I'm bAAAAAAAck

I bet you thought I'd disappeared into the abyss, lost in time via a black hole... but I'm back! It was a lovely jaunt, but I'm ready to start this back up again... because, truth be told, I may say that I'm incredibly busy, but I'm really not. I'm just apathetic most days, and can procrastinate the hell out of things.

So here's an update of how I've spent the last month (some of which I'll be expanding on in later posts... hopefully):

- Watching "The Office" start to finish (aka current episodes as they air on NBC Thursday nights... which, let me tell you, is not as gratifying having to wait a week after a week straight of nothing else). Basically, I'd only seen a few scattered episodes, but then I watched "Away We Go" and realized my (delayed) love for John Krasinski and decided to go for it. So I did. And am now obsessed and wearing a "Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For The Cure" t-shirt I got in the mail yesterday.

- Working not one but TWO jobs (again)... on the weekends I wait tables at Ruby Tuesday, and during the week I'm an after school counselor at the YMCA... now I have lots of interesting (well, considering) stories to add into my filing cabinet...

- Attending the University of Phoenix online Masters of Secondary Education program, so I can get my teach on in a few years, and actually make real money! (Yes, I understand the oxymoron, because everyone knows teachers don't make squat, yet sadly, it's more than I've ever made...)

- Catching up with family... in the same week, my maternal Grandfather had his 80th birthday, and my paternal Grandfather passed away... I've never really known anyone who died before, so for me to be there when he died was a huge thing for me, and I feel like it's part of the reason God brought me back to Virginia... RIP Dr. George Alexander Weimer Sr.

- Being surrounded by babies... I saw my 2 and 5 year old sister and brother for the first time in 2 years, my coworker at the Y is due next month, my coworker at Ruby's is 8 weeks along, Jim and Pam just had their baby on "The Office"... my uterus has started both glowing and hurting.

- During a pickup game of indoor soccer with the kids at the Y during spring break, 2 counselors v 7 kids, I fell (a lot) and ended up forming and bursting blisters on the balls of my feet and severely bruising both legs... on a family trip to Wintergreen for the 80th bday celebration, I had to hobble around with gauze wrapped around my feet and endure taunts of "blister girl" from my family... worth it though, since we won (and the kids had fun)

- went Vegetarian

- saw 100 monkeys play in Richmond... my first monkeys show outside of LA!

- missing my LA family :(

photo credit my Canon SLR, friends, and google search.