This last weekend I spent in Cle Elum with a few co-workers from school. Emily's parents have a vacation home there and she was kind enough to invite 5 more of us. We left after school on Friday and headed east. It was such a fun weekend. We drank a lot of wine, went snow shoeing, ice-skating, swimming at a pool with water slides and hot tubs, and did lots of relaxing and chatting. The house we stayed in was gorgeous, and the area there was by Suncadia and was amazing. We even saw many deer and elk. I would love for us girls to do something fun like this sometime soon!
My aunt has been moved to a nursing home. She started Chemo on Monday and was there for 5 hours!!! I can't even imagine! My dad has been in town the last couple of weeks but is returning home for a couple of days. I know my aunt is concerned to be alone so much and I wish I could be there with her more, but of course I have to work. My dad also informed me that they are planning to move to Florida soon. Just surprises me that he wants to move so far away from us and especially Hannah, but that's just my opinion. Can you tell I'm a little bitter about this! =) Just a quick update for you all. I hope everyone is doing well and I hope to talk/see everyone soon!
love,
Stevie
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Seahawks and Resolutions
So even though the Seahawks lost today I am still impressed/shocked at how far they made it. I mean they made it to the playoffs with a LOSING record! Crazy!! Vic and I went to Dani's work to watch the game this morning but ended up leaving at half-time because frankly we were not impressed. When I turned it back on I was shocked to see that they started playing better, but not enough in the end. While watching the game I had a Bloody Mary for the first time. I always didn't want to try it because I'm not a fan of tomatoes, but was surprised at how much I did like it, although it was hard for me to finish it all. Has anyone else had one?
This afternoon I met up with Cassie and we went to the mall for some returns, early dinner and a movie. We saw Black Swan, which was actually my second time seeing it. It is an interesting movie, and I enjoyed seeing it a second time because I was able to pick up on more things that I did not notice the first time. It is intense though and makes you think. After seeing it the first time I actually went home and did some research on it to make more sense of it. I guess that is why it is a psychological thriller.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how I miss hanging out with girlfriends. I find that since Vic and I live together we do everything together and although I love hanging out with him I miss having girl time! It's not that I don't ever hang out with my girlfriends (I did hang out with Cassie today) but I guess it is just not the same anymore. I know it will just get harder when I have a family of my own. I just hope that in the future we can take weekend getaway trips together!
I also miss traveling. One of my resolutions this year is to get some of my student loans and credit cards payed off so I can start saving money for some traveling. I would love to go back to Scarborough where I studied. Have a great week!
This afternoon I met up with Cassie and we went to the mall for some returns, early dinner and a movie. We saw Black Swan, which was actually my second time seeing it. It is an interesting movie, and I enjoyed seeing it a second time because I was able to pick up on more things that I did not notice the first time. It is intense though and makes you think. After seeing it the first time I actually went home and did some research on it to make more sense of it. I guess that is why it is a psychological thriller.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how I miss hanging out with girlfriends. I find that since Vic and I live together we do everything together and although I love hanging out with him I miss having girl time! It's not that I don't ever hang out with my girlfriends (I did hang out with Cassie today) but I guess it is just not the same anymore. I know it will just get harder when I have a family of my own. I just hope that in the future we can take weekend getaway trips together!
I also miss traveling. One of my resolutions this year is to get some of my student loans and credit cards payed off so I can start saving money for some traveling. I would love to go back to Scarborough where I studied. Have a great week!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
I'm Back!
I know I have been so bad about posting on here. So bad I know some people have given up on looking at my blog (sorry Kayleen!), but I realized how much I enjoy checking in on my friends and seeing how they are doing and I should be doing the same too! So I'm sorry to my friends!
This has been a really interesting start to the new year. My goal is to get back into shape and I am trying to work out every morning before work. Vic just got a new job at Boeing in which I am dropping him off at 6am, so I figure I should just go home and work out. It's been hard to do this so far because I just want to go back home and go back to sleep. I have managed to go work out a few times, but sadly the sleep option has become more appealing. Mainly because I have had a lot of stress headaches.
On Tuesday I found out that my Aunt's cancer has returned. She had breast cancer 2 years ago. She had been having a lot of pain the last 2 weeks in her hip to the point that she was not able to walk or even lay in bed. She finally decided to go the hospital for a scan and they unfortuantly found a tumor in her hip. She was then told to go home, pack a bag, and head to Swedish in Seattle. This was the day of the snowstorm, but I figured that I would be okay to go visit her. Once I got there it was snowing, but didn't seem to be sticking to much. Vic's friend was ironically going into the same hospital the next for heart surgery so he went to meet up with him. Long story short, as I was visiting with my Aunt it started to snow hard and was sticking! I was getting ready to leave when her doctor came in so I wanted to chat with him. After he left I told my aunt I had to head out, which I felt horrible having to leave her at the hospital alone not knowing what was going on. She started to cry talking about my grandma (who passed away from cancer) and how she wants to live to see her grandaughter (my cousin is 4 months pregnant). Basically it was so hard to leave! When I got in the car it was crazy out, to the point that I wanted to just get a hotel in seattle for the night! But Vic said we could make it. Once we got onto the Viaduct we hit an ice chunk. I told Vic that I thought the car was more wobbly than normal, but he assured me that it was because of the snow. Well we almost didn't make it up 520, which I never realized how much of a hill it was, and about had a panic attack thinking we were going to have to leave my car on the side of the road and walk home. We finally made to Safeway near our place when I discovered we had a flat tire which we were driving on the whole way back home! Poor Vic had to get onto the ground and change the tire in the middle of all the crazy snow. We fianlly made it home by midnight! It was a crazy night.
We have found out the my Aunt's cancer has formed in her other breast, lungs, liver, and bones, stage 4 cancer! It's tough to handle right now so I would appreciate if you would keep her in your thoughts and prayers for me. It's tough to see someone you love go through so much pain!! <3
This has been a really interesting start to the new year. My goal is to get back into shape and I am trying to work out every morning before work. Vic just got a new job at Boeing in which I am dropping him off at 6am, so I figure I should just go home and work out. It's been hard to do this so far because I just want to go back home and go back to sleep. I have managed to go work out a few times, but sadly the sleep option has become more appealing. Mainly because I have had a lot of stress headaches.
On Tuesday I found out that my Aunt's cancer has returned. She had breast cancer 2 years ago. She had been having a lot of pain the last 2 weeks in her hip to the point that she was not able to walk or even lay in bed. She finally decided to go the hospital for a scan and they unfortuantly found a tumor in her hip. She was then told to go home, pack a bag, and head to Swedish in Seattle. This was the day of the snowstorm, but I figured that I would be okay to go visit her. Once I got there it was snowing, but didn't seem to be sticking to much. Vic's friend was ironically going into the same hospital the next for heart surgery so he went to meet up with him. Long story short, as I was visiting with my Aunt it started to snow hard and was sticking! I was getting ready to leave when her doctor came in so I wanted to chat with him. After he left I told my aunt I had to head out, which I felt horrible having to leave her at the hospital alone not knowing what was going on. She started to cry talking about my grandma (who passed away from cancer) and how she wants to live to see her grandaughter (my cousin is 4 months pregnant). Basically it was so hard to leave! When I got in the car it was crazy out, to the point that I wanted to just get a hotel in seattle for the night! But Vic said we could make it. Once we got onto the Viaduct we hit an ice chunk. I told Vic that I thought the car was more wobbly than normal, but he assured me that it was because of the snow. Well we almost didn't make it up 520, which I never realized how much of a hill it was, and about had a panic attack thinking we were going to have to leave my car on the side of the road and walk home. We finally made to Safeway near our place when I discovered we had a flat tire which we were driving on the whole way back home! Poor Vic had to get onto the ground and change the tire in the middle of all the crazy snow. We fianlly made it home by midnight! It was a crazy night.
We have found out the my Aunt's cancer has formed in her other breast, lungs, liver, and bones, stage 4 cancer! It's tough to handle right now so I would appreciate if you would keep her in your thoughts and prayers for me. It's tough to see someone you love go through so much pain!! <3
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