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So it's almost 3am but I can't fall asleep. So I guess I'll take this opportunity to take advantage of my fancy smart phone and write an entry using it! I do enjoy having a smartphone but to he honest, I regret not having gotten a droid phone. I really like the classiness and sleekness of the Windows Phone design, but there's not enough people using it to make it worthwhile. Since there aren't many WP users, they don't make a lot of popular apps for the Windows operating system. Like even now, I have to use the internet browser to go to the actual LiveJournal site since there's no LJ app. But my mom bought me this phone I don't want to complain about it because it was so sweet of her. Maybe one day down the line when I have some extra money I'll buy myself a droid, but that probably won't be for a while. I will say this for the Windows phone though: the keyboard and the autocorrect are amazing. So much better than Olin's iPhone!

Speaking of Olin, he's fast asleep next to me. He's had three opening shifts in a row now, and he hasn't exactly gone to bed early for them either since he just got Diablo III
He's been playing it in almost all of his free time which I don't really mind too much, because he's been so dedicated to me and what I want to do. I want him to have a chance to do what he wants to do. I do miss hanging out with him though. We usually eat dinner together (dinners that he makes, btw, he's a great cook) and watch TV together at night. We watch TV shows while we eat. Right now we're watching Eureka, which I enjoy. Before that we were watching Warehouse 13 (which I like more than Eureka), and before that, we re-watched Avatar: The Last Airbender (which is still my favorite show of all time). Before ATLA, I think we were watching How I Met Your Mother, which has replaced Scrubs as my favorite dramadey/sitcom. Before THAT, we watched The Office and Parks and Recreation.
Watching TV with Olin, while maybe not the most interactive of activities, is still one of my favorite times of day.

I'm really happy that Olin and I are still together. I know it's been rough but he makes me so happy and takes such good care of me, and nobody knows me like he does. Recently (and by recently, I mean in the past 6 months or so), when he's mad or frustrated or letting his pride dictate his actions, I've been calling him on it and saying things like, "You're just saying that because..." or "you're just doing that because..." and my assumptions are almost always correct. I really understand Olin too, and it's helped to cut to the chase in conversations and arguments, because now we don't have to do all the dancing around the subject; now we can get right to the real issues at hand.

It's really astounding to me that we've been together for so long. We've come such a long way from Nick's apartment. Looking back on it, I can't believe how lazy and irresponsible we were. We didn't do dishes often, and we could never maintain a clean room, and now we don't let the dishes sit for longer than overnight, and our room is usually tidy. I know I've grown up a lot. 20 year old Kira would have quit Target by now and would never pick up after herself as much as I do now. I know I have a long way to go before I'm "grown up" but I've never been so close before.

It's funny: one of the things that's made a big impact on my outlook of my personality is the Speech class I took this past semester. One of the first assignments we had to do was a "vision speech": we had to give a speech as if we were ourself from the future, five or so years from now. Like nursing students gave speeches as if they were already nurses at a big hospital or something. I was pretty stumped on what to give my speech as, because career wise, I don't really know what I want to do. So I focused more on who I hope to be 5 years from now: I think 27 year old Kira wakes up early everyday and has coffee or tea with breakfast just after the sun rises. I think she's either married or about to be married. I think she does her make up everyday and wears cute clothes, even when she's only going to lounge around the house all day. I think she has a job she enjoys and does activities and classes in her free time. I think she eats healthier, too. Anyway, while I was picturing my "vision" self, I realized that there's nothing stopping me from being her RIGHT NOW. It's not as if I'll magically be different when I turn 27 or something. If I want to be that way, then all I have to do is... Be that way! It's super obvious, I know, but it never occurred to me until we did the vision speech. I think the whole point of the speech was that our teacher wanted us to realize our vision selves are not so far away from our actual selves.

Sure, I'm still lazy, and I don't always dress nice, and I still wake up at 9 at the earliest, but it's still an improvement from where I was a year ago. A year ago I was lazy all the time, slept in til 11 everyday, and never really tried with my appearance.

Ahhh, it must be really late now. Olin's snoring. I should try to go to bed. It was run to do this stream of consciousness post though. Maybe now thoughts won't be bouncing around my head so much as I try to go to sleep. Good night, LJ!

I said I wanted to try posting twice a week... so I did!

http://olinandkira.blogspot.com/2012/05/our-mess-of-garden.html

I finally took some photos of our yard.  It's kind of messy right now, but here are my favorite photos:





Whee!  Thank you everyone who visits! ;3; Since Blogger's run by Google now, I can see all the neat stats of how many visits I get, and most of them are from you guys here at LiveJournal!  <3

I posted pictures from yesterday, which was our four year anniversary! :D Here are my two favorites:





But for the rest, you'll have to go to Olin & Kira!  Since it's finalllyyyy summer, I hope to update there more.  I'd really like to get that blog up and running! :D  I'm going to make a big effort to try to post at least twice a week - as apparently, that's what good bloggers do.

But as always, for the personal issues that really matter (and for the silly things that only you guys forgive me for), LiveJournal is where it's at. :)

Oh, my birthday is in 5 days, and I'm having a "villains" themed costume party on Saturday.  Here are some of my ideas so far!


Lady Deathstrike, although I feel like the ridiculous nails would get old really fast

 
O-ren Ishii, but I have neither a white kimono nor a red spandex suit + a giant sniper rifle.


Black Cat from Spider-Man, but again, my wardrobe is conspicuously lacking of spandex... also I don't have a white wig and no time to order one!  :(
 

Arachne from Soul Eater, although she's not very recognizable.  Super easy though - just a long black dress!


Tira from Soul Calibur

....And this is just strictly female characters, I don't even know where I'd start if I decided to go as a female version of a male character! @_@