Finding the Balance....

Sorry! Adjusting to this new schedule is really hard! Trying to find balance between work and home and relationships means that I have had very limited time on the computer and now I am 10 days behind! Yikes! So, to catch up let's start with:

Saturday 04/24



This is my niece. She went to a birthday party that day. I worked that day for Curtis at the Acting school. Ironically I felt more like an angry tiger by the end of the day. After completing my first workweek I was not really thrilled about working at the school over the weekend. But we are planning a wedding so the extra money will be nice. Curtis was also hosting a stage at the LA Times Festival of Books that day so he needed someone to cover for him. I was bummed I couldn't go to the Festival, but it was all for the best. Until I went to leave for the school a couple hours after Curtis left and realized that my car keys were in his car. In LA. After several franctic phone calls I ended up borrowing my dad's car. This car is old. And tricky. And so after wrangling toddlers and children all day I went out to get the hell out of there and the car wouldn't start. There's a trick to this. It didn't need a jump. Nope. It needed THE STICK. The stick is in the trunk of the car. You have to lift the hood of the car up and bang some silver cylinder with the stick. A lot. Sometimes more than once. By the time I got the car started I wanted to collapse in a pile of exhaustion. That was pretty much my day. See? Angry tiger.

So then.... on to Sunday 4/25/10
I had to teach again. But before I got to the school I had to spend 5 hours at my new office doing weekend overtime. It wasn't that bad. But combining the two jobs that day meant that I was at work from 8:30-almost 6 pm. Which meant that I had no weekend. Bleah. After 7 straight days of working laundry was piling up, the house was getting dirty and I was absolutely exhausted. So after class I met up with Curtis and we headed out to dinner with some friends for our friend Angel's birthday party. We had a cool private room at a restaurant in Downtown Disney. It was a Mexican food place. As you can tell by this photo of the Birthday girl and her boyfriend. :)


Monday 4/26

I don't know what I did this day. I worked. I may have walked the dog. All I know is that in the end of the day, Curtis brought me one of his sister's delicious cookies. How cute is that? It was a little artist's cookie! She's starting a cookie company. they're delicious.





Tuesday 4/27

Another day of: wake up, work out, go to work, come home, walk he dog, eat dinner, shower and go to bed. This photo, taken by Curtis, was right before bed in a vain effort to try and catch up with on line stuff.






Wednesday 4/28
We went to The Disneyland Hotel tonight after work to visit with some friends we hadn't seen in a long time. They had spent the day at Disneyland and we used to spend time with them at Disneyland in the middle of the week and have a grand time running around with them. But now with my day job I don't get to go take off in the middle of the week for fun times and adventure. I know, it's sad. :( But I need to make a living. Right? Anyway, we had fun meeting up with them at night for cocktails and chatting! As it turns out, we are getting married on the same day our friends did last year! Crazy! We had no idea. Weird little coincidence. :) It was fun to catch up with them. I wish we could see them more often.





Thursday 4/29
I think that this day i was just plain exhausted. It wasn't a good day. I remember that much. That's why I looked like this at the end of the day. It was a stressful week overall I think.




Friday 04/30
Today on my lunch break I enjoyed the lovely roses in the little outdoor patio/garden in front of my building. It's actually quite lovely. Taking my lunch out there is always a nice break to being cooped up inside in an office all day. While I was there I read a bit of my latest Sookie Stackhouse novel. I don't know why I love these romance/vampire/mystery novels but I do. They're my newest guilty pleasure. :)



Sat 05/01
We went to our friend Scott's birthday party. It was bunny themed. His wife made bunny cupcakes, and we played a game called "Killer Bunnies" and drank wine and talked. It was fun and relaxing. A nice way to cap off a busy week. My photo is of my bunny card and my wine.