So I haven't really been posting lately. At first it was because My husband and I were SLAMMED with final's project's the last week. But the good news is he not only passed everything, his whole report card is A's and B's! I'm so proud of him! Anyways, on Sunday he took off to his parents for the week and he won't be back until the 26th. So I have been lonely, sulking around my apartment. I never realized how hard it gets to sleep when you are used to someone next to you, and then they are gone! This is the first time we've been apart since we got married, and I am simply pathetic. My boss is worried I'm getting sick because I'm not talking at work. I have maybe slept a whole 10 hours in the last 3 days. And all I've had to eat is a bowl of Trix and 5 chocolate covered cherries from the Christmas snacks our landlord gave us (hey, I couldn't resist the chocolate). My dog, Alfredo, has been doing a wonderful job at cuddling with me every moment of the day to make me cheer up. This is really unusual for my Maltese, as he's really hyper and independent, so usually he ignores me and plays with his toys.

He's so freaking cute!

In other news, My good friend Christine is having her first child today! They have to induce the pregnancy because she wasn't dilating. She has had a really difficult pregnancy the whole way through, so it will be great to be done, and I really can't wait to meet their baby boy! On top of the birth of my friend's child there has also been some deaths in my family. My great grandma Bingham (mom's side) and my great Uncle Nordan (dad's side) have both passed away recently. I wasn't close to either, so it's not a great lose to me, but please pray for my family all the same. My grandma (mom's side) is sad from her mom's death, and my great grandma Young (dad's side) is struggling with Nordan's passing. Then of course there's jordan's family, who lost Shane this year (jordan's uncle), his kids could use some extra prayer this first Christmas without Shane. I could keep going with this into all my friends I have lost this year and the last, but I don't think death is much to mourn anymore. I'd rather rejoice that they finally get to leave this place and go where they will be truly happy.

I bet heaven's sparkly too

At this point I'm trying really hard not to start talking for hours about my religion. So instead I will tell you about this wonderful series of books I finally finished. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is an amazing book series that will keep you in book world fantasy land until you finish all 3. It also makes you really grateful your life ISN'T a fantasy novel, at least not like this one. In The Hunger Games we follow a young teenager named Katniss, her loves, and her family, through the rebellion against the Capitol in a corrupt dictatorship. It all starts when Katniss goes to the hunger games in place of her little sister. The hunger games are a arena designed to have 24 children duel each other to the death, the survivor wins glory and food, and the deaths are to remind the people not to rebel again. Katniss makes one small act of survival at the end of the first book, and this sets off a rebellion from the whole nation. She becomes forced into a role as a rebel leader, both by those who glorify her act of survival as rebellion against the capitol, and by their dictator Snow who sees her as his greatest threat. Read it, NOW, before they make it a movie and ruin it.

These books are beyond awesome

Quote for you: "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" ~Isaac Asimov

* Girly scream of joy*

OMFG CRAZY AWESOME! I got my first comment! Okay, so it's from my aunt...but still, it totally counts. My blog has even started becoming a subject of inside jokes with my husband (my very first avid reader, lol), particularly about depressed Lithuanians (see first post). Well today I really have nothing of interest to write about, I just wanted to share my excitement about the comment. As well as to say that I am enjoying a very relaxing day celebrating our 6 month anniversary. I know, it's not really that long, but we are clearly better off than most of Hollywood and really any excuse to spend time cuddled up under a blanket in the winter is a good one. The steamy hot chocolate is done to go with my handsome man sitting on the couch waiting for me, so Au revoir.

mmmmmm....

Oh and life can't go on without a good quote: "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~Peter Ustinov

Merry Graduation!

We watched a movie called "Julia and Julia" today and I feel so inspired! The first thing I did was, of course, buy some eggs and make poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce for me and my husband, followed by cappuccinos with the homemade whipping cream i made from the egg whites. By homemade whipping cream I mean whipping cream, egg whites, sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon whipped by my hand mixer for maybe 10-15 minutes. It never really got firm, a few bubbles on the top...but that was all haha. So instead of the cake I was going to make, it became cappuccinos. I am a cooking genius! But besides just inspiring me to cook the expensive delicious foods that I cannot afford, it has also inspired me to work harder on my blog (in theory). So here I am, dutifully writing to the nobody crowd reading this. Or not reading it, whatever you imaginary people do. (http://blog.getcracking.ca/)

My eggs didn't really look this good either...

Another thing to celebrate besides my cooking genius is that my husband, Jordan, is graduating highschool this week. Yes, he was in highschool, in fact we are both only 19 years old, and no, our parents didn't approve. I guess you could say that deep down, some part of me is a sucker for a good romance novel. The other part of me says life's too short to worry about 20 years from now, and we'll worry about it then. For now we have been homeless together, lived through family fueds to last a lifetime, and survived highschool. I think that is more than enough for any couple to "prove" love to even the worst of doubts, unless of course you are our parents. It's their job to question everything, they are like each child's individual philosopher, forever confusing them with pointless, imaginary logic and sometimes falling upon the world's greatest word's of wisdom. I wish I would stumble on some of that wisdom sometime, but for now, I think I will just appreciate it.

self explained.

Anyways, back to the subject of graduating. We are finally out of highschool! That is it! Forever!!!! I say we because I too have been subject to waking early for school rides when i need the car, and working with homework, over the past 2 years that I have been out. It hardly feels I left, well, more like I left all the fun and socializing part of school and kept the horrible homework part and late-night projects. So in a way this is a graduation for the both of us, and, honestly, I'm not too sure what to do next. It's this feeling of demanded plans all over again. "are you going to college?" "are you moving?" "are you going to have a baby?" "what do you mean you don't want a baby, i want grandkids!" oh sorry, mixed that up with my mother in law...But the point is that, I really don't know the answer to any of these. Jordan and I really have no plans, except maybe NOT having a baby. At least not until we have a proper house to raise a kid in. Even that decision seems to upset people. I feel as if action is demanded of me, or I will be forced into a world drowning in social pressures. The "grown-up" thing would be to let this go and not to care, and even if my actions may not change, the fact is my heart is still a culprit to every word someone I love says to me. That is the part that can't shake it and just let myself live without a plan, much like the desire people seem to have of writing New Year's resolution's they never fulfill.

I think now is the time to say...I need to think more like Calvin and Hobbes

Quote to think about: "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." ~Jerome K. Jerome

Easily "A"wesome Review

I use this wonderful application called "stumble upon" all the time. It brings me to the best of websites and has me laughing until my spleen hurts or sometimes inspired to take on the whole world. However lately I've been running into a lot of "Christian hate" sites. I theorize this has been brought on by the new hilarious hit film "Easy A" much like home schooler generalizations were made by "Mean Girls." When you don't understand/like it why not just listen to Hollywood's opinion right? Because movies are ALWAYS right. Well long story short I have decided to fight back. I'm going to make a movie and call it umm..."Bad F"...and it will be about a Christian girl who DOESN'T sleep with anyone or even make out and because of that the whole school mocks her. Oh wait, that wouldn't be a hit, that would be too much like normal highschool... maybe I should just make another weird film that makes no sense like Napoleon Dynamite or Charlie the Unicorn...*sigh* if only I had that kind of stupid genius.

"Idiot!

Anyway, in all honesty I really did love "Easy A", those of you who don't know about it should definitely go watch it. It's about this great girl who lies that she had *indecent word for small children* with a rainbow colored gay kid who wants to play "straight" so he doesn't get killed by the highschool bullies. Well, rumors spread, and before you know it she became the school floozy, who was really a virgin. Somehow that sounds similar to my first kiss in middle school, except i didn't lie, middle school girls are just total b...ouncy people. yeeeaaaahhhh. 

He looks just like those girls in middle school...

In the end of the film everything is set right again, except of course the lives that were ruined by her telling the truth, that sucked. But that is the cost of the truth, even in Hollywood, where Tom Cruise judges us for our sins. Probably using one of those weapons from his movie "Mission Impossible."

That's how Tom Cruise judges YOU!

Quote to think about: "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" ~Irv Kupcinet

Happy Holidays...I think?

My husband and I just had a wonderful thanksgiving! You know that holiday about blah blah Indians blah blah pilgrims who gave all the Indians disease blah blah FOOOOODDDD!!!!!!! Yes, food, who doesn't love it? Turkey death sentences are made across the world in the occasion for our American holiday, and oh does mass turkey murder taste so good! So this year in honor of this great American holiday I cooked my first turkey. I got home from work that afternoon running in to start cooking the turkey (I even stayed in my work clothes, since I work in a deli and cook raw chicken all day in them anyway) and after cleaning the turkey, I realized I hadn't gotten out my oven bag. In enters my husband and our neighbor joey, cutting onions, helping me with the oven bag, shouting, running, and all shoved into our tiny one-bedroom apartment joke of a kitchen. After taking the turkey in and out of the oven bag several times we finally got it right, and we were covered in turkey juice. The dinner was oddly enough, a success! I hope you all had good luck on your thanksgivings too.

this picture speaks for itself, with a sign!

Now that the Thanksgiving holiday is over we come to the most mass produced, overdone, and loved holiday of the year. Christmas! People splurge entire paychecks on this holiday, so they can load presents underneath the tree. My husband and I have an imaginary tree...because we are too poor to buy one...and underneath it you find... absolutely no presents. Haha, looks like the ghetto will be celebrating the true meaning of Christmas this year. Which would be the $20 an hour I get if I work Christmas day, right?

selling your soul to the devil...i mean money

No, in all seriousness, I'm happy to be celebrating a real Christmas this year with my husband. It will be a little difficult knowing my extended family still isn't in the mood for the holidays, but maybe I can butt in anyway, cause I'm always so polite haha. God has really blessed us this year, and I am happy to be celebrating that, with or without presents. Jesus truly is the greatest gift and I am reminded of His love everyday. Ghetto Christmas really isn't that bad after all.

"The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy" ~Psalms 126:3

And, of course, your quote to think about for the day "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Just rambling...

I have no followers or anyone who reads this blog, but the Internet is entirely about insulting people with your honest personal opinions or that...um *cough*weird naked stuff *cough.* Since I'm not getting into anything quite THAT awkward I'm just going to post pointless stuff that entertains me, and maybe every once and a while insult everyone with an opinion that is different than theirs! Cause without people taking all their beliefs so personally we wouldn't have wars...which would be...bad...i think....instead of thinking about that lets all just look at this pretty picture! (www.bymichaelo.com)

Does everyone feel better and distracted now? Good!

Today I learned that the closer we get to the future the closer the world gets to total globalization. I don't just mean because I can talk to my friend in Egypt on the facebook page based in the United States with the tech support in India. I mean that the world is seeing a more equal market, more equal life spans, and even a more equal birth rate...other than the middle east they really don't seem updated on the Internet yet. But even though the world statistically is growing so similar we all still embrace our separate cultures. So globalization isn't so much joining the "cool crowd" at highschool as much as it's just the giant mesh of highschoolers themselves. Everyone different, but all in the same place, we even label the "clicks" according to the country they live in and make stabbing remarks about other people we don't know thing about! Ah and you thought you were too old for highschool drama. But enough with the metaphor before i start labeling whole countries as emos or preps.

Does he look Lithuanian to you?

Tonight at midnight marks the release of Harry Potter 7:part 1. Tonight, HP geeks everywhere are dressing in their best nerd costumes and trying their very hardest not to just start screaming joyously (and weirdly) in the streets. We will all go into the crowded movie theater together, buy outrageously overpriced and stale popcorn, and we will stubble out exhausted at 2 in the morning so we can sleep well tonight, knowing that it will still be in theaters for at least 2 more months. At least it's not about vampires.

With that I leave you this simple quote to think about, "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)