Just Checking In

There has been a gigantic gap in my blog because I have been in a gigantic state of not doing anything blog worthy.

I have been officially unemployed for a week now. I am learning to manage my time and my remaining money. I am so good I passed on a $300 LAMB cardigan at Nordies yesterday. That cardigan took my breath away and it hurt my heart to walk away from it but I knew I had to leave it in the Savvy Department. Even though, I could see myself wearing it with cargo pants and my leopard print wedges and stepping off the plane in Ohio and feeling like a million bucks. A million bucks poorer.

A week ago I took my absolutely, positively LAST trip to Disneyland. It was my birthday and I took advantage of Disneyland's get in for free on your birthday promo. I went with 4 other people and since it was a special occasion we ate at the Blue Bayou, the restaurant located next to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I had the Port Royal Mahi Mahi. The meal was expensive and time consuming. So its not something I would suggest doing every time you visit Disneyland unless you have spare money and time to burn. But definitely worth doing at least once. All in all a good time.

Yesterday, I met a British girl who had no idea where Ohio was in relation to California. I did my best to show her with my hands. I laid one hand flat on the counter, that was California, and I made my other hand into a fist and placed it on the counter up and away from my flat hand. I told her the length of the plane ride and how many miles away. She wished me luck in a genuine voice and didn't pull any faces when I said Ohio. It was refreshing to have someone not make an "ewww" face when I said "Ohio". That same shopping trip, in another store, I was helped by a salesgirl whose family is from Ohio. I should have sent her to the store down the block with the British girl. Maybe the British girl would have gotten a better lesson about American geography from the salesgirl.

Mostly, I have been packing and running errands. Bothering David and hanging out with my brothers. Everyone always wants to know how the wedding stuff is going. I guess its going fine. We are in a state of limbo right now because we can't set anything up in the yard. Nothing big has to be finalized, we really aren't doing too much planning or decorating. So the week of, when out of town guests start arriving and "THE BIG DAY" hits that is when the all the action is going to happen. For now we wait and watch the weather reports. We wait and watch the gifts on the registry get bought up. I wait for the day when David gets home and I can breathe again.