A month in the life…
Today’s Love: Rainy days and Mondays
Today’s Wish: to win the lottery
So, it’s been quite a while since I last blogged, so I guess I should catch everyone up on what’s been going on in my life.
I moved into a new place! I’m super excited about it. My new roommate, Lauren, is completely awesome and I’m really blessed to live with someone who I get along with so well. Everyday, we discover something new we have in common, and it’s great. The house is fantastic and it’s an actual HOUSE, which is a new thing for me, lol.
In moving in with Lauren, I’ve also been blessed with the addition of several new and amazing friends into my life, and I’m truly thankful for them. They’ve all proven their mafia-like protection of me, despite the fact that I’m more manly than any of them. Haha…needless to say, anyone who messes with my Boys messes with me and I will hurt you.
*drum solo* Schoooooool’s Out for summer!!!!! And someone, not naming names, finished the semester with straight A’s. (ME!!!) Big whoop, right? Baby steps, amigos, baby steps. The end of the semester brought a bunch of mixed emotions for me, as it marked the end of the reign of Bret, and also the beginning of what will be my last few semesters at ECU, as I will more than likely graduate in December 2009. That, my friends, is exciting. But, as I was sitting at Commencement on Saturday watching my friends and my mom graduate, it all hit me when I saw Kelli hug Bret after receiving her piece of paper and handshake. I realized that the man who has helped shape me over the last five years won’t be there when I graduate, and it made me so very very sad. But….I’ve got a year and a half. I can make it.
Next year is going to be a good year. I’m making that decision now. I’ve already met two of the candidates for Bret’s job, and I do like both of them, though I felt the second candidate was a much much better fit for us. It’s going to be a great year for Alpha Psi, as we have several people who are THISCLOSE to getting their points…and we have an awesome new set of officers, such as….Secretary Sammy, Vice President Kassiekins, and Madame President, Moi! That’s right folks. I, Kimberly Wren, am the new President of the Beta Zeta Cast of Alpha Psi Omega. Be jealous.
Let’s see, what else? New House, check. School’s out, check. Alpha Psi, check. Did I tell you about my new Wii? Tee hee. I got a Wii. I’m awesome.
OH! Another bit of something juicy…or sad, really, depending on how you look at it. In a very expected move, I was dumped. Well, dumped implies that I was crapped upon, and, though I’ve received the raw end of the deal, I don’t feel crapped upon. Simple truth in the matter is that Dereck was offered a job for the summer at Falls Creek. Cool enough, right? Well, sure, if he was coming back to Ada, but he’s not. After this summer, he’ll be going off to college at OBU, and though it’s ridiculously close, he still doesn’t want a long-distance relationship, and honestly, neither do I. But, I won’t pretend that I wasn’t crushed when it happened a week or so ago. I cried almost all weekend, and, though we’re still together, we’re not “together.” It’s so complicated. I love the guy, and a week ago, when I was still crushed, I’d have been willing to do anything to keep the relationship going….even if it meant the both of us not dating anyone else during the time we were apart, but I’ve been thinking since then–and I don’t know what to think. I have got to get to a place where I can think without being disrupted by texts from him, or the phone ringing, or the impossibly cool version of Guitar Hero III I got for my cell phone, and I’ve got to sort out how I feel…because it’s really sad when my Boys and my Jason tell me they love me more than someone I’ve just spent three months of my life with. *sigh*
Blah. Least I’ve been more than usually gorgeous the last few weeks.
New haircut. Be jealous.
Today’s Poem: “True Love” by Judith Viorst, for an impossibly beautiful person in my life…
I put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues of the day
Even when there’s no one here but him,
And because
I do not resent watching the Green Bay Packers
Even though I am philosophically opposed to football,
And because
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street,
I always hope he’s dead.
It’s true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept drinking them and the next morning I couldn’t get out of bed,
He wouldn’t tell me he told me,
And because
He is willing to wear unironed undershorts
Out of respect for the fact that I am philosophically opposed to ironing,
And because
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save,
He says he’d save me.
It’s true love because
When he went to San Francisco on business while I had to stay home with the painters and the exterminator and the baby who was getting the chicken pox,
He understood why I hated him,
And because
When I said that playing the stock market was juvenile and irresponsible and then the stock I wouldn’t let him buy went up twenty-six points,
I understood why he hated me,
And because
Despite cigarette cough, tooth decay, acid indigestion, dandruff, and other features of married life that tend to dampen the fires of passion,
We still feel something
We can call
True love.
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