I miss...

Boxxy.

Ted.

My mom.

My brother(s).

My old roomies.

My grandparents.

My coworkers.



I'm SUPER excited to go home next month

Either I'm getting old and sentimental or...

something is SERIOUSLY wrong with me. I'm sitting at the kitchen table, while Bolo and Twang watch Ghost Rider, and I'm planning my wedding. Again. 784,165,456th time now. I know..I know!! Bubbles what the hell is wrong with you? You've only been dating Bolo since February. You're not even engaged. Why the hell are you SO into planning your wedding?? Honestly, I have no idea. Just the thought of having a huge party surrounded by friends and..well not so much HIS family, but some of mine, and expressing your love to someone as being sooo strong and you have so much faith in your partner and the love you share that you're going to legally bind to each other, intending for it to last until you both die.

Yep. I've lost it. I want nothing more to dress up fancy, go to a beach somewhere, and exchange handwritten vows with Bolo in front of a few mEows and family, and then get completely shitfaced. Okay...so there's more to weddings than that, but I don't know.

So I guess for when it comes, I'm ready. Bring on the mismatched centerpieces, the ill-fitting bridesmaids' dresses, the dropped cake. BRING IT. I've been watching David Tutera, and I'm BEYOND ready, bitches.

I FAIL!!

Once again it's been almost a month since my last blog post. I am just SUCKING at this blog thing. Although I definitely have a good reason this time. I've moved, cross country, TWICE. First I went from Iowa to Bolo's townhouse in Westfield, NJ. It's outside of NYC. It's not exactly my cup of tea. The people aren't so nice. They're all in a hurry, and only care about themselves being on time. Needless to say, traffic is a BITCH. The second move was to our new apartment in Towson, MD. Much better!! It's below the Mason-Dixon line, so of course life is much slower paced around here. The people are so much nicer, even if they are a little dumber. Plus a few mEows live around here! (SN: mEow is our clan on xbox. we play MW3. look us up on elite. we're awesome.)

Anyway we moved down here in two trips, our last being on June 1st. Since then we've been unpacking, washing clothes, breaking laundry machines, washing dishes, trying to figure out why the dish washer is on a light switch and won't run when it's not on, building Ikea furniture, and hanging out with Flife and Twang. CRAZY LIFE of moving. Thank God it's over for a couple of years.

Anyway needless to say with all this moving I've been a bit stressed out, as has Bolo. Ugh. We've had some pretty bad fights about some pretty stupid shit. But whatever. I know we'll get through it. I mean we're perfect for each other. This whole stress thing is just not cool. So once this whole unpacking/laundry/building stereo systems/building furniture shit is done we're going to have a big party, and hopefully a spa day. I really need a mani/pedi.

Grandpa can't streak...

So since my mom's short staffed at work (a newspaper) she asked me to write an opinion column for today's paper. They didn't end up needing it, so I'll post it here for you all to read. What's the point of writing something if it's going to go to waste? Enjoy!

            “Grandpa can’t streak through the dining room anymore,” my grandmother said as we sat in front of her computer. Typical Wednesday night? Not at all, and this one was going to change everything.

            I stopped at my grandparent’s house to give my grandmother her Mother’s Day gift, a little bit early. I sat at the table as they finished their supper and discussed everything ranging from grandpa blowing up my uncle’s chain saw to both of them working at the Ledger that day.

            As my grandpa cleared the table, my grandma opened her present. As soon as she pulled the webcam out of the gift bag, she looked at me, and told me she’d hoped I hadn’t spent a lot of money on this, and she hoped I was going to teach her how to use this. Of course I was going to, that’s why I’d stopped by early.

            Most people might think I’m a bit weird. A webcam, what kind of Mother’s Day present is that? Let me explain. I’m moving in with my boyfriend in Westfield, New Jersey on Saturday. Then we’re moving again to Towson, Maryland by the beginning of June. I won’t be able to stop over at my grandparent’s house for lunch like I usually do when I’m in town every week to attend school at Indian Hills. I won’t be able to see them when they’re visiting Des Moines, and stop at my job or apartment for a quick visit. I know there’s always phone calls, e-mails, and text message, the last of which my grandmother is still mastering, but they aren’t the same as face-to-face conversations.

            My boyfriend and I have been doing the long distance thing for a while. We usually video-chat on our Xbox Kinects. He gave me the idea of buying a webcam for my grandmother, after visiting our friends in Towson, and noticing that one of them uses Skype to talk to her family in Albania. We both agreed it would be a pretty neat way to talk, if my grandmother could figure it out.

            So this landed me at my grandparents’ house on Wednesday night. I installed the webcam, downloaded Skype, and then the learning lesson began.

            “How do I open this?”

            “Double click the Skype icon on your desktop.”

            “How do I call someone?”

            “Click their name, then hit video call.”

            “How do I hang up?”

            “Click the red phone.”

            “What red phone?”

            “The phone that’s there when you’re in a call.”

            I told her all these things, and she would jot them down on a piece of paper. Without the actual visuals, this wasn’t really going so well. So I had my boyfriend get on Skype on his iPad, add my grandmother’s I.D., and call her. They talked about how exciting it was that we were moving in together, and how this “Skype thing” was a “real good idea” if my grandma could get the hang of it. My boyfriend reassured her it wasn’t hard, and she would eventually understand it. Grandma decided she might have to have my little brother come out and help her after I moved. They caught up on things that happened since the last time he was here in February, and my boyfriend mentioned the wreath with a frog on it hanging clear across the house on the back of the door.

            My boyfriend had to go to dinner with our friends, so we ended our call, and I showed Grandma how to sign off. She then went to the living room to discuss this new fan-dangled video chat with Grandpa, while I updated their TomTom.

            “You missed Kendra’s boyfriend on the computer!”

            “Hmm.”

            “He’s down in Maryland signing their new lease. So now we can video chat and see them when we talk.”

            “Hmm.” Wheel of Fortune was on. My grandpa must really like that show.

            “Our picture was so good he could see the frog wreath, but he said his picture wasn’t so good because he was using his iPad.”

            Grandma came back to the dining room, and we chatted as the TomTom finished updating. We made plans to try out Skype Thursday, to see if she could figure it out on her own. I’m pretty confident she’ll do okay, especially since she wrote down directions.

Almost Here!!

Tonight is my last night on xbox in Iowa... I'm currently in a party with my boyfriend and our "daughter". I'm so excited. Bolo signed a lease today. He gets the keys on Wed. He got the one I REALLY wanted. It's a gorgeous apartment, and he managed to get it for the lower price. Yay!! Now we just have to move stuff and decide where stuff goes. Hard stuff to do *shrugs shoulders* We'll manage!

My flight leaves Sat. My little brother Ethan has a concert tomorrow so I'm driving down to Fairfield. I'll also have to lug ALL my shit down there, do my laundry, repack, and mail whatever doesn't fit to Jersey. Then Friday after work I'm bringing my mom and Ethan to Des Moines, and they're dropping me off super early on Saturday.

I CAN NOT WAIT. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Swear I'll Get This Right Someday...

I've fallen behind yet again. DAMNIT. Sorry followers.

Things have been craaaaaaaaaazy. I'm moving in around a week. To New Jersey. YES, I'm MOVING IN with the boyfriend. Am I excited? OH MY GOD, yes. You wouldn't believe how excited I am. Am I nervous? You bet your ass. I know if we get in a fight we're able to rationally talk about it and fix it. I know if I fall and break something he'll be there to take care of me. I know if anything happens to me I'll be okay. So why am I nervous? To be honest..it's the whole leaving my mom thing. She depends on me a lot, especially when I'm home. I have to take Ethan places because she's busy slaving away at work. I have to go to the store and pick up milk for her. Just little things like that. But it's the little things that count. I dont know. I just hate to leave her. I mean I did it when I moved to Georgia, and I hated myself for it. So I moved back home. But this time there's no moving back home. The boyfriend has made it clear that he hates Iowa. Don't get me wrong, I hate it too, but my family is here, and they mean the world to me. I just wish that I could pick them all up and move them with me.

Whoops..I may not be so good at this.

Welp..here we are again. I've fallen entirely behind on my blogging. I've been a busy girl!! Since my last blogpost and this one I've gone to New Jersey to visit my love again. This time we had lots of time to ourselves, which was nice. We went shopping, and ate at a bunch of different restaurants. And we played xbox a bit. But the just the two of us hanging out was def fun.

I met his family. It was his little brother's 15 bday while I was there, so we all went out to eat. My boyfriend tells me his mom is crazy, but I didn't get that impression at all. She might be a little plastic, but we all can be. Although she's more PHYSICALLY plastic than most, but whatever. His stepdad is cool, but we've talked over xbox before so it's not like I was walking into that one blind. His little brother looks soooo much like him. He's a bit nerdy -- he plays video games and likes space and he's a bit shy and soft-spoken, but he seems like a good kid. I think he was confused when I hugged him when we met. Lol.

We also went down to Maryland for a few days with the mEows. We crashed Flife and Flofle's guest room for a few nights. We (Twang included) all rode down to Washington DC on the motorcycles. We stopped at a Smithsonian, one of the art ones. And we went to Arlington. We also stopped at the Women in Military memorial and looked up my mom! So I got to add a bunch of new places to my list of visited places! Like Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia. FUN TIMES! So, Easter Sunday we all woke up, Twang came over. I had hid Easter Baskets for everyone (except Bolo did mine) the night before, so we all looked for ours. And then we had an AMAZING breakfast prepared by Flife and Flofle. And then Bolo and I headed back to Jersey.

So back in Jersey I was supposed to leave. Didn't want to, so we called and changed my flight for Tuesday. TEEHEE. So with our extra day we went to the beach. There was a military battery there, and we were snooping around. Some guy came up and asked if we wanted to see inside, so turns out he worked there, and he gave us a tour. It was kinda cool! He invited us back for a little shindig they're doing in May. If the timing works out maybe we'll go, and maybe we'll take the bf's little brother. He would probably like it.

Anyway, I think that's all for now. I'm exhausted and it's storming. PERFECT NAP TIME!!