I'm not packed at all, haven't solidified dog care and haven't told my parents, but I'm leaving for Turkey tonight-- by way of Rome and Athens, of course. Ohhh the joys of flight attendant travel. Can't wait to see Buket and her family and eat myself silly.
More later.
July has been heavily characterized by work. I kinda of set it up that way. Having my car and my dogs here in Charlotte and friends everywhere else, there was no real reason to try and get back to Gainesville, FL and no big events, like weddings, with set dates that I needed to try and be in attendance. So... my strategy was to painstakingly bid and re-bid to move my days off to the end of the month. I only have 6 more hours to go after this trip today until I can call scheduling and have them officially take me off the roster until August 1 for timing out. I'm oddly proud at my work horse abilities this month. Although, I'm slightly worse for the wear. I have this strange rash on my chest that might be MRSA or just a bug bite that is spreading. Plus my back has been in pain for the last week or more.
I can't complain that much, the trips this month have actually been pretty good. I got to go to BUF twice, SEA and SFO which are always fun and pretty. I'm off to SEA again in a couple hours, but its one of those sleep-in-the-hotel-by-the-airport and leave promptly the next day routine.
Then I get to go and join E for some beach time. The first fun I've had all month.
Today, though I learned that I am once again a line-holder for August. I have a set schedule and some, cough, limited freedom and control. Of course, I don't feel any measure of confidence in scheduling anything as I'm going to try and change my schedule 100% by bribery and manipulation. Goals are important.
Now... the real stress. Decision time. Go to Turkey for 5 days OR music festival with the love of my life? There is no doing both. Alas. Good problems, good problems. Still, I feel like I'm always letting everyone down.
It is really wonderful to have to dogs around again. It might be a little bit more work and stress trying to manage who is caring for them etc, but its great to come home to two little happy dogs.
If I could solve my icloud issues I might actually get a chance to put some pictures up. Always something...
I'm off to Buffalo again tonight. I've had a very lucky July with getting a long BUF layover every week. <3
Happy half-year! Can you believe 2015 is half gone already!? What!?!?
Because I like to do this- lets see how I'm doing on my 5 new year goals:
GOALS
1) Get out of debt completely. Debt free in twenty-fifteen!
Status: Almost. I am very, very close.
2) Get the dogs back. DONE!
3) Have an in-person, in-the-wild interaction with a starfish. Not yet...
4) empty my email inbox NOT EVEN CLOSE
5) Get another stamp on my passport DONE! Korea and Brussels
Ok- not bad. I have 2 down, 2 to go and one close. Feeling pretty good at this half-way mark.
June was a great and busy month; bachelorette party in Chicago, wedding in Cleveland, moving my dogs to Charlotte and some wonderful times with the bf and friends. Speaking of which, the bf has been crushing it. He was a super-super good date at the wedding. This is a huge first for me. Usually I wish I would have left my date at home the detract from the fun so much. The wedding itself, and being a bridesmaid was a fantastic experience. I really enjoyed the whole event. My friend was a gorgeous bride and the event was spectacular.
Then he worked it out to come down to Florida, see some more of my favorite places in Gainesville, help me drive the dogs up to Charlotte and most important deal with my emotional fallout. Not only did Kyohei and Chitah cry as I started to leave (guilt guilt GUILT!), I learned that my ex-husband, has, in fact, been married for the last 6 months at least. He didn't feel this was worthy of bringing up though he is on my insurance. I did his taxes and he used my bankroll to get a new apartment in Orlando. Nice. I shake my head.
