It's been a long week.

Giant beers were in order on Friday after this stressful week. Thank you Yard House.

This is the closest I'm going to get to Derek smiling for a photo.

After Yard House last night I'm having a low key Saturday night looking up resorts in Aruba for the honeymoon and watching movies. If you've been to Aruba and stayed at an awesome resort let me know.

Staying calm

It looks like an offer was made on my grandmother's house and we're going to accept it. It's a little under what we asked but not by much. The house needs some updates so I'm not surprised. A developer made the offer and will most likely tear the house down and build two houses on the lot. It's a bit sad to imagine the house being demolished but the memories are what's important. It doesn't feel the same with my grandmother gone anyways.

On the front steps with my grandmother on Easter in the 80s

I'm doing my best to stay away from Facebook and social media as I realize that it's just causing me stress. I'm still checking in but not as frequently and I'm not clicking on any political related articles. I tend to be an anxious person and my stress level has been through the roof. I'm distracting myself by learning some Spanish and watching Netflix.

I've been watching Gilmore Girls from the beginning in preparation for the reboot on Netflix. If that's not a feel good show I don't know what is.

Next on my Netflix list is The Last Kingdom.

As a child Uhtred witnesses his father being killed by an invading Saxon army. He's kidnapped by the Saxon's and raised like one of their own. Years later his surrogate family is killed and Uhtred sets out to avenge their deaths and take back his homeland from his uncle. 

Sounds like some real happy uplifting stuff right? It's a nice escape at least and Alexander Dreymon sure isn't bad to look at.

WHAT HAPPENED!!!

After voting last night I went over to my friend's house to watch the election results roll in. I was optimistic at the beginning of the night but that feeling was quickly replaced by panic as the night unfolded. How could we elect Donald Trump as president? It truly shows how much hatred lies in the hearts of the American people. All we can do is hold on as best we can over the next four years and hope for better days.

Too nervous to sit.

Hold onto your wine. You're going to need it.

Trying not to panic!

That's really all I have to say because if I keep thinking about it I'll cry again.

Laid up

Yesterday we traveled up to Chelmsford for my cousin's daughter's first birthday. How are we old enough to be getting married and having children?

Kallie opening her gifts with mom and dad.

Kallie had a great time and my gift was a big hit. I got her a toy picnic basket with fake food that plays music. She was not pleased with how long it took for me to get the toy out of the packaging. Why do they make toys so difficult to open? There were at least four zip ties that I had to cut through. Once she had her toy in hand she was happy again.

Time for cake

Taking a selfie

I was feeling a little under the weather due to a few too many beers the night before. It was rough but I had no one to blame but myself. My aunt gave me some ginger ale to help settle my stomach and I think it might have set off my IC (interstitial cystitis). When I got home I had terrible pelvic pain and could feel everything spasming. It was so bad I was almost in tears. Ginger can be a trigger and I think this brand of ginger ale had a lot of concentrated ginger. I was supposed to meet up with friends in my home town on Saturday night but I had to cancel. I'm still upset about that but considering I couldn't move with out being in terrible pain I had no choice but to spend the night laid up on the couch.

Bosco has been keeping me company and Derek has been checking in with me to see if I need anything. What I really need is a new bladder. Hopefully the worst has passed.

Nurse kitty

Here's Kallie enjoying a picnic at 4 a.m. I'm sure mom was thrilled with the early picnic time. Take note blog readers; picnic baskets are big with one year old's.

The toughest question of the day

What are we doing for dinner?

If I had it my way I'd eat Kraft mac and cheese every night. I admit that I'm lazy and to me cooking is a chore. When I lived by myself I mostly ate meatless meals because it was easier than cooking meat. Sometimes I'd have a taco night but that's easy meat cooking. Derek isn't down for my lazy meals. He doesn't even like mac and cheese! I'm marrying him despite this.

Derek actually enjoys cooking. I told him he's more than welcome to cook every night but he's not down for that either. We tend to alternate cooking dinner since he refuses to be my personal chef. One night he cooks, the next I cook and then the next we eat out or order take out. It's not always in that order but it goes something like that. When it's my turn I usually suggest one of the following meals: home made pizza, tacos or Korean beef bowl. That's basically my rotation. The beef bowl is a new addition and it's fairly easy to make. Tacos are easy too. The pizza you just throw some toppings on a premade crust and you're good to go. Can you sense a theme here? Now that it's getting colder I'll throw soup into the mix and it won't even come from a can.

I don't think I'll ever really love cooking but I'll always love eating.

Lowering the voting age

Who actually thinks lowering the voting age to 16 is a good idea? Teenagers are idiots. I know, I was one and I was an idiot. It's a fact that you really don't stop being an idiot until at least your mid 20s. Age 21? Still an idiot. How about 22? Still a moron. I also think everyone should have to take some type of mental competency test before they're allowed to vote. Do you think the holocaust never happened? No voting for you.

The 16-year-olds can wait two years to vote when they will have hopefully completed enough of their high school education to learn about the holocaust and how it definitely did happen.

*Updated with a comment from my co-worker Lilly who will not comment on my blog but has something to say:

"If you let 16-year-olds vote you know they're going to write in Kanye West for president"

Halloween FOMO

I did a full body work out video from the youtubes and let me tell you my entire body is sore so I give it a painful two thumbs up. I'm expecting my six pack any day now.

You know what else is painful? THIS PUMPKIN.

Barbed wire? Ugh my poor heart.

I went to RISE of the Jack O'Lanterns on Sunday in the Seaport district and yes we saw some cool pumpkins but I would not go again and it was not worth the price of admission. Without the discount the tickets were $30 each. We paid less than that but it was still too much.

There were kids everywhere and people taking photos with their flash which is really distracting when you're in the dark trying to see a bunch of pumpkins. There are signs everywhere asking people to not use the flash on their camera but no, they had to get a picture of precious Tommy running around in a circle screaming his head off.

Derek: I don't think there are actually 5,000 pumpkins here.

me: I'm just pissed that no one properly cleaned these pumpkins on the floor out!

Derek: Is that rotting pumpkin or a child?

me: I really don't know.

I'm making it sound worse than it was. At least there was this dragon and I got popcorn. Popcorn makes everything better. I could tell Derek wanted to get the hell out of there after about five minutes. I appreciate that he let's me drag him to stuff. Sometimes I drag him to fun things though and that's how I keep getting him to go.

I could have gone out tonight. There were a few options to celebrate Halloween but I decided to be lazy on my couch. I tend to be a bit of a social butterfly and have a hard time turning down an invitation. Sometimes I need to just stay in and relax. It's good for me and it's good for my wallet. I'm getting better at not saying yes to everything but it's still something I'm work on. FOMO is real.

So here's my Halloween costume; lazy vampire girl on couch.