Jiami去Las Vegas的日子只有四天，但于我却如同四个月。

 

开始两天把自己懒在家里，借口是不想被屋外零下20几度的天气残杀。

 

前天 --- Christmas Eve

Greg是这天的大厨.

Couscous+broccoli,

Squash (brown sugar & butter)

Grilled tilapia (lemon pepper, butter, mushroom, onion)

Wall-E的DVD是我送他的圣诞礼物。

 

昨天 --- Christmas

又是一顿大餐,但老板家把Christmas大餐改成了Thanksgiving大餐，于是一只18磅的火鸡赫然立于桌上. 可这只鸟虽然体型庞大，但从来不会是吃客的最爱. 反而是独门独户的stuffing最得我意。美国版烤红薯也从来不会让我失望。

 

去的时候带了瓶Amish红酒，加上他们本来准备的一瓶白葡萄酒, 三杯两种酒下肚，脸上开始变色。久违了。

 

老板竟然送了我一个从Officemax买的bookcase和一套工具。我心里于是又开始波澜荡漾：为什么我总是遇到好人。

 

这晚的亮点不是食物，也是不是礼物，是个人物 --- 老板的小儿子。他和他妈一起来接我，我刚走出门，就看

        All three of us - Greg, Jiami and I - got together this Thursday. Turns out he was totally blowed away by her. I promise that was the first time I ever heard a guy saying all those nice things abt a girl - 'I like her hair', 'does she always dress like this? I love it','did u notice she liked swinging right and left when she was talking? I think that's cute', 'I like that inner calm in her', 'I can't blv she's this mature, esp at her age','I think she's absolutely attractive'...

 

        It was a shock to me. Look back at myself, hoodie + track pants + flip flops... When was the last time I got myself all dressed up? Nursing school took everything away from me as if I was not a girl any more. Assignments and tests...No entertainment at all. It's all about nu

Just one hour ago, the first thing I did after I came back from Rose Lane Health Center was to check my Health Assessment test #3 grade. It was only 80%.

 

A very disappointing number out there.

 

I have no idea what's going on in this class. It's supposed to be much easier than Fundamentals of Nursing and I did pretty well on test #1. Then all of a sudden, I got 78% on test #2. I had nobody to blame becoz I must say I didn't study as hard. But this time, I was working on it on and off for 2 weeks. Still, not much improvement showed up.

 

I was on the phone with Alex at the time and surely I told him how much I was let down by this ugly grade.

 

30 mins ago, 20 mins after we hanged up the phone, I got a text msg from him - 'You're doing very well, Cathy. Don't be too hard on yourself. Good girl!'

 

He's always there for me. What else can I ask for...

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       Yes, he's mine. I'm very certain abt this right now.

 

      I was watching If Only on Saturday night. He called. I forwarded the question from the movie to him - 'what would u do if u had only one day left?'

 

      'Go see u', he answered right away.

 

      Speechless. He never lies.

 

      This morning, he called at 6:30. We had to whisper all the way so that we wouldn't wake up Leslie. It was amazing. Felt like that's the conversation between two hearts and it's not a dream.

 

      I always think relationships can be very different. Some couples are just life com

   I still can't believe we had snow this morning. It was Nov. 7th last yr, which means the snow came 2 weeks early this yr.

 

     Alex came back to me 2 weeks ago. It felt like we were never apart. I guess he started to realize what I meant to him. I'm glad. Although this Alex now is still not the guy I was expecting for, but closer. I said this over and over again, 'I'm looking for someone I can talk to for the rest of my life, not just a life companion.' He knows this very well - 'u don't know what u got until it's gone.' Good boy.

 

     The first few days after I came back at Malone from Kent was hard. All of a sudden, I was here all by myself again. I did have people around, people I didn't really feel like talking to. Fall break was too good to be true. But Samantha said something like this once, 'from my experience

       Last few days were the most fun I ever had since this semester got started. Thanx to Greg, I got to be back in Kent, the place where I consider my hometown is in this country.

      The moment Greg stopped the car at the leasing office of Eagle's Landing, I just felt like I never left. Those 2 months at Malone was just a study trip or a summer camp while Kent has always been the place where I belong. Everything is just so familiar.

       Jiami is absolutely a sweetheart. She got everything prepared before I came. Because I'd been having American junks for the last 2 months and getting so sick of it, she knew I was desperately craving for Chinese food. Also, I was free to use her stuff, everything from cotton swaps to fancy lotion. It was a feeling of secure.