New follower

I am pleased to say I have a 4th person who reads my blog! WOOOO :) To add to my dad, Conni Jo, and Amanda, we can welcome my girlfriend Nichole to the bunch. She informed me last night that she actually reads this thang! Spotlight on Nichole >>>She dates Eric's cousin Tommy...scratch that because they just got engaged! So anyways our fiances are cousins which we discussed one night with some of the other Bacigalupi cousins girls and found hilarious...we figured out, "Hey...we all date cousins?!" It was pretty funny because we are all friends anyway and then we actually put it together that we'll be family down the road. Fun times.
Eric & I helped coach t-ball last night which was fun (in part because I never played past t-ball so I'm on their level). Then we met up with Tommy & Nichole for dinner. Today is back to facing the reality that I have to finish this semester of school. This is my list of things to do: show up to class (4 total classes +supervision), present on Appalachian culture and identity, take a quiz on couples counseling, and take a Multicultural Final Exam...then in the summer I just have supervision for my work at Central State NO CLASS. This is the most surreal shiz because I have had back to back class since Kindergarten. I mean summer off during college was great, but I always knew I'd be goin back in the fall. This is like for real dunzo. (throw back to Laguna Beach). So I really still have to finish my dissertation (actually START my dissertation) and move to St. Louis for a year, but that is definitely not going to a scheduled class :)

Anniversary

Today is my 4 year anniversary with Eric. It will be the last time this anniversary really means much of anything because in 39 days we will get married and make a new anniversary. The one I am celebrating today recognizes that he & I decided we liked each other. Enough to say, don't you go hooking up with anybody else or you will piss me off! Really, our anniversary was prety funny the 1st 2 years, as Eric kinda pissed me off on both (being drunk and asleep on one). Last year he proposed on our anniversary, so that was pretty damn sweet. This year he is going to go to this lecture with me about sexuality (something I have to go to for school and is open to the public so he agreed to go too) and then we're gonna get some sushi. I am pretty pumped that from now on when we celebrate our anniversary (May 12) we will celebrate a day when we said vows to each other and started our lives as a family. That is SO much better to celebrate than us agreeing to be exclusive :)

It feels weird that soon I will be a wife. I am excited, but the whole title of it makes me feel a bit old. I think I'll go with wifey for a while til I have a kid or something! Also, soon I will have a new last name. I am not really in love with my current last name as it is very German and hard to pronounce for people...but my new last name is going to be pretty much the same (German and hard to pronounce). I think if I hyphenated my name I would sound like Hitler's niece or something. Not the connotation I'm going for.