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One year, give or take a day, has passed since Christina and I were married in front of a small group of friends and family. The pictures we’ve published are still available here and I still get a great chuckle looking at them. The boys were so stinking cute that I don’t know what to say. Christina was (and still is) stunningly beautiful. We had guests who went all out and I’m so glad they are a part of our lives.

Lots of things have changed and lots of things have stayed more or less the same. I’m happy, I’m learning, and I’m growing. I hope that the same is true for all of you reading this.

Happy Anniversary!

Due to the sickness that finally caught up with me I ended up sleeping rather a lot on Thursday afternoon followed by 20 or so of the 24 hours available to me on Friday. Saturday I slept in, certainly, but didn’t get to sleep the day away, quite.

I’m learning a lot about how to operate with other humans. That’s my lame way of saying that I’m trying not to control my situations quite so much. It’s taking a lot out of me, but maybe I’ll get used to it and be healthier in the long run.

My mother’s father is refusing to have his leg amputated below the knee due to gangrene and (obviously) poor circulatory health. He has had major impacts on my life and I know that he’s not long for this world… I hope his passing is painless. He’s had enough pain in his life… as have we all.

I’ve now wibbled and wobbled. I started out thinking I was getting sick… felt great for a day or so… and today I feel like crap. This has been a really painful morning.

My first Arabic exam of the semester is going to happen this Monday. I’m not looking forward to it. Ouch. The body aches on top of studying for a difficult exam… NOT cool.

So yesterday I was feeling sick (and the poor-man’s phonetic version of the Arabic below is “ana mareed”) but today I feel pretty good. I’m reminded, though, that yesterday was the Great Asbestos Cleanup Day in our break room. As part of that cleanup, one of the water filter pumps was placed outside the sealed break room and plugged into a wall. I think the goal was to spray lubricating compounds throughout the facility, but I can’t seem to find anyone who can confirm my suspicion.

In less annoying news, I read about Eggcorns today and had lots of chuckles. If you’re even a hobby linguist, you’ll probably get a kick out of some of the entries there.

Happy Tuesday, peeps!

I think it’s nearly official… I’m just about sick.

Here it is in Arabic for those of you who would want to know…

انا مريض

*bows*

That is all.

One of my favorite books has a character named Valentine… “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card. I’m not feeling especially Valentiney today, apart from that. I’m exhausted.

I’ve done quite a bit in the LearnArabic area of the wiki. Our next major topic that we’ll discuss tomorrow is time. Time in Arabic seems like quite a trick… considering how difficult I find the numbers to be. Oy.

Our family lost a great man early last week. “Vern” Taylor was one of my mother’s paternal uncles. I only met him two or three times that I can recall and all of those meetings were within the last decade or so. He was a kind, strong, and funny man.

What I remember most about him, I think, is that he looks exactly as I’d imagine my grandpa looking if my grandpa were healthy and even semi-sane. His tone of voice, mannerisms, and sense of humor matched as well. Vern was a great guy who cared about my mom very much.

I’m sad that he has passed and I hope that wherever he’s passed to is a happy and comforting place. He deserves it.

I’ve been working lately on my Arabic-Web-Fu. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far:
ArabicVocabulary. I just wanted to share it with someone other than me.

Happy Hump Day!

Random Factoids:

For the past two days I’ve had some odd pains plaguing my body. The tip-top of my head is probably the most annoying as well as the least explainable. Yesterday I thought I was dealing with the start of an ear infection… today that pain is gone. Weird.

After a spell where I felt like I didn’t know how or where I stood… at work… at home… emotionally… I finally feel like things are coming back together… back to something resembling what I’ve come to call normal.

Each day I learn a little bit more about what it means to be a member of a marriage. I consider this knowledge an asset and I hope that it will continue to mature and grow.