Blogger sucks...

So, I know I have been absent for the last week, and i worte a great 'highs and lows' entry last night, filling you in on all of the stuff that has been going on. And then i hit the button to publish, and blogger ate the post and told me that there was an error. I don't have it in me to type all of that shit again, so here is one of the highs, complete witha few pics:

The construction company that Mike is working for started a job this past weekend at a Hilton in massachusetts, about an hour and ten minutes from our house. Unfortunately, he is going to be staying up there during the week, and the job is huge, so this will probably be going on until may. It does give me lots of time to get all of my work done, which is critical since this is my last semester. Also, it means mimi vacations on wednesday nights! I don't work on thursdays, so I plan on driving up tonight. I went last friday night, and it was pretty cool. The area isn't that amazing, pretty much the middle of nowhere, Massachusetts, 30 miles outside of boston. I try to just imagine that it is somewhere cooler, like chicago or dc. BUT, there is a bed with comfy down accessories, a shower with amazingly hot water (we don't get hot water at our apartment that often. usually, it's jut warm. if we're lucky...) and a nice restaurant. Tonight we are going to have a nice dinner and hang out, and then tomorrow I am going to stay for a while in the comfy bed and study for my comprehensive exam on friday. So, for your viewing pleasure, here are some pics:

here is the outside of the hotel...




here is the bedroom with the comfy bed...




and here is the very nice looking restaurant, where I may be having:

baby iceberg wedge salad with blue cheese and oven roasted tomatoes

tenderloin of beef with shallot sauce and mashed potatoes

or

grilled atlantic salmon with petite green lentils and wilted spinach.

yay!

Here's to hoping that i get hit with something.

So, this week has sucked dick. I should have known it would have. When I was walking into work on Monday, the wind was blowing about 30 miles an hour, and it was sprinkling. The sky was grey, there were lots of evil looking clouds. and it was monday. As I walked into my building, I could hear the branched overhead creaking in the wind. I had already passed a tree that had fallen into the road on the way to school. As I looked up into the trees, I thought "gosh, maybe one of these branched will fall formthe tree and give me a mild concussion. Nothing awful, just enough to keep me watching lifetime from my bed for the rest of today. And maybe tomorrow. But lets not be greedy now... Having thoughts like this made me think back to my first two years of high school, when i played field hockey. We used to practice at the middle school, which was about a mile away. So we would meet at the gym at the high school, change, stretch and run to the other field. It sucked so bad. I hated it. I don't mind running, but it was just a lot of pressure. we were supposed to run in a group, so the pace was a little faster than I would have liked. And there was a HUGE hill at the end. So, every day when we ran, I used to think "please, let me fall. Let my toes hit a rock, my knee give out, a bird fly into my head. Whatever. I JUST WANT TO FALL. See, I had it all planned out. If I ever DID fal, I was going to milk it for all it was worth. Scream, cry, take my time, maybe walk most of the way to the field while holding back fake tears. It would be amazing. And then, one day, I did fall. It was my only time falling during the two years that I played field hockey and ran that mile 3-4 times a week. I fell, scraped my knee, and before I realized it, I was back on my feet, running faster to catch up with the group. I FUCKING BLEW IT! MY ONE CHANCE AND i BLEW IT!

This is what goes on here.

Kyle: want a piece of gum?

stacey: sure.

k: it's spearmint, is thatokay?

s: sure, whatever.

k: some people don't like spearmint.

s: i don't like winterfresh. i mean, i like winterfresh gum, but you know when some other gum tries to be winterfresh flavored? I don't like that.

k: yeah, but spearmint is good. did you ever wonder what spearmint actually was, though?

s: um, it's a plant.

k: oh. that was mildly embarassing.

So, yeah. Friday...

This week has kind of sucked...still trying to get the research proposal toegther, but it should be in to the IRB this afternoon, after the dept. chair signs it. Really. I swear....So, while trying to get that done, I was also trying to get my resume/cover letter ready for yesterday, seeing 13 students for alcohol appointments, meeting for a group project...and yesterday was just sucktastic. I usually have thursdays off, but had to come in to get shit done. I had to drive aroud for a while to find a place to park, then I spent an hour in the office where my internship is. Then I walked up the hill to my office for a meeting. then i walked back to the internship office for what was supposed to be from 12-2, but then realized that my 2:oo appointment was actually a 1:00 appointment, so i had to walk back early....all in all, I was here, but it wasn't really productive. I am just glad tomorrow is saturday. I think drinking all day in my pajamas sounds like a good idea...

last night was great, though:

1 heart shaped box of russel stovers chocolate (the BIG box...)
1 vase of flowers (a pretty pink mix...)
1 draft of stella + about 1/2 bottle of white wine = stacey spends valentines dinner on the other side of tipsy...
1 stuffed mushrooms appetizer
2 salads
1 baked stuffed shrimp dinner (stacey)
1 delicious prime rib dinner (mike)
1 piece chocolate cake (mike)
1 strawberry shortcake (stacey)

so yeah, fun. and delicious. hejo and i are going out afterwork today and then i am taking her to the airport.and i didn't even clean my disgusting car for her. i told her she should feel honored. so far she says she does. hopefully she will still be friends with me after she sees it...

Today was fab...

Despite the title of this post, today was not fab until I got home form work. The workday sucked, mainly because I had trouble sleeping last night and took some pills, but not until modnight so I ended up sleeping until 8:30 this morning and felt groggy and hungover when I woke up. I had not time to get coffee before work, my 10:00 appointment didn't show up, the new counseling intake forms I wrote for our alcohol consulting sessions are not working, and resulting in my stumbling through sessions. I have a TON of work to finish, and things just kept getitng piled on today. I also had a mid-afternoon headache that I was afraid would turn into a migraine (it didn't)and when I called A (of C and A, the couple on the verge of breaking up) to see if she was in for the gym after work, she said probably not because she thought A might be moving out today. awesome. I also tripped in the hallway in full view of most of my office, but managed to laugh it off and save my soda. Oh, and the soda? Either they hooked up regular pepsi to the diet pepsi fountain or i was just an idiot and got the wrong soda. Either way, I drank it. More unneccesary calories! Yay!

So, as the above rant illustrates, today kind of sucked. AND THEN MIRACULOUSLY TURNED AWESOME! When I got home, mike had put laundry away, done the dished, and was in the middle of making a delicious dinner of perfectly seasoned porkchops accompanied by tomato parmesan pasta and green beans. I told him about my crappy day and he told me to go sit and relax while he finished dinner (!). Dinner was great, then there were a few CSI episodes from the DVR, AND THEN IT WAS TIME FOR AMERICAN IDOL.

Some things that made idol watching fab:
1. m spliced the cable into the bedroom. bed+ai=heaven
2. one commercial break provided plenty of time for some bedroom acrobatics...
3. sebastian joined us later at the foot of the bed and, for once, his nose wasn't thisclose to my face as he meowed for food.

Here is the only issue I had with AI tonight:

WHAT is the obsession with THIS GUY?



simon was all like "you are so lucky! you have looks! talent! charm!

um, if your idea of hot = 12
if you like talent that puts you to sleep
and if you think being charming = ass kissing.

seriously, do they really think he is better than this guy:



this guy is RIDICULOUSLY HOT , not to mention he has a great voice. i like my men to be old enough to grow facial hair.

even better than the aussie hottie, in my opinion, is this guy:



i think josiah has such an amazing, different voice. he would be an awesome punk singer. and i can't believe that they hated his version of stand by me. it gave me chills....

so now, i should try to go to bed, but i think having such a fab night has revved me up...I need to find something to do to burn off this energy...

Things I Learned Over the Weekend:

1. Tide Pens really do work: they got a red wine stain off of my brand new white button down shirt on monday night.

2. The only funny parts of "Meet the Spartans" are the ones in the preview. Unfortunately, I know this from personal experience.

3. There are lots of funny parts in "I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry".

4. If I rent an on-demand movie from cable from the "classic" section, it only costs $1.95. (Obviously, there was a lot of movie watching this weekend...)

5. I should have been working on finishing my research proposal earlier than monday morning at 6am. It brought back some horrible undergrad memories...

6. Even though I got the oil changed in my car, it is still making a funny noise. Huh.

Happy Monday!

Now Accepting Applications and Scheduling Interviews...

So everyone knows that breaking up is hard to do, but what happens when you're not the couple breaking up, but the couple breaking up is your "friend couple"? You know, the couple that is your standard for dinners, parties, and other general fun? It looks like Mike and I might be facing this problem sooner than later...

A little backstory: we met C and A when we moved into our first apartment in March of 2006. The apartment was a tiny efficiency behind a bigger house that had 3 apartments, one on each floor. C and A lived on the top floor, and we soon became good friends. We had dinner together all of the time, or just hung out to watch lots of family guy on dvd. We go canoeing in the spring and summer, and to the county fair. C and Mike go off and do guy stuff together, and A and I like to cook together, go to yard sales and fleamarkets, and we go to the gym together all of the time. Not only do we have tons of fun together, this couple is also our "gateway couple": we meet couples through them and get invited to stuff, but I don't know if that would still be the case if C and A decide to break it off.

I guess the reason why we work so well together is because Mike and I are completely different, and sometimes it is hard for us to find couples to hang out with that we both get along with. But with C and A, we were different in the same ways, so not only did we have fun together, we could understand and appreciate the nuances of each other's relationship, because we were having similar experiences.

So, as of now, I really hope they don't break up. A is pretty close to my best friend right now, and I want her to be happy, but I am going to miss C and A as a couple. and I really don't feel like looking for a replacement. The original is always better...