Happy Mother's Day to everyone! This weekend has been so crazy, but I'm glad that it ended well. First of all, how fun was it to watch the Sharks shutout the Red Wings?! That was such an intense game to watch. I love how when people text me to ask what I'm doing and I say "watching the game," they know exactly what I'm talking about and respond with a "Me too." Moving on to Western Conference Finals! Yay!
Besides the game, I spent half of yesterday trying to figure out what kind of point and shoot camera to invest the little money I have left on. I'm still going to bring my digital SLR with me to Moldova, but I figure that a small compact one will come in handy on some occasions. Also, the fact that these little ones can do video also is a big plus. Should I get the smaller newer one, or the bigger one with more functions? Decisions, decisions. Oh, and I kind of want to get an external hard drive to load up movies, TV shows, and music on for entertainment when things get slow out there. Plus, I figure it might be good to back up my stuff anyway. I don't want to be that kid who loses her computer and then feels sorry for oneself for not being smarter about these things. Also, I'm debating about getting a Kindle or iPad to download books so that I can stay literate. JK, I'm sure I'll still be literate regardless...if I'm not, there's something very wrong with my brain. I don't know about all these electronics. I think maybe I'll wait on an electronic reader until I meet up with my family over Christmas and have figured out what internet access is like before committing to anything.
So all of a sudden it feels like I'm running out of time and still have a million things to do. I need to get some stuff for winter over there and I haven't started that yet. I need to get my H1N1 vaccination. I should have done that when my mom was bugging me about it, but I figured since she got it and I never did, there was no need to. I mean I really don't think I could get in closer proximity to the virus, but since it's required in order for me to go to Moldova, I'll do it. That should make my mom happy. I also need to figure out my luggage situation. It is starting to feel like I'm running out of room and I haven't even started packing yet! Maybe I should do some pilot tests on that so I have an idea what to leave out and what else I need to get. Man, I thought packing for a year in Scotland was tough...this is crazy.
As for today, it was a nice day spent with family. Started out by waking up and going out to lunch with the parentals and my younger brother, Chris and ended with a Mother's Day Dinner with pretty much everyone at our house. Ended up being more work than I thought it would be because I honestly thought we were going to buy food for dinner, but my mom decided that Chris and I should make a couple entrees for dinner. We didn't do too bad considering we started to shop for ingredients at like 3:00 and dinner started at 6:00. Oh, and things got sticky when we went to get crabs for the crab dish my mom requested and they had zero crabs...we decided to improvise with lobster. I'm not going to lie though, it was nice to work on a project with my little brother and not argue about anything. Actually I thought it was comparable to Top Chef or something. Chris liked the idea of Kitchen Stadium better. Either way, we didn't do too shabby and we managed to finish before everyone got to the house and it was not only edible, but pretty tasty. Yup, I am tooting my own horn. Toot toot!
And while it was super fun hanging out with my aunts, uncle, cousins, grandparents and siblings tonight, I'm going to have to give my mom a shoutout. It is Mother's Day after all. If anyone else is reading this and doesn't want to read a mushy note to my mom, just skip to the next post.
To my mom, whenever you get the chance to read this, I just want to thank you for being, well, my mom. I meant to get you a card that I could write all of this down on, but since I got busy in the kitchen and didn't have time, I'll just put it down here. I just wanted to thank you for everything. I know you don't get enough credit for it, but you did a good job raising me and Chris. Even though you're not really a single parent, I consider myself being raised by one, at least for the latter half of my life. It wasn't easy and we definitely have had some bumps in the road, possibly even blown out some tires on this crazy life path, but we've come out pretty well and good. It's crazy to think that I was once a sullen teen angry at the world and now I'm out to do my best to save it and everything in it. I couldn't have made it if you hadn't tried your best and I do appreciate it. I know you're sad and worried about my leaving, I am too, but try not to worry so much. I'll be in good hands, and I'll be doing good, hopefully doing good well. So Happy Mother's Day.
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