I watch too many romantic movies!

LMAO Chi chi - I cannot believe that you just suggested that because that is EXACTLY what I did a few minutes ago!!  I took a background of Washington DC and drew us there... and then took a background of our hotel room and drew us there! 

And... just in case Mr. Stranded in Amsterdam doesnt make it out tonight, I came across this article about EU regulations for this kind of thing... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/nicktrend/4434084/Heavy-snow-and-flight-cancellations-advice-to-travellers.html

LMAO Chi chi - I cannot believe that you just suggested that because that is EXACTLY what I did a few minutes ago!!  I took a background of Washington DC and drew us there... and then took a background of our hotel room and drew us there! 

HAHAHA.. Great minds...

Wow...I've missed a lot lately!

Like Beth said, sorry about the stresses going around but nice to know all the ladies are all right here.

I just worked 6 days in a row, and today was the worst out of all of 'em.  Glad it's over.

And Ian crashed his work van this morning trying to drive, so he couldn't do anything today and might not be able to work tomorrow. :-/  I complained about work today and he did the whole "Suck it up!" thing again....lol.  *rolls eyes*  Men!

Anywho, I need to eat (am STARVING) and veg out.

my bf finally made it out of amsterdam on the 9:30 flight and is home now. i am so relieved!

Good.  Glad to hear he got home safe and sound!

Ian is ok post-van crash, right??  Was it due to the snow?

Yeah, Ian is o.k.  He just took a mirror off his van and scraped the side of it up.

And yes, it was due to the snow.  The roads weren't gritted, and he slid into another car.

Now I just have to find out from him if he's going to have to pay the damages.  Bah!

Hello Everyone! where yall been? It's been busy over here getting ready to get married it's in 24 days now.  I think I have everything sorted though:) And I finally found a yoga class pretty close to home! YAY I talked to the instructor on the phone today he seems to be what I am looking for so we are going to go check him out on Friday night:) Yes I said we hahah Alan is such a sport 

There is so freaking much going on right now! I sure hope you all are doing good right now, I miss you!!!

Hey Jamie!  I am so glad to hear you are settling in so nicely.  David asked about you yesterday and I told him you're getting your drivers license and he was very impressed!! Go you!   Have fun at the yoga thing - Alan deserves serious bonus points for even attempting yoga, thats for sure.
Have we seen pictures of your wedding dress yet!?!

Hi ladies,

I seem to have slipped below the radar again.....meh.  School is so hectic right now, and on top of that I've had to go home to Pennsylvania for an entire week and deal with an upper respiratory infection that was border-line pneumonia.

Needless to say I'm currently well drugged up and a week behind on five classes.  Ugh.

Today I decided to take a shower and shave for the first time in longer than I'm willing to admit.  I also glazed my hair (John Frieda clear hair glaze) for the first time ever today.  I've never colored my hair, but am always envious of how dyed hair feels and looks after it's done...and this has done just that without changing my blonde color.  It made my hair really soft and shiny and I'm so happy!  haha  Now if only I had the strength to straighten it...blah.

It seems like there's been a lot of new posters in here, welcome all!
How have all of you ladies been? Updates?  Any visits coming up?  My boyfriend will be over here in 19 days for my spring break and I'm so so excited 

...Can you tell I'm practically speeding from all the medication I'm on? I swear I'm not usually this hyper.


Jamie-- I'm so excited for you! Kudos for settling in so quickly!  It seems like you've been there forever already!  And definite bonus points for Alan for attempting yoga!

Hey!

Ya know, I color my hair all the time, but I've always wanted to do a clear glaze between colorings. I should try that John Freida one.

I haven't quite felt like posting a lot lately because I don't like to complain all the time and I feel like that's all I have to do lately. Life has been crazy, I'll tell ya! I've been so sensative and up and down and so many things have been happening. Sometimes I feel like I'm bipolar or something!

Remember how I've been freaking out/way excited/worried about money when it comes to moving over?? Well I was embarking on the fun process that is filing taxes last night (throwing in the mix being newly married to a non resident alien), and because of my situation with my previous employer it looks like I'm actually going to owe a few to several hundred dollars this year!! How bad does that blow!

AND while I was trying to do all of that, I got a call from DH flipping out because he was in the hospital for getting his finger chopped off!! Yeah. freaked me out too! Turns out, it was just the tip, but still a good chunk - got shut in a steel door and will take months to a year to heal fully. Not good.

K, then - I've been really good about always being on time/early for work and lately I've been slacking a little - just by a few minutes. But with my job it is very important to be here to open everything up BY 8:00, so I got a simple email reminder from my boss today to watch that. But of course me, being the WAY overly sensitive perfectionist that I am, took that non-harsh email personally and am really bothered by it. I apologised and said I would watch that, but I am mortified and I hate that I am so frickin sensitive! Anyone else hear me on that? I've been reading up on that and I'm going to try to incorporate more meditation and something called mindfulness into my life (and hopefully more exercise) that will hopefully help me not dwell on the past or worry about the future, etc.

So in short, I feel like crawling into a little dark hole with a big bottle of wine and not coming out for a few days. Anyone care to join me??

Chi_Chi.. I'll bring the wine. Long story, but I got a similar email- however very very very rude (plus a follow up phone call where my boss called me a liar!) for leaving 3 mins early the other day from my 2nd job (not school). I've been having bad dreams and stuff about it! Just be glad your boss is normal and reasonable and not a pr*ck like mine!

So so sorry about DH's finger!! That's crazy! I will also probably owe again this year for taxes- 4th year in a row! Likely many hundreds of dollars. Yippee!

And Brittany- sorry to hear you're so sick! Yuck!! Do you think maybe it was the extreme weather the day of the inauguration that did you in? Feel better soon!

Jamie- 24 days? Wooooooo! And Carey- isn't it less than 24 hours till your boy arrives here?

Josy and Patty- how are you? Busy with work? Luckily I only had to work one job today (woot!) so I am actually home at 5:30! I'm going to make some homemade potato leek soup here in a minute with a nice fancy salad. I love getting excited about dinner! Also means I will have a kickin' lunch tomorrow which on the 12 hour days, really helps me get through! Nothing else exciting happening around here. Just looking forward to the weekend I suppose. Nearly there!!!!

Have a wonderful Wednesday evening!

Oh Chi - you sound so much like me!  My boss made a JOKE about me taking a lot of time off for vists to England and such and I have been seriously bothered/offended/defensive every since and cant seem to shake it (and of course feel guilty/paranoid/whatever about taking my long weekend this weekend!)

Please dont worry about complaining here too often - if YOU aren't complaining then, I am the only one doing it   I have been hyper-sensitive to everyone the past few weeks and I don't exactly know why, but I certainly hope it goes away very soon.  Maybe some strange atmospherical thing.

Was your previous employer not taking taxes out of your checks? Is that why you may owe??  Or is it because of the marriage somehow??

Meditation should help you, or yoga if you are into that. Obsessive worrying is exhausting and I've not yet found a way to deal with it, so let me know if the meditation works for you

Oh and OMG I hope your hubby didnt say the words "I chopped my finger off!"  That would have given me a heart attack on the spot!

Get better soon Brittany - a good hair day will do wonders for your immune system

And.. 25-ish hours until touchdown USA for David! 

Carey, that's so frickin exciting!! Yay for you!!

Thank you for all the support ladies. It's good to have a joint pity party sometimes. I feel so stupid admitting some things like that even to DH over the phone. I just want to forget about it, but holding it in doesn't make it any better and he would just say something like "get over it".

And YES, he did in fact say that he "chopped his finger off"!!! And the worst part is, I thought he was totally making it up!! (which I was mad about cuz that would NOT have been cool). He does that a lot where he'll come up with something outrageous and stick with it until I believe it and THEN tell me he was joking and he thinks its the funniest thing. So I didn't believe it at all (can anyone say "the boy who cried wolf"?!) for a long time, then finally realized it was real and STILL was so shocked by it. So yes, quite the eventful evening.

Yea, my old job didn't withold any taxes and I was 1099ed. I new this would be happening but the problem was they were working me so little that I couldn't afford to keep that tax money in savings any more and had to use it to try to get by until I got my current job. I'm not sure if the marital status has an effect on that though - I've searched and searched to try to understand it but most of it is completely over my head. Sucks hard tho cuz that takes away from when we can afford to apply for the visa and get me over there! Whatev, we'll figure it out, but it's totally bumming me out!

Beth, I'm sorry about your boss. I really have the hardest time with being reprimanded and I think that situation (what your boss did) would have definitely made me cry.