Last night Husband I attended a graduation party for a dear friend of ours and we noticed something kind of strange as we were leaving the event around 10:00. Husband and I have been invited to multiple events where we were either the only or close-to only non-family members there. I find it extremely flattering and it means quite a bit to us that we were considered when inviting people, but my weird little mind would love to know why someday. It'd be amazing to know why people think we're good friends so I can continuously try to be that supportive person for other people as I go through life.
Long story and philosophical pieces aside, though, last night was really fun, but we stopped by Frie's house after we came back from Downtown and I ended up crashing out while Husband and his BFF played with new electronics until three o'clock in the morning. The resulting situation: Husband and I didn't wake up until around eleven this morning. I was zonked, so when Hubby decided that he wanted to go spend the rest of the day with his parents out at the beach, I politely bowed out. I needed time to decompress, get ready for our trip some more, and do laundry.
The funny part of it all, at least to me, is that I think my productive day oxymoronically changed into a lazy-productive day. Yes, I have cooked and cleaned house and done five loads of laundry and got groceries and packed a bit more for our trip and refilled the hummingbird feeder and color coded all of my hanging items in the closet, but I've also contently sat down and fiddle farted around. I've sat down in my favorite pajamas and researched how to bring food into the secure area of the airport and watched two episodes of Call the Midwife and played Bloons TD 5 and sipped my way through two Diet Cokes. It's been a much better day than I anticipated and I am so glad that I decided to stay home. I still have a load of laundry that I need to fold and put away, but in reality that isn't very much.
Now whether or not tomorrow will be similar to today is yet to be seen. My grandmother expectantly came down to stay with my parents this afternoon and I would really like to go see her. The last time I saw her was at our wedding and truth be told, she is one of my favorite people in the world. It's just a matter of what Husband has planned for us tomorrow. If anything conflicts then we'll have to figure it out, but for now my intention is to go hang out with the family and catch up, maybe ride the horses with my mom later in the evening. For now, it's back to researching for our trip and cruising through Netflix to find something to watch.
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Saturday, May 27, 2017
I never thought that I'd say "I just put my husband down for a nap." The truth is, though, that our relationship is about giving to one another and while we are imperfect and have hiccups in our relationship, things like me making sure he's getting enough sleep is super important in the long run. He takes care of me in so many ways that if I ever needed to repay him, I don't think that I'd be able to. Thankfully, we don't keep score.
Right now we wouldn't even have time for that sort of thing anyway. I'm running my first marathon on June 4 and then we turn around and go on our first international trip soon after. The marathon part has me pretty scared, the traveling not so much. And it's not even the run that has me that scared. If I do it, I do it, but the next day of any distance race if you're undertrained can be hell. We live up a flight of stairs and going down them on June 5 is going to be nearly impossible. I'm already contemplating the sit-n-scoot down each stair so that I'll be able to make it to the bottom. Husband will likely have to help and then he'll also have to get me to and from work. I feel like work making it to work will actually be a badge of honor, though, because of how much it will take to get there. I think I'll be fine to stand up all day so that I don't get stiff, but who knows. Either way, I bet it'll be interesting.
And then there's getting ready for the Bahamas. So exciting! I'm already in the process of trying to get everything together, but the more I check into what we'll be needing to take with us, the more I think that we're going to have to use some of my parents' luggage so that our dress clothes don't get all screwed up on our flights. I'm behind, though, because it's less than two weeks away and I haven't even asked them yet. Oops!
A lot of other things are done, though. Husband and I got our passports in the mail mid-April and I've already started putting together things like toiletries, but being the lead on a trip this big has me feeling nervous. Husband has never been on a plane. I've never been on a red eye flight. I haven't been internationally in over ten years. Can we do it? Absolutely. It's just a matter of getting all of our ducks in a row and right now I don't feel like I have any ducks. It will always turn out, though, and it always has in the past, so I'm mostly excited (and secretly I think Husband is, too!)
Right now we wouldn't even have time for that sort of thing anyway. I'm running my first marathon on June 4 and then we turn around and go on our first international trip soon after. The marathon part has me pretty scared, the traveling not so much. And it's not even the run that has me that scared. If I do it, I do it, but the next day of any distance race if you're undertrained can be hell. We live up a flight of stairs and going down them on June 5 is going to be nearly impossible. I'm already contemplating the sit-n-scoot down each stair so that I'll be able to make it to the bottom. Husband will likely have to help and then he'll also have to get me to and from work. I feel like work making it to work will actually be a badge of honor, though, because of how much it will take to get there. I think I'll be fine to stand up all day so that I don't get stiff, but who knows. Either way, I bet it'll be interesting.
And then there's getting ready for the Bahamas. So exciting! I'm already in the process of trying to get everything together, but the more I check into what we'll be needing to take with us, the more I think that we're going to have to use some of my parents' luggage so that our dress clothes don't get all screwed up on our flights. I'm behind, though, because it's less than two weeks away and I haven't even asked them yet. Oops!
A lot of other things are done, though. Husband and I got our passports in the mail mid-April and I've already started putting together things like toiletries, but being the lead on a trip this big has me feeling nervous. Husband has never been on a plane. I've never been on a red eye flight. I haven't been internationally in over ten years. Can we do it? Absolutely. It's just a matter of getting all of our ducks in a row and right now I don't feel like I have any ducks. It will always turn out, though, and it always has in the past, so I'm mostly excited (and secretly I think Husband is, too!)
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