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October 23, 2004 at 9:42 pm · Filed under dating/relationships
This past week has been pretty stressful. I was stressed about the work to be done, pulled an all-nighter, and ended up getting about 12/13 hours of sleep for the entire week. Now that I’ve had some wind-down time, I’m stressed with the anticipation of this upcoming week. I don’t think it’s going to get any better than the last week, and if anything, it will be worse.
I don’t think Ryan is helping the situation any either. I admit that I’m a little difficult to handle sometimes, and perhaps more so when I am stressed out, but he doesn’t seem to really understand what I am going through. We were going to go see I, Robot tonight, but I told him this afternoon that I couldn’t go anymore because of work. Now I’m at his place, trying to do work, but really lacking the discipline to get anywhere. I guess from his perspective, this was pretty selfish of me. At the same time, I wish that he could understand my desire to not do something that would take up 3 hours of my time that I could work. I wonder sometimes where our relationship is going; just feel torn sometimes. I suppose all relationships have that feeling every once in a while.
August 4, 2004 at 12:27 am · Filed under dating/relationships
So I went to my first wedding this past weekend. Well, not my first wedding ever per se; I seem to remember a couple my parents took me to when I was much younger. But this was the first wedding of someone my own age (my age is something I may start concealing really soon). During the reception, Weaver came up to the group of us govies and said, “Hey all, I’d like to introduce you guys to my wife.” Wow, that phrase could not have sounded more out of place. Weaver, married! Imagine that! It’s pretty amazing that we’re all in this new phase of life now, where friends around us are actually really getting married.
The wedding itself was small and very cute, quaint. The minister was wonderful, funny and very down to earth. I thought he sounded like he was going to cry. Jessie beamed the whole way through the ceremony, while Weaver looked so nervous and high-strung. It was a great chance to catch up with some old friends as well. Everyone was still the same old, same old. We’re all doing different things now, but personalities are hard to change!
Learned some more exciting, makes-me-feel-old, news: Katie Folz is engaged, and AJ is proposing this weekend. *sigh* Makes me wonder when my day will come. But I guess it’s better not to think about these things.
July 31, 2003 at 10:49 pm · Filed under dating/relationships
Topic of the night: engagement. Tonight was a VP/Manager/Intern mixer event at a bowling alley, where someone pulled me aside to say “Have you seen Amaris’s ring? She got engaged last night, not many people know so be sure to congratulate her!” I certainly did my part congratulating; Amaris is such a sweet girl; her boyfriend-turned fiance wasn’t half bad of a guy either. He freakin’ bowled 150+ Anyone who bowls that high is alright in my books.
Tomorrow is August 1. Bobby is getting married tomorrow. Granted she IS mormon, and their average marrying age is somewhere around 13. Still, Bobby graduated high school with us all; she even tearfully worked through her speech on the day of graduation. Who knew then that she’d meet her nice mormon husband-to-be her first semester at USC?
Today is July 31. One year exactly until Weaver and Jessie’s wedding, with their reception at the grand Richmond Science Museum. Those two lovebirds can’t be any happier. Just think, at our 5 year reunion, there could be baby Weavers and baby Bobbies running around. What a scary thought; we only graduated three years ago. None of us are even past 21. Almost all of us are still in school. Yet, I’ve never heard so much talk about being engaged, buying a ring, giving/getting a ring, planning a wedding.
I’m waiting to hear about the next engagement. I know it will happen within this next year (though I’m not certain when), but since it’s supposed to be a secret, I’ll keep my mouth shut because I’m a loyal friend. I do see some ring-shopping in someone’s future, though :)
I know I’m getting old. Nothing says it better than friends dropping like flies, one by one falling victim to the marriage trap.
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