Settling Back In
10-25-2002, 8:13 p.m.

Settling Back In...

October 25, 2002

We got home last night, and it was my intention to get online to update my journal, after I watched Survivor... thinking that I was going to be up all night with the time change. I was just a little bit wrong about that. I ended up dozing during Survivor and went to bed right after it was over.. I didn't get up until almost 13 hours later. I guess it's safe to say that we didn't sleep much in Vegas. Man, there is just too many things to do there, who wants to sleep, hehe. In fact, our first night there, we didn't go to bed until almost 2 (which would have been 4 back at home with the time change), and I kept waking up every 40 minutes or so looking at the clock.. I finally just quit trying to sleep at 6... I told Stephen that I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning.. is it time to get up yet??? I finally made him get up around 7:30, lol. I did sleep better the rest of our trip though, although never really late, and we were going to bed pretty late. It all caught up with me, and I slept and slept last night.. and I am so tired already tonight, and it's only 7:45 and I really have not done much.. guess it is some work settling back into things here at home.

We had a wonderful vacation. Vegas was awesome, and we just really had the very best time. I didn't want to come home.. the time went by much too quickly and I didn't get to do half the stuff that I wanted to do while we were there. Stephen is already talking about going back next year, and I am all for that. It was a great time of year to go.. the weather was absolutely beautiful. Every day it was around 83 and sunny...perfect really. I tell you, it's been hard coming back to weather in the 40's and raining.. I want to go bacccckkkk, hehe.

Although we were with Stephen's parents, aunt and cousin, we also had a lot of time alone too.. we had our own room (which was huge!!!).. and we went off on our own one day as well. We really enjoyed each other very much, and were asked quite often if we were on our honeymoon, lol.. maybe because we couldn't keep our hands off of each other. We even had to rush to our room a few times, if you know what I mean, lol. It was nice having family there with us to do other things with though. We really enjoyed that very very much. We all had a great time.

Nicole picked us up from the airport yesterday afternoon and we all went back to Stephen's parents house. We hung out there for a couple of hours, and had dinner with everyone, and sat around talking about our trip and telling Kevin and Nicole all the great stories from the trip. I will write about them all here as well. I am not going to do what I usually do, writing about each day, but instead, I will write entries based on my favorite stories over the next few days, and of course I will share some of my favorite pictures. I really did not take as many as I normally do, but we spent a lot of time in the casinos where you are not allowed to take pictures, and the shows we went to didn't allow photography either.. so there was less opportunities to take pictures.. the ones I did get though are wonderful. Everything about the trip was wonderful and I can't wait to share, so look for some entries really soon. I was going to do my first entry tonight, but I really am tired, so I am going to wait.

Daily Tidbits

1. My kitties are so glad that we are home, and they have totally been all over Stephen and I, loving on us and stuff. I was so glad to see them too, and we both really missed them a lot. We talked about them all the way home, and how happy we were to be getting home to them. Funny how attached you become to your pets.. they are family.
2. I was supposed to go to my parents tomorrow for the weekend, but my mom called this afternoon and said that she was feeling really sick.. and then when she got home, she found out that my dad was sick too.. and I don't want to get sick, and sicne she won't feel like doing much anyway, we postponed it until next weekend instead. In a way, that is a good thing, because I really am tired, and it will be nice to have a few days to just settle back in before I have to head back to work. I am so glad that Stephen talked me into taking today off... I so would have hated to work today.
3. I went to workout today.. I figured it would be hard getting back on track with that since all I did in Vegas was walk.. but I had a great workout, and I think I will be fine. We really got off track with eating too.. not how much we ate, but the times we were eating (we were not eating dinner until 10:00 pm most nights), but I seem to be okay with that too.. so far. I thought for sure that I gained weight while we were gone, but I am 2 pounds lighter than I was when we left.. so yay.. a vacation I didn't get totally off track on...imagine that, lol. Honestly, that feels good.. I did pretty good picking better things to eat, and we didn't eat in between meals at all.. so maybe that is why, and we really did a lot of walking.. I am just glad.
4. I had to go grocery shopping today.. man, we had hardly nothing in the house... I forgot that I kept putting it off until after vegas.. there was a lot of things I said.. after vegas.. about.. so I guess it's time to start doing them.. man.. what can I say after about now?
5. I have a lot more that I wanted to write about, but obviously I am not going to.. part of it is that I am tired and don't feel like writing, but also because the wolves game is on and I want to listen to it.. hehe, priorities I tell ya.
6. I really want to thank everyone for their good wishes and stuff. We had a wonderful trip, and some real quality time together. I think it was a good thing, and I loved every minute of it.
7. And last but not least.. thank you Cory, for your guest entries. It means a lot to me that you took the time to do so. Thank you!