TGIF People!!!!

Thank God It’s Friday!!!  I know all of you who work are echoing my sentiments, and I wish I was right there with you!!  Fortunately, I only have one more week to go before I can get back to “my life”.  Of course, this is barring any craziness happening, but I’m going to stay positive.

People don’t understand why I want to go back to work so badly.  I’m a People Person.  A huge people person!!!  Anyone who knows me knows that I love being around people, talking, learning, hanging out…I love it.  Thank God that I have such good friends that also happen to be neighbors.  BJ, Kelly, Christine, Tristin, and Lisa have been so much fun to hang out with, and girls especially have been there for me to keep my spirits up.  And of course, there’s my beautiful godson Eli, whose parents just happen to be BJ and Kelly and we live right next to each other.  Thankfully, BJ and Kelly let me play with Eli and treat him like he’s my own when I’m around him.  They are such giving people, and they really don’t know how much it means to me.  The funny thing is that Jon and BJ look like they could be brothers, so when we all go out for dinner, on top of the fact that I’m known as “Auntie Katie” and Jon is “Uncle Jonny”, people really think that we are all related.  Hilarious!

That all being said, I love my job a lot!!  I love what I do, the interaction with the people at work, etc.  The interesting thing will be that if I go back to work on June 13^th, I have to leave town for work June 20^th.  That will pretty scary for me because I don’t know if I’m going to be traveling by myself or not.  I’m a great traveler, but with all this MS stuff, and the fact that it’s still affecting me in my hands (pain, numbness, grip problems) THAT SCARES ME. Just being able to hang on to my bags and suitcase, the steering wheel for goodness sake!!  Oh, on top of the fact that that week is Week 8 for my two classes.  The last week.  Could anything more be going on??  LOL

This weekend, however,  we are going to go to Jon’s dad’s house for a Father’s Day weekend.  We’ll head up there tomorrow after my conference call for school at 8am.  The fun thing about Jon’s dad, Roy and his wife Lynn is that they have two beagles named Bailey and Lucy.  They also have quite a bit of fenced in property, so Charlie LOVES it.  Charlie and Bailey get along really well, and Lucy just feels like a third wheel, I think.  Ah well.  

Tomorrow night Jon’s brother Dan and his girlfriend Cassie are coming down and we’re going to have a cookout for Father’s Day.  YUM YUM YUM!!!

Then on Sunday, we’re going to head up to Wisconsin to go to the baptism of our good friends Monica and Jason for their baby boy Nikolai.  Can’t want to meet the little one and see how they and little Felicity have been doing!  It’s been since November, I believe, that we’ve seen them.

And then Monday…dum dum DUM!!!! Is the appointment for the IVF doctor.  I’m excited and very nervous.  I know that thousands of women are going through what I’m going through, well maybe not thousands with MS, but thousands of women who are having difficulty getting pregnant.  I’m just so glad that Jon will be with me.  Four ears are better than two!  He always seems to come up with the good questions that I don’t think of, so that’s incredibly helpful.

We’ll see what happens…