slow recovery

So yesterday was my birthday, as many of you know (thanks for all the birthday wishes via mail, email, text message, facebook, etc...it made me feel pretty impressive).  I had originally planned a quiet dinner with my nearest and dearest, only to discover that my coworkers had been surreptitiously planning a party of their own.  After a week of back and forth and demands that I move my dinner plans back, I decided to stop fighting the inevitable and combined the two events.

Which means that by about 5:05 yesterday I was at a bar downstairs and had a drink in my hand.  I didn't leave until 10:30, by which time I'd had a really good birthday and many, many drinks.  Don't worry, Mom, I was still fully functional and I got a ride home so I was completely safe. :)

I think my coworkers and my friends enjoyed meeting each other, if only to put faces with names of people I talk about constantly (I'm a talker.  You all know this about me.).  Plus everyone had a whole new audience for the "Roast of Jessie" portion of the evening, so that was nice.


The benefit of drinking with one of your bosses is when he tells you, "you know, you can come in tomorrow around 11, I think that would be ok" because he's one of the ones who keeps ordering you drinks.

I did make it in to work at 9:30 this morning, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't feeling the pain of last night's shenanigans.

Things that have not helped with my headache today:

1 - My boss coming into my office this morning, putting one hand on each side of my head and shaking (she found this hilarious, I found it mean-spirited and unfriendly.  But also kind of funny).

2 - The REALLY loud (but very nice) lady who came in and stood in my office doorway talking to someone else and it felt like she was shouting next to my ear drum.

3 - The constant jackhammering that has been going on across the street at the construction site ALL DAY LONG.

I am looking forward to getting home tonight, curling up on my couch and watching the first season of True Blood which I got on DVD for my birthday.  If I make it past 9:00 it'll be a miracle.

If anyone can make sense of this post, it'll be a miracle.  I have this feeling that what I think makes sense really doesn't make sense right now.  Oh well.

not really news anymore

So given that most of you are either on facebook, have talked to me in the last few months or are friends with my mother, this is not news to any of you.  Just in case, however, I should throw something up here (if for no other reason than to simply throw something up here, which has been sadly lacking of late).

I'm moving back to Michigan.

I'm moving in with my parents.

I'm going back to college.

This is the major thing that's kept me from posting a lot recently, as it was a big secret and when the big thing in your life is a secret from almost everyone you know, it's hard to find things to talk about (except TV shows).

It all came out last week (aka the longest and busiest week within memory) and there is no more need to keep said secret, so there you have it.

I'd like to say the posting will increase, but that might not actually happen for another three or four weeks.  Because now that it's all out there, I have all the logistics of everything.  Packing, moving, leaving my job step 1, leaving my job step 2, not to mention various wedding related events and tasks that need to be taken care of between now and the end of July.  It's going to be crazy (it already kind of is) and I just don't know how much time I'll have.

Then again, in August I'll have nothing but time while I search for a part time job and gear up to go back to school with kids who are 10 years younger than I am.  So at least I've got that to look forward to :)

I will leave you with two recommendations:

1 - Go see The Proposal.  It's very very cute and Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds have great chemistry.

2 - Check out Royal Pains on USA (I think it's on Thursdays at 10, though I only watch it through the magic of hulu.  I love hulu).  It's quality programming.

that's just the way it goes

I have this thing where whenever I go away for a few days, I come back and it takes like a week and a half for me to regain my sanity and ability to function normally.  This is what I blame the lack of posting for the last two weeks on.  When my travel issues popped up the morning I was leaving to spend Memorial weekend in Michigan, I had a whole post planned for when I got to my parents'.  But that didn't happen because I hadn't seen my family in 6 months, and spending time actually talking to them was more important than posting my insane travel stories (my flight was originally delayed 5.5 hours due to 'aircraft maintenance' and while I did get on a different flight leaving earlier, I still ended up in Flint 5 hours later than scheduled.  But at least it was a good excuse for some day drinking in Metro airport and semi entertaining status updates on facebook).

Then I spent the next 5 days being relaxed and hanging out with the fam and spending time with adorable nephews and seeing one or two people (but definitely not a lot, as this trip was sort of kept under wraps so that there would be plenty of down time - i.e, if I didn't see or call you, please don't be offended) and being on the computer was not a high priority.

Then I came back to work and taking two days off felt like taking 7 days off because it's not like anyone was doing my work while I was gone (that would have been great, though).

A friend from out of town was here when I got back, which sucked up a few evenings.


So I've been working hard every day, coming home very tired every night at which point I don't even want to look at my computer (plus, my laptop is pretty much on its last legs...I have a new one coming this week sometime assuming UPS will accept a note with my signature in lieu of an actual signature) so I just totally crash.

And then the weekend comes and goes and suddenly it's Monday morning and I realize I haven't posted anything pretty much since the TV season ended.

And then it's Wednesday afternoon and I still haven't posted even though there are stories to tell and things I want to say so I put up a lame, excuse-y post like this one and ask you to be patient, I will post stuff soon.  I swear.  Actual stuff.  About things.

So keep your eye out for that.

In other news, as of yesterday I am the only person living in my apartment again.  It was nice to have someone around for awhile, but it's nice to have all my space to myself again and not have to worry about anyone else seeing just how disgusting I can be when I'm on my own :)