Meanwhile, I get to scurry from training session to training session Friday and next week to complete CPE credits for my CPA license. Also, I am volunteering at the soup kitchen tonight and then we have a company holiday party on Thursday. They are encouraging people to sing karaoke - how do I develop the flu in the next two days so I don't have to attend? Speaking of work - I bought this for fun and it's the highlight of my week. A sweet fun thing in a boring gray world!
This weekend we'll have to fit in Christmas shopping for our families. Maybe if I catch the flu no one will get mad if I don't go home for the holidays. And I could lose enough weight to look hot in Florida. Please gods of flu, let me catch something quick and non-threatening.
Speaking of weight loss, I inexplicably keep losing weight. Usually I fluctuate around 120-123 since I stopped working out regularly. Rarely does that number drop below 119 if I'm not focused on eating healthy and running. But since I stopped drinking heavily the scale has steadily dropped. This morning - 117.5lbs! I should shut my mouth and enjoy it but what if it's all muscle mass I'm losing?? M thinks it's because of the alcohol - which easily cuts out 1000 excess calories a week. Gotta start running and lifting weights again so I don't get paranoid.
That was the good part of the blog post, if you feel like continuing on to the ranting negative part of the post feel free...
I won't be up for any Daughter of the Year awards any time soon especially after tomorrow.
I am not going to my dad's wedding or celebratory dinner on 12/12/12.
[Sorry for the following impersonal numbers - these women are very nice and good people but the story tends to get confusing for outsiders if I don't quantify.]
In 2008 my parents divorced (#2) and we kids (from marriage #1) took it pretty hard. Though my dad may have been in a different state of mind - I was still reeling from my stepmom of 16 years moving away. He began dating right away and got engaged in 2010 (#3) while my wounds were still fresh. Then unexpectedly #3 moved back to her home in California in 2011 and their marriage was called off - without any explanation of what happened.
We have since heard rumors, but if I have learned anything from my parents it is not to believe a damn thing any of them says. Take life with a grain of salt. On the day my dad was supposed to get married to #3; he met #4 for a date on 11/11/11. Three years after we went through that rocky divorce, #4 and her children came to stay for Christmas.
8 months after meeting, they got engaged at an amusement park. And one year, one month, and one day later after they met - they are getting married.
Why am I not going even if I could get off work on a Wednesday to drive 5 hours roundtrip? Because if I pulled this kind of stunt with my life neither of my parents would show up either. In fact, I wouldn't expect them to go after dragging them through so much shit in less than four years. It is hurtful, it is selfish, and it is downright immature. Marriage is a life commitment and not some game where you can start over if you spin the wrong number.
--END RANT--