Engaging

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.

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