I haven’t written in this thing in months. In order to avoid a long boring post about everything that has happened since then I have resolved myself to consolidate it into a single paragraph so that I can actually write about what happened yesterday. Here goes…
Jen is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me. This has only become more evident over the past few months. We now have an apartment together. We live in West Islip. It’s a very cute basement apartment that is perfect for us. Here are a bunch of pictures of the place. There were many adventures in getting to this point that certainly deserve their own posts. I know that I have to write about our New Years Eve debacle shortly. But, right now I want to write about what happened yesterday.
Jen and I had been planning on going out to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum to have a picnic. The night before we made a fruit salad and she prepared some penne with pesto and some mozzarella and tomato. It was going to be fantastic. So, we went over to the arboretum only to find out that you are not allowed to have picnics there. So, we left there and headed over to Connetquot State Park, but lo and behold picnics are prohibited there as well. We made our way to Heckscher State Park. It was a mob scene. But we survived a caterpillar attack, a toddler peeing on a nearby fountain, and an exploding bottle of sparkling apple cider and managed to have a good time. On the way back Jen drank out of the bottle of sparkling apple cider while driving down the Southern State Parkway. All I could think about was how badly I wanted to shower and take a nap. You know when you get back from the beach and you just feel kind of grimey.
When we got back and I opened the door to the apartment all of my friends were inside. It was amazing. The apartment was full of people. Jen had thrown me a suprise party. I have never felt so special. She just treats me so well. I was so flabbergasted as I was walking in that I started wishing other people happy birthday. It was absurd. I told Jen later on that night as we were lying in bed that it feels really good to have someone in my life who cares about me enough to throw me a birthday party like that. Her and her friends made food and they decorated the place. The whole party was Mario themed. There were bricks with question marks on the walls and goombas walking around. It was really something. I plan on bringing the racoon Mario to work and hanging it on the wall there. My friends gave me all kinds of cool gifts. Jen gave me a DVD player / surround sound system. I’m very excited about putting it together. Jen wrapped all of her presents for me like question mark blocks. She’s so creative. Yesterday was awesome. I am so appreciative of everyone who came down yesterday. It was a great day - one of the greatest.
I turn 24 today, that’s 8760 days or 210240 hours (more like 210244 hours now). For some reason 8760 days feels shorter than 24 years. That’s probably because you can comprehend the length of a day. A year is a little harder to get a grasp on. I can’t really get a grasp on the year that just passed by. It was only 8760 hours since this time last year and so much has changed. I am so in love with her.
PS - Jen had some nice things to say about me on my birthday. Thank you, Baby.
Congrats!! Good to hear everything is going well. Look forward to more blogging in the future… I am in the same boat… so much to blog so little time… :)