back to normal.

i am back to school. the week off was well needed and way to fast. monday and tuesday of this week went by in a blur. homework day one. what did you expect? tomorrow we have off. so does dust. so we are going to visit my brother and his wee one, emma drew langford. also i bought her sunglasses and made some little cakes shaped like ghosts. not bad for being a full time student. i think i also told you dust and i are now californians. we took the tests for licences and passed. ( me--100%, him--minus 2--ha ha! making me the victor!) i should give an update of the tiny, tiny house. we are making it work. it is not comfy for us both to be in the kitchen at once, but every other room we can be in together (there's only a living room and a bedroom and bathroom, but we are making it work.) dust said we may not have to move again for the two years we are here. that is scary to me because a few times now my commute has been more than an hour from here. and we all know i am no morning person. so. the idea that i should get up earlier than my 5:55 wake up call, is just mean. but so far dust has not suggested that i should do that. so things are good. this quarter looks a little less grueling than last. that is a relief. i have classes with natalie (my upbeat vietnamese friend) and that helps. she is so pumped on everything, that i forget how burnt out this whole thing can make me. i am going to go finish the pink book i started over break (really it is a nice minty green, but it is written by a lady who wrote a few pink books. so i thought i would go green.) also the big, biG, bIG, BIG news at our tiny tiny house is that kelvin got a visa. kristin and he will get to live together happily ever after, i know. i know how happy this must make her. i only lost my honey for a month, and i was losing my mind, so a year and a half... she is better than me. i know i could and would not be able to put myself through that. but love makes us do some crazy things. so good on her for waiting. i know it will be worth the wait. so yippee. we get kelvinito back. and this time for good. ahh. dustin is once again the hermano blanco. as he should be with those feet. and kelvin coming to vermont just in time for winter. poor guy. but i am so happy he will be there. finally!

photo montage (or photo montag for the infamous heidi)

you know it is summer when stinx's white feet come out. don't they look glorious. sparkling white feet.
today marks the end of an era. six years with vt tags. now we are real californians. well tomorrow we will be when i get to take the written test. i guess right now only our car is a californian.

that is right. we are up to no good. we are the "no goodnicks."

this is why your mama tells you not to drink car bombs for breakfast. what were we thinking? i don't care who's birthday wish it was, its just wrong.
ahh the birthday boy himself. still drinking. way to go, champ.


see, everyone looks hot in a hotdog hat.

return of "the good wife."

ahhhh. i can finally breathe. i am on a week long break, and already i have done more than i did since rob and quinn's wedding weekend. it started thursday afternoon. i finally slept. (i hit my coma). and i still managed to wake up in time to go for dinner with dust at Rudy's can't fail. while there i enjoyed a delicious chocolate malt and some yummy tofu rancheros. friday began like any other first friday of break. a boy from my school was playing sloshball in golden gate park (it is also called kegball---you play kickball with an over sized ball and a keg.) in college there were kickball leagues and some friends of mine and i always played. so i figured since i sat the first two quarters out, i should go. i wrangled melissa in, and we were off to the park at 11. by noon we had cups and by one the games were on. i can't say our performance was stellar (we lost most of the games we played), but we were loud and people loved us--as they do. when we left in the mid afternoon, to go to the fluevog store, people still playing were bummed. that was a nice thing. ( i firmly believe you should always leave people wanting more of your presence.) we got some sweet shoes and then met up with mike cilley and his bartending friend. we drank ourselves silly again and then went home on the last bart. it was a long, but fun day. i was thankful saturday morning to have drank a ton of water in addition to my adult beverages. i woke up early and made lunch for dust and i and some cupcakes for his work. dust and i had lunch and he delivered the cortcakes to his working friends. then i came home and cleaned the bathroom and watched a ton of Kortney and Khloe something something in Miami. it was great. today, we started celebrating the two year anniversary. (last week it was seven together, now two married--as of tuesday). his gift to me was to take me to great america. we rode roller coasters with our friend forrest all day long. the only bummer was that funnel cakes were 6.99! so we got to go to sev-elev for slurpees instead. this was a nice touch because before we ever started dating dust and i would walk from his house in the middle of the night to the sev-elev by him and split a slurpee before i went home. and y'all thought we only drank adult beverages. so icees it was. we came home and barbecued. i do love break. tomorrow we go to the monterey bay aquarium to see the sea horse exhibit. i am so excited. we convinced our friend brain (henceforth referred to as brain) to come with us. he has wanted to go, so why not now. it should be really great. the trip to the seahorses is what my poppadaddy got me for my birthday. i think i will love it. i have been planning my outfit all night so that i look nice in the pictures we send him. that is right. i am planning how good i look. :) then on the big day (tuesday) i get a haircut and dust is going to let me go with him while he shops for new jeans and shorts and "fall shoes." i will admit that i love shopping for myself, but it is almost as gratifying seeing my honey in some fall must haves. i asked if we could go to nordstroms. he is not ready for that, but we'll keep working. this is, after all, only our second year married. but what a year.