Ugh!

I just got an email today from two of the bridesmaids of the April 22nd wedding informing the friends of the bride that her bachelorette party is on the weekend that they were planning. I have a family birthday that weekend so of course it wasn’t the ideal date for me, but I am just one person. I am almost positive that my sister will understand, espically seeing this particular bride was my maid-of-honor and is a great friend of mine. I pretty much know which event I am going to attemd but I am once again finding myself torn. Family is super important to me and I don’t get to see them that often so I take any chance to go to North Carolina to see them. But, this friend is also super important to me and I take any chance to see her because we are both so busy. Ugh, why can’t people just work around my schedule *wink wink*.

Speaking of birthdays! My brother and brother-in-law’s (on my side) birthdays are this weekend, yes they have the same birthday. I ordered my brother-in-law’s present online this past Sunday and it has yet to ship. When I ordered it and as we speak the website says that it is in stock but when I check the order status it says that it is on back order. I sent an email to the company to see what was going on and of course I haven’t heard from them. I am going to give them a call once I get done complaining about them on here. So needless to say it probably won’t arrive by tomorrow (I am leaving for NC from work on Friday) and I won’t have a gift for him. I will have to tell him that I will ship it to him once I receive it, unless I can get them to change the shipping address to his address. I just feel like such a chum that I won’t actually have the gift there for his birthday, I doubt that he will care, but still.

Weddings

Since I have graduated from college numerous friends have gotten married. They say to expect at least three weddings a year for the first couple of years you are out of college. It has now been four years since I graduated college and there are four weddings this year that I am either involoved in or hope to be attending. Here are the dates, the ones in bold are the ones I am in the wedding party.

April 22 – Easton, Maryland – Seagrass Girl and BJ
June 24 – Westfield, Massachusets – JJO and PJP
July 1 – King George, Virginia – LJH and BMA
September 23 – Danville, Virginia – Dr. P and EMS

Congratulations to all of you and we look forward to spending your special day with you!

I’m baaaack

It has been quite a while since I blogged mostly because I have been super busy at work this week. At the end of Wednesday I had put in 31.5 hours of work time and the earliest I had got home was 8 pm. Needless to say I didn’t have time to blog at work and I didn’t feel like doing it when I got home, all I wanted to do was collapse and go to sleep. I guess I will walk you through my week.

Monday I worked the same spill that occurred the previous Friday. I got home a little after nine, did my blog complaining of my day, took a shower and went to sleep.

Tuesday I had to go back to the same facility and finish the clean-up. It should have been a two hour job but it turned into a pain in my butt because our intern left the ignition engaged on the backhoe and its battery was dead. So, we had to jump the backhoe before we could load the truck with the contaminated soil. I then had to go to a site where a spill occurred a year ago and re-route the blower that we had set up there. Why did I have to re-route the blower you ask? Because petroleum vapors were back in the house for like the third time. We didn’t get to the house until 3ish and we had to dig a six foot hole, drill a hole in the house and then route PVC through the hole to pull from under the slab. Needless to say we did most of the work in the dark with flashlights and I didn’t get home until 9:30. You can guess what I did once I got home.

Wednesday I had a geoprobing job in Warrenton. I had to geoprobe to find a place where the groundwater isn’t contaminated with MTBE so that we can drill the homeowners a new well (their current one is contaminated with MTBE). Overall the day went well but geoprobing in itself is a slow process. On my way back to the office I found out that a client was going to be coming to the office to sign the VPSTF papers and get them notarized and he wouldn’t be there until about 6. Guess who the notary in the office is…you guessed it, me! So, I had to wait around for him to notarize the papers. That night I got home around 8, ate, took a shower and went to bed. Wednesday was also the one year memorial for Nick Mason a soldier in the Army National Guard that was killed last year in the Mosul attack. Nick was a good friend and fellow HS wrestler of my brother-in-law and the son of one of Boo-Boo’s former co-workers.

Thursday I was supposed to have another geoprobing job but this time at a home built on a mountain in Madison County. We got to the site and saw that not only do they have a beautiful view of “Old Rag Mountain” but that same mountain keeps their yard from getting sun. Their entire yard was a sheet of ice and it just wasn’t safe to have the geoprobe rig on the ice so we called the job off. I came back to the office and worked on some reports and actually got to leave at the normal time. When I got home I was able to wrap the rest of the presents, including Boo-Boo’s, and cook dinner all before Boo-Boo got home. Boo-Boo was working in WV with our friends that started their own medical billing company about a year ago. They have expanded so much that they have started to hire outside help and offered both of us a job. I had to turn them down but Boo-Boo accepted, we figured that he can still help them out even when he becomes a police officer because he gets multiple days off in a row.Today has been uneventful work wise but I have put in 42 hours already this week and no matter how much I work I only get paid for 40, the beauty of being a salaried employee. The exciting thing that happened today was that our photgrapher

called and said that our wedding album, printable CD and DVD were done. When I got there she had made us an additional smaller album with pictures other than the ones we chose for our big album and she also couldn’t decide which picture to make an 11 x 14 so she gave us four at no extra cost. Now I am just sitting here waiting for Boo-Boo to get back and for the Explorer to get its oil change and then I can go home. We are celebrating Christmas with Boo-Boo’s family tonight, which I have never done, so it should be an interesting experience. Tomorrow we leave for NC to celebrate Christmas with my family and we will be back on Tuesday. I will do my best to blog while I am at my parent’s house but no promises, otherwise check back on Wednesday. Merry Christmas to everyone!