I'm tired of the hospital
So I lied. . . things are not calming down. I haven't spent an entire evening at home for almost two weeks and I'm getting tired of not having time to relax and clean the house or do laundry in one sitting. My clean laundry has been sitting in the dryer for about three days now and I just haven't had time to deal with it. Tonight, I've got to go straight to class after work, and then to see my dad, then I have to go home and pack because I leave for Milwaukee tomorrow afternoon for work. Ugh. . . I wish there were more hours in the day.
The main reason I have had very little free time in the last week is because a week ago this morning, I was sitting in a hospital waiting room while my dad had hip replacement surgery on his left hip. Mom and I spent the whole day at the hospital and Ashley was in and out. Mom's best friend Sheri spent all morning with us until he was settled in his hospital room. I'm glad she was there with us, otherwise, I'm sure all we would have been thinking about would have been the surgery and how scared he was when they wheeled him away from mom and I at 7:50 that morning. Since the surgery, I have spent at least an hour at the hospital every day and usually it's been more like 3 or 4. I was there for most of the day on Saturday. I'm happy to report that he's doing a lot better now than he was a week ago and they're sending him home sometime today.
I'm not really comfortable leaving town right after this happened, especially since my older sister is scheduled to be induced and have her baby Thursday morning and I'm going to be hundreds of miles away for work. That irritates me to no end. I had already said I wasn't going to go to Milwaukee because of family circumstances that I wasn't comfortable missing, but kind of got guilt tripped into it. What irritates me the most is that it's just me that has to go. Ashley gets to stay in town and see the baby when he's born.
In other news, I found out last night that one of my best friends from high school got married on Saturday. . . I knew she was engaged, but I honestly thought the wedding was supposed to be in the Spring sometime. I'm a little confused, but not so much offended that I wasn't invited because apparently it was just family and they're having a shower or something after Thanksgiving.
Everyone's getting married. . . yeah, it would be nice, but there's so much going on in my life right now that I don't think I could devote myself 100% to anyone other than me. I've got school, work, family drama and a whole list of other things that are caving in on me all at once. It's hard enough to make sure my dishes are done and my clothes are clean all on my own. When I'm done with school and satisfied that I am where I want to be in my professional life, then I'll think about getting married and starting my family. But for now, my nephew will have to do when he makes his appearance.
This past Thursday, my former roommate and very good friend Ashley left for Missionary Training for the Morman Church. She will spend the next approximately 3 months in Provo, Utah training to be a missionary in Budapest, Hungary. Ashley will be in Budapest for about 15 months. She's due to return to the United States in April of 2007 if everything goes as planned. The night before she left Lawrence, Ellen and I went to dinner with her at Chipotle and then got some ice cream at her favorite place in town (Sylas and Maddie's). I was glad that we got to spend some time together before she left because we don't get to see her nearly as often as we would like. We lived together for a year in our first apartment at Jefferson Commons, then, even though she paid rent for the entire next year, she decided to move to New Jersey and be a nanny. She spent the next 3 years (wow, it doesn't seem nearly that long) in New Jersey, which is where she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and really found her place in the world. I'm very happy for her, but also sad that she'll be out of touch for so long. I promised her though before she left that I wouldn't even think of getting married before she got home because she is totally going to be one of my bridesmaids. :-) Not that I really have to worry about that any time soon.
Well, I've made this far too long already so I'll end with a quote and wish everyone well until after I get home.
~Amanda
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." ~Robert Frost, The Road Not TakenUS poet (1874 - 1963)
The main reason I have had very little free time in the last week is because a week ago this morning, I was sitting in a hospital waiting room while my dad had hip replacement surgery on his left hip. Mom and I spent the whole day at the hospital and Ashley was in and out. Mom's best friend Sheri spent all morning with us until he was settled in his hospital room. I'm glad she was there with us, otherwise, I'm sure all we would have been thinking about would have been the surgery and how scared he was when they wheeled him away from mom and I at 7:50 that morning. Since the surgery, I have spent at least an hour at the hospital every day and usually it's been more like 3 or 4. I was there for most of the day on Saturday. I'm happy to report that he's doing a lot better now than he was a week ago and they're sending him home sometime today.
I'm not really comfortable leaving town right after this happened, especially since my older sister is scheduled to be induced and have her baby Thursday morning and I'm going to be hundreds of miles away for work. That irritates me to no end. I had already said I wasn't going to go to Milwaukee because of family circumstances that I wasn't comfortable missing, but kind of got guilt tripped into it. What irritates me the most is that it's just me that has to go. Ashley gets to stay in town and see the baby when he's born.
In other news, I found out last night that one of my best friends from high school got married on Saturday. . . I knew she was engaged, but I honestly thought the wedding was supposed to be in the Spring sometime. I'm a little confused, but not so much offended that I wasn't invited because apparently it was just family and they're having a shower or something after Thanksgiving.
Everyone's getting married. . . yeah, it would be nice, but there's so much going on in my life right now that I don't think I could devote myself 100% to anyone other than me. I've got school, work, family drama and a whole list of other things that are caving in on me all at once. It's hard enough to make sure my dishes are done and my clothes are clean all on my own. When I'm done with school and satisfied that I am where I want to be in my professional life, then I'll think about getting married and starting my family. But for now, my nephew will have to do when he makes his appearance.
This past Thursday, my former roommate and very good friend Ashley left for Missionary Training for the Morman Church. She will spend the next approximately 3 months in Provo, Utah training to be a missionary in Budapest, Hungary. Ashley will be in Budapest for about 15 months. She's due to return to the United States in April of 2007 if everything goes as planned. The night before she left Lawrence, Ellen and I went to dinner with her at Chipotle and then got some ice cream at her favorite place in town (Sylas and Maddie's). I was glad that we got to spend some time together before she left because we don't get to see her nearly as often as we would like. We lived together for a year in our first apartment at Jefferson Commons, then, even though she paid rent for the entire next year, she decided to move to New Jersey and be a nanny. She spent the next 3 years (wow, it doesn't seem nearly that long) in New Jersey, which is where she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and really found her place in the world. I'm very happy for her, but also sad that she'll be out of touch for so long. I promised her though before she left that I wouldn't even think of getting married before she got home because she is totally going to be one of my bridesmaids. :-) Not that I really have to worry about that any time soon.
Well, I've made this far too long already so I'll end with a quote and wish everyone well until after I get home.
~Amanda
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." ~Robert Frost, The Road Not TakenUS poet (1874 - 1963)
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