long time no type

Sorry I have been away for so long... life has been keeping me busy. My catering job has been really slow so I have been taking off like one or two days a week... but my mom has needed my help... so on my days off I work for her.

The weekends have also been very full... with dog-sitting, family vacation, trip to dallas.... this leaves very little time to unpack my new house! I have the living room and kitchen pretty set... the upstairs is a disaster still... I am really hoping I can get it done this weekend. Chris is working and I don't have anything planned... so it's unpacking time... finally!

So I just have to tell you about my cousin Michael. He is the "golden child" of the family. He is really really really smart. He has just taken a job in Saudi Arabia for a brand new university that King Abdullah has built. See... King Abdullah owns the Red Sea and has never allowed any research to be done there... until he hired Michael's research team a couple of years ago to come start some of the first research ever to be done there. This inspired him to build a university of science and technology (King Abdullah University of Science and Technoloby - KAUST) with a huge Marine Biology ceneter.... where Michael will be the Assistant Dean of the Marine Biology Dept. This is a great oportunity, because not only are they paying him to teach and do research on the read sea... they are also funding his other research projects... to include: Butterfly Fish, Whale Sharks, and the waters surrounding Papua New Guinea. Plus... he's only 29! I just think it's amazing what he has accomplished so far... I can't wait to see what else he does.

But anways... I really enjoy talking to him and learning all kinds of things.... Including a cool story he told me: Jonah and the Whale is a very plausible story! In fact, they are pretty certain the whale was not actually a whale at all... but a Whale Shark! Whale sharks typically feed on the surface of the ocean where plankton and other small fish are... but if a larger object (such as a human) was in the path of the open mouthed Whale Shark... it could very easily accidentally swallow a human. Males grow up to 45 feet long! Plus... when the Whale Shark cannot digest something.... they invert their stomachs out of their mouths to get rid of what they cannot eat! I just found this very interesting... so I thought I would share.

Anways... enough about my cousin.... I hope you ladies have a wonderful week!

I promise to be in touch more...

Colleen: I LOVE what your doing... Chris and I really loved that movie so I'm excited to see how it goes. Remember... patience is the hardest... for everyone! I wish you the best!

disney & house

so i went to Disney World with Chris's family last week. We had a BLAST. I absolutely love his family. That was either my 6th or 7th trip to Disney World... but I had forgotten a lot and they had added and changed a lot... so it was fun. We would be on the 8:30am bus every morning and we usually wouldn't be back to the hotel till midnight. It was really hot and very humid... I can only recall one other occasion that I have ever sweated so much over a whole week.

we got back saturday. sunday we moved from our apt to our new house. so... we didn't get much of a recovery after vacation...

I will be posting pictures of disney and the new house soon!

I miss everyone... a lot.

just a couple of things

the Dyson Animal vacuum is amazing... just in case anyone was wondering.

my parents are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary... yay mom and dad

anxious

i don't know why but i have been very anxious recently. i wish i could shake it off.

longview was nice. i really enjoy chris' family a lot... and i get to see them again in just a couple of days. i wish it wasn't such a long drive.

i'm ready for our vacation to disney... i need a vacation

i wish people would stop asking when chris and i are going to get married. we will get married when we want to get married. it will be on our time, not theirs. it is kinda pressuring... it is very pressuring acutally. i sometimes need to remember to pull back and remember that there is no pressure and that when we are ready we will be ready. i mean... what's the rush? i'm only 23 years old. don't get me wrong we WANT to get married... it will just happen when we are ready... emotionally and financially. is this so wrong?

things to do

May 21st - Drive from SA to College Station - have dinner with Colleen :o)
May 22nd - Drive from CS to Longview - wedding
May 24th - Drive from Longview to SA
May 29th - Drive from SA to Longview - Todd's Graduation
May 31st - Drive from Longview to SA
June 13th to June 20th - Disney World
End of June - Move out of apartment to ??
???- Go see Michael (my cousin) before he moves to Saudi Arabia to work for the king

yay

Congrats Jess! You looked beautiful in your pictures. I am so happy for you!! Yay.

life is hard

Life is hard... sometimes it can be really hard. Seaseme Street didn't prepare me for this...