coffee date.
hello friends! today is monday, and while we usually have our coffee dates together over the weekend, when we can take the time to linger over a hot beverage, sometimes you just need a coffee date to ease your entry into the real world of weekdays. so here we are.
[amazing coffee mug by brittany garner design. my other favorite is this one.]
today i'm having a big old latte with an extra shot of espresso, but no sugar. i'm trying to curb my taste for the sweetness, and i've found that by just skipping the sugar in my latte, i'm developing a taste for the more classic coffee flavors. does this make me a goofball? i assume yes.
on our coffee date today, you'd get to hear me tell you all about how Mister Man took a new job that he'll be starting next week (hence all my crazy waiting anxiety the past few weeks). it was a hard decision, because he (and i) love the people he worked with. they have always been so wonderful to us, and after five years there, leaving was a decision that took a long time to come to. in the end, this new venture is best for our family in the long run, and i am so proud of my husband for taking care of us so well.
you would also get to hear about how i'm only a little terrified anxious about the next couple of months. because while this new job means that he'll be traveling less in the long run, it also means he will be away in training for the better part of the next two months. which means that i'll be here perfecting the art of bedtime by myself. he will be back every few weeks, and we figured out a weekend schedule that will hopefully only have us apart on the weekends a few times. i'm fairly exhausted just thinking about all this, but i thankfully have a lot of support here should i need a mental health day. which i most definitely will. (it really makes me feel for all those parents who do this all the time...single parents, parents with deployed spouses, etc., my heart goes out to you in a big way, you are heroic in ways most people will never know.)
[oh hello tiny baby hairs that will never grow out. ever.]
i want to tell you that i've been loving the internet lately. posts like this one on community by ashten, this one on trying by amber, and this one on self-doubt by audrey are just filling my soul up lately. there are even more too, but i just forgot to write them down. it's like all these people are writing words that i have in my head, and it's great to continue to connect with all these wonderful friends that i've never even met. speaking of which, i get to go see laura this weekend, and i get to see ashten down south in april, and I AM SO EXCITED HOLY CRAP.
now that we're finishing our coffee date, you're going to have to help me up from my chair, because i'm sore. i decided to take up rowing at the gym after, oh i don't know, TEN YEARS(!) of not having rowed. i told you guys the other day that i used to be the coxswain on the rowing team, and would lead workouts on the erg machine. i haven't been on a machine since, but recently decided that it would be a good change of pace and a great workout instead of my mortal enemy the treadmill. and it was. and i was so slap happy after i got done rowing a 2K that i decided it would be a good idea to lift heavy legs. and now i can't move real quick on account of everything in my body hurts.
happy monday, happy february, happy coffee date to you! what do all you lovely people have going on? tell me everything.
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