Arrival

well, i'm here! surprise to my wife, surprise to anyone who isn't in my immediate family [or isn't nick hadley] but i've arrived a day early to my loving wife and my new apartment. my wife is good! my apartment is also good. today was a good day, and lots of stuff happened. i'm pretty eager to get some sleep, so i won't go on about it for too long, but i'll try and fill you all in with most of the stuff that went down.

i woke up in lovely sevierville, tennessee and did my homework for the week after sleeping in until about 10am. it was wonderful. the sleep, not the homework. my aunt sharon [uncle marc is in virginia, presumably on business] made cookies for me and christin which were delicious. the two of us and joel [my cousin] caught up a bit on things and talked about my favorite subject, china. i was on my way out of the boondocks and into sevierville.

let me tell you about sevierville. it rules.

i drove by so much cool stuff so fast that i didn't have time to pull out my camera or phone to get footage of most of it. i did snap a photo of a huge fireworks store, which isn't anything spectacular to anyone who lives outside of silly california, but it was grand. i put a picture below. anyway, in addition to that, there were at least two water parks that i saw, a huge nascar go-kart deal, this building that's completely upside-down that hosts magic shows or something... and a castle that comes complete with dragon. amazingness.

anyway, that was actually most of the amazingness for most of the day, as the drive out wasn't particularly memorable... probably because i had just driven the exact same route two months ago when christin and i came out with the jeep. i got to d.c. at around 8pm, right on schedule, and things were looking good. good, of course, until i exited the 595 toward davidsonville on the last stretch to the house. christin called me. she was crying. why?

she hit a deer.

rather, a deer hit her. left fender, scared the crap out of her... there wasn't a whole lot of damage to the car, and zero damage to her, so in the end it was really no big deal. however, it sort of dampened my surprise and ruined it to an extent. granted, she was still super happy to see me, but it just wasn't the sort of entrance i had wanted to make. ;-P but she was so grateful to see me that she hugged me for literally 3 minutes without letting go. it was the best hug of my entire life, and now i get to have hugs every day. so good! so that was most of my day. what did you do? bwahaha.

tomorrow it's time to check out the unemployment office, catch up on my youtube subscriptions and edit a ton of video footage from the last two weeks. expect two awesome vids on my channel in the next few days! we'll see if i can stay motivated to keep updating this blog daily. i've found it to be quite helpful for me in arranging my thoughts and getting back into the swing of writing on a regular basis. expect more chinese as well, as i've been more devoted to learning it quickly. we now have a standing rule in the house that if we know how to say whatever we want to say in chinese, we must say it in chinese. we'll see how well that goes. ;-D goodnight!