Natural Sceptre

If I were a Queen on the Chessboard of my Google Calendar, my Wedding would be just a zigzag away. Yesterday, it was a straight shot. But, anyway, officially- we’re a month away. Crazy stuff, huh? Yesterday at work everyone kept saying, “You’re in the month range now! How are your feet?” So, for the record, feet are great.

So, it’s feeling like a Friday. I wonder why….oh yeah! We have tomorrow off! I love having a grown-up job that’s NOT retail that allows me to actually celebrate holidays. We (meaning John, Jon and I) plan to go up and hike Timp Cave. John got us tickets for a tour of sorts. It sounds like it’ll be cool, well, very hot, and then very cold. But I’m excited, seems like the perfect 4^th activity. Maybe on the way home from work today I’ll brave Harmons and get some hotdogs and hamburgs for our “contact grill,” and any other festive food- if they’ve got any left at this point. Then we’ll probably try to find a place to watch the fireworks. We’re thinking about the horse trail behind our house, we can walk to it. That’s going to be a lot of climbing stuff tomorrow- that’s for sure.

So yeah, I haven’t been feeling like updating the last couple of days- not sure why. I think it might be because I had a bit of a sickie beginning to the weekend, and then just felt rather tired over the rest of it. It was nice, though, we got a few things done here and there. We finally got out to IKEA, where I found the dresser of my dreams. (medium brown) It’s short, but long, and has six really huge drawers. I thought, “This is great! I can have half, and John can have half!” Well…we got it home and set it up (not too bad a task, but I was on the phone with my Mom for half of it…) and I started filling my half…and half of John’s half, and the other half of John’s half…SO, we’ll need another dresser in medium brown. But they’re so affordable at IKEA, so it’s ok. I told John I’d make room for him in there, and I COMPLETELY intended to, but he said not to worry. So it’s official, I have more room for my things that I’ve had in years. I think I’m spoiled, just a bit. It’s a nice feeling, setting up our apartment. It’s lucky we have similar tastes, huh? I called my Mom to tell her what we got at IKEA, the dresser, two clocks, a cool ice cube tray, and a bag of chips. All for around $200. Her reply: “Wow! All that and a bag of chips?” Yes, this is my mother. Haha.

In other news, we also had a bit of a crispy day in our neighborhood last week. The field across from our house caught on fire, and with the dry conditions (meaning no rain, ever, ever, ever) the blaze went up the hill and into the mountain. When I say it was across the street, I mean ACROSS THE STREET. Our house was filled with smoke for a couple of days- it was kind of gross. It was scary, too. There were helicopters trying to contain the flames, and the fire crews didn’t leave for a few days. A few still lurk around just in case. Apparently it came close to some homes, but everything turned out ok. People were evacuating their animals- but I don’t think anyone got hurt. I guess it got started from a spark off a lawn mower, or something. Interesting…I had never seen anything like that before.

Also, and I’ll let John spread the word on this one, we’re going to be in a movie. You’ll probably be able to buy it at WalMart for $12.99 next year sometime. I’m pre-embaressed. Just so you know.