Yesterday evening mommy and I were playing fetch the turkey. I'm getting really good at it. I was running from the second bedroom into the living room. But mommy threw the turkey and I wasn't looking where I was going. I ran my eye right into the edge of the door. It hurt alot. I ran to mommy instead of fetching the turkey. Mommy was very distraught.
My eye still hurts a bit. But daddy keeps trying to tell mommy that I'm just a crazy puppy and it's the sort of thing crazy puppies do. Now I know not to run so fast in the house. Maybe mommy will let me post more.
~~Silvio
Settled
Well, it has taken quite a bit but I think Andrew and I are pretty settled here in OK. It took a little longer than I thought. We had a great time at Amanda's wedding. It was wonderful to see everyone there. I am glad we had the opportunity to go. I think a reunion of sorts may be in order in the future.
Since arriving in OK we have gotten our very own washer and dryer units. It feels great to not have to walk outside and pay $2 plus every time I want to do a load of laundry. Even more exciting - there is no chance of any weirdos going through and touching my unmentionables. We have also added a new family member to our unit. His name is Silvio. He is a small 10 week old black pug who was born on May 25, 2008. Right now he has an affinity for chewing and sleeping. He almost has a good understanding of the game of fetch, where he will pick up his thrown turkey and return it to you. Silvio has even got a good little puppy sit. I also signed myself up for substitute teaching in the Lawton school district. Not a super difficult job to get. I figured I might be getting some calls considering I signed up for Math and Science classes. A most people usually avoid those. School starts on Friday. I don't expect to be getting calls for another week or two - unless the situation is urgent.
More importantly, I will be working on descriptions of our honeymoon. I'm concurrently working on creating a picture book of the trip for our coffeetable. Also on my agenda, picking out all of the photos from the wedding for our album and other miscellaneous things we are getting. New posts should keep rolling in.
Since arriving in OK we have gotten our very own washer and dryer units. It feels great to not have to walk outside and pay $2 plus every time I want to do a load of laundry. Even more exciting - there is no chance of any weirdos going through and touching my unmentionables. We have also added a new family member to our unit. His name is Silvio. He is a small 10 week old black pug who was born on May 25, 2008. Right now he has an affinity for chewing and sleeping. He almost has a good understanding of the game of fetch, where he will pick up his thrown turkey and return it to you. Silvio has even got a good little puppy sit. I also signed myself up for substitute teaching in the Lawton school district. Not a super difficult job to get. I figured I might be getting some calls considering I signed up for Math and Science classes. A most people usually avoid those. School starts on Friday. I don't expect to be getting calls for another week or two - unless the situation is urgent.
More importantly, I will be working on descriptions of our honeymoon. I'm concurrently working on creating a picture book of the trip for our coffeetable. Also on my agenda, picking out all of the photos from the wedding for our album and other miscellaneous things we are getting. New posts should keep rolling in.
Oh well...
I apologize to everyone for not giving honeymoon updates - our packing/move has made me super uneasy. But most of our stuff is packed away now. The movers came on Friday to get our 5,000 pounds of stuff. Maybe I'll write about the trip once we get settled in OK. I think I'll have a bit of time then - after Amanda's wedding.
Adventurers, This Way Please!
Well, Andrew and I have made it back from our honeymoon. It was amazing. Truly. I owe an extremely long detailed explanation of our trip for everyone. It's a good thing I took lots of pictures and kept a short daily diary of the trip. I think I might just make an entry for each day of the trip, according to the special name provided by Adventures by Disney. Then you can pick and choose what you want to read. I hope to be posting the Best of the Best pictures from London and from Paris on Facebook. They will probably be up before I finish writing about the entire honeymoon. So I hope you will stay tuned over the next couple of days for them. There might be a bit of a lag though - in about a week or so, Andrew and I will be making our move to OK. So we will be saying goodbye to Texas. So I guess we'll all see how good I am about packing and getting all of this information typed out.
Between trips
We are back from Lawton OK. It was a crazy trip. We checked in to Army Lodging at Fort Sill - only to find that the sheets on our bed were hairy. Super hairy. Ask for new sheets - they don't arrive for 45 minutes. Apparently, there is limited maid service - that is, only the maintenance guy is working on the weekends. We go out to dinner, and return to the room. We are there for 20 minutes when the power goes out. When I say the power goes out - it's out for all of Fort Sill. There is absolutely no working electricity. We get a little fed up and find an available room at a Ramada. We thought Ramada's were nice hotels. Not so much. This one was so sketchy - I really did fear for my life. There was one shining star in all of this - Henry, the guy at the front desk. Man, he was amazing - we checked in, and then 20 minutes later checked out. I can't imagine how he deals with it. He should really be working at a nice hotel - like the Hampton or Fairfield Inn. So we returned to Army Lodging. It was only after we have gone to Walmart to get a flashlight, that the power was back on - approximately 11:30 at night.
Monday was markedly better - we visited 2 apartment complexes, and was advised at the second to go see a newly built complex for some other layouts. We walked into the 3rd complex and looked at this great 2 bedroom/bathroom flat. We debated for about a half an hour and decided to just go for it. Everything is brand new - appliances, fixtures, carpet, wood floors, we even have a washer and dryer hook up. I'm excited to not have to walk outside to do laundry. Bigger plus, it's cool to have pets there, just a deposit and no monthly fee afterwards. We are stepping down a bit in square footage - but the new place has several really large closets - our current apartment doesn't have much of this type of space. I am confident we can make it work though. So, we should be in the new apartment on July 29th. I'll have to send out an email to update all this information for everyone.
With that, we got our flight moved up a day. So we got back to El Paso on Tuesday - just early enough to experience probably one of the largest rain storms of the year. That was fun outside of the water dripping through the window sills. Hurray for being able to move soon. This morning I got one of my two packages from circuit city. It is not my wii fit. It's the accessories I had to bundle with it. I'll probably get the fit tomorrow after we have left for our honeymoon. Maybe it'll come early in the morning like the accessories did. But who cares. We are going to London tomorrow. I can't wait!
Catch up with you later - oh yeah, the proofs are available online now from the wedding.
Monday was markedly better - we visited 2 apartment complexes, and was advised at the second to go see a newly built complex for some other layouts. We walked into the 3rd complex and looked at this great 2 bedroom/bathroom flat. We debated for about a half an hour and decided to just go for it. Everything is brand new - appliances, fixtures, carpet, wood floors, we even have a washer and dryer hook up. I'm excited to not have to walk outside to do laundry. Bigger plus, it's cool to have pets there, just a deposit and no monthly fee afterwards. We are stepping down a bit in square footage - but the new place has several really large closets - our current apartment doesn't have much of this type of space. I am confident we can make it work though. So, we should be in the new apartment on July 29th. I'll have to send out an email to update all this information for everyone.
With that, we got our flight moved up a day. So we got back to El Paso on Tuesday - just early enough to experience probably one of the largest rain storms of the year. That was fun outside of the water dripping through the window sills. Hurray for being able to move soon. This morning I got one of my two packages from circuit city. It is not my wii fit. It's the accessories I had to bundle with it. I'll probably get the fit tomorrow after we have left for our honeymoon. Maybe it'll come early in the morning like the accessories did. But who cares. We are going to London tomorrow. I can't wait!
Catch up with you later - oh yeah, the proofs are available online now from the wedding.
WEDDING PROOFS!!!
Okay, yes I am a tad bit excited. But today, one day before we head out to Lawton to look at apartments, and the zoom off on our honeymoon, we received the proofs of our wedding pictures in the mail. Our photographer, Lauren Grabelle, did an amazing job. Andy doesn't really like taking pictures, so when we finished looking through the lot (and when I say lot, I mean LOT), he said those pictures were great. High praise! Plus, we had a lot of fun looking through them. There was a lot of, "oh, and we were talking about this when this was taken." They really are great. So I need to thank everyone who was a part of the day - it really was great.
Since we have the proofs, this means that they should be going up online very soon. For anyone who couldn't make it, I am going to attempt a cut here with all of the online photo info, so that you can see the shots. I would suggest taking a look at them next week, which is probably when they will become active.
This is probably the last post for a while - unless I can get one in during our short turn around on Wednesday. Wait until the 20th to get Lawton and Honeymoon updates and photos on facebook.
Oh yeah, here's to an enjoyable July 4th weekend everyone!!
Since we have the proofs, this means that they should be going up online very soon. For anyone who couldn't make it, I am going to attempt a cut here with all of the online photo info, so that you can see the shots. I would suggest taking a look at them next week, which is probably when they will become active.
go to: www.lgphoto.com
click on: online events
This will take you to a new site. You will be asked for an event code.
event code: theresaandrew
Go nuts looking at our special day.
click on: online events
This will take you to a new site. You will be asked for an event code.
event code: theresaandrew
Go nuts looking at our special day.
This is probably the last post for a while - unless I can get one in during our short turn around on Wednesday. Wait until the 20th to get Lawton and Honeymoon updates and photos on facebook.
Oh yeah, here's to an enjoyable July 4th weekend everyone!!
Wii FIT!!!!
I have been looking for a Wii FIT since I have arrived in El Paso - at the beginning of June. Mind you, I have been kicking myself in the butt for not preordering it back when it first came out, since I knew I wanted it. I just didn't think it was a good monetary choice, seeing as there was still wedding related things to pay for. Thanks to Kate for telling me about
RefreshThing
and my own google searching for
Zooalert
that this morning both told me about Circuit City having them in stock. In my insanity I tried to get a single Wii FIT in my cart. Only to realize I needed to get a bundle. So I added a travel case and a cover to my cart and magically the Wii FIT appeared in my cart. Hurray!!! So I think I am set on video games for a while. I haven't really wanted any - I did get a chance to play rock band. It's fun - but I don't think I'd get it for a while.
I should get the FIT in the short time between getting back from Lawton and heading out on the Honeymoon. We'll see if I get a chance to play it. I'm happy, and I think Andy is finally happy he doesn't have to see me with a sad face when I miss attempting to get a FIT.
RefreshThing
and my own google searching for
Zooalert
that this morning both told me about Circuit City having them in stock. In my insanity I tried to get a single Wii FIT in my cart. Only to realize I needed to get a bundle. So I added a travel case and a cover to my cart and magically the Wii FIT appeared in my cart. Hurray!!! So I think I am set on video games for a while. I haven't really wanted any - I did get a chance to play rock band. It's fun - but I don't think I'd get it for a while.
I should get the FIT in the short time between getting back from Lawton and heading out on the Honeymoon. We'll see if I get a chance to play it. I'm happy, and I think Andy is finally happy he doesn't have to see me with a sad face when I miss attempting to get a FIT.
July
Wow, a travel intensive month. On Sunday, we will be heading to Lawton, OK to find an apartment while Andy is attending class at Fort Sill. We come back to El Paso only to get on another plane the next day for the Honeymoon. I can't wait - London and Paris. I plan on taking lots of pictures. I really am excited. I haven't been on a huge vacation trip in a while. More detailed report to come later, rest assured. When we return, we have one week to get everything together to move to OK. Another new place to say I have lived. Crazy really.
I am hoping while we are in OK to get a rescue pug. I have been looking at dogs at Homeward Bound Pug Rescue. There are a couple of pugs here that I think would be so much fun - like Dexter, Baby & Buddy, Biscuit, Dirk, and well sheesh, if I could I'd adopt as many as I can. I'll have to see about the apartment dog situation. But hopefully I could make a call to the rescue and maybe talk to them to find out more information. By the by, OK has a lot of pug puppy mills. So I think I have a good chance of finding a good dog. But the catch is...Andy gets a cat. Hopefully one I am not really allergic too. That would be fun.
Oh yeah, maybe I'll try to find a job - does Cameron University need any adjunct faculty?
I am hoping while we are in OK to get a rescue pug. I have been looking at dogs at Homeward Bound Pug Rescue. There are a couple of pugs here that I think would be so much fun - like Dexter, Baby & Buddy, Biscuit, Dirk, and well sheesh, if I could I'd adopt as many as I can. I'll have to see about the apartment dog situation. But hopefully I could make a call to the rescue and maybe talk to them to find out more information. By the by, OK has a lot of pug puppy mills. So I think I have a good chance of finding a good dog. But the catch is...Andy gets a cat. Hopefully one I am not really allergic too. That would be fun.
Oh yeah, maybe I'll try to find a job - does Cameron University need any adjunct faculty?
Army
Well, I am in the army now. I have been having some difficulty getting used to it. Not having total control over what I am doing and when i am doing it - has caused some tension. I have feel that I have very little knowledge of the military - I don't feel like I am in the club yet - so I fear I might make some serious public snafu. But I think so far I am doing alright. The big test is today. Andy will be getting promoted to Captain. I do have a part in the ceremony. I am really anxious about being in front of people I don't know. Oh well. Maybe I'll put some shots up on facebook.
Other news. I still have thank you notes to write. We had a barbeque on Saturday which was nice - went a little overboard on the food. But hey I can't complain about leftovers. I met a few people. They all have been very nice. I've procured a few new Wii games. Lego: Indiana Jones - a lot of fun to play. Each level you have what you need to make it through - but there are parts that are locked - so as you unlock more characters from each movie you can replay levels and get more hidden stuff. The Dog Island - a recommendation to me. I don't do to well with Action RPGs like Resident Evil, so this is definitely more my speed. You play as a dog and your sister/brother dog gets ill. You are on a mission to find a special dog doctor to make your sibling well. I like it - Andy finds it somewhat childish. And for the big score - Sunday we went to Best Buy and was able to pick up Mario Kart Wii. Needless to say, last night we spent the evening kart-ing. You start with 4 basic cups, 10 characters to choose from, and 6 possible vehicles. What is neat - some of the Mario Kart races come from previous versions of Mario Kart - like Peach Beach and Waluigi Stadium. There are a couple of new items - although I'm not so sure since I only compare the game to the N64 version. My pet peeve - as I opened the Mario Kart game box - I checked to see what controllers are usable for the game. I thought that you needed to have the wheel. Apparently not. You can play with the remote and nunchuks, the original controller, or a game cube controller. Pain in the behind - why doesn't Nintendo just sell the darn game by itself. People want to play the game - but it's hard to find because YOU (Nintendo) have to package it with the a darn wheel. Anyway, I will say the wheel is fun to play with and we managed to unlock one of the 4 extra cups last night. If anyone is listening out there, I just want a Wii Fit for my birthday - yes, it is still 2 months away, but that is what I want.
Anyway - I have some things to do - like figure out what to wear to this promotion ceremony. Catch ya later.
Other news. I still have thank you notes to write. We had a barbeque on Saturday which was nice - went a little overboard on the food. But hey I can't complain about leftovers. I met a few people. They all have been very nice. I've procured a few new Wii games. Lego: Indiana Jones - a lot of fun to play. Each level you have what you need to make it through - but there are parts that are locked - so as you unlock more characters from each movie you can replay levels and get more hidden stuff. The Dog Island - a recommendation to me. I don't do to well with Action RPGs like Resident Evil, so this is definitely more my speed. You play as a dog and your sister/brother dog gets ill. You are on a mission to find a special dog doctor to make your sibling well. I like it - Andy finds it somewhat childish. And for the big score - Sunday we went to Best Buy and was able to pick up Mario Kart Wii. Needless to say, last night we spent the evening kart-ing. You start with 4 basic cups, 10 characters to choose from, and 6 possible vehicles. What is neat - some of the Mario Kart races come from previous versions of Mario Kart - like Peach Beach and Waluigi Stadium. There are a couple of new items - although I'm not so sure since I only compare the game to the N64 version. My pet peeve - as I opened the Mario Kart game box - I checked to see what controllers are usable for the game. I thought that you needed to have the wheel. Apparently not. You can play with the remote and nunchuks, the original controller, or a game cube controller. Pain in the behind - why doesn't Nintendo just sell the darn game by itself. People want to play the game - but it's hard to find because YOU (Nintendo) have to package it with the a darn wheel. Anyway, I will say the wheel is fun to play with and we managed to unlock one of the 4 extra cups last night. If anyone is listening out there, I just want a Wii Fit for my birthday - yes, it is still 2 months away, but that is what I want.
Anyway - I have some things to do - like figure out what to wear to this promotion ceremony. Catch ya later.
Long Overdue
If this post were like an overdue library book, I would probably have to pay a fine of close to $20. This will most likely turn into a bullet post of everything that has happened thus far because I'm quite certain I will forget something if I try to write it in paragraph form.
Catch everyone later!
- I handed in my thesis, An Exploration in the History of Littlewood’s Conjecture. My guess is right now it is in the process of being bound into a hardcover book. I suppose I will now have two coffee table books with my name on it.
- On May 9, I graduated from the University of South Carolina. I received my Master of Arts in Mathematics - when I will actually receive the piece of paper that says this...I have no idea. But at least it is noted on my transcript. I did not walk for graduation. Instead, I attended my brother Matthew's graduation from Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor degree in History. I'm very proud of him. I got the chance to sit in Lane Stadium, one of the rowdiest (sp?) college football stadiums in the country, for free. That probably won't happen again, unless Matt decides to walk when he graduates from Graduate School. He is now part of the Graduate History Department at Tech.
- To be honest the next two weeks are a blur in my mind. It was probably filled with a ton of running around speaking to all of the vendors. I did enjoy the fact that I got to hang out with my cousin Alycia while putting together nearly one hundred tea favors for the reception. I had a bit of fun hanging out with some of the girls for a Girls Night Out. Oh, and I have to say, this is the first time in my life I have gotten my nails done. Wow, it was really soothing, not to mention it came out about 50 times better than if I had attempted it myself.
- May 24 was the big day. It went off relatively smoothly. The guys had a bit of a snafu with the tuxes. I think they were more worried about the possibility that I might have some sort of nervous breakdown if the tuxes didn't match. But I was really quite physically spent from the prior two weeks of running around- and that was before all of the fun had started. I nearly fell asleep while getting my hair done at the salon that morning. The guys were relieved that I didn't care about the color of the tux. More than once, the vendors told me I was one of the most relaxed brides they've had in a while. I think it was for the best that I decided to just let these people do their jobs. I'm going to enjoy seeing and speaking to everyone and let the vendors do their thing. That is what I paid them to do. I couldn't believe that the day went so quickly. It was a lot of fun and I can't help but thank everyone who was there for a wonderful time. I should get proofs from the photographer by the end of July - at which point they should show up online (for anyone who is wondering).
- These past two weeks have been ... well a trip. We (my parents included) drove to South Carolina to completely move all of my things from my apartment. I kinda miss the apartment and Columbia. It turned out to be a good experience after all - even if I managed to be allergic to the state. I will miss all the friends I made there. After a day of packing, we drove out to El Paso. We drove through, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and across the state of Texas. We all spent a few days unloading my things and exploring El Paso. Then my parents and I drove back to NJ - taking a different route - through Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, to Virginia. At which point, we took the familiar I-81 trip back home. Hopefully I will get some photos on facebook from the drives.
- We made it just in time for my Great Aunt Dora's 100th birthday. What a trip. To be around from 1908-2008. She has seen a lot and what is more amazing she still has the mental acuity to tell you all the details of things that happened 20 - 30 - 40 - 50... years ago. I'm only a quarter of the way there - let's see how long I can manage.
- Last Monday was nutty. I ran around from government agency to government agency in an attempt to get the ball rolling with a name change. So, I spent the day waiting around in some hard chairs. But it was a successful day. I then hopped on a flight the next morning back to Texas. It probably was the cheapest flight I have ever gotten the day before I needed to get somewhere.
- Wednesday and Thursday was spend getting myself in the Army system. Actually, that really happened in under 2 hours on Wednesday. On Thursday it took nearly all day to get Happy Car in the system. But that is all done.
Catch everyone later!
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