1 more day in bloomsburg!!! i kinda have mixed emotions. i'm really gonna miss my family (including mag), and all my buds, but i'm so excited to be closer to mark and all my friends in lancaster. i'm also really excited about not working anymore... i'll be able to take naps again!!! i heart naptime! :)
ok... back to packing... love to all...
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me." -2 Corinthians 12:9
Thursday, August 19, 2004
1 more day in bloomsburg!!! i kinda have mixed emotions. i'm really gonna miss my family (including mag), and all my buds, but i'm so excited to be closer to mark and all my friends in lancaster. i'm also really excited about not working anymore... i'll be able to take naps again!!! i heart naptime! :)
ok... back to packing... love to all...
ok... back to packing... love to all...
Sunday, August 01, 2004
wow... it's been a while...
nothing new has really happened. i work during the week... and see mark most weekends. i love weekends, but they go so quickly. i feel like i blink and they're over. i'm really looking forward to moving down there in 3 weeks. it'll be so nice to get to spend more time with mark. *sigh*
this weekend mark came up here... on saturday morning we went up to wilkes barre to paint the desk i found in my grandfather's basement for the apartment. it belonged to my mother and her sisters when they were in high school, which was quite obvious since it was painted bright yellow and orange. (who paints a desk bright yellow and bright oranger?!? no seriously, who did it? i want to know so you can be severly punished). i knew it was gonna take a little work to get it looking presentable again, but it's free, so i was willing to do it. to put it lightly, it was more difficult than i thought. first of all, it was in the corner of the basement, surrounded by other forgotten pieces of furniture which required a bit of imagination in getting it out. then i had to clean off all the gunk from years gone by. *cringe* we then proceeded to scrape and sand it. at this point mark mentioned that there's a good possibility that the paint contained lead, and suggested that we should proably be wearing masks. well, we didn't have any... so we just kept on working. we'll probably both die of lead poisoning in a few months, but hey... we saved money. so finally all the cleaning, scraping, and sanding was finished, and we moved on to painting. this presented a whole new problem. the white paint failed to cover the orange paint, but we still had another coat to do, so we just went upstairs to watch tv for a while while the first coat dried. unfortunately we were on a bit of a schedule because we had to be home in time to volunteer at the theatre here in bloomsburg, so we only let the first coat dry for about 15 minutes. needless to say, the second coat didn't do a very good job of covering the orange paint either. it now looks like someone merely put a coat of primer on it. *sigh* i love many things about the 70's but the favored colors of the decade are things that i could've done without. we did learn a few things from this experince, though. one... projects always take longer than one plans. two... mark hates painting things other than walls. finally... i have the most wonderful boyfriend in the world. i love you honey, despite your hatred of painting. ;)
anyway... later that night mark and i volunteered at the BTE (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble) with my parents for C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. it was a great show, and we had a wonderful time. afterwards, we all came home and ate a candelight dessert on the front porch. all-in-all it was a spectacular day. i'm looking forward to many more like it... :)
nothing new has really happened. i work during the week... and see mark most weekends. i love weekends, but they go so quickly. i feel like i blink and they're over. i'm really looking forward to moving down there in 3 weeks. it'll be so nice to get to spend more time with mark. *sigh*
this weekend mark came up here... on saturday morning we went up to wilkes barre to paint the desk i found in my grandfather's basement for the apartment. it belonged to my mother and her sisters when they were in high school, which was quite obvious since it was painted bright yellow and orange. (who paints a desk bright yellow and bright oranger?!? no seriously, who did it? i want to know so you can be severly punished). i knew it was gonna take a little work to get it looking presentable again, but it's free, so i was willing to do it. to put it lightly, it was more difficult than i thought. first of all, it was in the corner of the basement, surrounded by other forgotten pieces of furniture which required a bit of imagination in getting it out. then i had to clean off all the gunk from years gone by. *cringe* we then proceeded to scrape and sand it. at this point mark mentioned that there's a good possibility that the paint contained lead, and suggested that we should proably be wearing masks. well, we didn't have any... so we just kept on working. we'll probably both die of lead poisoning in a few months, but hey... we saved money. so finally all the cleaning, scraping, and sanding was finished, and we moved on to painting. this presented a whole new problem. the white paint failed to cover the orange paint, but we still had another coat to do, so we just went upstairs to watch tv for a while while the first coat dried. unfortunately we were on a bit of a schedule because we had to be home in time to volunteer at the theatre here in bloomsburg, so we only let the first coat dry for about 15 minutes. needless to say, the second coat didn't do a very good job of covering the orange paint either. it now looks like someone merely put a coat of primer on it. *sigh* i love many things about the 70's but the favored colors of the decade are things that i could've done without. we did learn a few things from this experince, though. one... projects always take longer than one plans. two... mark hates painting things other than walls. finally... i have the most wonderful boyfriend in the world. i love you honey, despite your hatred of painting. ;)
anyway... later that night mark and i volunteered at the BTE (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble) with my parents for C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. it was a great show, and we had a wonderful time. afterwards, we all came home and ate a candelight dessert on the front porch. all-in-all it was a spectacular day. i'm looking forward to many more like it... :)
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