WELL I am back in Wilmington for the weekend and just completed my last drive this way (from Greenville) for the forseeable future.  We had a whirlwind of a week and visited some new home sites, signed an apartment lease, picked up the keys, bought a new mattress, etc.  I think we did something every night this week, which is my least favorite kind of week.

But I’m doing ok, lest you think I’m perishing under the pressure of an easy routine move where a lot of things are taken care of for us, because starting on Sunday we will be in a new permanent(ish) apartment and my time in hotels is coming to a sweet end.  I will have an actual kitchen and my own bed and I won’t have to eat breakfast with a room of strangers.  Life is good.

On a sad note, it’s my last weekend in Wilmington for a while.  I’m planning on hitting the beach and saying a long goodbye and having an epic Wilmington food fest.

Reading:  Hahaha, nah, nothing to see here.  I’m hoping I’ll be able to read more starting next week when my life will be stable.  I don’t even have any interesting articles to share.  The only thing my brain was able to handle this week was scrolling through Instagram and looking at pretty pictures.

On that note, my new favorite instagram follow is Ina Garten.  I feel like she likes to get down (at least for a rich white woman who lives in the Hamptons).

 

Watching: GAME OF THRONES.  Warning, spoilers ahead.  

OMG Why is Jon Snow still dead.  Nick and I totally thought the last scene of the episode would be him coming back to life.  Ghost’s wailing really bummed me out.  And thank fuck something halfway decent actually happened to Sansa.  I love Brienne.  And I have such mixed feelings about halfway liking Theon/Reek in this episode.  It’s such a different experience to watch the show without having any sort of a clue about what’s coming.  I kind of hate it but it’s kind of exhilarating.

Listening: I’m really giving away exactly how lame I am with this admission, but I’ve been in an late 80’s/early 90’s country kind of mood.  I downloaded a few Randy Travis and Travis Tritt songs.  My fav being “I’m gonna be somebody”.

Eating: Well it was more hotel food this week.  I intended to do a WIAW this week to show all of my hotel meals, but I got as far as taking a pic of my breakfast and promptly forgot to take a pic of lunch.  Sorry, though you probably dodged a bullet there.  Anyway, here is my crappy breakfast.

Greek yogurt, tomato slices and a piece of toast with cheese and a (probably fake) egg patty on top.

Traveling:  I started my list of things to do.  I got like two items on the list for our first location, but considering all of the other shit we did this week, I think I totally deserve a pat on the back.

Workouts:  I worked out once this week.  ONCE.  And that is all I have to say about that.  I’m so looking forward to being in a more stable routine next week.

 

What is your favorite item at a typical hotel breakfast buffet?  What key things do I need to remember to bring at our new apartment?  Will you help me pack?

 

 

So now that we caught up on all of the major life events of the last couple months, allow me to fill you in on all of the mundane events that you thought you dodged a bullet on.  This is in no particular order of importance, and in fact only one of these things can objectively be classified as “important”.

1. I got a terrible, terrible haircut.  I’ve been in the long, excruciating process of growing my hair out since May of last year when I got an ill-advised long bob.

B&A from last May, so sorry for the selfies.

Unfortunately my hair is just so GD thick, when it’s short it just tends to get really poofy.  And ultimately takes wayyy more effort to style than I’m willing to put into it.  Thus began the dreaded grow-out.

I went in for a trim, and walked out with this. 

To be able to “fix” it, they had to take a lot of length off, so I’m currently rocking an even shorter LOB than I started with and I’m scarred for life.  The End.

2. I didn’t end up running that half marathon.  In fact, I stopped running or working out with any sort of regularity for a while.  I’ve been trying here and there as I can, but with all of the driving and the stress, I’ve been doing a lot more sitting and eating.  A lootttt more.  I’m trying not to worry about it too much, as much as I like eating healthy and working out there are some phases of life where it’s just not feasible.  And I’m not going to beat myself up about it.  But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward into getting back to my normal routine in the near(ish?) future.

3. My niece Lillian was born!  This is more of a major event than belongs on this list, but I can’t wait any longer to gush about it.  She’s pretty cute.  My two favorite things about her are her exquisite RBF (resting baby face) and her utter lack of shame regarding flatulence.  I am a very mature person.

4. I got my drunk Groupon massage and it was just ok.  I know, all of that ceiling work for NOTHING.  Especially now that we are moving…  But the lady was really rough (I did ask her to be lighter a few times to no avail), it reminded me of the Friends episode where Monica was giving everyone massages and they were terrible.

5. I tried to think of five things to have a nice number for the list, but I can’t even think of five minorly interesting things that have happened to me, so I’ll just wrap this up.