Insomnia

My husband is an amazing sleeper. I'm serious. All the man has to do is lay down, put a black t-shirt over his eyes and he's gone. I've tried this. I lay down, put a black t-shirt over my eyes (sometimes he even shares his...so sweet, I know) and I feel like the world is caving in around me. There is no sleep for me. So, here I sit on another sleepless night. Those crazy nights where your mind doesn't stop thinking. I think my problem would be that I took a nap after the zoo...at 5:30. I knew it would be a bad idea, but I couldn't resist the urge.

So, as I was lying in bed next to my sound alseep husband (lucky!) I remembered that I forgot to post in remembrance of my experience 356 days ago. So, for your reading enjoyment here is my story that I typed the day it happened:

Now for the next chapter of, "It Could Only Happen to Angela".

So, it’s Spring Break, right? Right. I decided this lovely morning that I wanted to take a nice relaxing bubble bath and read Sense and Sensibility because it’s Spring Break and I’m allowed to do that. So, I shut the bathroom door and settle in for a nice, warm, bubbly bath. I then proceed to settle in to the sudsy glory and start reading chapter 3 when the silence is oh so suddenly broken. I hear a loud knock on the front door. I debate on what to do and decide that they will have to come back later since it probably wouldn’t be wise to answer the door in the condition that I was in. So, I continued to read and the knocking continued to get louder. The thought of, "Oh shoot, if it’s the maintenance guys they’re just gonna come right on in!" So I frantically try to think of the best possible solution to the problem. I decide to turn on the water again so they would realize that the bathroom door is closed and the water is running so obviously someone is in there. The next thing I know, my bathroom door goes flying open and an unknown man walks right in. Everything in me wanted to scream and yet nothing would come out. He quickly says, "Oh I’m sorry" and proceeds to exit. I was horrified, humiliated and downright mad. I continued to finish the bath (not reading anymore by the way as that mood had been completely ruined!) and made it down to the office to complain to my manager about the incident. She felt very bad. So, I also took the opportunity (seeing that this would be the prime time) to mention that my bathroom door lock also has never worked and I’ve asked a few times to have that fixed. What do you know, but the guy from earlier in the day was back up to my apartment within 30 minutes to fix the door. I didn’t look at him, but he apologized and then said, "If it makes you feel any better you probably scared me more than I scared you!" Number 1: Probably not. You weren’t the one in your birthday suit. Number 2: I shouldn’t have scared you because the bathroom door was shut and the bath water was running...what else do you expect to find when those 2 things are combined. and finally Number 3: You NEVER say to girl that you just saw in the nude that they scared you...doesn’t do much for the self-esteem...not that he should have said anything else because that would have been bad too...just apologize and then possibly let me have my dignity back and have a month of rent for free.

Random Happenings

So, we went down to Tucson this weekend for Doug's cousin's wedding. First of all, Tucson is awesome. They have real cactus. Like cactus that grows out of the ground wildly. It's really tall like trees or really short like me...and everything in between. It's also very pokey. Be very careful. I think climbing a cactus has the potential for being fun, if it wasn't pokey. They also have crazy wildlife, like mountain lions, gila monsters, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and black widow spiders. Not cool.

Susie's wedding was beautiful. She was a beautiful bride. Doug and I didn't get any exciting drama in our wedding. Susie made up for it though. One of the groomsmen (7 in all!) passed out in the middle of Susie saying her vows. Don't worry, he was up right away. I was afraid he would have a nasty rug burn on his forehead though. The pastor took the opportunity to remind everyone not to lock their knees. Good advice for those of you out there who are getting married soon. They also took about 5 minutes to get the unity candle lit. Thanks to their persistence and to the pianists for "taking it from the top" a couple of times they got it lit. I'm pretty sure Austin who is an engineer had some brilliant way of getting that baby to light up.

They also had a swing dancing reception which upped their cool points about 276! It was a lot of fun. Doug and I hadn't done that for about a year, but we managed to wow his parents and his grandmother. I tripped a lot, but totally tried to play it off as really cool footwork. It might have worked.

We also got to stay with Doug's cousin Jon and his wife Amber. They have two kids, Ollie and Franklin. Ollie is 2 and Franklin is 7 months. Way cute. Me and Franklin were buds. He liked imitating my lips, which was rather humorous. I think he is the only person who has ever stared at my lips for 5 minutes straight.

Well, I'm off to the eye doctor tomorrow and the zoo with Linz, Jade, Erica, Grace, Tara, Claire, Aubrey, and whoever else is going! Hopefully they don't dilate my eyes. That would make the zoo not so cool.

"Hey, look at the hippo!"
"No, Angela, that's a gorilla!"

Bleh!

I was excited to write a post tonight, but alas after about a 14 hour workday I'm pooped. This is about all I can squeak out tonight.

Currently:

• Doug is out flying around our country...somewhere. He won't get home until about 12:30. I told him he could find me in bed, sleeping.

• I'm wearing a dress I bought for Doug's cousin's wedding on Saturday. Sad to say, I have bought it and now I'm really not feeling it! I hate that! Pretty sure there will be no time to exchange it since we fly out on Thursday afternoon. Drat. It's a fun swing dress (the reception is a swing dance reception), but I just don't know! Maybe it's because it's been a long day.

Alright, I'm gonna go crawl in bed and read all about the Duggers and their 19 bajillion children. I'm taking parenting notes, but not because I'm gonna have 19 children. I'm not having one for a long time either, so don't get those hopes up. I'll share more about this book in a later blog once I finish it!

Nighty-night!

And So It Begins

Alright, so I blogged back in college, but gave it up after a few years. I assume I was quite burned out. Who really knows?! But that is the past and I'm gonna give it a shot again! Actually Amanda, Lindsay and Jason have inspired me to do it again. Thanks guys!

I guess this will eventually let people keep up with Doug and I when we're off to our next assignment (and no, it hasn't been given to us yet!). In the meantime, I suppose I shall fill you in with the random happenings of life.

Currently:

• Doug is playing some computer game that blows people up. I believe this must be a guy thing. He keeps asking if I would like to play. I keep turning him down. I'll just listen to the gunshots in the background and say, "Good job, honey! You killed a bad guy!" What's a good wife for?! :-)
  
• I'm trying to decide which wedding pictures to order from our photographer from the wedding. I know, I know, it's been 2 1/2 months since the wedding! We get all of the pics in a proof book, but need to order ones we want to put on the wall or have for other things. Any suggestions would be great.

Well, here's to our blog. Cheers.