December 21st

What's new pussy cat??

There've been some fun stuff in our life recently!

I went to AIDA at Hale Center Theatre with my family. It was technically the last time I'll be doing that with them as they did not buy me tickets for this next year, and trust me it was a FANTASTIC one to end on. I don't know why I'd never heard of this play. It was written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and I thought it was ironic that it matched the plot of The Pirate Queen significantly, but was SO much better written. I was thoroughly impressed. Both Aida and Ramades had INCREDIBLE voices, and the ensemble did well, and the staging was phenomenal. I was drawn in and captured. I even cried when Merib died (spoilers) and I've been listening to the music here and there.

Atlantean finally found some work working with his bosses younger brother (who got kicked off the job site for getting into a fight with another guy) and he helped him work on something nearer to home. He came home apologizing if he smelled like cigarette smoke and bringing me the 2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese I asked him to pick up (and a sneaky bin of blueberries he bought for me, and denied was in there when I accused him of it lol I love him) so I could make some really cool Bruschetta Chicken Bake, which was basically chicken covered in stuffing and cheese. Atlantean loved it, and kept saying, "My wife is a good cook!" I like it when he's happy :)

On Tuesday, I also took the morning shift and went to a panel! One of my old teachers facebook shouted-out to all of her old Novel Writing class alumni and she was overflooded with responses. So she put together a panel for a couple of us to come and talk to them. I took the morning shift and got a ride with my mom up there to find them in the breakroom discussing the concept of "idleness" versus "leisure" while sipping tea. Classic Paradigm. I met some old alumni, some graduating almost seven years ago. One of the girls had worked with Joe Biden and had other impressive credentials. I also saw a newly married friend of mine who I'd been wanting to get together and have newlywed friends, so I asked her if February was good for her, and then got her number.

We have been going upstairs to hang out with Jinn and Troll to do Family Home Evening with them. Their little Unicorn is growing so fast! She's already one and I can see her being so attentive and cute! Jinn taught me how to make deviled eggs (it's SUPER easy guys - and I LOVE dill in them) and then we watched Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, which made Atlantean cry, he loves that show and it is DARLING! It apparently is very hard to find an American copy, and you have to have a special international disc player to play anyones bought in England. Troll printed me out a copy of his manuscript and offered it to me. I told him I wasn't promising I'd read it, but that I might give it a go, which might have been mean, but I wanted to be honest up front. He just said to treat it like a baby, not to show it to anyone and not to wreck it.
I'm also currently reading a lot of scripts and a book called One Second After which is all about what would/could happen to a nation where it hit by an EMP in our atmosphere and all our electricity taken out. It's kind of horrific and based on all true science. It was recommended on the Congress floor as a book everyone should read.

The next day, Atlantean was excited because he was finally going to be able to work with my brother Wolfman again, and it turns out they had both missed working with each other, which I think is so sweet. They went into work together, and even came and visited me together after they headed home  little early. Then Atlantean and Wolfman went and bought Wolfman his first pair of D&D dice (blue with gold lettering - they're beautiful and I wouldn't have excepted anything less, I knew he'd choose blue) and then they brought me some lunch. It was a late lunch, especially when a lady from Accounting told me they were letting us go early today since it was snowing so hard. Atlantean wasn't picking up his phone, so I just assumed I'd wait the extra half an hour and see him at five, but then a co-worker offered me a ride, and she was super nice and cool to talk to, and maybe we'll become more of friends because of it. I like where I work :)

That night we went with Atlantean's mom and went mattress shopping. His dad and her have been concerned about our bed, because although it's free, it's not a very good bed (hence why it probably WAS free...) but it was a bed at the time, and Atlantean and I are having back aches every morning, we know it's time to switch, and for Christmas, his parents are offering to buy us one! How kind is that! So we went to the mattress store. I discovered I am not a fan of memory foam and it's hardness upon bouncing onto it. I like bouncy mattresses or hybrids of the two. Atlantean's family has a relative that is going to help us get a discount, so they said don't worry about the price. We found one this relative's mother had mentioned she loved, and we were both a fan, namely because it was a hybrid and had both memory foam and springs. We didn't settle on anything, but it was nice to go look around. Atlantean and I agreed they ALL felt better than our old bed and would love to sleep on any one of them. I also fell in love with a pillow which was super plush faceted on one side and gel pillow on the other. Thought it was 109.99, so I gave up on that one lol.
That night, we stayed over at his old home and listened to scriptures and had prayers and it was kinda nice for a change. He was hinting he wanted to leave, but I wanted to listen to scriptures. When we got home, he and I danced around the kitchen to some gospel songs, we watched an episode of Teen Titans and he let me attempt to put beads in his hair since I thought it would look cool, and they stayed in there until the morning when he ran his hands through his hair in the shower to wash it and cried out when they came out. He thought it was cool too. I think I might invest in some hair beads for him. Or even beard beads. I like a man with hair longer than mine.

This morning, I made tater tots for breakfast and whipped up a  pasta salad that my mom helped me accumulate ingredients for since Atlantean has no place at his work where he can heat things up so we have to think of cold meals for him. Then I walked to work and it was the slipperiest day of my life! It was ridiculous! I was constantly either baby walking and I was almost light headed from how much I had to look down and alternate between my face guard or my sunglasses since I can't wear them at the same time or the glasses will fog up. I'm kind of glad for this next enormous break, but I am also dreading it since I won't know what to do with myself and I'll get out of shape and out of practice lol. I'll probably take a lot of walking trips to Macey's.
I'm also planning a D&D campaign and it's turning into a whole amazing (hopefully) accumulation of all these stories that I started and created characters for, but had no idea where to go with. I think it should be pretty cool once Atlantean finishes his campaign, which is AWESOME BTW.


Tonight I'm attempting to make Eggs Benedict with Siren! Jinn told me the hardest part is not burning the hollandaise sauce!

Wish us luck!
~Nymph