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28 juli It's me... againI made it back to post again.. I know, I'm shocked too. Things are pretty much still crazy for me and I think I'm going to die from sleep deprivation. This weekend I thought I was going to sleep in but that never happened. My Prince and I went to see another four houses on Saturday and I fell in love with a house. This has been the best house we've seen so far. It meets all of our requirments and then some. The only concern we have right now is if we'll be able to really afford it or not. I'll be checking in on the utilities and we've been crunching numbers like crazy. Hopefully we'll be making an offer on the house this week. I am SO excited! I can hardly stand it!
I am officially done with my pet sitting/house sitting duties which feels GREAT! Last night I reached a major milestone as far as the database goes, so that's big news. Also, yesterday, My Prince and I proceeded to move more of my stuff out of my apartment. It's almost empty already, I can't believe it!
It's Monday and I'm back at work and ready to pull my hair out. How's your Monday going?
~ FC 24 juli Wow... where have I been?Alternate Title: FC - Unplugged
The few of you who still actually come here to read this are probably wondering where I've been. Well... I'm not sure. Wait... no... that's a lie. I've been going crazy.
My life has gotten increasingly busy. So much that I tend not to be able to sit still for too long before an anxiety attack hits me or I just become so overwhelmed by stress that I have to do something to take my mind off of it. I'm actually typing this post at 10:45pm which I think is a first for me. I never post outside of work because I don't have the internet at home. How am I posting now? Well, that answer will come in my update of what I've been up to.
Back to what I was saying though about never posting this "late" before. I can't sleep tonight because my mind won't let me sleep. I've been trying to sleep for thirty minutes and finally decided to come "play" on the internet and hope that my mind tires itself out. In the mean time allow me to give you insight into my crazy life.
First on my plate is my moving situation. Every day I get closer to my pending "kick out" date where I have to move out of my wonderful apartment. I have to be out of my apartment by August 20th and even though it seemed just like yesterday that I had all the time in the world, time is catching up to me and it's freaking me out. I don't want to leave my apartment for two reasons 1. I LOVE my apartment it fits my personality to a tee and 2. I have no where permanent to go from my apartment. Though My Prince did ask the Queen if I could live with them until we find a place and she agreed, I still feel "homeless". Does that make sense? Also, I face having to tell my Mom that I won't be moving into her house which she has been looking forward to.
While on the subject of houses I must tell you of My Prince and I's house hunting. I've taken the steering wheel as far as "driving" the "car" of the house hunt. I've been the one in contact with the Realtor on a constant basis, I've been the one looking for and finding houses for us to go look at, as well as the one setting up the appointments with the realtor to show us the houses that I've found. Don't get me wrong here, My Prince hasn't just dumped this whole project on me; he's helped when he can but he is really busy as well and we're trying to share the burden. Last weekend we saw four houses in one day. Two of which we thought we were going to make offers on and now after a second viewing of the houses and more input from the Royal Family, it doesn't seem like we're going to put an offer on either house. Interesting, no? We made a pro's and con's list and the con's just were not bearable. Which sucks because I really liked the first house we saw last weekend.
But fret not dear readers for I have found another house to be excited about. The best part about this house is that it meets all of our requirements. I want at least 1.5 bathrooms and My Prince would like a two car garage house. Of course we've learned that getting both in our price range is rather difficult. But! Yes, BUT! I've found a house that we are going to look at this weekend that has 2.5 bathrooms and a 2 car garage that is in our price range. The pictures of this house on the internet look awesome, I just hope that the neighborhood is nice and there isn't anything really wrong with this house. I really think this should be our house. I guess we'll find out after this weekend. But that is not the only house we'll be seeing this weekend. Nope, that would be just foolish. We'll be seeing four houses total again this Saturday. But I am most excited about the one mentioned above.
On top of all of this your stupid author volunteered to pet sit for one of her co-workers this week. Yep, you read that correctly, I am pet sitting this week. As if I didn't have enough on my plate I took on pet sitting and house sitting for that matter. I have been caring for one dog, one cat, and one bird this week. It's been interesting to say the least. I heard my co-worker on the phone last week talking about how she didn't know what she was going to do because her and her family were going on vacation this week and had no one to take care of their pets. I stepped up to the plate and let me just say that I am really paying for it. Why is it when I try to do something nice I end up crapped on (most of the time)? I have never been so sleep deprived in my life (at least that I can recall). The cat has been the biggest offender (or only offender for that matter) of keeping me up at night. It just so happens that my mind gave the cat the night off and she is being good while my mind tortures me with stress and anxiety and I still can't get any sleep. On the plus side this is how I am posting tonight using my co-worker's internet connection. Also on the plus side, tonight is the last night I will be sleeping here. Tomorrow night I will be spending the night with My Prince, YAY!
Speaking of My Prince, I've been helping him with a database he is creating for someone. I've been entering data just about non-stop in efforts of trying to get that project cleared off of My Prince's plate so he can better help me with moving and with more effort in the house hunting. Please say a little prayer for me that this Saturday I will have found our house.... this is really eating away at me.
As if that weren't enough work is driving me absolutely insane. At one point today at work I kept repeating over and over in my head, "I want to cry, I want to cry..." I'm just under way too much stress right now. Hell, I still need to cry and could probably feel a little better if I did. But I don't have time for that. Hell, I don't have time to sleep (apparently).
I also won’t be telling you that I’ve put on more weight due to the extra stress. I’m hoping to get that under control again soon. But since I didn’t mention it you don’t know anything about it… right? lol
Ok, this post is getting incredibly out of control so I'm going to wrap it up here. I wonder if I'll keep this post up after I've gotten sleep tonight and re-read it tomorrow. I guess only time will tell.
Happy Almost Friday,
~ FC 11 juli Learning FrenchI took the plunge on Tuesday and downloaded the audio book on learning how to speak French. I’ve wanted to learn to speak another language for quite a long time and unfortunately my school’s failed attempt to teach me Spanish has left me to my own devices.
In my local high school it is required for a student to have two credits in a foreign language to graduate. My first year of Spanish was a complete disaster! The teacher who was teaching it was a first year teacher and she simply could not control the class. The one word in Spanish that I do remember and probably will never forget from that class is “silencio”, which means “silence”. I think she spent about 90% of our class time yelling that word. So, needless to say, I didn’t learn too much Spanish from that class. Instead of trying another language or retaking Spanish 1 the next year I naively moved on to Spanish 2. This teacher was wonderful in every sense of the word. The problem? She was too advanced for me. I barely squeezed by that class with a passing grade because of my poor foundation from Spanish 1.
Lets jump forward to the present. Since my Spanish is pretty non-existent and I’ve already experienced that language I decided to try a different one. While searching for my books on audio I stumbled upon a “learning a foreign language” audio book and thought to myself, “I should try one of those some day and see if I can’t learn a new language on my own.” Well, it so happens I was browsing the online media library on Tuesday and found this audio book on how to speak French and I decided, “Today is the day I start to learn a new language!” I’m glad I took that step because I am completely hooked!
I can’t even tell you the number of times I’ve replayed the first download or section 1 of this tutoring audio book. It’s amusing because I figured I’d just listen to it in between work and reading (my first love as a hobby), but I find myself listening to it more than reading. Yes! You read that sentence correctly; I’ve been putting reading aside for listening to how to speak French. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped reading. In fact I’ve been learning a few things about myself in the last few books I’ve been reading. But that’s another topic for another day.
Hopefully I’ll be able to move past the first 45 minutes of this audio book and on to part 2 soon. But I’m in no rush. I want to take my time and go over things as many times as it takes, unlike in my Spanish classes.
Au revoirv!
~ FC 09 juli Elevator WomanJust minutes before I was to head out of the office to start my vacation a new e-mail arrived in my Inbox. I was going to ignore it and go on my happy way but the subject caught my attention. The subject was: “are you her?” At first I figured it was just spam e-mail but my curiosity got the best of me. This is what the e-mail said:
Hi “FC”,
Sorry this is a bit of a weird email and I promise I'm not some stalker type...I've listed my contact info below to help ease that stress.
Anyway, the reason for my email is that I believe we rode the elevator together last Monday around lunchtime. I was the only person in the elevator (gym bag over my shoulder) when you and a co-worker got on at the 12th floor. The two of you were talking about "hot dates" and the elevator made a horrific sound as we reached the lobby. Good thing the cable did not actually snap. As you walked away, you turned your head and told me to have a great day...which I did.... thanks.
I'm not sure of your current situation, if I read too much into this or heck if I even have the right woman (my sincerest apologies if I don't). But if I do and you are interested, I'd like to continue our brief conversation sometime. If you don't, no worries I just had to ask.
DW*
I could not believe what I had just read. A man that I rode on the elevator with me made a great effort of finding me, getting my e-mail address, and e-mailing me to let me know he was interested. I thought things like this only happened in the movies or in a book. To say that I was shocked is an understatement.
I replied to this e-mail already but out of curiosity, what would you say in response? Remember, I have My Prince and am extremely happy with him. Also, do you have any stories like this one?
~ FC
* Not real initials
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