Rebecca

My mind has been so stuck in the future this week. I'm going through this, "oh my god, I'm getting old, there's so much to do and so little time!" phase again. There was this day when I was sitting in class in St.Augustine, and all of a sudden it hit me that while I wanted to go on and get a masters and a doctorate, I was wondering when in the fuck I was supposed to work full time, pay off all my loans, get married, and have kids, raise the kids- you know, live 8 lives. I'm going through that again. I keep finding myself talking about engagement and marriage lately.

I know its not the right time to get married- I'm too young, there's NO money, we want to wait until after grad school- but I guess I feel like I'm starting to really be ready to get engaged? I don't know...it really is quite silly, engagement is just a formality anyway. My mom and my late grandmother have both "donated" me diamond rings, they're sitting in a safe at my parents house. Because I work at a bank, I get a free safety deposit box- so next time I see my parents, I'm going to ask for the rings, and DJ and I are going to register for a safety deposit box at a branch somewhere other than where I work. The plan is that when DJ thinks the time is right (I've left that up to him, because of my tendency to get girly and whimsical in my perception of appropriate life-event timing) he'll get the rings, and have the diamonds re-set into an engagement ring for me.

DJ is playing the sims, and he created characters to represent both of us. He keeps commenting about what my character or his is doing in the game, but I don't know when he's talking about the game or real life. Right now, he's narrating my daily chores- earlier today, he started talking about how this room was filthy and I needed to clean it, and I said, "Hell no, you spilled all this shit, you need to clean up your own mess" but I was talking about real life and he was talking about the game. Even worse, you can pick your character's top five characteristics, and since our characters are modeled after us, they do and say things we both do in real life, and have the same arguments and daily interactions. My character is currently making the bed, go figure, and DJ is lecturing me in real life about how my sims character just broke the bathtub.

So confusing.

I think its funny someone created a game for millions of people to create little mini-thems and live virtual lives that absolutely represent their own- what in the hell is this achieving?

My sims character wants to have a child, now. I don't. I don't...I don't think? wtf sims. mind games.

Winter Park Farmers Market!


I love Winter Park, it's so fantastic. My poodle and I went to the Winter Park Farmers market for an hour or so and strolled down the aisles of fresh produce and overpriced orchids, and ended up going out to lunch by ourselves at a little resaurant on Park Avenue. It was so beautiful, and so nice just sitting back and appreciating everything this area has to offer. I had a glass of wine (at 11 am..oh my!) and a spicy tuna roll :) I got super lost on the way home and ended up aimlessly driving the backstreets of winter park passing masion after villa after lakeside condo and rows and rows of oak trees...not to mention, while I was out, I saw two bentleys and a ferrari- where in the hell else would that happen...

Plans for the rest of the weekend:
-Reorganizing the guest bedroom- people were moving out and just dumped a beautiful light wood desk and bookshelf in perfect condition which I happily acquired
-Baking pinapple zucchini bread
-Baking DJ a cherry pie
-Baking cookies for DJs friends visiting on Monday
-Enjoying my glorious 3 DAY WEEKEND!

oh man. so happy.

AND KYLE LIVES HERE NOW!!!! HOORAY!!!!!!

:)))))