I love my blog. I really do. But my life is so boring that I don’t think that talking about my day is worthy of an update. I have thought on occasion to write about controversial topics, but that would require forming an informed opinion, i.e. doing research and such. Quite frankly, I’m lazy.

I suppose I’ll talk briefly of my personal life. I’ll start with the most important thing: my relationship. Kevin and I have been for about a year and a half, though our actual anniversary date is a bit skewed due to some… uncertainty in the beginning. We’re doing smashingly well now. We have been living together since December, and things couldn’t possibly be better. He is the most amazing man I have ever had the pleasuring of knowing and being in a relationship with.

There’s some confusion as to our actual status because of my wily ways on facebook. Right before I left for Japan in March 2009, I asked Kevin if it would be okay if I change our status on facebook to “engaged” to see what sort of reaction we would get. He said okay, even though we hadn’t been dating for that long (though at that point I knew he was the one for me). So I changed it, and every so often we will still get the occasional “congratulations!” I asked Kevin on several occasions if he wanted me to change it back to just “in a relationship” and he always says, “No, I like it as it is.” (AWESOME!) I’ve been getting renewed “Congratulations on your engagement!” because I decided to throw Kevin’s last name into my name. I’m just silly that way.

So, for the record, we are not currently engaged. Though the topic is talked about quite a bit.

I’ve been taking summer classes, one of which includes Ceramics II: Wheel Throwing. The class has been WORK, as is most art classes. The instructor, who is really knowledgeable and pretty solid (minus the lack of structure during actual class times), required us to make 50 bowls and 25 cups within this 6 week period. I’m sure to the experienced potter, this is very reasonable. It was hard for me, especially since I haven’t been on a pottery wheel since winter 2008, and even then it was very brief and dissatisfying (because of the previous instructor). I managed to make only 34 bowls (which doesn’t include bowls that were destroyed in the process of taking them off the wheel), but I did get all 25 cups made. This class has really made me want to continue doing throwing, but unfortunately I can’t fit it into my schedule for the next year. Too bad.

What else? I did my first river float about a week ago. I hadn’t realized how much effort you have to put in in order to keep yourself from running into the bank, logs, and the occasional gigantic rock that you don’t know is there until it smashes into your ass. It was really fun, actually, and I hope to do it again sometime this summer. My friend David is going to come for a visit, and we’re planning to do some kayaking around Seattle. Should be interesting.

Now that I’m getting older, my metabolism is slowing down. Which means, I can’t eat whatever the hell I want anymore without worrying about gaining weight. Currently I have a big tummy, which is really less than ideal. It’s hard to motivate yourself into going to the gym to work out, especially when you have work and class to bog you down. A change in lifestyle is in order, particularly in the arena of eating healthy and exercising. I’ve already killed my soda addition by replacing it with milk, which is awesome. But now I need to get out the veggies in place of the cookies, and stop eating out so much. But damn, there are some good burger places around here!

I also haven’t been keeping up on my writing. Ever since my uncle’s funeral, I lost the momentum to write everyday. School stress sort of demotivated me, and I haven’t really been trying to get back into it. I think I was up to about 350 words a day, and without having an actual story to work on, I couldn’t figure out what to write. It’s totally lame, I know. I’m making up excuses for myself! I’ve been in the writing mood lately, but I haven’t exercised it at all. I have one more week of summer classes, and then I hope to try to get back into it. Ugh. I suck.

I have another post I’m going to make after this. But what a great post this was! I’m in love, I enjoy ceramics, and I’m getting fat, and I suck at creating habits. Yay! My next post will be informational, and I’m gonna start writing it right now.