Backing up a bit ...

It's been far too long since I've written - there's so much to catch up on!!

Maybe brief points?

That weekend I was worried about karaoke and Western Day?  Interesting.

Karaoke wasn't scheduled until 9pm that Friday night (9 pm!), which makes me feel old at even thinking about going out that late.  So, we had some time to kill that evening.  We tried a new Chinese restaurant (so good!) and then watched silly youtube videos for a few hours.  We took Honey for a walk, and played with her for a while.

And then ... we found ringworm on her belly.  John took a picture and emailed it to his dad (a vet) to get an unofficial official diagnosis, and so we could figure out how to treat her.  (Basically we had to rub cream on her belly for 30 days, and wash everything in the house).  This of course changed our plans dramatically for the next month!

But, we couldn't do anything that night, so we were still planning on karaoke.  Until John got a text from a classmate - karaoke was canceled.  Instead, John's classmates were getting together for a party at someone's house. 

We got there about 9:30 pm.  And were the first to arrive - the hostess was still in the shower!  She let us in, and then rushed out to the store to get chips and dip.  By this time, John and I were just looking at each other in shock - I couldn't get over the fact that it was after 9pm and the party hadn't even started yet!

People finally started arriving at 10 - and that's when the party actually got going.  And let me just say ... I love John's classmates.  Late Friday night ... bunch of Grad Students ... after a week of their hardest exams yet ... and there was practically no alcohol to be found.  I think 2 of the 15+ people who showed up had one drink.  Everyone was just having fun and enjoying each other's company.  We played board games, and then had a dance competition with the Wii.  I got some priceless video of John dancing to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" (we got Rickrolled!!) and dancing to Carly Rae Jepson's "Call Me Maybe".  The night was amazing - we left about midnight, and the party was going strong.

Thanks to Honey's ringworm, we didn't go to Western Day on Saturday - we spent the whole day cleaning everything in the house!  By the end of the weekend, the house was cleaner I think than it was when we moved in!

We'd been planning and had actually invited several couples from our church to spend Thanksgiving Day with us ... but we had to cancel because of Honey.  Apparently ringworm is a bit like Athlete's Foot - not really that serious unless it affects small children - and all of the people we'd invited had small children.  We did NOT want to be responsible for causing a ringworm outbreak among the children at our church!  So, instead we canceled and made plans to go to John's parents for Thanksgiving.

Which is another story coming up! 

Decisions, decisions ...

John's taking his test right now; he said that he felt ready for it.  I hope that he does well!

After the test, a bunch of his classmates are going to a Korean BBQ Restaurant (John says that it's not really BBQ) to eat and do karaoke.  John really wants to go, while I'm a bit more ... ambivalent.

First, by the end of the week I'm tired.  I want to go home and get into some comfortable clothes and relax!  Going out with a bunch of people I hardly know isn't very relaxing.  Of course, then the arguement is that I won't get to know them if I stay home.

Another thing is the karaoke - I've never been before, but I know what it is, and I'm not sure I'd like it.  Not sure why - but I get way too uptight about music.  I don't know most of the music, and it really bothers me when music isn't sung properly.  I looked up a list of the top 500 karaoke songs ... and I barely knew 7 of them well enough to be able to sing them.  John and I were looking at some last night, and let's just say I didn't react well when John started singing horribly on purpose.  I don't know why it grates so badly, but it drives me up a wall!

On top of that is the whole social anxiety deal - I've been prepping myself to go to Western Day on Saturday.  That's an annual event that our church puts on.  We went last year, and I had the worst attack of anxiety yet - it took everything in me to not collapse in tears when we arrived.  I spent the entire time sitting quietly in a corner while John played flag football with the men.  It wasn't fun.

I know I *ought* to go to both... karaoke tonight and western day tomorrow.  I honestly don't want to go to either.  But I promised John I'd go to at least one of them with him.  I don't know what I'll do.

John will want to get out of the house and have fun this weekend; he always does after a test!  So, we'll see what happens!

Happy Friday!