meisa's lagoon

we've decided to postpone our wedding. we've reserved our reception site's next available summer time slot - July 12, 2008 - about 11 months after our originally planned date. we're pretty sure we've made the right decision, especially in light of the fact that we don't even have any idea whether or not he will be back in time for our originally planned wedding. before we got too involved with caterers and the like, we just decided to move the date.
i'm definitely less stressed now about the whole thing. and while i'm kind of disappointed that it won't be this summer, my eagerness to marry him has now been way surpassed by my eagerness to see him at all. so i don't think i'm really that disappointed, just more relieved.
i wish someone in the powers that be could realize that these people they put through security checks are actually real people - people who have lives, who have fiancees, who have plans to get married. or rather, had plans.

Posted by Meisa at 01:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)

if i keep busy, then i don't get sad, but i get exhausted.
if i slow down, then i don't get exhausted, but i get sad.
the solution is just not to have to do this anymore.
khalid, come home. i miss you. i need you.

Posted by Meisa at 11:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

i pierced another hole in my body. i went for a belly button ring this time. now we're up to 7 piercings. that makes me sound much edgier than i actually am - most of those piercings are in my ears.

i thought about the nose ring for about 6 years before i did it, but i've really only been thinking about this piercing for a couple of months. but it was definitely less of a committment - i mean, this one's not on my face. i'm pretty happy with it so far. the only thing is that i'm pretty sore and bending over really hurts. it wasn't such a wise choice to try to clean while home alone. i'm really hoping that tomorrow it will be a little better and i can finish cleaning my house for naw rooz.

actually, i'd really just like to get up from the couch, but i seem to have found a comfortable seated position and i'm afraid to move. i wonder if i should just sleep here like this.

Posted by Meisa at 11:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

today i went to my favorite local burrito joint - el gordo! - where a homeless man waiting outside asked me for some food. i told him that i would see what i could do, and as i stood in line, i decided to buy him a burrito. so after i delivered it to him, i strutted away feeling pretty darn good about myself.

emotion #1
yeah! i'm a kind and giving person!

but as i passed him 10 minutes later, he was soliciting little kids for money. they didn't know how to say no, and he basically got each little kid passing by to give him a dollar each (the kids were on lunch break from school - so no parents around). jerk! taking advantage of little kids like that! so this time i walked away fuming.

emotion #2
man! i just got suckered by a swindler!

and then i passed 5 minutes later (i don't know why i kept passing that spot), still fuming, when he mumbled something to me. i assumed he'd forgotten i just bought him lunch, and i stopped and practically barked at him "look sir! i just bought you a burrito!" and then he goes "i just said 'have a nice day.'" oh. oops.

emotion #3
i'm a heartless bitch who yells at a man for telling me to have a nice day.

Posted by Meisa at 12:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

on thursday night, the earth moved again. and it must have been really restless, because it moved A LOT. we had a 4.3 magnitude quake (that's what us hipster californians call it). i didn't know what was going on. i thought something had crashed into the house. thankfully, i wasn't alone that evening and had two friends over, making sure i didn't flip out.
i have to say, earthquakes are one of the most bizarre things i have every experienced. they are strangely exciting, yet terrifying. i feel like i think about the possibility of one happening fairly frequently, but when they happen, i'm always taken totally off guard. for all i know, one could happen now.
or now.
or maybe in 10 minutes. i hope not.
anyway, nothing really happened in the house. things came really close to falling off shelves, but nothing actually crashed down. a guy at the gym yesterday was telling me that when the big '89 quake hit, he had been swimming and got flung out of the pool into the bleachers. eek!
now that you know that, perhaps you won't think i'm so crazy when i tell you that i slept with khalid's bike helmet next to my bed on thursday night. usually, earthquakes aren't singular events, and it never hurts to be prepared, right?

Posted by Meisa at 03:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)