November 1st

It's the first day of November! And Atlantean and I only have seventeen days to go! Where has the time gone! We got to hang out at his house and play a scary board game (which we only kind of got halfway through cuz it was supes complicated) but hanging with the in laws is important, as quiet as they may be. Also, his grandma thought I was something entirely different than a Frankenstein as she kept reaching for my skirt to see my white legs and saying, "Don't worry honey, I'll let you sit where the white people sit" and "When you spoke at work - did you speak Southern?"
I'll leave the conclusion up to you, but all I'll say is that I had very dark green makeup all over my face and my lips were protrudingly not covered.

It was October before we had all of our furniture in, and we hadn't even paid rent - but it's all in there now! Except the essentials, of course. And weirdly enough, I've lost more things lately than I have in a while. :/ Can't find my shoes or my pencil case, which are both pretty important things. I hope they turn up eventually. I'm sure they will. I only visit a total of five places within any given week anyway. Atlantean is being such a good sport about the whole not living there or hanging out there, while everyone else tells me it's a dumb idea to pay for a month worth of rent and not have one of us live there. It probably is. We're going to do it anyway.

Now all we  have to do is wait and re-establish everything we already have. I probably should be more nervous, but I'm not currently, though I know the ONLY way I'm going to get through this when the nerves hit me is by asking God for continual peace. He is the only way I'm going to get through this.

My ward bridal shower was a huge success! We had SO much food on October 24th! A lot of the women were very considerate and they gave us bags with recipes and the exact ingredients to complete them! I really do think food and making food will be a very large challenge for me, as weird as it sounds. Because up at USU all I did a lot was eat out of a can and was very satisfied, but Atlantean is very much a fan of good food and in order to remember him first and forget myself, I need to learn to make time to sacrifice to make him good food at least every once in a while. Or at least try. I don't know why this will be such a big sacrifice for me, because for a lot of women, it tends to come rather naturally, but I can sense it will be. I think it also is a large part of my thought process of turning to the mundane portion of life. Making dinner finalizes it, as goofy as that sounds, I'm finally in a mundane rhythm that chains me down. I know it sounds stupid, but I think it really is something I struggle with.

Other than that, what else.... Oh! Wolfman made us twenty four easels! And we tried them out on comic and musical books this morning! He is so awesome! and said he needed a new project. On top of that - he made us a coatrack and a boot rack just because he had the time and materials! Atlantean and I have repeatedly said that there will never be a day that we can pay him back because he just keeps doing all these nice things for us. His second language is service, and we both adore him. Atlantean even gets worried that he won't measure up compared to him sometimes. I told him I'm not marrying Wolfman, I'm marrying him, but I still think he worries.

We finally had D&D again! With just Aos Sidhe (Atlantean's brother) and I again. No Jinn, no Troll and no Wolfman, which might be selfish of me, but I really liked. I also was kind of ashamed last night when I started getting really frustrated with a game that sort of hated me called Eldritch Horror that Aos Sidhe specifically bought for us on Halloween night to play but we ended up not even finishing. I should have been more patient and not been so angry. I kept being mad about all the conditions my poor character was having to deal with. I'm realizing I probably have that habit from the friends I hang out with, since talking so exasperatedly typically gets you laughs and attention. This wasn't the case with Atlantean and Aos Sidhe. They're both very gentle and calm and think about what they say before they say it. I hope I didn't hurt Atlantean's feelings and he realized I appreciated the effort. But I should probably show him with my actions and less of just me wishing goodwill upon him.

We recently played SmashUp and now I've been thinking about finding good combinations to play to have an upper hand. We had a night out with Atlantean's mission companion, and he seems tired and kind of sad, but he's so witty! And actually pretty fun to be around :) Also Jinn offered us a Vanellope Von Schweet and Wreck-It Ralph costume, but we ended up not taking the opportunity because timing wise it juts didn't work out. Unfortunately she even went out of her way to make us two sugar cookies that said "You're My Hero" like in the show, but I don't even think Atlantean and I even kept them. I feel kind of bad about that.... I have a dinner date tomorrow with an old friend I haven't caught up with in a long time, thought I don't actually currently want to go just because she's taking me to Red Lobster (at my request) and it's such good food that I feel bad since I'm currently on my period (for the first time in eight months thank you very much) and I haven't been exercising, or felt like exercising so to go to a nice restaurant and eat really nice food ... I just .. bleh. But I wanna catch up with her and show her I care. I wonder if she'd be mad if I just showed up, took the food home and then left.... Probably -_- My mom and I on Thursday morning are going to go pick up WinCo food (our first fifteen pounds of pasta) and then head to DownEast to buy me some kind of white undershirt.

I am planning to force myself to go back to the temple this Friday, and Atlantean and I have a downtown date planned for this Saturday which I've been wanting to go on since we started dating in March. #waytoprocrastinate

Probably a lot more, but I'm babbling as it is,
Nymph