We leave for Washington D.C. in a few hours. I have been up since 4:30. I will be glad to get the flight out of the way so I can stop being nervous. Nervous does not quite explain it, I am excited and nervous. For me anticipation of an event is always a lot worse than the even itself.
It is going to be strange being in DC and seeing all the sites in person. We have all seen them on TV and in books, but I am really looking forward to seeing them in person, and of course I am excited to take a ton of pictures. Mandy did a great job of setting all this up. I am glad we get to do something cool like this during her birthday!
It is going to be so wonderful to be away from work for awhile. We have both had pretty bad weeks. I am hoping I will feel better about work after being away for a week.
Skillet’s new album Awake is out. It is good so far. Check it out!
Yesterday we drove to Ocoee to go white water rafting. We rafted with Cherokee Rafting and they were great and if you are thinking of going I would recommend using them. The worst part of the trip was when on the bus ride from the rafting company to put in. I came very close to having to stick my head out the window and empty my tummy.
We did the middle river trip and not the full river, so no class five rapids just class four and lower. It really was a lot of fun and no one fell out of the raft. There were a few times when I thought I was gone for sure but ended up in the bottom of the raft and not the water.
We got the truck paid off Friday! Very exciting for us. Now to take care of all the wedding stuff.
We are going to Washington D.C. next month for fiveish days. I am really excited about the trip, but getting very nervous about my first flight. I know it is safer than driving, but I am still very nervous.
The next three weeks are going to suck. I will be working a lot and am very stressed out about it. I am doing my best to not think about it when I am not at work, but that does not seem to be working very well. I will make it one way or another.
I am trying to focus on September when we are going to DC for about a week. I have never been so I am quite excited about it. Anyone have any must see things while we are there? I am sure this will be one of time time that the extra memory card I accidentally order with my camera will come in handy.
The trip to DC will be the first time I have ever flown. I am nervous about flying. Safer that driving, and all that, I know. It is an irrational fear that I am going to have to try and control. I am seriously considering taking a sleeping pill as soon as I get on the plane and hope that I am asleep before take off. The only downside I see with that plan is that it will be a fairly short flight and I don’t think Mandy would have a lot of luck trying to carry me off the plane.
We are also going to head down the Ocoee river sometime this summer. It is looking like very late July or sometime in August. It seems to fall in the category of something I need to do at least once in my life. I think it will be a fun trip, even tho all the stories I hear involve people falling out of the boat and almost being killed. It is crazy that I lived that close to the river for almost twenty years and never went. I used to be such a shut in.
We had Friday off to finish moving everything. It is great having everything in one place now and not having to worry about making sure everything is OK in both places. It is also great feeling knowing that we took care of it all ourselves. Not to say that we did not have help. I guess what I am trying saying is that it is a great feeling to know that we are at the point in life, and have been, that we can take care of ourselves. It is also nice to know that we do have people that would do everything within their power to make sure we are fine and would help us anytime we need it.
It is so wonderful to know that there will be no more moving for a time. I can’t stand moving. In this case I was happy to do it, but am still glad it is done. Now that all the stuff is in one place there is still a lot of organization to be done. We have most everything put away, but knowing myself I will be rearranging things for weeks to come until I find that perfect arrangement.
Friday afternoon we played tennis! Really it was just Mandy trying to teach me. I had never played before, but I think it is going to be a lot of fun, after I get the hang of it. It can’t be much fun for Mandy right now, but she is being wonderfully patient with me and has only horse laughed at me a couple of times. The really bad part is I came within two feet of hitting a truck driving down the road, thank God it hit the grass and not the truck. I don’t think I would ever been allowed to play again if I had caused a wreck on my first round out.
My life is good and gets better everyday. Thank you so very much Mandy for your love and every single thing you do big and small.
We had a really busy day yesterday and got tons of stuff done. First up was returning Mandy’s equipment from Comcast. That all went well except for the fact that we forgot her remote. After Comcast we went to Cool Springs to get her ring sized. While that was happening we went to the mall and looked for my wedding cloths and for an TV stand that will hold my TV in case Mandy’s breaks.
Picked up the ring and ran to Opry Mills in another attempt to find me wedding clothes. Had all kinds of luck at Banna Republic, so I now have 80% of what I will be wearing in January. It is going to be so wonderful, I can’t even explain how excited I am.
We had to be at Big River by three to meet a lot of the developers from work. We had a really fun early dinner just laughing and enjoying not being at work. After dinner we went to the Predators game. Was a great game and we won!
After the game six of us went to Big Bang to enjoy some good music. A little over have way through Earth Hour Mandy and I left to walk around the city a bit and see it with the lights out, but also because we turn in to pumpkins if we stay out late at all.
Other than still being sick we had a really good trip. Our first stop was Jackson, MS to see Mandy’s Dad, Aunt, and Uncle. From there we went to New Orleans, LA and then on to Gulfport, MS to see Mandy’s Mom, Aunt, and Grandmother.
From what I have heard everyone approved of me. I was really cool to see all the places and people that Mandy sometimes talks about. I got to see the houses she lived in, some of the schools she went to. Got fighting lessons from her Dad and Uncle. Her Grandmother is such a sweet woman and has a sharper mind than anyone else I know. All the things she holds in her memories is just amazing.
Finally getting to see New Orleans was very cool. We got to have dinner with Kevin which is always a good time. We walked around the city a bit, and when I got to tired we hoped on a little bus tour thing. It took us all over the city including the lower 9th ward. It was crazy to see how much is just gone from the storm, not just in New Orleans either, but all along the coat.
I am off to try and make it through another day at work. I am still feeling the mono, so about lunch time I am just ready to pass out.
I only have five days left before I move. A month ago I felt like I was a head of the game, but now it feel like I am going to run out of time. I guess I keep looking at it like I have to have everything out of Friday and that is adding a lot of the pressure. I really have all weekend to make sure everything is out. My goal is to have it all done on Friday.
We have had a little taste of warmer weather this weekend I have loved it. I was stuck at work and did not really get to enjoy it that much, but getting off work and it not being freezing cold was very nice. I still have not really gotten out and taken any picture, but still hoping I will be able to start sometime soon. I am sure I will be taking them like crazy when we are in New Orleans for a couple of days in March.
We are trying another new church today. It is pretty interesting checking out different church seeing how much the services can differ even tho the core believes are basically the same thing. I am looking forward to the one today I think of all the ones on the list to try it seems to stand out the most.
I finally got around to getting The Fray’s new album off of Amazon. So far it is pretty good. You Found Me is still my favorite so far, but I tend to have to listen to songs a few times before I really start liking them so no telling what song will really come out on top. I don’t know if I have ever mention it, but I love Amazon’s music store. Go try it now.
Mandy and I are off to Cookeville today to get her hair cut and to visit with my grandparents and mom. It is always good to see the family and I am happy I seem to be getting to see them more now, even if it is only for a few hours. They are definatly the only three people who have always been there for me.
I called to setup a transfer of my cable to the new place on Wednesday and they told me it was too early. Something about if they set it up now my internet might turn off at any second and that I should call back on the 11th. Seems dumb to me, if after they setup the transfer the internet could go down at any point how is that going to be any different on the 11th? It will still be nine days before I want the change to happen. I don’t know if the person was just lazy or if I am really going to be on the phone daily after the 11th making them fix my internet.
