Almost At The End!

• Sunny day! Sweeping the clouds away! The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray. It was sucha  freaking gloomy weekend and WOW did natural light really make a difference today.
• Shantall brought croissants and cheese and turkey today. Yummy work breakfast!
• 30 Day Challenge complete! Not this, the blog challenge isn't until tomorrow. But I've been listening to ONLY WGTS (the Christian station) in my car for at least 30 days. I can honestly say I don't have any plans to change the station anytime soon. I won't say it's affected me throughout the whole day, but it definitely makes driving a little easier
• I got my puzzle today! My April puzzle arrived. I think I might do 2 in March because the last thing I need right now is a depressant (aka something to calm me down. My anxiety is fine for now - it's my depression I need to work on, so I need more things to keep me alert and active). I look forward to making pretty things!
• Andrew Givens is a gem of a human haha. He's Jonathan's best friend since they were itty bitties. Having not heard from Jonathan since November, and being my paranoid self, I decided to ask Andrew if he knew how Lieder was doing. Apparently the same thing happened to him, so JUST TODAY, the two spoke. Only because Andrew made his family force Jonathan to text him haha. I'm happy to hear that he's working hard and doing well, and that it isn't just me missing my best friend. Andrew then proceeded to tell me how he's convinced that Jonathan and I are meant for each other, and that he tells Jonathan this often. He confirmed that Jonathan does in fact hate that as much as I assumed he would hahaha. He's so very wrong, bless his soul, but it's still kind of cute that he'd say that. I really should talk to Andrew more.
• This Is Us comes back from hiatus tonight! Now that the Olympics are done, I can have my weekly Tuesday night cry, courtesy of NBC

GOLAZO!

Reason 337: Today was perfect. Even when it wasn't, it was perfect.

Today is Cristina's day. She is now officially one month old as of 8:50 this morning. She really has gotten big. She's so beautiful and I'm so lucky she's in my life. Also, since a month has passed, that means the grounding is over! YAY SHE'S ALLOWED TO WATCH DISNEY NOW!

Honesty is what gets me through. I hate keeping things secret. Even crushes. And they never stay secret for long. So I told Fabrizio I liked him. Why? Because once I get something off my chest and stop brooding about it, I'm able to look at things more clearly, and then just move on. He took it well. He doesn't like me (please offer a big fat I told you so to your sister from me hehe), but that's not surprising. And now, I'll get over him! That's honestly so simple! The best part is he isn't awkward about it all. He's a better sport than I thought. Pleasantly surprised :)

Family reunions! We didn't get to stay too long unfortunately, which put a damper on things. But we went to my cousin Avi's house, and we met Baby Eli (eh-lee). He was born May 26th, four days before Cristina was born. The whole family got to meet both of them today. There was a lot of cooing. And just being near these people always beings me so much joy. There is endless love in this family, and never ending laughs.

BRAZIL WINS CONFEDERATION CUP! YES! MY TEAM! I KNEW WE COULD DO IT. 3-0 against Spain, aka 2010 World Cup Champions. HA. (2nd favorite team, I'm not actually hating hehe). And because I was away today and could not watch it, I had Eric sending me texts about every goal. I swear he was so serious and formal about it, I thought ESPN might have been texting me haha. I'll have to share them some time, they were too funny.The final one reads "Thank you for signing up with the Entertainment Reporting Information Center". Get it? It spells Eric. This kid!

Pretty Boys Who Can Sing. Straight NoChaser was AMAZING. Mariah & I had such a blast. And her friend was such a sweetheart. We fangirled hardcore. I haven't ever swooned so much in my life. But seriously, I can't get over how good these guys are. And how nice they were! And absolutely attractive. I'm marrying Michael. The end. They're set was so cool. SO MUCH SOUL. Hallelujah was mind-blowing. Tainted Love was CRAZY. The movie medley had me geeking out and almost crying. And for the encore, because you KNEW we would demand one. They apparently decided not to do it all summer, but they performed 12 Days of Christmas for us. EXCEPT EVERYONE SANG ALONG TO THE DREIDEL SONG. I COULD'VE CRIED. Seriously, the whole show was so perfect. Actually, Jerome fainted at the beginning of the second song. I wasn't sure if it was real or not because they all stopped at the same time. Like, it was CRISP. But they took him offstage, the techies made sure he was okay, the guys started the next song, and by the end of the first verse he was right back up and dancing. The fall was the joke of the show, which kinda made me feel bad, but he took it like a champ. I felt proud. Is that weird? APPARENTLY in the house that the original members lived (In Indiana U where the group was initially formed in the 90's), there's a shrine to them? I'm gonna ask Margie to go take pictures for me.

TODAY WAS FUN. I LOVE TODAY.