So, last night I just got so sad. Sad about leaving, sad about packing, sad about trying to figure it all out. But, this morning, I just sort of decided there's no time for that. Today I have, arranged for my transcripts to be sent to Vienna, sent off a copy of my teaching license, figured out most of my shipping stuff, or at least figured out what I need to do, I have boxes on the way and really just finally gotten it in my head that whether or not I want to move, it's happening 3 weeks from tomorrow. Crazy.
The last week or so has been really busy. We went to a rooftop bar on Sunday for Kim's birthday and a different one on Wednesday for Mark's birthday and a different one on Thursday for our Elementary School end of year party. It was a pretty busy week. The weekend was nice, we spent some time relaxing during the days, I went to Lime Tree and sat by the pool all day on Friday, Saturday just sort of lounged around and then drove around the Palm near Atlantis. Sunday was great too, a few of us met and had a spa/pool/lunch day. It was amazing and so relaxing. This week I'm heading to this all you can Sushi/Sake night, then a brunchish thing on Friday afternoon, then our "Sophomore Dinner" on Friday evening. It should be interesting if nothing else!
Now, it's back to work and sorting out life. Not that fun.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Just another day in paradise...
Last week flew by, as usual. I can't remember what all I did, probably spent half the time thinking about all the things I "should" be doing. Like maybe packing, figuring out shipping, maybe buying plane tickets to get home, to Vienna, selling my car, all the other random things I have... maybe figuring out my banking crisis. I am seriously living my life in denial that I have 31 days to figure it all out. All of my things are going to end up in boxes and in some apartment with the hope that someone will ship it all to me once I get to Vienna... whatever. For some reason I can't be bothered to figure anything out about it. This weekend was fun, went out with some friends for happy hour and laughed while this British girl did a photo shoot, it wasn't a real photo shoot just her randomly posing while her friends took pictures, no we weren't at some cool bar, we were at this smoky, random pub like place filled with 40 year old British guys. Fun. Friday was a pretty lazy day until I went to this bachelorette party that I was worried about, but if you took a way a few games and things that totally made me freak out and get all weird and embarrassed, it was great. We were at these beach apartments that the school has, somehow I'd never seen them before and they are awesome, and then we were picked up by a hummer thing and then went to a few different places. It was fun, but completely embarrassing to be those girls, you've all seen them, dressed up, wearing random tiaras and coming out of a limoish thing, everyone is staring, blah, blah, blah. I did "forget" my princess tiara, and by princess I mean Disney characters... The bachelorette had to do random tasks and it was my job to get photos and now need to put together a scrapbook thing. We'll see how that goes. This week is a busy one, two birthdays, a work end of year happy hour and... then a three day weekend. YEAH! It's so annoying, work plans things and it's like I don't even want to go because I think it's so awful here and you never know if something weird will happen and I don't know, this place has made me crazy. I'm always just waiting for the next worst thing to happen. Yet, even when I'm waiting for it, it surprises me. 31 more days...
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The art of relaxation...
So, I've never been one to take naps, sleep in past 7:00, or spend more than one second doing nothing. Instead, I want to be doing something, or at least planning what I'm doing next. Apparently not anymore. And, I've skipped running club for the past two weeks. What is going on?
Time is moving way too fast, I've been busy doing everything and nothing all at once. Last weekend I had a little dorm life flashback, had some friends over for wine, went down to another friend's for more wine, came home, spent half the next day lounging around. I was planning on staying in that night, but somehow ended up drinking martinis at 1897, this smoky, overpriced bar at the mall that for some reason I really like and then going over to a different friend's dorm, I mean apartment, to have a few bottles of wine and some Arz. The next day I went to the mall to help someone find some black shoes, I think we went to 187 different stores and eventually found a pair, it was hard not to laugh, but I'm not sure he found it that funny. It's that thing that when you're looking for something specific, you can't find it, but when you're not looking for anything you somehow find everything you didn't even know you were looking for. The next week flew by, went to a friend's for dinner, I think we ate at 5:30, the early bird special, which I love, the teacher schedule is great! Another night I went to Old Town, which was really nice, we were in one of the apartments and it was just so Dubai, from one window you could see a view of the apartments, the lights, the fancy water fountain and all that, then if you turned and looked in the other direction there was this huge construction site and cranes and just two opposite worlds. I really like the area though. I think if I were staying I'd want to live there, or JBR, just because of the access to the beach, but anyways, we ended up staying up way too late and I had to drag myself to work the next day. A bunch of us did a Friday Brunch at this place Yalumba, and everything about it was great. They, Friday Brunches, are really the most random thing ever and you really can't explain them. We were greeted with a glass of champagne, served food, or you could go up to the buffet and there was anything you could ask for. Then somehow dancing at 3:45 seems like the best idea ever. By the end of the night I was drinking beer. That's not what I do, or well, I guess it is. I think we were home and asleep before 10. The other exciting news for the weekend was that I borrowed Stealing Home from a friend, I LOVE that movie! Yesterday I, once again, did nothing until maybe 3:00, well, I did manage to eat some breakfast watch part of an AFL game, I could even tell you a few of the rules..., went out to lunch, back to the mall for more shopping, then, just because I'm reliving college, I had to get a juice club like drink. Then I went to soccer, which just about killed me, I'm not sure what our coach was doing to us, our "warm up/conditioning" was exhausting.
Now, it's back to work. I am determined to have a good day at work. We'll see if it happens. This week is more of the same, dinner at a friend's, soccer game, then Charlie's Angel's shooting club night on Thursday and "Hen Party" on Friday. It really never ends.
Austria, well, my German is awesome. I'm just picking it up so quickly. Whatever, I think I am just refusing to even try because admitting to myself that I need to learn German is kind of an indication that I am soon going to be living in Austria, which honestly almost causes me to hyperventilate. But, as I learned years ago, if you do hyperventilate and pass out, your breathing does actually return to normal and you don't die. Unless of course you're driving a car or in some other dangerous place when you pass out...
Time is moving way too fast, I've been busy doing everything and nothing all at once. Last weekend I had a little dorm life flashback, had some friends over for wine, went down to another friend's for more wine, came home, spent half the next day lounging around. I was planning on staying in that night, but somehow ended up drinking martinis at 1897, this smoky, overpriced bar at the mall that for some reason I really like and then going over to a different friend's dorm, I mean apartment, to have a few bottles of wine and some Arz. The next day I went to the mall to help someone find some black shoes, I think we went to 187 different stores and eventually found a pair, it was hard not to laugh, but I'm not sure he found it that funny. It's that thing that when you're looking for something specific, you can't find it, but when you're not looking for anything you somehow find everything you didn't even know you were looking for. The next week flew by, went to a friend's for dinner, I think we ate at 5:30, the early bird special, which I love, the teacher schedule is great! Another night I went to Old Town, which was really nice, we were in one of the apartments and it was just so Dubai, from one window you could see a view of the apartments, the lights, the fancy water fountain and all that, then if you turned and looked in the other direction there was this huge construction site and cranes and just two opposite worlds. I really like the area though. I think if I were staying I'd want to live there, or JBR, just because of the access to the beach, but anyways, we ended up staying up way too late and I had to drag myself to work the next day. A bunch of us did a Friday Brunch at this place Yalumba, and everything about it was great. They, Friday Brunches, are really the most random thing ever and you really can't explain them. We were greeted with a glass of champagne, served food, or you could go up to the buffet and there was anything you could ask for. Then somehow dancing at 3:45 seems like the best idea ever. By the end of the night I was drinking beer. That's not what I do, or well, I guess it is. I think we were home and asleep before 10. The other exciting news for the weekend was that I borrowed Stealing Home from a friend, I LOVE that movie! Yesterday I, once again, did nothing until maybe 3:00, well, I did manage to eat some breakfast watch part of an AFL game, I could even tell you a few of the rules..., went out to lunch, back to the mall for more shopping, then, just because I'm reliving college, I had to get a juice club like drink. Then I went to soccer, which just about killed me, I'm not sure what our coach was doing to us, our "warm up/conditioning" was exhausting.
Now, it's back to work. I am determined to have a good day at work. We'll see if it happens. This week is more of the same, dinner at a friend's, soccer game, then Charlie's Angel's shooting club night on Thursday and "Hen Party" on Friday. It really never ends.
Austria, well, my German is awesome. I'm just picking it up so quickly. Whatever, I think I am just refusing to even try because admitting to myself that I need to learn German is kind of an indication that I am soon going to be living in Austria, which honestly almost causes me to hyperventilate. But, as I learned years ago, if you do hyperventilate and pass out, your breathing does actually return to normal and you don't die. Unless of course you're driving a car or in some other dangerous place when you pass out...
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