37 posts tagged “will”
i forgot to post pictures from last weekend (as usual). we went back to misquamicut beach last weekend but we brought my mom along with us. the waves were not as big but they were still awesome. it was sunny, hot and gorgeous out! will found this great place that rents boogie boards for $5 so we got two and played in the ocean with them. they were sooo much fun! i want to buy a boogie board of my own now (even though i came thisclose to breaking my hip bone after a wave beat the shit out of me).
it was kismet
What's your favorite time of day and why?
6:30PM on weekdays! thats the time that my boyfriend gets home from work and the fun can officially begin!
although sometimes its 7:00PM when he rides his bike to work because it takes a little longer for him to get home. a small sacrifice that i can live with if it means we are paying less on gas.
i don't have a particular favorite time for the weekends...although i *do* dread the evening hours on sunday. i hate thinking about going back to another full week of work. i also sometimes have sudden panic attacks...but then i, thankfully, remember that i'm not in school anymore and i don't have any homework to get done! i wonder how long it will take me to shed the school-guilt i automatically start feeling on sundays...
i just realized i never posted pics from my memorial day trip out to west virginia. will's dad has a cabin (that he built himself!) out there and he was gracious enough to splurge on two plane tickets for both will and me. i have only been there once before but it was a couple of winters ago that i was there. west virginia is another sight to behold in the spring!
the rest of our trip was spent in the cabin - eating good food, lounging in a hammock on the porch while will and his dad chopped wood, and spending lots of quality time with his dad's animals.
will and i traveled down to washington d.c. this past weekend to say goodbye to the house he grew up in. his mom sold the house and is going to be moving out this week. its been a long time coming but i'm glad that the house has been sold and that both will and his mom can move on and find a new beginning.
we moved around a lot when i was little so i don't have the same attachment to houses as will does to his. the closest thing that i can relate it to is when my family downsized out of our house that we had lived in the longest (about ten years) and moved into a much smaller space in hartford. its sad but it must be done. i can't even imagine living in the same house for 30+ years. the amount of stuff that had piled up in their house, and especially in their basement, is unfathomable! and will has lived in that house since he was taken home from the hospital after being born. we cleaned up his bedroom and actually found baby clothes and baby shoes in his closet! i kept reminding him to not dwell on the goodbye but instead focus on how blessed he is. most people in this world don't get the luxury of staying in one place for too long. he had twenty-four great years in his house and now its time to move forward.
the weekend was definitley bittersweet. will's mom invited fifty of her closest friends over on saturday to say farewell to all the good times that have been had in the house. it was a bit overwhelming for me since i didn't know most of the people there but i'm actually pretty impressed with how well i handled myself. it seems like i talked endlessly about our plans for graduate school and our jobs but i think everyone bought it. one of the highlights of the night was hearing one of will's mom's friends say to us, "now, don't let the other grown-ups overhear this, but i pretty much didn't know what i wanted to do career-wise until i was THIRTY!" that made us feel a little bit better about not having everything in our lives mapped out yet!
and then on sunday, will had to say goodbye to the only house he has ever known. in truth, he was saying goodbye to the only family he has ever known. the house hasn't been the same for him since his dad moved out and i think it was the final nail in the coffin for him. he knows now that he'll never get that life back. its been hard watching him go through the divorce and i try to be there for him as much as i can. he has been mourning the loss of his family for some time now. i just hope that the healing process can begin now that his mom is moving out and finally starting life on her own terms.
here are some pictures we took from our trip. it was gorgeous in washington d.c. this weekend - of course, its still cold up here in new england but we caught a glimpse of spring down there! hopefully we get to go back in april or may so we can see the cherry blossoms.
Native American Proverb
my boyfriend and i attended a party at his fraternity this past weekend. the theme of the party is heaven & hell where (you guessed it!) you dress up as someone from either heaven or hell! it's one of the biggest parties the frat has every year so we shimmied some costumes together and partied on down.
it WAS a fun party but every time we go back there, we know less and less people so the excitement of going to these parties is kind of waning for us. its sad because we both remember how much fun we had when we lived in the house but its just not the same anymore since we graduated. we still managed to have fun but thats mostly because we can have fun anywhere as long as we're together.
either way, we still had a good time and we managed to snag some pretty cool pictures. here they are!
i meant to post about this earlier but i've been lazy this week. i made plans with my friend michelle to go down to her house last saturday to hang out and play some karaoke revolutions. so the boyfriend and i hop in our car and travel to her house. i knock on the door and hear COME IN! i open the door and lo and behold! a handful of my closest friends are in michelle's house screaming SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my birthday was the week earlier so i had no idea that anyone was planning anything for me! it was a total shock! i really didn't want to make a big deal out of my birthday this year but i'm really glad that everyone conspired together to make the party happen. i had such a good time on saturday and it was so nice to see my friends united together to celebrate little ol' me! we spent the whole night laughing and drinking and i still got to play karaoke revolutions! it was amazing! my friends kick ass, especially michelle for organizing the whole event. she is the greatest BFF a girl could ever have!
here are some pictures from the party!
i had my birthday this past weekend. i turned twenty-five on the 16th...and am now officially a quarter century year old. i must admit, i do feel old. i'm only five years away from the big 3-0 and i'm fucking terrified. i take comfort in the fact that i still get carded for buying lighters so i guess that means i don't look old.