I feel like its been forever. I'm neglecting the blog, and writing in general, truth be told. Shame on me. But I've been crazy preoccupied lately.
For starters, I'm working on my internship at work. Since I'm still serving as well, I'm up to 5 days a week at Primanti's and 3 days of school. All of this equals no days off for Kristin for the foreseeable future. Granted, I have a couple days a week that don't suck, they're my short days at work or school. But still. I really can't complain much though, if I'm not at work or school, I have this tendency to be lazy and sit on my ass and do nothing. So being productive is good.
I've also started reading a new series of books that my friend Amanda from school lent me. I'm totally hooked, like if I sit down and start on one of the books, I tend to finish it. That's pretty much what I did every night that Andy was on midnights. And I'm excited because I feel like its been awhile since I've gotten really hooked on a particular book or author. I'm waiting on a couple of books to come out in paperback (I absolutely hate hardback books, I'm not sure why) and I'm waiting for Kay Hooper to write a new one, so I've been kind of eh on reading much lately. But I'm really enjoying these, and I still have 4 more books in the series that are out.
So yeah. That's been the last week of my life basically. I can tell that the extra hours are affecting me. I've been fighting not to pass out before midnight most of the time, which is completely unlike me. But again, its more hours, and more money, so I can't complain. Plus, I'm enjoying learning something new. Today, I got to help two of the kitchen guys make coleslaw. I won't say it was fun, but it wasn't not-fun. I was entertained, and that's just one more part of the business that I'm knowledgeable in. Like I said, I'm enjoying learning something new, having new responsibilities. I feel like I've got more of a stake in the company or whatever. I don't know, maybe I'm just exhausted and losing my mind.
Another milestone: Took Andy to my parents' house for dinner on Sunday. It was sort of accidental, I didn't even know there was family dinner on Sunday. Jess had asked me about it like a week ago, but she never got back to me and I was supposed to work until 8 anyway. Well just for kicks when I got done early at like 5, I called my dad to chat. I like to do that from time to time, especially if I don't have a chance to see him for more than a week. So we're talking, and he's like "Are you coming over?". I stopped for a second and then said "I didn't know I was supposed to?" and he told me about dinner and everything.
So I called Andy to see if he cared if we scrapped his plan for the evening and went to dinner instead. I was really hoping he'd go with me, I was pretty excited at the prospect of getting a couple hours with him before he went to work for the night. Of course he said yes he'd go, and no he didn't mind the change of plans. I don't think that there's much he would actually deny me (within reason, of course). There's a lot that I wouldn't ask of him though, I'm one of those people who freak about making extra work for someone else or asking them to go out of their way for me. But anyway, we went to dinner and it was a lot of fun. I get very anxious when I bring the guy I'm dating home to dinner. Its just always been an issue for me. My family is very important to me, definitely something I don't take for granted. When you're without a family for part of your childhood (or just have a really sucky one-- both would describe my situation) and then you acquire one, I think it's a little different. But bringing someone around my family is, in my mind, like waving a big "YOU REALLY MATTER TO ME" flag at them. The boyfriend, that is. So yes, I'm saying Andy really matters. Which he is clearly aware of, because duh. We're together and everything.
At any rate, we had fun. He already met most of my family and is good friends with Mandy and Brian, so I wasn't worried about him, and I wasn't as anxious as I have been in the past. And just as I suspected, Izzy took to him right away. They're buddies now, haha. It was really cute though. She wasn't too happy when we had to leave, and demanded a hug and a kiss from him. Plus, Jake has a new trick. He blows raspberries. It's adorable, even when he leaves a giant drool spot on my sleeve. He also has teeth, and I discovered firsthand that they're really sharp!
Sunday was a really good day. Any time that I get to see my family, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to have them, and it just gives me this feeling of peace and contentment. I have a lot of people in my life who love me and care about me. Can't ask for much more than that.
Except maybe someone to do my laundry.
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