I am feeling so loved right now. Lexey is flying out here from Florida to celebrate my birthday!! And I don't have to feel guilty because her flight is so cheap, it's the cheapest she's ever seen!

i'm so amused, i'm going to tell on myself. i went to happy hour with coworkers tonight and for some reason i ordered a cocktail AND a shot even though i hadn't eaten anything. well apparently it was buy one, get one free night so the shot i ordered came in two cups and they were big shots to begin with. i ended up drinking both shots and my ginger mint margarita, so i was not in a condition to drive home afterwards. sadly we got back to the office when the boss was showing his entire family our new digs. i know i was obviously intoxicated considering my red complexion, so i was a little embarrassed to be in the presence of boss' parents and nieces/nephew. and not wanting to explain why i was still in the office when they got back from dinner, i was a very very bad girl and drove home intoxicated. :-( even now at 11:30 i'm still feeling the effects. bad lisa.

my psycho ex-boyfriend has been harassing me ever since I decided to boot him out of my life for being rude to me one too many times. my complete disregard for all communications from him have not been enough for him to stop calling, texting, IM'g and emailing that I went so far as to purchase a special feature on my cell phone to block his number. today he took it to an extra level and called me at work. he was stupid and gave his real name, so i asked my coworker to take a message. then he emailed me at work. when will he get the hint that he's never going to have the last word? give up already. this is really beyond pathetic now.

it's funny how much work you have to go through in order to take a vacation. you have to prepare for the trip, both personally and professionally. you have to prepare items needed for the trip, buy or borrow them if you have to, and then pack. you also scramble at work in order to have your coworkers/clients/vendors survive without your input and assistance for a few hours or days or weeks.

But then you're on your vacation and you enjoy and relax for a moment.

...before you realize that you have to work extra hard when you get back by unpacking and catching up!

Vacations are wonderful for so many reasons, but it sucks that I essentially need a vacation from my vacation in order to get back to the speed of things when I'm back in the humdrum of everyday existence.

I took 1.5 days off work to go camping this last weekend. It was so delightful to wake up and go about my day without a care as to what time it was. But now I'm back and still busy as ever with not enough time in the day to be able to do everything I need and want to do.

To make matters worse, my allergies are in full effect with the sniffles, watery eyes, and scratch throat. And I'm itching like crazy with the bug bites!!