It All Went So Fast!

My mom is leaving to head back to Florida tomorrow – where did our two weeks go?

I knew that is what would happen – the way it always is when you are having fun. I really have missed seeing her this week while she is staying at my aunt’s house. Work has been insane this week so no getting off early for me to hang out with the girls. My aunt took Weds – Friday off to spend all day with my mom, which was nice for both of them.

Wednesday night, I went and met them at her house and we took her grandson for a nice, long walk at a local park/garden by the river. I actually JOGGED people, in 80 degree heat with 75% humidity while playing with that little boy and it felt fabulous! Maybe I need to look more into this jogging/running thing now that I am in such better shape than I used to be. Also, I find it amazing that I am handling our 85+ degrees so much better than in past years. I think I have been cold for SO long, I am just thrilled to finally be able to wear my little summer tops and shorts without freezing my ass off!

Last night, we all met at a local Italian restaurant for dinner and it went too fast – about 1 hour or so and we were all going our separate ways again. *sigh* Tonight, mom is coming over for a BBQ at our house with Andy, Chris and the Little One and that will be my final night with her. She flight leaves tomorrow at 6pm and not sure what we will be able to squeeze in tomorrow. I wonder if any good movies are coming out – maybe we could get in our 4th movie before she is gone.

The summer is filling up quickly with fun plans, like it does every year. This year, I am keeping most of the plans from Brian until it gets closer to the date so we don’t have the same arguments we did last year. I am not planning anything I can’t easily get out of if he would prefer to do something different – but people just keep approaching me and asking us to do stuff! What am I supposed to say? Suck me, I can’t help you?? *grin*

This weekend is my final attempt to set up a day with Lynne to celebrate her little girl’s birthday. It is the day before Brian’s, June 26th so I had hoped maybe we could spend that Saturday before with the kids and take them somewhere fun together. We have a splash pad for little kids at the elementary school close to our house and then there is a playground and ice cream parlor all within walking distance – might be a fun little day for everyone. But, I have a feeling Lynne is still pissed at us for not coming to Lizzy’s big party (whenever that is) and won’t agree to this separate outing. If that is the case – that is her loss, not ours and we have certainly done our best to mark the occasion with them. Brian suggested last night we just celebrate both Lynne’s and Lizzy’s birthday together at the annual 4th of July party at her parents lake house and we might just end up doing just that.

I made plans for Brian’s birthday just yesterday – it falls on a Friday this year, which is cool so I requested a half day off from work and booked us a hotel that night up in Kalamazoo. We have talked about going back up there for ages to hit the Kalamazoo Brewing Company and drink good beer, sit in their beer garden outside and listen to a great band. Gosh – it has probably been more than 6 or 7 years since our last trip – WAY too long! I have already checked out their brews on tap and the band playing that night and it looks like we will have a lot of fun. Brian mentioned something last night about taking a little weekend trip away to Chicago for his birthday – I wanted this to be a surprise but if he would rather go to Chicago – no problem at all. I told him I had something planned but nothing quite that “big” and he said that was fine, he didn’t want to know. I just promised that THIS birthday, I wouldn’t buy him anything or make a big deal out of his birthday like planning a party or anything like that so I am sticking with it. This will just a nice little celebration, just the two of us. Of course, I can’t do anything about mother wanting to take us out to a nice restaurant to celebrate sometime too – he will just have to deal with that!

I went out to lunch today with my new boss and I finally getting excited about my new job! It just seemed so far off when I got the position and now we are less than a month away. I found out I will be sharing an office with my boss which could be good and bad. Good for me because I can get to know her and we will have time to “bond” as she put it plus I will be in the know about things going on in our department by being present for her phone conversations and questions others ask her. BAD in the obvious ways – no privacy, her being able to see everything I am doing all the time which I imagine means very little OD/Internet surfing or YouTube or XMRadio listening! DAMN! Maybe in time, I will find she is pretty relaxed and she won’t care about that kind of stuff. If I am VERY lucky!