The Thing About Marbles

I feel like I'm slowly losing my mind.  I'm having trouble communicating (worse than usual)--I keep forgetting words when I'm talking.  Simple words that people use every day.  Worse, is that I forget the most important word in my sentence.  The one that makes the main point.
Some examples of words I had to have help remembering this week: storage closet, bells, fire, pudding, syllabus, computer, trash can, and some that I still can't remember.

It's not just words, though.  I've been forgetting a lot of things.  Like my name--I keep thinking it's Ringen, still.  And how to drive... I slow down on green and seem to not notice red.
I feel like life isn't even real right now.  Everything going on around me seems so strange.  And fleeting.

Pretty sure this is a sign of dehydration.  I'll be drinking more water, lest I cause a car accident or forget something important.  Like how to breathe.

Anton does side jobs for a couple who owns a few housing units here.  They asked him to serve a subpoena to some guy who won't pay rent and is avoiding them (a third party has to serve the subpoena, anyway).  He's a pretty evasive old guy.

On the bright side of life... we got a washer and dryer finally (to replace our old broken ones).  Sadly, they are not small enough for our old house so... we took the door off the bathroom... but I'd rather have a washer and dryer than a door on the bathroom in my house where I'm usually alone.
I had consigned to hang up a curtain or something, but Anton screwed the door back on so that it opens up outwardly instead of inwardly, and doesn't deal with the machinery in it's path.  Mr. Handy Man.

And nothing has made me happier than the weather lightening up.  Sunshine just gives me a buzz.  A good buzz.  :-)

Also, we now have a camera, so I will add some pictures.

 Traveling to Idaho Falls to hit up Olive Garden

We're setting Jana up with the guy in the blue... but she's gone on a few dates with a different Ukrainian, so maybe we were too slow in actually making it happen.  We'll see.

I know, I look like I just went to the dentist.

Trying on hats in the mall.

Anton started taking pictures as soon as he opened the package with the camera.  I was filing my nails.

Little Rant + Current Activities

I know I don't have children yet (which I am constantly reminded of by other people who imply or straight up tell me my opinion is not credible because of my current childless state), but I know children.  I spend a heck-of-a-lot of time around them and, more importantly, I was one. The older we get, the more we tend to forget about our childhood, but I remember mine like it was yesterday... probably because it pretty much was yesterday.
In addition to that, I was born with everything I need to be a mother.  I have been cultivating those God-given gifts for a very long time (although, just because every woman can, doesn't mean every woman does).  There seems to be some outrageous belief that real motherhood and all it's glory and instincts suddenly hit you--BAM--when you have a baby.  And then you know everything and your opinion is more valid.  If that were true, then there would be a much smaller percentage of mothers who feel inadequate, clueless, or nervous.  Also, there wouldn't be as many not-so-good mothers.  I know that sounds mean, but some mothers really aren't good mothers (that doesn't mean we should go around judging women who are doing their best, though--be nice to mothers who are trying to help their children the best way they know how).

Basically, I'm saying be reasonable--stop basing the validity of someone's opinion on whether or not they have children (or how many children they have) because not every person with kids knows what he or she is talking about, and not every person who doesn't (or doesn't yet) have kids is totally clueless.

There.  My little rant is over.

Other than that... our lives are just as ordinary and boring as usual: school is pretty easy this semester (like it should be because I was supposed to graduate last semester, so I'm just taking a bunch of filler classes for fun);
I woke up sick on my anniversary and am still sick, which caused us to miss the married student retreat we bought tickets for a while ago;
somehow our bedroom suddenly became the coldest room in the house, so Anton and I have been camping out in the living room;
Anton got a little raise (yet we still barely have enough to cover all of our bills... strange how that works);
I'm excited for spring so I can get my baby duck;
we found a Ukrainian guy with whom we will be setting Jana up on a date (he just entered the country last month.  He's cool);
I'm also excited to be getting back to sewing now that I got a sewing machine for Christmas (already made two skirts and have started a blanket);
I'm teaching cultural dances in the after school program--we just finished African dance, and next week we're doing American Indian crafts and dance;
and I've convinced Anton to look for an internship in someplace like Arizona because I freakin' hate the cold.
That about sums it up.  :-)