On The Road Again

Well, after a great weekend in NC at Megs wedding, and a chaotic 2 days, my husband and I are off to the Badlands of South Dakota. Supposedly the weather is to be nice so here's to hoping!

NC was great, Meg looked gorgeous and the wedding was fun, and very sweet. Meg and Dave seem incredibly happy together, like Mamamin said, they were "glowing". I could have done without the 3+hr delay on the way down, and the 45 minute one on the way back, but hey, since I don't control the weather, who can bitch.

I don't miss the heat of the south, that's for certain, but do certainly miss the southern hospitality and welcomeness (is that a word?). Not to say the folks here aren't friendly because they are, almost more so than down there, but it's just different. Probably because I live here but still...

At any rate, those of you sitting on the beach, enjoy the sand for me, those of you at home, enjoy your kiddos...and me, well, I'm gonna enjoy my well deserved time with my husband. See you in a week. =)

Random thoughts

It's hard to believe (and it's not me that is getting married!) that I'll be in NC in a week, watching a girl that I've been friends with for 20+ years (ok, we ARE getting old) getting married. Whohoo!!!

However, while I'm in NC watching Meg get married, my spouse of almost a year (WHOOHOO for us!) will NOT be watching his childhood friend John and his fiance Chris get married as was intended on this same weekend. Why not you ask? Well that would be because, very long story short, Chris found herself still legally married to her first husband when she and John went to go apply for their marriage license. How does this happen? Well, I won't bore you with the details but it did, and how it did actually makes a lot of sense and well, they have my heartfeldt sympathy. However, despite the financial ramifications, they are re-planning their wedding and will be doing the dead in the Spring. Whew, makes me thankful that MY divorce WAS final. OUCH!

I spent the weekend down at my sisters, my mom is out. And unfortunately, have a killer of a freakin' headache that won't quit so I left there early, to come home to a husband that is still in bed, with some sort of upper respiratory thing. Freakin' wonderful. So, he can keep his cooties, I'll sleep on the couch all week and Lysol the entire house and every touchable space that he may have encountered, in fact, the windows are open as we speak...Because this is great timing all the way around! However, my 4 legged child did great on the trip down and back, with more frequent stops on the way back for both of our sakes and a side trip to Wallie world to pick up dog food so he could have supper tonight...

At any rate, happy Monday. I'll see ya'll later in the week if I don't hear from you before then! I"M SO EXCITED!!!!!

Bad days

You know it's going to be a bad day when things are already rollin' downhill the MINUTE you walk into the office. 1/2 hour early. And there's already 1/2 dozen people there. And all of them want you. So yup, before 0800 and 2 call ins. That's really bad. Then I get a call from my girl out in CO (Ar, she's FINE!) and she NEVER calls me in the middle of the day. Finally calls me back and yup, she wrecked her car. T-boned an elderly man, his fault, pulled right out in front of her. They're both ok and not too bad off, no broken bones, no ED visits so life is good. Needless to say, after the amount of stress and hours I've had for the last month, that did not improve my mental stability at all, nor did it improve my day. However, on top of that, I didn't get to work out today and well, now I'm just cranky. Oh well, tomorrow's Friday. Oh wait, I forgot, that doesn't matter because I have to work Saturday too. Oh well, I have vacation in 2 weeks 'cuz SOMEBODY'S GETTING MARRIED!!! YIPEE!!!!

Day after Midevil torture

Ok, so my quads aren't screaming, and neither or my tris or traps. However, that's right now. I'm thinkin' they'll all be screaming at the top of their bloody lungs come tomorrow. But, I do have to admit, I love how this feels. It's progress, it's healthy and dang it, it makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something when I constantly feel the opposite in the rest of my life!

Would love the link for the trail near the hotel, Mamamin, will you be up for a run Friday early maybe? Actually, could do Thursday too...I haven't been running myself since June so you won't need to worry about me. I did however commit my self to a 5K for the 2nd week of October so I best get my hinder moving!!!

Midevil torture

I went to the gym today and had my butt handed to me for an hour. My quads already hurt and it's only been 7 hours. THAT IS NOT A GOOD SIGN. There's a pushup type exercise I do, that is some form of torture that I have no doubt would break the best of the best. But I'll tell you what, I've been doing this program for about 2 weeks and I can already see improvements. So apparently torture in this form is good. Argh. Tomorrow is so not going to be pretty.

Pigs

Ok, so while I admit I am glad, and fortunate, to not be a pig, they are AWFULLY cute. We went to one of the local county fairs yesterday afternoon and went through all the barns. And the pot belly pigs were soooo cool (and well, the majority of them will be off to their demise today). I decided I want one in the relative future. Apparently, they're quite smart and trainable (as in, "Pig, come", and she will), and, get a load of this, CLEAN!!! Unfortunately for me, my husband said no. But you wait, in the relative future (now, I'm talking this as truly relative, as in a year or so, not as in a month or so), I'll have a pig. If that doesn't make me laugh, who would have thought! But priorities first, cows, barns, fences, cows. Then maybe my horse AND my pig!