What Would Jen Do

Archive for September, 2009

the scorpions do not like us this week.  we had a pretty good year so far, only finding two all year and in the past week we’ve found another 2 alive and 1 shell.   the latest was a very tiny one and those are the worst as they’re young and go rouge with the stinging.    the shell leads me to believe that there’s another live one wandering around.   what a way to end the summer.

Portland was great, at least the parts of it that i saw.   Their public transportation makes sense and I was able to take a train all the way from the airport to the hotel, basically door to door.    everything was nice, the weather, the food, the beer, the people.   there was only one srs crazy person on the train and we happened to be on a car with two transit officers who herded him out.  he was ANGRY and smelled bad.   like really really bad, like i have never smelled anyone who stunk that bad before.   

being on my own that week prior wasn’t bad at all.  as it turns out, Icey being gone for a week feels almost exactly like he’s at home.   we still ‘talked’ on gmail and he called a couple of times but since we’re both very solitary people it wasn’t that big of a difference. the dogs were kind of bratty about it the first few days but they did see me leave with him and then come home without him and whenever i do that they get sad and then insist on running out into the garage to look for him.

we went to a surprise birthday party over the weekend.    some of us felt a little disappointed by the actual SURPRISE part of it.   it ended up coming out as more of a SURPRISE????  as if this was a new concept and we weren’t sure how to do it and we ended up not shouting it so much as saying it in our normal inside voices.    the birthday girl did a keg stand later, so it’s a safe bet she had a good time.

OH MY GOD all my tv shows are starting back up this month and my DVR’s are on some srs overdrive.   my new guilty pleasure for the year is melrose place.  

I have another random week of vacation planned in october.  the last time i did that (and the first time) was in April and it was probably one of the best weeks ever.    I thought for sure that by the end of it i would be stir crazy but it had the opposite effect on me and was very calming.    I’m really looking forward to it and October cannot get here fast enough.

Icey leaves today for a week long geek type conference in Portland.   This will officially be the longest we have been apart in over 7 years.   I will be flying up to meet him there on Friday afternoon and we’ll spend the weekend sight seeing and drinking beers.  Portland is apparently big on the brew scene and we’ll also hopefully  be hitting up Voodoo Doughnuts.  I’m thinking about renewing our vows there. hahah

This is also the first time I will be flying alone in 7 years and the very first time I will be driving myself to the airport, taking the shuttle and flying out ALL BY MYSELF.   i’ll make sure to wear my big girl pants.

My mom will be staying with the dogs since we’ve lost our regular dog sitter to grad school.   I think it’s a dream come true for my mom, two days with her grandpups.

I have high anxiety about leaving my house for a workday when Icey is gone.  I can’t explain it but I am sure 10,000 things will go wrong.  the house will burn down. the dogs will get out, i left the garage door open, etc.   But this week I only have to physically drive to work one day.   Which is good for the old anxiety levels.