Lots of overly-long sentences and rambling

I know! You're wondering where I've been? What I've been doing? What kind of situational comedy has my life resembled lately? Here is My Week In Review:

I lost my drivers license in Arizona, so I had to go get a new one last week. The lady was very friendly, but AGAIN WITH THE BAD PHOTOS. I have accepted this lot in life.*

Then, I had to go purchase this little number for Monica's wedding, because for the first time in my life I will actually get to participate in one and not just sit there. Because of this, when I think about weddings, I sometimes fear that phrase "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" thing because that has certainly never been me. Then I reverse it, but that means I would be always a bride, and does that mean that you're married once and for good? Or does it mean you're constantly remarrying? I'd take the former, but I think the latter would be sort of stressful and I'm not really into that. Ahem. So the dress is nice, no?

At this point in the week the headlights on my car stopped working, and in general I use them a lot so that was sort of un-fun, especially when I spent the entire drive to the BMV for my license and back trying to turn the little lights ON knob and actually getting it to work, only to take it to the auto place and have them TURN RIGHT ON. But then they turned RIGHT OFF so although my car was trying to win, it only succeeded in making me look like a silly girl long enough for the auto guy to tell me "they're fine" before having to retract his statement and then charge $235 for his services in correcting the problem.

Then I started watching Dead Like Me, which I recommend, and so sat in front of the tv for three straight nights sort of falling in love with whomever thought up putting tv shows on dvd. One whole season in one short week! No need for TiVo!**

Friday I went to Charleston, WV, which really didn't have the same charm it did when I was six years old and we were driving to North Carolina on vacation. "Brendan!" I said. "Look for the gold dome on the Capitol Building!" But we didn't see it. Then, at about 11:30 that night when we went in search of a grocery store, the only thing we could find was a gas station where you told the guy what you wanted and he sold it to you through a window. What happened to the West Virginia of my childhood, all idyllic and country bumpkin and simple? My heart, it broke a little bit this weekend. It may have been the lack of southern accents I heard, because I generally leave the south and need a few days to stop saying y'all in every other sentence.

So that was my week, and this one looks busy as well, so there's my warning. This one also just looks busy not with activities but mostly just preparation (paper-writing, studying, etc.) so yes, I am not looking forward to it. But the length of this post should tide you over.

*Which I guess isn't a really a bad lot at all, unless you are using said photo to go to college bars with your friends who have decent-or-better photos. So really you could call it a situationally-bad-but-definitely-not-really-bad-at-all lot.

**This is a lie, and I need*** a TiVo.

***Sometimes, like when I went to the Crate and Barrel and IKEA stores in Arizona, I use the word "need" and I get a little scared for myself, like, what if I start to think I ACTUALLY need this set of bookends? Or this pretty glass pitcher I would never use or if I did use would be broken? That's when I try to walk away. Luckily there are currently no TiVo's in the vicinity.