Thursday, May 28, 2009

Graduation

When I graduated from high school, I was so scared. I wanted to go back in time to be in elementary school again. Now it is Colorado's turn! I'm so proud of him!

Colorado has had kind of a hard time. His mom raised him pretty much by her self until he was ten. She married his step dad and they fought quite a bit. He ended up living with a few different aunts before he was sent to Texas to live with his grandma. Since he has been here he raised his GPA from a 0.7 to almost a 3.0! His step dad used to tell him that he would never graduate and now he is! Next year he will come to the community college that I go to. I'm so proud of him!!!

Colorado takes better care of me than I could ever take care of him. He is 2 and a half years younger than I am but he acts as though he is older than I am. When I met him, he was a trouble maker and I was a trouble maker in disguise. Since then he has grown up, become a man and he has taught me to be myself. That it doesn't matter what my mom thinks of me, what my teachers or friends think of me. All that matters is what I think of me. And I taught him the same thing. He told me all kinds of things when he met me. He lied about quite a bit, some of it so I would like him more, and some so I would like him less. Since then, we started over. He told me he never wants to feel like he has to lie again. I haven't spent more than 12 hours away from him in over a year. Almost. Last summer we took a road trip to Denver to meet him family, my dad told me that it would make or break us. That was the funnest vacation I've ever been on.

Colorado told me that he did not want to graduate. He was ready to never have to go to school again, but at the same time, something in him would be missing. Once you graduate from high school, you loose that part of yourself. You can never go back. Stockholm Syndrome I call it. Eventually you loose that feeling. At least I hope you do. I feel it sometimes still. High school never ends though.

Ode to My Beauty

My don’t you look so lovely this morning
Sitting there in all your beauty just waiting
Just sitting ever so patiently
Waiting for me to pick you up, and hold you
Caress your body and stroke your every curve
How I long for you, my dear sweet beauty
Oh this ring on my finger means nothing
My passion and my heart and my soul belong to you
Fore I would be nothing without you
My mind would be mush and I would be incapable of felling
I couldn’t wake up every morning
If I knew you wouldn’t be there waiting for me
Never have I felt such an undeniable passion
Such a love that could over power me this way
It’s so undeniable this connection we have
I can’t stand the time I spend away from you
I sit in class and day dream of you
Counting the minutes until I can come home to see you
And when I open the door my heart fills with joy because there you are!
You are the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on
Never could I let you go, not even for a million dollars
You have been with me through all the hard times
And never once have you left me
You have always been right there next to me
Jeering me on telling me to go for it
Make those dreams come true
Well without you those dreams would never even be close to possible
SO this is my thank you
For everything you do for me and everything you mean to me
This is an ode to you my beauty
Oh my dear Waterbaby how I love you so

Colorado wrote this for me :)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Packages From Usedom


Yesterday, after I skipped dutifully to the mail box, I received the most wonderful of packages! Angela, who I have been visiting and who has been visiting me, sent me chocolates!
Unfortunately, yesterday it was 96 degrees outside! The chocolate was all melted when I picked up the package, so I put it in my freezer.


When it had been properly restored to a solid state, I opened the package. There were chunks of chocolate stuck to all the packages, I couldn't figure out where it was all coming from.


There was also a wonderful little postcard that Angela had filled out with a beautiful picture of the beach on it.



She sent me two chocolates with marzipan, which I had never tried, and two with nougat, which I love.


She also sent me some Lindor Truffles. I think, they melted and because the packages are not sealed, they ended up all over everything! Including my hands, chin and nose!


I love German Chocolate! I normally don't get out my camera when I get mail, but I thought I would share this yummy experience with you!


I didn't open the package until late last night, so I probably shouldn't have eaten any of the chocolate, but it was just too tempting, I love marzipan!!



Thank you Angela, I consider you a good friend to have. Anytime I visit you always have wonderful things to say and you can always find the silver lining in any dark raincloud! Thank you for brightening the blog world, one happy word after the other!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

New Blog

I have made a blog that I'll update periodically about the planning of the wedding, I'll probably do quite a bit in the next few months then not touch it again for two years, but I will have it!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Rainy Days and Wedding Dates

Colorado and I sat down and made out a budget to see if we could make the drive up to Denver to see his family this June. We also made a budget for the wedding. I have been trying to show him how difficult it will be to have a nice wedding (the way I want it) and Colorado has come to the conclusion that I was right and that we won't have the money to get married the way I want to. So, we have backed off from the 'one year from now' date. We do have money saved. Since last August we have managed to save quite a bit. But at the rate we have been going, it will probably take us at least two more years, working the 20 to 30 hour weeks that we both do right now, to save up the money for us to get married and have the honey moon that I want.

I was getting into the planning part of it though, I really got excited. That's probably part of why he decided to say we could wait. I was showing him flowers and asking him about colors and showed him this nifty budget thing that I found online and he started asking about why stuff cost so much. We have decided that we will wait, mature, and buy a second car before we get married. Too bad, I had already gone to try on dresses and OMG I loved planning the wedding :) Oh well, this way we both get more of what we want!

Monday, May 4, 2009

June 12, 2010

Colorado asked me to marry him almost a whole year ago. May 22 I think. We were at his Grandma's house, that's where he lived at the time. Usually I would go over there after I got off work and almost all weekend (when he wasn't working). This night we had found a box of brownies at Albertson's on the 99 cent aisle. So I made brownies while he pretended to watch. We watched T.V. while they were baking. When I got up to cut them, Colorado went to his bedroom. I cut the brownies and put two in some napkins. When I opened his door, he was down on one knee and asked me "Water Baby, will you marry me?"

Needless to say, I said yes. We moved in together 3 months later and now we think we might have a date for the wedding. June 12, 2010.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Kitties and Roomies

I got my very first cat in August! He was a shelter cat. Colorado has always had cats and so when we moved in together, he immediately suggested that we run to the shelter and play with the many kitties there.



He had been at the shelter for almost 6 months. We went in looking for a kitten and instead came out with the sweetest cat I have ever met.


Soldier is his name and rubbing is his game. He rubs his face on everything! your fingers, your nose, your chin, your legs, YOUR CAMERA!



Finding an angle that is complementary to the soldier cat is almost impossible. Alas I found a few. And also a couple of Patches, our roommates Red and Tall's wiener dog. And also one of Tall sleeping on the couch!



Daddy knows about this but I'm not sure I told yall about Annabell. She was our kitten. We called her kitten and she knew she was kitten. When we moved at the end of February, she got out while we were moving the bed. We still have not found her.



She took to hiding in the water bottle case and ate her meals on our bed side table. She was so tiny when we found her on the side of the freeway. I hope she is OK.