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It’s not because I don’t love you…

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

It’s because my computer is stupid. That is why we haven’t talked in so long.

I didn’t want you to think that I had forgotten about you, or decided to give up on you or whatever you might have fancied.

Rather, I was on my computer the other day and the power cable just got incredibly hot and then died. And because I’m not the most perceptive of all human beings, I didn’t know there was a problem until my computer, running on less than 22 minutes of battery, wasted it all up and died as well.

As luck would have it, I also have had no money for a bit in order to fix this thing so it’s been sitting all so lonely on the kitchen table waiting to be fixed and loved again.

Finally it all worked out and I was able to head over to the good ol’ Apple store down the road and have them fix it. AND I killed two birds with one stone. I have one of those Macbook’s that always gets the top base breaking apart right at the wrists. As it’s a manufacturers defect they promise to fix it for free. So I had them take care of that too. The incredibly nice thing about the fella’s at the Mac store is that they always clean your computer. It’s like a little car wash and detail for the computers. So my screen is all shiny, my keys don’t stick and my mouse button clicks wonderfully.

It may or may not have been sticking because I’ve had some more careless moments with food. Hovering over my laptop. While drinking coffee. That might accidentally drip into my keyboard. And then Hubs might tell me that that’s rather careless of me and my computer is going to die.

Which it did.

But I won’t say he’s right. That would be going too far.

Speaking of Hubs. He is on tour right now. He is all over the Midwest and going to be at our favorite festival, Cornerstone. I was planning on going and then it all came apart, after I bought the tickets.

I have been kind of in a tizzy, and very very close to panic attacks. (I cried for a good 30 minutes in front of my boss today).

Then I realized God knows what’s up. I know I should be anxious but it’s so very hard to not be anxious when I don’t know what the plan is. Which I guess is the whole point, but still. He did know what was going, I didn’t have a reason to panic and now…

I’M GOING FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!

I know this isn’t as big of a deal for you as it is for me, but consider this:

I haven’t had a vacation in over a year.

That alone, not to mention all the other hullabaloo that has been going on these past couple weeks has put me on edge and gotten me ready to get out of town.

So I’ll be heading out to my favorite festival for three days starting on Thursday and I should have enough Internet to update you if I can with some pictures and exciting stories.

That’s all for now. Must be up at 2:45am for work. Yuck.

Lovies

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Missing a Matriarch

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Naphtali’s Cuban grandmother passed away a week ago today. It was a shock to us all and paradoxical in how we have dealt with the knowledge she’s with Jesus but not with us. We heard that she was having a hard time with her recovery from cancer last Thursday and by Sunday we had lost her. Hubs and I were able to get off work and get down there by the end of Tuesday morning. And thankfully Hubs brother has been up here in Chicago with us looking for a job for the summer.

We hustled on down and were able to spend some time with my sweet suegra (mother-in-law) and family thru our rough time.

I’ll write more later as I’m still processing everything and catching up on my sleep but needless to say it’s hard to realize life has changed yet again.

Hmmmmmm.

Oh life.

Lys

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No news is…well…no news

Friday, May 13th, 2011

But alas I do have news and it’s not bad news and it’s not necessarily good news. It’s just news.

Let’s see. Well. For starters one of our best friends, Faisal, has gone back home to Austria.

His dad passed away a couple weeks ago and he was finally able to get back on Sunday to be there with his mom. He’s an only child, born in Bangladesh and grew up in Austria. He had a student visa here for school and was using his extra time to get a job but was called back to Austria for this. It’s so sad, we really miss him but we know that there is a plan and a purpose for him and perhaps this will give him some more guidance than what he was getting here.

He stayed with us for a bit and so we feel like we lost a roommate! But we gained two more.

Last week Hubs got back with Faisal from his tour (Faisal hopped along to kill some time) at about 11 am. At about 7pm his brother and brother’s friend showed up for the summer. They were going to be coming at the end of May but they live down south and their school said “Afuera!” Well they didn’t say that necessarily, they just said they didn’t have enough in the water reserves to deal with all the 45 minute long showers so they had to leave campus.

Not just the brother and friend…all the students.

So they came up on Friday and have been job hunting and home hunting since then. They did get into a place yesterday where they only pay a minimal amount but get to live in this family’s basement. It’s a little further away but it’s a good experience for them and now they don’t have to deal with two married people. But they’ll be over here for good eats all the time I’m sure. Such are college boys.

I had a meeting with my District Manager on Wednesday. It was good…for what I can remember of it. I’ve been sick all week and it hasn’t let up so I have a cloud around all my thoughts this week. But the gist of what he said was that I won’t be paneling until June and that means I won’t interview and move on to my own store until July. This is kind of frustrating and kind of relieving at the same time. I didn’t really feel like I had been given much direction up to this point and so was glad to have a bit of time to work on what I need to in order to be ready for the panel, but I was told over and over again that May would be my end date and so I was preparing for that mentally (and financially).

Paneling means that I go before a couple district managers and am asked a ton of questions about the Starbucks Business Model, how to run the store, basic business stuff and then they determine, based off my answers and experience from the previous months at the store I’ve been working, if I’m ready for my own. I’m told it’s kind of a breeze if you’re good, which I’d like to think that I am.

Anywho, I’m a little bummed but such is life. I’m sure it’s for the better.

Naph and I will be celebrating 3 years in a couple weeks! Crazy how time flies! We are hoping to get away for a couple days but I’m not sure it’s feasible right now so we may have to postpone it. So far we haven’t actually celebrated our anniversary on the actual date. Same with our birthdays. Sometimes things just get too crazy to do it. Se la vi.

Anywho, I’m rather exhausted, really should be sleeping since I’m sicko but wanted to catch you up on what the word is here in Chicago.

Lovies!

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