My title pretty much sums it up :P I'm sorry I have been a bad blogger, faithful readers! Things personally and professionally just seem to be busy lately. Busy in good ways, mind you. I also went away to NY for the weekend, so I'm still coming off the high of being in the city, and the low of being exhausted after a crazy whirlwind weekend trip.
So things at the ARC are going well. Suzan and I spent the morning washing the ERV, laughing hysterically at climbing on a step ladder, trying to scrape bug parts off, and general chaos that is created by the two of us trying to wash that beast! In the middle of our cleaning two dogs wandered over, one black lab puppy and one older chocolate lab. So played with them for a few minutes, and then helped them to find their way home. When I was growing up, we had a black lab, and then for the second half of my childhood and now my parents have a chocolate lab. I love these dogs!!! Playing with the puppy made me want a dog so badly. I know that right now it isn't even remotely practical to consider having a dog... but, nonetheless, I sure do love them.
Backtracking... the weekend was fantastic! We drove to upstate New York first (it took about 12 hours, we left at 5am!!! had lots of stopping, jeeeez) and saw a show called 'How the Other Half Loves'. It was british comedy, which is my favorite. Then we drove into the city, enjoyed the nightlife, etc. We stayed over and got up early to have breakfast and spend a bit more time being tourists. Then, we drove to Boston and had dinner with a friend there. We got back to Bangor around 10... I was wiped out! However, it was a great weekend. I went with two girlfriends, and the car ride, though insanely long, was full of laughter. I can't remember the last time I have laughed that hard.
Things in the romance department are going just fine... as I told ARC girl, I did need things to slow down a big. Luckily, the other half of my romance agreed. But aside from my mini meltdown at the rate at which I was falling for this guy, things are great! It just takes some time with me, I'm so involved in lots of things and sometimes I freak out when I need to make a considerable amount of room in my life for someone else. Of course- ultimately I want to do this, meet someone, settle down, etc. I just need to go a little slower. Who am I kidding, I'll probably be the person who flies off to Vegas on a whim to get married. Just kidding Ginny (sort of).
Today is deployment phone call day galore! We're trying to send out volunteers to Oklahoma, Texas, and places in the midwest dealing with flooding. Don't know why I'm saying this... since my loyal readers are quite aware :P Other than that, I have finalized my t-shirts for Camp Red Cross, and am placing my order in about 20 minutes. They will be blue and red this year. Ben did the t-shirt design, I like it a lot. And of course the ERV cleaning took about 2 hours... but now Clyde and Marcia can pick it up in the morning and do two parades. Nice! I'm so excited about the exposure that vehicle is getting.
Other than that, I'm looking forward to tonight and tomorrow. On the eve of the 4th, my friends and I do a 'crawl'. Basically, this means we walk from house to house in the tree streets, where four of us live (including me) and have drinks and appetizers at each of our four houses. Then we all walk downtown as a group and go out for more drinks/snacks. It's a lot of fun. Then, in the morning, I'm decorating the democrat float and marching in the parade with the Dems. Congressmen Allen and Michaud will be there, so that is quite exciting for me. I'm a huge Allen supporter, despite not living in his district, and I'm delighted that he'll be running for senate against Susan Collins in 2008. That is one race I look forward to volunteering on. And yes, Gretchen, this guy I'm seeing is Mr. Democratic Party... so that works out quite well ;) After the parade I don't have plans until the fire works... although I'm hoping they don't get cancelled due to weather :( The fireworks in Bangor are usually pretty good, right over the river. If it's bad weather, or I get bored in the afternoon, I might make the hour drive to see my parents. They have a bbq with my moms sisters and their husbands and all their friends, it is quite a fun time. One of my earliest childhood memories is sneaking down from bed to see my parents and their friends all drinking and dancing and laughing on the back deck at the house I grew up in. I remember the song they were dancing to was 'Drift Away' by Dobie Gray... and to this day that song makes me think of my Mom and Dad! What a cheeseball I am!!! However, just a quick sidenote while we're on the subject... Mr. Democratic party isn't much of a drinker or dancer. I certainly don't need drinking and dancing in order to have fun, but I also don't want to never do those things. When I think about my parents, I can smile at how much fun they seemed to have over the years. And yeah, there were a lot of weekends with beer and wine and dancing and laughter. I kind of want that, too. Someone I can have fun with and laugh with until I'm old and gray and cannot dance or drink my wine anymore!!! :P
I hope you all have a great 4th!!!
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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