The Beautiful and The Bad

I shouldn't complain, cause this week went by relatively fast.  Though each individual day seemed to just drag on.  But I am very much looking forward to the weekend.  I've been feeling like I have a bit more energy lately, so I hope to finish up unpacking some of the things that are still sitting around in boxes.  I know, I know.  You would've thought that all would've been taken care of by now.  But it hasn't been, so hopefully this weekend will provide some time for that.  Other than that, I think it'll be a pretty uneventful weekend.  Which I'm kind of ok with.  We have some party thing to go to one afternoon for someone's graduation.  I don't think I've even ever met this girl.  But I figured we might as well go and have a good time.

Loathe:

- feeling tired

- feeling sick often throughout the day

- trying to find a doctor

Love:

- mashed potatoes

- spending nights in (finally alone) with the argentinian.  especially when i'm not expecting it.

- finally having a coffee table and tv stand for my apartment

- that my apartment is finally looking more like a "home", than just a room that stores boxes

- the warm weather

- that i'm not currently feeling sick

- exciting changes

So...I'm trying to pick a new doctor.  Would you pick the one that graduated earlier ('91) from UC Irvine, or one that graduated later ('98), but graduated from Yale?

Loathe:

- Feeling tired. All. The. Time.

- Unpacking

- Feeling stressed

- Being at work

- Being in need of money

Love:

- Having a boyfriend who is supportive and caring (even when I'm overly emotional)

- Having my own apartment

- Living less than 2 miles from the beach

- Sunny weather

Well, I really try to always have more "loves" than "loathes", but, so far, I am falling short.  Hopefully that will change as my mood improves

I'm so tired, and in need of sleep, that I just felt a little jealous of my cat.  I looked over at her on the couch and thought, I wish I could just lay around and sleep all day.  She has it so easy.   

So, the move has been completed.  I now just have the daunting task of unpacking everything.  I am not looking forward to it.  I took a half day off of work today to try and make the place a little more livable/walkable.  I am exhausted.  I don't know how I'm going to make it through today.  I just want to sleep.

What would you like to do more of?

Sleep

Shop

Make more money

I suppose if I made more money I'd be able to do more shopping.  The sleep thing....well, maybe if I got a better job that had less hours I'd get that too.  Or if money just magically appeared in my bank account and I didn't have to work...

Or back to work at least.  Man...let me tell you, after taking a week and a half vacation, work blows.  Even more than normal.  The days have just been dragging by.  I think the only way I'm getting through this trying time is that I'm really looking forward to moving this weekend.  Even if I'm (as expected) not done packing yet.

I've been trying to catch up on everyone's posts.  But there are so many!  It's not so bad to catch up on a day or two, but miss a week of posts, and it's like things are completely different with people. 

So the trip was amazing.  I had such a fun time.  My only complaint is that I wish the Argentinian was there.  And that the drinks were free.  Cause those sure add up (hello almost $400 bill).  We went to Grand Cayman, Honduras, Belize, and Mexico.  Sacramento Guy was on the trip, and for the most part things were fine, except for the fight we got on one night.  And that he occassionally got on my nerves.  But overall things were ok between us.  I got a tan, just like I hoped.  So that makes me happy.  I was worried since I (and everyone else who went in our group practically) got pretty burned on our first day at sea that I'd have to stay bathed in sunblock to prevent further discomfort.  But luckily a day or two later I was fine and ready to soak up some more sun.  The ship had such amazing food.  I gained like 5 pounds, at least.  But it was worth it.  So delicious.  I wish I had bought the cookbook they had of the meals they served.  I might try to find out from my friend if there is a way to order one off of the ship. 

As much fun as I had on the trip, I was definitely ready to get home at the end.  I couldn't want to see the Argentinian.  Aside from the break up, we've never been apart for that long.  So we were both so happy to see each other again.  I couldn't wait to get my arms around him.

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
Show us a self-taken picture of the sunset.
Submitted by Connie.

Ok, I couldn't pick just one, so I have a couple...  

This first set is some of my favorite of all time.  Even though the sky looks different in all of them, they were all taken on the same day just minutes apart.

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These two were taken yesterday.  The first one was taken out of my plane window, and the second one in the car on the drive home.

Written yesterday evening (April 2nd)

So I am sitting on a plane right now flying up to Sacramento.  I leave from there tomorrow afternoon for my cruise.  And I just got to say, I am loving the Xanax prescription I got for the multitude of flights I am having over the next couple weeks.  So far I’ve handled take off (always nerve wrecking for me), a decent amount of turbulence, and flying through very hazy/foggy conditions, and haven’t even felt tense.  Sure, in my mind I kind of have a little I hope we don’t crash type of thought.  But very minor.  I’ve been happily snapping pictures out the window, fooling around with some pictures to change effects, and, of course, writing blogs to post once I am again connected to the internet.  If anyone has a fear of flying I 100% recommend you take some Xanax.  It will make your life so much better.  Oh…more turbulence.  Didn’t even phase me.