I think I can make it!

Ten days ago I was having kittens about my thesis. Still not sleeping thru the night but I think I can make it. The bulk of the thesis is done, but still needs some work, now working on the portfolio that goes along with it, which is nearly as much work as the thesis, powerpoint, resume, journal, accompanying documents that prove evidence of accomplishments. By far this has been the most stressful class of the whole Graduate Program. But its due on Aug 24th and so only a few more days of pain to go. So sick of sitting up late doing homework so I took today off to get most of it done in daylight.....what a concept!

Thrill of the week Katie came home for a few days, how wonderful to see her. She has a few days before she leaves for her freshman trip on Saturday, and then we go up to New Hampshire again on the 28th to move her into dorms, feeling of deja vu, this time last year we did this with Joe, this time next year we will be doing it with Elliot by which time we will have gotten the sending the kid off to college thing down to a fine art!!

Anyways enough procrastinating off to homework I go

Vacation was when!

Quick I need another vacation, the one I just had seems a long long time ago and I came home to super stress....more on that later.

Vacation was awesome, I had not really been thinking about it, just knew it would be nice to get away. Dropped Elliot and the dog off at Joes house and Colin and I went to a really beautiful hotel on the coast near Portsmouth. Colin was in an incredible romantic mood all week, which I did not mind at all, nice to have all that attention and showered with gifts because he knows how stressed I have been at work and with grad school. We really did a whole lot of nothing, getting up late, wandering around cute coastal villages, picking out our retirement homes (pathetic I know). We then moved to another hotel about an hour north of Joe because it was on a huge lake and the best bit.....it had a spa. I am still reminiscing on the peach body scrub and vichy shower, and the couples massage was just heaven. The boys, Katie and dog came up for a couple of evenings to mess around on the lake in their kayaks and canoes, dog loved it. I loved sitting and watching them with a chilled glass of wine in my hand.

Big mistake was taking the Saturday to work on Joes house, mistake because all the hard labor undid all the relaxation of the week, but we worked like crazy people, used my weight in soap, kitchen towels and fabuloso, kitchen was gleaming, laundry room is a thing of beauty and finally a family room that you can see the floor has a coffee table (great Barn sale find) and finally it feels like a home. We finished so late we ended up staying the night, not doing that again, student accomodation is definitely not for me, whatever the time is I am taking my cute little body off to find a full service hotel!! But I know Joe was grateful about all we achieved.

Home, back to work and the realization that my thesis is due Aug 24th....now I knew this, have known this for a long time but was just ignoring it, buried it underneath all that other stuff I have been doing. But when I looked at the syllabus for the thesis class and realized how much I have to do by Aug 24th that I should have been working on all year and have not I just about fell over. So, as I cannot take more time off work I have given up alcohol and sleep...yep totally sucks.

Getting there slowly, at this point dont even care what grade I get as long as I pass.

A Week To Breathe!!

Joe came home for the weekend, what a thrill, I dont realize how much I miss him until I see him and then I fill up a little bit. It was lovely to have him home, even if he brought a load of junk with him. You know your boy is home when you come downstairs on Saturday morning and there is a filthy kayak on your newly carpeted family room floor, bottles of soda and candy wrappers all over the place because the brothers had an all nighter playing nerf gun wars after the midnight movie. Did I really mind... no not really but dont tell them that.

Sunday afternoon Colin, Joe and the dog left for NH. I will go up on Tuesday with Elliot, he has to work Monday and could not get the day off and Colin still had some DIY to do that I prefer not to be around for so it all works. End result is I have a delicious day all to myself. Went for a run this morning, really humid even early and was in more pain than the other day, serves me right for not running for so long but it did feel really good, especially when I stopped!! Just catching up on all those jobs today that I never get to when I am working like a crazy woman. Done with my research class, grade pending, going to hit the book store to buy some trashy romance vacation novels, may bo tango dancing tonight (woo whooo!) and then off at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Spa in New Hampshire here I come!!