Last week felt like it would never end. I had two work events, and the culmination of a couple of big projects I had been working on since the start of the year. Needless to say, I was so thankful when the weekend arrived.
This week has been completely different. It's like I have jetlag from all the energy I had to exert last week. I have no motivation and all I want to do is lose myself in mindless forms of entertainment- TV, internet, reading other people's blogs, drinking wine every night with dinner (one glass), and playing Roller Coaster Tycoon (please don't judge me too harshly).
I have not wanted to blog myself at all. Why not? Because I am trying to ESCAPE my life of course!
It's all I can do to handle myself and Hunter (let alone Sam, who thankfully has been on call a lot) let alone relive the stress and drama. Part of my problem is that little Hunter hasn't been sleeping through the night very well over the last two weeks- probably my fault because our walks have not been as regular or long as they should have been.
I did find time to make the ortho department cupcakes on Sunday. I drove up to the hospital and met with Sam for dinner, leaving the cupcakes with his very sweet nurses. For our on-call date night, Sam took me to the fish place in the mall across from the hospital and it was fabulous. It was also expensive, but seriously it was scrumptious. I had butterflied panko crusted shrimp and cajun halibut. Mmmmm.
I am also a little overwhelmed by the travel coming up- Jackie's got her bridal shower, her bachelorette and her wedding two weeks apart for the next six weeks. OMG. I am so excited but simultaneously so exhausted. I may end up having to take a day off after the wedding is over to relax and recuperate. Plus, Sam will be off the week after the wedding so it would be good for us to relax and spend some time without so much distraction.
In between the wedding and the bachelorette party (which I get to throw- OMG I am so excited!) we get to see Sam's family for his Great-Aunt's 80th Birthday Party. We have lots of family coming into town, and Sam's folks generously offered to get us a hotel up in Palos Verdes to hang out with the family. I wasn't in love with the idea of staying up there on the weekend before the wedding, but I was looking forward to getting to see Sue and Rich and all the cousins (who I hope are coming down.)
Anyway, Sam's parents are going to stay in Irvine now, which is super thoughtful of them and I'm even more excited about seeing them now that I don't have to stress about the dog and getting my shit together before the wedding. I am so excited about wedding season though, Jackie kicks it off and then we have Monique's and Dan and Tina's.
I'm also really excited about our 10-year class reunion, which I am co-chairing, in June. And Papa's big 80th birthday party in July. So many wonderful things happening in the next couple of months!!!
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
"Finals Week"
I am exhausted. This was the longest week I've had in a long time.
Sam used to tell me that I had to "contain the crazy" during finals week in college. He needed to focus on his exams and whatever drama was going on had to be shelved. For the first time (I think ever) I told Sam I was "pulling finals week" during a Tuesday phone call while I was at my wit's end.
I attended a mixer event with my boss and sales manager on Wednesday night, and was up this morning at 4:50 to get to a conference in Anaheim. Needless to say I am totally exhausted right now. And sitting on the floor in front of the TV watching last Sunday's Walking Dead. (Side note: I have appreciated the less gory Walking Dead story lines lately).
Lack of sleep, the stress of all these events for work, and Hunter getting up in the middle of the night the last couple of nights has taken it's toll. I'm not sure if I want to pop open a bottle of Chateau St Jean chardonnay or spoil myself with take-out (neither of which are Making the Cut friendly ideas). I would normally say that sitting down and curling up with a good book sounds like a good idea but even that sounds like too much mental effort.
If it weren't Sam's stupid 2nd year schedule maybe we could have had dinner together, but he's up at the hospital on call tonight and I am not really feeling like driving all the way up to the hospital to get dinner. The hospital doesn't exactly have lots of healthy dining options near by.
I also realized that I have a hair appointment before Jackie's wedding scheduled at the time as Sam's great Aunt's birthday party on April 27. I had thought (for some stupid reason) the party started at 3pm so I booked the hair appointment at noon. Unfortunately BOTH things are set for noon. So now I need to reschedule my hair appointment or arrive late to Aunt Elsa's birthday. I just don't have too many options for getting my hair done with all the wedding festivities in the weekends prior to the wedding. C'est la vie. Perhaps I'll have to skip out on the gym Saturday morning and try to have my hair done earlier.
Sam used to tell me that I had to "contain the crazy" during finals week in college. He needed to focus on his exams and whatever drama was going on had to be shelved. For the first time (I think ever) I told Sam I was "pulling finals week" during a Tuesday phone call while I was at my wit's end.
I attended a mixer event with my boss and sales manager on Wednesday night, and was up this morning at 4:50 to get to a conference in Anaheim. Needless to say I am totally exhausted right now. And sitting on the floor in front of the TV watching last Sunday's Walking Dead. (Side note: I have appreciated the less gory Walking Dead story lines lately).
Lack of sleep, the stress of all these events for work, and Hunter getting up in the middle of the night the last couple of nights has taken it's toll. I'm not sure if I want to pop open a bottle of Chateau St Jean chardonnay or spoil myself with take-out (neither of which are Making the Cut friendly ideas). I would normally say that sitting down and curling up with a good book sounds like a good idea but even that sounds like too much mental effort.
If it weren't Sam's stupid 2nd year schedule maybe we could have had dinner together, but he's up at the hospital on call tonight and I am not really feeling like driving all the way up to the hospital to get dinner. The hospital doesn't exactly have lots of healthy dining options near by.
I also realized that I have a hair appointment before Jackie's wedding scheduled at the time as Sam's great Aunt's birthday party on April 27. I had thought (for some stupid reason) the party started at 3pm so I booked the hair appointment at noon. Unfortunately BOTH things are set for noon. So now I need to reschedule my hair appointment or arrive late to Aunt Elsa's birthday. I just don't have too many options for getting my hair done with all the wedding festivities in the weekends prior to the wedding. C'est la vie. Perhaps I'll have to skip out on the gym Saturday morning and try to have my hair done earlier.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Ladies Weekend
It might not be a big surprise, but I don't get too many evenings Girls Night Out opportunities. Yes, Sam is on call all the time (or so it feels), but many of those nights I am busy with Hunter or doing errands or housework. On Fridays I am frequently too hired from the work-week to bother going out, and often times my girlfriends are busy with their boyfriends on Saturdays.
That was not the case this weekend. Sam went to Las Vegas with Ryan, Steve, Nick, Mason and Kirellos when the stars aligned and all the boys were off at the same time. Dan and Tina had been planning a March Madness trip which happened to coincide with the boys' time off.
I couldn't make it due to Jackie's upcoming wedding events, budgeting for our 10-year High School Reunion trip to San Francisco, and wedding/birthday madness in July. I guess it's part of being a mature, financially minded adult to say 'no' to some trips. :-) Besides, I am really looking forward to all my upcoming weekend celebrations and this turned out to be a bit of a UCI med school reunion for Sam's group of guy friends.
So anyway, Sam left me here with Hunter for the weekend. And wow, I have gotten to hang out with lots of great ladies! Minal, Sam's co-resident, met me at The Melting Pot after I dropped Sam off at the airport on Friday night. She hadn't ever been there before, so we ordered spinach artichoke cheese fondue and then a pot of milk chocolate & peanut butter fondue. It was SO fun getting to spend a little one-on-one time with her. In fact, I think I could REALLY enjoy her company. The only trouble is that she is from Orange County, and has a very busy social life. I anticipate it being even more difficult to spend time with her than it is for me to spend time with Sam!
Saturday morning, Amy and I met for the 9:15 spin class at our local LA Fitness. It was a really rigorous workout this morning; we had a sub and she was way more intense than our usual instructor. Not that we're not usually working hard, but this girl had me POURING sweat and that is rare even for me- I feel like I sweat an unusual amount.
After spin, I came home to shower and pick up Hunter before heading down to Corona del Mar to meet up with Amy for lunch and a little Newport Coast walk. We spent a while hanging out on Nick's patio enjoying the sunshine. It wasn't hot, hot, but it was definitely better than the over-cast, fog situation that was going on earlier in the morning.
When I left Amy, I went by Ralph's and picked up the Rug Doctor carpet cleaning machine and decided to shampoo our carpets. After last weekend's Spring Cleaning, it was just looking foul that our carpets had dark stains and spots. So anyway, I cleaned the carpets for about 2 hours and made very sure to go back over the whole floor with just plain water after I had finished with the soap. I then made extra passes JUST sucking up water from the fibers. My hope was that the carpet would be drier than it was last time I did this (June '12) and that it would be dry by the time Sam got home if not Sunday morning.
Hunter and I settled down on the couch to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and wait for the carpets to dry. I wanted to call Jen, but she has a BIG exam (her last one) next Saturday and I didn't want to be a distraction for her. Around 8:45, she texted me and asked me what I was up to. Since I wasn't doing anything too important, and I had been hoping to see her, I decided to go over and have some wine. Three and a half hours later (WooHoo for ringing in St Patty's Day 2013), after we finished a bottle of wine and played copious amounts of Guitar Hero, I finally headed home to Hunter. While I was out, I left the heat on to try to help dry the carpets. As soon as I got home I turned off the heat and opened back up our balcony slider and bedroom windows to help air out the apartment and speed up the drying process.
Jen texted me a 9 to see what I was up to. She was getting burnt out studying for her big exam next Saturday and wanted to share some wine. A bottle of Pino Noir and a few hours of guitar hero later, we rang in St. Patrick's Day. When I got home I wasn't especially sleepy, so I decided to watch a bit more of The Fellowship of the Ring (which I was midway through when Jen texted). I ended up going to bed around 2:30.
Sunday morning Any and I had planned to go to spin class... but she wasn't feeling up to it. I, with only 5.5 hours of sleep, managed to get myself there and survived back-to-back spin days with LITTLE serious damage. Nothing like last weekend when I did a poor job of working my hamstrings and quads equally... I couldn't wear heels all week and had to roll out my legs for three days straight.
After spin, I started putting things back in order as the carpet began to dry. I also sat down to do some serious work- four hours of intense website analysis. I am trying to work on our pages with high bounce rates so I looked at 26 pages: key term phrases, content, meta description, title, etc. I was able to make changes to most of the pages, and there were a few I don't know how to improve upon so I will send those to our SEO guys and see if they have advice. I also sent some weird URLs to our web design girl so she can check out what they are and if I can just delete the pages off the site or if she can make some edits so the pages function more successfully.
Now, I'm relaxing with Sam and Hunter on the couch, just hanging out and watching The Return of the King. (LOVE THESE MOVIES!) I watched the first two earlier today and I probably won't be able to finish this one tonight. Oh well, I'll have to handle the conclusion tomorrow.
That was not the case this weekend. Sam went to Las Vegas with Ryan, Steve, Nick, Mason and Kirellos when the stars aligned and all the boys were off at the same time. Dan and Tina had been planning a March Madness trip which happened to coincide with the boys' time off.
I couldn't make it due to Jackie's upcoming wedding events, budgeting for our 10-year High School Reunion trip to San Francisco, and wedding/birthday madness in July. I guess it's part of being a mature, financially minded adult to say 'no' to some trips. :-) Besides, I am really looking forward to all my upcoming weekend celebrations and this turned out to be a bit of a UCI med school reunion for Sam's group of guy friends.
So anyway, Sam left me here with Hunter for the weekend. And wow, I have gotten to hang out with lots of great ladies! Minal, Sam's co-resident, met me at The Melting Pot after I dropped Sam off at the airport on Friday night. She hadn't ever been there before, so we ordered spinach artichoke cheese fondue and then a pot of milk chocolate & peanut butter fondue. It was SO fun getting to spend a little one-on-one time with her. In fact, I think I could REALLY enjoy her company. The only trouble is that she is from Orange County, and has a very busy social life. I anticipate it being even more difficult to spend time with her than it is for me to spend time with Sam!
Saturday morning, Amy and I met for the 9:15 spin class at our local LA Fitness. It was a really rigorous workout this morning; we had a sub and she was way more intense than our usual instructor. Not that we're not usually working hard, but this girl had me POURING sweat and that is rare even for me- I feel like I sweat an unusual amount.
After spin, I came home to shower and pick up Hunter before heading down to Corona del Mar to meet up with Amy for lunch and a little Newport Coast walk. We spent a while hanging out on Nick's patio enjoying the sunshine. It wasn't hot, hot, but it was definitely better than the over-cast, fog situation that was going on earlier in the morning.
When I left Amy, I went by Ralph's and picked up the Rug Doctor carpet cleaning machine and decided to shampoo our carpets. After last weekend's Spring Cleaning, it was just looking foul that our carpets had dark stains and spots. So anyway, I cleaned the carpets for about 2 hours and made very sure to go back over the whole floor with just plain water after I had finished with the soap. I then made extra passes JUST sucking up water from the fibers. My hope was that the carpet would be drier than it was last time I did this (June '12) and that it would be dry by the time Sam got home if not Sunday morning.
Hunter and I settled down on the couch to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and wait for the carpets to dry. I wanted to call Jen, but she has a BIG exam (her last one) next Saturday and I didn't want to be a distraction for her. Around 8:45, she texted me and asked me what I was up to. Since I wasn't doing anything too important, and I had been hoping to see her, I decided to go over and have some wine. Three and a half hours later (WooHoo for ringing in St Patty's Day 2013), after we finished a bottle of wine and played copious amounts of Guitar Hero, I finally headed home to Hunter. While I was out, I left the heat on to try to help dry the carpets. As soon as I got home I turned off the heat and opened back up our balcony slider and bedroom windows to help air out the apartment and speed up the drying process.
Jen texted me a 9 to see what I was up to. She was getting burnt out studying for her big exam next Saturday and wanted to share some wine. A bottle of Pino Noir and a few hours of guitar hero later, we rang in St. Patrick's Day. When I got home I wasn't especially sleepy, so I decided to watch a bit more of The Fellowship of the Ring (which I was midway through when Jen texted). I ended up going to bed around 2:30.
Sunday morning Any and I had planned to go to spin class... but she wasn't feeling up to it. I, with only 5.5 hours of sleep, managed to get myself there and survived back-to-back spin days with LITTLE serious damage. Nothing like last weekend when I did a poor job of working my hamstrings and quads equally... I couldn't wear heels all week and had to roll out my legs for three days straight.
After spin, I started putting things back in order as the carpet began to dry. I also sat down to do some serious work- four hours of intense website analysis. I am trying to work on our pages with high bounce rates so I looked at 26 pages: key term phrases, content, meta description, title, etc. I was able to make changes to most of the pages, and there were a few I don't know how to improve upon so I will send those to our SEO guys and see if they have advice. I also sent some weird URLs to our web design girl so she can check out what they are and if I can just delete the pages off the site or if she can make some edits so the pages function more successfully.
Now, I'm relaxing with Sam and Hunter on the couch, just hanging out and watching The Return of the King. (LOVE THESE MOVIES!) I watched the first two earlier today and I probably won't be able to finish this one tonight. Oh well, I'll have to handle the conclusion tomorrow.
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