Recent History

You're probably wondering what I've been up to since I've done very little posting about my life in the past week.

Weekend of May 8 & 9
Kristen, Leia, and I went to Oklahoma City to visit Karen and Jason. We visited the Oklahoma City Memorial. We got to see their lovely apartment I managed to help them move a few things into their storage garage. We went drinking. We saw Tinker Air Force Base. We saw an incredible Chihuly piece in the window at the art museum. I sat on a buffalo. We just hung out. It was a quick 24 hours in Oklahoma, but totally enjoyable. I love my sister so much! And I even love my new brother-in-law too!

Week of May 10 - 14
I spent the week in Scottsdale, Arizona to take a class on facilitating meetings. Plus, I went to some informal meetings and spent quite a bit of time with my boss. The class was absolutely one of the best training classes I've been to. We learned how to garner agreement during a meeting. I had insights about verbal and non-verbal communication. I learned how to keep people on process during a meeting. I wish someone had taught me this stuff before I started teaching high school! It was totally valuable and I know I'll use it forever - at work and in my personal life.

I came home from Scottsdale totally exhausted. It's been a long time since I've gone out every night after work and I'm out of practice. There was always something going on at night! I swear, it was too much fun. It seemed that as soon as I got back to my room, someone was calling to get me down to the hotel bar. (It probably didn't help that I have a tendency to work late when I'm there.) After a couple cocktails it would be off to dinner and staying out too late. I was so happy to come home and just slow down.

Summer school started last week while I was away. I'll be playing catch up this week for sure. Classes this term are on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. I'm taking a database class and a law from a managerial perspective class.

Weekend of May 15 & 16
Saturday night was Karen and Jason's going away party. It was a TON of fun. Everyone came out to LucciHouse and just hung out. My parents even came for a little bit. Everyone was in a great mood and conversations flowed all night. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful group of friends.

Sunday I caught up on all the little stuff like bills and all the big stuff like laundry. (Why do I wait so long?!) I spent most of the day alone, which I really needed after such a busy week with little time to myself.

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