Looking backward...but only to move forward THREE

[sage]

Had a really nice weekend (though, are they ever long enough? I feel like I need a vacation!). Friday we completed our "Oscar movie marathon" by seeing "Kinsey" and then heading out for pizza afterwards. It was a nice evening out.

Saturday I took a French cooking class with my dad. It was a lot of fun -- I got to spend a bunch of time with him and also catch up with my stepmom and half-brother, too. I got home and had a little bit of time to relax before h and I headed off to see a college hockey game. We planned to try out this hot dog place which was close to the arena. We got in the general area and found (amazingly enough) a parking space! (It's a notoriously tough area to park). Problem was the combo of it being a busy street (hard to backup and park) combined with just general lameness (mine) resulted in my having a really tough time parallel parking (kind of unusual for me). h was exasperated and was kind of jerky about the whole thing. When I got out of the car I said something like "did you have to be that way?" and he said "what way" and I said "well, I hoped you might have been nicer and a bit more supportive about the whole thing". Now, he then did his "I want to go home" thing ( ) which drives me crazy..so I said, well, good luck to you 'cause I'm not going home...so he asked for the tickets so he could sell them and get money for transportation home. I gave them to him and kept walking.

He followed and said something like "what is the problem" and I repeated that he could have been nicer about it and he said "I was being perfectly fine" so I said, ok, I thought you hadn't been (note, I was totally calm) and he said "well, I was just thinking 'what the heck is she doing? she's completely screwing this up and being incompetant'" (or something like that that made it perfectly clear that he HADN'T been being nice AT ALL). Anyway, long story even longer, we went to the hot dog place (where I got a veggie dog!) and ultimately h apologized and all was fine. On the way home he apologized again and said something like "I'm such a mean person" and I said "no you're not" and he said "well, I was really mean to you" and I said "listen, you're a nice person who did a mean thing. There's a big difference" ('cause there is!).

Anyway, Sunday we went to the gym and then went into school so we could both do homework. I had a bad attitude towards doing it because I'm sick of school! but we had a fine time and got some stuff done and then came home and relaxed. We picked up food on the way home so we settled in to watch the oscars. We had a little contest on picking the winners and I won!

Awesome, awesome news today...h called earlier to tell me that he'd been offered THE summer job he wanted! I think it was really weighing on his mind and he's completely psyched! He told me that while the woman was offering him the job he thought "I can't wait to tell Sage about this" which just made me feel so good. He also told me how much my support means to him! I'm really glad he feels that way and shares it with me...I feel like I'm making up for not always being there for him.

So, that's my news. Lots of good "give and take" in my corner of the world.

Sage