There's more to life than before my eyes...

Such a great song. I love that song. It's super! Partly because it's so true. Good job Mike - you were being very smart when you wrote that one!

But seriously folks... I just had the worst week at my job. You know, the kind that makes you want to just walk out, quit, and pray you never face anyone from that place again. It had nothing to do with any of my coworkers, they're all fine. It was just my clients. What a nightmare. I can't go into details, the whole confidentiality thing, but just take my word when I say they're all CRAZY!!!! Thursday night I drove home from work in tears, because I felt like I just sucked at my job. That's going to make getting up for tomorrow's day that much worse. Fortunately, I'm getting out at noon, because I have a doctors appointment. Nothing bad, just a checkup.

Back to my job, though, it was just such a horrible way to spend a week, and unfortunately, my supervisor was at a funeral for a lot of the week, so it made it really hard to talk to her about any of it. So on Friday, I just wanted to dump on her, and she started trying to get me out of her office. It sucked!

John shaved off his beard the other day. He knows how I feel about that. I've made it very clear. I was so disappointed when he came downstairs with no beard after showering one night. Now, remember I just said that I had a sucky week at work. So on Wednesday when he was home, I wasn't in a great mood from the get go, and then that happened, and I just freaked. I stopped even talking to him, and finally just snapped and went to take a nap. I probably totally overreacted to that part of the whole week, but still... It's just frustrating when you tell someone that you know you like them better one way, and it doesn't seem to matter. I know he said he wanted to do it, and thats fine... he just looks like someone totally different with out it! It made for a very awkward transition for me. I still like him better with, but I'm getting used to seeing him with out it again. It just makes me think of the John I knew back in college when I see him with out, and the John I knew at UNH and I really had nothing in common. So, I'll reiterate, I like him better with. But I'm adjusting to him with out it, and it's nice to know that I can still be physically attracted to him with out it.

So in the mean time, I cut my hair all off yesterday. Short. I haven't had it this short in years. We're talking up around my ears short. It looks good, if you ask most people, and I like it too, but John hates it. HATES it. All he said when I walked in the door was "You cut off all of your hair!" Well, I didn't exactly run out to compliment him when he shaved off his beard. He knew I was contemplating it, but I don't think he thought I would have just done it. Kim came with me, though, which was awesome. We had tons of fun yesterday. I'll get to that some more in a second though!

So, yeah, now my hair is short. John's starting to get used to it, but he still doesn't like it any better. Kind of like me with his beard. I'm getting used to it, but I don't like it any better. I feel kind of bad, because I did to it, to some degree, because I wanted him to know what it felt like to have that happen. At the same time, I enjoy wearing it short, and this was pretty much the deciding factor. But I think it looks good. Last night I was really mad at myself for doing it though, because I still wanted to make sure that still found me attractive. At the same time, it was good to kind of see where the line of what he likes and doesn't falls.

Anyway, I'm rambling. So to get on to Kim and I having a ton of fun yesterday: We went to the mall, made an appointment for me to get my hair cut at Hair Excitement, then went to Bath and Body Works, then left and I got my hair cut, then we went BACK to Bath and Body Works. We both bought some new body cream lotion stuff, and some massage oil, so that was fun. Then we left and got milkshakes at the Friendly Toast - best. milk. shakes. ever. We laughed a lot, which was awesome, I love it when I get to laugh hard with my friends! So we are TOTALLY doing that again, Kim, okay? You don't have a choice. Even if I have to kidnap you and drag you kicking and screaming back to the Friendly Toast! -_^

Alright, I've got to get going. I keep like... half falling asleep while trying to type, which could be why this entry is so all over the place. But oh well.

Random bout of insomnia

You know the nights when you're so tired you can barely hold a conversation with someone whom you haven't seen all day, but then you try to go to sleep, and sleep just won't come? Yeah, that would be me right now. It's kind of strange, being awake and being 2 floors away from John, and being able to have lights on in the middle of the night. I'm not complaining, not in the least! Just noting the oddness of it. I suppose the newness of such things will wear off the longer we've been in the house.
The house has been pretty awesome, aside from the random leak in the upstairs shower. But the plumber fixed it, and the sheet rocker is coming in, oh, about 16 hours to fix the hole in the ceiling the plumber left behind. I'm just glad it will be done in time for our housewarming cookout!
There really isn't a whole lot of news, otherwise. My sister graduated from high school, which is awesome, I'm super proud of her. She's become such a cool person to hang out with, so I'm hoping that we'll get to do it more often now! My job is still... well, I guess it's about the same. It's been keeping me crazy busy with these 5 and 5:30pm home visits. I'm so sick of being out until 6:30, 7, or sometimes even 8pm! I'm glad that after my 2pm home visit that I'm doing tomorrow, I'll be coming straight home. Straight home to hang out with the sheet rocker and to mow the lawn, but at least John will be home to do one of the two. Plus, I can wear comfy clothes while chillin' with the sheet rocker.
Well, it is beginning to appear that my playing online has been good for my drive to sleep, as I am beginning to nod off while sitting on the futon. So it's off to bed for me... I didn't get the nick name Take Two for nothing!

Life in the White House

Yes, for those of you who haven't seen it, my house really is white. So I can say that, and it's okay. Anyway, I can't even begin to tell you how great it is to be in our house. Despite our little plumbing problem (and it really was minor), it's been awesome. It'll be even more awesome when we get the lawn mowed. We've been living here for 2 weeks almost and still don't own a lawnmower. Thankfully, a guy I work with, Matt, has one that he is trying to sell, so he said we could buy it. Now it's just a matter of getting over to his house after work some day this coming week to get it. I'm hoping for Tuesday, but it'll probably be Wednesday or Thursday before I do. Fortunately, John's dad is going to bring over his lawn mower tomorrow and do our lawn for us, and try to fix the railings on our front stairs. Most of you probably didn't know that our railings were loose, and John was able to pull one right off. So Dad C. is going to come over and repair them tomorrow, and mow our lawn. That will be awesome to come home to a mowed lawn. And railings, but we don't use the front door, really. It'll just make it look nice again.

As for the plumbing fiasco... Well, on Monday the 5th, I was in the shower, and John discovered that our upstairs shower was leaking through the ceiling onto our movie rack. So he moved it and put a cup under it. Then that night when he showered, it didn't really do anything. To make a long story short, we discovered that the longer the shower, the worse it leaked. So yesterday we had the plumber over to look at it. Fortunately, it just needed to be repaired with some putty. But everything in our ceiling was soaked. So this wasn't something that was new. Fortunately, none of the wood had rotted, and there was no mold or mildew, so that was good. So we just need to give it about a week to air out, and then we've got to have someone come and patch up the ceiling. I don't really know who is going to do that, but someone will.

So that was the great adventure of plumbing. Other than that, it's just been life. Trying to get back into a routine when the last thing you want to do is leave your new place is really hard! I was out of work sick twice last week, so I think this whole moving thing has just been hard on me, physically. I think it drained a lot out of me, and so I was more susceptible to illnesses.

Last night I went out with John and a bunch of his friends to go see the new X-Men movie. It was okay, but not my favorite. As one of John's friends said, they were trying to introduce too many new characters. Yesterday, I also got us a new DVD/VCR combo for our living room. That is exciting! Today we went to look at new TV's so that we can put the one that's upstairs down in the den, and we'll get a new one for the living room. But we're having a very hard time deciding between LCD or plasma. Any imput on the subject would be appreciated. The one we having in our living room now is an LCD.

I guess that's really about it. Sorry this is such an uneventful update. But it happens. In the words of Westly from "The Princess Bride": Get used to disappointment. =)

We're In!

Okay, so I'm a slug for not posting sooner. But things have been crazy! We are in our new house, which is fantastic! We've been crazy busy unpacking and painting and stuff like that. For any of you that have seen the "green room" and the "blue room".... well, they're still green and blue, but they're not ugly anymore. That's happy!
I should back track... Tuesday was the big day - our closing was at 9 in the morning, so we were going nuts getting everything into the uhaul and out of our apartment on Monday. Now that we're in this huge house, I can't figure out for the life of me how we were able to function in that apartment! It's nuts! Our stuff is so spread out now that it's hard to imagine how we fitted it all into the apartment. So on Tuesday, my dad, my sister and my grandmother showed up at the apartment so my dad could drive the u-haul, and my sister was driving the truck with the washer and dryer we were getting from my parents in it. I had my car and John had his. Armed with a cat each and trunk fulls of stuff, we headed for Rochester. We dropped the cats off at the house, went to the closing, then came back to find my family and Chris H. unloading the u-haul. Kim was keeping an eye on the cats to they didn't get out, which was a huge help. The move was ridiculously stressful for them (but they've recovered nicely now). Johns parents came over about 1/2 an hour after that, and my cousin Bonnie, who now lives 17 miles away (very exciting!!!), came down. Between everyone, we unloaded the u-haul pretty quickly. John and I spent the rest of the day moving boxes around, putting away stuff in the kitchen and the bedroom. The remainder of the week has just been getting stuff unpacked, but the only room that's really left to be done now is the den. Yesterday, Kim and Isaac came over to help us paint the green room and the blue room. That was great! Kim and I pounded out the green room in about 20 minutes, because John and I had done all of the trim work that morning. Then Isaac had to leave because of his allergies (sorry dude!) and John, Kim and I managed to get the blue room done too. I was SO excited about that! Now I don't have to work on those next week, so if the weather is nice, I may do some gardening. Now, I'm not much of a gardener, but our yard needs some landscape work. So I may just go down to Home Depot and make friends will all of the people in the garden center.
ANYWAY.... That's the week in a nutshell. It's been so great being in our own house. It's a slow realization that if we don't like something in the house, we can change it and we don't have to ask someone about it! So painting those two rooms was extremely liberating. Plus, I love to paint, so it was all good. And Kim, you are my new favorite panting buddy, so when it's time for John and I to tackle our bedroom or the den, guess who is going to be called first?? =) Thanks for all of your help yesterday, it was very much appreciated! You were a HUGE help!
Well, I'm off to go hang curtains in the blue room. Hopefully today I'll be able to get John to work on the den a bit, but I make no promises there.
Peace, love and granola to you all!