This weekend was absolutely awesome.
I got off from school Friday on the verge of tears (things are much worse than even organic chem lab ever was...), so I went to the gym. I think I've been channeling my stress about schoolwork into issues about my body, seeing as I have forbidden myself to worry too much about school.
Then I got home and was too tired to do anything but go to Blockbuster's with Aaron and rent the first disc of the second season of The Office, Aaron's new favorite show overall and my new favorite sitcom-like show.

On Saturday, we went to Ikea to partake of their delicious Swedish meatballs!!! which I was so excited about that Aaron had to tell me to "cool your jets! we're going already!" and also to look longingly at furniture we can't afford. Such as the Ekeskog couch that's $900. boo.
Ikea is quite a trek from Dallas--way up North, and the only way to get there is through a tollway so it took us $2 each way to get there and back. On the way back, we stopped at Kroger's to pick up some potato salad for a potluck birthday party.

At the party, I met Jeff's parents (Jeff is Aaron's housemate's bf), and he introduced me to his dad as "the girl who knew what a stingray was"! At first I thought he was talking about Steve Irwin or something, but then I realized belatedly he meant the Corvette, and was quite flattered. Also, I might now have some chairs for the front porch, as Jeff's dad had some he was trying to give away.
Impressions on people at the party:
--drunk girl
--drunk girl's husband who is not ashamed to mime "blooming" in the interest of winning Cranium.
--guy with Dave Matthews Band shirt who sang Rancid when he saw my shirt. (Aaron thinks this is contradictory, a guy who listens to DMB and rancid, but I do not.)
--little girl who's birthday was in two days who had just been to libby liu's and loved her balloon and didn't want her birthday to end, even though she had just had her birthday party.
--little boy who was scared of Jeff's dad and cried
--Jeff's dad, who was introduced by Jeff as 'Jimmy Buffet' bc of his hawaiian shirt and who told me and Aaron about a yearly car show that they have on the streets in Fort Worth.

Sunday, it rained, so I just had to convince Aaron to go to Target with me just to get out of the house, even though I should have been studying Anatomy. We also met our first new neighbors, a middle-aged gay couple, who seemed quite nice. They worried that they might have been too loud when moving in and setting up their furniture. One of them said, "We almost got a divorce," trying to set up closet shelves from Ikea, which I thought was hilarious.

Halloween is coming!!! What should I be?
We already bought a holographic painting of the Mona Lisa that changes her into a female Dracula in certain angles for $3.99 at CVS, and bought a frame for it for $16.99 at Target. Lol. But it is quite an addition to the living room. I love it.