Yay long weekends!!!

I should really be more faithful about updating this blog, but I tend to just get sooo busy with work and life that I forget that it even exists most of the time! LOL.

Angela is coming to town this weekend to collect her dog from her ex-husband. Apparently, the deal when they split up was that she would get Evie after Katie (their other dog) passed away. Katie passed away almost a year ago (I think) and she's just now able to come and get Evie. I'm excited to see her. The plans are to hang out on Saturday, go to an Angels game on Sunday (followed closely with SuperMex margaritas) and run errands on Monday back in south Orange county. She flies out on Wednesday, so I'm hoping that we'll get to do dinner and drinks on Tuesday, but since I have to work on Wednesday, maybe just dinner instead. ;)

Work was felt busier today than it actually was. I think it just felt busy because the holiday traffic was SOOO horrible. The 91 freeway being closed in both directions for a few hours did NOT help alleviate any ETA issues that we might have had.

I'm pretty sure that my Farmville and Treasure Isle games are calling my name. I hear them, ever so softly, in the background.. "Jen.... Jen..... Jennnn......."

Life is Good

My baby sister graduated from college this past weekend!!! As she is the first person to attend AND complete a college degree in my family, I am extremely proud of her. :) Her degree is a BA in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Social Science. What she will do with it, I'm not sure. She has wanted, since a young age, to go on a missions trip to Africa, so I'm fairly sure that she will be doing that in the very near future! She talked about working at World Vision, as well. I'm sure she'll be successful in whatever she does.

Hello, Real Life.. Nice to See You Again

I had a wonderful break from my normal life for TEN WHOLE DAYS. Yesterday, I began to get back into my normal routine. Which, oddly enough, seems to have changed a bit while I was on a break from it. LOL.

Germany was FREEZING. It snowed almost the whole time that I was there. When it wasn't snowing, it was the worst kind of cold EVER. The kind that makes you feel like the skin on your face is going to crack and fall off of your bones. I despise being cold. Literally DESPISE it. I would rather deal with triple-digit temperatures than below-freezing ones. But I had fun, regardless. I love seeing my best friend and I miss that she doesn't live righthere anymore. But I'm getting used to it now. Periodically, I catch myself looking at the clock and figuring out what time it is where she is and imagining what she's doing. :) I wonder if she does the same thing...

I'm so glad to be back. Even though I know that I probably won't see Angela again until June (at the earliest), California is still my home. I, honestly, can't imagine anywhere else feeling this much like home. Then again, nowhere else ever has been home for me. So I suppose that's a normal feeling..? Landing at LAX almost brought me to tears. I didn't miss home so much the last time I went there. I think I had a harder time this time because of my travel companion. I was sooo tired of that person by the end of the trip. The last leg of our trip home (DFW to LAX) was delayed taking off because the pilot and co-pilot had already maxed out their flying hours, so we had to wait for a new crew to get to the plane. I almost cried then, too. I'm usually not this emotional. Gah, I don't know what was wrong with me.

Now, I'm back at work. It took me all day yesterday to go through my email and fix the problems that had occurred during my absence. It was nice that there weren't very many this time around. I feel better about requesting my next vacation trip because of that. :) I have a good group of people working for me.. finally.