living simply: What's going on?

If my lack of blogging didn't clue you in, I have been pretty busy the last month and a half. It's starting to slow down I think...atleast right now it is. This week is spring break, plus Alex is gone, so I've had a lot of time to spend with friends. I'm sure many people thought Alex and I had fallen off the face of the earth or just didn't want to be their friend anymore. Our schedule's haven't changed a whole lot but I am done with my hospital rotation which takes a load off. The days I had to be in the hospital (for school) would go like this: wake up around 5:15 am, leave as Alex was waking up, be on my feet the whole day, get home around 7:30 pm when Alex was usually practicing with the band or CRU band, go to bed around 10:30 pm only about 30 minutes to an hour after Alex got home. The days I was not at the hospital I was either at my actual job, class, or spending time with Alex. Sometimes we had the weekends, but a couple of times I had to use those days to get my hospital days in (my schedule there depended on the nurse's schedule I was placed with), and one weekend the boys had a gig in Alabama. February was SMB's slow month as far as gigs go, but Alex and I had a lot less time together than I expected. And as you can assume, my husband got first dibs over my free time since our time was limited. I feel like I'm back in the real world though now. My clinical days usually only last from 8 am to 3 pm, which is so much better than 7 am to 7 pm. What stinks about Alex's schedule is that he is free in the middle of the day when everyone else is at work, but he works early in the morning and at night when people are free and want to hang out...

Anyway, this week has been pretty rough at times. The SMB left last Wednesday to go to Virginia, drove home all night Saturday to get back just in time to play Sunday morning, then head out for Kentucky where they'll be until Thursday right as I'm going to work. If I didn't have a midterm and a test last Thursday I could have gone with them to Virginia...and this week (Spring Break of all weeks!) I needed to stay here and work. It hasn't been terrible being by myself, especially at night; I thought it would be worse. I just hate that we're in two different states during my Spring Break! I can't complain though...this weekend we're getting away--just the two of us! We're driving through Atlanta, stopping at the Coco-Cola museum, and then up to Charlotte where we went for the first part of our honeymoon. We're staying in the same hotel and will probably revisit a favorite restaurant we found in December, Ruth's Chris Steak House. Saturday afternoon we're going to see "Young Frankenstein" and then we'll head home. I'm really looking forward to it. It's the first trip since our honeymoon that we've been on and I've been craving a get away ever since we left Cancun!