I think I may have figured out why I've been feeling so tired lately. This reasoning may sound strange but hear me out: I've been getting too much sleep :) I've been going to bed around 10/11pm and getting up at 7 so I've been getting between 8 and 9 hours of sleep every night. Lately, it's been harder and harder to fall asleep. So, I've been staying up until I'm tired - around midnight. And I feel more awake. Getting between 6 and 7 hours of sleep somehow makes me feel more lively, active and engaged than getting 8-9. Peculiar but...I guess my body is changing and that's the change it's decided to make: I need less sleep.

I have a dynamics GR tomorrow but I've been studying a lot - doing all the homework problems, doing at least one problem from each section, rereading the chapters the GR is based on, etc. I'm hoping that it'll pay off and I'll do well on the GR - or at least, not bomb it like I did last time. At the very least, I'm hoping that my brain doesn't freeze up like it did and I can actually do work on most of the problems.

My left eye keeps watering which makes me think there's something on my contact but I just took it out and rinsed it so...idk. They're kinda old so I guess I'll throw them out after today and just wear a new pair tomorrow... I'll take them out after class, when I get back to my room. I can wear my glasses for the rest of the day - it's not a big deal :)

We had our halloween formation today. Some people had some pretty sweet costumes but others were just silly. There were a TON of people dressed in morph suits, which was really silly. However, a couple people dressed up like LMFAO and played their music from a boombox they carried around - it was sweet! Best part, we didn't even march, we all took the hill....

Josh and I realized the other day that there are...nine pictures of the two of us. Apparently, we don't take pictures together at all... It's kinda strange considering most couple take tons of pictures. We've been dating 9.5 months (almost exactly) and we have 9 pictures together. I wish we had more pictures but that would involve either finding someone to take a picture of us, hiring someone or awkwardly taking pictures of ourselves... Whatever...maybe we can figure something out. I mean, it's honestly not a HUGE deal but still...I would prefer more pictures of us. I guess, maybe, we'll take some over Christmas...

Speaking of Christmas, I'm pretty excited and have already started Christmas shopping. It's so much work but also oh so worth it :) Figuring out what I'm going to get Josh, however, has been quite difficult. I don't really want to get him anything that has to do with the Air Force or aviation because I feel like he's probably been getting those sort of gifts for the past....four years at least. So, I'd rather get something more personal. If he moves into an apartment of his own, I'll get him some stuff for his apartment but idk. I also really like this picture of a spitfire which I would love to get for him but (a) it's rather large and I'm not sure how I would get it to him, etc. and (b) it's slightly expensive. (Because if I get it for him, I'm not getting him the little 12x14 one or whatever, I'd get the other one with the nice wood frame, etc.) So, then it's down to other things and I really can't think of what he'd like. I could get him stuff for his apartment (as I mentioned) or...I have no idea. He's pretty much impossible to buy for...and I have to think of not only a Christmas but a birthday gift as well.

He keeps talking about how excited he is for me to come out for New Years. And, I am excited too. But I'm kind of...nervous. He keeps talking about all these places he wants to go and visit and things he wants to do with me. "We'll go to downtown Seattle, and sailing, and around my island, and here and there and everywhere" It'll be fun but I'm so much more focused on getting him a present that I really can't think of anything else...

Ugh, my contact is being so annoying - I'm going to go take it out.