Weekends are good.

Especially the weekends that include chilling out and spending money.

Saturday was very low key for us. I went to the gym early, and cleaned some of my house. Then, that afternoon, Julie and I went shopping. Not a big trip, I just got a new shirt and capri’s for Sunday night. Sophie went with us, which was fun. She’s getting so big! She turns one next Saturday, too! Saturday night I went with Brittany to Erin’s house for a scrapbooking party. Yes, I’m admiting my nerdiness…I love to scrapbook. I got several good things that I’ve already fell in love with. After next pay-day, Julie and I are going to head to the Scrapbook Cottage for a fun shopping spree. She still needs to finish Sophie’s scrapbook.

Sunday was very relaxing. I actaually managed to almost finish my parent’s wedding scrapbook! Only one page to go! Needless to say I’ll be finishing it tonight. We ate lunch with Darren’s family, and I did make a trip to Starbuck’s with Julie and Janet. Mike just started his new job there and so we went to see how he was doing.

Last night, because it was Darren and I’s 6-month mark, we decided to head to Farmington, NM for dinner. It was fun, and good to get out of town, if even just for the evening. We were going to check out the movies there, but nothing too exciting was playing. We decided to come back to Durango and just rented a movie. It was fun, and nice just to spend time with each other.

In a lot of ways, it feels like it has been so much longer than 6 months. But in some ways, it seems like it hasn’t been that long at all. This whole last year seems to have flown by! And I know time is just going to get faster and faster. Soon it will be a year, and I’ll want to know where the past 6 months have gone. Our lease only goes through May as of right now, and I’m hoping that either this summer or at the latest, the following we’ll finally get to move up to Denver so I can start school again. God willing, that is. Everything will work out, I just need to have patience with it all…

The Accident

I woke up late this morning. I didn’t  mean to, but once I turned off my alarm I told myself I was just going to lay in bed for a few extra mintues. I woke up almost 20 minutes later only to leap out of bed and jump into the shower. One thing you need to know about our shower: when there is a lot of steam, and you open the door to the bathroom, the smoke detectors like to go off. So needless to say, I ended up waking up the whole neighborhood as I got out. I quickly got ready and ended up having plenty of time to get to work. I got in the car and started on my way. However, only about half way there is when the fun happened.

It’s one of the most hated intersections in my world. Well, the cars in front of me decided to slam on their breaks, so of course, I had to do the same thing. Only I didn’t have enough time. I tried to swirve into the lane next to me as there were no cars there at the time, but alas, the corner of my car met the pickup in front of me. And let me tell you, Mr. Pickup made quite the impression on Mr. Buick.

So where was I when I was supposed to be getting to work this morning? In the Burger King parking lot talking to the police who gave me an automatic court date. No choice. No ticket. Just a court date.

The most severe accident that I’ve been in where I was driving was in my high school parking lot when I tapped the car in front of me. No damage was done to either car, and was done on what was considered ‘private property’ so no cops were called. The only other time I’ve been in an accident, (it’s ok to laugh – I do!) is when I backed into a Handicap sign in an empty parking lot. Yes, I was talented.

I have gotten one speeding ticket, but only had to pay a fine. The only court rooms I have seen is on TV, and the one I had a tour of in a town of 2000 people when I was in 6th grade. Not to mention the court date is, yes, great timing, Thanksgiving weekend. Or at least that’s how I’ll end it. It’s at 8:oo a.m. on that next Monday.

Anyway, I did stop to get some caffine and calm myself down before I headed to work, and yes, I made the dreaded call to my husband to let him know that I made a good size blemish in his precious car that he has had since he was 18. Oh, and the ironic thing? We’re selling my car today so this is the only car we have now.

At least the day can only get better from here, right?

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It’s all insanity!

It has definitely been a crazy week. I have been doing about 2.5 people’s jobs (including my own) and we’re entering the busy season. We are getting more and more orders a day. I love that we are getting busy. I love that we are getting more and more orders. What I don’t like, is when people leave for more than a week at a time and just dump everything on you because you are the only one that can do their job, but don’t let you know what is going on with any of the accounts. Talk about sinking. I managed to tread through it and am finally bringing my head above water. Now they want me to train someone else to take over for her. So, I’m doing my job, someone else’s job, training someone for someone else’s job, and I’ve been given half of the billing. Talk about crazy.

Plus, I was sick on Tuesday. I’m not sure if it was stress related or not, but I’m still trying to bounce back fully from it. I was out all day and mainly just slept.

Darren and I also started dieting and working out this week. We joined a website called ’sparkpeople’ and so far, I really like it. It teaches you to eat right and exercise more. It’s only been a week, but I’ve already lost 3.5lbs. I set a goal for myself, so hopefully by my birthday in February I will be down or at least close to my goal weight. I’m very excited!

We’re going to a ‘progressive dinner’ tonight. Now, I’ve only heard of these as in, Annie’s house for appetizers, Joe’s house for entrees, and Larry’s house for dessert. Well, tonight we are going to three different restaurants.  I’m not sure if we’ll stay for the whole thing. We have bible study tonight. Should be an interesting evening to say the least!

Swimming | How do you stay afloat?

This week has been a struggle for me, and I can’t say how excited I am that it is Friday. Darren and I have not eaten a meal together since Tuesday. For various reasons, we haven’t been able to connect. I’m the type of person that needs interactions in almost all that I do, and I’ve had to learn to do otherwise. I’ve been lonely. I know it’s odd, I mean, it’s only been since Tuesday. But I don’t have a lot of friends. I take that back, I have a lot of friends, but they are mainly aquaintances. I don’t have any good, close friends. Other than Darren, that is. I had started to make a few, but of course they had to move away! Not to mention I find it hard to get close to people as friends. It’s like I have this vast opening, emptiness that I’m trying not to drown in where I should be confiding in someone, a friend. I know I can do this with Darren, but he can’t handle everything. I need to find someone else to talk to. I think some of that is on my part… I feel like it’s hard for me to trust people at first, but then when I finally do, I may come on too strong, almost desperate for that close friendship. Or maybe it’s all in my head and I’m more of a ‘hang out when you have nothing else to do’ kind of friend to most people. Even my sister lately, I haven’t gotten to talk to much. Or the rest of my family. They are all hung up on her being pregnant, and I kind of have been getting left out of the picture. And Anita and Michael moved into a new house where she doesn’t have reception, so I don’t get to talk to her much anymore. Unless she calls me, which usually happens at a time when I’m gone or can’t talk. 

Ok, so enough complaining and sulking for one day. I’m excited for the weekend. A chance to just hang out and have some fun. I’m going to go on a long bike ride tomorrow, and take Lucy to the river. I’m still working on her to get her to swim. The last few times I took her down there, she’ll just run around and watch all the other dogs swim, but she refuses to get in. Unless she falls in, in which case she swims over to the edge and gets out immediately. It’s like she doesn’t realize if she keeps moving, she’ll stay above water. She’s scared of letting her face under. Kind of fun to watch. I think I might go get myself a new book, something to keep me occupied. If it’s not raining, I’ll take it and read by the river while trying to get Lucy to swim.