sleep tight

Song: In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Lyrics - Accepting all I've done and said. I want to stand and stare again, 'till there's nothing left out. It remains there in your eyes. Whatever comes and goes, I will hear your silent call. And I will touch this tender wall 'till I know I'm home again.

It's very weird to me, wanting to spend as much time as possible with someone. I'm not used to not getting sick of someone after spending so much time with them. I've found that I want to spend all of my spare time with the boy. With his new job, I don't get to see him as much as I used to. And because of my father, he is not welcome in my house so I have to go to the boy's house to spend time with him. (Long story, but let's just say my parents live in the dark ages.) I also have to spend most nights of the week sleeping at my house. (Again, dark ages) So last night, when the boy was falling asleep he asked me to stay at least until he fell asleep. I rolled over and he put his arms around me and we both fell asleep. I had told my mother that I was going to be home. I usually wake up around 2am at his house so I didn't figure me falling asleep would be a problem. Last night I woke up around 2, saw the time and fell back to sleep. Today the boy said that he woke up about forty five minutes later and poked me a few times to wake me up. He said when I didn't move much he figured I would just spend the night and he went back to sleep. But I did wake up a few minutes later and I went home. Tonight, he and I were watching Finding Neverland (good movie) and he fell asleep during it. He had told me if he fell asleep that I should wake him up, and by the end of the movie he was sound asleep. I decided to go home even though it was only 10. He has to be up at 6 and I didn't want to wake him, I really didn't have anything I wanted to do other than spend time with him. Plus waking him up is a pain in the ass sometimes. I whispered I love you and he smiled in his sleep. I then said I was going home and he asked "why?" and I told him it was because he was sound asleep. To which he replied to me by snoring. I wouldn't have minded staying with him, but I wasn't ready to go to sleep and all of my things are here, there was nothing there for me to do there except watch TV.

I guess there is no point to this rambling except that I love falling asleep with the boy and I can't wait to have my own place where he will always be welcome and I won't have to worry about falling asleep and not being home when I said I would.

sweet memories

Song: Memories - Elvis Presley
Quote: It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. -Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I am a pack rat. I come from a long line of pack rats. And since I am planning on moving out by the end of the year, tonight I started to clean out my room, go through my closets and decide what I want to keep and what needs to be tossed.
I ended up with a few bags of clothing for good will, a box of books for the library book sale, two boxes of stuff to put on ebay (eventually), and about three bags of garbage. I threw out a whole bunch of things that I can't figure out why I kept. I also threw away a few things that had memories attached to them. It's hard to do but it needs to be done. I did allow myself one box of useless things, which included:

A wooden grasshopper toy that my father made for me from when he was still my hero.

A glass Carebear jewelry box that my sister V. got for me. It was broken when I opened the box and I cried and cried, but with a little glue my mother fixed it for me.

A small glass unicorn night light that my grandmother got me. For many years it kept the monsters away. And then when I got older it helped me read past my bedtime.

An old pair of pink plastic knitting needles. My mother taught me to knit one summer, and the needles make me think of cool-aid, air-conditioning and a never ending maroon scarf.

A plane ticket stub to Atlanta Georgia. A reminder that running away from your problems doesn't make them go away. And that you never move in with a newlywed couple. Even if one of them is one of the people you love most in the world.

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Song: Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte
Quote: Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits man nothing. - The 13th Warrior

So my boy kicked me out of his house today. Not without good intentions though. He's afraid I'm neglecting my homework. (Don't know where he would get that idea, maybe he reads my blog.) So like a good girl, I came home and worked on some homework.

On a happy note, it seems as though the boy has already gotten a job. We are just waiting for a call to confirm. If so, he will be doing landscaping, which is what he wanted. He loves working outside, rain or shine. A lot less money then he used to make though. Things will still be tight for him, at least for a little while.

So, the trip to the zoo went off without a hitch. We had so much fun. It was a little exhausting going with a 2 year old, but he was very well behaved. We are, however, planning another trip without the kid. LOL

We're off to see the wizard...

Well not really, we are off to the Washington DC Zoo. Myself, the boy, a friend of mine, and her son are going to the zoo tomorrow morning.

The camera's ready, there are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches waiting and I have to get up at five in the morning.

On a bad note, the boy got fired from his job on Tuesday. So today we went job hunting. Hopefully he finds something soon. I'm more worried than he is.

So tomorrow is the last expensive thing we do until he finds a new job. Money was usually tight for us, but now it will be even tighter.

bad blogger... bad blogger

Quote: Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mother and my sister and my brothers.
Lo they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them,
in the halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever. - The 13th Warrior

Ok, so I haven't blogged in a while.
I haven't done anything.

I've done homework and slept and hung out with the boy. Saw a few movies: Constantine, Boogieman, Ray and Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow. First two good, third one was excellent, and the last one was terrible.

I have too much homework to do and no ambition to do it.

Today was the first day of spring break and I wanted to do something, anything. So the boy and I started driving and ended up in Harrisburg, PA. Somehow no matter where we go we end up at a mall. But this mall had a place called the Whitaker Center for Science and Arts. It was this cool place that was just a small science museum. There were all kinds of science experiment-like displays. Things that showed how sound and light work and how the body works. I'm not sure but it seemed like some of it was more geared toward children, but being two big kids at heart, the boy and I had a great time. There was also an IMAX theater. We saw a movie called Australia Land Beyond Time. It was a great movie. This is the second IMAX movie I've seen. The first was at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. That one was a 3D space shuttle movie. This Australia one was way better. It wasn't 3D but being the National Geographic nerd that I am, I loved it.
Ok, well I think that is a sufficient enough blog for now... sorry about not posting in so long.