I had a great vacation...including the bonus 6 hours I am spending in the Baltimore Airport. I think I'm still being taught to embrace solitude. Honestly, that's getting frustrating. I want to just look up at the sky and be like, "I get it. I'm workin' on it." It's been so nice to get a weekend of sleep, security, and sharing life with people I don't get to see very often.
I've got to brag on my friend's husbands/boyfriends for a minute. My friends are obviously awesome on their own and therefore married well. But their partner isn't just awesome to them, they're awesome to me. Since I became a d-word there's been multiple times that these guys have stepped in or stepped up to help me out. This weekend, my friend Emily's husband Tyler met me at my Metro stop and rolled my suitcase to their condo for me. Then he took me out for a drink and food while we waited for Emily to get off work. And he wouldn't let me pay. Because he's a gentleman like that. Then today, Hannah's boyfriend Stuart bought my lunch. Because I was their guest. Because he's a gentleman like that. And Ashley's husband Brandon is staying up past his bedtime to pick me up from my flight...which has been delayed 4.5 hours. Because he's a gentleman like that.
I appreciate these guys and the many more like them out there who are keeping the word gentleman alive.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Stream of consciousness: traveling
- I am taking my smallest suitcase with ROOM TO SPARE. This has never happened.
- The only "extra" things I put in my smallish purse (carry-on) is two books and a journal, a banana, some nuts and granola. If you consider that I normally bring my computer, some magazines, some books, and other "in case you get bored" items, this is a major improvement.
- People who don't pay attention in the check-in line or in security frustrate me to no end. I straight line-jumped a lady after showing her 3 screens were available and she just fumbled around. #aintnobodygottimefodat
- Nervous grandmas traveling with their kids or grandkids make me crazy.
- I love finding the few people reading a real newspaper. They almost always have a moustache. (women included)
- It's probably not fair to observe parenting styles in an airport...but I do it anyway.
- I'm getting used to this traveling alone thing. But it doesn't mean I'm any less excited about having a traveling companion someday.
- I decided to wear a dress to fly today. Nothing fancy, but I feel fancy. Like the old days when people dressed up to travel. Don't worry, no heels.
- I appreciate any ticket agent at the gate who does stand-up comedy while we board. I would so go Kristin Wigg at that job.
- The only "extra" things I put in my smallish purse (carry-on) is two books and a journal, a banana, some nuts and granola. If you consider that I normally bring my computer, some magazines, some books, and other "in case you get bored" items, this is a major improvement.
- People who don't pay attention in the check-in line or in security frustrate me to no end. I straight line-jumped a lady after showing her 3 screens were available and she just fumbled around. #aintnobodygottimefodat
- Nervous grandmas traveling with their kids or grandkids make me crazy.
- I love finding the few people reading a real newspaper. They almost always have a moustache. (women included)
- It's probably not fair to observe parenting styles in an airport...but I do it anyway.
- I'm getting used to this traveling alone thing. But it doesn't mean I'm any less excited about having a traveling companion someday.
- I decided to wear a dress to fly today. Nothing fancy, but I feel fancy. Like the old days when people dressed up to travel. Don't worry, no heels.
- I appreciate any ticket agent at the gate who does stand-up comedy while we board. I would so go Kristin Wigg at that job.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Quote
"Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be." ---Jennifer Weiner, "Fly Away Home"
Monday, July 23, 2012
PS: this is me minus the needlepoint
If I could, I would buy this house with everything in it, minus 1/2 the needlepoint stuff.
Tons of white, the couch, the dining table and chairs, their bed!, the light fixtures, the kitchen and even the blasted DIY wallpaper.
In. Love.
That'll do it
If you are looking to make me instantly sad, then play me a song with a steel guitar coming in at the right moment on a slow song.
See "Pony" by Sara Watkins for an example.
Specifically when it comes in for the instrumental chorus, I get carried away on a cloud and feel sad.
Just in case you were wondering, that'll do it.
*This post brought to you by melancholy music, not actual sad circumstances.
See "Pony" by Sara Watkins for an example.
Specifically when it comes in for the instrumental chorus, I get carried away on a cloud and feel sad.
Just in case you were wondering, that'll do it.
*This post brought to you by melancholy music, not actual sad circumstances.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Halfway
-I'm 18 weeks into school, about to start my last class of this semester.
-By the end of the year, I will become an aunt by proxy to approximately 5 more babies in my friend circle. And there will be 2 more by the beginning of February.
-I am about to go on my yearly voyage to DC to visit some of my dear friends who have lived far away for far too long.
- I have seen some amazing music and get to experience at least 2 more amazing shows by fall. (Brandi Carlile and The Head And The Heart.)
- I am loving life right now. I feel solid and grounded and happy. The new people who have been woven into my life this year have been right on time. And the older strands have been refreshed and come to life again.
I feel like my life is in technicolor and I can vividly see all the beauty that the last year has given my life. I honestly wouldn't change a thing.
-By the end of the year, I will become an aunt by proxy to approximately 5 more babies in my friend circle. And there will be 2 more by the beginning of February.
-I am about to go on my yearly voyage to DC to visit some of my dear friends who have lived far away for far too long.
- I have seen some amazing music and get to experience at least 2 more amazing shows by fall. (Brandi Carlile and The Head And The Heart.)
- I am loving life right now. I feel solid and grounded and happy. The new people who have been woven into my life this year have been right on time. And the older strands have been refreshed and come to life again.
I feel like my life is in technicolor and I can vividly see all the beauty that the last year has given my life. I honestly wouldn't change a thing.
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