Bloggety Blog...

So I changed the title of my blog.  Yeah, yeah... I know.  I'm not exactly in New England just yet. But I will be!

I put in my two week notice at work today.  Two weeks from now my little brother and I will be driving to Massachusetts.  I absolutely cannot wait.  This experience - us having to live apart - has been very difficult, but very good at the same time.  It's been difficult to be apart, but good because it forces us to find ways to stay close without seeing each other very much.  So it's definitely made our relationship stronger.

The movers arrived at our apartment today with all of our furniture!  Everything seems to be intact for the most part.  The screws to put the bed frame back together are missing... and the china cabinet has a few scratches.  But that can be fixed.  I just can't wait to get it all unpacked and turn that apartment into our home :)

Now, off to watch Project Runway!

Leah vs. Migraine

I carry fast-acting prescription migraine meds with me everywhere I go. Well, at least I did... except it's been almost a year and a half since I last had one so last time I switched purses I just didn't put it in my new one. Big mistake.

Last time I had a migraine was May 3, 2008. Ian and I were in Memphis for the weekend, and it the was the day we got engaged! It came on very suddenly... so we went back to the hotel and I slept for a few hours and we were able to go out to dinner, where he proposed!

This time, not as nice. I felt a little funny yesterday afternoon at work but wasn't sure what it was. When I was walking out of the door to go to my car and head home, I started getting little blotchy patches in my vision. I got in the car and called Ian, as I always do on the way home, and tried to pretend I didn't see them. Then, I started getting little iridescent fuzzy lines across my vision, and I knew I was in trouble. The lines started getting bigger, then all of a sudden, like it always does, I lost my peripheral vision. I was driving with my hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel, looking straight ahead, and i couldn't see my left hand or my left arm. My straight ahead vision was fine, except for the blotchiness, but my peripheral field on the left side was completely gone and the right side was pretty fuzzy. I stopped at the nearest drug store and bought some excedrine migraine, but I knew it wasn't going to help much. If I'd had my medicine with me, I could've taken it right when I started seeing the fuzzy lines and it would've stopped it. I might've gotten a mild headache, but it pretty much stops it in its tracks if I can catch it soon enough. But of course, I didn't have it with me. So I took 3 of the Excedrine and drove home in tears. :(

Once I got home (around 5:00) I laid down on my air mattress in the living room (remember - I don't have furniture!), closed all the curtains, turned off all the lights, and put a pillow over my head to block out the light. I even had to put my cell phone on silent because every time I got a text message the sound was excruciating! Plus, Ian twitters like 2,683,183,860,432 times a minute so it kept going crazy. My head felt like it was going to explode... it was the first time in my life I've ever been in so much pain that it made me nauseous. The dogs were SO sweet. Even though they had been at home alone all day (and probably sleeping) they laid down with me and slept and snuggled all evening and all night. They didn't even try to play and run around like they normally do at night. They're the best...

So I laid in bed all afternoon, and all night... and 16 hours later I woke up with a headache. Nothing like yesterday, but a dull, nagging headache. I took some Aleve and it slowly faded... but I took today off work and have been snoozing and lying around all day. First of all I needed a day to relax, and secondly there was NO way I could've worked today. Even though I slept so long my body was still completely exhausted from the whole ordeal.

So basically, when I get a migraine, I literally lose my vision. I actually have blinding headaches! Next time when you have a bad headache, please don't call it a migraine. It's insulting! Unless of course you've been diagnosed and are actually having migraines. It just gets on my nerves when people are always posting on facebook that they have a migraine. If they really had one, they certainly wouldn't be looking at a bright computer screen. Bad headaches can be painful also. I get that. But not like REAL migraines!

Anyway... Tomorrow I'm headed back to work... even though I let them know when my last day is like a month and a half ago, tomorrow I give my official two week notice. Two weeks until I can finally move to Boston and Ian and I won't have to be apart anymore. All our furniture and stuff arrives at the new apartment tomorrow, so hopefully he'll have everything at least mostly set up by the time I get there. Hopefully I'll find a job quickly, but I also hope that I'll have a couple weeks off to get the apartment in order and just take a little time off. If not, that works too... but it would be nice.

I guess that's it for now. Thanks Kacie for saying that my posts are never boring :-) Love you!

Borrrrrrrring.

I just wrote the most boring blog entry of all time. So I deleted it and this is all you get. Sorry!

For Kacie :)

So.... Kacie insists I don't update enough. She's probably right. It's just that when I get home from work, I've been on the computer all day and the last thing I want to do is update. I should probably start keeping a Word document open at work and write stuff from there and email it to myself so I can post it later. But considering I just now thought of doing that, I haven't done it yet. And also considering I just have THREE WEEKS left at work, that might not happen now either. Oh well!

So yeah, I have three weeks left at work. I'm officially making the move up to Boston on October 2nd. My little brother Jon is going to skip class on that Friday and drive up with me. We're going to *try* to drive to New York (to Ian's parents' house) in one day and spend the night there just so we don't have to deal with trying to find a hotel that will take the dogs. Then the next day it will only be three more hours to make it to Boston.

Speaking of which, the movers are coming to pick up all of our stuff on Thursday. Yeah, Thursday. Like, two days from now - September 10. And yes, I said I'm moving on October 2nd. So that means I will get to spend 3 weeks sleeping on an air mattress and living in a house with ZERO furniture. Actually, that's not entirely true. We're not taking our dining table with us because there's no room in the apartment. So I'll have that :) And an air mattress. Should be fun. Don't be annoyed if I come part myself on your couch and watch TV for awhile. It's just cuz I miss my furniture :)

For the past few weeks, my friend Emily has been living with me in our guest room. It's been the best experience.... I've gotten to know her so much better as a friend and it's been so nice not to be alone at the house every day. She's been such an incredible help with the dogs and our Sunday cookouts have been so much fun! Moving away from Tuscaloosa - while it was definitely time for us to move on - is so bittersweet. We have such an amazing group of friends and I'm going to miss all of you SO much. I had great friends in Starkville, obviously... but it's been a LONG time (if ever) that I've had such a solid GROUP of friends to rely on. It's just been so amazing to know that if I'm ever bored there will always be somebody that will go to dinner or have a beer with me. That's so hard to find and I truly will miss that opportunity. BUT... we have a guest room and I demand that everyone come visit. :) We'll try to make it back to Ttown every now and then too!

So anyway, I'm headed back to Tuscaloosa tomorrow after a long weekend in Boston. We went to Lowe's today and bought area rugs for the new place. The whole apartment is hardwood, and I don't do cold feet so rugs were a must. They're actually quite cute! I can't wait to get all of our stuff up here and get moved in and settled and find a job and move on with this chapter in our life. It's going to be fun and exciting, but I'm definitely a little scared right now. I just hope that I can find a job, that we can sell our house, and that I can sell our car so we won't have so many expenses. I'm optimistic that everything will work out just fine.

Alright, there's my update. It's quite rambly but it's the best I can do for now :)

Kacie - I'm so incredibly happy for you and Judd and little Caroline. I'm completely in awe when I look at her pictures. I know you are going to be the most amazing parents, and I hope that everything works out just perfectly for you. I hope to see you soon! Love :)