Well, I'll briefly recap the last week or so, if I may.
Yesterday, Sunday: Jesse's parents came over bringing this beautiful antique dresser to our apartment. They just bought a new house in Arkansas so they'll be renting their Luling house Jesse's cousins. Consequently, they're giving away a lot of their furniture from that house since they had already furnished their trailer in Arkansas in the last two years, most (if not all) of which I imagine will go in the new house. Well, Jesse and I are still toying around with ideas for where this heavy wooden piece of art is going to go, but we're quite happy and we think we've got a good idea for it. Not only is it beautiful with a huge mirror, we have more storage space! Hopefully that's a good-bye to clothes on the top shelf of our closet and in pink-and-purple and blue-and-green canvas storage bags that my mom gave me (and that Saki has since begun using as a her own bed). I know that we want to move out of this place soon (when we can find/afford another) so, to me, it almost seems silly to redecorate/organize the furniture, but I do think it's necessary for our own comfort for the rest of our time here.
Saturday: I took the Praxis, Spanish: Content Knowledge exam at UNO. This is a morning best left forgotten until I get the scores in roughly a month. It was a hard exam, and being the retard that I am, I had to go to three different buildings before getting the the correct one, pay $3 in a parking lot though my car was there for less than 5 minutes, and perhaps worst of all, waited until the last two days before the test to really begin studying. I want to go back to school, but it's my procrastinator ways that make me weary of this future. On a different note, I don't like UNO's campus, but I do hope that I can do all the coursework for my Master's there. It's such a short program, 33 credits, and I could do it for rather cheap. But, if I don't like it, they don't offer enough classes per semester (as I've heard is the case in conjunction with all the budget cuts LA State has been doing--thanks, Jindal! ass), or if Jesse's post-graduation job opportunities take us somewhere else (so crazy and yet so exciting to think about), I can just transfer somewhere else. Later in the afternoon, we went to Jesse's parents' house to begin cleaning out Jesse's closet, etc. I got a bad headache though so I wasn't much help, taking a nap. We packed a good amount of books and some of his old clothes, but Jesse joked that maybe my malaise was from seeing so many things just thrown away. It's the packrat in me. I'm a sentimental and nostalgic person, even if that means I've got stacks of papers I may never look at again all over the house. Later that night, I babysat a new 6-year-old boy in Kenner. That was pleasant and easy; he's the son of one of Neill's colleages and they're Indian! It was a busy, but productive day.
Latter half of the week is a blur other than I got my hair trimmed at Paris Parker Aveda and found a great stylist for a great price. Jerilyn cut Mia's hair on Monday when we somewhat spontaneously walked in for a different look for Mia and her 20th birthday. I liked the work she did and her down-to-earth, genuine personality. Jesse's saying that he needs a hair-cut more frequently so we may pay Jerilyn another visit in the next few days. So Mia got bangs and a trim. I got a trim for my layers and she cleaned up my bangs (since I had Mia cut them last and my last hair cut was about a year ago). I like it a lot though I'm still waiting for my hair to grow out; I'm growing it out long and then when I'm tired of it, I'll cut it Audrey Tautou short again. I forgot how hot New Orleans is with long hair so I'll be wearing it in a lot of ponies. Also, Jerilyn blow dried it straight after cutting it and I couldn't believe how smooth and sleek it was without using a flat iron. She gave me some product samples and when I can afford some, I'll probably go in and buy the bottles. Don't know when that'll be though with all the expenses that keep coming up and my lack of a job.
Well, this post is too long so I'm going to divide it up into future posts.
