception. Thank goodness we got to the NCO club when we did because we barely managed to catch the last of the food!

I guess on one hand I was a bit down because J and I didn't have an elaborate wedding ceremony. (We got married at the house of the JP with our two friends as witnesses.) But the longer I've thought about it the happier I am that we got hitched that way. It suited us more. I thought about how people were trying to sneak into the church during the wedding procession and I think if that happened to me I may have just fainted, pitched a fit or just broke down bawling. Besides that, Jamaican wedding receptions are notoriously LONG. And God bless Jennifer and Tony's bridal party because their toasts were all short and sweet and no other family members wanted the microphone. Jamaican wedding toasts? Everybody has something to say and it's usually embarassing stories from your past or lewd jokes. In the end I'm glad we escaped that!

So congratulations Mr. & Mrs. A Burts, Jr. welcome to wonderful wedded world :-)

• Mood:calm
• Music:Talking to J on the phone