We FINALLY made it home. Wahoo. For those unaware boy and I took my family camping. Well except for my brother and his girlfriend who couldn’t go because of unexpected surgery. Anyhoo me, boy, ma, pa, sister & boyfriend, and sister & friend went to Rocky Mountain National Park and camped from Wednesday to Saturday nights. IT ROCKED. It was COLD in Colorado, and we wore sweatshirts and jeans and froze the entire time. That’s my kind of camping. The rents stayed in a hotel down the street, but hung out with us until bedtime. We hung out around the fire, and made fun of each other, ate smores after every meal, and just looked at mountains. *Sigh* I am wanting to go back pretty bad. There are lots of fun stories to bore you with, but I am just going to tell you….it was the best vacation I’ve taken in a long time. 
One where you feel like it’s been two weeks, but it hasn’t really. I love those.
Anyhoo….well since the last time i got around to posting several things has happened I guess.
The rest of the conference was really cool. I won’t bore you with the details, but the last nights festivities were some of the most important of my life I believe. It was AMAZING. We had fun. Ended up staying home on Sunday to pack all the camping hear, and pack the car.
Then we headed back into the work week. I put in 47 hours from Tuesday til Friday, and I left work at 3:30 today. CRAZY. It’s weird to love your job, for me anyway. To be able to put in those hours and not realize it is really unreal to me. I still could have worked a lot more, and wanted too. It’s fun.
Talked to Mrs. Foo tonight via IM. It was SO good to talk with her. I didn’t let myself realize how much I miss the Foo’s but I do TERRIBLY. And their wedding sounds like so much fun, and I get to be in it, and I’m just REALLY excited. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and good time spent with friends I’m missing so much right now. I love weddings, especially ones where you love the people getting married. I’m going to cry like a little baby….YAY!!!!!!
Boy dad is staying tonight. We went to the Mongolian BBQ, and I LOVE THEIR FOOD SO MUCH. It was really fun. Except the boys are stinky. And M. BBQ makes lots of stinkys…the car ride home was interesting!
This weekend there is a lot of nothing planned, going to the sino tomorrow to lose $20, and then we’ll be hitting a play that one of Greg’s coworkers is starring in. I’m excited to see it, and to hang out with his work people. They’re cool, and it should be fun. Just nice to have a weekend without driving somewhere a long ways away.
I got my school schtuff figured out finally too. It wasn’t fun, and they are still being mean, but I got a 3.75 ( soon to be a four point when my Poly Sci teacher fixes my grades) and I only have to take two easy cheesy classes so it should be a breeze. I will be so happy to get my little piece of paper in the mail. I will have definitely earned it.
Life is good. I’m not taking things too seriously anymore, and letting things just ride. Got some baby names picked out just in case the ride gets interesting, but I have faith that things will work out just the way they are supposed to. It feels good to have faith in that again. We’re really settling in up here, and my friends lists are starting to grow. I don’t know if I will have a really good girl friend up here besides my boss, but I think that might be okay. I just am not going to worry about it or push the issue. Mrs Foo, Val, and the fam are only a phone call away. SO why worry? I really love the weather here, and the scenery. It is really cool to get away too in a lot of aspects. Another time and space to find yourself in. I’m coming into my own up here, getting my confidence back, and kicking ass and taking names. I did my first training at work - kinda - and things went off without a hitch. *SIGH*
Still voting for Bush, they’ve been calling me to go to luncheons and do some election work around Christian voters. TO BAD THEY STILL HAVE ME LISTED IN IOWA. I would do whatever they needed but I am not driving to Ames to do it damnit. The election stuff is really silly right now. I love all the commercials and bashing going on, it’s so AMERICAN. I’ve been rallying with people at work and fighting the party fights, and it just makes me really proud to be in this country. Plus the debates between Ray and me are heating up which is always a fun time. I love that we have such different opinions about things, but it’s okay. Makes for fun times. I was disappointed that my bro couldn’t come to Colorado so we could really argue it out, which is my signal that elections have come but I’ll get my time in!!! Coloradans where their political opinions on their Subaru’s so being there really got my juices flowing. All and all it’s great to be in a place where everything is questioned, everything is debated, and we don’t go to jail for it. Yay for America, hiccups and all.
So we got new neighbors, they yell at their kids a lot, but they aren’t scary. I was feeling safe, even driving around Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Floating around in a little safe world thinking of nothing bad. Then last night at three in the morning I am woken up by screaming from the house two doors down. They are going to “slit your f***ing throat if you don’t stop.” I wouldn’t have gotten scared but it just kept getting worse. The neighbors all around started to wake up, you have to understand. We live by a lake, and trees. ITS DEAD SILENT HERE AT NIGHT. So I started thinking the sheriffs would come any second, I got up and closed the windows and attempted to go back to sleep. THEY CARRIED ON FOR AN HOUR before the cops came. It was scary, and I was shaking like a leaf by the time they came. Once they got here, I then started worrying about whether it was the cops or not, because the yelling intensified for awhile. They took people away I went to sleep, soon to return to the floating happy land. Then boy dad comes and brings us police strength mace, and tells these HORRIBLE stories about people killing people, people getting kidnapped, etc. It was NOT what I needed to hear. Also recommended getting a sawed off shot gun because rapists don’t like to hear you cocking that and they will run away. Just what my paranoid little self needed to hear. GRRRRR!!!
Sleepy time, I get to sleep in tomorrow!
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