I'm back! Well... hopefully. Sorry I haven't written in so long. In my defense, our one and only computer died about a week after my last post and we didn't have a working computer again until 2 weeks ago. We were at the mercy of friends and family to use their computer for a few spare moments here and there. It wasn't worth it to try and use those rare occasions to blog.
February was crazy - I was only home for MAYBE a week. I was in Florida the first week, California the 2nd, and Arkansas about 5 days after I got home from CA. And a few days after I got home from Arkansas, I was in Vegas for 5 days. And I was *supposed* to be in California again 6 days after that... and Ohio a week after that... and Oregon a week after that... But after Vegas I told my boss that I can't do all these out of town trips anymore. Maybe one every month or two, but not every other week. After Vegas (March 1-5), I calculated that I'd been out of town just over 30 days since the beginning of January. I missed my first Valentine's Day with Eric (or anyone, for that matter - never had a Valentine before), I missed Eric's brother's homecoming and all of the family partying that week, monthly family dinners, ward functions, etc. I was literally on the verge of a nervous breakdown. If I had taken that California trip, I think I might have actually snapped.
Oh PS, work has also begun to destroy my back (and I sadly have begun a long and frustrating search for a 'real' job that (1) keeps me in TOWN, and (2) guarantees x amount of work). Having to haul the equipment around my front while holding the boom in my hands day after day started giving me huge back problems. I went to a doctor in early March and he prescribed me 3 different kinds of medications and sent me to a physical therapist and a chiropractor. The PT helped me to strengthen my back and gave me a lot of exercises to continue to strengthen it. I'm still seeing the chiropractor about once a week and working really hard to become a back sleeper because he said that stomach sleepers often have a lot of back pain and I'm trying to minimize the back stuff a much as possible.
I promised a friend I'd get back into music and yesterday I played the piano, then my flute, then my oboe, and finally pulled out the clarinet (just started that one). (It sounds great, but I've only figured out about 12 notes - I need to get a book with all of the proper fingering. :P Once I get the clarinet down, saxophone is next. I've always wanted to learn that one. The only problem is acquiring a sax!) It was pretty sad when I realized just HOW long it had been since I'd played flute and oboe - Eric had never even heard me play. Wow. I've really got to pull them out more often!
My mom came to visit a couple of weeks ago and it was AWESOME! It was pretty much just me and her for a whole week. Eric and Cameron would play Halo (or something similar) and my mom and I would be in the other room playing Demon (to you Utahns, this is known as Nerts), Boggle, or Rummikub. We also made a lot of food. We made my mom's famous meatloaf and I later found out from Eric's mom that Cameron said that it was the best meatloaf he had *ever* had. She of course wanted the recipe after that kind of review. :P Same with my mom's carrot cake (basically, it's the best). It is a PAIN to make but dang is it good! Apparently Eric's mom is a connoisseur of carrot cake and she told me it was the best carrot cake she's ever had. She wanted the recipe for that as well. :) My mom and I also made an apple pie - with her homemade crust recipe. Eric sure loved that! (we made apple because I knew it was his favorite). We were going to make a pumpkin pie too, but we ran out of time. We also went and saw the PG-13 version of The King's Speech and that is easily the best movie I have seen all year. It totally deserved the Academy Award! I highly recommend it.
Alright, well I need to go make some snickerdoodles now because I have become known for my cookies in Eric's family and there's a family party tonight to celebrate his grandparents coming home from their mission and I promised I'd bring snickerdoodles. I promise to try to write more, now that I actually have a computer again!
1 comments:
Glad to see you're still alive and well. I was beginning to wonder.... Your schedule sounds like it was just crazy for a while, but I'll bet it was kind of fun to travel all over and see different places too. I didn't even know you played the flute, oboe or clarinet. It's good to hear you'll be moving on to a real instrument like the saxophone soon. :) If I remember right from my attempts at clarinet, it wasn't that different from the saxophone, so once you've got that down the transition shouldn't be too hard.
Good to hear from you again!!
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