Pictures….Finally!! — May 29, 2009

Boy, I really don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. Seriously! I feel like I’ve really retreated into my own little universe lately. I feel like having a conversation is just entirely too much work. All I want to do is grunt the shortest answer possible. I can’t even bring myself to blog or create email most of the time – it’s like it invades my world too much. I need to pull myself out of this because this is not the me that I know. I need to find some motivation for that though. *sigh*

Well, moving forward.

My computer and I are still under some kind of curse. We got our new hard drive, so we hoped all the problems would be solved. Unfortunately, for no apparent reason, it’s running slower than ever. Things I used to be able to do fairly quickly before (like opening a Word document and basic stuff like that) now require me to sit and wait. What’s the deal? And the Internet….am I back on dial-up? My virtual memory warning pops up constantly……

Then yesterday, I came in to check my email before work and everything was fine. Then I checked it again a little while later when I was home at lunch, and what the what! My monitor developed a fine vertical green line! There was nothing that could have happened to this computer in the few short hours I was gone! I feel like I’m watching a movie with a scratch on the film!! And now today, I am not entirely sure all my mouse clicks are even registering. I’m having to click a lot of random things twice. Poor computer! Cling to life, please!! I want you to quit playing around and start working!

But the good news is this! David and I celebrated our seventh anniversary on Monday! May 25th! We took the day off from everywhere – no jobs! (I am getting SO spoiled to this – the second time we’ve gotten time off together this month! This could be severely habit forming!)

David’s gift to me this year was for us to get to take pictures together. (I might have mentioned this previously.) This was pretty exciting, because he’s not all that much for having his picture taken. I’ve been trying to accomplish this event for several years now. We got them done at Walmart. I love them!!!

This one is my absolute favorite.

Oh, and yes, it’s the debut of the glasses.

We had a really great day together. We actually kind of re-created our wedding day, in a way. After our wedding, we went to Shreveport together and went to eat at Mr. Gattis (YUM), and then went to a movie. I loved that day so much, for obvious reasons, but also because besides the big deal of getting married, we also got to have an easy-going fun day. I really recommend that! We did our very small wedding at 11 am, which gave us the rest of the day together. That’s so much better than spending the entire day on wedding stuff and then being exhausted and grumpy afterwards!

At that time, we went to see “About a Boy.” I can honestly say that I remember just about nothing about that movie, hehehe. This time around, after we ate at Mr. Gattis, we went to see “Angels and Demons.” It was pretty good. We originally planned to see “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” but it got such terrible reviews that we figured we’d just wait and get it for $1 out of the Redbox. I read “Angels and Demons” a few years ago when “The DaVinci Code” was at its height of popularity. “Angels and Demons” followed what I remembered of the book decently well, but of course they had to cut a lot for time restraints. I probably won’t really want to watch it again, but it was good for one time.

It was weird to go to a cinema to watch a movie again! We hadn’t been to see a movie since like November. I think that’s the longest I’ve been without going to a cinema since I met David. We went to Cinemark Tinseltown in Shreveport, which is best-known for serving…..drum roll…..Gold Peak Tea!! Yes!!!! That was actually where I discovered Gold Peak. What a wonderful world. They might be behind the times since they still project movies on film, but they make up for it with their tea. hehehe.

So, seven years. That’s pretty nice. I’m thinking this past year has been our best year yet. We’ve really improved ourselves this year and I think we’re working together as a unit in ways we haven’t done before. I like that. We make a great team.

I’ll post the rest of the pics on my facebook/myspace, and David’s too if I can remember his passwords!!