I think it knows.

"It" being my wonderful Gateway laptop that I've had since I moved out to Cobblestone with Sonia and Mandy. And "what it knows" being that I'm replacing it with a bigger and better HP.

Bigger and better as in 4 gigs of RAM instead of 1. Bigger and better as in a 400 gb hard drive instead of 60. It's a gigantic upgrade. And ironically, the new model costs half the price of what I paid for my Gateway.

So the Gateway's feeling a little lonely lately. And it's started causing me problems... because it knows. And now it's lashing out in the only way it can.

Don't worry, wonderful Gateway. I'll always treasure the years we spent together. And I do apologize for giving you to my evil little sister. Feel free to mess with her whenever necessary.

On the other hand, I'm having a lot of fun organizing and uploading to my spectacular new HP. Haven't gotten to mess around with it too much yet, but I just installed InDesign and Photoshop today, so we'll see how fast this baby runs when I transfer my pictures.

Bye, Jeremy!

Jeremy's three week vacation in the states is over, and tomorrow he heads back to Benin for another fourteen months or so. We'll miss him again, but it was sooooo good to have him back for Sonia and Paul's wedding. As my personal wedding buddy (yeah, threes!), I can genuinely say he made the wedding weekend fun for me, and now we've even got a great story to tell amongst the camp people about Festus (yes, camp director, Festus) trying to set us up. I guess once you're out of camp and in your mid-twenties, the 2-1 rule no longer applies. ;)

Sonia and Paul were back from their Canadian cruise, and it was fun to catch up with my roomie (and now roommate-in law!) on how the wedding and party and all that went down last weekend. She loved every minute of it, and I'm so glad she wasn't stressed out or anything.

After we had a great barbecued dinner in the Breuninger's backyard, we headed back inside to warm up and play Apples to Apples, Cranium, and just hang out and talk. A nice relaxing way to spend an evening and send off a good friend.

Have a great year in Africa, Jer-Bear!

Update, Update!

No.: 144

Katelyn's graduation party. She graduated from the nursing program at Biola last weekend, and after a month hiatus in her home state of Oregon, she'll be moving down here permanently. Not with us though; her new home will be wherever Sarah and Adam's new house is. I just hope it's close by, so we can keep up with our pseudo-roommate's antics.

No.: 145

Memorial Day! The OSF and I went and played miniature golf for a couple hours, then off to a short stop at Jessica and Mike's for burgers, a fifteen minute shift at Youth Venture (not my fault no kids were there), this cute little market, Vons, and then back to his house to make delicious tequila lime fish tacos. I tell you, that guy's a good date.

Now if only we could master the one-armed picture...

No.: 146

Not sure what was going on here... I think I just needed a picture of the day, and these were my three willing subjects. Love how Russ is just surrounded by food and pillows.

This is what...

... anticipation looks like.

And this is the next day.

More pictures of the wedding coming soon!

Nemesised

The OSF and I have this game we play. It's called Nemesis. The idea came about from a craigslist posting where some guy claimed he was so bored with his life that he wanted to hire a nemesis to spice things up a little bit. The criteria for 'nemesis' was creativity, subtlety, sneakiness, and fun-loving.

I'm so not joking about this posting, by the way.

Anyway, the OSF decided we should become nemesises (nemeses? nemesi?), and ever since we've been on the lookout to "get" each other.

Sometimes we actually pull off the nemesis activities ourselves.

Like when I grabbed my soda to take a drink, and just before I put it back down, he set his own down on my coaster. "Nemesised," he said with a smirk.

Or when he asked me to tie his shoelace for him, and I happily spent the next minute knotting the lace inside and around the bottom part of his shoe. "Nemesised." And I sat back into the couch, folded my arms, and smiled angelically.

And sometimes, we just take credit for random bouts of bad luck that happen to us. Like when the OSF got his foot run over by a guy in an electric wheelchair. That one put me a couple Nemesised Moments ahead.

The OSF even made little Nemesised cards, to hand out whenever a nemesis moment arises. He's a creative one, that OSF. He could totally have snagged the original Nemesis job offer.

Anyway, all this is to say that we banded together last night/early this morning and nemesised Ryan. Nothing bad, Ry, don't worry. You just fell asleep during the movie last night- and you looked so cute and peaceful, passed out on the couch, hugging your pillow, and clutching your cell phone- that we had to snap some pictures of you. Man, you sleep through anything. Even five or six clicks of the camera, both of us whispering about the tungsten light settings, the blare of the movie ending, and finally both of us snapping off all the lights and locking the door behind us.

Oh, and did you see the Nemesis card? We left it on the couch by your head.

Consider yourself properly nemesised.

She's just so stinking cute!

Alternative title: "If I were ever to kidnap a child, it would probably be this one."

I stole Lucy for a bit of a photo shoot today before the sun went down, and for the first time she was so accommodating. Look at these cute faces we got out of her! But I think this one here is my favorite. Those blue eyes just kill me.

After I got awesome pics of Lucy, Lucy and me, and Lucy and Justin G. (who so graciously helped me in the making Lucy laugh/keeping her from eating grass department), Jessica complained that she never gets pictures with her own kid. So we hauled her outside in the last of the cold and waning sunlight, and made her pose for the picture of the day. Such a cute little family- if only Gwen hadn't been at Girl Scouts it would have been a perfect family photo!

And this one, I just couldn't resist, even though it's a little blurred and dark. Such a fun baby!

And kudos to Justin G. for taking this picture of me with the little cutie. Cuz I love being in my own pictures, too!

Confessions: Volume Six

You know that guy that gets periodically mentioned on this here blog? The OSF is his name? You might have heard of him, right? Maybe? Once in awhile? He hangs around a lot, was the one who put up our new blinds yesterday?

You know, that guy?

I'm just mentioning him here... for no reason whatsoever... other than that, well, I've decided, and he agrees, that since we're always hanging out together anyway, anyway, that we might as well just, you know, go ahead and date.

(And if you get peanut butter, get smooth!)

** Edited for proper slang use. Thank you, Jessica and Chris.