bloody mary

It is known by many close to me that I have a have a historical interest and sometimes obsession with the British monarchy, particularly the Tudor era. It has always interested me, and now I have found a tv show on Netflix that satisfies my English history nerd fantasy.

It is as you may have guessed, The Tudors which airs on Showtime. Obviously, I do not have showtime and cannot therefore watch the newest episodes, but I watched all that was available on Netflix, and holy cow, I love that show. Corey picks on me for mucking up his "recommended for Corey" playlist on Netflix with documentaries, and now it's even more filled with history documentaries and historical dramas. I would highly recommend this show for anyone mildly interested in that era of European history. I would even say that it's content is very accurate in addition to having the drama that makes it good television.

Look it up. Watch it. Now excuse me while I watch some documentary on Queen Elizabeth on Netflix. Best $8 I spend every month for sure.


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"je ne veux pas mourir toute seule"

young forever

I am fiddling around with my blog look again. I really like the typewriter style type face. We'll see how long this one lasts.

I took a couple of pictures of the new place to post on here. Note that we are still in the process of sorting things out and moving in, so there is some messy-ness. Do forgive me :)

The first picture is of the office. We have Corey's desk in the front corner, the bed in the back corner, and the loveseat on the wall with the door, though you can't really see that here.

The next picture is taken from the front door looking diagonally toward the other bedroom. It shows the living room and some of the kitchen. Again, sorry for the messy house.

After I took those, I decided to take a couple cute ones. One is of Abigail and the other of some flowers I got at the grocery store the other day.

And lastly, how could I pass up taking a picture of the thermostat? It's a cool 110 here in Fayetteville. And our thermometer sits in the shade. Fab.

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"we live a life like a video; where the sun is always out and you never get old"

shiver

We have internet again! Finally! They came out yesterday to install the fiber optics and the modem/router. It seriously took like 3 hours since they had to install the fiber optic box and the battery backups and rewire the phone jack to make it ethernet. Corey got home and set up our routers to expand the network of the all in one AT&T modem/router. By the time we got in bed, we had fabulous high speed internet thanks to U-verse!

Apartment is basically set up, and I am loving it! The way it is laid out doesn't make me think I live in a box, and seems more like a house inside than an apartment. It has high ceilings and lots of open space. I also like the location. It is set away from the interstate, and away from Wedington, so we don't hear police sirens, cars driving, or people yelling anymore. It is very quiet inside and apparently well insulated. I hardly ever hear anyone in the apartments around us except when I am walking in the hallway outside the apartment.

I will try to take some general pictures of the place and post a couple. For now I have this picture of Abigail's first day hanging out on the balcony. She surprisingly really enjoys it out there!

Another thing to note about recent events is that it is really effing hot outside! I wish I had a picture of when our thermometer was over 110. All I have is this picture of yesterday's mild 101.

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"from the moment I wake, to the moment I sleep, I'll be there by your side"

last Friday night

Not a lot to say right now. Well, I do have a lot to say, but AT&T won't be out to set up U-Verse for about a week, so I'm blogging from my iPhone.

I'm out of both old apartments. I'm certainly happy about only living in one place now. All accounts are closed and I'm settled in the new place. I'm very happy.

I'll have to give more details later, but it's hard to type a full blog post with my thumbs, you know. :)


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"skinny dipping in the dark, then we had a ménage a trois, last Friday night"

an end has a start

I have just a little soapbox tidbit today.

It's true that you do not know how something you do to someone can hurt them until the same thing happens to you. Even then, you may not know because you do not have the same past experiences as that person to make you react to things the way you do.

That being said, have you ever had someone passive aggressively talk about you online in some form or fashion? I know many have. One of my closest friends was terribly slandered online by a group of people who seemed to only want to make her life miserable. Those people surely could have had no idea how much it hurts a person to be talked about in a forum where they cannot defend or speak for themselves. This happened to me also, but on a much simpler scale. It was a couple of sentences. Perhaps a venting from a particularly bad day. But it hurt nevertheless. It hurt a lot that what was said online could not be said to me in person. So in my last post, wrong though it may have been, I made a comment that was in much the very same nature as the one posted about me. I did it on purpose to make a point without blatantly stating it. One should not write things about people and hurt them if they cannot handle people writing about them in the same manner. In other words, if it hurts your feelings when people write about you, you should not write about others.

Keep your malicious thoughts to yourself online, at least. Tell a close friend or family member to get it off your chest and leave it at that. No one likes to be talked about in a mean way.


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"someone hit the lights, because there's more here to be seen"

the goldrush

As promised, I made a video of the 4th of July fireworks. It's 15 minutes long, but I've watched it twice, anyway.




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Anywho, Corey is presumably quitting his job as I type this. The post won't come up until later, because I'm currently uploading the video you just watched to YouTube. So this is kind of a back-dated post here. He hates that job, and feels like he has too much to do in preparation for moving and starting the new job to have to deal with the nonsense and stress he's endured the past couple of weeks.

Moving should be interesting. My parents are coming on Sunday to pack up and move everything in my old apartment. I've been thinking, the thing I'm most excited about with that is having all my movies and loungewear back. For sure. And my kitchen table. Which I will probably have to seriously scrub down given what I observed last time I went back to check on things. I am nervous about not having enough money (as usual), but I am excited about being in a new place.


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"I'm marching through the cold"

see you soon

I changed up my blog layout. Drastically. If that wasn't already apparent.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July. I did for sure, thanks to a friend at work switching me work days so I had time to go home to see my family. I will definitely be writing her a Mercy 6th floor Bear Hug for that.

I took Abigail home to bathe her outside and let her run around and play and bark in the sunshine, since we don't have a lot of opportunities for that at home. I think she had a good time, but she was certainly tired and happy to be home by the end of the day! She slept the whole way home in the car, and laid on the floor and passed out once we got here.

I am going to be hopefully working on making a little video of the fireworks from the Greenwood square last night. Long and boring, for sure, but nice for folks who didn't go to a fireworks show or want to watch some more. I may delete Ruby and my commentary from it, too, depending on how funny it is. We'll see what I can figure out with iMovie.

We've got just over a week until we move into the new apartment. I'm excited, but very nervous. Nervous about money, logistics, Corey being gone to AT&T training, and whatever.


"I'll see you soon in a telescope lens"