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Another week of school is down, and I am starting to feel a lot better about things in my classroom and my lesson planning. I am starting to really enjoy my academic classes, and I am ready for us to start working on yearbook stuff. I feel like a slacker teacher when it comes to that but our first deadline isn't until April, so I feel like we have plenty of time to get everything done. Plus I am learning along the way, too.
This weekend we celebrated Ryan's birthday. He turned 24 on Friday, and we celebrated with cake and ice cream at his parents' house. His grandparents came over and it was fun. He opened his presents afterward and he got a lot of good stuff. :)
I had gotten him a pair of shorts from Kohls in August, and I told him then that it was part of his birthday present. I also got a game that he asked for.
I took him down to Indianapolis yesterday, and we didn't do anything too fancy like go downtown because we both knew it would be a madhouse with traffic. Our alma mater was playing Indiana University last night at Lucas Oil Stadium, plus the last minor league game of the year was last night. They also had a huge concert at Rib Fest in Indy last night, so we just stayed in the northern part.
We went to Castleton Square Mall first. We had originally went there to look at a guitar for Ryan, but then we ended up spending a lot of time at the mall. We saw a Borders and it said that there were only 7 more days they'd be open since they are all going out of business. I wish we would have gotten there weeks earlier, but we both got some good stuff.
I got 10 books and a DVD for Ryan that will be a Christmas present for $70. I didn't think that was too bad for bookstore books. I probably won't have time to read them right now, but since I won't be working in the summertime I will have plenty of reading material.
Afterward, we went to have dinner at Applebees. Neither one of us could finish our food, but it was so good. It started raining hard while we were in there, but thankfully that was it.
After dinner, we drove back to Fishers and went to Ben and Ari's, which is an awesome arcade, bowling and mini golf place. Ryan and I have a Groupon we are going to use with his sister and brother in law sometime, but I thought it'd be fun for us. Plus it was only $5 for a game each.
Ryan won, but we had a pretty good time. We accidentally took the wrong way in the course, so we went from hole 6 to hole 10 and didn't notice until we were done with hole 12. :) but we redid it and sometimes we did better when we redid it.
After mini golf, we went to Coldstone for ice cream. Neither one of us had ever been there, so that was fun. I got a scoop of cotton candy and a scoop of cake batter. It was really good but I was still full from dinner. Ryan got a smoothie that he really loved that mixed strawberry, banana and orange juice together. I tried t but there was too much strawberry in it for me.
We drove home and got back around 10:30. Ryan and I ended up having a pretty emotional night, but we are learning how to be better communicators, give space when necessary, and try to be more understanding. It's hard to learn those things when you only see each other for a couple of days once a month, so living at his parents' house together right now is good for us. We are learning a lot.
Last night I said that I think it would help if we thought of the other person as Christ because I don't think we would say or do some of the stupid things we did if we realized that Christ lives in Ryan and me. He agreed and that is what we are focusing on now. He said he wants to stop picking on areas of me that he knows hurts me. Last night the issue started because he just kept making fun of my snoring.
I finally just finally him to tell me something that he was self conscious about so I could do the same to him. He had some pretty harsh words, while sharing what it is that he is self conscious about. We apologized a few minutes later after having some space, realizing how stupid that was. It's just stupid stuff that get us like that and we should be treating each other better than we treat anyone else in our lives.
We are also going to pray more. Neither one of us does it enough, so praying after disagreements or arguments is vital. I still love him, and probably more every time we resolve these conflicts.
Anyway. Everything will be fine. I also started my period which might have to do with all this extra sensitivity. I am also going home today and Ryan may or may not come with me. I am not sure. He was supposed to make a decision for today. I plan to leave after we get done eating lunch after church. I am going to see some friends today and then my mom tomorrow since she is working today.
Hope you all have splendid weekends. :)
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