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Registered: 03-09-2005
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Fri, 12-29-2006 - 5:43pm

Friends:
I was really disappointed that my ex best friend did not send me a Christmas card. Deep down I felt sure that she would. After all, I don't have her address so I sure can't send her one! I can't believe she could do it. Last night I had a dream/nightmare about her. In the dream, I saw her and it was really awkward. Our connection was gone.

Job:
I got an offer to extend my job contract for 3 months. I'm grateful to have 3 more months but wish it could be more. This is the problem: they want me to work full time. But, I have dry eyes and have discovered recently that after a maximum of 5 hours on the computer, my eyes are so bad, inflamed, red, and painful that I can't see anymore! Everything gets so blurry that I can't read the computer screen. So 5 hours a day is all I can do, and I'm now working 25 hours a week. I understand their position but I feel like I'm a good worker anyway and I wish they could keep me. I'm too healthy to stay home all day but too unhealthy to work full time- I don't fit anywhere!

Christmas:
I got the stomach flu right before Christams and felt awful. I felt better but still weak by Christmas. DH and I had a quiet day at home.

Other:
Dh is going on a 2 week business trip next month. I'm dreading it. I hate it when he goes away. I'm probably going to be alone the entire time. I can't think of anyone who lives close enough that they could come over if I invited them.

For New Year's Eve, I made lunch reservations at an Indian restaurant. I decided to go to lunch instead of dinner to avoid drunk drivers. I think that's a good idea. It's a new restaurant we've never been to before, about 30 minutes away, so I'm kind of worried that it might be bad but I like to try new places. I love Indian food- it's pretty much my favorite food.

Dh and I went to Disney for 4 days before Christmas. Like I wrote in another post, 2 days were bad and 2 days were magical. I was terrified to go becuase of the airplane and fear of the unknown. Also, travel and the airplane made my dry eyes flare up really bad and it hurt extremely when we got there.

But we loved Epcot and the Magic Kingdom. Epcot has a World Showcase with international food and exhibits. We had food from Morocco, Japan, and Mexico. That was fun. Our hotel was across the lake from the Boardwalk hotel. It was so beautiful at night because the Boardwalk was all lit up. I walked around the Boardwalk lake twice. We had hotdogs and funnel cake on the Boardwalk. We saw fireworks almost every night from the bridge near out hotel. I am sad that it went by so fast... before we left I ran back to the lake and was looking at the view and I didn't want to leave! It was beautiful.

Something touching and cute happened, for the animal lovers here. I was standing on a bridge looking at some water birds and I saw motion out of the corner of my eyes. I looked over and saw a turtle swimming towards me and DH! The turtle swam right up to us, was looking up at us for about 5 minutes, and then turned around and swam away. I really felt like he came over just to see us! The people next to us were all shocked too so it wasn't just me that was excited about this. It was so precious. I love turtles so that meant a lot to me.

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In reply to: bluerains
Fri, 12-29-2006 - 10:43pm

Hey Blue,


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Registered: 08-31-2006
In reply to: bluerains
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 7:39pm

Blue
You went to Disney - that is my favorite place to go. So you feel you will have a hard time with DH gone for 2 weeks and will be all alone. What are we-- chopped liver. You have all of us here to keep you company you silly girl. You will be at work part of the day and the other part you can do whatever you want. Just think no cooking, cleaning and on the weekend you can stay in your PJ all day. You have it made. You could rent some good chick flicks and chill out on the couch and enjoy the peace and quiet. Take a nice long bubble bath. And if you get lonely we will be here. If you were close to me we could get together and have dinner. I am outside of Cleveland.

So don't freat about this.

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Registered: 03-09-2005
In reply to: bluerains
Sun, 12-31-2006 - 5:42pm

"And if you get lonely we will be here."

Aww thanks Sfarlow,

At least I have you guys! And thanks for the dinner idea too- I would love that except that I live in Massachusetts. I am trying to think of ways to keep busy- I'll probably get my hair cut and I have a gift certificate for the mall I can use. And I'll be here a lot too!