Cookies and Camp

So last night I made a bunch of cookies. Some of them are for this care package that I'm putting together for Jake. The others are for my co-workers. I have so many since I made two batches. I might have to sell them on the street for a profit this weekend. I'm just kidding about that although I think I'd give that Mrs. Fields bitch a run for her money. I made chocolate/caramel chip and chocolate chip walnut.

So at work since Brette left, she packed up all these boxes and they are sitting in front of me on this file cabinet. I can't really see anything and I really want them to take them away. It worries me though b/c she's supposed to be at her new office on Monday and like---they are still at this office. I'm wondering who I can call to get them moved. I'll do that later on.

So Kimmy is in town from Germany. She is in town this weekend. Last night she came in and we hung out after work. She came with me to the grocery store to get materials for the baking escapade that I was going to have with Jess and also she helped me carry my cleaning and my laundry. Finally I have clean underwear. I was seriously down to my last few pairs. I also have to mention that that is really indicative of how much dirty laundry I actually did have because believe me---I have a TON of underwear. I should actually run over to Victoria's Secret at some point this weekend to get some of the stuff done that I need to take care of.

Anyway, so before Jess came over Chris came uptown to get Kim and take her out to dinner at this French place. I'm assuming they had a killer time because I didn't get a chance to talk to Kim last night b/c she came in late and I obviously was in no condition to chat. It was weird though. I feel like I didn't sleep very well last night. Not sure why since I was totally tired. Who knows?!

Today she is doing stuff in the city to keep her busy and then I'm at work. Not sure what we are doing tonight although I'm assuming it's going to be dinner or food of some sort and then some sort of hanging out thing, possibly a movie. I definitely need to sleep in tomorrow though because I'm pretty tired from this crazy week at work. The post that went up yesterday wasn't really written on Monday, I wrote it yesterday but because I started it on Monday, it made it look like it was from right after the weekend. Sorry for the time lapse.

Things with Jake are OK. Honestly, right now it's pretty shitty because I pretty much don't communicate with him that much. It's like the occasional five minute phone call here and there and emails during the day but because we are both really busy it's hard to even stay in contact. I never talk to him at night and really not in the mornings either. I'm not sure how to deal with this. I think I'm going to start pretending that he's like away or deployed or something and I'm just waiting for him to come home. Does that sound like a plan? Anything else just really stresses me out and makes me all like sad and frustrated. He asks me to be patient with him being at camp, and I am, because I really understand what it's like to be busy and running around and all but it's different. He says summer is going to fly by because we are both so busy, but I'm ALWAYS busy. Also, my life isn't changing that much. Other than more MLW and that it's hotter, I still come to work everyday and to the same things after work---like softball, happy hour, and eating. Anyway--his life is totally different, like running around at camp playing with tools compared to his academic year of teaching, etc. So---it is different for him but not for me. Whatever. Having a hard time grasping the idea that I'm pretty much not talking to Jake on a regular basis. Was this paragraph to debbie downer to put on the blog? Sorry if that's the case.

I also feel really badly becuase my dad sent me something in the mail that I was supposed to get last Friday but I didn't get the package slip until Monday and because I can't really get home by 6 to go to the post office to pick it up----I still haven't gotten it and I know he feels bad. It totally went out of his way to do something nice and I can't even pick it up! So annoying. Remember how annoyed I got at the PO when I couldn't get the package that Jake sent me? Similar feelings, different sender.

I hope that everyone has a very happy Friday. I know I will (read: maybe).

Love,
Lauren

Summer and Work Stuff

Finally the GRE is over. It was a tough weekend though. I didn't do as well as I'd have liked and that was frustrating---especially given the amount of work and time and effort I put into it. I'm ok though. I made it through and I'm ready to move on from it. I hope the rest of the summer will be fun and "relaxing". Obviously I'm never really relaxed during the summers because of MLW and all the work that goes along with that.

This week has been crazy---hence my lack of posts. Work is out of control. The amount of responsibilities I have in my new position and also while still covering from others is really hard. Sorry if you call and I hang up on you....etc. I'm just really swamped.

Dr. Bora is going well. Keep the questions coming. He loves when I call around lunch time to ask him the questions. So----hopefully we'll keep it up.

Things that SUCK about NYC in the summer:
1. the whole city smells like piss and trash---the heat and humidity bring it out, nasty. You really can't escape it
2. more people: there are just bunches of people around constantly.
3. I sit inside all day and can't venture out to run errands (especially with my current workload).
4. A/C overload. It's so hot outside and yet so artic inside. I'm sitting at my desk with my suit jacket on. Redick.
5. Going along with the more people----the more kids running around since they are out of school. I love 'em, but they are annoying.

SO---bottom line. Thanks for everyone who asked about my test. :)

Also----I'm running the NYC Marathon in November. If you want to donate---please do! The link is below for you to donate via online. I also can mail you information if you'd prefer to write a check. Leave your 411 in the comments section. Hopefully if you are reading this blog, you already know me on some level so I may not even need you info.

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If you don't know my last name---too bad. I"m not telling you. Only people that know me can donate b/c this blog is private and I'm not giving out my information to anyone. Even if you claim to want to donate for my cause. How do I know you aren't some shady stalker?

Ok back to work people!

Love,
Lauren

Summer and Dr. Bora

Dr. Bora is BACK!!!


Check out his site! He's around all summer for questions and he's really excited. He's also 8 now so he has a lot more life experience to give him more seasones answers to your many questions!


Bring it!


One problem with being busy is that a bunch of other things fall through the cracks. I'm not talking about hanging out with my friends and stuff, because I obviously haven't done that yet.


Let me give you an example. Many of you know that I'm a highly organized person and that I like things clean. There are several exceptions to this rule though. The first is my apartment. Right now it looks like complete crap. No really. My bathroom is probably the grossest example of my hygene now. I'm not talking about my personal hygene, but just my general bathroom cleanliness.

SO---My bathtub has mold on it. My shower curtain DEFINITELY has to be thrown away because they mold is so expansive. The little froggy anti-slip things in my tub are all brown and I don't even want to talk about the drain. Does all of this disgust you? Well---it should because it's the grossest thing ever. I'm going to clean it this afternoon as part of my GRE detox. I'm totally excited about going home after work---NOT studying and relaxing the day before my exam.

Tomorrow my schedule will be as follows:
-Wake up around 10am
-Eat some sort of nutritious breakfast
-Gather all materials I need to bring to the Test Site
-Do relaxing exercises
-To to test center
-Take GRE
-Get good score
-Go home, take nap b/c I'll be very mentally exhausted
-Go out to fun parties on Sat night (Junette and Katie BDAY parties!)

Upcoming Posts are going to be about Summer in the city: Loves and Hates.
Get excited!

TGIF!
Love,
Lauren

GRE and Stress

How come Lindsey can blog with no problems and she seems just as busy as me?! It's unfair. Things have been so crazy with me lately that I think I'm like half drowning.

Literally it's been a week where on Tuesday (and Monday) I wanted to crawl into bed and then not come out until Saturday after the GRE. Which someone else would end up taking for me. Ugh. Such is my life.

So---the most important thing I'm dealing with right now is the GRE. If that wasn't obvious from my previous paragraph. I'm definitely nervous about taking it. It's on Saturday at 1pm. I've been getting random scores. Sometimes pretty high and sometimes just OK. I really need to get above 600. My vocabulary skills are like 8 million times better than before the Kaplan class. Anyway---I go through periods of like extreme stress and then others where I'm totally confident. It's annoying actually. I want nothing more to be done with this test. Can you HEAR ME??!?!?!?

I just emailed my teacher about my stress level and hopefully she'll write back something encouraging. Tonight I have a softball game. The first of the season that isn't the Gators. Actually you people don't evem know that I'm on the gators. I"ll write more about that next week. But in a nutshell: The Gators are the team and Tim and I are on and it's weird. Everyone on the team is Jewish. I feel left out. Just kidding. I love Jewish people! But anyway---they are also all in their 30s again---totally cool, but I'm the baby by a bunch of years. Whatever. That team is realy fun though. We are also pretty good. I missed the game last night b/c of a few reasons. I had to meet Matt from Temple to talk about Alumni stuff----yes, nothing that I'm volunteering for or anything like that. Thankfully even if I wanted to say "yes" to something, my brain would explode right then. We just had a drink. Then I went home and studied for the GRE---shocker right?

But----my softball team tonight is for work. I'm excited the jersey's are great. Obv. me and Berny designed them. Would you expect anything less? We are def. going to win tonight too. I love being on winning teams. Phew!

So---again, focus right now is GRE. Another "focus" is that Jake is RIGHT NOW driving to camp for the summer. Not really sure when the next time I'm going to see him is. It could be one random day where I take the train up there in the middle of the week to stay on camp and see everything, but that isn't going to be until July at the earliest so----it's going to be a while nonetheless. I miss him already. But he is a GREAT boyfriend and sent me flowers today at work---that are pink and gorgeous---for good luck on the GRE. He gets and A+ for boyfriend attentiveness for the day (always).

And yes---things are great with him. I love him and he is the best boy a girl could ever have. He also has a cute dog. Which is a point in his favor. Send cute ideas for care packages up to camp so I can reciprocate on the good girlfriendness!

To my friends: I'm sorry again for being so out of touch. I love and miss you all and I can't wait for after work happy hours, evenings at Kate's with beer and wings, MLW stress instead of GRE stress, sleeping in on the weekends (oh wait----that's never going to happen!), and just generally having a fun summer!

In other News: I'm moving jobs----wait, don't get too excited. Well you can but I'm staying at my same nameless company. I am working with Courtney starting on Monday. It's all very exciting since I've wanted to work with Courtney since the inception of time. So---I'm snagging the opportunity to do so! We are both really excited. More on the drama surrounding the situation later. Because, trust me, there was a lot. Don't let me forget to tell you!

I'm sure I've lost a BUNCH of readers b/c of my writing hiatus, but I really needed the break.

I still look the same though. My hair is really long and it's still blonde.

Jess Stewart graduated from high school. She is such a bad ass. My nephew graduated from 5th grade. He too is a bad ass. A bad ass like Optimus Prime.

Birthday's This Week:
Monday---Mom!
Tuesday: Katie!
Wednesday: Michael!
Saturday: Father's Day! (oops I forgot to do anything for this day! I'm sorry Pop!)

You are so happy I'm back. Don't lie!

Love,
Lauren