one or the other
seven days, and:
had my hours cut back even more than i had intended at work, and bore witness to the layoff of five of our staff, and reduced hours for the rest of my team
schmupies arrived for a visit
drove to boston for a surprisingly fun and inspiring meeting; remembered that there are parts of my job that are awesome (because, y'know, meeting foundation board members and governor's office reps is just cool)
ate an amazing dinner cooked for me and schmupies by a dear friend
shoveled a lot
got sick, really f*cking sick
was delighted that eight of my dear college friends made it to froghouse before the friday storm hit, reflected upon how lucky i am to have carried these people with me so far, was very annoyed at being too sick to really be fully present with them, was mildly afraid of having infected them all
tried to dance with schmupies, but got too dizzy during the walkthrough and had to sit down - stupid sick
left town late saturday during the lull between two storms, arrived happily at taod's (after getting lost off the merrit because i was too sick and schmupies too tired to read the friggin' street signs), got to see taod (even though sick) and had yummy happy taodmombreakfast (oatmealwaffles!!) before getting back in the car
made it out of CT in totally manageable snow, through NYC in rain, and had to put on sunglasses in NJ, still sick
glad schmupies was able to drive the whole way, because i was still too woozy
last night in Boone, found out i was in local paper back home today (google my name and the name of my town) arrived tonight, finally, in GA, and had lovely happy dinner with the posse, frogparents and frogbrother and frogarkansasgrandparents, potato soup and apple pie and papaw stories nonstop, wish i hadn't forgotten the voice recorder, but scribbled stories all through dinner and will post arkie tales as soon as i stop feeling like i want to sleep for a week
love all around, zonk, frog.
had my hours cut back even more than i had intended at work, and bore witness to the layoff of five of our staff, and reduced hours for the rest of my team
schmupies arrived for a visit
drove to boston for a surprisingly fun and inspiring meeting; remembered that there are parts of my job that are awesome (because, y'know, meeting foundation board members and governor's office reps is just cool)
ate an amazing dinner cooked for me and schmupies by a dear friend
shoveled a lot
got sick, really f*cking sick
was delighted that eight of my dear college friends made it to froghouse before the friday storm hit, reflected upon how lucky i am to have carried these people with me so far, was very annoyed at being too sick to really be fully present with them, was mildly afraid of having infected them all
tried to dance with schmupies, but got too dizzy during the walkthrough and had to sit down - stupid sick
left town late saturday during the lull between two storms, arrived happily at taod's (after getting lost off the merrit because i was too sick and schmupies too tired to read the friggin' street signs), got to see taod (even though sick) and had yummy happy taodmombreakfast (oatmealwaffles!!) before getting back in the car
made it out of CT in totally manageable snow, through NYC in rain, and had to put on sunglasses in NJ, still sick
glad schmupies was able to drive the whole way, because i was still too woozy
last night in Boone, found out i was in local paper back home today (google my name and the name of my town) arrived tonight, finally, in GA, and had lovely happy dinner with the posse, frogparents and frogbrother and frogarkansasgrandparents, potato soup and apple pie and papaw stories nonstop, wish i hadn't forgotten the voice recorder, but scribbled stories all through dinner and will post arkie tales as soon as i stop feeling like i want to sleep for a week
love all around, zonk, frog.