Pat and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday. It was a pretty relaxed day. I worked in the morning and while we promised not to buy gifts or even cards, Ohio State released its new t-shirt for the upcoming football season and well...if you know me...I couldn't help myself! It got here today already. Check it out!
After work, I spent the afternoon making banana bread and ziti for a neighbor wasn't doing well before taking a quick nap with Patrick and of course Brutus. Then we headed out to Ceviche for dinner. It's a quaint little place in downtown St. Pete. The rest of the night was spent relaxing with Brutus.
I'm realizing I'm starting to get all emotional knowing Pat is heading out again for the next six weeks and there's been some craziness here and then I saw a quote that made me feel better - "All great changes are preceded by chaos"
Here's hoping that's the truth....
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My bad, Batman!
So I realized I haven't posted since November of LAST YEAR! Holy smokes, Batman. My bad. So much has happened since then. I'll try to fill in the blanks the best I can.
Pat spent 6 week in the Florida Keys from Thanksgiving to just past New Year's doing a rotation for school. B and I stayed home and roughed out the holiday season on our own. It was miserable but we do what we have to do. We spent Christmas between Cleveland and Melbourne. It always takes a lot out of us. This year we were lucky to fly to Ohio so it wasn't as bad.
January started my ultimately successful decision to finally get healthy. I was tired of being stupid chubby. As of today, I've lost 26 pounds :) Now if I could get the remaining 17 pounds to go away I'd be happy.
Pat and I made a decision in March to officially say we're moving back to Columbus. We're really excited about our decision and can't wait to get there. Our lease is up at the end of February so it's Columbus or Bust! I had to ::cough cough:: drop out of St. Leo's because of our decision so I'm back at UF and have only 1 class and my portfolio to finish and then I'll have my Masters!
Brutus celebrated his 5th birthday in May (the 26th to be exact) and we celebrated our anniversary a little early because of a busy summer schedule. We went to Hollywood Studios for the day and it was so much fun. We hit every ride we wanted to plus waited in line for a picture with some of our favorite characters.
June 2nd Mom and Dad came down with some friends to celebrate our anniversary with a gift to the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw concert. It was an amazing, yet very long concert! It was fun to spend the weekend with rents.
School let out in June but Pat's still doing rotations. His pysch rotation was my favorite to hear about. His current E.R. rotation, not so much. I can't stomach hearing about stapling people's heads back together. Blah. He's off to Cleveland next Friday for his LAST rotation!!! Woo Hoo! From there it's on to getting ready for his national test.
3 weeks ago today actually I had LANAP (laser gum surgery). It was ridiculously expensive but it appears to be healing nicely and I go back on the 23rd to have an actual teeth cleaning.
As for right now....I'm finishing up summer school with the kids, two classes at UF and dreading Pat leaving me for another 6 weeks. Pat's prepping for his last rotation and B is just lounging like always. Promise it won't be so long next time friends!
Pat spent 6 week in the Florida Keys from Thanksgiving to just past New Year's doing a rotation for school. B and I stayed home and roughed out the holiday season on our own. It was miserable but we do what we have to do. We spent Christmas between Cleveland and Melbourne. It always takes a lot out of us. This year we were lucky to fly to Ohio so it wasn't as bad.
January started my ultimately successful decision to finally get healthy. I was tired of being stupid chubby. As of today, I've lost 26 pounds :) Now if I could get the remaining 17 pounds to go away I'd be happy.
Pat and I made a decision in March to officially say we're moving back to Columbus. We're really excited about our decision and can't wait to get there. Our lease is up at the end of February so it's Columbus or Bust! I had to ::cough cough:: drop out of St. Leo's because of our decision so I'm back at UF and have only 1 class and my portfolio to finish and then I'll have my Masters!
Brutus celebrated his 5th birthday in May (the 26th to be exact) and we celebrated our anniversary a little early because of a busy summer schedule. We went to Hollywood Studios for the day and it was so much fun. We hit every ride we wanted to plus waited in line for a picture with some of our favorite characters.
June 2nd Mom and Dad came down with some friends to celebrate our anniversary with a gift to the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw concert. It was an amazing, yet very long concert! It was fun to spend the weekend with rents.
School let out in June but Pat's still doing rotations. His pysch rotation was my favorite to hear about. His current E.R. rotation, not so much. I can't stomach hearing about stapling people's heads back together. Blah. He's off to Cleveland next Friday for his LAST rotation!!! Woo Hoo! From there it's on to getting ready for his national test.
3 weeks ago today actually I had LANAP (laser gum surgery). It was ridiculously expensive but it appears to be healing nicely and I go back on the 23rd to have an actual teeth cleaning.
As for right now....I'm finishing up summer school with the kids, two classes at UF and dreading Pat leaving me for another 6 weeks. Pat's prepping for his last rotation and B is just lounging like always. Promise it won't be so long next time friends!
The Good, the Bad, and the Undecided
Well, it's official. I'm getting old. The big 2-7 was a week and a half ago. It was a great day filled with surprises and a nice dinner out with the hubby. The kids across the hall were pretty stealthy and filled my classroom door and surrounding wall with giant birthday cards. It was incredibly sweet. I came home after tutoring there were a dozen red roses and two bottles of wine on the table and Pat was dressed and ready to go get dinner at Gigi's where on Wednesdays they have 1/2 off bottles of wine! Winning! When we got home there was one more surprise...an ice cream cake from Coldstone!!
News came that Pat's third rotation was cancelled and rescheduled for internal medicine in the Keys. I'm slightly jealous....ok, I'm beyond irked. On top of that, we won't be decorating for the holidays which makes me as grumpy as him not being home for six weeks. I always get "north-sick" around this time of the year and I love decorating but not this year. :(
In other news, I've decided to drop out (I hate that choice of words) of the UF Teacher Leadership Master's Program and start my Master's degree in Educational Leadership at St. Leo's. I'm looking forward to getting started and working my way up to administration (dad was always right!).
Finally, yesterday was the 7th anniversary of Pat and I meeting at the Ohio State at Purdue football game. We had some fun picking on each other....until Purdue won....again. He's quite the sore loser. Regardless, we took some fun photos with the helmets from the wedding and another at half time. You can tell who was up at halftime ;)
All in all, it's the same as always, crazy, busy, lots of unknowns and tons of things to do, both fun and not. Here's to surviving the holiday season...solo.
News came that Pat's third rotation was cancelled and rescheduled for internal medicine in the Keys. I'm slightly jealous....ok, I'm beyond irked. On top of that, we won't be decorating for the holidays which makes me as grumpy as him not being home for six weeks. I always get "north-sick" around this time of the year and I love decorating but not this year. :(
In other news, I've decided to drop out (I hate that choice of words) of the UF Teacher Leadership Master's Program and start my Master's degree in Educational Leadership at St. Leo's. I'm looking forward to getting started and working my way up to administration (dad was always right!).
Finally, yesterday was the 7th anniversary of Pat and I meeting at the Ohio State at Purdue football game. We had some fun picking on each other....until Purdue won....again. He's quite the sore loser. Regardless, we took some fun photos with the helmets from the wedding and another at half time. You can tell who was up at halftime ;)
All in all, it's the same as always, crazy, busy, lots of unknowns and tons of things to do, both fun and not. Here's to surviving the holiday season...solo.
Happy 1st Anniversary to Us!
Pat and I recently celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary. The past year has been full of ups and downs and the quite certainly the busiest and most stressful year of our lives. While we couldn't afford a big get away to celebrate we opted out for a smaller get away.
Saturday afternoon we dropped Brutus off at aVIP (a "cage free" boarding kennel). Then we headed down to Clearwater Beach to check into our hotel. Our room overlooked part of the Gulf...it was beautiful.
We headed down for dinner at Jimmy's Fish House which was right on the water too.
After dinner we walked to the to the Tropics Party Boat for a sunset cruise. Because of the weather forecast a lot of couples apparently had canceled but it ended up working out for us because it was a nice, fairly quiet, boat ride.
We headed back to the hotel and relaxed the rest of the night. The next morning we walked to breakfast and stopped at the beach for a moment. We decided we missed our pooch and checked out to go pick him up. Once we got home, Brutus was happy to wear his dad's lei from the sunset cruise.
Finally, Sunday night after dinner we dug into the top layer of our wedding cake. Pat was less than thrilled but he manned up and tried some of the cake. It wasn't half as bad as either of us thought! But...we still threw it out.
Happy 1st Anniversary to Us!
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