I have so much to talk about now, that I'll probably break it up into several posts. I've been meaning to write, but I've been so busy and lazy the past couple of weeks, that I haven't. First of all, I finally graduated. I got my grades today, so it's official I guess. Since I didn't attend the graduation, and it was a week before finals anyway, it just doesn't seem like there was an offical end, so here it is. Second, my family left yesterday. We had a lot of fun, but it was pretty crazy. It went by so fast. I have spent the last week sleeping at times I should be awake and being awake at times I should be sleeping. I still don't feel normal. My mom and Bob went crazy with the gifts, so we got a ton of stuff. Among other things, I got Animal Crossing for the Wii, Lego Batman for the PS3, no less than 10 books (David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Virginia Woolfe, and Domino's decorating book (the links are in an earlier post, not feeling up to putting them in this one). I also got all of the prints I asked for from etsy, which meant that I had to buy a bunch of frames. I got 6 at Target, one at Urban Outfitters, and 2 at Anthro. Then yesterday I got Joeli's Xmas gift, which was a framed picture of us before her wedding. I love having things to put on my walls! I also got the third season of Robot Chicken, which is pretty great. The day after Christmas, Jason's birthday, we went to Philadelphia and King of Prussia to do some shopping. Walking around downtown Philadelphia reminded me how much I've always wanted to live in a row house. Someday I'd like to raise our kids in Philadelphia.
I got some clothes at Anthro, Nordstrom, and J. Crew. I also got a bunch of house stuff on sale at Urban. I'll post pics when I get it all set up. I got some Lush stuff, since they were having a crazy sale, and a pair of gloves and the cutest blue and yellow feather barrettes from Free People. Other than that we sat around, played Guitar Hero and Disney Scene It, drank Three Buck Chuck, and watched home movies. Good times. We were also treated to some unexpected excitement when Mortimer escaped from his cage through a broken bar, and ran around with Harlock for a while before I caught him. Luckily, Harlock didn't hurt him, although we think he may have hurt her. She came running out afraid, and now when he sees her, instead of hiding in fear, he lunges at her. Harlock was attacked by a chinchilla. Hilarious. Anyway, that meant that we got to run out on Christmas Eve to get him a new cage. Jason found a chew proof chinchilla cage that is perfect. It's three stories, completely metal, and has a pull out tray so I can clean his cage without disturbing him. I wanted a metal cage so he would stop eating the plastic, but most of them looked like little prisons. Luckily this one doesn't haha.
Today I spent the day running errands that shouldn't have taken all day, but everyone is still off of work and driving me nuts. I made a stupid mistake, and used Jason's Target gift cards to buy him Lost, but got the wrong season. That wouldn't have been a huge deal, except he didn't realize it until he opened it. They told me they can only exchange it for another copy of the wrong one, because of New York state copyright laws. My how I love New York. This would be such a great state without the government. So I ended up selling it to a used place for very little, and now my mom is going to help me buy him the new one. Except I spent all day going to every place in town, and everyone is out of it. So until someone gets a shipment, I remain a complete moron who feels very guilty. He really wanted to have it for his "Jaycation" (his term, not mine haha), since he has the rest of the week off after tomorrow. He's a little bummed, last year I was in Chicago during the Jaycation, so he sat around and played Medal of Honor and watched He Man haha. I don't know why he thinks it will be any different with me here, I'm not the kind of wife who doesn't let him play as many video games and watch as much tv as he wants. He works hard, and this is his house too, and I'm not his mother. Plus, when he came in last week to make sure I was alright after I had been in bed playing Harvest Moon for 5 hours, he didn't say anything, and that makes it all worth it haha.