Went home for break. I was there 4 weeks, it flew by too quickly. Unfortunately, from the first day in Oxford I had tons of work to do, a sinking feeling of being completely overwhelmed, no sleep, less confidence in my work than I need, and a diffaculty eating. I also miss Eric. Diffacult to leave the one you love. again.
Four days later, I have read this massive book, and am beginning a paper. Stress still lingers heavily, but I stopped feeling sick most of the time. I unpacked today... went to the grocery store yesterday. Things are looking ok, in recovery I guess.
I guess it is times like these you finally start praying as often as you would like... and wish you could cry more than you can.
Besides all that I had an amazing break... I fight the urge to put a plane ticket on my credit card and fly home. However, I must finish what I started, and more importantly, I need to remember why I started it in the first place.
Here are way too many pictures from break time. I couldn't cut them down enough.
Eric at dinner. Our last date. We had a bottle of wine between us. P.s. if you want me to bring things up that shouldn't be brought up on a date... first or last... give me two glasses of wine.
We love them. Engaged couple looking adorable. American dream pizza of course.
Eric worked hard to get me the perfect locket for my birthday. He even put little pictures of us in it. It is wonderful and I wear it everyday.
It snowed! Corvallis hills were beautiful that morning. More than usual.
Oh Gustav's! Fondu with two of our favorite couples.
Ben... is actually responsible for Eric and I meeting... thanks Ben. I like Eric.
Blazers game #2 for Eric and I in about 2 weeks. They won both times.
The picture from the game that looks fake. I love it. Eric has since gone to another game, and plans to go to 2 or 3 more. They really are super fun...
Eric in the snow... he looks regal.
Sin weekend (?, its called that, not sure why) New Years day... Lincoln city. Then we went to the outlets, shopped and grabbed lunch at Moe's.
Salem's Gov cup. Trying out the new camera I am oh so happy with. No more blurry pictures!
Eric in his new sweater, we were having another date night. We even went and saw a movie, which is very rare for us. We are usually busy doing other things... I think we've only watched like 8 or 9 movies together in our entire relationship. Which is nice because it makes it really fun when we do.
Thai restaurant...mmm.
Ellyn and Jordan
My favorite new friend. Eric's roommate Tom. He is wonderful.
I should have turned this but I didn't. Ellyn and Andrew are engaged! See rock.
I love Ellyn.
More beach shots
Eric and his kitty meemers. I forgot what his real name is. He is definately a family favorite.
First night in Lincoln city for New Years. It was nice because it was just the six of us (the next night there were 19 people). We were experimenting with the camera timer feature.
My favorite place.
New Years. This was supposed to be of the girls, but Eric Steen always jumps in pictures.
Christmas at Eric's parents house. My other christmas pictures are on my old camera, which I gave to Eric. So maybe once he gets his blog up he can post some.
Eric with Brian Mosher's baby. I put this on because apparently Eric "hates babies."
My papa and my cousin's daughter. My papa is one of my favorite guys.
Eric before his show, practicing in the garage with the band.
At Eric's parents house everyone takes off their shoes before going in. They always somehow get all organized too and I like it. You will notice the two brown pairs are Eric and I's. About the same size.
Sorry these aren't in order and are a little random. They are just ones that I picked out, pictures I like.
Eric got his plane ticket and is flying out to see me on March 12th - April 1st. He will arrive on March 13th which is my brother's birthday, but also... our 2 year anniversary!
As you can see I am learning the skills. We started out with checkers but everyone knows that is childs play. And everyone knows backgammon is the grown up way to move pieces around a board, especially if you are holding a beer. Or in my case a latte. But it is a pub, so technically I should have a beer and usually do. I won my first game tonight! Yes. But all in all I lost the two out of three... should have just stuck with my winning and ran! 
This is my wonderful friend Jenny. She lives downstairs and is doing research in Genetics.... she will be done with a DPhil in a year and a half and then will go on to Med School... genius. And a heck of a good backgammon player. 
This is me looking at the graveyard. Interesting.
Look at this! I had coffee with Peggy today, my supervisor, and she said she knew where there were blooming flowers. So, she took me to Balliol college, and there were 4 different kinds of flowers blooming. You can't really see but there was yellow, white, purple... a spring wonderland.
I turned in my essay titles! Yae! Well, I had better get back to it. I am reading this right now for an essay... pretty interesting.
