Month: May 2016

Scary occurrences and a question

It’s May 15th. It snowed in Pittsburgh today. That’s all I have to say about that 😉

I was scared silly twice this weekend.

Occurrence #1: Hannah and her boyfriend went to her senior prom on Friday night, and were coming over to mine and Jimmy’s house to hang out on Saturday night. Around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Hannah’s boyfriend called me. This is how the conversation went…

Josh: Hey, it’s Josh. Do you know where Hannah is? I can’t get a hold of her.
Me: What? No. Is she with Melissa? (Melissa is her best friend)
Josh: No, she doesn’t know where she is either.
Me: Oh… (I had to sit down at this point because I seriously couldn’t stand. I was so worried!).
Hannah: WE’RE JUST KIDDING! What’s Up?!

I was freaking out. I seriously thought my sister was kidnapped after their prom or something insane, but it was just her and her boyfriend playing a trick on me. Not funny 😉

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Oh, Hannah. You are something else! This picture was taken during our trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina!

Occurence #2: Every person I pet sit for has a different way of how they want me to enter their house. Whether it’s via key, garage, or another way, I’ve never had any problems. Without getting into too much detail, there was a misunderstanding this past weekend and I thought the owner’s house was broken into. Calling the owner and saying that I thought the house was broken into was probably the worst feeling ever, haha. I’m so glad it was just a misunderstanding, though!

Now onto my predicament and question:

My mom and I are traveling to Savannah, Georgia next month (!!) and can’t decide if we want to fly or drive. It’s an 10.5 hour drive from Pittsburgh to Savannah, but only a two hour trip via plane. The only issue is that I am terrified of flying. It’s my biggest fear.

If we drive, we will travel from Pittsburgh to Charlotte, NC (7 hours) and stay in a hotel and then drive from Charlotte to Savannah the next day (3.5 hours). It’s a tough choice because it costs about the same amount of money to drive and get a hotel in Charlotte versus fly and get a rental car in Savannah. The amount of travel time we’ll save flying is insane, buuuut is it worth the emotional stress? I don’t know!

What would you do?!

Also, what is the scariest thing that has happened to you recently?

Life Lately

Hi! So, life lately. It has included joy, sadness, fun, excitement, and lots of animals.

Unfortunately, the sadness comes from my uncle passing away from cancer last week. I miss him, and my heart absolutely aches for my aunt and cousins. It has been an incredibly rough couple of weeks. We are all just bummed. It’s a hard situation, as my cousins are around the same ages as my siblings and I, and one is pregnant with a baby due next month. Needless to say, lots of tears and prayers have been occurring lately.

Jimmy and I headed to New York for the memorial on Tuesday morning, and drove home on Wednesday.

Road Trip

Lots of coffee and energy drinks were consumed along the way.

It was nice to be able to be with my family, even though the circumstances were saddening.

Since Jimmy and I spent 16 hours in the car over the course of two days, I brought along our laptop and worked on my book while he drove.

Driving

I managed to get in a few thousand words, which was great!

I’ve been spending lots of time with some cute cats and dogs lately, which makes me one happy gal. I was thinking the other day about pet sitting, and I realized that I literally spend more time with animals than people, haha.

Pet sitting

Jimmy and I hosted a picnic for the moms in our life for Mother’s Day. We scrambled around like crazy that morning to get our house in order, clean up the yard, and make food.

We always joke that we like having people over because it forces us to finish little projects and get our house clean–all in record time. There are always little things like trimming bushes, weed wacking, and random cleaning tasks that are usually ignored until we host parties. Is this true for anyone else?!

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Hannah and I tried acro yoga when I visited my family recently, which was quite fun. It’s definitely a lot harder than it looks. Hannah’s boyfriend was with us when we were trying to get into different poses, and we were like “Josh! Lift my feet! Now Hannah’s legs!” haha. Poor guy 😉

Acro yoga

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this snapshot I took from the police log of our local paper. I thought it was worth sharing 😉

Police Log

What has been going on in your life lately?