Mothers

I have a few friends who have recently had beautiful baby girls. Take a look at another mom-to-be’s gift registry.

Yes it is the real deal.

Mythbusters

Tim and I are currently watching MythBusters, a show which does just as it says. A Seattle man was supposedly killed by leaving his lava lamp on a stove, causing it to explode and send a chard of glass through his ribs and pierce his heart. Mythbusters wanted to see if this was really possible. The myth was confirmed. Thanks Mom and Dad for not letting me get that lava lamp when I was in junior high.

Blurred Reality

I have a tendency to enjoy faithfully watching teenage dramas. I love watching high school interactions and the quick wit in most of the shows, but I usually end up thinking, “Why is that high school girl being paid thousands to do nothing?”

I become convinced that the characters are real people and it doesn’t make any sense why Veronica Mars or Rory Gilmore or Summer Roberts are being paid (with TV money) to go about their daily life. They are average people who exist in such places as Neptune, CA or Stars Hollow, CT, or the O.C. so why are they getting an actor’s salary? Can I get an actor’s salary to go about my daily life in New Haven, CT?

Awkward

Meeting new people is always interesting. It seems that you have to find common ground to start a conversation without asking any personal questions. But the personal questions can lead to awkward conversation moments or they can kill the flow of a conversation. I usually like to get to know a person with lots of questions, but there is a certain time frame for when to ask questions and how many questions are appropriate for one evening.

I tend to believe that if a certain amount of time has passed during a friendship and you did not ask certain personal questions (such as do you have siblings?) you cannot ask them because you are supposed to know the answers. Therefore, it is important to make the most of your question asking phase because it is a key information gathering time which the details of your friendship will be based.

I hope to fight the awkwardness and allow the moments to be killed. The awkwardness should lead to greatness.

Church Tales

On Sunday, we went to an American Baptist Church. The church is about eight blocks away and in a beautiful old building. With the exception of one family, the attendees were mostly over the age of 60. The church was very liturgical (an episcopal baptist church?) and had one of the best sermons we have heard in a while. The pastor is a part-time family therapist at an adolescent counseling clinic down the street.

After church, most of the 30 people in church noticed that we were new and came up to say hello. One man approached me saying, “You must have a church background?” Meaning we would not otherwise wander in the doors? After talking with him for some time, his wife came up and said how nice it was that we were there and she understood that we would probably not come back, but it was nice to have us there for one sunday. She liked to see young people once in a while.

She’s right, Tim and I probably won’t go back next week but only because we should find a place we can find some friends and get involved, but we really did enjoy the sermon and talking with the people afterwards. I was sad to hear the negative attitudes about the church and wondered how they would ever change. Maybe we should go back soon just to prove them wrong.

The New Living Room

The New Living Room

Our current living room. I still have 42 days to return the picture and rug.

IKEA Mishap?

I went to IKEA yesterday in an attempt to get a few items to make our home more home-y. We really needed an area rug for the living room, a coffee table and possibly a picture for the walls (I should say wall because since our apartment has so many windows there are not many walls that need decorating).

As you may know, Tim and I purchased a sage green couch and a khaki chair last week so I was working with that color palette. I ended up finding a great rug with the same green and khaki colors with a red background, but, IKEA only stocked that rug in a size too small for our room. The next three rugs that I liked were also too small or the wrong color. So I end up walking away with a very reasonably priced deep red rug thinking that I would find a picture that would tie the whole thing together.

Next thing I know an IKEA guy is outside the store looking at my cart saying, “Do you need help with that, Lady?” I think he thought my purchases were bigger than my vehicle. Among a few other things, I got a huge picture that has all the right colors.

Enter second guessing thoughts. The picture is HUGE - almost the length of our couch and about two feet from the ceiling. It looks good, but almost too good. People my age don’t have pictures this big. They are just too expensive…but I got mine at IKEA which means it was a steal. But I am having trouble with the fact that it looks like someone else’s room, not my own.

Our New Home

I posted some pictures of our new place in Connecticut here. Scroll through the pictures and read the descriptions to get the full understanding of where we live.