cold fronts in 2024

10:23am

I thought it was later than that. Cool. I haven’t wasted the entire day yet.

Was planning to wake up early today because EC has been on a weird work schedule. Working almost every night this week and sometimes during the mornings too. When he gets home from work, he sleeps a few hours, and I try to be quiet as a mouse so as not to disturb. This really throws a wrench in my day since I tend to be the most productive during the early afternoon. Oh well though, we are making it work and it won’t be much longer before we go back to “normal”.

So my plan was to be up by 7:30 to make sure I got all the “loud” stuff done before he got home. I thought he was going to get home late because they had a lot of work last night. When I woke up around 7am I decided to lay in bed waiting for my alarm but then got a text that he was already on his way home. Well damn. There goes my plan! Ended up getting up and trying to quickly do what I needed in our room so I don’t have to go back in there.

He’s currently snoring away and I’m out in the living room catching up on The Voice. Well technically it’s paused right now because I had to call to cancel a dental appt [can’t afford that right now] and haven’t turned it back on.

It’s our first real Autumn day! Supposed to only be a high of 73, which is an absolute delight! I know a lot of people don’t like the cold weather but I am definitely not one of them. I have been looking forward to this for so long. I doubt it’ll get as cold here as it does back home but this will be my first full season here since we didn’t get the house until mid-November last year and didn’t spend that much time here while we were getting furniture.

Yesterday was the first day that the AC did not kick on automatically since probably May! That’s crazy. And we don’t even have it that low. We usually keep it at 76 when we’re home and drop it at night to cool down before bed. I do admit I turned it on for a little last night but it didn’t run for long. The temp has actually dropped in the house since I got up. I want to open all the windows but don’t want to bother EC. I’ll do it after he wakes up.

It’s super windy outside, also a rarity, and everything is flying around. I need EC to help me take down the sun shade in the back but for now it’s flopping about tugging on its brackets. The exhaust to our stove also makes a ton of clicking sounds when it’s windy. Scares me sometimes until I realize where it’s coming from. Darn my paranoia. Made worse by spending so many nights alone. heh.

I’m doing alright though. Try not to think about it all too much. I don’t know why I’ve always been such a scaredy cat. Too many ghosts I guess shrug

Anyway I am so happy to be in a sweatshirt and sweat pants right now. I’ve been looking forward to these days for so long. Though they won’t last. We’ll be back in the 80s this coming week and I’ll be sweating all over again. ugh.

Trying to think and feel positive about this weekend because I have finally given in and I am going dress shopping. At the last minute of course and while running out of options. I’m literally getting married in less than 2 months. Gosh I’m a procrastinating idiot.

I texted the girls because they are both wanting to join. The neighbor quickly gave up going to a baseball tournament to go when I mentioned it last weekend. Honestly think she just wanted an excuse not to go but she acts like she’s excited about it. I just got a text from El saying that now they’ve decided to drive up together and meet me out there. So it definitely feels like they’re turning it into their own little trip and my dress shopping is just something they’re going to add to their list of things to do. That sucks but I don’t really expect much more from them. I thought it would be fun to go together to do girly things, drink, hang out, talk all things wedding but whatever. Not surprised, as I said.

They went over to my mom’s the other day when the dresses finally arrived [late of course]. It was a whole thing. But anyway they were there, gossiping the whole time, and occasionally looking at me and giving comments. Lame.

The whole experience sucked. The dresses were not what I expected. None of them would close in the back because they had so much padding in there. It was not the quality I thought I was getting. Overall pretty terrible and I just felt myself going through the motions to get it over with rather than being excited about any of it.

I wish I could get more excited about this whole process, hence why I’m trying to be positive about this weekend. But we can see that’s already not going well. I don’t even know why I invite these girls. Regretting it already. It’s fine though. I’m going to drink before I go, try to be hopeful, and not give a shit about anyone but myself. I’ll do my own thing and they can do theirs and F it all.

It sucks that both EC and I feel like we just want to get this over with. It’s been such a tedious hassle and we aren’t even doing half the things people do for weddings. We should have just eloped. Damn that great deal on our venue!

Stay positive. Stay positive. Stay positive!

rose.
10:56