Just Us Together 

Big Nose wearing my glasses,and the expression he uses to look at menus. 

My Darling Big Nose

My daily routine is rather simple...I try to sleep as late as possible and than I make a mad dash around the burrow getting ready for work. I spend about nine hours or more at work just trying to stay below the rader, so that my managers don't find a reason to start snarling at me, which is difficult because it's a rather small office with the stress level for at least one general at time being at red alert.
I am literally counting the days until May when my husband will graduate from law school & we will move to our hometown in Southern Idaho, at which point I may take a part time job, but only if it's something stress free.
Which I know that is hard to find, but basically I would just prefer a job where I didn't have to interact much with anyone. I dream of those jobs where you could literally be dead at your cubicle for days before someone even finds your smelly corpse. I mean honestly, it isn't that I'm a unsocial person, I am actually quite charming, but I just hate having people dump their drama on me when I'm clearly not the source of their problems. Like I as a clerk have any control over price rates or the fact that one person is being overworked. People at work or as customers are never the same people you know as friends, the whole element of money just makes most people way too tense.
So anywho once I escape the timeclock everyday, I then just spend my evening with my darling husband, Big Nose. He is the midst of the toil that is law school, so he doesn't really have much time to actually spend with me, but we found a way to get around this. While he works on his homework on the loveseat, I nest on the full size couch and we enjoy our evening tv shows together. We both take turns cooking dinner, BN is actually the one who most often cooks, while I often end up cleaning up. Most nights we than enjoy the luxury of going to bed together at the same time.
This is my quiet life these days, but somehow it doesn't feel quiet, I mean yes we don't really do much outside our little burrow. But we manage to still fill up our days with activity, whether it be cleaning, making up silly stories, (like the reason why Dick Cheney was such a perfect name for the laptop that BN was fixing for a friend....it's secretive and shifty, with a very bad aim when it comes to searching for things) watching movies, giving each other back massages, or me just giggling all day about the recent slapstick maneuver BN has fallen into. Our lives feel very much in limbo right now just seems like we are waiting for all the big stuff to begin: getting our own home, starting a family, starting a career, even getting a puppy. It's all just on hold for now, or at least for just a few more months.

Austen, forgive me for being so blind to your beauty.

Well I finally got my Pride & Prejudice fix satisfied. I just procured the new version with Keira Knightly as Elizabeth Bennet, which though more condensed than the BBC miniseries, is still quite lovely.
Keira is just so enchanting and I just love the empire waist garments. Soon I hope to have more time & space to practice my sewing, so that I can start making my own Austen wardrobe.
But the thing I love most about this new version of P & P is that the actors all look closer in age to the characters from the book, I mean don't get me wrong Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle are perfect together, but I do think that Matthew Macfadyen & Keira Knightly just have a more youthful quality about them. Or maybe it's just they are closer to my age versus the former.
At least they are closer in age to the characters than Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet were in Sense & Sensibility, which is still a wonderful movie, but I have never really seen Emma Thompson as a romantic lead. She just always seemed too matronly to me and the character was only suppose to be 19, while Kate Winslet was good in the role, but it wouldn't have hurt to have a teenage actress playing the part, since that overly romantic spirit that makes up Mary Ann's character does come from the inexperience of a teenager with little responsibility. I do think Emma Thompson did a wonderful job adapting the story, but I think she shouldn't have put herself as one of the sisters. Maybe that's just me.
Anywho, I still love the films. I mean how could one not love Austen's perfect storytelling? I am such a big fan of clever romantic comedies, I mean I know they all have that general boy meet girl formula, but that doesn't mean they aren't still great to watch and Austen is really the foundation of romantic comedies.
I can't believe it took me so long to discover her. I was in college when I started really watching the films, and it was just this last year that I started reading the books. I had such a bad experience with old English writers, especially Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, which was so tedious & frustrating.
I blame it on academia just sucking all the joy out of reading the classics or having you only read things so full of metaphorical symbolism that you just want to drink heavily to get your head straight again. So I just figured that Jane Austen would have the same tedious dry language & never really bothered with her.
That was until seeing the miniseries and being told it was so closely based off the book and loving the miniseries. So, thereby I just had to read the book to see how it compared and I was so impressed with the narrative style that I just had to start reading all her works. So now I'm in the process of reading Sense & Sensibility which still continues Austen's brilliant writing capability, I mean it's funny because she isn't portraying any real dramatic situations or complex plots, it's all just ordinary daily life. They are the grown up version of those trashy historical paperback romances that I use to read as adolescent.
So now that I got my costume romance fix, I should be good for at least another 6 months or so, though I am now starting to get an itch for some Anne of Green Gables romance.....aaah the sweet beauty of costumes, love, & rain.

Good Evening

For my first post, I will try to keep it short & simple. Not too much to report today, I have not ventured outside yet because it is my day off and I consider it one of the luxuries of my life that I can stay in pjs all day and do very little in the way of real work. Though of course I did spend quite a bit of time setting up this blog, so I feel that should count for something.
My whole theory on having this blog is that it will be less stress than trying to keep a journal, I mean I actually spend a lot of time with Spike (the name of my computer, I like giving names to inanimate objects, it makes me feel more invested in them, like if Spike were to die tomorrow I would be really sad, like we had this whole history together.... "and we just started that blog together yesterday, he was so excited to be working on a new project" "I just spent all day playing bingo with Spike" you know that sort of history) so I figure what better place to document my day.
Also this will make for a good venue for updating my pals around the globe as to what I am doing when I'm not returning very nice emails that I really intend on responding to.
And another hope for this exercise in writing is that it will inspire me to write more fiction which is something I use to do quite a bit of but sense graduating college and getting married I just can't seem to find the enthusiam for writing that I once had. So let's get this experiment started....

my first halloween & my favorite picture of myself