What’s this now? A bachelorette situation is about to go down in the town of Austin and I’m bout ready to get on a plane so I can be there with my Texas besties. More about that in a hot minute…

This week has been one crazy minute after another and I can barely keep up with what I am supposed to be doing hour by hour. Everything is off the rails – sleep, exercise, eating, qt with important people. The focus has been on school stuff, writing groups, assignments, a session with my mentor, and – a work project that is creeping on me like nobodies business. All the writing stuff is going great, and that is where the focus needs to be so I feel good (mostly) about the sacrifices I have made this week to keep all those balls in the air.

My biggest regret is not getting to spend hardly any QT with Jim this week, and now, I am about ready to get on a plane without him so that’s leaving me a little sad. At the same time, this weekend getaway is going to be amazing and I’m really looking forward to everything my bestie, Rebecca, has planned. She’s an amazing planner. I swear I should just hire her to plan my wedding and call it done.

Last night I participated in a new local writers workshop with a few of my MFA peeps and it was good. There were only 4 of us out of the potential 8 interested persons who went last night but it was still a great 2.5 hours of discussion. I don’t really know any of these people well enough to admit to my evening brain fuzz, and once we hit the 9PM hour, everything just started to blur together for me. I’m hoping that our meetings can be earlier in the evening in the future, but I don’t think that is the way it is going to go. We met at a coffee house and talked about next time meeting at a wine bar out west instead. Yay for out west, but the wine is a serious bad idea for me on a Wednesday night (not that I would have to drink anything I guess). But put a glass of wine in my hand after 8PM and the next stop for this SugarCookie is sleepy-ville. Just don’t expect me to contribute much to the discussion – ha!

The work thing might ramp up to more than I expect too because it sounds like the project is hot and ready to roll. I have to remind myself to be protective of my time and not agree to too much, even though it sounds super cool. I’m also secretly hoping my role is more behind the scenes and less PM, but I am getting the feeling that is not the case. I guess we’ll see what happens with that, but it also feels good to make a few bucks. I’m still adjusting to relying on someone else’s bank account and while I am sure that sounds great, it is still an adjustment none the less and every hour I work makes me feel like I can still do what needs to get done.

Anyway, I am getting ready to board a plane and have to wrap up. The rest of today is probably going to go fast and I’m going to try and relax on the plane and maybe read ahead on one of my school books.

Headed for Texas,

~Miss SugarCookie

PS… Photo credit to my love today. That snap was captured on his way to work this morning. An incredible sunrise!!