Right now I'm kind of in a weird "calm". The calm between the storms. I have been really busy for such a long stretch of time -- collecting data, analyzing data, writing up my thesis (and revising thesis drafts). That's been my life, non-stop, for the past months. Now I'm pretty much done with my thesis. I just have a few minor things to change for my final thesis draft; but I have more than a week until it's due, so I'm kind of taking my time with it. Especially since the weather has been so great lately. So I'm actually trying to enjoy my time before I have to start packing up stuff and preparing for my defense. We've gone on walks, we've played tennis, we've played soccer, we've been cooking and baking all kind of great stuff, we've been enjoying our awesome movie collection, we've been watching soccer games (Yay Spain!), I've been playing guitar and Eagan has been an attentive audience. It's been nice.
Earlier this week was my and Eagan's two year anniversary (our wedding anniversary. We've been together for almost eight years now). Anniversaries aren't really a big deal to us, instead we just use that day as a reason to do something fun. It was a good excuse to drop all our work and just head to the beach. And it was a gorgeous day. Too many sunny, gorgeous days pass by while I'm sitting inside getting cataracts from staring at computer screens all day. [Note: I don't actually have cataracts. I feel it's important to disclose my faux medical conditions because I was just thinking of the time I said something was awesome and I said "This rocks! This rocks the scoliosis right off my spine!!" and Kayelyn laughed and then a couple of seconds later paused and said, "Wait...do you really have scoliosis?"]
The beach was wonderful. We were going to dinner afterward, so we couldn't do any swimming. But I was so tempted to just dive in with my clothes on. My love of water and swimming was barely restrained. I loved swimming so much as a kid. When I was growing up my parents used to say I was always first in the water and the last one out. I swam so much despite the fact it turns my hair green. And though I don't swim as often as I did when I was younger (excluding when I lived in Salt Lake City, when we actually had a pool), I find that my absolute love of swimming is still there. I said to Eagan that I always want to live by water.
Instead of swimming, Eagan and I walked along the shore with our feet in the water. We played in the sand. We lounged on the beach reading light, summer reading (well, I did. Eagan's "light" reading is Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality). We listened to music. I took pictures. It was a really nice day. Then, to top it off we had a great dinner and enjoyed fried bananas for dessert. Mmmhm, fried bananas.
Here's a panoramic picture of Vancouver that I took at the beach. I really am going to miss Vancouver a lot.
3 comments:
Hey Heather! this is my first comment to you now that I've got my new blog.
I'm glad you and Eagan had a good anniversary! That picture you posted is gorgeous.
I remember very well your love of swimming. I used to love to swim as well... but after 3 hours I'd start thinking, "Come on, Heather, are you done YET?" I haven't gone swimming in a pool in the longest time. I wonder if my hair would still turn slightly green.
I wondered if you were watching the Euro 2008 games. Me and Davis were watching as well. How awesome that Spain won!!
Happy Anniversary to you guys! It sounds like you had a really nice time- I'm totally jealous. The beach sounds so much more amazing than sitting here in a college computer lab helping people print horribly written English 1010 papers. And good luck on the thesis!
Happy Anniversary! Good luck with your thesis defense! Let us know when you come to Utah so that we can hang out.
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