23 posts tagged “north carolina”
I've lived in Georgia for six years, and even though I got married here and have a stepchild here that I adore, I just couldn't get it out of my head that Columbus, Ohio is home. Spending 3 weeks in North Carolina and realizing that all I wanted by the middle of the second week was that I wanted to go back to Georgia, my husband, my munchkin, and kittehs was a big eye-opener. My brother and mother are in Ohio, and so is my best friend, but when it was time to go home, Georgia was where I wanted to be. It's also our weekend with the munchkin, so I got the instant gratification of seeing that sweet little face light up when she saw me almost as soon as I got home.
Home is where the heart is, but you still have to make sure your heart's in the right place.
Today was the last full day in North Carolina- the boss told us we could travel tomorrow instead of waiting until Saturday. I'm glad, obviously. I've gotten a little stir crazy in this hotel room, I miss my hubby and my kitties, and I miss my Munchkin too. It's been a fun, interesting, and educational trip, but good lord, three weeks is a long-ass time to be away from home.
Somehow I've managed to acquire a ton of crap while I've been here. I bought some cheap flatware, some drinking glasses, a container to make Kool-Aid in, and a couple of souvenirs, to say nothing of all the damn textbooks I had to buy online this week. But now I have a ton of stuff to haul home. Where am I going to put these things? Dangit.
My textbooks finally arrived today, and the gracious hotel desk staff held them and handed them to me before I even got a chance to open my mouth to ask about them when I got in after work. Did I mention I've been slightly bugging them over whether or not the books had arrived? Yeah.
It rained. all. day today, which I think it sort of did everywhere this side of the Mississippi. Hopefully Georgia can work itself out of its funky drought condition that it's been rocking for a few years now. Yes, it has been rocking the funk. The dry funk. Rocking the dry funk.
I've been eating a lot of Smarties.
I might get to go home a day early!
I just want to say to anyone who may be running a textbook store, online or otherwise:
When a customer pays an extra $50 - $60 for next day shipping, "next day shipping" is not defined as "shipped the day after your stupid lazy ass gets around to processing the order."
Thank goodness my professors this quarter put most of the material in PowerPoint presentations that are online anyway.
This afternoon, I found myself in need of one of my credit cards. I brought it with me, and I've used it recently, but I can't locate it. The banking website doesn't have any unexpected or unauthorized charges showing on the card, but my tendency to leave my cards in my pants pockets and find them in the washer or dryer + doing laundry downstairs in the hotel lobby = better safe than sorry. I called in and had the card cancelled and re-issued, so now I'm pretty well certain that I'll find the card in about ten minutes. That's okay though, since I am a better safe than sorry kinda girl.
Here's tonight's sunset for you.
Hubby has work tomorrow and a ten hour drive home ahead of him, so we made our farewells a few minutes ago and he hit the road. It was wonderful to have him here, and easily the best surprise I've gotten in a long time.
Recently I've been considering how our culture seems to put off emotional/social maturity. Specifically, I'm 25 years old and when I see 19- and 20-year-olds having babies, it really makes me wonder about myself, about them, about our country in general. I guess everyone does things on the timetable that makes them comfortable, but it makes me think about what people use to decide if they're ready. I'm still in college, we rent an apartment (a duplex but a rental nonetheless), and well, those are really the only holdups these days. I feel emotionally ready (finally!) but raising a child in a rental property isn't my ideal, and trying to be pregnant/a parent, work, and go to school all at once seems like an awful lot of irons in the fire, and I've seen how difficult it can be just to work fulltime and be a parent too, without adding educational aspirations on top of that.
Any thoughts from the gallery?
Hubby drove up to NC to surprise me for the weekend. I'm so glad to see him, I can't even explain it.
Being away from home is now officially old.
Good vibes, positive pins in voodoo dolls, or helpful advice are all welcome.
