Engaging
25 September, 2007
What happened to September??!I am exhausted. I don't feel like I've had 'me' time in forever. There is always something going on, something to do or some where to be. I am either on travel or trying to cram as much into the little amount of time I have at home. And I just feel I do not have enough money to get ahead. It is driving me nuts because I feel so thrifty!
So the weekend was odd....overwhelming. My pregnant college roommate was suppose to come and spend the weekend with me and we were going to go baby clothes shopping and maternity clothes shopping. I am in Raliegh on Thursday and go out to dinner with my friend, Mari from high school who is getting her Ph. D at Duke. That was a lot of fun and at the end of the night we figured out that she was heading up to DC for the weekend for personal/family reasons, so I offered her a ride. We left NC around 1:30ish and hit the road. My roommate was leaving some time that afternoon and getting into town around 7. I got a phonecall about halfway through the trip, and she was crying and saying she thought she was losing the baby.
Well to make a long drawn out story short, she did lose the baby. It was ABSOLUTLY terrible. I was so upset and crying and felt like my heart was breaking so I can not even begin to imagine what she was going through. It was terrifying. To believe that at out age, people are going through this. It is a reality. And I never really had thought losing a baby was really a reality, just something that happened to other people. So sad. The only thing I can gain from this is that I will handle things differently and probably won't tell people I was pregnant until I am further along into the 2nd trimester. And at least I know that this situation acutally could happen.
On Sunday I drove to Covington to spend the day with her. She was doing okay. Obviously in pain and upset. I was glad to spend time with her and offer any (if any) comfort that I was able to. It was quite a bit of driving and I just crashed when I got home.
And that is how I feel every day is going. I work work work then make dinner then work then crash. I would do anything for one of those days where I can watch brainless tv/movies or read magazines. It would be fabulous.
This weekend is another Blacksburg weekend, but the good thing is that Allie is coming up for the weekend and I cannot wait to see her and get to hang out, without all the wedding details!
Then back to Raleigh again for another week. I have spent this week filling out all the paperwork for security clearance at postal. That has been a headache in it's own, but i won't get into that. All I can say is Screw you Labcorp!
18 September, 2007
Stay away from dairy and liquor.So I am on travel again. Out of the month of September, I have been on travel for 2 full weeks and will be away from home all but 2 weekends. GROWL.
Yesterday I think managed to be one of the worst days I've had in a LONG time. It all started earlier this weekend.
We headed down to Blacksburg on Friday after a TERRIBLE day of work. I finally just went crazy basically, closed all my stuff down and left. It was miserable and I just am so overworked right now that I don't trust my accuracy. Justin and I got on the road and headed for the Burg. It POURED the whole drive down. Finally we got into town around 9, met up at Mom's with Will and we all headed down to Awful Arthurs to meet up with some people because we assumed that it would be empty. Who goes to Awful Arthurs anyway? Luckily, this was a safe assessment and we stayed there with a bunch of people for awhile. When Jason and Holly and their crew got into town we headed over to Rivermill. I think my best decision of the night was being DD. Everyone else was doing carbombs, etc which I was jealous of but I know Saturday morning I was a lot more thankful that I skipped out. So we finally headed home (with Justin and my brother requiring a stop at Wendy's) and went to sleep.
And then the day +2 from hell began. Woke up Saturday morning and headed to the tailgate around 10AM. And was planning on not drinking much. Oh god, I went wrong. Had some beers and some margaritas and didn't eat much at all. And some how came up with the idea to make margaritas on the daiquiri whacker (www.gasblender.com) of simply orange Gatorade and tequila because all mixer had been used up. GROSS. Then went into the game, which VT actually started looking a bit better as the game went on. And drank some bourbon during the game. Then went back to the tailgate after the game, had a beer and then headed to Travis' brother's apartment. Had a beer or two there and found it a bit boring, so headed downtown for much needed food. Went to Sharkey's and then my evening starts getting hazy. I remember 2 white Russians (GROSS!) and I have been reminded of at least one car bomb. Who knows what else was consumed. We sat down to eat food (after at least a 2.5 hour wait) and I failed to eat anything. I don't remember if I went to TOTS or not. Possibly???! No clue. Justin tells me that at around 10:30 I said I needed to go home and Stacey said she needed to leave to. (Justin was DD that night)
Then began the trip home from hell. I took us on the longest way home possible. And there were about 8 stops due to someone getting sick (at this point not me), but then I had my own stop request. We finally got home. And the rest is semi blurry (one broken microwave plate later...)
I woke up Sunday without a terrible headache, I thought I was fine. Nope. I ate breakfast even, but that didn't stay down too well. I was VERY sick all day. Jason, Holly, Stacy and Kevin left around noon. At about 3:30 my mom and I went to this movie in downtown Blacksburg based on forgiveness (based around the community moving on after the shooting), so Justin left and went home (I was leaving straight from Blacksburg to NC for work on Monday morning). Halfway through the movie I managed to recover and then mom and I went to roanoke to rent a car for me and ate food. Finally I was able to hold food down again!
So mom and I went home after dinner, around 8:30PM. I did some work for about 3 hours and we watched the Emmy's, then I went upstairs to pack and go to bed. All of a sudden I heard mom yelling my name. I went downstairs to see what was going on and she is terrified. We go into her bedroom and the large wooden table next to her bed is destroyed along with a lamp and other things everywhere. So obviously the initial reaction is that some has broken in. I checked her jewelery chest right away and everything was in there, but we still cannot figure what is going on. We clean everything up, vacuum and are both just TERRIFIED. I looked around the closets, etc to make sure no one is in the house. Finally we go to sleep in her bed and I don't think either of us slept at all. I slept with my cell phone and I don't think i've been that scared in years.
Finally morning came and we were both alive. We still have no idea what happened in that room. So I left (exhausted) and drove to NC. Got to work, and worked non stop until around 6ish, at which point I was as frustrated with work as I had been on Friday evening and decided I needed to go to the gym. Finally found a gym that had a pool and went in (it was a Gold's). They made me go through a tour, which took forever but finally showed me the pool and said that they always have a dedicated lane for lap swimming. I go change and get into the pool. There is one other person who is lap swimming, so no big deal. There is a class of aerobics going on. So I start swimming and the instructor from the aerobics class starts yelling at me. Apparently no lap swim during aerobics. The other girl swimming with me is yelling back. Finally we decide we are swimming in our lane no matter what. So I start down the lane and a man comes and GRABS me. I was SO MAD. I didn't want a stranger touching me, much less around my waist. So I get out, go get the gym manager, complain. I was then going to leave, but i figured i should go out to my car and get other clothes and go get in on the bike, I needed to get rid of all my anger. Finally I was finished with my workout...a 45 minute workout turned into something more like nearly 2 hours. I left the gym heading to where I am staying and got L-O-S-T LOST! About another hour later, I stopped at some grocery store (praying they'd still have a salad bar out, but obviously not with my luck) and got some little garden boxed salad and got home around 9:30. Oh yes, and my cell phone had died through this whole situation.
Finally I got some sleep. Luckily today has gone much better so far. I am just kindof tired and still VERY busy with work. I need to determine if I am willing to go to the same gym or if I want to find somewhere different today. Blah.
I am ready to be home.
12 September, 2007
Fall is in the airI am so busy at work it is unreal. And I kind of think that this is just how my work life is from now on. I guess it is a good thing....I stay busy so the day flies by and I am flattered that they keep trusting me with more and more. I am going on travel again for all of next week. So that means during the month of September, I will be gone for 3 weekends and I will be on travel for 2 full weeks. Makes me really miss my home, my cat, my husband and making my own dinner!
I went back to the doctor yesterday for my 2 week checkup. I am back in the immobilizer. The ligament is beginning to stretch again. So I already have some looseness that will never go back. Hopefully it won't stretch any futher. Just annoys me because I haven't done anything wrong (aside from standing during the football game) and I feel like I am slowly drifting back to where I was pre-surgery. Just got to keep the good mind set!
I need a haircut so badly it is pathetic. Maybe i'll beg my salon hairstylist neighbor if he'll do some damage control tomorrow. Growing this thing out is hell on earth!
Okay, time for sleep.
10 September, 2007
Long weekthings for the shooting victims. It was tough to get through that and then immediately throw myself into football. But hearing Enter Sandman was amazing to get to cheer and scream and to be a wild Hokie again.
The game was terrible. We looked awful. My knee was killing me. Standing for that many hours (up since 7AM, tailgating, then 4 hour game) was NOT a good idea. We left with like 3 minutes to go in the game so I could get out of there without being trampled. Then I iced my knee and we stayed at my mom's tailgate for at least 3 hours.
Then the night some how went down hill. We went to justin's parents tailgate and drank there some more and played some games. Then decided we wanted to get some food, so the boys went straight to PK's and Kristen (Justin's little sister) and I walked through campus and to the memorial. That took forever, when we got to dinner everyone was finished. And not happy. So the night just took a poor, intoxicated turn. We just went home after that. And Sunday, Justin and I did nothing. Didn't even leave my mom's house. On Monday we went to the pool where I played with my nephew for the majority of the day and then I worked out.
Justin left and headed home later that day.
I headed down to Raleigh for work for the week on Tuesday morning. The drive was easy and work was busy. So my week went quickly. On Friday I drove back up through Blacksburg to pick up my mom for the weekend. she spent this past weekend with us in Falls Church. Friday night we went out to dinner at this great place in Clarendon that has the best seared tuna salad. Yummy! Saturday we didn't do much but went to the market and I worked out. Basically just sat around the house until 5ish, headed over to Dave's for a beer or two and then went to Rock Bottom for dinner. And then we went to some friend's place to watch the LSU game. It was horrendous. We left by half. I was so mad and frustrated at how TERRIBLE our coaching staff was. Finally I just went to sleep to end the misery.
Yesterday was also slow. Worked out, then went out to brunch. Then sat around the house again. My mom and I left around 4 and headed into the district. We ate at Zaytinya's, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE! It is Greek, Medeterrian food in tapas style dishes. So that was very good and then we went over to MCI for the American Idol concert. I was a bit apprehensive about this concert and yet it turned out pretty good. I had fun. It was all covers and I knew about 95% of the songs, so it was just entertaining. Then we went home, went to sleep, mom left this morning and I am back in the office for work.
Hopefully this will be a normal week. Aiming to eat healthy and eat at home all week, head down to Blacksburg on Friday for the Ohio game and then I am again down in Raleigh all next week for work again. boo.
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A twentysomething who is quite clueless on lots of aspects of life, especially being a newlywed.
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A twentysomething who is quite clueless on lots of aspects of life, especially being a newlywed.
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