Hey, guys!
Gosh, I feel like I haven’t updated in awhile!
How was your Thanksgiving, if you celebrate? Hope it went well!

I had a 4 day weekend, basically because I took Friday off. It was a MUCH needed break. Usually when I go home, I feel trapped and suffocated because so many people want to do so many things all at once, and I get no time to really relax. This time was different. I didn’t do much.
Thursday, we had our big, Thanksgiving Day lunch. I ate too much, of course, but tiss the season! Then we played catchphrase most of the afternoon. Have you ever played? It’s a fun game. Especially when we got my uncle involved. He was my partner and spent more time staring at the word than he did giving me clues. But he was fun and helped make everyone else have fun, which is new for him. At one point he was saying it was a type of metal, and I yell out metal. So embarrassing. I need to think before I speak. Oh well. It was a good time. Then my mom thought it’d be fun to go shopping. No. Walmart was terrible. So we went to Hastings, a book/cd/movie/music/game shop. Does anyone know what I’m talking about or is that a Nebraska only store? Anyway, I got the Star Trek into Darkness movie along with Iron Man 3, and Pacific Rim all for $11. I was pretty stoked about that. Then we met up with my other uncle and cousin and hung out with them for a bit.
Joe texted me on Thursday. I didn’t text him before I left nor did I see him before I left. I wanted to see what would happen. So he asked me if I went home, and after telling him I did, he was being super sweet and amazing. Whenever he tells me I’m sexy, I generally tell him ‘I’m glad he thinks so,’ and he always has this sweet way of saying it’s not about what he thinks, I just am. Him just thinking about me turns him on. We were talking about sexual things and asking each other what we would like done that we haven’t yet, exchanged pictures. And i had to stop sending pictures because I had to keep leaving my room because i share it with my younger brother, and I didn’t want to wake him, so Joe told me to send him some more on Friday.
Friday, I did some chores around the farm in the morning and went to watch Catching Fire in the afternoon with my brothers. We got there super early and were the first ones in the theater, they were playing music, so we kind of just got up and started dancing up front. it was fun. Got home and watched Oblivion which I wasn’t real impressed with.
I forgot to send Joe more pictures. Mainly because I wanted to see if he’d say anything about it.
Saturday, didn’t do much all day except went shopping with my dad and then went out to eat. Watched a lot of football. It was a good last day with the family.
Joe texted me saying he hadn’t heard from me, which surprised me. He’s not usually one for texting so much or talking to me so many days in a row, which sounds worse than it should… But he kept telling me how much he misses me and how much he wished I was there with him or home with me, which really surprised me. And I don’t know if he really meant it or if it was in the heat of the moment type of thing. but he was telling me I didn’t really know just how much he missed me. He missed me ‘to insane degrees’. And also told me I had no idea how much he cares about me. And I was saying how my family really wanted to be with me, and he told me i should be with him. He’s just never been so persistent and affectionate via text before. I liked it.
Sunday I came back in the afternoon and went over to Joe’s right away. He must have wanted to see me pretty badly because he wasn’t feeling well and still wanted me to come over. We did stuff and then just laid around and watched football. I love that when I have a question about something, like this week was intentional grounding, he explains it and then knows when I don’t really quite get it, so he’ll go back and demonstrate it for me. He just knows me so much better than I would have ever given him credit for. I love him for that.
As much as I love my family, I also realized why I don’t like going home so often. When I’m home, it’s the one play where I can do what I want when I want. And they make me feel selfish when I tell them something I want. I’m not saying we can’t do what everyone else wants to do, just stating my opinion.
Or we were talking about religion, and I told them part of the reason I don’t go to church is because I don’t agree with a lot of the catholic practices. I mean, catholics are against contraceptives, which I take, no sex before marriage, which I still do, think that by homosexuals being allowed to get married, our society is going to anarchy, among other things. But those two things are what upset me the most. I don’t want to support someplace that believes in that. I told them these are my morals and who I am. Then they just teased me and made fun of the rest of the weekend about it. I’m not gay or a lesbian so it shouldn’t apply to me type of thing. Screw that. Or I call them out when they are being sexist or racist, and they’ll tease me about that. I know they don’t mean anything by it, but it just bugs me.
Yesterday was back to work for me!
Tonight I’m suppose to go to a wine tasting with a ‘friend’ who I try to tell her no so many times, but she just doesn’t get the hint, so now I’m stuck going, and I can’t even drink the wine because I’m on these antibiotics that won’t allow me to have any sort of alcohol. I can’t even accidentally swallow the Listerine I use for mouth wash or it will make me violently throw up. So, ya.