Saturday, March 26, 2011

It was Julie! Julie's on the other side of the planet! Hey miracles can happen!

So, I love Julie.  I really do.  She's absolutely amazing.  She apparently really likes it when I update my blog.  I guess it's not enough for her to be with me every second of every day ;-).  Not that I mind, by all means!  Please don't get me wrong!  I LOVE being around Julie too!  And those of you who have met her know why, she's just so much fun and I'm always smiling and laughing when I'm with her.  Anyway, like I said, she likes it when I update my blog because she just likes to see what I'm thinking.  I guess it is a different perspective when I'm writing to the blogosphere as opposed to talking to her directly.  Anyway, We've been having a lazy Saturday, just hanging out.  We played frisbee with some friends earlier today.  We haven't played frisbee in a long time, like all year, and she's kind of missed it.  A lot.  Julie's obsession with frisbee is akin to my obsession with China, if that puts things in perspective a little bit.  It was lots of fun.

Well, we're kind of just chilling right now.  Julie was trying to convince Steven, my room mate, that he should let her cut his hair.  He was almost going to do it, but then he decided against it for some reason.  He needs a hair cut though, he's kind of getting to the 'mop head' stage.  So I guess that idea is out.  Perhaps we'll put a movie on.  We played some Uno and Phase 10, oh and we made some cookie dough and ate probably three fourths of it...  :-D.  I love cookie dough.  As I have said, Julie just really likes it when I update my blog, so I figured I'd spend this past few min doing that just for her.  She said she would have blogged about our trip to Garry's last weekend.  I would, but I don't really have any pictures of my own to put up.  Oh, one nice thing about being 25, I can rent a car and not have to pay an arm and a leg for 'underage' drivers fees and whatnot.  The insurance is still expensive because I don't have any car insurance of my own, but still, at least I don't have those extra fees attached to it.  It really was a wonderful weekend though.  I really love my family.  As I get older, I realize more and more how truly unique my family is.  Julie noticed it as well, that we can go months without seeing each other and as soon as we are together again, it's like we've been together the entire time.  It was a lot of fun to meet Jenessa (Marshall's girl) and her sister who came down with Julie, Nanc and I.  Also, I LOVE my nieces and nephews!  They're all so cute and so much fun!  I wish I could see them more often, but at least some of them are close enough to see every once in a while.  Like everyone else in my family, I am TOTALLY excited about the upcoming reunion this Summer!  And what makes it all even better is that Julie's dad said that if she would do whatever he asked her to do over the summer (weed, mow, other miscellaneous chores) then he would buy her plane ticket to go!  YAY!  Julie's going to be a the reunion as well!  It's going to be a BLAST!

One last random update before I get off:  Steven (the same one who needs a hair cut) said I could use his computer and one of his dvd's to copy my Christmas Around the World dvd to send home!  So I'll do that within the next few days and get it in the mail the first of next week.  So those of you who are interested and live close can go check it out at my parents place!

Ok, now I'm done.  I hope you're happy now Julie ;-).  Perhaps I will get better at blogging regularly.  Or maybe I'll be able to convince Julie to start a blog of her own!  Or maybe I'll just grant her access so that she can post on here as well...  Hum... now there's an idea.....  I'll take a poll:  Those of you reading this, would you rather Julie starts her own blog, starts posting here on my blog (thus making it our blog), or are you indifferent as to the blogging habits of the girl I love so much and care immensely about?  (hint: That last option should only be chosen if you don't even know who I am, in which case, why are you voting in this pole in the first place!?!?!)


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Christmas Around the World DVD!

I FINALLY got my Christmas Around the World DVD!  Yay!  It's only 2 months late...  Whatever.  I would be putting up a video of my dance right now, except my computer decided to hate me a little bit more.  As soon as I get my computer back, I'll rip the section with my dance to my computer and put it up here.  I'll also make a copy of the DVD and send it home so those of you who don't have a fast enough computer can watch it as well.  You'll be able to watch the entire program as well if you would like.  I know Grandma Willis would really enjoy it and I'm sure that there are others of you that would enjoy it as well.  But like I said, my computer hates me again.  For those of you who haven't heard about this whole fiasco, about 6 months or so ago (maybe longer), my computer screen started acting up.  Everywhere that was supposed to be black had obnoxious red lines going through it.  It was rather abrasive to the eyes.  So I sent it in.  When I got it back, guess what, the white now was turning this bright blue color!  Oh, and the red was still there.  I kind of needed my laptop for school, so I just dealt with it till January.  I couldn't watch movies because the colors were crazy.  I could hardly even write a paper without my eyes getting sore from the obnoxious colors.  Anyway.  in January, I sent it back in to Asus to fix it.  When I got it back, they decided not to send my power cord with it....  Ya, that was really happy for me.  But I borrowed a friends power cord and found that there were still really thin lines all over the place, but only when my brightness was turned all the way up.  They told me that my power cord would come back with my computer after I sent it in again.  So I sent it in, and they fixed it.  Yay!  Still no power cord.  Grumpy!  So after chewing a few people out and talking to a manager, I ended up getting my cord almost 2 weeks later.  Everything was all fine and dandy.  My battery was even lasting a little bit longer.  Then after I get home from Garry's house last Sunday night, the backlight to the screen decided that it was going to give out on me.  Ya, really happy about that.  So I sent it in again and now don't have a computer again for another week and a half or so.  So there you have it, my computer hates me again.  At least I have a 2 year warrantee on it.  So if anything else decides to go out on it or freak out on me, it had better happen before December!  Anyway, within 2 weeks probably, I should be able to get a video of my performance up.  Heck, I may have a video of our Scottish dance we're doing next week by then as well!