I'm grumpy. My little red Acer that I bought two years ago at the recommendation of several people, has turned out to be a big, fat dissapointment! Sometime at the end of last year, the hard drive just stopped working and had to be replaced, so I lost all the stuff I had on it. And then sometime in January this year, the keyboard just stopped letting me type half the letters. It's fixable, says Acer Repair Man, but for 3000 NT (about 100 USD), and although I could pay that, I felt it was better use of my monies to pay 300 NT (about 10 USD) for an external keyboard and just deal with a gimpy system. It worked ok, until about a month ago, that stopped working half the time too. Now I have to jiggle it a certain way. Like typing this post, I've had to jiggle it a couple of times already. Blah. and blah.
But I'm here and I was inspired to write a quick update after months and months of Not Blogging. because I'm a blogging slacker.
Life has quickly moved forward as I have Not been Blogging. I'm looking forward, currently, to my wedding in a few months (AHHH! a few months! A FEW MONTHS!! AAAAAAAAH!) and I'm not at all freaking out. :) It actually still feels kind of far away, even though I just AAH'd at the few months away it really is. Thanks to an amazing blessing from God in the form of one of Aaron's friends, I haven't had to do much as far as pulling the wedding itself together. She's doing my invitations, including the mailing, and everything else will be very simple. I bought my dress toward the end of last year at a second-hand wedding/formal dress shop, for the equivalent of 50 USD! Thanks to another great friend of mine here who showed me the place. It's very simple dress, and I'm happy with it.
I've been slowly moving things box by bag by random handfuls to Aaron's apartment, and we've acquired several things I want/need like a microwave, oven, water dispenser, and other etc's Aaron has been doing without quite well on his own. Apparently I am more high maintinence (my words, not his.:) Also we got cute matching cushy swively chairs for our tiny, tiny, tiny living room.
Otherwise in New News, we have also bought ukukleles, and I played mine in my class for the first time today and got kind of laughed at, mostly stared at, and a little bit pee'd on. Yep. I had two students wet themselves (for excitement? I don't know. they haven't done it in my class before. coincidence to wet themselves for the first time when I bring a ukulele to school? Hm). It was an exhausting day. They are pretty little, like first grade, but I did not expect them to wet themselves for excitement at Teacher Playing the Ukulele. I'm pretty anxious about playing again next week. Maybe I just won't.
We decorated Celtic crosses today in kind of honor of St. Patrick's day, and they are very beautiful, even the one with the tanks and helicopters all over it (or as this particular student said "they look like cows, yah, because they is black and white, but they are tanks and here is helicopter". I'm glad he clarified, because they do look like cows.
We are learning about cows next week. Incidentally, the Chinese f-word, sounds like the word "cow" in the fourth tone (the harsh downward tone). It's a delicate dance to teach about cows and avoid that tone.
In honor of learning about cows and how they make milk for us, we are going to make ice-cream in class. I hope nobody pee's their pants over THAT.
Um, what else. Oh. I've been going to a gym. It's not my favorite. I thought maybe I have gotten more Healthy and maybe lost a little weight I've put on over the last couple of years, but instead for the two months of what I've found a grueling three days of a week of Gym Time, I have gained five pounds. I am slightly depressed. I am still normal looking and not at all fat, but I thought for all the running and cycling and weights pushing/pressing/lifting I've been doing surely I would have not gained weight. I kind of don't get it. It hasn't been enough time for it to be five pounds of muscle gain. Oh well.
It's very Late here now and it's been a long day. I'm kind of only blogging because somehow I was inspired, but now I have forgotten what inspired this blog.
So, I'm going to bed. Perhaps it won't be so long between my next post. We'll see. :)
