I've been listening to this song over and over later. I absolutley adore it, and I just wanted to share it with you all.
When I first heard it I was convinced it was about Sampson and Delilah. But after listening to it a few more times, I hoenstly think it's about a man she (Regina Spektor) loved, who was vonerable and truly showed himself to her. But, first and foremost, this song is about love. And i think that's what I love about it :)
Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, school and work keep me busy! As do my fabulous friends. But overall, nothing too exciting or anything going on. The "Great House Community Cookout" was held on Sunday night. Basically, I live in an apartment, which is attached to two other large apratments, to make up one giant looking building. In those two other apartments live 4 of mine and brian's really good guy friends, and brian, his brother, and their roommate mark. So, we often all get together and hang out, and invite people over, and this was our first Spring cookout. It was a blast! :-D
Anyway, right before that I did pictures for my Mom and her fiance, Greg. They turned out so great! I wanted to show them to you all, so here is a slideshow of the images from that day. It was a blast! :)
Brian and I are also getting our engagement pictures done this Saturday by a friend of mine, Tom Feisel. He owns his own photography company called New Age Foto. He's an incredible photographer, and I'm very excited! :-)
Since I'm not sure who all knows this story, here it is. I've been meaning to write it down for a while now :). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It begins with a bright idea. "Alisha, RENT is coming to Cleveland next month. We have to go!" Brian was very excited, as he should have been.
This specific musical, RENT, had always played a big part in our lives. We went to see it together as a movie when we first started dating. I had already seen it, and knew he would love it. There were certain songs that reminded me of him, and I quietly sang them to him in the theater. He said when we went to see it that night, it was when he first realized he loved me.
Of course when he told me it was coming to Cleveland, (a city I quite despised at the time) I basically came up with every excuse not to go, "But can we really afford that? what if it snows and we can't make it there?" And then he said the magic words..."Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp are touring with them as Roger and Mark". My tone changed completly. Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp were the original broadway "Roger" and "Mark" from the production, and were also in the movie. It was decided, and Brian ordered tickets soon after. He got incredible seats, and all that was left to do was save up the money for the drive to and from.
That's when I came up with a bright idea. "Why don't we make a day of it? I'd hate to just drive to Cleveland for the show, so lets spend the day there. We can go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where Brian had never been) and then the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. How does that sound??" It was agreed, and I anxiously awaited such a fantastic sounding day.
It was the morning of January 10th, and I was packed up and ready to go. Columbus had been expecting a snow storm, and as nervous as we were to go, we decided to blister through it. We had just gotten new tires on my car (thanks to my dad and step-mom :-}) and started on our way. It was pretty icy, and I drove pretty nervously (not for myself, but because of the crazy people around me spinning out everywhere) for about 3 hours. But we listened to some fantastic music, and Brian was incredibly quiet. But, It looked mainly like so:
So, we stopped for lunch at Wendys (which is where that last picture was) and got some food in us before entering downtown cleveland. Once we got there, it was crazy! The streets were empty, because they had like 6-8 inches of snow, and none of the streets were plowed! We slid all over the place, and it was a blast. We finally found a parking garage, but still had to trek to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (which looked like it wouldn't be that far...*caugh caugh*)...Brian was freezing, and our pants were soaking (since none of the sidewalks were plowed either, but not enough to act that miserable.
So we stayed there for a few hours, and had an absolute blast! My favorite thing by far was John Lennon's piano. SO COOL. All the Beatles stuff was amazing. I felt I could truly appreciate the museum now that I appreciate the genre more.
We stayed there until about 10 minutes before close, and then drove to the next parking garage to look for the Hard Rock Cafe. THAT was much easier said than done. We asked around everywhere, walked around for about an hour in the freezing cold at night, through part of the ghetto even, until one restraunt finally told us where it was. When we found it, we were basically overjoyed. And no matter how much being lost in the freezing cold 8 inches of snow at night in the ghetto in a strange city should have been....we had a blast.
So we ate a fantastic dinner. We had been on a diet for the past 9 days (a pretty strict diet) and this was our first day off. We were taking advantage of that! I had a burger, and Brian had a steak. Both were absolutley amazing. We had a great waiter, and even had people sitting next to us who were going to see RENT too. :)
We then treked to the theater, which wasn't that bad. We were some of the first people in line, and got to stand inside and be nice and warm. We made friends with one of the door guys, and joked around with him for a while.
He then showed us to our seats in the theater, and about 5 minutes into sitting there, Brian said he was going to the restroom. I just looked through the program, awaiting his return. Little did I know what he would return with.
When he came back, he had a group of about 7 or 8 girls standing there with him. I didn't know any of them, and was completly baffled by the fact that he found people he know here. It was then that he looked at me, and smiled, then turned back to them and quitely starting conducting them saying, "1,2,3,4". And they started singing this:
It was then, while these girls were singing "I'll Cover You" that he got down on one knee (or lept down, actually) and said, "Alisha, will you marry me??" He was crying and had a giant smile on his face, and I was so shocked. I took the ring out of the box, looked at it, put it on my finger, and after about 30 seconds finally said, "yes! yes of course!" I was in such a state of shock that I had almost forgotten to answer. He ran over to me and kissed me, both of us crying, and everyone started clapping. It was amazing. We got congratulated by everyone around us, and then he came and sat down next to me, and basically didn't let go of me the entire show. It was total bliss. We had a crazy/excited drive home, and got back at 2am. We were both so excited, but didn't have any trouble sleeping that night.
It could easily be named as the best day of my entire life.
I stressed myself super thin yesterday. I went to class from 8-3, non-stop, and then drove straight to work, working a total of 4 hours without being able to look away from the screen let alone do anything else. To say the least it was an incredibly stressful four hours. I then had to rush home to clean, change, and start to cook for our girl's night we were having. Unfortunately, by the time I finished drying my hair I got incredibly dizzy, and felt like I was about to fall over. It was then that I realized I hadn't eaten anything since 10am, and it was a little after 7 by now. My head was spinning and felt incredibly fuzzy. When I asked Shawn what was wrong he said it sounded like I was dehydrated. Everyone told me to lay down and drink some water. I HATE water, but I downed a whole glass almost immediately.
Huh.
After about an hour I felt totally fine, and ate dinner that the wonderful Dianna cooked. That was some delicious pasta! I then set up a mini, home-made photoshoot for all of us, which was incredibly fun. The lighting was horrible, but it got the job done none-the-less. :)
After that we watched monster's inc and I made tie-dyed red velvet cheesecake. It was AWESOME. Deffinatly a grand finally to the night. Plus by midnight we celebrated Bizzy and Mark's 1 year anniversary yay!
I'll post some pictures from the shoot once I get my computer up and running again. It decided to not start anymore yesterday, so I have to get that resolved. I am so ready to be done with this computer non-sense. I really just need to get a new one at some point I think...and I may just get a mac. Who knows.
I stressed myself out so much yesterday that I really need to go home and do about an hour's worth of yoga, take a nap, and just relax with Brian tonight. That's all I really want to do.
So that's the plan. I'll put pictures up later!
Update: I went home and did yoga for 30 minutes which was great! It really helped me re-center. And I release any stress I was having up to that point in time. After the yoga, I decided to go sit our community couch, which sits on the front porch. I ended up taking a light blanket and pillow out with me, and fell asleep. It was wonderful. Then Brian came home, and we spent the entire night hanging out. A Great end to a crazy few days! :)
The past week has been interesting. I ended up having to spend an unexpected $140 on books and painting supplies, which basically broke my bank account for the month *gumble grumble* plus I have to worry about the new car payment next month. But no worries, I've been trying much harder to be optomistic about things and really make the best of each day.
Brian and I have gotten a good amount done on wedding plans. It looks like we will be ordering our cake topper soon, and we aare seriously considering having the espresso/tea bar again. It seems like my dress is coming along nicely (hopefully) and I should have a fitting within the next 2 or 3 weeks. :-D I'm very excited about that. We also figured out our menu, which is basically considered an "Afternoon Tea" reception. So lots of tea sandwiches, tarts, fruit, etc. It's going to be cool :) And the Kocher's offered to help out in more ways than we could have possibly imagined! We are so excited about that. :-D Now I just need to start getting everything together, and put finishing touches on everything in a few months. I'm getting so excited :-) I'm also excited for our engagement pictures to be done within the next month.
Other than wedding plans, work and school have been good. I'm in a World Religion class, which is VERY interesting to me. It would deffinatly have to be to keep me awake, since I have it 3 times a week at 8am! But so far so good :) I've been enjoying my Advanced Visual Communications class, as usual; but what else would you expect with such a fun professor. Painting as been a little emotionally tough on me, only because I'm really reaching out and trying something new. I stepped WAY out of my comfort zone with that one. After my last class though, I really feel like it was a good choice to take it and expand my horizons. My professor is very encouraging, and really pushes me to strive for the best I can possibly do. That's what I love about college. Especially art in college; it's not how good it is compared to everyone else; it's for you---how far you can push yourself to become better. It's so challenging, which I've discovered over the past 3 years is what I really enjoy about life. I get sad when life is too boring, I love being pushed and challenged. Anyway, after the first class I felt like I could get a hang of the painting thing, but then after the third class, I felt like a complete failure. But the end of class on monday, I felt totally re-inspired, mostly thanks to my professor. :) You can see the transformation of my painting below. (It basically had to be an abstract piece which shows 9 different painting techniques.) Yes, this is all the same painting, just transformed over about a week. It goes from left to right (start--->finish).
I've been tired a whole lot for the past weekend too, not too sure what's going on with that. :-\ But other than that things are quite good. I've been spending a whole lot of quality time with my girls. Which has been fantastic. And Brian has been more than wonderful. :-} As much as I'm going to miss living with my lovely girls, I am SO excited to be Brian's wife. Even from as many horror stories as I've seen and heard about marriage, I just feel so lucky that he would want to spend his life with me.
Oh! Of Course! I've been watching a good number of movies over the past few days, and I feel like all of them were worth seeing. My favorites were Haunting in Connecticut, Bolt, and Marley and Me. Bolt was SO funny! I also watched Monsters vs. Aliens, which was decent by not fantastic. It was super predicatable...so I didn't feel it a whole lot. But Bolt was awesome! Loved it. Haunting in Connecticut was one of the best scarry movies I've seen in a while. And Marley and Me made me cry like a baby, because it was so good. Which rarely happens. I'm also in process of watching Yes Man, which started out good. We'll see if it keeps it's current rank. :)
That's all I've got currently, hope everyone is doing well!
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