Awkward & Awesome Thursday: Everybody's Lives A-Changin'

Just two best friends playing together

This was such an exciting week! Parents moving, friends getting engaged and married right and left, Josh being so close to moving back in with his dear wifey--it's too much!

Awkward:

• The sheer amount of Adventure Time stuffed animals present at tonight's get-together. Every size imaginable.
• We have something like three miles of trails through the woods behind campus. How did I miss this for two years?
• Being asked for my name and responding, "Thurston _Jessica." It's my login at work . . .
• Going to the liquor store late at night to buy some of our favorite coconut rum to finally celebrate our 2nd anniversary, and realizing not only that the stores all close at nine, but that I'm under 21 and can't legally drink in this country . . . That was my blonde moment of the year.
• When I typed that sentence, I wrote that the liquor stores all close at "wine" by mistake. LOL.
• Can I just say that you're almost never invited to the weddings you expect. I feel like I'm always thinking, "Oh these friends of mine didn't invite me to their wedding?" "Wait, who are these people inviting me to their wedding?"
• Working on my screenplay for next summer's film. So much stress, but so much fun! I don't know whether to love it or hate it!

Awesome:

• My family is officially moved in to their new Rochester abode! It's so surreal to have them here :-)
• Co-workers Brandon and Stryker dropping everything to come and help move my parents into their new home. Somebody has an automatic invite to dinner any time they like!
• Stryker's townhouse apartment. I mean, I'm really not surprised, but seriously. Couldn't just one thing about him not be totally and completely awesome and chill? Must post pictures of this guys decor at some point.
• Just Dance 3 at midnight.
• Surfing Google to help Josh research for the CLEP essay exam he's going to be taking soon on analyzing and interpreting literature. I wanted to help him bone up on both classic lit and some popular contemporary novels. I don't think referencing 50 Shades of Grey in an academic paper is going to help his grade any . . .
• Two dear friends just got engaged yesterday with my help <3. The guy (that's him with the beard in the pic above) planned an elaborate treasure hunt to the places where all of their most memorable moments occurred on campus, and Josh and I were one of the clues she had to find. So cute!

Awkward and Awesome Thursday: Cray-cray Vacay

Speaking of crazy . . . this is my youngest cousin, an aspiring super villain

Sorry, folks! 

The reason posting has been sparse lately is that Josh and I have been scrambling to get moved into our new apartment (I'm finally settled in. He hasn't even seen the finished product.) and in the middle of it all, my cousins from Georgia are up for the week. The last thing I want is to be wasting time at my apartment--or on my blog for that matter.

Later.

Awkward:

• Moving into the apartment on a Saturday and not getting any power until Monday. It felt like camping! I almost had to go without coffee in the morning. Roughin' it.
• Even after the power got switched on, I couldn't get the AC to work ON THE HOTTEST RECORD-BREAKING NIGHT OF THE YEAR!
• My "little" cousins are now taller than me. And giving me workout tips.
• Speaking of working out, carrying Josh's and my impressive but heavy book collection into the building one load at a time. Why did I choose to move during family vacation again? I sure haven't gotten a break!
• Bathing suits. Head-to-toe lycra would be better than all of the slippage when wet.
• Jumped into the lake with my lovely watch gifted by the hubby. Still works, but it's very ironic considering that the lovely bracelet he bought me last year met an end in the same lake.
• Josh and I can't for the life of us remember what time our friend's wedding is this Saturday.

Awesome:

• Off to Darien Lake with the whole fam today. Minus Josh :-(. That bit's not awesome.
• My grandparents celebrating 50 years of marriage with all of their kids and grandkids around :-D
• Josh drove all the way up to Canandaigua just for the afternoon to attend my grandparents' anniversary dinner. He is the sweetest! 
• Legit buying one of every dessert for our table and then decimating them together.
• My cousins are all so grown up. It's so good to hang out with them. 
• Josh might be going to grad school at University of Georgia, a mere twenty minutes from this awesome crew of kids!
• I think the car is finally fixed!!!!!
• Free lunch at school. That is the way to a married college student's heart.
• Rachel has a sunglasses tan. Baha.
• Hopefully hitting up The Dark Knight Rises with the hubby this weekend. After the wedding, of course.

Awkward and Awesome Thursday: One for the Money

Does this look like a rehearsal to you?

 Awkward:

• The above awkward pic is not from this week. It is from three years ago. (Wow, that long?)
• I have posted this ill-timed image because I have spent this week missing Messiah College theatre so very very much.
• Poor Josh fell at work and really bruised up the old tailbone. Guess he won't be much use helping us move :-(
• Our lovely Camry is dying! So many memories in one little car. So little money to buy a new one . . .
• My body trying to doze off while driving to work early in the morning. So scary!
• Direct (and completely serious) quote from Josh's foreign doctor at the ER after hearing Josh say that his butt hurt: "Do you have chronic butt problems?"
• $1400 per person owed to the US government for health insurance. Thanks, Obama! You are the reason we can't afford a new car.
• The start of school is still so far away!

Awesome:

• We're moving this Saturday! Into an apartment with central air! And a dishwasher!
• Everything's packed up in bags and boxes. Beast!
• Salisbury steak. One of the few foods that still tastes good in TV dinner form.
• The Amazing Spiderman in 3D! A great reboot. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have so much chemistry and totally have the awkward high-schooler thing down. I also have the world's biggest crush on Rhys Ifans.
• Possible fashion journalism internship. Happy dance. Nervous twitching.
• Hopefully going to see some friends in what looks like a great production of Spring Awakening this weekend.
• Homemade screen-print t-shirts. So easy, but so creative :-) Expect a DIY post soon!
• My academic adviser <3. Love you, Dr. Mrs!
• This performance from So You Think You Can Dance tonight. Oh. My. Gosh. I couldn't breathe. You must watch! It's freakin' "Unchained Melody!"