I was lazy more than anything else. I slept at the boyfriends house every night. Seriously, every night this month I have slept at his house. I washed my sheets last weekend and they are still sitting in the laundry basket, not on my bed! LOL!
I didn't sleep as much as I wanted, since I stayed at his house every night. He's up early on work days, and I would leave with him when he went to work, around 7am. So I never got to sleep in. But that's ok. Today I actually woke up before him around 8:15.
Some exercise happened this week. A few walks, a couple of runs, pilates and elliptical once. But I got ideas on what I want to do for more fitness as well. Which is SUPER important to me.
Then I spent some time on my goals for next year and my birthday intentions. My review of year 36 was great. It really really was a great year. I still can't believe everything that happened, ups and downs, plus all that I accomplished. My single biggest accomplishment of year 36 was crossing the finish line for The Boston Marathon. That's something I ALWAYS wanted to do and actually achieved! I'm proud of me for that.
Back to this past week... I started working on my goals for becoming a fitness trainer, reaching out to a few people who I thought could help me. I've gotten some really great and positive feedback from everyone I spoke to. I'm excited about it all.
Hmm... I cleaned my house a bit too. Not super clean, but yesterday I was on a roll and did the floors finally... one of the things I kept putting off. The kitchen has been great, bedroom too. I've pretty much kept up with the living room, minus the carpet. The back closet room was trashed. Its a little better, but really, with a name like "closet room", it isn't supposed to be super clean! I just need to do the tub, then the bathroom is good too... well, that and mop! :)
I took McGraw to the vet this week and he's doing much better. His levels are good and we don't need to go back for another month, plus his dose has been lowered as well. That makes me feel really good.
Friday, for my actual birthday, I had a great day. I stayed at the boyfriends house on Thursday night and woke up in his arms on Friday morning. He was funny when we were going to sleep. He had already told me that he might not remember first thing when we wake up that its my birthday and to not be upset if he doesn't say something right away. But around 10:30 or 11 when we were going to sleep, he gave me a kiss and wished me a happy birthday then with a "Happy Birthday Baby". Loved that. :)
He was right, he didn't remember first thing. He woke up and got up to get ready for work as usual, letting the dog out and hopping in the shower. I got up just as he was getting out of the shower and he wished me a happy birthday then and gave me a kiss.
I was home for my typical 7:30, and checked my email, had coffee and breakfast. After some phone issues (wasn't letting me type, but after downloading updated versions, its good now), I did my hair and makeup to go to the registry to renew my license. Need to have a good picture if I'm going to have it for 10 years!
After filling out the application, having the girl look at it and give me my number, I didn't even have enough time to send my boyfriend a text message before my number was called! It took longer at the actual counter than it did for my wait time! But I did the eye test, wrote out a check and got my new picture taken. They have to be really close up now for facial recognition software, so she told me. Otherwise, the picture looks pretty similar to the one I had taken 10 years ago. Got my temporary one and the real one will be mailed to me in 7-10 days. Nice $65 check. Since I have my motorcycle license too, it cost a little more to renew it. OH well.
After the registry I drove right to Wollaston Beach to try to get in a walk. But once I started, I realized how absolutely BEAUTIFUL it was out! I left the beach, headed home, changed, made a sandwich and drove to Hingham with my beach chair. I napped at the beach and was there for about 2 1/2 hours. Got some good color too! Just a great way to spend my birthday. :)
I left the beach, went home, and hopped in the shower. Took me a little longer to get ready than normal. I originally wanted to wear one dress, this cute little sexy red dress, but I don't have the right shoes for it. SO I had to change. I didn't love the first dress I put on, but ended up wearing a new one my mom bought me last weekend. Its cute... long sleeved, black, with swirls of blues, purples, plumbs, and greens and a scooped neck, coming to just above the knee. I wore it with plumb colored HIGH heels... about 4 inches! For one of the first times ever I can really say, damn my legs looked hot in that dress! Either way, my boyfriend liked how I looked, which was what I was going for.
He took me out for a really nice dinner that night. A great meal, couple of glasses of wine and dessert there too... he NEVER does dessert, but it was SO good!
I had already told him, insisted, that I did not want a gift from him. He is going to 2 weddings with me in September that he DOES NOT want to go to, and has to leave work early for one of them. Plus he took me out for a really nice dinner. I just wanted a card.
He knows I didn't love the card he gave me. Honestly, I was disappointed in it. Its all I wanted. He spent time picking it out... one he thought would be a great joke. I was hoping he would have spent the time picking out one that would mean something to me. OH well. He's a guy. I can't expect him to read my mind and I wasn't clear that I wanted a personal and meaningful card.
Yesterday, the day after my birthday, was crazy busy! I think I got home from my boyfriends house around 9:30, fed the cats, had coffee and breakfast, changed and met my boyfriend at the track to get in a run. I made the mistake of eating cereal before the run. NOT good. I had an upset belly all day after that! During the run, the cereal was sloshing around my belly and even my boyfriend could hear it sloshing while he was running next to me. I only ended up getting in about 1 1/2 miles.
From there, I headed home, cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, did the dishes, showered, got ready, and went BACK to my boyfriends house. Originally, he wanted me to drive, but it was SO nice out yesterday. He has a convertible! It was just a top down sort of day. We are only going to have a few more of them, so take advantage while we can, right?
We hopped in the car, and headed up north. We were at Canobie Lake Park all afternoon, going on ride after ride. We started with the Corkscrew, then went on The Frisbee, then did all the twisty, loopy, fast, loose your lunch rides! It was fun!
When we were waiting on one ride that basically shoots you up straight in the air like a sling shot up, we saw another crazy new roller coaster. It was call "Untamed". HOLY COW! I couldn't even watch while other people were on the ride when we were in line. I had to apologize to the dad in the car with us before we started. I wasn't sure what words would be coming out of my mouth while we were on the ride! I kept it down a few holy shits, and only one or 2 f-bombs. It was CRAZY!
Here's a picture of the ride while we were waiting in line.
After going straight up like that, you go over the top, then shoot STRAIGHT down! Toss in a few loops and HOLY CRAP! It was crazy! But it was lots of fun.
After Canobie, we stopped by my boyfriend's parents house on the way home for a few. I really like his mom. She really is a really nice person. Real and genuine. I just like her!
From there we stopped at my house, while I fed my cats and grabbed a few things, then we went back to his house to watch a movie and crashed. I slept SO well last night too. I got a little sun burned, even with sun screen, while we were in the car with the top down and at the park. I'm glad I was wearing a tank top!
This morning, I was home around 9:45 or so, took care of and played with the cats. They were a bit neglected yesterday! :) I had been home with them so much during the week while I was relaxing, that it was weird to NOT be home most of the day yesterday. Then I had my coffee and some cereal and I'm back to my spot on the sofa, with my lap top, just chilling out.
I do want to go for a walk at some point today and get in a good leg workout. I've done some work on my fitness group, for events going on at the high school track now that school is back in session. And then I need to hop in the shower by 3 to get ready for tonight and leave my house by 4 to go get my boyfriend.
We'll be heading up to my parents house from there and I told mom we'd be there by 5:30. She made dinner reservations for the 4 of us for 6pm at a restaurant I love near them. We pretty much go there every year for my birthday. It'll be nice to have my boyfriend with us this year.
I guess I sort of want my parents to get that he's a big part of my life. By having him come out for my birthday dinner with us, and then in 2 weeks they will see him at my cousin's wedding, and this is after he spent a couple of days with us down the Cape this year too. They haven't met anyone I've dating a really long time, so I want them to accept and understand that he's a really big part of my life now. I'm just really happy with him.
This week overall might be tough for getting back into my routine. First, just going back to work and dealing with that isn't going fun. Monday will be CRAZY! Plus toss in having to deal with the issues about the sexual harassment thing that was going on when I left. NOT looking forward to that.
Then, the boyfriend. He was bummed out about his training. He really wanted to get in a fight this year and now it just doesn't seem like it will happen in 2011. He has to pick up his training and he'll be doing double sessions some days. That not only means his time will be SUPER crunched but he'll be absolutely exhausted! And this is going to be going on for a while.
I know this week I'll see him Monday night, cuz that's the Patriots opening game, but after that? I really don't know! This week I might not see him again until Friday. I know that's not that bad... just Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, but still, I've slept at his house every single night so far this month! And today's the 11? Literally 10 days in a row. And I know I'll sleep there tonight and again tomorrow night too, so 12 nights... then I might not see him for 3. I'll have withdrawal!
Otherwise, I'm making some progress on what I need to do about becoming a fitness trainer. I need to figure out a the costs involved and I've gotten some great responses from the people I've reached out to so far. Now I need to keep going on the progress and see where it takes me.
That was my past week and what I have coming up. Tomorrow is back to reality, back to my real life. No more vacation, no more lazy relaxing days where I shower at some point in the afternoon. Up early, work all day and take home that paycheck. But I got a better idea of what I want for my future and where I want things to go. Long term, I'm not sure where it will take me, but I want to be doing something I am passionate about and love. I am not passionate about where I am getting my paycheck from right now. I know it'll come. I also know it will take time. This is the start, and the first few steps. But long term, I know I can do this, and I also know this is direction my life should be going.
I'm on the right path. I'm going where I am supposed to be going. I've taken the lessons learned and I'm using them to continue to move forward to where I want to be and with the people I want in my life. I'm living like I want to live. Things just keep getting better and better for me. I really don't know if I have ever been in a place where I have been this happy.
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