Stress and Comfort

Well well well lookie here, the end of the week has arrived! If only this weekend was actually a break and not a continuance of the busy/chaos. Yesterday was pretty rad because I got to leave work at 1:30 to go to lunch with my mom at OPH. Not only did I get an apple pancake, but I also got to leave sups early! Win-win. After that we both went home and semi-napped for a long while. Then I had to go to rehearsal, but we got out slightly early after finishing our two runs. SOLID. I got home in time to see the Lochte-Phelps 200 IM showdown, and the final floor routines of Gabby Douglas, Ali Raisman, and the Russian girls. Go team USA!! Right after the Olympics ended for the night, I rolled over on the couch and passed out until my mom woke me up and told me to go to bed. Average evening.

Now today/this weekend is anything but average. Today after work I will be scooting home to change into something nice, then heading to New Brighton for the wake of my step-grandma. She passed away earlier this week after never really recovering from a surgery she had a few months ago. She and my grandpa hadn't seen each other in a while, since he has been living in a home specializing in Alzheimer's care and she has been in recovery. I actually haven't seen either of them since Christmas, so this is all a very weird and surreal process. This weekend will be a lot of dealing with family I don't know (her kids and grandkids from her first marriage) without a lot of the buffer of my family. Both of my sisters are out of town this weekend on trips they planned months ago, and only 2 of my cousins will be there because the rest are also out of town. My mom's really stressed out about it all and is afraid that the other side of the family will be snotty that not everyone dropped their plans to come; we'll see how it goes... The funeral is tomorrow morning at early o'clock and is a full Catholic mass.
Not to mention this is opening weekend of Fringe/our show. I'll only be able to stay at the wake for about an hour before heading straight to our final rehearsal. Similar story tomorrow after the mass, I'll be running home to get ready before going to dance, and then a short break before our show! It's just a lot to take in at one time. It'll be a busy week, but a good one hopefully.

Then a week from Monday Natalie and I are leaving on our road trip! It really snuck up on us quickly. My dad's booking a flight home for me as we speak (or as I type...) I'm sooo excited to just travel around for a while, and to see Denver, Las Vegas, LA, and, of course, Omaha, Nebraska. Destination hotspots! My mom and I are going to go to AAA to get some guidebooks with more activities, but as of right now we'll be hitting up Minnesota's Largest Candy Store, The Roller Skate Museum, Zion National Park, the aforementioned cities, and all of da naturez in between. My plane ticket is now booked and the trip is a go! yayayayayay roadtripsummeradventures

Reaching hot mess status- running around so much has reduced me to ignore the fact that it is indeed summer and don my most comfy leggings and a t-shirt. Tonight I will most likely be in uncomfortable conservative clothes, and so I wanted to get the comfort factor out of my system (what? does that make sense? no)

I wore my most favorite Target maxi dress yesterday but I didn't take a picture, so instead here's a picture of me wearing it 4 years ago with Allie in Italy...

I feel like this guy right now (eeeee baby sloths!!!!)