May 20, 2013

• Weekend

  Whew! What a weekend!!
  Friday the office admin was out (and will be out until after Memorial Day) so I had to come into work early and stay late to cover for her. It didn’t pan out well, but that was just because I woke up way earlier than my normal routine and worked for about 10 hours and forgot to eat and ended up getting a major migraine. We had planned to go see the new Star Trek movie Friday night but with the way my head was pounding and the fact that brother-in-law was hunting we decided to stay in and rest up.

  Saturday morning I got up early and started preparing for my photoshoot. I picked out a few frills but not a lot, showered and got ready to go. Reid came with me, we even got a few pictures together. The studio was about a half hour away tucked away in the country side. We almost missed it but the photographer flagged us down with his big reflectors. His house was small but cute and the studio was in a lil shed he had built himself. He had a nice light wall and different backdrops. I’ve never been in any sort of studio before, hell, I’ve barely ever had photos of myself taken my entire life (my family didn’t own any cameras and I’m generally against being photographed at all. It’s still amazing to me that I agreed to do a shoot at all, even if it was just for fun). He had a little swing that was suspended from the ceiling and we took a few photos on that to get the light and stuff right, then we moved on to different poses and lighting. My favourite part was when he turned on his projector and projected different patterns that would fall on me. Reid’s favourite was when he projected the The Great Wave Off Kanagawa and I was laying on my side with the back to the camera so the pattern was reflected off my body and made it look like I had a full body tattoo. We only shot for about an hour and a half but oh my goodness I was so tired afterwards! We ended up taking 1,001 photos on just ONE of his cameras. He even used his infrared camera and an old film camera. I’m so so so excited to get the photos back. I know he is leaving on business this week so it might be a while before I get to see anything but the wait will hopefully be worth it. Reid said he had a boner basically the entire time
  Afterwards we came home and I passed out for the rest of the day. Reid tried to wake me up at one point to go and get dinner but I couldn’t even keep my eyes open for more than a second. I don’t remember the last time I was that exhausted and napped that hard.

  Sunday was less fun than Saturday. We woke up early again and drove to UVA for my best friend’s graduation. We didn’t go to the full ceremony since she only had 3 tickets but we were able to sit in on the part where she got her diploma. That ceremony was very short, from the first speech to the last diploma handed out it only took 45 minutes. Unfortunately, because of the fact that A) I was in a place I was unfamiliar with, B) It was incredibly crowded I ended up having a massive panic attack and in the end needed to leave and go home before we could go to her graduation dinner. It was still fantastic to see her though and to be there to celebrate her graduation even if it was cut short by anxiety. Reid even had a moment when he got panicky (but when he gets nervous he just becomes a dick, I have never wanted to deck anyone worse than I wanted to deck him when he got dickish with me for a minute). Reid’s brother came along with us too even though he didn’t have tickets for the graduation, he used to spend a great deal of time there so he wandered about while we did out thing and then caught up with us after the ceremony and stayed for the small reception they had before we left and went back to his car to go home.

  After we got home we broke in some new pipes we got at the Cavalier Pipe and Tobacco store. They have a special blend of pipe tobacco called the “Sherlock Holmes #2″ which apparently is the single highest selling blend in the world, and they only make it in that little shop. It’s soaked in coconut and has delicious flavor and smell. My favourite though was the Tennessee Sipping Whiskey blend. Very smooth and tasty. My house smells delightful right now. We watched Venture Bros and smoked for the rest of the evening before G wandered on home and we went to bed. Reid’s dad called him around 9 o’clock to tell him that his dog had passed away. She was very, very old, a week and 2 days away from 19 I believe. Reid got her on his birthday. He took the news well, we were basically all just waiting for it to happen anyways. Scully snuggled up right after he got off the phone, I guess she sensed he was sad so we cuddled with her for a bit and talked about the good times we had with Missy.

  All in all it was an incredibly busy weekend with not a lot of down time. Reid is working every night this week so I won’t get to see him at all again. He says he’s going to come and have lunch with me some this week though since he doesn’t have any lunch shifts and he goes in to work just as I am clocking out to come home. I’ll miss him but after this week I’m kinda looking forward to having a lot of time to myself. I didn’t get to rest much and the anti-depressants are still giving me a little bit of grief. Yesterday was Day 7 of taking them. I am definitely noticing a difference now. I asked Reid if he noticed any differences since I’ve been on the meds and he said he had noticed and that he was pleased with the difference. I guess it’s worth all the side effects and the discomfort if he is noticing and experiencing less stress caused by me and my out of control depression. I still waffle back and forth how I feel about them but I’ve decided I’m going to give them a full month and just go from there.

  So yeah, that was my weekend. Hope everyone else had a pleasant one! And I’m hoping to do the video for the Q&A blog tonight! So keep your eyes peeled for that!

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