Walking on the Moon

So I have a confession. I feel like the biggest idiot ever in this. But at the time that it was occurring, including the time leading up to and shortly after in fact, I was completely unaware of the whole moon/rocket event. I found out about it a week or so later. Truthfully, I thought it must have been a joke. I would hear mention of it in passing, see a brief line in posting. But I didn't take an ounce of it seriously for another few days. I kept thinking "Come on! What's the deal? Where's this nonsense coming from?" After all if we bombed the moon wouldn't I have heard about it before it happened? It's not like the moon randomly decided to attack us and we had to fight back in self-defense. A preplanned bombing would make the news.
And it did. But apparently I was under a rock somewhere. Which I still find highly odd. I mean I'm constantly hooked to my computer. And while I, myself, am not a news junkie however, my father and his constant CNN and MSNBC hoping is. So it still confounds me how i missed out on all of this. Oh well. Nothing can be done about my lack of ignorance now.
It's a month later and the rave about our fair moon is that it has water. Apparently A LOT more than previously believed. So what does that mean? It means the doors are opening wide for future moon exploration and possible inhabitation. Currently NASA is discussing the possibilities of a space station on the moon. This sounds wonderful! You remember being a kid in science class. Back when everything seemed possible because you didn't understand anything. And living on the moon just seemed like a given. Well, it may end up happening after all and fulfill all our inner child's dream of bouncing on the moon.
Hear's the thing...i'm kinda cynical. I prefer "realist" but more people prefer cynic so we'll go with that. Let me start of by explaining what I know of life in the most basic form. To live you need four things. Oxygen, Food, Sunlight, and WATER. (I know for some the whole sunlight thing can be disputed but in general it is a necessity...just go with it, k?) Here on Earth the oxygen and sunlight parts we get on a pretty regular basis, day in day out no effort, they are just there for the taking. The food part we have to put some effort into but can still manage. The water on the other hand is either there or it's not. You can divert it or clean it if you find it. But you still need a starting point. LIfe revolves around water. Don't believe me, look at the water cooler in your office and watch people hang out like antelopes in the Serengeti (they even poke up their heads to keep a look out for the boss/lion) Towns, hamlets, major cities, and huts have always been centrally located near water. That's why people usually live near the Nile and not out in the desert around it.
What I am saying is that water being found does make it more possible to eventually live on the moon. We know how to reproduce food, sunlight, and oxygen. Water, as far as I know, can't be created though. But if it's already there? Well we better start packing up.
This is where i get cynical. Humans in my observation have a tendency to act like a plague. We find something take it over, control, and then ruin it. completely destroy it. THEN, we just move on. Leaving it behind to continue to rot. I now have to wonder if this is the fate of the Earth. Are we going to end up jumping ship one day and head on to new wilderness? Or will only the "well to do" be on that spaceship leaving the "not so well to do" behind to clean up their messes? Will the Earth become nothing more than a spherical slum? The dumping ground of our solar system?
I know i'm kinda blowing things out of proportion some. And these worries are long-term in nature. But i really don't trust the human race to do the right thing in the end. We have always been more concerned with immediate gratification than worrying about the long-term consequences.

Another Goodbye...

The D left again today. I hate when we have such a short visit after a long one, they seem even shorter then need be. I had a good time with my though. We went to see The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cirque de Freak: The Vampires Assistant. They were both very good movies. The later was much better than I had expected and will probably be getting me hooked on yet another novel series.

I'm in an upheaval on here. I broke down and bought a .com address. so my new address is actually miss2missus.com. YAY. I have a home. However, there is a lot to make over. For the time being the address is just reverting to this blogspot address. While here on blogspot I'm just trying to get it somewhat presentable.

When I get my new page going it will be much better. But I need to sit down and do some planning to start off with.



In the meantime just sit back and enjoy my ramblings here.

I saved 20 dollars in coupons the other while grocery shopping. Becoming a couponista is taking priority right now. I'm following a bunch of great women and learning from them the best i can. I know to a point I'm getting a bit annoying. esp when the most common phrase i have anymore is "i have a coupon for that!" But it's what we need to do. In fact God was nice enough to answer a prayer for the D and I. He's given us an apartment. At first I've done nothing but complain. It's on the tiny side and I have ALOT of stuff. But the more i think about it the more i feel that this is where God wants us. I know for me in particular I need to learn to downsize. To stop hording and such. And with limited space it will be a necessity. Which i deal better when things are a must instead of an option. And once out of my system I'll be ever more grateful for my first home with my husband.

Now, to just make it to the wedding, moving, and transferring. :D

NEW ADDY

Kinda anyways. I switched to miss2miss.blogspot.com from apple-and-eve.blogspot.com

Kinda got tired with the whole fruit drink in search thing coming up cause of the name. Plus this name seems to be a better fit to me. After all the main purpose of this blog is to document my progress from a lazy single lady with little to no domestic skills to that of a productive wife with a full arsenal of homemaking abilities.

On the same note, im going to be taking some time to reorganize the site set up some. Though it will take a great bit of time I do promis to start posting regularly again. I actually have a few ideas i need to sift out.

Dear Blog....

Dear Blog,

I have not forgotten you! Please for not even one moment think that. It breaks my heart to know that you feel so secondary in my life. Alas, it's true :( I have had to push you to the back burner. Please forgive me? I meant no harm. My life, it has been hectic. I have so much in which i plan to tell you. Please just give me patience. I shall deliver. I swear!

Sincerly Yours,]
Karen

Not Abandoned I Swear

I have just had a lot going on. And yet at the same time absolutely nothing.

A friend of mine is going through a rough spot and she's leaning on me fr support. Problem is i don't know how much longer i can go before i break from the extra weight.

I've been reading like a fiend. In fact just finished the newest Jacqueline Carrey book this even. Read the whole series of Sookie Stackhouse.

My ever growing pile of to do projects is..well...growing. The newest addition is a Chinese puppet dragon i want to work on. First priority...finish apron for swap. Then monkey. Actually my TO DO list will have to be a post on it's own.

The Daniel came down for a week in a half. I quite enjoyed myself. It was pretty relaxing and I adore how I can be my stupid self around him. We didn't do much, money and weather and all. Though we did hit up a couple flea markets successfully leaving with four new foreign coins (yes i am that dork) and OVER TWO POUNDS of jelly bellys. We saw many many a movie. Inglorious Bastards (good), Repo Opera (loved) the orphan (better than you would have thought) and district 9 (good but too sad to be real found of) I wanted to see PONYO. But some how it wasn't playing here. Saw the baby buffalo ^_^


He had is pysch eval for the pd. At this point all that can be done is prayer. I'm confident that he's sane and did well. But I'm worried because he's worried. Well that and because i know i wouldn't pass it ( i over think)

We kinda have the church for the wedding. We were given permission to use it one the date we want. Which is great cause i was worried about being denied wanting a Sunday service. However, there is one issue and that issue makes it the "kinda have it" They don't know if the missionaries will be gone by then. And at this point we aren't sure when we will find out since they haven't planed out their calender for net year and don't know themselves when the missionaries will be leaving. So like i said we kinda have the church.


thats it for now. nice and short

A Visit from my Maid of Honor

I haven't been writing much lately and it's kinda bumming me out. I enjoy writing in here just haven't found the time.

A couple of weeks ago my friend/maid of honor came down. It was great seeing her. I hadn't seen her since she moved home last summer. We did bit of goofing off nothing too outragous. Went bridesmaid dress shopping. Which was fun and so much easier than i thought it would be. We only went to two stores and the first was horrible. It looked more like a bridal thrift store than anything else. But my dear Jenna humored me and tried on a couple dresses so we could get an idea or two on styles and color.

Then off to the second store. We drove out to the historic part of Conway. There really aren't many places in the area. We went into this one little boutiq and the people were so nice and helpful without being overly pushy. I hate to say it but i had a very deffinet idea of what i wanted in a dress...more specfically the color. I wanted a burnt orange, a shiny burnt orange. I know it sounds horrible but it really is nice. She tried on a couple there for me and we essentially have it narrowed to two dresses. Both by the same designer and same fabric.

Whew that was it!?! Just like that we pretty much found the dresses. I still want to run it by the other girls but it's pretty much done on that front. Now for my dress. THAT one i highly doubt will be resolved to easily. But i won't start to look until fall or so of this year.

So after we left the shop we were starving. There was a little cafe a block away so we figured we would stop in there. And i liked it. A lot. It was so plain and simple. You order a turkey sandwich and ou get turkey on bread. They had homemade potato chips and an awesome lemon pie. Wonderful for how simple it was. (that's the jenna at the cafe in the picture above)

So the rest of the visit was spent eating and shopping...i gained six pounds :( but i had a wonderful time. We went to the zoo and the bookstore more than once. On her second to last day we got fried crispy at the beach then played put put in true tourist fashion.

Today sucked. In so many ways it sucked. it seems i got three weeks worth of moodiness and anger coming out of me today. Not to mention working in retail on a holiday is horrible. Everyone is mean. Had a woman cut me off and almost kill me and acted like it was my fault all cause she was impatient. It was a bad day. I really don't want to go into too much detail cause it will just bring up more anger instead of me calming down. Had one good thing happen though.

it was my last night at my second job. Which is great because it has been screwing with my schedule. I end up eating dinner really late and eat more than i intend to. Then go to sleep too late and it messes me up for days. I was sad to leave a few people behind there. I've had that job for three years. But others I'm not upset about. And i can finally get back on track again. They kinda made it easier to leave though. They didn't really have any plans for wishing me a fond farewell. I know part of that is because some kept hoping i wouldn't leave and part because I seem to be easy to forget about things like that for some reason. I think people think i don't like that stuff. A couple people ended up giving me a gift card which was nice since i spent way too much on my last night taking a final advantage of my discount. Though a frame i bought might have to be returned.

HAPPY FORTH!!!! A little tea and read before bed.

My Jenna is coming and I'm excited about. We will probably be going bridesmaid dress window shopping while she is here.