It may be quite shocking to hear that I haven’t had much time to write since I started working. Surprising, right? Well, it’s true. Basically, my schedule is this: I wake up at 5:45 in the morning and I may or may not get up within the next thirty minutes. I get ready, including my lunch for the day, and I’m out the door by 6:50. Depending on the direction I take and the traffic, I’ll arrive at work anywhere from 7:20 to 7:45. I take an hour-long lunch at noon (I could start working at 8:30 instead of 8:00 and only have a thirty-minute lunch, but I needs that extra thirty minutes to chill), and I ‘m on my way home at 5. I usually get home from 5:45 to 6, again depending on which route I take and how much traffic there is. The most shocking part is probably the fact that I’m usually always in bed by 10. I’ve just been so tired lately that I don’t have much of a choice. If I went to bed any later, I’d be a zombie all throughout the next day, and I don’t think the CEO wants a zombie as an exec assistant. So since I get home at 6 and start getting ready for bed around 9:00 to 9:30, I only have about three hours or so to actually exist. Hence the lack of writing or doing, well, anything.
Just now, I was trying to think if anything interesting has happened in April, and then I remembered: oh yeah, I bought a new car and drove up to Kentucky. Oops.
Okay, so the car isn’t new, but she’s new to me, and she’s newer than my Aveo. It’s a 2015 Kia Soul, and she’s magical. Her name is Lokia, but she also goes by The Biggest Blackest Box (ever play Cards Against Humanity?) or just The Box. You might have guessed by now that she’s black and box-shaped. I love her. I also love my 2009 Chevy Aveo, but we’ve decided to drive up to Kentucky over Memorial Day to give her to my mom and sister, since they desperately need a car.
So once Lokia was all situated with insurance and stuff, I decided to go up to Kentucky to spend Easter with said mom and sister. It was nice seeing them, especially since it had been almost five months since they were down here for Thanksgiving. Mom and I went to church in Pikeville on Easter Sunday and I got to see some people from the Pikeville Branch that I haven’t seen in years.
In other news, Theo and I have been preparing for a new addition to our family! No, I’m not pregnant, so get that out of your mind right now. I posted a couple of “teaser” pictures of fleece fabric and some wire grid squares, and then the squares actually forming the cage, but no one actually guessed guinea pigs! Theo and I went to the sanctuary (they keep rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks, and chickens) in Franklin yesterday to meet the piggies and see if we would fall in love with any, and we did! We fell hard for two sisters, Eleanor Pigby and Lucy Diamond (yes, those are their real names). We had considered renaming them, but we realized that, as they’re two years old and they already respond to the names “Eleanor” and “Lucy,” it’s really not beneficial to change them. So they shall stay as Eleanor and Lucy forever! It turns out that the two girls have been adopted twice in the past and returned, first due to allergies and then because the couple had a baby and didn’t want guinea pigs and their new child. Poor little things. So Theo and I will be giving them the forever home that they deserve. We’ve reserved them and we have two weeks to get everything ready, from the cage, to their bedding (hence the fleece), a food bowl, a water bowl, a carrier, treats, and some toys. I’m so excited to finally bring them home! I’m in love with them already. We’ve already started working on plans for where they’ll go when Theo and I are on our honeymoon (Peaches is the best), and we’re going to be as prepared as possible.
