Current mood:

content

fun couple of weeks
So yeah, that mention of updating more often didn't seem to happen these past couple of weeks. ^^;;;; One of these days I'll be as good as I was in the past with updating so much. In any case, as you can imagine, it's been a hell of a couple weeks. I'm happy to say that everyone is happy about the engagement. Shocked obviously, but still happy for us. Each of our familes seem to have the same concerns, and neither questions the strong feelings between the two of us, which is great. I'm glad the response to it has been so well, I had no idea what to expect with it since I'm the first I know of out of many of my friends to get engaged, and it looks like I had nothing to worry about. ^_^;;

Keeping on that subject, the two of us have grown a lot closer since then. We've had a couple arguments and disagreements since it happened, and we've gotten through them really well. I've definetly opened up a lot more with those and even though I don't like going through those things, getting through them has paid off so much and makes it all worth it. We've only gotten stronger together and I see that continuing on for a good long time. ^_^

The two of us had dinner with her dad and stepmother this weekend. It was really nice. We went to Coleman's and had a great dinner with a very good talk. Her parents voiced their concerns to make sure we're prepared for everything that's going to come up. Finances, insuirance, etc., a lot of the important stuff. Though Kait was uncomfortable talking about that kind of stuff, I think it did us good to have that. After dinner, the four of us went back to her place and had a much more emotional driven talk involving Kait's past and her worries about how it will affect her future and such. It was a very emotional moment and really tough on her at times, but we all got through it and I believe it did a lot of good to have that conversation. All in all, it was a very good dinner, and all the talking helped prepare us for what's ahead. This weekend we're going to dinner at my parents', with my sister there too, and possibly even my brother if he doesn't head back to school before it (he's visiting home this weekend). I'm a bit nervous, just like this past weekend, but I'm also really looking forward to it.

Onto other things, I finally got a second job. As of Monday, I'm now offically working at KB Toys in the mall. I'm a seasonal hire right now, but that may turn into an actual part time job after the season depending on various things. The manager (Mike) mentioned a possibility of me becoming a part time assistant manager there sometime and told me to think about it. If he mentions it again, I think I'll accept, since it will be a big help to the wallet. But it's nothing I'm going to get my hopes up for. Right now I'm just going to assume that things will stay with me being seasonal only with a possibility of it becoming a permanent part time position after the season. I'm not going to get ahead of myself with that just yet, especially without having worked a shift there yet. ^^;;; My main concern right now is to get Kait a ring before the end of the year and stay afloat in the process, and this new job will definetly help that.

I'm also looking forward to this weekend because as I mentioned, my brother will be coming home from school this weekend. We always love seeing each other, and right now even moreso since he's been having a rough semester. Not grade-wise, but he's just not enjoying himself there. Except for his roommate and a couple others, he doesn't really know anyone there and most people just stay in their rooms there so he's not really meeting anyone. Worse off, is that his girlfriend broke up with him last week. Complete bs that is imo, there's no logical reason for why she did that, especially after being with him for so long (a year would've been a week and a half away from today). So he's really been down lately and I want to help bring him back up. He's going to be transferring up here to Oswego which will be great. I'll see him a lot more often and better yet, he'll have a lot more fun on campus here since this is a very social campus. This will be a lot better for him, plus he'll always have here to come to whenever he wants and will be close to my place whenever he wants to chill or anything here. I'm glad things are starting to look up for him, I know he'll get through everything well and will do what I can to help.

Last but not least, since I haven't really been much up to anything else not mentioned above outside on work on SMU, I have been kicking ass in DDR lately. I passed Cartoon Heroes in the arcade a few weeks ago, which is a barrier I've been trying to break for a good while now. I also got my first SDG on the home pads in DDR club which was awesome. I tried to do the same in the arcade the very next day, and a pad miss screwed me out of it, I had 9 greats otherwise. >.< At least I know I'm capable of doing them now, which is a great barrier to break when I finally break it, which should be soon. Most impressive though, is my doubles skills in the home version in DDR Club last week. I've been in a bit of a doubles lull since we don't play them much in the club (once, maybe twice a month) and the mall's pads haven't been that good for them. However, in my last song last week on doubles before we packed up, I passed Sakura. Yep, a fricking 10-footer. The easiest 10-footer yet, but still, a 10-footer. Damn did that feel good and was everyone shocked and proud. Tried it in the arcade the next day to no avail, but it was more the pads than it was me, so I know it will happen soon. I'm definetly enjoying this burst of breaking barriers in DDR. ^_^ I haven't played any other games really, but Kait just got X-Men Legends 2 and it's been real fun so far. She's kicking ass with Jean Grey and Scarlet Witch with me using melee characters such as Rouge.

I think that sums up a lot of the past couple weeks. More posts hopefully in less amounts of time between them coming. ^^;;;;