Yesterday was hard.  It started.  The wet summer time where I will bring socks home from the sanctuary that smell like swamp-ass.  If I were you, I would not venture into my closet with the laundry pile right now.

I need to invest in some waterproof boots, a neccessity for the Costa Rica trip but perhaps more for my sanity and feet skin right now.  Sports Authority had an entire wall of men’s hiking boots.  For women, they had three pairs.  Two waterproof high tops I can’t wear because of my ankles (only one had my size left anyway) and one pair of low top non-waterproof boots and what’s the good in that?

I haven’t been exercising lately.  Too busy.  Too sunburned.  Being back at the sanctuary means I get a good workout three times a week.  Unfortunately, being back at the sanctuary means I need to get more good workouts into my schedule so my body is strong enough to withstand those workouts.  I didn’t even do that much yesterday, but a lot of standing and walking.  My hamstrings are so sore that I couldn’t sleep last night.

ST and I will look at an apartment today.  I want to like it a lot because I love my condo and I don’t want to be sad letting it go.  Moving means being with ST and that should be a happy thing.  I think it will be hard to like an apartment after living here, in the first place I’ve called home.  We really wanted a house, with a yard.  (Have you counted the animals?)  But the rental market is horrible in Florida right now.  Everything is going condo, putting rentals at a premium.

Us living apart though is awful.  And yes, I mean that in a romantic I-want-to-be-with-him way.  But pragmatically, it is awful in what it does to my schedule, my gas allowance, my eating habits, simply my time management.  I don’t mean to complain, and he’s worth it as I stated previously since he recharges me.  I’d be a hell of a lot snippier if I was doing all of this just to feel drained in the evening.

We’re trying to piece together some trips, and I really need some confirmation and planning.  I hate that I’m nagging him every day about what his boss said, but everything is so hectic for me right now.  We’re supposed to try and get away Sunday-Monday in a week.  I will have a lab report due that Wednesday, take the lab final Thursday, the final exam Friday, leave for Costa Rica the Monday after.  A girl needs to know what’s up with weeks like that.

The other trip would be to see my family.  That I need to know for entirely different reasons.  I need to know we’ll get a real vacation together - where all this real life stuff can be ignored.  I need to have airline confirmations to look at and sigh when I get scared about my mom.

All of this talk of busy, I’d better go do something other than stare at a computer screen.