I'm not even exaggerating when I say that, either. Do you ever have a day when you are so angry over the littlest things and by the end of the day other people's breathing even gets to you? That was my Thursday last week.
Driving to work it seemed like no one really knew how to drive or what they were doing. I got cut off multiple times, I got stuck behind a guy going 25 miles an hour on TV Highway (where it is supposed to be 45) but couldn't get around him because of a city bus, and someone stopped IN AN INTERSECTION and then got stuck there when the light changed so the whole line of cars I was in didn't get to go during our green light. Awesome. And the best part was when I was sitting at a red light and I noticed the guy in the car in front of me was moving around in a weird way. I didn't think anything of it until he opened his door and puked. everywhere. Oh my gosh, you guys, even typing that it makes me feel sick! I hate hate hate vomit almost more than anything in the entire world. Not only does it make me feel sick to see it but it makes me angry- it has ever since I was a little kid.
When I got to work things seemed to settle down for a bit until I started getting the dumb questions like, "Where is the tape?" and "Do we have staples? I'm out". For the eleventy-billionth time, I AM NOT THE SUPPLY CABINET, YOU KNOW WHERE THE DAMN CABINET IS... WALK OVER TO IT AND LOOK BEFORE YOU ASK ME FOR SOMETHING. Not that hard. It's akin to being at home and sitting in your living room and asking aloud , "Do we have cereal? I could totally eat some right now" and expecting someone to appear and magically pull it out of their ass and hand it to you. Does that happen in your home? NO? Huh, because that is pretty much what you are expecting to happen at work.
The dumb questions kept coming all day and it was a mad rush to get some of my projects semi- completed which stressed the hell out of me. I ran some errands after work and it felt like everywhere I turned someone was doing something stupid. I finally got home and was grump beyond belief so I decided it was high time for some Facebook surfing to relax and see what was going on with everyone else. Worst idea ever. Pretty much every post I saw was about how someone's baby had slept more than 2 hours at a time or how another baby took their first solid poop, and even better how this other baby rolled over and he's only 2 months old! Holy crap, you guys... I want to see cute pictures of your baby, I do not need a minute by minute recap of what he did in his day. If you want to capture the moment he took his first solid poop, Facebook is not the place to be posting. Please put that in a scrapbook and write about it. I want to see cute babies and cute baby animals and witty posts from my friends about politics and entertainment, not posts about freakin' baby poop and babies rolling over.
So BF and I decided that we were going to counter attack all the damn baby posts with our own "baby" posts. Each day going forward one of us will post a picture of the other person doing something normal and then we will caption that picture explaining what we are doing and HOW AWESOME it is and how PROUD we are that the other person is doing that. We've already started this and you may have noticed my "Rian eats solid food" post on Saturday. I don't care if people don't like it, it makes me feel better by barraging their newsfeed with stupid updates when I'm assaulted by theirs.
Anyway, so instead of cooking dinner BF and I decided we needed to eat at our favorite place, Pho Tango, because we didn't have the energy to cook anything nor the energy to clean up after cooking. After dinner I was in a much better mood and then realized that other than my oatmeal at breakfast I had not eaten carbs AT ALL that day and was thusly causing my foul mood. It's amazing what some noodles can do.
The evening quickly turned around (go figure) and the weekend was much better. Tomorrow I will tell you all about how I made up for my lack of carbs last week over the weekend and also how I met BF's family from Oklahoma.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
SIXTY. SIX. DAYS.
You. Guys.
Life is so busy, but also so good. I don't even know where to start. I always think I'm going to update and post more often and then I forget about it and 3 weeks have gone by and I realized I haven't even touched an update! So back to what is happening.
BF and I finally finished our backyard patio. That took way longer than we expected, but mostly because re reused the paving stones that already existed so we had to clean each one. by. hand. UGH. I don't ever want to scrub stones again. I have also neglected to take pictures. We now have to clean up the yard debris created by this project and de-weed the yard so we can lay down new grass seed and finish up the yard. It sounds easy, but I don't think it will actually be finished until September.
In wedding news we have T-minus 66 days. That's right. Sixty. Six. Days. Less than three months and I will no longer be a "single" lady. This is motivating and exhausting at the same time. I'm motivated to keep working out and eating healthy so I look awesome on our wedding day, but I'm also thinking, "two more months of working out hard and eating right and working a lot of hours at the office before I get to rest... how will I make it?"
Our Hawaii trip is at the end of August so I'm really looking forward to that, and it's the perfect excuse to buy a few new summery things! I cannot enjoy a luau properly if not in a cute cotton dress. That's just the way things are.
Oh yeah, and I got to meet a lot of BF's mother's side of the family two weekends ago at their family reunion. It's a pretty large side of the family and I know I won't remember everyone's names, but I'm sure they won't mind. This coming weekend BF's grandma is throwing us a party to celebrate our wedding because a lot of his father's side of the family won't be able to make it out in September. So it's sort of a family reunion/ wedding shower BBQ all rolled into one. It should be fun, and pretty entertaining if I believe the descriptions of family members from BF and his dad.
So much more is going on, but I don't even have the mind space to sort it all out and put it into words right now so this update will have to do. But I promise I won't forget to keep up with the updates!
Life is so busy, but also so good. I don't even know where to start. I always think I'm going to update and post more often and then I forget about it and 3 weeks have gone by and I realized I haven't even touched an update! So back to what is happening.
BF and I finally finished our backyard patio. That took way longer than we expected, but mostly because re reused the paving stones that already existed so we had to clean each one. by. hand. UGH. I don't ever want to scrub stones again. I have also neglected to take pictures. We now have to clean up the yard debris created by this project and de-weed the yard so we can lay down new grass seed and finish up the yard. It sounds easy, but I don't think it will actually be finished until September.
In wedding news we have T-minus 66 days. That's right. Sixty. Six. Days. Less than three months and I will no longer be a "single" lady. This is motivating and exhausting at the same time. I'm motivated to keep working out and eating healthy so I look awesome on our wedding day, but I'm also thinking, "two more months of working out hard and eating right and working a lot of hours at the office before I get to rest... how will I make it?"
Our Hawaii trip is at the end of August so I'm really looking forward to that, and it's the perfect excuse to buy a few new summery things! I cannot enjoy a luau properly if not in a cute cotton dress. That's just the way things are.
Oh yeah, and I got to meet a lot of BF's mother's side of the family two weekends ago at their family reunion. It's a pretty large side of the family and I know I won't remember everyone's names, but I'm sure they won't mind. This coming weekend BF's grandma is throwing us a party to celebrate our wedding because a lot of his father's side of the family won't be able to make it out in September. So it's sort of a family reunion/ wedding shower BBQ all rolled into one. It should be fun, and pretty entertaining if I believe the descriptions of family members from BF and his dad.
So much more is going on, but I don't even have the mind space to sort it all out and put it into words right now so this update will have to do. But I promise I won't forget to keep up with the updates!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Holy Updates
It's been FOREVER since I updated this dear old blog, and not for lack of post material.
We've been busier than ever so I'll start from the beginning. When I last updated we had just attending our Garden Themed wedding shower thrown by BF's amazing coworkers and it was a blast. A few days after that BF and I headed downtown with our photographer to get our official engagement photos done. It was fun, but also super awkward for a multitude of reasons. Reason #1- it was the same day as the Portland Pride Parade so while our photographer was trying to get us to be serious and look at each other, we were busy trying not to crack up looking at the crazy outfits as they passed us by. Reason #2- I don't naturally smile all day long, so smiling for an hour was tough work! I had to take a few "face breaks" and stretch my cheeks and face out the other way because I was starting to cramp up! Reason #3- posing is hard because you don't naturally just hold a position for very long so holding a pose and smiling and trying not to laugh was interesting. But the pictures turned out great! Some to come shortly.
A few days after the engagement photo session I drove to Utah to visit my best friend, D, who is also my Maid (Matron) of Honor. It was so awesome once I actually got to Utah (driving through Idaho is not my favorite thing to do) because it was hot and sunny- basically the total opposite of Oregon during that week. I even got a tan! We shopped for a MOH dress for D (and found a great one!) and then mostly hung out and talked about houses and marriage and babies and bachelorette parties (because all of those things are happening to us at this stage in life... except the babies for me, we will wait on that for now). It was so great to see her and spend time with her and her husband, M, I'm just sad that BF had to miss it.
Oh yeah, and BF got a cool summer job teaching some of the camps this summer at OMSI! One of them is a Science School of Wizardry class reminiscent of Harry Potter but based around actual science experiments the kids can do. I have to admit that I am slightly jealous.
We have also completely removed all of the sod from our backyard so it is now the unending dirt pit in which the dogs get completely filthy and then come inside and dirty up my clean house. Ugh. But now we can move on to actually planning and putting together our patio with paving stones and then reseeding the yard so by the end of summer it will be a beautiful backyard oasis of awesome where we can sit and make s'mores and hang out until it gets cold and rainy again. We are thinking about throwing a work party this coming Saturday so we can get the last of the prep work done and actually start laying the pavers! Free pizza and beverages, and possibly popcicles if you are interested!
I'm also in "Holy Crap, we are going to Hawaii in a month and a half and we are going to get married in just under 3" mode so I am refocusing my exercise efforts so I feel comfortable in a bathing suit again. I got started but I have a lot more work to do in the next 45-60 days! Lunges and squats are now my life. Also, planks. Gah, I hate ab stuff but it is totally necessary!
So there is the quick version update! I am so happy that it finally feels like summer. What are your plans?
We've been busier than ever so I'll start from the beginning. When I last updated we had just attending our Garden Themed wedding shower thrown by BF's amazing coworkers and it was a blast. A few days after that BF and I headed downtown with our photographer to get our official engagement photos done. It was fun, but also super awkward for a multitude of reasons. Reason #1- it was the same day as the Portland Pride Parade so while our photographer was trying to get us to be serious and look at each other, we were busy trying not to crack up looking at the crazy outfits as they passed us by. Reason #2- I don't naturally smile all day long, so smiling for an hour was tough work! I had to take a few "face breaks" and stretch my cheeks and face out the other way because I was starting to cramp up! Reason #3- posing is hard because you don't naturally just hold a position for very long so holding a pose and smiling and trying not to laugh was interesting. But the pictures turned out great! Some to come shortly.
A few days after the engagement photo session I drove to Utah to visit my best friend, D, who is also my Maid (Matron) of Honor. It was so awesome once I actually got to Utah (driving through Idaho is not my favorite thing to do) because it was hot and sunny- basically the total opposite of Oregon during that week. I even got a tan! We shopped for a MOH dress for D (and found a great one!) and then mostly hung out and talked about houses and marriage and babies and bachelorette parties (because all of those things are happening to us at this stage in life... except the babies for me, we will wait on that for now). It was so great to see her and spend time with her and her husband, M, I'm just sad that BF had to miss it.
Oh yeah, and BF got a cool summer job teaching some of the camps this summer at OMSI! One of them is a Science School of Wizardry class reminiscent of Harry Potter but based around actual science experiments the kids can do. I have to admit that I am slightly jealous.
We have also completely removed all of the sod from our backyard so it is now the unending dirt pit in which the dogs get completely filthy and then come inside and dirty up my clean house. Ugh. But now we can move on to actually planning and putting together our patio with paving stones and then reseeding the yard so by the end of summer it will be a beautiful backyard oasis of awesome where we can sit and make s'mores and hang out until it gets cold and rainy again. We are thinking about throwing a work party this coming Saturday so we can get the last of the prep work done and actually start laying the pavers! Free pizza and beverages, and possibly popcicles if you are interested!
I'm also in "Holy Crap, we are going to Hawaii in a month and a half and we are going to get married in just under 3" mode so I am refocusing my exercise efforts so I feel comfortable in a bathing suit again. I got started but I have a lot more work to do in the next 45-60 days! Lunges and squats are now my life. Also, planks. Gah, I hate ab stuff but it is totally necessary!
So there is the quick version update! I am so happy that it finally feels like summer. What are your plans?
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