Tag: Personal

These past few weeks have been crazy. I have been doing so much and seeing so many people that I have hardly had the time to sit back and catch my breath. Between my brother coming to stay for a few days, a friend in from Dublin, starting school, and some other big surprises, I really have felt quite out of it and not entirely myself. Russ and I seem to have gotten out of the habit of doing ‘things’ and have turned into even bigger homebodies than ever before.

In my (very little) spare time I have been working on painting. The class I am taking at school is another painting course, so I have lots of time every week, both at home and at school, to work on my paintings.

Somehow through all the madness Russ took a day off from work so we could go to the Del Mar races. Here is a snapshot from before the races started.

Currently I am trying to get back in the swing of things. I have ignored my garden for quite a bit, and it really needs some tending to. I have put off baking bread for several weeks, and greatly miss the smell of fresh bread filling the house. I also need to get back in the habit of cooking our own meals. We have been getting take out several times a week just because it is so easy. Hopefully in the coming weeks I can start to get my life back to a more normal state.

Sorry about the lack of posts this past week. We have had ongoing internet issues, which we just finally got fixed today.  I have a lot of catching up to do now, since it has been over a week since I was able to access my blog feeder. I have almost 500 blog posts in there to go through.

Well today is Cinco de Mayo which means in San Diego; do NOT drive after dark. Every bro dude will be running around town with an over sized sombrero, flashing light necklaces, a belly full of Coronas, and ankle deep in tequila shots. If it wasn’t a holiday, I don’t know if I would remember that today is six years to the day that Russ and I met. As much as I hate going out on this holiday because of the scenario I described above, we DID meet at a bar, both celebrating Cinco de Mayo.

I was 21 and accompanied by my 19 year old best friend (I know, naughty us!), and we wanted to go have some drinks. We weren’t looking to meet anyone, and took a back booth at our favorite dive bar. It wasn’t until I went up to order a drink at the bar (Sharise stayed behind, because we didn’t want them to ask for her ID), that I noticed Russ sitting at the bar with a group of friends. He started talking to me as I waited to be served. I brought our drinks back to the table but wanted to go talk to him some more. Because I was driving I knew I couldn’t keep ordering cocktails, so I went up and ordered water, many times, once or twice even pouring out the water just so I could go back and order another–and talk to the cute guy at the bar.

Well after a little while we quit playing that game, and Sharise and I joined their party, and we ended up talking for most of the night. Toward the end of the evening as we were getting ready to go Russ told me that his friends had left without him, and since we had already found out he lived close to Sharise and I, I offered to give him a ride home. It wasn’t until about a year or two ago that Russ admitted that he had lied to me and his friends where actually waiting for him in their car, he just wanted to get a chance to spend a bit more time with me and get my number! What a sneaky guy.

So that is our silly story. Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone!