Wowee, it has been a manic couple of weeks...again. I seem to vacillate between being too busy to post or too bored. Silly me. Well, here we go.
At the beginning of the month, my grandma for whom I am named went into the hospital because she was having a lot of trouble eating and as much as I should state all the details, it's really hard to think about, so I'll skip to the end and say that after a week in the hospital and a lot of issues, she passed away. It was sad, but I know she's in a better place, and my mom and her siblings and my grandpa made sure she was never alone, and she went away in peace with grandpa holding her hand, so I think it'll be okay. I was a little annoyed that I found out via facebook...in fact I was pretty upset at the time, but I'm over that. I'm more upset about my grandma being gone. When I saw her laid out at her rosary, all I could think was that wasn't my grandma. I mean, it was, but she didn't lie down like that, she was always active and alert and looking after all of us. The pictures made me feel better, because that WAS my grandma. I was sad, and I cried a lot at different times, certain things set me off, and I'm still sad when I think about how I won't be able to see her anymore, but I know she's at peace, and she's watching out for me, and all of us. The priest made me very happy by calling her a lovely and gracious woman, because that is exactly what she was.
In the meantime, the rosary and funeral meant everyone would be gathered together, and even though I prefer weddings and baptisms and anniversaries, it was nice to see everyone. I love my cousins. And my cousin Matthew and his lovely wife Jayna let me play with their new little one, Janie Lou, which helped me get through a lot of the rosary. My wonderful sister-in-law got me through the funeral. I have a great family, and I have to admit that I'm pretty lucky.
Family news aside, I'm pretty lucky in other ways. The job still treats me pretty well, though this new car management assignment is a bit too ambiguous for my taste, but I'm sure we'll figure it out. I got my bonus and my raise, which is always the awesome part of the year. I have to meet with the head cheese tomorrow (take that however you like), but I think it'll be okay, I just need to look nice and bring a notebook. Jack and Heather had their birthdays, Jack liked his present, I still need to mail Heather's, but since she has yet to mail my Christmas present, we figure everything will get where it needs to go soon enough.
The other wonderful news is that I have a boyfriend now. Eric asked me to make plans with him for Valentine's day, and for the first time in almost 27 years, I will have a date for that particular holiday. He's also been supportive and sweet while I'm missing my grandma, and he plans to spoil me. For the first week, it almost didn't feel real, since it was something I dreamt about so many times. But it certainly seems to be happening, and I feel so happy I can't stop smiling sometimes. I keep waiting for someone to come up to me and flick my ear and tell me to knock it off. I just adore him, and I don't always feel like I deserve it, but apparently he does, so I will defer to him. Expect to be totally annoyed by our cuteness. I plan to make everyone vomit with sappiness.
Now go listen to "L-O-V-E" by Nat King Cole and feel the way I do.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Goodness me, the end of January already? Well, since my last post, I have been requested to talk about myself (how dull), so let's see what's the haps. Not a whole lot, Christian and Jenny came back for another workshop weekend, which was quite productive. I think I only skipped one class, the beginning lindy (should probably know that by now), and I took a private with them, so I think I learned plenty with them. They taught the Tranky Doo routine, more STL Shag (awesome!), how to practice alone, and we fixed my swingout (again); staying low, keeping my arm a little less extended, and hooking my triples in front of the swivels.
Yes, I speak dancer.
Christian and Jenny are just lovely people to hang with. I hauled them back to Troy's for my lesson, and later went to dinner with them, as well as Eric and Ben. That was good times, plus barbecue was nom. I think I'm getting pretty good at this dancing thing, and I'm quite looking forward to Heartland. I'd love to be in the Miss Heartland contest, but I'm not too confident in my entry. We'll see. It'll be fun either way.
I've also been given a more active role in Jitterbugs now being the Volunteer coordinator. I think Nate and Christy are okay with how I do things, I have no idea what the volunteers think, but no one's complained yet. We shall see on that one too. It's not as scary as I thought it would be.
Work is still kind of just work. I had my evaluation, I did fine. People think I should've been rated higher, but honestly, I have a better job now, I'm getting paid better, people are satisfied with my work, I really have no complaints. They're eventually going to move my desk, and eventually I'm going to have walls, and there will be new duties and responsibilities, but no one's in a huge rush. Oh, and I get to meet with my scary vice president on Valentine's Day, joy of joys. Hopefully I won't take anything she says personally. I'm trying to rise above that if I can, but it's a work in progress.
Someone did mention the other night how girls didn't know anything about swingouts, which did get harshly under my skin, and I did want to punch him. But I didn't and he wound up apologizing, as he should have. You shouldn't generalize about people like that, and he has no right to do so, because that would imply he dances with all the girls, and I don't like dancing with him because he acts like a creep. And I know what's going on in a swingout. Twit.
But anyway...
Last weekend there was dancing, practicing my Christian and Jenny advice, getting cranky because I was hungry, ice skating in some very chilly weather, and late night shenanigans. It was fun, but next year, I will eat in advance and wear much warmer clothing. But it was a good cause, and the Thriller Dance on ice was impressive, and watching Dena, Clint, Adam, and Eric do the Shiver skate was pretty fun. They are braver than I, and probably have better circulation. Boy, I was cold towards the end. We went to Village Inn post skate and warmed up, and then I went home and wisely took muscle relaxers before sacking out.
Saturday I went to the zoo with Cecily, and despite it being January, it was a pretty nice day outside. It was a pretty cool zoo, and I'll have to go back when it's not under construction to see the rest, and when Cecily and I haven't been up till 4 the night before, but the parts I did see were great. I was a little shocked at the open water features in the Kingdoms of the Night exhibit (hello, open pool of water in the dark? Safety hazard!) and the animals that were allowed to wander (lots of birds, the ducks were cute though), and how many tigers the zoo has (and the stoner jaguar, what the what?). We saw the desert, the swamps, the big cats, the primates, and the jungles. We ate lunch in the cafe that overlooks the jungle and watched the white handed gibbons play. We also discovered why tapirs are not normally viewed standing up (it's like a fifth leg!). But we had plenty of giggles. I liked the orangutans and the wallabies a lot. We also saw an aardvark and an armadillo, and more than enough snakes (eek), and some really big fish. With an f, not a ph.
After the zoo we went over to Adam's for a viewing of Sherlock Series two. I only got to watch the first episode, but it was pretty epic. They are almost too clever for their own good, but I had a blast. Then I headed over to Matt and Vivian's for their appetizer partay, which was fun AND I cooked something for it. Spinach artichoke dip, not bad if I say so myself. Which is good, because I have plenty o' leftovers. The crab rangoon won, but even I have to agree with that. Plus lots of hors d'oeuvres apparently come covered in bacon. That's all right with me too. There were further shenanigans plus THE BABY! She's so cute, she can hold her head up now. I got to hold her a little while, and then got shafted because Lisa didn't get to hold the baby because she'd been sick all this time, so therefore she got the baby the rest of the time. Whatever. I got to hold her when she was six days old. I managed to make it home not long after midnight, and then slept till noon the next day.
Sunday I had many goals, but no energy, so I did laundry and gassed up my car, and left it at that. My weekends have been quite activity filled lately, and I think that the end of January 2012 may be shaping up better than the beginning of January 2012. We'll see. Less than six hours left.
I also think my life would be much improved if I kicked every morning off playing "The Circle of Life and "Sister Suffragette". Thank you, Disney on Pandora.
Yes, I speak dancer.
Christian and Jenny are just lovely people to hang with. I hauled them back to Troy's for my lesson, and later went to dinner with them, as well as Eric and Ben. That was good times, plus barbecue was nom. I think I'm getting pretty good at this dancing thing, and I'm quite looking forward to Heartland. I'd love to be in the Miss Heartland contest, but I'm not too confident in my entry. We'll see. It'll be fun either way.
I've also been given a more active role in Jitterbugs now being the Volunteer coordinator. I think Nate and Christy are okay with how I do things, I have no idea what the volunteers think, but no one's complained yet. We shall see on that one too. It's not as scary as I thought it would be.
Work is still kind of just work. I had my evaluation, I did fine. People think I should've been rated higher, but honestly, I have a better job now, I'm getting paid better, people are satisfied with my work, I really have no complaints. They're eventually going to move my desk, and eventually I'm going to have walls, and there will be new duties and responsibilities, but no one's in a huge rush. Oh, and I get to meet with my scary vice president on Valentine's Day, joy of joys. Hopefully I won't take anything she says personally. I'm trying to rise above that if I can, but it's a work in progress.
Someone did mention the other night how girls didn't know anything about swingouts, which did get harshly under my skin, and I did want to punch him. But I didn't and he wound up apologizing, as he should have. You shouldn't generalize about people like that, and he has no right to do so, because that would imply he dances with all the girls, and I don't like dancing with him because he acts like a creep. And I know what's going on in a swingout. Twit.
But anyway...
Last weekend there was dancing, practicing my Christian and Jenny advice, getting cranky because I was hungry, ice skating in some very chilly weather, and late night shenanigans. It was fun, but next year, I will eat in advance and wear much warmer clothing. But it was a good cause, and the Thriller Dance on ice was impressive, and watching Dena, Clint, Adam, and Eric do the Shiver skate was pretty fun. They are braver than I, and probably have better circulation. Boy, I was cold towards the end. We went to Village Inn post skate and warmed up, and then I went home and wisely took muscle relaxers before sacking out.
Saturday I went to the zoo with Cecily, and despite it being January, it was a pretty nice day outside. It was a pretty cool zoo, and I'll have to go back when it's not under construction to see the rest, and when Cecily and I haven't been up till 4 the night before, but the parts I did see were great. I was a little shocked at the open water features in the Kingdoms of the Night exhibit (hello, open pool of water in the dark? Safety hazard!) and the animals that were allowed to wander (lots of birds, the ducks were cute though), and how many tigers the zoo has (and the stoner jaguar, what the what?). We saw the desert, the swamps, the big cats, the primates, and the jungles. We ate lunch in the cafe that overlooks the jungle and watched the white handed gibbons play. We also discovered why tapirs are not normally viewed standing up (it's like a fifth leg!). But we had plenty of giggles. I liked the orangutans and the wallabies a lot. We also saw an aardvark and an armadillo, and more than enough snakes (eek), and some really big fish. With an f, not a ph.
After the zoo we went over to Adam's for a viewing of Sherlock Series two. I only got to watch the first episode, but it was pretty epic. They are almost too clever for their own good, but I had a blast. Then I headed over to Matt and Vivian's for their appetizer partay, which was fun AND I cooked something for it. Spinach artichoke dip, not bad if I say so myself. Which is good, because I have plenty o' leftovers. The crab rangoon won, but even I have to agree with that. Plus lots of hors d'oeuvres apparently come covered in bacon. That's all right with me too. There were further shenanigans plus THE BABY! She's so cute, she can hold her head up now. I got to hold her a little while, and then got shafted because Lisa didn't get to hold the baby because she'd been sick all this time, so therefore she got the baby the rest of the time. Whatever. I got to hold her when she was six days old. I managed to make it home not long after midnight, and then slept till noon the next day.
Sunday I had many goals, but no energy, so I did laundry and gassed up my car, and left it at that. My weekends have been quite activity filled lately, and I think that the end of January 2012 may be shaping up better than the beginning of January 2012. We'll see. Less than six hours left.
I also think my life would be much improved if I kicked every morning off playing "The Circle of Life and "Sister Suffragette". Thank you, Disney on Pandora.
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