Jorge & I are still house shopping. It's evolved from looking at tiny townhouses to large single family homes turned into 3-6 efficiencies illegally and now to small, townhouse sized houses with a yard. There was one we saw last week that we loved- it has a fireplace (Um... why?) a brick BBQ, a cactus in the front yard, palm trees, avocado, banana, mango, and some other fruit trees. It's not perfect, but we love it. It needs a little work, but we would gladly labor over it. It's taken months for us to look... and the process is fun but it's hard not to get my hopes up. I was literally praying to God that we will find a house that will be right for us just before we saw that one. And I'm still trying to keep the attitude that if we miss out, it wasn't meant to be. Goodness knows we have come a long way... but I still have hope that we will find "it" soon.

Jorge has been an angel as far as helping with contacting the Realtor, and our wedding contacts. He's struggling through another new grade at work and arguing with Geico during all this, but he doesn't complain. He is amazing. Speaking of amazing... he tried to orchestrate some sort of surprise for my birthday. He tries so hard! Bless his heart. Two of my friends showed up. Next year I want to dress up and celebrate Halloween for the first time in my life. My god, this year it was so boring. I guess last year was just hard to follow. Jorge also bought tickets to see Jonathan Coulton for my birthday! To clarify, the show is in January. I was so touched that my eyes got all teary. It's touching to see how much he cares.


WE did our registry last week, and the woman helping us was suggesting things, and we don't know anything about what would match with our potential home's decor. All I could think was that I would want to incorporate as much geek stuff as possible, like this:
  
It felt productive to get some stuff done, like our registry and website. There's still a thousand things left to do, so I'm going to try and enjoy this as much as I can.


Edit: I forgot to mention that Anthony sent me a package with "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" with a hilarious card. =)

I LOVE MY FIANCE! He is the best person in the history of ever.

The wedding is 6 months, 2 weeks away.

We're going to make an offer on a townhouse.

So... after much anticipation, Jorge asked me to marry him. I said yes. And I didn't even look at the ring until a few minutes later. I was too busy hugging him, and my eyes were too blurry anyway.

English->Italian->English "Eight Days a Week"

Ooh your child of love, Conjecture you know it' s to align.
Hope you have need of my child of love, Hardly I have as it need.
It holds it, it loves it, it holds it, it loves it.
The ain' the t it has obtained nothin' but child of love, Eight days a week.
He loves it ev' girl by day of the relè, Always on my mind.
A thing I can say the girl, Loves it continuously.
It holds it, it loves it, it holds it, it loves it.
The ain' the t it has obtained nothin' but girl of love,
Eight days a week. Eight days a week I love you.
Eight days a week is not enough in order to show the cure of I.
Need of Ooh your child of love, Conjecture knows it' s to align.
Hope you have need of my child of love, Hardly I have as it need.
It holds it, it loves it, it holds it, it loves it.
...etc.

English->Portugese->English

Ooh I need its borracho the love, Assumption you I know it' trues.
Hope you need mine borracho the love, Only as need I it.
He arrests me, he loves me, he arrests me, he loves me.
Me ain' t começ nothin' but borracho of the love, eight days one the week.
It loves it ev' girl of day of the relay, Always in my mind.
A thing I can say the girl, I love it the time all.
He arrests me, he loves me, he arrests me, he loves me. Me ain' t começ nothin' but girl of the love, eight days one the week.
Eight days one the week love I you. Eight days one the week is not sufficient to show to the care of I.
Ooh I needs its borracho the love, Assumption you knows it' trues.
Hope you need mine borracho the love, Only as need I it.
He arrests me, he loves me, he arrests me, he loves me.
Me ain' t começ nothin' but borracho of the love, eight days one the week.

Courtesy of Babelfish.altavista.com, a source of my childhood entertainment. I used to write silly little parodies of things and then filter them through the translation of several languages until it was nonsense.

My true love showered me with gifts for the 12 days of Christmas or something. Anyhow:

-Hotel Dusk room 215
-Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney "Justice for All"
-Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney "Trials and Tribulations
-Apollo Justice Ace Attorney
-Phoenix Wright manga
-Futurama Seasons 1-4
-The Sims 2 for Mac
-Kermit keychain
-Beaker shirt

And more

Jorge bought me a small pumpkin cheesecake for my birthday, and a green ipod shuffle. (Just so you know, these are two things that I kept talking about, and he listened!) He loves me very much. He keeps telling me he does.

I love him more than anything in the world, and I'm touched to have someone so thoughtful and giving. I appreciate him so much as a person in an objective way, but I'm also in love with him very deeply.

I sometimes don't know until the last minute that I'm working. It's a little nerve-wracking to wake up early, pick out clothes, and wait... and wait....


Today, I'm going in for half a day, starting at 11:30. That will make 3.5 days of work.

clicky clickety clickeroo

Suddenly I'm Irish, and I'm not really sure how one would locate the top of any given morning. I don't think folklore is equipped with maps. Good luck.



Also, I really like Jonathan Coulton now. Jorge gave me like, every friggin' thing he released, and i listened to every last song. I love it! It's catchy, nice to listen to, and I'll suddenly burst out into song, singing, "Isn't it enough that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?"

Well, the voices in my head that control me are actually telling me not to kill you, so I'm off to go shower and grade with Jorge on this "teacher work day".


Hail squishface.

He loves me. I had to say it. I feel as though I'm going to burst if the sentiment is necessarily covert!



Even though you knew this, I just had to tell the world...

If it were not for Anthony, I would have never known most of the music that rocks so hard. I would have never known a band with the word "Led" in their name that imitated Elvis Presley.






Or the emo stuff like Radiohead.




Come to think of it.... what, among my favorites, has he not introduced to me? To name  few:

U2
Pinetop Seven
The Servant
The Killers
The Decemberists
Apoptygma Berserk
VNV Nation
Led Zeppelin
Flogging Molly
Franz Ferdinand
Arcade Fire
Blur
Michael Leviton
Gorillaz
Modest Mouse
David Bowie
The Flaming Lips

This post is about:
a) Something you care about
b)Something random, or
c) Something pertaining to my life.

Notice how there is no "a but also c".

I might start subbing as soon as this week. This is something Jorge and I saw that amused us:

I put that there because I'm too cheap to get any more icons.
I'm making my birthday costume! Hooray! It's coming together. I'm making a few compromises due to budget and the like, but have almost everything I need to complete it. And also, it's not Santa Claus, but it would be really funny if it was. I'm so very excited, because I've never put so much effort into a costume before!

I went to the gym today with Jorge, and during my 30 minutes on the elliptical machine, my average heart rate was 175. I got all the way up to 190, and for bit I was up in the 180s. Now, I didn't feel like my heart was going to pop, but I grew a bit concerned when Jorge said something... and then I looked this up:



As you should know, I'm 23, which puts me between 20 and 25, but closer to 25. That means that I was at over 90%!

The pope looks like Emperor Palpetine with a sombrero. He's Darth Caballero.




I don't even know it this is the same guy, but I LOL'd.



Just because... LOLLERPOPS.