Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

Gah, I disappeared off the face of the earth a bit.

Hmm, so saturday was tae kwon do class. We practiced kicking. I'm getting much better. I managed to kick more times than I fall over now.

After class I stopped at the craft store for supplies. I'm going to make an anniversary card for my parents. (They are weird and demand anniversary gifts from their children. I think that's a bit like me giving them valentine's day gifts.)

Sunday I met with allicia to go to the zoo. (I told her I'd assume she hated me if we didn't do something together this summer.) It was fun. The meerkats were especially cute. The babies were tiny balls of fluffy cuteness. After seeing them, nothing else in the zoo could compare.

On the way to the zoo, an extremely friendly family started talking to me. It was strange but at least they were nice. Their surprisingly well-behaved children sang the dolphin song from the hhgttg movie and applauded me for working for defenders. It was all so very strange.

While I was out, ben was the amazing boyfriend that he is and cleaned the apt. He vacuumed the bedroom and did a ton of laundry. Unfortunately the laundry machine exploded so I had to pick up a mop and bucket on the way home. Everything is under control now though.

Oh! And I wore a hold through my toe today! It was impressive!

I forgot to mention my discovery yesterday that in Virginia people sell meat out of the back of their trucks. That sounds so horribly vile to me. How do you know where that meat has been? Bleh!

I've decided to skip calligraphy again because my nose is a leaky mess. I'm pretty sure they want nothing to do with my snot. Instead, I will make ben love and hug and kiss me.

And there will be chinese food. Yay.

My horoscope for the week: Aquarius (January 20 - February 18): You've heard the saying "you are what you eat" many times before, but prosecutors will surely describe you as anything but an innocent newborn this week.

Anyway, skipped calligraphy yesterday. Instead I went tv shopping with ben. I got one that is far too big. Ben says it's because I saw it compared to the other tvs. I think he's right. Bah I am stupid. But at least I now have a tv in the bedroom. For those nights when ben wants to stay up all night and I don't want to go to bed alone.

When we got home, I made ben dinner. It was the least I could do after I made him carry that tv into the apartment. While we ate dinner, we watched E3 coverage. I am excited about Spore. And I think nintendo has won this year. Ben wants to preorder a wii as soon as he can.

After that I played a tiny bit more xenogears. Then we went to bed with the huge tv of doom towering over us.

Oh! And I killed a mosquito in the apartment yesterday! I bet that's what bit me a billion times! Poor noname, looks like she didn't need that bath after all.

Last night I bought ben greasy hamburgers for dinner because he had a bad day at work. We got them from five guys cause ben loves their french fries. In fact, ben made sure to mention how much he liked the fries several times. It was cute.

After dinner I practiced my calligraphy and spilled most of my ink on the table. I was frustrated and didn't want to go to calligraphy night after that, but ben made me. Once I was there it wasn't so bad. Everyone kept complimented me on how fast I was learning. I practiced on real paper this time, writing real words. (Some art supply magazine's seal of quality thingie.) They also solved my ink-spilling problem by placing the jar on my right side rather than my left.

Driving home, I listened to the utena movie soundtrack that scortia gave me. That soundtrack is the perfect background music for driving down long dark roads. (Though very intimidating when it started to play this morning.)

Ben was happy to see me when I got home, which made me happy. I walked then dog and then we went to bed because I was very very tired. I fell asleep in ben's arms very content and happy. I dreamed that I was graduating elementary school and my diploma had a big happy face on it because I was the top of the class.

My dog savagely attacked us this morning because she was soooo hungry and we were still in bed and couldn't we see that she was going to die if she didn't eat soon!? Ben kept getting grossed out because noname kept smearing her eyes on him. He had to get up soon after that to wash his hands. Which meant I had to get up and feed her. Fat little dog.

I'm at work now and I don't really want to do anything. But I guess I should. That's what they're paying me for anyway.