Clarification and DC Trip

Hi all!  I hope you’re having a good week so far!

As usual, this post is going to be a mish-mash of craziness that’s been running through my head lately.  In fact, I seem to be doing  a lot of these posts lately.  Maybe I’ll get my act together one of these days.    As an example of my thought process right now, I currently have 27 tabs (no joke) open in my internet browser – mostly things I need to look at or share with you all or just deal with later.

First, thank you all so much for the supportive comments on my post yesterday!  To clarify, I would never belittle a 2.8 pound loss!  That’s an amazing loss!  I just should have explained my comments a bit more.  I was actually afraid that it wasn’t really a loss at all.  You see, in a move totally unusual for me, I ate about an hour and a half before I weighed in last week, so while I showed a huge gain, I was hoping that some of it stemmed from that and that it wasn’t all really a gain.  But by losing 2.8 this week, I didn’t know if I had really lost anything at all, or if it was just showing the the difference in eating times.  Heck, I could have even gained.  I guess the real test will be to see what happens next week, even though I haven’t done so great the past couple of days.  I’ve got tomorrow all planned out, though, and I did hop on the treadmill last night (and no, I didn’t literally hop onto it.  I’d like to keep it in one piece.  ).

I also want to apologize if I haven’t been as “involved” lately.  As you know, there’s been a lot going on and as I’ve also said before, I’ve been in kind of a funk.  I’ve also been feeling kind of detached from everything – not just you guys, everyone and everything.  I think it might be a coping mechanism from everything:  work stress, my dad’s trip to the ER, our family friend dying, etc.  I kind of feel shell-shocked.  But I do want you to know that I read every single comment you leave and message you send, and value each and every one.  You don’t know how much they mean to me.  I will get through this.  It just might take a bit of time and I know I haven’t been posting as often, but I’ve been trying to keep from turning this blog into a ridiculously unwarranted pity party.

I’ve been distracting myself by reading (just finished “Push” – anyone read it?  Thoughts?  I’m going to start “My Lobotomy” tonight), watching tv on DVD (we started the first season of Glee and I’m hooked – when the football team did “Put a ring on it,” I about fell over with laughter) and movies (finally saw all of “Lucas” (what a great movie), and some of “Red Dawn” with my dad last night (which brought up lots of discussion between us)), and with trying to plan our DC trip.

This last one is where my mind has been most focused.  Between trying to find comfy shoes for my big-ass feet (Thanks, Mom and Dad!), trying to figure out what I’m going to wear, and trying to figure out how to cram seeing a whole city into one day, it’s been rather complicated.  Luckily, we’ve had a slow night at work tonight and I’ve spent probably the last four hours trying to work out a tentative itinerary.  You know, since it’s only 15-16 days away.  (ACK!!!)  So here’s the tentative plan:

Friday:

After checking into the hotel, maybe see the National American History Museum if we have time (I haven’t run this one by my mom, but I think she’ll go for it.  I want to see the Holocaust Museum badly, but I think she’d enjoy this more)

Dinner

That night, seeing “Lbs.” (and hopefully getting to meet Carmine Famiglietti and the executive producer, Marc Victor – they both know I’m coming – can you feel my nervousness through the internet?).  Did I mention that our flight leaves around 7 am?  Yes, I’m going to be a zombie before the night is through.

Saturday:

Breakfast

Three hour DC tour where the guides get off with you at the stops (Anyone else have the below song in their head now?  Hopefully we’ll have better results.)

Lunch

National Archives to see the Constitution/Declaration of Independence/Bill of Rights (Okay, seriously, if I went to DC and didn’t see these, I’d never forgive myself.)

Dinner

Three hour (again with that damn song) nighttime DC tour

Note: The tours help with keeping down the amount of walking my mom has to do to a minimum (she has problems with her knees and hips) and maximize what we can see since we’re crunched on time.

Sunday:

Breakfast

Flight home

A friend of mine from college also wants to meet up with us at some point, but I’m just not sure if that’s going to work out or not.  We’ll have to see how it goes.  So the excitement is building, as is the anxiety.  But now that I have a tentative plan, I’ve inched back the anxiety a bit.  If you don’t like pics, then I would avoid my blog the following week.

The giddy little schoolgirl in me is freaking (in a good way) at the thought of being near such historical sites and artifacts.  I’m a HUGE history buff, even though you would never know it since I am TERRIBLE with dates and details.  For me, it’s the personal aspect of it.  When we went to Virginia Beach several years ago, we made a stop in a small town in West Virginia that I can’t remember the name of (see – details), but as we were walking down the town street, there was a sign on a building saying that that building was created in 1776.  Um, yeah, I stopped to place my hand against the side of it and just felt such amazement imagining how long it had been standing there and imagining the lives of those who had built it and placed their hands exactly where mine were over the years.  (Am I a freak or what?  I’d probably have to be hospitalized if I ever went to Europe. )  So yeah, being in the same room with the Constitution and Declaration of Independence will probably do me in.  But oh how exciting!

Well, that’s all for me tonight.  Sweet dreams!