I feel like things are settling down again. Work has become more sane, and I'm thinking about picking up another course in my graduate program in the next month or so.
As a totally random aside, today I ate the best donut ever. It was a plain glazed cake donut with shredded coconut all over it. Big fan. Jenna brought it in just for me because she knows I adore them. I had one for the first time several Friday's ago and the next day I drove all over Charlotte looking for the same donut and couldn't find it. Apparently only the Gastonia Dunkin' Donuts can competently make this particular donut because the search was fruitless. I found a similar donut in Ballantyne, but the coconut shred was all wrong. It was far too fine.
I need to go to bed now, and dream of my coconut love.
He tells me that it's Nicholas William Johnson, to be exact. But he goes by Nick.
Nick works a night job. Apparently he starts at 8:06pm, because at 8:08pm he asked if I could get the desktop computer hooked up, because he said he was two minutes late for work. Nick is a video game programmer, and sports a beard (it's actually a moustache, except that he calls moustaches "beards").
Normally he'll be working a day job at the computer, except that he says that since he's new, he needs to work some overtime.
This is Nick.
Long time no write! I have been very busy with the move and I'm happy to report I am finally settled in to my new place! I took a couple of snaps to post here. One is a view of my kitchen, and two are shots of the view from my balcony. I LOVE my kitchen. It has granite counter tops, black appliances, including a flat top stove, and a hardwood floor. My favorite thing of all is the balcony. I sit out there at night and listen to the frogs, toads, and other pond life yacking it up with each other. The pool at this place is also fantastic! I's a happy camper.
Here are the pics!
I bought a new hair dryer yesterday afternoon at Target. Who knew there were so many different kinds? Hair dryers for course hair. Hair dryers for curly hair. Hair dryers for frizzy hair. I had no idea that hair dryers had moved beyond blowing air out...
I feel like all I've been doing is putting things in boxes! Argh! I found some cool pictures today in a box of the kids when they were little. It was fun showing them old pictures, except Justin told me that my hair was "weird" in a picture when I was 15.
He said, "Tristan, mom was 15 in the 80's!" Apparently that's remarkable. 
I called my parents today and told them I'd like them to visit me, because I miss them, and they booked a flight the same day! They're coming to see me in three weeks and I can't wait.
I miss my family. I wish they lived in Charlotte with me.
It's really hard to pack for a move, and then try to live among the boxes. You pack something thinking you surely won't need it in the next two weeks, and then, sure enough, you're flipping box tops open, peering down into the items, wondering where you packed it. I've done that twice since Sunday. My hair dryer broke, so I was looking for hot rollers the first time. Then, Justin's binder broke, and he needed a replacement. It took me 6 tries before I found the right box.
My friend Caroline sent me this link. These people think they're pretty bad at the beginning, but they get taken to school pretty quick. LOL.
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There's a time to live
And a time to die
There's a time to laugh
And a time to cry
There's a time for war
And a time for peace
There's a hand to hold
In the worst of these
He is with you when your faith is dead
And you can't even get out of bed
Or your husband doesn't kiss you anymore
He is with you when your baby's gone
And your house is still,
And your heart's a stone
Cryin' God, what'd You do that for
He is with you
There's a time for yes
And a time for no
There's a time to be angry
And a time to let it go
There is a time to run
And a time to face it
There is love to see you
Through all of this
He is with you in the conference room
When the world is coming down on you
And your wife and kids don't know you anymore
He is with you in the ICU
When the doctors don't know what to do
And it scares you to the core
He is with you
We may weep for a time
But joy will come in the morning
The morning light
He is with you when your kids are grown
When there's too much space
And you feel alone
And you're worried if you
got it right or wrong
Yes He is with you
when you've given up on ever finding your true love
Someone who feels like home
He is with you
When nothing else is left
And you take your final breath
He is with you
My life has been reduced to being lived on the weekends. Therefore, I live for the weekend, so I can live some semblance of a life. It's kind of dizzying to me. I've been working some yucky hours, and even though I love my job, it's hard to cram one's life into a weekend. I especially can't cram all of my schoolwork into the weekend, so I've had to put school on hold for the summer to see how things go.
Things could always be worse. I could work long hours at a job I hate.
First and foremost, Happy Mother's Day to my mom!
This article is interesting, and it's written by the woman who allowed her son to ride the subway home last year, alone. It caused an uproar in the media. I agree with her that helicopter parents are actually the greater danger to kids. In this society, when you try to do things to encourage independence in your children, you are always under the watchful eye and judgment of other mothers, evaluating your wisdom and competency. This is not a woman who is irresponsible and doesn't love her child. Quite the opposite.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/196023
Several years ago I was in the airport and picked up a copy of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones to read on the plane. It's not normally the kind of novel I read, but I was in the mood to try something different. A nice brain dead easy read, so to speak. It turns out that I really ended up enjoying the book. I just found out today that in December the movie version is being released. Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is directing it. I thought that seemed like an odd choice, but we'll see. Caroline and I have set a date for dinner and a movie to go see it. I have to shoot her my copy of the book so she can read it before then!
It's nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel. My life is approaching and almost in sight! I have one week left of school and I'm thinking of taking the first summer session off. I know that will push my graduation date out, but I have a lot going on at work, and I'm going to be moving soon. So far I've got a 99% in the course. w00t!
I'm pretty dead to the world. I need to go to sleep now.
Life has been busy lately.
Tomorrow morning I have to go to traffic court. Long story.
I entered a chili contest yesterday. I didn't win.
Today I trained my department on the DiSC personality profile system. It was great fun.
I have 5 other girls in my department banding together to lose weight by May 22nd. I don't really need to lose much. I have this fabulous pair of jeans, my favorite, that are just a bit tight.
Movie night this weekend is Manufacturing Consent.
Justin has decided that getting a job is about more than just money. According to him, he doesn't find the prospect of "sitting around all day drinking coffee" very productive.
Tristan is killer on the guitar these days. He's learning some sweet stuff and is really building confidence.
I feel lonely tonight. That's highly unusual for me.
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