So it seems...

• work gets crazier when you are about to go on vacation.
• I always anticipate the packing process will take longer than it does
• I don't own as much "stuff" as I think I do
• clothes take up way too much space
• things from Color Me Mine look 80% better after being fired than they do when you're painting them
• You're less tired when you stay up having meaningful conversations than you are if you just stay up for no reason
• it's amazing how little work some people can do during the work day
• Glee has a song for everything
• (I don't actively listen to/watch Glee)
• I get really excited over really tiny, possibly stupid things....I take that back, they must not be stupid if I get excited about them, they are AMAZING!
• I can almost hear my bank account laughing at me when it thinks I'm not listening
• really deep tissue massages are the best and worst thing all wrapped up in one...Hurts so good...
• I am at an end.

Chalk it up to Anxiety

I haven't felt well for the past few days...
I've had a headache and nausea...and it's been fun.
I thought it was due to a lack of sleep recently, but I've been trying to make up for that, and should be pretty well rested now.

Kelly's diagnosis is that it's anxiety.

Anxiety?  What do I have to be anxious about?

It took her all of 2 seconds to figure that one out too.

I am a mere 8 days away from taking a plane trip to Oregon...a mere 11 days away from taking two additional plane trips, and I'm not mentally, nor physically prepared.  I do not fly well.  And as Kelly pointed this out to me (because apparently I can't figure it out on my own), the knots in my stomach started to tighten and get a better hold on me.  They don't like being called out....silly knots.

This trip has been in the works for so long, that I didn't really think about the fact that it's right around the corner.  I've mostly been concentrating on getting things sorted out at work so I can go, and thinking about all the craziness that I am sure is ensuing at the Vance household in preparation for this upheaval.

I haven't even begun to think about packing.

I have done one thing though...perhaps the most important thing.

I did purchase my motion sickness medication.

Live and Learn

Do not stay out until 1:30 in the morning when you need to wake up at 5:30 in the morning.
Do not leave your cell phone (which doubles as your alarm) at your friends house (you know, where you were til 1:30 in the morning-since clearly you didn't heed my advice above).
Do not leave for work in such a rush that you don't grab something substantial for lunch.
Do not decide that the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach is because you ate something bad, and decide not to eat again....it's most likely that the sick feeling is because you haven't eaten.
Do not go to bed at 4:00 in the afternoon hoping to shake whatever this day has done to you.
Do not even think about blogging about such silly things, really, no one cares....I don't even care....but there you go, pushing the button to save and post it....

Live and Learn kiddo.....live and learn.

Sleeping in

Ah....sweet sleep.
We all love it.
Feeling the delicious exhaustion creep over you and deliver it's infectious kiss.

Today, I got to sleep in.
It is the first weekend in a very long time, that I don't have anything planned.
And I really like it that way.

So my plan was to sleep in, and then do anything I want for what remains of the day.
Some of you may notice that I'm writing this at 8:30 in the morning however...
Yeah...that's right.
My version of "sleeping in" is anywhere between 6:45 and 8:00.

Hopefully that just means I get more done in a day....

Hopefully :)

Oscar plus Lisa equals Tempestuous love

I'm having an affair.

Oscar and I see each other almost every day.
He waits for me at the same place.
Our relationship is unfortunately, a little mundane.
But he listens to me, he doesn't speak much though, the occasional moan or groan.
He seems to reflect back all the things I show him, which is reassuring.
I am thinking of ending our relationship however.
Why?
Well, I don't think he loves me as much as I love him

That, and Oscar is the large, industrial scanner I use at work.

It never would have worked out....

Where's Waldo?

I can't tell you where Waldo is, but I can tell you where I'll be in 16 days....in the air!

I will be winging my way to Portland to meet up with my sister and her family before we head to Switzerland (yes, you read that correctly, Switzerland....with a capital "S").  Jenelle, Jonathan and their small brood (Annika, Clara and Nicolyn) are moving to Lucerne, Switzerland for a few years, and being the lovely, generous, kind-hearted people that they are, they asked me if I would like to accompany them.

So I will finally have a stamp in my passport, and will fly over an ocean (the second part is still a little nauseating to me, but I'm willing to suffer a little bit).

Woohoo!