Oh the weekend ahead of us. Friday afternoon we’re heading up to northern Virginia to see my family and go to a Memorial Day barbecue on Saturday. We’re leaving from there early Sunday morning to go to Andrew’s grandfather’s lake house on Lake Gaston for his birthday party cookout on Sunday. Then Monday morning we’re headed to Durham, NC (which we’d be passing through on our way home via I-85) where my older sister lives to visit the area until Tuesday. Just a lovely 736 mile tour of Virginia!

We’re hoping to leave early enough Friday and be on the road Tuesday/Wednesday to avoid all of the holiday traffic. Sunday morning is pretty much the only time we’re going to spend more than an hour on the road during the holiday weekend¹ and we’re praying I-85S doesn’t turn into an outright brawl on the shoulder. Andrew drives like a wuss and I have serious road rage issues, put the two of us in the car during heavy traffic and we turn on each other. It’s redirected aggression at it’s finest. Can’t strangle the motorist that just cut you off? Go ahead and make fun of your partner for the way they say “tractor”. I DON’T SAY IT FUNNY! YOU JUST HEAR IT FUNNY BECAUSE YOU SUCK!

Anywho, by the time we get home next week I’ll be ready for a coma and an IV drip of World of Warcraft. Alas, it is not to be. I’ll be heading straight back into work and school. I started back to school this past Monday for the summer semester. It’s been okay, I’m taking two classes: CSC 110 and Math 111. Both are prereqs so I can start taking classes I actually want to this fall. I’m working towards a degree in Web Developement, and I’m still deciding whether I want it to be a BS and be more development/programming oriented or if I’m more interested in a BA and working design and front-end stuff. Both aspects certainly interest me and I don’t feel like they’re mutually exclusive. I’ve already felt out the market place and I can still get a job in design with a BS and it wouldn’t be a stretch to get a job in programming with a BA. It’s really more of a question of what do I want to study for the next few years? Right now I’m leaning towards BS, but that’s because my creativity has completely dried up and I feel like I’m pulling teeth to make anything even remotely decent looking lately. Don’t run into those problems with numbers.

1. It’s about 5 hours from northern Virginia to Lake Gaston on the North Carolina border with two babies. [↩]

Trips

So the lovely Emmy recently posted about blogging honestly. I like to think that I paint a pretty honest picture of my life. There are some things I don’t share but that’s out of respect to the people around me and the fact that I have a bad temper. I tend to vent when I’m angry and I don’t want to start complaining about every little thing that makes me upset here because I don’t want this to become my negativity dump. None the less, I feel like I could bring a little bit more of me and my real life to this blog. I don’t post as much as I’d like because I feel like no one really cares about how my day went if I didn’t do something exciting or crafty of bake-y, but I like to read blogs about people’s day to day even if there wasn’t a huge explosion and they didn’t save the world in a rap battle and then get the girl at the end. It’s just nice to see into other people’s lives now and then.

So, a happy little list just to show people that I’m not always super-awesome-on-top-of-everything:

- I rarely ever do anything with my hair anymore besides brush it and pull it up with a hair clip. Sometimes I don’t even brush it and just pull it into a messy bun. I can count on one finger how many times I’ve straightened my hair in the last month.
- I spend more time picking out Claire and Logan’s clothes than I do mine.
- The dishwasher doesn’t get unloaded and reloaded until we have an entire sink full of dishes ready to completely load it again.
- I blame Andrew for that, unloading is totally his job because he’s a freak and prefers to unload (loading is so much easier, straight up), but even when he unloads it in the morning I still don’t load it until after dinner when there’s a sink full of dishes.
- I rarely make dinner on my nights, I always ask Andrew will he please take over my night just this one time even though he’s done it like the last twenty times I swear I’ll take over his tomorrow?
- I don’t get high fashion. I know the runway isn’t supposed to be realistic, but does anyone really think that stuff looks nice?
- I love the idea of making my kids’ lunches and stuff look super cute (like this, this or this), but that’s not likely to ever happen. I might draw a smiley face on a sandwich baggie and be darn proud of myself though.
- I am horribly unorganized these days, and I know it’s in large part due to my procrastination and short attention span. Lately I’ve been making myself focus on one task at a time and I cannot believe how much I’m getting done. But that itch to multitask is always there.

Ramblings

My clock is ticking. That silly clock that urges us to take a leap well before we’re ready, that makes us want to throw caution to the wind and just go with it. How bad could it be? Sure it’s a huge responsibility and we’re not exactly ready just yet, but who is ever really ready? No we don’t really have the resources right now, but when the time comes we’ll find a way.

This damn financial clock just keeps ticking.
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My aunt Danielle posted a link to the Witcher 2 trailer (dropped today!) on my Facebook wall. My sister Rachel and my mom Laurel commented. All of those “likes” are their own. They all liked their own posts. This is my family

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To all of you mothers and mothers-to-be: Happy Mother’s Day :D

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