holiday weekend

one of the biggest joys of moving to texas is that i am very near to family and friends. as the holiday weekend was daunting, not wanting to be alone, grace and i conspired a visit. there i am above all fresh and ready for my drive.

um, note to self, check gps settings. she said to me the night before, 'do you want to talk about the drive?' 'no, i figured if there was anything special about it you would tell me'. hahaha...so. i'm going along and it's taking much longer than i expected. getting behind trucks on this two lane road, construction, event road block, etc. i did stop at an amish cheese house to pick up some pies for the weekend and had this wonderful sandwich - fresh baked heavy white bread, local produce, meat and cheese. yum yum. still. frustrated. finally i text her "I'M SO FRUSTRATED". "where ARE you?" 

thus began an "i don't know, i just passed this, that, road blah blah, etc". let's just say the conclusion arrived the next morning when all three of us are looking at the map, i had set my gps (a LONG time ago) to avoid toll roads. oh holy cats. there's only one toll. ONE TOLL. instead i trooped the back roads of whatever state i was in to avoid that ONE TOLL. the drive home was much easier. slaps forehead.

the agenda for the next day included tea (american style) at the most eclectic blingity bloom woo woo place. i was in love. 

there were so many chandeliers that were decorated in the most amazing way. i actually left there in sensory overload

then we went to grace's office. her name is somewhere on that sign. I'M SO PROUD OF HER! anyway, she needed office decorating assistance. we tried multiple times to do this via email, photos, video, etc. which, honestly, i have to design in the actual setting. so we pulled, tugged. flipped, floated, lit, un-lit, swished and swooshed. in the end, we came up with a good game plan for her to execute. there will be some final touches that need to be done, AND a repaint which no one is looking forward to doing -- but it's going to be a pretty good set up with such limited (and i mean really, really limited) office option.

that was day one. more photos to come. i had a post holiday weekend let down that i did not process very well. an interview wednesday that overall has great potential but i had to write my resume AGAIN. there is such hateful truth in the statement "looking for a job is a full time job".  real life is settling in and today is not all sunshine and roses.

continually reminding myself that this was the right decision and in a few months it will be behind me.

blog ya later. eventually.