Monday, May 29, 2006

For someone who used to be such an extreme home-body as myself, its funny how much I despise being here now.  It really does drive me crazy.  I've gotten too used to being independent all the time, that the constant supervision and 'advice' come across as constant nagging.  There's only so much active parenting you can take when you're a 20 year old who has been living 15 hours away from home for the past two years.  Its a good thing I'm leaving in ten days or I just might lose my mind.

I'm still feeling incredibly jet-lagged, or it could just be down right exhaustion at this point.  I went from the absolute craziness of the last month at school, to my completely unrelaxing 3 day 'break,' and 13 days of extreme tourism, so I really have a lot to recover from, not to mention the varied activities that have kept me occupied since I got home.

And this week promises to be just as eventful, as we have to go through every single item in the house and either pack it or get ready to sell it in Saturday's yardsale.  I'm hoping to sell off my possessions to make some money, since a job wasn't really part of the plan this summer.

I'm so glad this two week break is going to provide absolutely no rest or relaxation; I'm going to feel like spending the entire 6 weeks I'm in Athens in bed.  I did manage to let myself off the hook today and spent the entire afternoon either asleep or in bed with Bergdorf Blondes-a completely mindless book that has somehow managed to become one of my favorite reads.  Its my little holiday from reality, and always manages to make me feel better about myself. 

Seeing as how yesterday was completely exhausting-we started the day at 7am, had breakfast at Shaker Town with the relatives, went back to Lawrenceburg, drove to Indy, made a pit stop at the Gap outlet, came home, had approximately 15 minutes to eat dinner (a bag of cheetos), then left for May Day, which started at 4pm and didn't get us home until almost 1am-I felt I deserved a little break.  Plus, I'm still kind of on European time, so I wake up at 3 every night and take forever to fall back to sleep. My new strategy is to stay up even later, so that I'm so completely exhausted when I finally do go to bed that I just stay asleep-we'll see how that works tonight.

~RLM