The last mth... or so.

WOW, has the last month been.... I don't even know, overwhelming, irritating, frustrating, too much anxiety...… very negative I should say. When I got back from my short trip in Feb, my new house that I was in the process of buying was getting closer and closer to being finished. Each week I would visit and see one more thing done. So when it came time to sign the papers, while I was excited... I wasn't nearly as nervous or excited as I thought I would be. I smiled and tried to be excited for everyone that was excited for me... but it, yea not so much. It was just like "ughhh FINALLY, can we just get this done?" Maybe it will kick in in a few more weeks. Work, was well, work. Nothing really exciting. Although we got a new hire and training him has been... interesting. The guy I replaced is finally gone and all the help that came in for their short time is also now gone. So, it is all mine once again. I see myself having to carry this 29 yrs. of experience (new hire) and doing a majority of the work myself. I went back in to take care of a spreadsheet that, when you have sooo much to do can be overwhelming. So I came in off of my leave and took care of it. Of course I got roped into other work and was there probably about an hour longer than I needed to be, oh well. It got done. So I am all moved into my beautiful new house. Still unpacking boxes, but I have only been here for about 2 weeks. My mom and dad came out this week to help me, so i have a hallway and 1/2 bath that are all painted beautifully by my dad and the Girl's bed is almost completely stripped thanks to my mom (it has big pieces, mom actually did A LOT of work) and lets see, the Girl's room is done (except for the bed), ceiling fans are hung in 3 rooms, last night we got the first hanging storage rack up, and.... that's about it i guess. I got a lot of boxes unpacked and I am almost finally caught up on the laundry (I so do not want to see my first bill). The first and second day I was in the house 3 of my 8 surrounding neighbors came over to "welcome" me. It was nice. I almost felt like I was in an old neighborhood I grew up in. Over the next few days I met 2 more (one has a girl the same age as mine! yay! and they have a pool, lol double yay!) So that leaves 3 neighbors, well now 2 cause yesterday I met some of the family that lives rt. next to me. So that is pretty dang awesome. I found out the dad rt. across the street actually works at the same unit I do, that, it pretty dang awesome too. All in all, it was a pretty good week. A lot of frustration to get through it and I think I could totally use another week off, but the dang driving back and forth to take the girl to school and pick her up.... SUUUUUUUCCCKKKSSSSS, lol. I did it to myself but dang... I didn't get to sleep in until Friday. Oh well next week my goal is to have all of the boxes out of the house from upstairs. It is also to run 10 miles by the end of the week. I ran my first 5k back in Feb I did okay for a first timer I think. My time was 32:37. I ran my second 5K last sunday for St Patties day and ran it in 31:34. I have another one scheduled at the beginning of April. Hopefully I will trim another minute off by then. Maybe 2. I was only running twice a week for the last mth or so and it was only 6-8 miles a week. I plotted a nice couple of tracks around my new neighborhood.

So that has been that, for the most part. I finally have internet here so I can actually try to keep this blog this up.