Tupelo and Twilight

So the last couple weeks have been taken up with these two topics. First of all, Tupelo will be our new home come July. I accepted a teaching position at the high school last week (though I'm not sure about grade level...10th or 11th). Charlie and I will be moving home at the end of May, but since we're travelling so much in June (a trip out West including Arches National Park, Antelope Island at the Great Salt Lake, Park City, Utah, Missoula, Montana, Yellowstone, finally ending up in Omaha to visit Charlie's family), we decided not to look for a place to live in Tupelo until July when we get home.

So, we'll be staying with family for about two weeks (and all of our junk will be staying in family's houses for about a month) until we can get settled. We are luckly to have such a supportive family who would put up with us and our junk for the summer. I can't wait to get home and spend some time with fam (especially with my almost 4 year old nephew, Caleb)!

Now, on to Twilight. So, for Easter, Charlie got me the Twilight DVD (which, though the movie wasn't all that great, I still really wanted because I absolutely love the book series). I'd borrowed all of the books from friends, so I didn't actually own the copies of the books, but the movie made me want to reread them, so I went out and bought the complete set, and for the past two weeks or so, I've consumed nothing but Twilight saga (even going back and rereading after I'd finished my own set!) Those books are CAPTIVATING!

So, I've been living and breathing vampire stories! And dreaming about coming home!

Charlie, Art, and Broccoli-n-Cheese

Charlie's in Columbus today hanging another show (that will be up simultaneously with his thesis show)...no wonder he's been a crazy mess lately! His thesis goes up in 4 days, and he feels pretty prepared (even though he needs to finish his artist statement), but I attribute all of those little gray hairs I'm finding to the culmination of his graduate experience. Thankfully, he will be finished once he defends the thesis (which is next Friday), so all of the pressure will be off in a little over a week. I will be so happy to have my husband back.

Last night, Charlie needed me to take him to the rental place to get the van for the trip. I unfortunately left my broccoli-n-cheese on the eye without turning the heat down (it was on "3" or low heat), but still...the broccoli was already cooked and I was simply melting the velveeta (yes, food snobs: occasionally we break down and buy that delicious orange box of yummy goodness). When I got back, the entire pot was burnt to a crisp, and the cheese was dark and curdly... I was pissed! But, the reason I'm writing this it is to inform everyone about how YUMMY burnt velveeta broc-n-cheese is. I tasted it, just to see if it'd been a complete loss, and it was really good. I thought, "You're crazy and desperate to keep this dish," but then Charlie tried it and loved it too. I think it's the best broc-n-cheese I've ever had! So, if you're interested, next time you make it, just burn the hell out of it and see for yourself!