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 :)