Boy, this week was really difficult. Lots of weird and violent stories in the news, both locally (mail bombs and murders) and nationally (creepy Arizona shooting). Our country needs to calm down, guys. Also, Greg wasn’t home for the majority of it for the second week in a row, which is awful. I’m so lost without him, seriously. It’s pathetic, I know. Greg spent most of the week rehearsing for an upcoming theater festival and most nights didn’t come home until after midnight.
Monday, I came home to a notice that I was way behind on rent. It was a very rude, sarcastic, and unprofessional notice complete with capslock, underlines, and obnoxious clip art and it stated, “Living here for free is NOT an Option!” I found out later that it was a mistake, but it brought back a lot of bad memories of the time I was evicted without cause about four years ago. The rental office apologized for the error, but it was pretty disturbing. I had nightmares that night about being trapped in a coffin and the coffin filling up with water and drowning me, causing a restless night.
Tuesday I just tried too hard and ended up tiring myself out. Really, I brought in food, got things done, and basically ran around on no sleep. Eventually my mood and self-esteem just kind of plummeted and I had another night of nightmares and skipped gym time. It snowed that night and Greg stayed home so we got to have dinner together which was amazing. French bread, cheese, kielbasa, and lentils.
On Wednesday, it snowed! I love snow and think it’s the greatest thing ever. Until I have to drive in it, and then I hate the crap out of snow. Everyone at work got really stressed out over little things that didn’t matter. One of my coworkers actually had a huge tantrum and started throwing crap around and stomping her feet and things. This is the same woman with the grating, loud voice–the one who went all insane about how I cut cake incorrectly. The one who is my best friend one minute and then is a complete asshole the next. The one who does embarrassing things that constantly makes her and everyone involved with her look bad. I came home feeling completely defeated and put upon and alone, but ended up being on the phone all night tweeting, facebooking, texting, and calling people. I stayed up really late and just zoned out playing Bombastic on PS2 until Greg came home in the middle of the night.
Thursday I woke up feeling like I had the flu. I told myself that I would take things slow, so I was a half hour late for work. I was able to eat breakfast and wait until I felt a bit more strong before tackling all my work. I felt like I was going to die most of the day and had to cancel plans with my mother, thinking I would be too sick to go out. However, I was feeling better later that evening and Greg took me out on a romantic date to the Cheesecake Factory and we went shopping. I even bought a new iPod Classic. I still feel the iPod Touch is probably superior to the iPod Classic, but I just feel more comfortable using iPod Classic. I spent today syncing it and have almost 17K songs on it! And that’s not including all my recent stuff I need to upload to iTunes.
Friday was super awesome. I spent it like a true bachelorette–eating leftover cake off of my shrinking stomach flab while playing Bombastic on PS2 and reading the other thing I bought on Thursday:
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim, the girl who played Nellie Oleson on Little House on The Prairie. I read all of it in about 3 hours on and off. I loved this biography so much! Not only did I not know she was an AIDS activist and and integral person in the PROTECT act, but her mom was the voice of Gumby and Casper! I related so much to her childhood stories and her charming offbeat sense of humor:
She’s just so cute and adorable! Love her!
Eventually I had to leave my lovely cocoon of memyselfandI. I headed to Three Notch Theatre in Lexington Park, about 3 hours away, to partake in Session 1 of the Maryland Community Theater Festival, where I got to experience the ever so lovely activity of watching one act plays and then the horribly tense activity of watching adjudicators tear apart every aspect of the performance from choice of set design to character development. One of the characters in the play Woman: Revised went by the name Vaginitis. She wore lots of makeup, a pair of scrubs covered in splattered … substances, and disheveled hair framing a mischievous grin. The adjudicator actually said, “I was expecting Vaginitis to … itch.” Hahaha. Other character names in that play include Woman, Crone, and Lesbian. My favorite part of the play was the ending, when a stuffed wombat entered the stage on some kind of motorized device. The play Greg starred in, Family Investment, was up against that play and nine others. The festival ends Monday, when I suppose they’ll announce the winners.
Greg and I spent today sleeping in, watching movies, and ended the day with a visit from Ryan, watching football, playing foosball and air hockey, and basically just chilling out. Of course I logged on in the middle of the night to see if anything had been posted for my classes. Believe it or not, one of my classes already has all of its materials online and it’s not even an online class! Does this mean I should start studying right away and that my vacation is over? Boo!
I’m waiting to hear from my mom on the status of [family member redacted because apparently it's a secret but she didn't tell me until later.] She went to the hospital this afternoon after having some kind of dizzy spell and has to stay until Monday. I don’t know what for since they couldn’t find anything wrong with her. It’s a bit worrisome.
