Wow, I didn't realize how long it had been since my last blog. Not that I have many fans, but I still like to keep up with this so I can look back on it someday and maybe share it with my (future) kids, if I ever decide to have them.
Probably one of the reasons I haven't posted much is because not a lot has been going on. I work, work and work - when I'm not working I'm either recovering from work or cleaning my apartment. Cleaning has kind of gone to the back-burner and it's getting to the point that I want to rent a bulldozer to push all the crap to the corner to make more room for me to walk around. Having a tiny place doesn't help much at all!
Saturday I worked at the barn first thing, the office until 1, then Hannaford from 4:45-10. Matty sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers to the office today. Last week wasn't a good one for us - it seemed like we argued about anything and everything. He always was good about sending me flowers - and he always finds a way to sneak a few of my favorites (Stargazer Lillies) in there!
Between jobs I caught a couple episodes of Grey's Anatomy - Aunt Weezie lent me Season 1 and 2 and I was working on #2. After work I went to bed. How exciting.
Sunday I had breakfast with mom, church with Aunt Weezie, then groceries with mom. After I got home I did some cleaning downstairs - the stupid little things that I put off, like recycling, taking stuff down to the basement I don't need until winter, and cleaning out my fridge. Cleaning that fridge sure can be a smelly job! It seems like I never have room in there, but then I actually take the time to look at what's in those tupperware containers and food has pretty much grown teeth and hair! It should be good for a month or so now...
We head back down to see Lil D this week - Thursday morning we hope to head out no later than 7am. We'll be down there until Sunday. We're staying at a Sheratin this time, which'll be nice...his sister's boyfriend has some kind of connection and hooked us up. We also rented a Dodge Magnum to assure there won't be anything breaking down this time - and if it does, we have someone to take care of us!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Catching Up
It's been a few days since I've posted so I figured I'd get on here and do some typing.
Last weekend was a typical Fun Size weekend. Friday was Joy's birthday so I hung out with her and a group of people at Paddy Murphy's which is a new Irish bar downtown. Then I went home, flipped through a magazine and went to bed early.
Saturday I went to the barn - I was roasting in my long-sleeved shirt! I'm one of those "chronically cold" people, so it was encouraging when I was even hot! Buddy had been acting kind of weird so Aunt Weezie ended up not riding - he almost fell over a couple times and figured he was having some kind of reaction. After the barn I showered, did some stuff around the house, picked brother up for a graduation party for my cousin, then worked 4-9:30.
Sunday I missed out on breakfast at mom's because they were camping in Bar Harbor. I still went over to her house and waited for Aunt Weezie to pick me up for church. This week they honored the graduates and handed out Bibles like they do every year. It seems like so long ago that I was one of those nervous teens standing up there!
After church we had our usual lunch at the Rudder - we had a whole crew go this time! It took a while to get our food though because there were crowds of graduates and their families. The seafood medley I ordered was worth the wait though!
This week has been pretty crazy at the office - we 'lent' one of our secretaries out to another practice that is extremely short-staffed. Those left at our office have felt the impact and have lots of work to do. I certainly don't mind the overtime though!
Last night we celebrated Mel's birthday at Flossie's (her mom) house. There were lots of people there so Matty and I got to mingle with different crowds every few minutes. We were a little too late for the food, so we posed for some pictures and ordered pizza (at my request). I'm a pretty healthy eater most of the time, but when it comes to pizza I become this complete maniac that eats like my stomach is a bottomless pit! 6 slices (and a few bites of Matty's) later I was ready for a food-induced coma. Man, don't I love pizza :)
Last weekend was a typical Fun Size weekend. Friday was Joy's birthday so I hung out with her and a group of people at Paddy Murphy's which is a new Irish bar downtown. Then I went home, flipped through a magazine and went to bed early.
Saturday I went to the barn - I was roasting in my long-sleeved shirt! I'm one of those "chronically cold" people, so it was encouraging when I was even hot! Buddy had been acting kind of weird so Aunt Weezie ended up not riding - he almost fell over a couple times and figured he was having some kind of reaction. After the barn I showered, did some stuff around the house, picked brother up for a graduation party for my cousin, then worked 4-9:30.
Sunday I missed out on breakfast at mom's because they were camping in Bar Harbor. I still went over to her house and waited for Aunt Weezie to pick me up for church. This week they honored the graduates and handed out Bibles like they do every year. It seems like so long ago that I was one of those nervous teens standing up there!
After church we had our usual lunch at the Rudder - we had a whole crew go this time! It took a while to get our food though because there were crowds of graduates and their families. The seafood medley I ordered was worth the wait though!
This week has been pretty crazy at the office - we 'lent' one of our secretaries out to another practice that is extremely short-staffed. Those left at our office have felt the impact and have lots of work to do. I certainly don't mind the overtime though!
Last night we celebrated Mel's birthday at Flossie's (her mom) house. There were lots of people there so Matty and I got to mingle with different crowds every few minutes. We were a little too late for the food, so we posed for some pictures and ordered pizza (at my request). I'm a pretty healthy eater most of the time, but when it comes to pizza I become this complete maniac that eats like my stomach is a bottomless pit! 6 slices (and a few bites of Matty's) later I was ready for a food-induced coma. Man, don't I love pizza :)
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Swamped
What a busy week it's been! I'm still trying to catch up after our ordeal coming home from Pennsylvania last week. It's making the days go by really fast though, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Monday I started working for Aunt Weezie. 5:30AM comes awful soon! I picked up some cute overalls for $4 at Old Navy this spring and that is my 'uniform' when I go. Since I only do laundry once a week it's not possible for me to use a fresh set of clothes every morning for the 30 minutes that I'm there. After I get used to it I think getting up early will be nice. It's so quiet and relaxing at 6am. It sure makes for a long day when I don't stop working until 10PM though. It'll be worth making the extra $$$ though - I love stashing money away in the bank!
Last night I worked a ten-hour day and got lots done. One minute I looked at the clock and it was 4, then when I looked again it was 6! After work Joy stopped by and we went for a walk - it cooled off so fast! Everyone was raving about the weather at lunch time, but by the time I got out it was a little chilly. Halfway through our walk Matty texted me and said he and Ben were hungry - they were working in Brewer for a lady who wants a porch built. I picked up Pat's Pizza and we met at a little turn-around in Brewer where there are picnic tables right by the river. After that we stopped into Hannaford to rent a movie out of the Red Box - Deja vu (or however you spell it). It was an awesome movie! It was a little longer than I hoped but I loved every minute of it. Denzel Washington is the man!!!
Tonight I work at Hannaford then I'm going straight to bed!
Monday I started working for Aunt Weezie. 5:30AM comes awful soon! I picked up some cute overalls for $4 at Old Navy this spring and that is my 'uniform' when I go. Since I only do laundry once a week it's not possible for me to use a fresh set of clothes every morning for the 30 minutes that I'm there. After I get used to it I think getting up early will be nice. It's so quiet and relaxing at 6am. It sure makes for a long day when I don't stop working until 10PM though. It'll be worth making the extra $$$ though - I love stashing money away in the bank!
Last night I worked a ten-hour day and got lots done. One minute I looked at the clock and it was 4, then when I looked again it was 6! After work Joy stopped by and we went for a walk - it cooled off so fast! Everyone was raving about the weather at lunch time, but by the time I got out it was a little chilly. Halfway through our walk Matty texted me and said he and Ben were hungry - they were working in Brewer for a lady who wants a porch built. I picked up Pat's Pizza and we met at a little turn-around in Brewer where there are picnic tables right by the river. After that we stopped into Hannaford to rent a movie out of the Red Box - Deja vu (or however you spell it). It was an awesome movie! It was a little longer than I hoped but I loved every minute of it. Denzel Washington is the man!!!
Tonight I work at Hannaford then I'm going straight to bed!
Monday, June 4, 2007
I've Been Tagged!
Aunt Weezie over at Home on the Range tagged me for a meme. I'm supposed to list
9 things you don't know about me and one of them is a lie. Can you guess which one is not true?
1) I have never been married
2) I can type 75 words per min with 96% accuracy
3) My dad used to shoot barking dogs outside my window with a bebe gun
4) I've worked up to 3 jobs at a time
5) I make my ice cubes out of Dasani water
6) I have been in a hot air balloon before
7) I've made the front page of The Weekly
8) I have never changed a diaper in my life
9) I have buried 3 ex-boyfriends
Good Luck!
9 things you don't know about me and one of them is a lie. Can you guess which one is not true?
1) I have never been married
2) I can type 75 words per min with 96% accuracy
3) My dad used to shoot barking dogs outside my window with a bebe gun
4) I've worked up to 3 jobs at a time
5) I make my ice cubes out of Dasani water
6) I have been in a hot air balloon before
7) I've made the front page of The Weekly
8) I have never changed a diaper in my life
9) I have buried 3 ex-boyfriends
Good Luck!
Friday, June 1, 2007
Back to Reality
I have never been so excited to be back to work in my entire life! I haven't even had the time to check MySpace, let alone blog! This is the first chunk of time I've had available to finish documenting the events in Pennsylvania...what a ride!
We went to the park for a while Tuesday night - Lil D was allllll smiles.
I went to the top of the slide and Matty was at the bottom. I'd grab Lil D's arms and let him dangle in suspense before letting him go. He loved it!
The park had trails out back. I thought the bumpy ride would be uncomfortable but Lil D screamed with joy!
The time we spent with Lil D was amazing. I never thought the thing that initially destroyed me and Matty's relationship ended up making us stronger as a couple. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Matty - and seeing him play 'dad' is actually quite attractive!
My main man and his Mini Me:
He loves to put food in his mouth, get it all nice and soggy then offer it to you. Yummy!
Tuesday morning we packed up and checked out of the hotel. Matty's sister let us use her car and he ended up spotting a bad tire that needed to be replaced, so we had to take care of that before getting back on the road. After a nice breakfast at the Craker Barrel we met up with Lil D's mom and sadly gave him back :( Matty took it better than I thought - he got a little misty-eyed the night before at the thought of leaving him in PA as we headed back to Maine. He's such a big softie!!!
Can you blame him?
After getting the tire replaced we headed to Hershey. We were both ready to go home, but Matty knew I wanted to pick up some chocolate for my peepz so we swung in there and grabbed a burger at the Red Robin. 6PM came around and we were on our way home.
It actually was quite a nice drive - much easier with daylight. The sunset was really nice and the breeze was awesome, so we drove a lot of the way with the windows open. We got some funny looks as people drove by and saw us singing along to the country music we had blaring. We have so much fun together :)
I slept a couple hours on the way home, on and off. I'd wake up every once in a while and check to see if Matty had started to nod off yet. He prefers to do the driving though, and did an awesome job both ways! Around 1AM we were in Mass and about an hour from Maine when the car died - in Lawrence. Crap. Matty said the gas pedal just gave out and wouldn't take any more. We coasted to the side of the road, popped the trunk and checked it out. Luckily Matty knows quite a bit about cars - he's one of the best people to be stranded with! Unfortunately we were not able to figure out what was wrong. He called his sister to see what the problem was LAST time it died, but she couldn't remember. She also said that unless we knew Spanish we probably couldn't get much help in Lawrence - the city is 95% Spanish. SUPER!!!He called his mom, his dad, my step-dad...no luck. No quick fixes, no AAA. Around 2:30AM I got in the car and Matty started to push. When the car started to go to fast for him he ran and jumped in. We coasted all the way to a Dunkin Donuts and landed in a parking spot. We locked the doors and curled up, waiting for his mom who was on her way to pick us up. She lived about an hour away from where we were fortunately, so we caught some overdue Z's in the meantime.
Around 4AM I was startled awake by a knock at the window - his mom. Relieved, we loaded up our pillows and my laptop into her car and we snoozed back to her house. We plopped on a mattress down in her basement after arriving around 5AM and slept until 9 - we still had a car to get! We took turns calling in to work and thankfully our bosses were ok with it - not that we had a choice, but it's always nice when people are cool about that kind of stuff, know what I mean?
We headed to Uhaul for a car dolley, and they didn't have the right one - nor did we have the correct trailer hitch. We headed to Wal Mart, then to the Portland Uhaul because they had the dolley we needed. Back to Lawrence we go. By the time we got to the car it was pretty hot outside and I was not happy to find that the $50 in chocolate that I had purchased was well on its way to melting. Could anything else go wrong? We loaded up the car and headed back to Maine where we had a connection that would look at sister's car to see what was wrong. Unfortunately he couldn't figure it out and we had to leave the car there. Not our problem any more, that's for sure! We swung back through Uhaul to drop off the dolley and was homeward bound.
Mr. Fix-It:
I slept on and off for the last few hours and got home Wednesday at 7pm. I loaded my stuff in my car and hugged Matty goodbye, choking back tears. It was such a good weekend, I didn't want it to end. Even the obstacles we ran into were fun - we never lost our cool, fought or anything! I went home and was out cold by 8:30.
Yesterday and today have been very busy days at the office. Luckily my boss was able to find someone to cover some of my work while I was out, so it saved me a significant amount of stress. I do have to go in tomorrow and do some more work though - at least it'll only be for a few hours. I have to work at the store tomorrow night too, so I guess I don't have much for fun stuff going on.
I saw Counselor yesterday and she said shaking up my routine is good for me every once in a while. For one, it helps me to appreciate my routine once I get back into it, and also it reminds me that I really can have fun when things are turned upside down. Now I have awesome memories and adventures that I can tell Lil D about when he's older! I can't wait to see that precious little boy again :)
Oh, and someday I'll open my own Cracker Barrel so I don't have to travel out of state to enjoy their food!
We went to the park for a while Tuesday night - Lil D was allllll smiles.
I went to the top of the slide and Matty was at the bottom. I'd grab Lil D's arms and let him dangle in suspense before letting him go. He loved it!
The park had trails out back. I thought the bumpy ride would be uncomfortable but Lil D screamed with joy!
The time we spent with Lil D was amazing. I never thought the thing that initially destroyed me and Matty's relationship ended up making us stronger as a couple. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Matty - and seeing him play 'dad' is actually quite attractive!
My main man and his Mini Me:
He loves to put food in his mouth, get it all nice and soggy then offer it to you. Yummy!
Tuesday morning we packed up and checked out of the hotel. Matty's sister let us use her car and he ended up spotting a bad tire that needed to be replaced, so we had to take care of that before getting back on the road. After a nice breakfast at the Craker Barrel we met up with Lil D's mom and sadly gave him back :( Matty took it better than I thought - he got a little misty-eyed the night before at the thought of leaving him in PA as we headed back to Maine. He's such a big softie!!!
Can you blame him?
After getting the tire replaced we headed to Hershey. We were both ready to go home, but Matty knew I wanted to pick up some chocolate for my peepz so we swung in there and grabbed a burger at the Red Robin. 6PM came around and we were on our way home.
It actually was quite a nice drive - much easier with daylight. The sunset was really nice and the breeze was awesome, so we drove a lot of the way with the windows open. We got some funny looks as people drove by and saw us singing along to the country music we had blaring. We have so much fun together :)
I slept a couple hours on the way home, on and off. I'd wake up every once in a while and check to see if Matty had started to nod off yet. He prefers to do the driving though, and did an awesome job both ways! Around 1AM we were in Mass and about an hour from Maine when the car died - in Lawrence. Crap. Matty said the gas pedal just gave out and wouldn't take any more. We coasted to the side of the road, popped the trunk and checked it out. Luckily Matty knows quite a bit about cars - he's one of the best people to be stranded with! Unfortunately we were not able to figure out what was wrong. He called his sister to see what the problem was LAST time it died, but she couldn't remember. She also said that unless we knew Spanish we probably couldn't get much help in Lawrence - the city is 95% Spanish. SUPER!!!He called his mom, his dad, my step-dad...no luck. No quick fixes, no AAA. Around 2:30AM I got in the car and Matty started to push. When the car started to go to fast for him he ran and jumped in. We coasted all the way to a Dunkin Donuts and landed in a parking spot. We locked the doors and curled up, waiting for his mom who was on her way to pick us up. She lived about an hour away from where we were fortunately, so we caught some overdue Z's in the meantime.
Around 4AM I was startled awake by a knock at the window - his mom. Relieved, we loaded up our pillows and my laptop into her car and we snoozed back to her house. We plopped on a mattress down in her basement after arriving around 5AM and slept until 9 - we still had a car to get! We took turns calling in to work and thankfully our bosses were ok with it - not that we had a choice, but it's always nice when people are cool about that kind of stuff, know what I mean?
We headed to Uhaul for a car dolley, and they didn't have the right one - nor did we have the correct trailer hitch. We headed to Wal Mart, then to the Portland Uhaul because they had the dolley we needed. Back to Lawrence we go. By the time we got to the car it was pretty hot outside and I was not happy to find that the $50 in chocolate that I had purchased was well on its way to melting. Could anything else go wrong? We loaded up the car and headed back to Maine where we had a connection that would look at sister's car to see what was wrong. Unfortunately he couldn't figure it out and we had to leave the car there. Not our problem any more, that's for sure! We swung back through Uhaul to drop off the dolley and was homeward bound.
Mr. Fix-It:
I slept on and off for the last few hours and got home Wednesday at 7pm. I loaded my stuff in my car and hugged Matty goodbye, choking back tears. It was such a good weekend, I didn't want it to end. Even the obstacles we ran into were fun - we never lost our cool, fought or anything! I went home and was out cold by 8:30.
Yesterday and today have been very busy days at the office. Luckily my boss was able to find someone to cover some of my work while I was out, so it saved me a significant amount of stress. I do have to go in tomorrow and do some more work though - at least it'll only be for a few hours. I have to work at the store tomorrow night too, so I guess I don't have much for fun stuff going on.
I saw Counselor yesterday and she said shaking up my routine is good for me every once in a while. For one, it helps me to appreciate my routine once I get back into it, and also it reminds me that I really can have fun when things are turned upside down. Now I have awesome memories and adventures that I can tell Lil D about when he's older! I can't wait to see that precious little boy again :)
Oh, and someday I'll open my own Cracker Barrel so I don't have to travel out of state to enjoy their food!
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