Insanity is a dish best served microwaved

People have said that they have missed my writing as this is the only way they have been able to keep up with me since I have gone MIA.  Well, I will have to let you know that I have gone MIA with reason.  I have had a few busy weeks.  First, it’s the beginning August and you know what that means… getting ready for schools to start?  WTF?  It’s just mean to make kids go back to school this early in the month.   When I was a kid (and now I can say that because I’m like 9 months from being 30), school didn’t start until the last week of August and if I was really lucky, not until after Labor Day.  Now, these poor kids are being dragged to school instead of being free to roam the local pool.   This is also not prudent financially because it’s usually 105 or hotter and those kids are dead from being to hot and teachers are pissed to be back at work.  So they are cranking down that AC down to 70 to spite the district.  Which is pretty sad because the temperature in the classroom is one of the few things teachers still have control of in their classrooms and most districts are taking that away too.  So because they are back in school,  I have to go back to work too and start doing leadership trainings and pre-grad stuff.  I have been a road warrior the last six days going all over Northern California bouncing from school to school.

Second, well there’s Jen.  We just are having a blast.  Well I am. I’m guessing she is too because she keeps coming back.  It’s not stressful at all and we just let it roll.  Last night we had a date night.  We walked to Safeway and got sandwiches and walked back over to one mile in the park and just sat on a bench eating and just enjoying the fantastic evening in Chico.  I learned that not only does Jen have her stuff together, she’s really a smart cookie. She was explaining the whole law school process and I couldn’t have ever done it.  Then we walked down to this place called Glazed Creations down the street from my house.  You get to pick out a piece of ceramic and you’re able to paint it.  I was just looking for something a bit more active than going to a movie or hanging at the house.  It was actually a lot of fun.  But we got there a bit late and we didn’t get to finish our pieces.  We’ll just have to come back.  This weekend we are heading down to the city to meet up with some of her friends.  This is the first time I’ve met any of her friends, so this should be fun.

Jen on the other hand has been meeting the parade of my friends that have been coming through town lately.  I have had a house guest for the past six of the last seven days.  My friend Jon came up to visit last weekend and Patrick was here most of this week.  On Tuesday night, I had a dinner party with Patrick, Jen, and Patrick’s sister and roomies.  We just had a blast (and a ton of wine) throwing each other under the bus and/or bicycle depending on the severity of the story.  But by Thursday, I was beat.  Then I remembered I was hanging out with Hunter.  He came over and we started playing Drunk Madden… many tequila shots later we were downtown.  We came back and were hanging at my house. I was giving him a bad time and he warned me that he was going to punch me if I didn’t stop.  Of course I didn’t and POW right in the nose he punched me.  Fair game.  He warned me.  It was more funny and he didn’t remember it the next morning.

So I’m up early on a Saturday to help with our 20-30 Children’s Shopping Spree for underprivileged kids.  It will be fun to run around the store to help them look cool for Monday when they come back to school.  I am glad we do this project because although my family wasn’t ever the most wealthy (gpa and gma helped out a lot) I always had new clothes for school.  Again, doing service to my community makes me thankful for the life that I have.  You just have to give a little bit…