Just a few more days until Christmas and I'm officially on my 4th day of this whole "vacation to nowhere" I'm on...and I'm loving it! Yes, admittedly it would be nicer if my boyfriend actually got time off for the holidays so we could spend some extra time together, but as a substitute this time off has provided a chance for some quality time with my family, particularly my mother. Yesterday we did our annual "big shopping day" at the surprisingly empty mall. I managed to finish up all my shopping, save for one thing that I will get at Target later today. Hooray for that! We'll likely go back next week to take advantage of the post-Christmas sales.
Yesterday was also my younger brother's 30th birthday. Talk about making us all feel old when the "baby" of the family has now left his 20's behind!!! Still, it was a nice chance to get the family together for dinner last night - something we only seem to get to do for special occasions anymore.
Today I'll be playing hostess to my mother and aunt...I guess my aunt has been bugging my mom about not ever seeing my house since I really moved in an decorated (THREE years ago) so today we're going to put that complaint to rest. Currently, the A/C people are here doing their bi-annual check-up of the system. Once they leave it'll be off to the store for me to stock up on supplies and perhaps a snack or two so I can be a good hostess later. That's a new role for me to play so I guess a little practice is in order.
Here's to another great day on my vacation to nowhere!!!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Holiday Season in Full Swing
Okay, so yes...I've been beyond lax in keeping up with my blog (and yes, I realize I've started posts this way in the past!) but when things get busy this blog is the last thing on my mind. I hope that everyone reading this is having a great holiday season thus far though! Sure, Christmas music has been on the radio since before Thanksgiving, but it's only once we're into December that it really feels appropriate to get into the Christmas spirit.
So far I've been (and dragged my boyfriend along) to a masquerade Christmas party and a work holiday party--if there was a contest between the two, the masquerade party would have won hands down. It's not that the work party was terrible, the company we were with was great, it's just that the party committee tried to implement a group game that was a total bust and completely killed the mood. Plus, only giving everyone two drink tickets (regardless of if you were bringing a guest or not) was a buzz kill...no thank you to the $6 domestic bottles!
This year is also the first year I've had a Christmas tree at my house. My family has always been an artificial tree family, but my boyfriend's family has always been a real tree family. In the debate-that-wasn't-really-a-debate, it was decided that we would get a real tree this year. (I'm still holding out hope that we'll do artificial next year, but I'm not too optimistic) I dubbed the tree "Steve" (much to the chagrin of my boyfriend) and we proceeded to make him beautiful:
As you can see, we didn't start off small with my first household Christmas tree. Nope. Steve comes in at about 8' or so and is quite full. He did turn out very pretty though and I'm kind of in love. :) I'm definitely looking forward to exchanging gifts and sharing quality time with family, friends, & loved ones in just a couple weeks. I'd love to know what you and your loved ones are doing to make this holiday season special so please feel free to share in the comments.
In the meantime, Merry Christmas everyone!!!
So far I've been (and dragged my boyfriend along) to a masquerade Christmas party and a work holiday party--if there was a contest between the two, the masquerade party would have won hands down. It's not that the work party was terrible, the company we were with was great, it's just that the party committee tried to implement a group game that was a total bust and completely killed the mood. Plus, only giving everyone two drink tickets (regardless of if you were bringing a guest or not) was a buzz kill...no thank you to the $6 domestic bottles!
This year is also the first year I've had a Christmas tree at my house. My family has always been an artificial tree family, but my boyfriend's family has always been a real tree family. In the debate-that-wasn't-really-a-debate, it was decided that we would get a real tree this year. (I'm still holding out hope that we'll do artificial next year, but I'm not too optimistic) I dubbed the tree "Steve" (much to the chagrin of my boyfriend) and we proceeded to make him beautiful:
As you can see, we didn't start off small with my first household Christmas tree. Nope. Steve comes in at about 8' or so and is quite full. He did turn out very pretty though and I'm kind of in love. :) I'm definitely looking forward to exchanging gifts and sharing quality time with family, friends, & loved ones in just a couple weeks. I'd love to know what you and your loved ones are doing to make this holiday season special so please feel free to share in the comments.
In the meantime, Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Monday, September 5, 2011
Getting back into the swing of things...
It's been a while - too long really - since I've posted anything
here. I'm going to have to shift the blame for that to someone other
than myself. Why would I want to blame myself? Silly thought,
that. Anyway, it's probably a combination of things that has kept me
from getting back to this blog. First and foremost would be my new
boyfriend. It's been a little over a month since we started dating and I
couldn't be happier. I think he put it best the other day...when
you're single, you get to a point where you're content and happy so it's
easy to forget how much happier you can be if there's someone
there to share things with. I'd had my eye out for a good guy to date,
but things just happened so naturally with this guy that it really
didn't take any effort to go from single and doing our own things to
intermingling our friends, activities, lives, etc. It always "happens
when you're not looking," right?
I've also had some not so great things going on lately - namely health issues. It's nothing life threatening, but it will affect my life for sure. I've known for a while that I had an unusually elevated heart rate. 120 bpm is pretty normal for me. I also have trembling hands from time to time. I was keenly aware of how NOT normal that was when one of my friends who has Parkinson's commented on my shaking hands. Not a great sign, hmm? So at the urging of both my mother and boyfriend I decided to get myself checked out. A blood test later and I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism - and a pretty severe case at that. The doctor put me on a couple different meds for it...a beta blocker to slow my heart, and another one to work to calm my thyroid down. Unfortunately, my body had a really bad reaction to the thyroid medication - my glands in my neck almost immediately (about 90 minutes later) swelled up to the size of limes, my fever spiked to 101.5 at the height of it, and I felt AWFUL! By the next morning, I still wasn't better and felt awful so I spent 5+ hours in the ER trying to figure out what was wrong. A CAT scan, chest x-rays, cultures, and blood draws (yes, multiple) later I was diagnosed with tonsillitis.
The ER doc claims it was unrelated to the drug...I find that hard to believe since it started to go away by itself before the antibiotics were even in me. There's no way it was "coincidence" like he claims! So, what to do now? I don't doubt my diagnosis...the thyroid issues run in my family and a blood test is pretty accurate...but I also don't really care for the doc that gave me the diagnosis. So, I'm in the process of getting scheduled with an endocrinologist soon to see if I can't find some meds that will work better for me. In the meantime, I'm just taking the beta blocker for my heart and staying away from the pills that gave me such a terrible reaction. Fingers crossed that I never have to go through that again!!!
So that's pretty much it. Now that I'm feeling a bit better I have the always fun task of cleaning house ahead of me today. Thanks for reading and enjoy your Labor Day!
I've also had some not so great things going on lately - namely health issues. It's nothing life threatening, but it will affect my life for sure. I've known for a while that I had an unusually elevated heart rate. 120 bpm is pretty normal for me. I also have trembling hands from time to time. I was keenly aware of how NOT normal that was when one of my friends who has Parkinson's commented on my shaking hands. Not a great sign, hmm? So at the urging of both my mother and boyfriend I decided to get myself checked out. A blood test later and I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism - and a pretty severe case at that. The doctor put me on a couple different meds for it...a beta blocker to slow my heart, and another one to work to calm my thyroid down. Unfortunately, my body had a really bad reaction to the thyroid medication - my glands in my neck almost immediately (about 90 minutes later) swelled up to the size of limes, my fever spiked to 101.5 at the height of it, and I felt AWFUL! By the next morning, I still wasn't better and felt awful so I spent 5+ hours in the ER trying to figure out what was wrong. A CAT scan, chest x-rays, cultures, and blood draws (yes, multiple) later I was diagnosed with tonsillitis.
The ER doc claims it was unrelated to the drug...I find that hard to believe since it started to go away by itself before the antibiotics were even in me. There's no way it was "coincidence" like he claims! So, what to do now? I don't doubt my diagnosis...the thyroid issues run in my family and a blood test is pretty accurate...but I also don't really care for the doc that gave me the diagnosis. So, I'm in the process of getting scheduled with an endocrinologist soon to see if I can't find some meds that will work better for me. In the meantime, I'm just taking the beta blocker for my heart and staying away from the pills that gave me such a terrible reaction. Fingers crossed that I never have to go through that again!!!
So that's pretty much it. Now that I'm feeling a bit better I have the always fun task of cleaning house ahead of me today. Thanks for reading and enjoy your Labor Day!
Monday, July 18, 2011
Another reason the single life sucks...
Dear Mom & Dad,
Thanks for reminding me of Reason #428 why it sucks to be single. It sucks to be single because when something happens (like when an idiot friend tries to go all 'Dukes of Hazard' and slide across the hood of your nearly brand new Lexus...leaving behind a dent and several scratches) you don't have anyone to ask for help but your parents. Said parents are then sure to make underhanded comments about what an inconvenience you are...which only serves as a reminder of your sad, pathetic life as a single adult.
I'm sorry that my loser status negatively impacts your RETIRED lifestyle. I'm sorry that even though the two of you never go anywhere without each other, I'm still going to deprive you of one of your two cars for a whopping 2 days while mine is getting repaired. I'm sorry that this is just another example of the times it would really come in handy for me to have a boyfriend or husband to go through life with and who could help out in situations like this so it wouldn't affect you.
Believe me, oh critical parents of mine, it's not for lack of searching/trying that I'm single. If you'd really like for me to find someone I'm sure that I could go whore it up somewhere, get myself pregnant, and maybe land a baby daddy. Wouldn't that be lovely? Probably not. So I'm single? So what!?! Maybe instead of always saying you're there when I need you, you could actually practice what you preach without the guilt trip hanging overhead. That'd be great.
Sincerely,
Your Single Daughter with a Car in Need of Repair
Thanks for reminding me of Reason #428 why it sucks to be single. It sucks to be single because when something happens (like when an idiot friend tries to go all 'Dukes of Hazard' and slide across the hood of your nearly brand new Lexus...leaving behind a dent and several scratches) you don't have anyone to ask for help but your parents. Said parents are then sure to make underhanded comments about what an inconvenience you are...which only serves as a reminder of your sad, pathetic life as a single adult.
I'm sorry that my loser status negatively impacts your RETIRED lifestyle. I'm sorry that even though the two of you never go anywhere without each other, I'm still going to deprive you of one of your two cars for a whopping 2 days while mine is getting repaired. I'm sorry that this is just another example of the times it would really come in handy for me to have a boyfriend or husband to go through life with and who could help out in situations like this so it wouldn't affect you.
Believe me, oh critical parents of mine, it's not for lack of searching/trying that I'm single. If you'd really like for me to find someone I'm sure that I could go whore it up somewhere, get myself pregnant, and maybe land a baby daddy. Wouldn't that be lovely? Probably not. So I'm single? So what!?! Maybe instead of always saying you're there when I need you, you could actually practice what you preach without the guilt trip hanging overhead. That'd be great.
Sincerely,
Your Single Daughter with a Car in Need of Repair
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sometimes it's better to skip the reality...
Why is it that reality rarely ever lives up to perceptions or expectations??? When you first meet someone, it's natural to fill in the things you don't yet know about them with bright, shiny ideas of what they must be like, of who they really are. Because of COURSE you would only be attracted to great people, right? Unfortunately, (at least in my personal experience) once you find out the truth about that person, it's usually not half as good as the idea you'd begun to form in your head. And once that reality begins to set in, where do you go from there? Do you compromise your own "must have" list to bend to the reality of the person in front of you or do you chalk it up to another life experience and continue your quest for that white whale that's surely out there somewhere?
Ultimately, I suppose the answers to those questions depend on what end game you had in mind. Was this someone that you wanted to stick around for a while or were you just enjoying the moment and taking things as they came? For me, in this case, it was the latter - I was simply having fun and enjoying someone's company with the knowledge that it was definitely not a long-term thing. Still, taking the shiny off has made me wonder whether I even want a summer fling. I can't go back and unlearn/unhear the things I've learned/heard, but do they really even matter in the case of a fling? I really don't know. I think they might. It doesn't matter how attractive (hot even) you are...if you're an asshole to other people (even if I'm not the one on the receiving end), that's a really ugly trait.
Why can't people just live up to my unattainable expectations??? :)
Ultimately, I suppose the answers to those questions depend on what end game you had in mind. Was this someone that you wanted to stick around for a while or were you just enjoying the moment and taking things as they came? For me, in this case, it was the latter - I was simply having fun and enjoying someone's company with the knowledge that it was definitely not a long-term thing. Still, taking the shiny off has made me wonder whether I even want a summer fling. I can't go back and unlearn/unhear the things I've learned/heard, but do they really even matter in the case of a fling? I really don't know. I think they might. It doesn't matter how attractive (hot even) you are...if you're an asshole to other people (even if I'm not the one on the receiving end), that's a really ugly trait.
Why can't people just live up to my unattainable expectations??? :)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Feeling older than my age...
For the longest time, I felt younger than my age...despite teasing jokes from close friends (since I started law school a few years after being in the working world, I was always the "old" one in the group. It's probably a good thing that my friend Marquis isn't a follower of mine on here since he LOOOOVES to reuse his jokes about my age whenever he can). I always laughed it off though because I was feeling good - and looking younger than the majority of them anyway!
Unfortunately, in the last week or so, I haven't been feeling so great. My knees were hurting a bit before my kickball game last Thursday but by the time I woke up on Friday morning it was all I could do to move my legs and get out of bed. Honestly, each step is still painful. Walking up or down stairs is like having someone jam a screwdriver beneath my kneecap and twist it around with each step I take. Yesterday at work, I let a student go past me on the stairwell so he wouldn't have to wait for me to get up the stairs at the snail speed I can manage. All in all...no bueno!
Considering the fact that this happened a few months ago when I started playing tennis again I decided not to mess around this time. So on Thursday morning I'll be heading to an orthopedic doctor (the one that re-broke my toe for me last Fall) and hopefully he'll be able to tell me what's going on and what exercises I can do to strengthen the muscles around my knee to hopefully avoid this in the future. I know I'm getting older, but this is ridiculous!
Unfortunately, in the last week or so, I haven't been feeling so great. My knees were hurting a bit before my kickball game last Thursday but by the time I woke up on Friday morning it was all I could do to move my legs and get out of bed. Honestly, each step is still painful. Walking up or down stairs is like having someone jam a screwdriver beneath my kneecap and twist it around with each step I take. Yesterday at work, I let a student go past me on the stairwell so he wouldn't have to wait for me to get up the stairs at the snail speed I can manage. All in all...no bueno!
Considering the fact that this happened a few months ago when I started playing tennis again I decided not to mess around this time. So on Thursday morning I'll be heading to an orthopedic doctor (the one that re-broke my toe for me last Fall) and hopefully he'll be able to tell me what's going on and what exercises I can do to strengthen the muscles around my knee to hopefully avoid this in the future. I know I'm getting older, but this is ridiculous!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Quite possibly the longest blog title ever...and a quote from one of my favorite movies of all time! But seriously, the time has been flying by. Things have been a little crazy in my dating life, but I won't bore you with details of that. Suffice it to say that it's easier than you'd think to acquire a semi-stalker, while intellect is important it cannot make up for zero personality, and most notably, it's nice to be the girl envied by other girls instead of being the one turning green with said envy. Yes, that means that I "got the guy" this time around. Yay!
Things really are busy. While I feel like everything is flying by, I'm having a great time and haven't been this happy in a really long time. And that's still true after finding out I have to replace my A/C entirely - goodbye, $6,300.00. My weeks seem to fly by since I have so much going on. Mondays and/or Tuesdays are nights to meet up with friends for dinner. Wednesdays are trivia night (1st place victory tonight!!!). Thursdays are kickball and the post-kickball party (my team may be the bad news bears kickball team but we truly DOMINATE at flip cup!). And then it's the weekend - filled with more time with friends and hopefully some weekend trips coming up.
All in all, there's nothing to complain about socially. Work has been a bit tough lately (and more stressful than I'd like) but at the end of the day there are more positives than negatives so I just go with it. How are you doing? Are you excited about the summer? Any fun plans???
Things really are busy. While I feel like everything is flying by, I'm having a great time and haven't been this happy in a really long time. And that's still true after finding out I have to replace my A/C entirely - goodbye, $6,300.00. My weeks seem to fly by since I have so much going on. Mondays and/or Tuesdays are nights to meet up with friends for dinner. Wednesdays are trivia night (1st place victory tonight!!!). Thursdays are kickball and the post-kickball party (my team may be the bad news bears kickball team but we truly DOMINATE at flip cup!). And then it's the weekend - filled with more time with friends and hopefully some weekend trips coming up.
All in all, there's nothing to complain about socially. Work has been a bit tough lately (and more stressful than I'd like) but at the end of the day there are more positives than negatives so I just go with it. How are you doing? Are you excited about the summer? Any fun plans???
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