I have successfully kept to my page quota in Moby Dick. I should be all set to finish it before school starts back up again on Monday. Of course, by now I'm so sick of reading it I might take yet another break. I know, in the back of my mind there's the finish line and a whole line of supporters telling "Don't give up! You're almost there!" I could probably finish it tomorrow if I put my mind to it and didn't read my girly book. It has gotten increasingly more interesting as it's progressed. All in all, I think I'll be glad to have read it. There was a lot of interesting references I didn't beforehand understand that now make so much more sense. Funny how we hear figures of speech or a quote from a movie and we think to ourselves "that's interesting" and nod along. But then we learn the story behind said figurative or quote and we see that before we knew nothing and now have become educated. So all in all, it was a lesson to be learned. And besides, "nothing ventured nothing gained", eh?

I "friend-ed" a bunch of my cousins and other family members on facebook the past few days. It's interesting to see what they put on their profiles and where they're at in life now. I was the youngest cousin on both sides by a good number of years. Made for a semi-lonely existence at certain family gatherings. But now that I am an adult along with everyone else it's like I'm in a new club of sorts. I am now on the same level as they. I have achieved personhood! Not that my cousins didn't always include me in conversation before, but I was always the kid-cousin. I was still in grade school when they were getting married, kind of thing. Now that I'm married and graduated from college I'm suddenly "one of them", interesting. I think what you write about yourself on your facebook profile says a lot about you. I constantly change and update mine so I hope I'm honest on it. I don't really feel the need to hide my lifestyle. I'm pretty proud of the person I've become since I was kind of a rotten youth. You heard it here first. Anyways, all this to say, it's been interesting to learn about my family via facebook. First I found all of Matt's cousins who I didn't know well at all. Then all my cousins from my mom's side who I only know slightly. This week I discovered the cousins from my dad's family with whom I'm most familiar. I also found some second cousins I haven't seen since I was in the single digits and some "adopted cousins" (my aunt's nieces). Funny how everyone grows up and we all turn out so different. But then again, that's "different" than my memory of people. And how much can you trust the memory of a six year old? Summarily, I really like my family.

Emily kitten gave me quite the scare. I awoke to her gagging. I heard her from across the house and went to her aide. I thought it would just be a hairball, which was off because she's never had a hairball. She proceeded to hack up a whole rose bud and a few whole leaves! She apparently didn't waste any time with them because they looked fresh off the stem with no teeth marks or anything. I cleaned up the mess and tried to console her because she looked traumatized at the incident. But then she started wheezing. Not hacking like a hairball, but with every breath she took I could hear it painfully making it's way through her throat and lungs. I thought she had something lodged in her throat so I tried smacking her a few times but that didn't help. I made her drink some water and gave her some ham to chew on and that seemed to help clear things out a little. She seems to be doing ok but my mom said some flowers are poisonous for animals! I know lilies are but I have no idea about roses or tulips, which are on my counters. Hopefully she learned her lesson and won't try eating anymore of my beautiful blossoms.

I'm going to start learning the violin... Again! I used to play when I was a child, then tried piano, then landed on the alto and soprano saxophones. I wish I would've continued with the violin though. My mom is bringing one of my families violins (we have a few since we all played at some point or other) when my parents visit in May and I'll go from there. I used to play my friend's violin for fun in high school and I remembered quite a bit. So I'll probably just pick up some basic books and give it a try. It'll be just for fun and something to do with my spare time. I've been really missing music (I was in band, choir, and chorale from 5th grade through senior year of high school) in my life so I wanted to try to pick something up. I wanted to try either violin or guitar but didn't want to put the money towards one until I knew it was going to stick. This way I can borrow this one and are how it goes. If I really like it then I'll probably sign up for lessons later on and buy my own. For now this will be a good tester. I hated saxophone. I don't know why I ever started playing it. That's a lie, my friends were all playing it so I did too. Then they all quit in junior high and I was stuck in band. Oh well, that's behind me now and I do have some fond memories of band, I guess.

Well, here I lie, in bed. I am in my pjs and all ready to sign out for the night. My kitten is curled up at my feet as usual and the husband is finishing up his game playing for the night. I must admit, as silly as I think WOW is at least he's made some "friends". Sure he'll never meet these guys in person, but I think it's fun for him and a good outlet. I'll probably read a couple more chapters out of my girly book then have sweet slumber until Thursday. I have loved spring break. I could get used to this. I was thinking about how different life will be once there's a baby to take care of. I think I'm willing to wait another year or two like Matt wants. I have a few things I'd like to do before all my time is devoted to baby. And yes, most of those "things" are books I'd like to read. As long as we can plan on baby number 1 coming when I'm 24 I'll be happy. I know God might have different plans for our family and I might not get pregnant then or at all and then we'll adopt. But I'd like to shoot for 24. 23 would be better, but I think that'd be pushing it for Matt. We'll see. Yes, I know, it's young.

My thumbs hurt. This has been a long post I feel. But usually when I feel that way I look back on it and it wasn't as long as I thought. Either way my thumbs hurt. I really need to start using my computer instead of my blackberry. A perfectly good computer going to waste. It sure looks nice on my desk though.

Goodnight. Sweet dreams.