Ahh, another week has passed. Same stuff different day, really. James and I are continuing to work hard- a very difficult thing to undertake when our holidays are drawing progressively closer. I just finished my last set of 3 nights in a row before we leave; I have 6 nights to go, all in blocks of 2, and 2 more afternoons of babysitting. This time in 2 weeks we will have arrived in Baltimore, and the more I think about it the more excited I get. I'm just so ready to be there now!! I was saying to Carla today that it'll be hard not seeing little James for a whole month, by the time we arrive home he'll just have had his first birthday and will probably be crawling and saying a few words... I'll need regular updates so I don't miss him too much! While I'm away I should have found out about my job transfer too, so there's still a possibility I might come home to a new job.
We're having a small get together on Saturday, an early Christmas celebration with a few friends and close family members, so at this point I'm also trying to get a few things planned for that. I have no idea what on Earth posessed me to organise this in light of the fact that we have a million other things to do at present... but despite the mild anxiety forming in the pit of my stomach, I am looking forward to catching up with people and having some Christmas drinkies before we go. I think we're lucky actually, we almost get to have 2 Christmases. Hooray.
I received an email today from a family member who isn't coming to our party- they decided to RSVP 4 days late (despite having received the invitation about a month ago) and said they have another party to go to. In their email they said they hoped James and I have a good life in America. What?? On the invitation I had said something like "Come and celebrate with us before James and I head off to the US..." but they clearly misconstrued that to mean we were going for good. They thought we were going away for good and all they could manage was a goodbye email, not even a phone call. Nice, real nice. I used to be quite close to this particular person and the rest of their family. We're not so close now, can you tell?? Gee, what can I say?? Life is definitely too short to worry about people like this; over the years I have spent too much time worrying about family issues, and am content to finally say that both James and I know who the people are who mean the most to us and who genuinely love and care about us and they are the people that matter!
I'll get off my little soap box now, hehe.
So I had kind of a bad today today. Had trouble sleeping when I got home even though I went straight to bed- the phone must have rung half a dozen times- then my alarm didn't go off so I woke with literally 10 minutes to get to Carla's to babysit so Steve could go to work. That combined with that stupid email, and I think I'm ready for this day to be over.
Not much else to say at this point in time. Might write another entry tomorrow (my day off) when I'm feeling in better spirits but for now I'm going to sign off!!
We're having a small get together on Saturday, an early Christmas celebration with a few friends and close family members, so at this point I'm also trying to get a few things planned for that. I have no idea what on Earth posessed me to organise this in light of the fact that we have a million other things to do at present... but despite the mild anxiety forming in the pit of my stomach, I am looking forward to catching up with people and having some Christmas drinkies before we go. I think we're lucky actually, we almost get to have 2 Christmases. Hooray.
I received an email today from a family member who isn't coming to our party- they decided to RSVP 4 days late (despite having received the invitation about a month ago) and said they have another party to go to. In their email they said they hoped James and I have a good life in America. What?? On the invitation I had said something like "Come and celebrate with us before James and I head off to the US..." but they clearly misconstrued that to mean we were going for good. They thought we were going away for good and all they could manage was a goodbye email, not even a phone call. Nice, real nice. I used to be quite close to this particular person and the rest of their family. We're not so close now, can you tell?? Gee, what can I say?? Life is definitely too short to worry about people like this; over the years I have spent too much time worrying about family issues, and am content to finally say that both James and I know who the people are who mean the most to us and who genuinely love and care about us and they are the people that matter!
I'll get off my little soap box now, hehe.
So I had kind of a bad today today. Had trouble sleeping when I got home even though I went straight to bed- the phone must have rung half a dozen times- then my alarm didn't go off so I woke with literally 10 minutes to get to Carla's to babysit so Steve could go to work. That combined with that stupid email, and I think I'm ready for this day to be over.
Not much else to say at this point in time. Might write another entry tomorrow (my day off) when I'm feeling in better spirits but for now I'm going to sign off!!
3 comments:
We love you, Courtney,
Oh yes, we doooooo.
We don't love anyone,
As much as yooooooouuu!
When you're not near us,
We're BLUE!
Oh, Courtney, we love you!
There's my serenade for the day. I think I am delirious from far too much marking. Just wanted to give you a shout-out as it sounds like you're having a pretty crappy day today and you don't deserve that at all.
We're very much looking forward to Saturday.
Aww thanks Lynn :-)
You know, everyone has a bad day, I don't expect much sympathy, but I do appreciate the serenade :-)
I think Lynn's song said it all, we may not be near but we are only a phone call away and always remember there are a lot of people that really do care and love you both very much
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