Andrew is headed to Ohio for the third time in three weeks. September has been a heavy travel month because of the trial so he's been busy. After a week of school and studying late at night, he works on Friday or Saturday nights/days at the cab company and then flies out on Sunday morning and doesn't get back til Monday or Tuesday. Let's just say I'm ready for him to be home a whole weekend. Not only do I miss him but I hate trying to take care of myself, three cats, and an apartment alone. I do okay with the cats because they can't take care of themselves, but when they are going crazy and bouncing off things I just wish I had another adult around to rally with. The apartment stays pretty clean because I try to tidy as I go and do my weekend chores, but it's always nice to have some help. Mainly the problem is just feeding myself and staying busy. I am terrible at staying motivated and don't want to cook, don't want to go to bed, and when I do go to bed I don't sleep. I wake up on Mondays with monstrous migraines and drag myself to work... it's awful. Then on top of just typical Monday junk, I have to work out, make sure the house is standing for when Andrew comes home and go to rehearsal til ten at night. Oh yeah, Moscow Community Theatre was holding auditions for guess what? Guys and Dolls. My coworker turned me on to it and I tried out. The cast is a little cliquey and I discovered the same cast has been in like the last seven productions together. They needed new blood. I play a man for the majority of the time but that's okay, they needed deep singing voices and I've played a man before. I have like three roles and possibly a fourth, I'm helping paint sets and banners, doing hair and makeup, and I offered to do as many costume changes as they want me to if they need bodies onstage... so the directors like me. They told me that they like to see what a new person can do when they join the theatre so because the cast has like twenty people in it (about five guys) they need variety. Auditions were September 9th, and we only have 28 rehearsals left... you do the math. This will be quick and I'm not positive it will pull together in time, but at least it's a stage and I'm on it, right? Andrew has never seen me onstage. Boy will it be a new experience for him! Ha.
Anyway, he is doing well two weeks after his injections. No issues or pain or anything we've noticed, but he keeps telling me his legs "feel funny." Like jelly. Restless. I told him that sometimes I get that if I need to go use them - like go for a walk or run or do some lunges. He's never had this feeling before so I think it's a good sign and the process is working!
Last weekend he didn't work Friday night so we went to the fair (that's the picture up above). We walked around and didn't eat too terribly for being around fair food, just a hot dog, some fries, shaved ice and we brought home kettle corn. It's hard trying to carve out time to spend together when it feels like all of a sudden our schedules are filled and we're super-busy. But we found a few hours and the fair was a great way to spend them.
I've been running more. Yesterday a group of us from work did a 5k and my friend Tracy and I ran almost the whole time. That's a big deal because neither of us are big runners. The night before the race we ran seven miles. We decided we should train for a longer one and are now trying to pick one we like. Who'd have thought that I would voluntarily sign up for something like that? And not as a volunteer? We're proud, I guess going to the gym has it's benefits.
Well that's it for now, not much has changed as per usual. Here is Greg doing his nightly routine of staring creepily down at me when I go to sleep. This is what we deal with.
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