I'm sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting to go home. I'm still sunburned and I'm tired - body and mind. I learned a lot of thinks I don't need to know, figured out my phone, and had my fancy dinner (stretch Hummers were involved along with a lot of food I can barely describe).
My plane will take me back to NC late (late!) tonight and I'll be headed to my parents to pick up Zoey. After sleeping in their guest bed, the hotel bed, Kaitlyn's bed and Kim's couch, it will be VERY nice to sleep in my own bed Friday night. I can't remember the last time I was so happy to be leaving Las Vegas.
*Note: I actually wrote this Thursday but for some reason it didn't post. I'm posting it now from the comfort of my own office in my own house.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Since U Been Gone
I've been away a while. I've been kind of busy...
There was the funeral. A trip to Indiana to see dozens of people I didn't know but who all seemed to care about my grandfather and my family (we should all be so lucky). Catching up with my cousins. The trip home that took an extra 9 hours.
A lot of work. A coworker and his wife (who have been friends of mine for years) leaving for El Salvador to pick up a long awaited addition to their family, but which left me with more work to do (and teach) while he was away. I'm not the slightest bit upset by it, but it has disrupted things for me. Learning lots of new things and figuring out how to change a bunch of things easily, but change is never easy, so it's taking too long...
The last days of the hockey season. For a while everything was peachy...then it wasn't. Things came down to the very last game, and then someone else's very last game before we really knew it was over. It was heartbreaking, but given all the other stuff I've got going on in my life right now, an easy thing to get over.
The decision to apply to grad school after 12 years of thinking about it. Signing up for a test I thought I could take easily then taking a practice test and finding this may be harder than I thought. Studying. Studying. Studying.
A trip to CA (I'm there now) followed by a business trip to Las Vegas tomorrow. A surprise fancy-pants dinner while I'm there that will require an emergency trip to the mall in the morning. Three little league games in one day and a trip to American Girl Place (wow).
Just lots of...stuff. A new phone, an old car, a sunburn. A new goal, a new dress, something to look forward to...just what I've been up to since I've been gone.
There was the funeral. A trip to Indiana to see dozens of people I didn't know but who all seemed to care about my grandfather and my family (we should all be so lucky). Catching up with my cousins. The trip home that took an extra 9 hours.
A lot of work. A coworker and his wife (who have been friends of mine for years) leaving for El Salvador to pick up a long awaited addition to their family, but which left me with more work to do (and teach) while he was away. I'm not the slightest bit upset by it, but it has disrupted things for me. Learning lots of new things and figuring out how to change a bunch of things easily, but change is never easy, so it's taking too long...
The last days of the hockey season. For a while everything was peachy...then it wasn't. Things came down to the very last game, and then someone else's very last game before we really knew it was over. It was heartbreaking, but given all the other stuff I've got going on in my life right now, an easy thing to get over.
The decision to apply to grad school after 12 years of thinking about it. Signing up for a test I thought I could take easily then taking a practice test and finding this may be harder than I thought. Studying. Studying. Studying.
A trip to CA (I'm there now) followed by a business trip to Las Vegas tomorrow. A surprise fancy-pants dinner while I'm there that will require an emergency trip to the mall in the morning. Three little league games in one day and a trip to American Girl Place (wow).
Just lots of...stuff. A new phone, an old car, a sunburn. A new goal, a new dress, something to look forward to...just what I've been up to since I've been gone.
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