24!

No, not the TV show. I turned 24 recently and I must say that I am really enjoying myself. For my birthday W and I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and then went to Outback for dinner. We went there for my 21st birthday and I had their "Melbourne" meal: a 20oz T-bone steak and two sides. I had been hoping for a 21oz steak for my 21st, but settled for the 20 since that's the biggest one they have. For this birthday I wanted to prove to myself that I was just as cool and beefy as I had been when I turned 21, the only problem was that they no longer served what they called the "Melbourne." But, not to worry, because after I reviewed the menu again I found that they still served a 20oz T-bone steak and that they just called it "The T-bone." I ordered that, plus two sides and got a free birthday dessert and was able to eat it all!!! (W and my cousin helped me eat my dessert, but I'm still counting it!) So I am still as cool and beefy as I was when I was 21, getting older doesn't seem to be all that bad . . . I do fear the day that I can't handle eating a 20oz steak plus sides all in one sitting, but thankfully that day hasn't come yet.
On another note W is all done with his thesis and will be officially graduating in August. I will leave out more details so that he can post about it if he wants. We still don't know where we will end up, but I'm applying for jobs and we'll see what we can get. If I'm able to get a job in Archeology we might even decide that we need to get a pick-up truck for me to use for travel, which sounds really fun to me! Life is good, uncertain for the future, but we are both certainly happy here in the present. We're looking forward to posting more action in the future! Love you guys!

Latest and Greatest Sum-up

The latest and greatest news in our life is that we finally have our little car back in the family. W and I feel really really good about that. I'm still working part-time but as close to full-time as they'll schedule me. W is still working on his thesis and will hopefully be officially graduating in August. We hope to move sometime in June or July. We still don't know where we will be moving to, or where we will be working. Anyone know of anyone hiring people with degrees in Anthropology, English, Spanish, or Linguistics in the Western United States?

Our Car

For those who don't know why our car being fixed is such a big deal let me tell you a little bit more about it. Our car is an oldie but goodie car, it belonged to W's Grandpa so it has sentimental value for him, and it is the car that made it possible for our first date to become something where we both wanted a second and third (no we didn't have a really good make-out session, we drove around for a while and talked) so it has sentimental value for me as well. We both don't ever plan to get rid of it and we hope to use it as long as we can, and once it actually won't run anymore maybe we'll make it into some sort of shrine or something but we pretty much consider it to be part of the family even with it being three years younger than me. In July of 2007 we were making a pretty good weekend trip and it stopped working while I was driving on the freeway, in the fast lane. We had it towed to our apartment and didn't really have the time or money to deal with it so we just let it sit in our spot. In December of 2007 my parents came out for a visit and my dad spent time with W and one of our neighbors trying to figure out why it died and why it wouldn't start. They found out that fuel wasn't getting to the engine and that the fuel pump didn't seem to be working. W and I weren't able to do anything about it until October 2008 when one of our best friends let us use their AAA membership to tow it to the mechanic. We chose to tow it to that particular mechanic because we still didn't have enough money to fix it and we knew this mechanic to take a really long time fixing cars. So, yesterday our car was finally fixed and we had been able to save up enough money to pay for all the work done on it in cash, boy that feels good!

St. Patrick's Day

Well, admittedly this last St. Patrick's Day wasn't as cool as last year's St. Patrick's Day when I got to go to a lecture by Barry Cunliffe, but it was still a pretty eventful day. W and I started the day off right with green pancakes and green milk to wash them down. Then we got a lucky phone call that we weren't expecting for another month or two, telling us that our car was fixed! So a very nice friend of mine let me borrow her car so that W and I could go to all of the places that we needed to get to before 5 pm! We had to go to the mechanic and get the certificates for the safety and emissions tests that needed to be done to register our car, the bank so that we could get the money that we'd been saving for the car, the DMV so that we could register the car, back the the mechanic to get the car, and then to school to get a parking permit. After that we put gas in our car and in my friend's car and came back home. We had bubble and squeak for dinner, it's an Irish dish that has cabbage, onions and potatoes in it. We also had lime jello, pistachio pudding, o'douls, and mint chocolate chip ice cream. We finished up our night with the "Lucky Charmed" episode of the series "Charmed" and one of our favorite movies, The Quiet Man. Overall it was a good day, even if I didn't wash clothes or dishes and W didn't get more work on his thesis done.

Happy Candlemas/Groundhog Day!

Tonight W and I are going over to a friend's house that always celebrates Groundhog day. We're both really excited and we're building up our Groundhog Team spirit! January just seemed to whiz right by me. It's amazing to realize that a twelfth of 2009 is already gone. One wonderful thing that we enjoyed in January was W's 30th Birthday!! It's sooo cool being married to a thirty year old, he's such a wonderful man and he gets more wonderful each year. I'm looking forward to how wonderful he'll be when he's sixty!

Good Yule!!!

It's after midnight on January 5th and W just brought it to my attention that our yule celebration is now over. We celebrate Christmas and Yule over a twelve day period starting on the 24th of December. I have had such a wonderful Christmas and Yule this year, and even though it's over for this time of the year, I wanted to wish all of our friends and family a good Yule, merry Christmas, and a happy new year! Thank you all for being such an enjoyable part of our lives. I hope that this last Christmas season brought you all peace and joy that you will be able to carry with you until the end of the year!

Another Day, Another Dish Washed

Well I quite enjoyed my day off today. I slept in and then took a long shower. Then I trimmed my hair, at least it started out as a trim and then became more of a hair cut. I definitely have healthy ends now! I can't wait until all of my dyed hair has grown out and I can cut it all off, I miss my brown hair a lot. Most of my day was spent waiting around for the maintenance workers to repair some things in our bath tub, but everything is fixed now and it's really nice to not have a drippy faucet. I've spent some of today washing dishes, hence the title of this post. It feels so good to get dishes washed.

Later today W called me when he was on campus today and invited me to a Ball on December 6th. It's a medieval ball and so I'm thinking about whether or not I would be able to make us clothes to wear before December 6th. I'm thinking that I can, but we'll see about that. I'm really looking forward to going. I really miss going out and dancing with W, and hopefully we'll be able to go and have a great time. I can't wait!