Dew

just noticed that my mountain dew bottle says "DEW. Be. Dew. Be DEW." so i said it to myself. and then i said it a little faster. "dewbedewbedewww." then i chuckled quietly to myself.

my legs feel sore. in a good way. if it can be good to feel lots of pain walking up stairs. it's from not running at all for a month, and then suddenly running again and doing squats and lunges. i hurt. speaking of sore legs, i had a flat tire this morning. i was so going to be on time for church. then my car was like, "good idea, but no." so i changed my shirt and crawled around on the ground and got it off. has a hole about the diameter of a pencil. then i put on my tiny retarded spare tire. seriously, it's the dorkiest thing ever. i think it's not so much a space saver as it is a business incentive worked out between the car company and the tire people to make people buy a new tire as soon as possible so they won't be embarrassed at having to limp around with 3.5 tires.

i know where my phone is. according to an email i got from a friend yesterday it's with "the kyle" at the front desk of the rec center. i hope "the kyle" takes good care of it till tomorrow.

i had delicious potatoes for lunch. karen made lunch (there was also pork bbq with brownies and coffee ice cream for dessert. by which i mean we ate all those things, not that they were all for dessert. cuz that would be weird to eat bbq for dessert. tasty, but weird. it just isn't done.) and then we sat around talking and having a grand ol' time, part of which was spent curled up on a jumbo bean bag. then i went running and lunging around for a while and got sorer but didn't puke.

heather came to church with me this evening. i was glad. we ate dinner with the fam. it was delish. it was potatoes. except it was papas con chili, instead of papas con bbq pork (all that means is that i'm not even pretending to make complete sentences in spanish). i then weighed myself and found out i'm only slightly larger than last time i checked. i wasn't shocked. you shouldn't be either. i saw that it wouldn't be necessary to consume any more ice cream.
then we returned the movie about murder. i forget its title. apparently it was very old and very funny. i got a mountain dew and heather got a nutritious and delicious strawberry slushy. now i don't want to do spanish or anything but sleep. please let me sleep. dew be dew be dew...

It's a pleasure making your aquaintance

hey guys. not only am i not dead, i'm really loving life right now. steve made a very innocent comment the other day about my absence in the bloggosphere. blogosphere. blog go sphere. go blog go. YEAH! let's go!!!

so things have really been truckin' along. i know some of you are anxious to hear more about the wedding. it is indeed officially going to be on august 18th, 2007. the proceedings will be in lufkin at harmony hill baptist church. this is heather's (gi-gi's) home church. steve will be "marrying us." do you feel self-conscious now, steve? your name has been mentioned three times in one post. you're famous now. infamous. N-famous. if you haven't seen that movie, never mind.

what other questions... oh yes. some people want girly information. like, how did i propose. i'm dreadfully sorry i didn't make it more romantic than i did, but it wasn't entirely unplanned. i have my excuses, which i won't share with you since they're retarded. the day was on dec 30th, significant because it is our dating anniversary. and by anniversary i mean three months, not one year. we got back to the house late from a great night of shrimp and card games and four-wheelers at the mcclure's. then i told her i had something to talk about and wanted to take a little walk. except i told her in spanish so no one else would know (as if THAT wasn't suspicious...). that didn't work out so well, cuz she didn't understand me the first time. then i totally messed it up when i repeated it. i think she was about to have a little panic attack because she thought she knew what was about to happen but at the same time didn't dare hope that it really was. she got her jacket and we started walking out into the field and up the hill by the woods. we had highly charged conversation about the horse in the pasture next to us and about touching the electric fence. i have never cared less about another piece of small talk in my life and was frantically trying to psyche myself up to ask the question just perfectly before i reached the top of the hill. i had envisioned the moment so many times before, but i had never gotten that nervous and shaky or had my heart race so fast while i was visualizing. the moment was about to arrive. heather was probably thinking, "if he's going to ask me to marry him, how the HECK is he going to swing things from a horse fence to 'i love you'??" i did so very smoothly (and abruptly, if those two are possible simultaneously) by turning her around, holding both her hands in mine and falling down own my knees. i probably would have fallen on my knees even if i hadn't been planning on it, simply because they got very wobbly. i had never told her before that i loved her (though i did, and she knew it). i told her then, for the first time, and asked her quite simply if she would marry me. being as emotional as she is, it's actually amazing she didn't have some kind of a melt down and bawl all over the place. if i'd sapped things up a little more she surely couldn't have helped it. as it was, she got pretty steamy eyed, and told me of course she would marry me. and then i think we were both just really shocked and excited for a little bit. i told her that the reason i had shied away from saying "i love you" before, is because i didn't want it to be in any way trite or insincere, or to stir up feelings in her that wouldn't be realized because i said it too soon. so when i said it then i meant it forever. she told me that was the most romantic thing i could have said. good thing, too, since i didn't have a ring. for those of you who were sorely dissappointed about that, it's ok. there is now a ring on the way. she actually got to pick it out, which is probably a good thing since i know she likes it and i don't have to worry about getting the wrong thing. quite lazy of me really. i guess that's it y'all. i heard her screaming as she drove away later. that was encouraging.

i really don't feel like typing up any more details right now. if there's anything else you want to know, ask away and i'll get to more stuff later.

today (and last week) we went dancing. it's great fun. unfortunately, now that we've gotten two weeks in a row, we're going to have to miss the next three. oh well.

school is now started. i've actually done a tiny bit of homework today. it's great. i need to do more. i'm back in my dorm room. it is a wreck. and i've been losing things. the first day here (last friday week) i misplaced my id card. i got a new one on wed and found my old one on this past friday. one day i couldn't find my car even though i walked right past it and went to another parking lot. i left my back pack in the cafeteria. i couldn't find it in my room, so i looked in my car. it wasn't in my car so i looked in my locker. it wasn't in my locker so i had to go to class without it (or my precious binder with paper, pencil, syllabi, etc). then i found it sitting on a shelf in the cafeteria later in the morning. whew. now my cell phone is gone. i had it at dance practice and it rang. so i turned it on silent. after i got back to my room i couldn't find it, heather doesn't have it with her, and i don't know whether i left it at java jacks, or at dance practice, or at wendy's, or dropped it on the ground, or what!!! it's crazy. i must be distracted or something. it has nothing to do with that little blond girl.

has anyone seen my piano pedagogy book? hmmm, have to look for that...

okay, enough for now. thank you for enjoying my blog. you can now start reading again (my hit counts are WAAAAY down). have a good weekend. i mean, a great weekend. maybe even better than great. is there like, love floating in the air or something? holy cow, that was corny.

and you know what? if you haven't seen napolean dynamite you have a pretty serious problem that needs to be remedied. just make yourself watch the dang movie.

at the moment i only have about 5 minutes to spare... however, there is a very important announcement, which is now quite public, that i should at least mention before i let it go too much longer and entirely forget the existence of my blog and ignore my distant readers. if you are of a sensitive disposition and not entirely familiar with the goings on of my life, especially recently, you might want to assure yourself of a secure seat. others of you will not be surprised at all. the grand news is - i am now engaged. engaged to be married (as certain people ridiculously requested specification of my use of that word) to my beautiful heather. i'm very sorry for the long silence of late, and assure you that more news and possible pictures and various other tidbits of interest will be forthcoming. now i must be off. have a wonderful new year!