Just keep swimming...

Still going and going and going like the Energizer bunny!  More stuff done and more goodbyes:
Yesterday, Aaron and I hung out with my fellow Books Bitches member, Mary and her hubby, John.

Aww!  Aren't they adorable?
We went to Berkeley and hit Lanesplitter (YUM!) then Albatross Pub.  If you've never heard of Albatross, it's a bar where you get unlimited popcorn and they have tons of board games you can borrow and play.  Super fun!  We played Taboo and then Apples To Apples.

This is us playing Taboo.  I know this looks awful and none of us are even in it, sorry.  This picture was obviously an afterthought.  Here's me and Mary:

Good times!  We'll miss you guys!

Today we went to lunch with Chris, my best friend since my Freshman year of high school:

It was so good to see him and I'll miss him bunches and bunches!  To me, a best friend doesn't necessarily mean you talk all the time.  It can mean I talk to you once a year, BUT when we do talk it's like nothing ever changed.  You sort of fall back into a groove where you're comfortable and no one knows you better.  I can say that about Chris...and Mary...and a few others.  Once you get a little older and settle down a bit, you realize it's a good feeling to have a few really good friends (rather than a bunch of random people you party with).  Even if we don't talk for a year, I have people I can call at the drop of a hat if necessary.  It's a fuzzy feeling.  Everyone should know at least one person that makes them feel that way.

After we said goodbye to Chris, Aaron and I went to Best Buy and got some goods:

My Passport is an external hard drive that I plugged into my computer and put all my pictures, movies and documents on.  I have Dropbox, but everything I've put on my Dropbox has been automatically saving to my computer as well.  I'm sure I've done something wrong, but I haven't had time to figure it out yet.  Since I ran out of memory on my computer (because my pictures were taking up too much room), I got the hard drive to put everything on.  Then I was able to erase all the pictures off my computer and it's now back to normal.  Sigh...
I also got some cheap Sony headphones.  The Beats or Bose headphones are like $200, but it makes no difference to me if they're noise-cancelling and fantastic, or if they're just functional.  So, I got these for $18 and they work just fine.  I don't mean to under-sell them, they work really well!  Don't waste your money on fancy headphones (unless you're a music producer or something) because these are great.  For $200 I can buy $20 headphones and still have enough money to go out of town for the weekend.

Then we got home and napped for a bit.  Here's Kaney and daddy snuggling:

Then we woke up and settled in to watch The Oscars.  We have a small Oscar party every year where we stuff our faces, talk crap about what everyone is wearing and fill out ballots to win the coveted top spot on the refrigerator for an entire year!  There are no rules about looking online for advice because who's seen all the Oscar movies anyway?  Plus, it's not like even experts know for sure who's gonna win.  Everyone's guessing.  Here we are in PJ's all ready for the show:

The boys didn't last very long:

In the end, my dad ended up winning, which NEVER happens!  It was amazing!  Then he let spill that he went on some Las Vegas bookie website and looked up the odds for each category.  Geez, maybe you really can cheat after all!  Sneaky!  So, my dad got 18 out of 24 and won the coveted top spot on the fridge.  Here are our ballots before I put them up:

I was a close second with 17!

Aaron, however, had by far the lowest score with a measly 4 points.  Sorry babe!

The Oscars aren't the most exciting thing ever and we usually don't really care about the movies all that much, it's just fun to get together, talk crap and have a friendly competition.

I found this on Pinterest and it's something I have to remind myself every day, so maybe you should too:

I like thinking that even though we've got a lot on our plate right now and we're terrified that everything we know is about to change, this internal struggle we go through every day is only PART of our story.  The other part will be joy.  Try to think of your life the same way.  If you're struggling for whatever reason, that's only PART of your story.  You get to decide what the other parts will be.  Get cracking!