Rose rarely has extended vacations, but she has been blessed this month with time off and wonderful people to visit. A general idea of where she has been/will be from 25 July - 4 August 2009 (over 1200 miles of travel!):
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Work Party!
This weekend was busy & fun and we're both worn out from the busyness & fun-ness.
Here is a sneak peak @ all the fun David had:
And my favorite by itself:
Our arms are sore and we're ready for Rachel Getting Married. More later and much to update on so stay tuned!
Here is a sneak peak @ all the fun David had:
And my favorite by itself:
Our arms are sore and we're ready for Rachel Getting Married. More later and much to update on so stay tuned!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Busy, Busy!
Oh, how I have ignored you my dear Blogger!
Happier things have been occurring, though I do feel a bit selfish admitting it. (I guess you readers should just understand that mourning is a process and part of it is pulling yourself away from the reality of what is going on.) Fourth of July weekend was very exciting. We went to the zoo, went hiking at Congaree, saw the Blowfish play, made dinner together... Last weekend we went to Folly Beach with the church and it was a lot of fun! I've been working 3-to-4 days a week and by the time I have off, I usually need about a day to catch up. I've realized this day is most-often spent doing chores and cleaning (which I don't mind).
Here is a condensed & bulleted version of recent events (especially since I should be sleeping right now!):
- After a debate/discussion/fight/argument & wikipedia reference (plus Glen's confirmation) -- David officially has chigger bites all over him from our hike at Congaree over 9 days ago
- The backs of my knees and the scalp of my head have been successfully (and unfortunately) blistered from the sun's hot rays this past Saturday. I can't wait to start peeling.
- One of the main streets in town, Harden, runs north-south and has a light at every single block. Many times while driving I see neighboring cars intentionally or unintentionally (I can never really tell) run through red lights. Each time it freaks me out and I have to hold my tongue. I see this happen at least once a day. Well, today, I drove right through a red light. It wasn't going from yellow-to-red; it had been red most-likely for a few minutes. And I drove right through it. And a car was turning left heading the other direction and when he/she almost hit me, I thought to myself (angrily of course) -- what an idiot! Aren't they watching where they are going? Then I realized I'm the idiot and David almost made me get off the phone.
- My wonderful LG touch-screen phone is messing up AGAIN. (This is the third phone since last October.) Today, on my day off, I went through the hassle of backing up all of my contacts and transferring all of my photos to the SD micro-chip memory card and all of a sudden it started working fine. Of course. I still wanted to go to Alltel (especially since I have trips coming up) to see what they could do and of course that office is closed and I should drive over to Two Notch and ask Verizon for help. All I'm saying is I better have service at work tomorrow.
- I'm getting better at racquetball so David is afraid of me.
- I have a MILLION photos to post, so I will get to those on Thursday or Friday.
- I only have two weeks left of the externship! ):
- Our Seattle itinerary is, for the most part, complete! (:
- I think I've actually learned stuff this summer.
- Did I even tell you all about Charleston??
- These bullets are pointless at the moment.
And so this post isn't devoid of anything exciting, a video from the Riverbanks Zoo:
And some photos from the zoo (which are already up on Facebook):
Good night!
<3Rose
Happier things have been occurring, though I do feel a bit selfish admitting it. (I guess you readers should just understand that mourning is a process and part of it is pulling yourself away from the reality of what is going on.) Fourth of July weekend was very exciting. We went to the zoo, went hiking at Congaree, saw the Blowfish play, made dinner together... Last weekend we went to Folly Beach with the church and it was a lot of fun! I've been working 3-to-4 days a week and by the time I have off, I usually need about a day to catch up. I've realized this day is most-often spent doing chores and cleaning (which I don't mind).
Here is a condensed & bulleted version of recent events (especially since I should be sleeping right now!):
- After a debate/discussion/fight/argument & wikipedia reference (plus Glen's confirmation) -- David officially has chigger bites all over him from our hike at Congaree over 9 days ago
- The backs of my knees and the scalp of my head have been successfully (and unfortunately) blistered from the sun's hot rays this past Saturday. I can't wait to start peeling.
- One of the main streets in town, Harden, runs north-south and has a light at every single block. Many times while driving I see neighboring cars intentionally or unintentionally (I can never really tell) run through red lights. Each time it freaks me out and I have to hold my tongue. I see this happen at least once a day. Well, today, I drove right through a red light. It wasn't going from yellow-to-red; it had been red most-likely for a few minutes. And I drove right through it. And a car was turning left heading the other direction and when he/she almost hit me, I thought to myself (angrily of course) -- what an idiot! Aren't they watching where they are going? Then I realized I'm the idiot and David almost made me get off the phone.
- My wonderful LG touch-screen phone is messing up AGAIN. (This is the third phone since last October.) Today, on my day off, I went through the hassle of backing up all of my contacts and transferring all of my photos to the SD micro-chip memory card and all of a sudden it started working fine. Of course. I still wanted to go to Alltel (especially since I have trips coming up) to see what they could do and of course that office is closed and I should drive over to Two Notch and ask Verizon for help. All I'm saying is I better have service at work tomorrow.
- I'm getting better at racquetball so David is afraid of me.
- I have a MILLION photos to post, so I will get to those on Thursday or Friday.
- I only have two weeks left of the externship! ):
- Our Seattle itinerary is, for the most part, complete! (:
- I think I've actually learned stuff this summer.
- Did I even tell you all about Charleston??
- These bullets are pointless at the moment.
And so this post isn't devoid of anything exciting, a video from the Riverbanks Zoo:
And some photos from the zoo (which are already up on Facebook):
Good night!
<3Rose
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Work, Homesickness, Relief, Love
I'm "relaxing". Really, I start getting comfortable and then I hear loud booming above my head (we don't have a third floor) so I sit up with a start and remember that it's the same heavy footsteps that have been tramping above in our attic(? -- I wasn't aware we had an attic) for the last thirty minutes.
I "cleaned". Really, I shoved things into a trash bag, piled my clean laundry on my bed, and put my clothes basket in the closet. I had books spread everywhere earlier this week but finally made my way to the library. I could see myself entering that building over and over in the future, always feeling my insides balance and become neutral as my feet step over the shadows along the main path. It's easy to put one foot in front of the other.
On Monday I came home from work feeling tired (quite exhausted) and upset. Actually, I had gone to Panera Bread after work for some soup and to read. It's my new "thing" I guess, to sit at Panera Bread, hunched over some popular novel that I picked up from the library. I was in the middle of this book, The Rose Variations, so emotionally involved in the main character's self-consciousness and it just made me sad. There was a letter on my bed from Ashley and with my already somber mood, I just became overwhelmed with missing all of my friends. It's not that I feel lonely, because I definitely do not (I've been introduced to such wonderful people), but it made me miss the familiarity of work and friends and school and routine. Tuesday morning I was hit with the realization that when I move to South Carolina *for real* it's going to be even harder to adjust. David said that this is ridiculous because I've "made more friends" than he did in an entire year, but it's just really hitting me that it's not so easy to escape Florida. I miss the springs, the beach, the long drives to work, coming home to Ashley.
Everything is lining up quite nicely here for me. I feel so much love from my partner, I feel doted upon, I feel beautiful most days, I feel confident and warm. I scour through novels and novels and feel like I did so many summers ago in North Carolina. I feel young and alive and unburdened. Without going into much more detail than that, I really am ready to make this state my new home, and I think it may be ready for me.
This weekend should be wonderful. I get to spend it in Charleston with my very good friends from Florida and my little honeypot. Sarah and I have been talking about things to do and regardless of what we do, I'm so ready to giggle with her (and perhaps hoist her upon my shoulders, as she promised).
And now, photos:
This is the main branch of the Richland County Public Libraries. It's located downtown and apparently won a national award in 2001 for best library. I rave about this place all the time, and finally brought one of my cameras with me today.
This is the long hallway you see after walking through the side entrance.. It was kind of cloudy out today but normally those metal beams along the window cast wonderful and intricate shadows. The foliage on the right come from the children's library below the main floor and are all healthy, living, wonderful trees/plants (:
This is standing on the main floor, looking up at the floors above (there is an escalator to the right, not pictured)
I "cleaned". Really, I shoved things into a trash bag, piled my clean laundry on my bed, and put my clothes basket in the closet. I had books spread everywhere earlier this week but finally made my way to the library. I could see myself entering that building over and over in the future, always feeling my insides balance and become neutral as my feet step over the shadows along the main path. It's easy to put one foot in front of the other.
On Monday I came home from work feeling tired (quite exhausted) and upset. Actually, I had gone to Panera Bread after work for some soup and to read. It's my new "thing" I guess, to sit at Panera Bread, hunched over some popular novel that I picked up from the library. I was in the middle of this book, The Rose Variations, so emotionally involved in the main character's self-consciousness and it just made me sad. There was a letter on my bed from Ashley and with my already somber mood, I just became overwhelmed with missing all of my friends. It's not that I feel lonely, because I definitely do not (I've been introduced to such wonderful people), but it made me miss the familiarity of work and friends and school and routine. Tuesday morning I was hit with the realization that when I move to South Carolina *for real* it's going to be even harder to adjust. David said that this is ridiculous because I've "made more friends" than he did in an entire year, but it's just really hitting me that it's not so easy to escape Florida. I miss the springs, the beach, the long drives to work, coming home to Ashley.
Everything is lining up quite nicely here for me. I feel so much love from my partner, I feel doted upon, I feel beautiful most days, I feel confident and warm. I scour through novels and novels and feel like I did so many summers ago in North Carolina. I feel young and alive and unburdened. Without going into much more detail than that, I really am ready to make this state my new home, and I think it may be ready for me.
This weekend should be wonderful. I get to spend it in Charleston with my very good friends from Florida and my little honeypot. Sarah and I have been talking about things to do and regardless of what we do, I'm so ready to giggle with her (and perhaps hoist her upon my shoulders, as she promised).
And now, photos:
This is the main branch of the Richland County Public Libraries. It's located downtown and apparently won a national award in 2001 for best library. I rave about this place all the time, and finally brought one of my cameras with me today.
This is the long hallway you see after walking through the side entrance.. It was kind of cloudy out today but normally those metal beams along the window cast wonderful and intricate shadows. The foliage on the right come from the children's library below the main floor and are all healthy, living, wonderful trees/plants (:
This is standing on the main floor, looking up at the floors above (there is an escalator to the right, not pictured)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Day Off
I have had a very busy (and weird) work week. Without going into super boring details about every single day, I will say that on Tuesday I got to see my first trauma -- a 16 y/o with two gunshot wounds. He was fully alert/awake/orientated when they put a chest tube in (no meds) and a freaking liter of blood just splurged out, went all over everyone. It was awesome. That night we went over to Lauren's house (who is one of our small group leaders) for ice cream sundaes and hanging out.
Yesterday I just had an education thing at the hospital, so afterward I went to the library (I keep forgetting to bring my camera there!) to return some books and check out more. I'm telling you Florida peeps - this library is amazing. Afterward I headed to Panera Bread (they got rid of the creamy tomato soup for the summer! psh) and read about half of one of my books, then met up with David at the gym. They were playing The Golden Compass in the cardio cinema, but I only got to see about 45-minutes of it. Looks pretty good, so I added to my Netflix queue.
I haven't been feeling well today so I've sat in bed and been sort of productive. Our hotel for Charleston is finally booked! I've been leafing through our Seattle books in an attempt to narrow down the places we can/can't see. Washington seems to be such an interesting and diverse state, and ten days just does not seem to be enough!
I've been realizing over the past few days that it is very difficult to keep up with everyone in Florida, especially over the phone. But I was able to talk to Abraham and Ashley for a bit last night and it simultaneously made me happy and sad. I really really miss Ashley.
On to happy topics! This past weekend we went tubing down the Congaree River for Josh's birthday. I don't have any photos from the actual tubing part (for obvious reasons), but we grilled out afterward [again, most photos by David]T:
This is Jay. He always makes faces at the camera. I think it's because he's a photographer and most of us photographers feel incredibly awkward when our equipment turns on us.
This is a creepy dog that was there.
This is Josh blushing. He's getting married in October!
Josh's Sponge Bob cake
David's always looking at my back
I took a million pictures of Jay with this girl because for once he didn't seem to notice the camera on him. The light was hard to deal with.
Steven, Stephen, and Jay having an intellectual conversation
And this is from today. Sarah has potted some unknown plants and placed them on our kitchen windowsill. The little green guys made me smile (:
-Rose
Yesterday I just had an education thing at the hospital, so afterward I went to the library (I keep forgetting to bring my camera there!) to return some books and check out more. I'm telling you Florida peeps - this library is amazing. Afterward I headed to Panera Bread (they got rid of the creamy tomato soup for the summer! psh) and read about half of one of my books, then met up with David at the gym. They were playing The Golden Compass in the cardio cinema, but I only got to see about 45-minutes of it. Looks pretty good, so I added to my Netflix queue.
I haven't been feeling well today so I've sat in bed and been sort of productive. Our hotel for Charleston is finally booked! I've been leafing through our Seattle books in an attempt to narrow down the places we can/can't see. Washington seems to be such an interesting and diverse state, and ten days just does not seem to be enough!
I've been realizing over the past few days that it is very difficult to keep up with everyone in Florida, especially over the phone. But I was able to talk to Abraham and Ashley for a bit last night and it simultaneously made me happy and sad. I really really miss Ashley.
On to happy topics! This past weekend we went tubing down the Congaree River for Josh's birthday. I don't have any photos from the actual tubing part (for obvious reasons), but we grilled out afterward [again, most photos by David]T:
This is Jay. He always makes faces at the camera. I think it's because he's a photographer and most of us photographers feel incredibly awkward when our equipment turns on us.
This is a creepy dog that was there.
This is Josh blushing. He's getting married in October!
Josh's Sponge Bob cake
David's always looking at my back
I took a million pictures of Jay with this girl because for once he didn't seem to notice the camera on him. The light was hard to deal with.
Steven, Stephen, and Jay having an intellectual conversation
And this is from today. Sarah has potted some unknown plants and placed them on our kitchen windowsill. The little green guys made me smile (:
-Rose
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