Keep Moving Forward

I promise – on pain of death – to never complain about my birthday or anything encompassing it again. This year had to have been the best year of birthday ever. I am so thankful for my family and friends and my completely wonderful boyfriend that I can’t even accurately put it into words. I usually spend my entire birthday avoiding people because it is the one day where it is impossible to fade into the background. But this was… different. I saw my mom and had lunch with her. I spent some time with just me. (Everybody needs a little ‘me’ time every once in a while.) And I spent the evening with my best friends. We ordered Chinese food. We had cake. And we watched South Park. And we knit. Because that is how we roll.

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Carissa got married on Sunday. It was a small and quiet ceremony, not without its hitches. But I think it all turned out relatively okay. You know. Except for the DJ that didn’t know what he was doing. And all of the d-bag things he decided were appropriate to do at a wedding. Like make off-color jokes about the bride when he was expressly told not to make any jokes. (About the bride or otherwise.) Or my favorite thing he did: He played ‘So What‘ by Pink after they cut the cake. It was probably the most wedding appropriate song he could think of that he had. So I guess we could let that one slide, right?

It blew my mind how much this DJ could fail all over himself in the span of just a few short hours. It was one of those events where we made it pretty much fool proof. But he was pretty determined to prove everybody wrong on that front.

I spent the entire week before the wedding gathering music for this wedding, as per Carissa’s request. I had 4 CD’s worth of 80’s music. I had two separate CD’s for the Ceremony. And all he had to do, was press play. It kind of infuriated me. Mostly because I spent so much time getting it all together and making sure it was perfect. And then: The DJ.

But whatever. Its the Virgo in me wanting to micro-manage things. And in all honesty, there were really only a couple of hangups. And after dinner, once the dance music started up, things couldn’t have been better. I spent the entire evening doing The Bump and the Running Man and taking awesome pictures with my friends. And I got to dance to (and wildly gesture through) ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart‘ by Bonnie Tyler not once! But twice! Oh DJ. The one thing you did right. The first time it played Carissa was otherwise engaged and couldn’t dance with me. So Tina and I poured our soul in to singing and gesturing dramatically for the entirety of the song. Unfortunately (or is it fortunately?) no one was in the hall when this was going on. Everybody was outside, including the DJ. So it was literally just me and Tina, being completely insane together for about 4 minutes. No witnesses.  

Later, when the party moved back inside, the DJ played it again (Along with ‘U Can’t Touch This‘ for some reason…) and I got to gesture dramatically with Carissa. It was pretty fulfilling.

And when pretty much everybody left, I scored a pretty awesome video of Sam busting a few moves. When I figure out how to embed a video on here, I will share that with you. Because it definitely worth being seen. Sam just can’t help himself when it comes to ‘Jungle Boogie’ or ‘Sledgehammer.’ 

 

Carissa and David getting married!

I left my legwarmers at home. That’s me in the pink dress on the left. The dress looks good short! And my mom did a good job hemming it. You couldn’t even tell that it had been altered.

Everybody get in the same picture guys!!

Cutting the Cake: It was a real ‘Photo Opportunity!’

Me and Sam, with Chris gesturing wildly behind us.

Same picture with The Bride!

It was a good time, and I couldn’t be happier for Carissa. I’m ready for things to go back to normal though.

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I’m officially back to work now, but I can’t say that I’m disappointed about it. I was getting a little bored with being home for pretty much eight days straight. And now that I’ve finally gotten my wisdom teeth out – and I’ve healed up for the most part – I feel like I have a completely different outlook on life. I don’t think that is how it should work, but I’m taking it. I feel like a different person.

Just having that constant pain taken away… I honestly had no idea just how much pain I had been in until it went away. I don’t ever want to learn to live like that again – for any reason.

That isn’t to say that I’ve decided that I don’t need the help I had finally started to seek out. Far from it. I would like to think that this new outlook on life is a permanent change, but I’m not so quick to believe that. My appointment is getting rescheduled for after we get back from our vacation up to Maine next week. We’ll be gone the 13th to the 19th, and I am so looking forward to it. I know I pretty much just had a mini vacation, but I am not counting recovering from surgery as a real vacation. And I think you should seek a psychiatric evaluation if you disagree with me.

We’re going to relax, go fishing, canoe, and hike. In Maine. With Sam’s parents. And the rest of Sam’s family on his mother’s side. Nana, Grumpa, Sam’s Uncle Brian and Aunt Jeanne are all coming up with us. I’m really looking forward to it. Sam and I get to camp out in the back yard! In a tent and everything!

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Speaking of Sam and the AWESOME that surrounds him:

This was my birthday present from Sam. He got me an ASUS laptop. Its a gaming computer, and I can vouch for its awesomeness:

It is Top Of The Line. ‘Thrilled’ doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about it. About him. About having him in my life. It isn’t about the money. I know how much he spent on this thing and it was too much. Because I was awful and I looked it up. I would have been happy with a bouquet of flowers and going out to dinner or something. I tried to tell him it was too much, but he insists that it isn’t.

I’m kinda going to say that I’m glad that’s the case, because I really don’t want to send it back. This thing is BOSS. And I’ve been wanting to get a new laptop for at least the past year. My VAIO is kind of shitting the bed here. Its going on seven years and it has definitely seen better days. My Graveyard money and my tax refund were all going to go towards a new laptop for me. That was my master plan. And Sam just…

I don’t even deserve this. Or him.

BUT OMG. THIS THING IS A BEAST AND I LOVE IT AND OMG.

Can’t wait to officially start using it.

I think its time I got Sam that present he’s been asking me for. And I’m not talking about sexual favors. Although it will definitely lead into sexual favors after I purchase it. But that’s besides the point.

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If you didn’t, you should definitely click some of those links I stuck in there. Well worth the time, I think.

ALW