We were both young when I first saw you
This week has been very busy! I've had the last couple of days off, but I haven't really been home, doing my thing. It's been pretty fun though. :)
Thursday (it was Anything Can Happen Thursday!) was a lot of fun. It's always good to be able to catch up with Andrea, and I always end up laughing really hard at something or other. This time, we revisited such classic videos as "Jokes with Einstein" and "Potter Puppet Pals: Snape's Diary." Snape's Diary is my favorite PPP video to date! We also watched two particularly disturbing but funny videos called "Marshmallow Murderer" (I won't be eating those for a while) and "Annoying Orange," which ends with the untimely demise of an unsuspecting apple. She also tuned me in to this Harry Potter fan fic called "My Immortal." Apparently it was officially declared the worst fan fic ever written, and an entire website has been dedicated to it. I usually try NOT to laugh at someone else's work (that's just mean!), but this...is pretty bad. Girl needs work, but is unwilling to be told so, apparently. It's still kind of funny. And I feel like an ass just for saying that!
I also went to see my Aunt Bonnie at Tufts Hospital in Boston (it's a VERY good hospital). She had surgery earlier this week, but she's going just great and should be home very soon. Boston was nice as always. It was really lovely to see the sun setting over the Charles River. <3
Today was quite nice too! Britt and I had lunch at Bertucci's (awesome rolls are awesome!) and then went to see "Letters to Juliet." It was actually really good! It's not like, Oscar worthy or anything, but it was a good, solid, sweet movie. I really liked the story. I am seriously thinking of finally penning that letter to Juliet I've been wanting to send, but I truly have no idea what to say. I've also really come to like Romeo and Juliet more recently. I think this is because I can finally sort of understand the ideas behind it. It's not just about these two crazy kids who form a forbidden attraction. These two people really loved each other on a deep spiritual level, and that is what makes the end so very tragic. I didn't get all of the underpinnings when I read it the first time. I was only fourteen years old. Shakespeare was pretty new to me. :)
For some reason, this motivated Britt to ask me about Mr. Darcy (not his actual name, it's just a code name I gave him years ago). We haven't discussed him in some time and I don't think I've ever written of him here. To be brief, he is the only person I have ever been in love with. Truly. I met him when I was 16, on my first trip to Portugal. He is a friend of a relative/friend. At first, I didn't feel anything for the guy. He was just some guy. I am not so sure what happened, really, but we became friends and I fell. (Wow. Long story condensed into a few very short words!). He seemed to feel something too, but it can't have been as much as me, because when I went back two years later, that vibe he had been giving off was gone. I was still pretty far gone though, but I kept my silence. Last year, he got engaged to a girl he loves very much (she really is a good person) and they are getting married this July. I've been getting over him for longer than I care to admit (it really is rather pathetic, when I think of all the YEARS that have gone by with me just keeping my mouth shut), but when Britt brought him up today, I realized that, well, I'm sort of over it. I haven't talked to him since last year (I feel it is best to just cut myself off. Cold turkey turned out ok), and I don't feel sad when I think of him anymore, which I think is really good! I feel like I can finally say "Good for him, but now I'm gonna turn the page." :) I will always have the remnants of what I felt, and know that these were positive feelings, but it's like that's just a whole other chapter that I've moved on from. Hell, I've started a new book, even! Granted, I have not found someone in the intervening five years, but I'm not kidding when I say I know he's out there somewhere. That wasn't Mr. Darcy. I've experienced a Mr. Collins (another story for another day) and a...let's call him Wickham. He seemed right before, but at the end of the day, he's not the enigmatic man from Derbyshire with the quizzical brow. :)
Okay. Talk about a tangent! Other than getting lost in my own thoughts, I also got to see my godkids today. They were lovely as usual, and absolutely adorable. MJ looked so cute in her sundress, and I taught Tobes how to say "Ta da!" and throw up his hands. It was pretty awesome. I went grocery shopping with mom too, but that wasn't so good because we went to Market Basket. I hate that store, because the crowds are always awful and I feel like a pinball while I'm there. I much prefer to take my time picking out my food and to take things slowly. That was one of the best things about Santa Maria. You go to the small market and get what you need for a couple days. No crowds. No sardine in a can feeling. Next week, I am convincing my parents to go to Shaw's!
Not much on deck for tomorrow. I'm working 9-5, and finding out whether or not next week's schedule has sabotaged our MFA trip or not. Pretty irked by that, because Kayla requested the day off with plenty of time. Finding coverage for a four hour shift should not have been the Herculean task it has become. More on that later though, because we still have our fingers crossed!!!
Hope everyone enjoyed their Anything Can Happen Thursday, and hope you all have a lovely weekend! :)