The things I DO have

Well, so I guess I forget too easily, and a month has passed. We've had a busy month, but without too much actual outcome. March was planning month, I guess. We're planning: a new shed, rosebushes, a new screen door, living room carpeting (and maybe the stairs too), a trip to Kentucky and Tennessee, a camping trip, and he's planning to take the GMATs and I'm planning to get a new cell phone on a different network... and all that is just the beginning, I can't even list it all!

I tend to get an adrenalyne rush from planning. I get so excited that I can get carried away. And so I start thinking of the things I want... A new car, a speaker dock for my iPod, a silver bracelet I saw somewhere, a new sofa, a sewing cabinet, a gym membership, a vacation at the beach, a massage, and the list goes on. Not small things! The reality side of my brain knows that this is all someday if I'm lucky stuff, but I dream anyway. Good greif, I'll be thrilled by the new shed! It's just this adrenalyne rush thing.

It isn't that I have to remind myself of the things I do have... I know I'm so lucky in so many ways... The best things, of course, are my boyfriend and my family (not the least of which being my stunningly adorable niece!). But I have a car that runs, a wonderful, cozy home with my boyfriend, a sewing machine, health, TiVo, good food, great friends and a billion other things that I am TOTALLY thankful for.

So now I have to learn to tame my mind. I know it's ok to dream, but I think I scare my boyfriend with all the looking and dreaming I do - I think he thinks I actually want it - like now. So I'll keep planning with him, that's a lot of fun anyway!

So I guess I should actually blog about what's been going on in my life... since I've already said this blog should chronicle the second year of our relationship... I love that blog is a verb.

Well, here is a funny thing that happened to us the other day...

My boyfriend and I went to Burlington Mall the other day. We parked (the lots were packed! on a Wednesday night...) and went into Nordstrom, then out into the mall. First thing we saw was... Santa's house (please, again, note, this was Wednesday, April 2)! And there beside the house... Santa! Himself! He had elves there too! Hm, we thought, strange. The Easter bunny was here a few weeks ago... It's too early for Christmas in July... What's going on???

Then as we walked on, the mall was PACKED! My boyfriend said, "This is like the holidays but it's Wednesday night. What is going on!?" A lot of the people were bundled up like it was still zero degrees out and were carrying shopping bags from christmastime (like the ones Macy's or whoever uses at Christmas). We started feeling like we were in some sort of time warp. We kept shaking our heads like we might knock something loose and realize what was going on. THEN, we were walking past Williams-Sonoma, and they had a window display featuring gingerbread houses and Christmas cookies, and red and green mixers!!! We wordlessly stopped and looked in the window.. then I looked at my boyfriend and he was looking at me... It was like, if it was only one of us seeing all this, I could believe I hit my head or something. But there we were, the two of us... And it was the day AFTER April Fools, and besides all this was a little too elaborate for a mall prank... we just stood there for a good minute looking at the Christmas cookies, a little bit worried.

We walked further on in the mall, and that was when we saw lights, cameras, wires, and swarms of people with headphones on. So it turns out they're making a movie with Kevin James, and there he was, dressed like a rent-a-cop, complete with thick mustache and Segway scooter. We kinda stopped walking cause it was exciting but then some production guy shooed us on cause we were "in the shot"

WOW, so that was surreal and weird and kinda exciting! I was just glad we weren't both simultaneously losing our minds!

I'll sign off and save some stories for another day.