Lucky Girls have finals too

Hello World! I can't seem to get off the computer this morning (Facebook! *shake my fist* and etsy.com but I won't shake my fist at them) so I've decided to write a blog about what my day to get me motivated to use it. After all, isn't that what blogs are for?

So today is hopefully the last day I'll be worrying about finals. My Kuwait Country Report is due tomorrow at 5 but I'm going to try to get it basically finished today. I have 2-3 pages to write and some data to get in order and that's it! Sounds doable, no? The only set back is this pesky Spanish final I have at 6 that I'm pretty unprepared for at the moment. I could spend all afternoon studying for it and getting my portfolio and journal ready for evaluation - I'm just hoping to be on my game when I get home at 8:30 to finish my "KCR". That might be a bit much to ask for. But any way you slice it I'll be ALL done by 5p.m. tomorrow and I can't tell you how happy that makes me! I've been avoiding messes for days thinking my finals would be done in no time and I'd get right to them - but their getting worse; my little efforts can't keep up. (I want a dishwasher - and a laundry machine! And dryer. And space and hook ups for all these things.)
I have such a love/hate relationship with modern conveniences. But it ends up making me a half and half girl, which is really the way to go. Washing machine and wash board, dishwasher and rubber gloves. It's ideal. Except I have no machines - just a laundromat and sponges - but futuristically speaking.

Actually Lane and I have come up with the a fantastic way of doing things that makes life so nice. She bought the greatest washing machine and now I can go to her place to do my laundry. It takes longer with only one machine but all that time is spent with my best friend in her cute home instead of sitting in plastic chairs at L-drama pretending to read. Also I've offered to cover the extra cost to her but end up spending less than I would at a profit-seeking business. It's really perfect. And my clothes have never been more sparkling. This last time (which was the first time) in lieu of payment we went M-pol for croissant sandwiches and coffee - so much nicer than writing a check. Do we know how to work this domestic thing or what?

I so hope Lane is near when I start having kids. We have dreams of living a walk away from each other and sharing our loads - having breakfast together and kids play together (in Lane's garden). Laundry at Lane's was making me want that more than ever - what a nice life I have, even without babies. And I have my friend-babies that I see every week. I'm a very lucky girl.

We didn't look too happy in any of the pictures of us at the wedding. We're not a posturing set of girls and it didn't look natural. But this is a candid of the photographer's when we were posing for Lane's mom. I blew it up and realized what a nice picture it was and cropped it and really like it.


















We love each other.

This blog is not doing it's job at all. I better just get off and take a shower and start my day over again. I am glad about this picture though and all this thinking about my nice little life. Finals-shminals, they don't bother me. When I get through them I get another laundry day at Lane's, and we're going to watch Eddie Izzard stand-up and mend clothes.

I'd ask for luck, but I obviously don't need any. I'm a lucky girl.