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I’ve been kind of bummed out lately because I haven’t been able to spend much time with my friends. Normally in the summer we all spend our free time out on the bikes, but since our bike is still in repair mode our friends are out hanging out and riding without us. It’s a bummer especially when I throw in how crappy I feel that our entire riding season is almost over.

My friend told me about something this morning though that makes me feel a lot better. She invited us to go to Road Atlanta next weekend for the Suzuki Superbike Showdown. Not only can I get my bike fix, but I can hang out with my friends. She’s getting a box, too, so I don’t have to worry about taking my acne treatment cream with me. If I was sitting outside in the sun all weekend my face wreak havoc on me.

I’m so glad I finally booked our vacation for our anniversary. Going to the beach for 4 days will really help me with all this stress I think. It’ll be nice, quiet, and relaxing. We’ll be going to Edisto Island, and we’ll have a nice quiet little beach house.

I’ve been trying to make a list of things I need to buy before we go and things we need to take with us. Hubby wants to take his golf clubs so he can possibly hit the golf course down there on the island, but I’ll have to see if I can get him a few replacement clubs. His clubs are pretty old and beat up…they were his dad’s old ones. I might have to see what Callaway golf clubs I could afford for him. Even if I could just get him 1 new driver I think it’d be worth it.

For me, I’m just taking the basics…a few nice books to read and my camera. My idea of the perfect vacation is sitting on the beach reading and enjoying my surroundings.  I thought about taking my laptop, but then I decided against it.  It’s been a long time since I had a weekend away from the computer, and I think I might just need that.  If I decided I want to quickly blog about something I can just as easily use my cell phone.  Other than that I’d have no real reason why I’d even need my computer.  Any pictures I take I can share when we get back.

Now, September 20th just needs to hurry up and get here so we can celebrate our anniversary at the beautiful beach!

I feel like I’ve been so slack on all my blogs lately. It’s like I’ve gotten into a funk I just can’t bring myself out of. I’m still posting, but it’s like my heart isn’t in it. It’s not that I don’t love blogging because I do. It gives me an outlet when I feel like I can’t turn to other people.

It’s just that I haven’t felt like doing much at all in general. I’ve been dealing with an ongoing thyroid issue, and the stress of not being able to get my doctor to agree on a treatment has really gotten to me. Of course the fact that I’m waking up in the middle of the night with a lump on my throat doesn’t help either.

Hubby keeps asking me why I’ve been acting so depressed lately. I smile and say “Baby, I’m not depressed”, but he just waits awhile and asks me again. Really, I don’t think I’m depressed. I just think I’m stressed out big time.

Then again how could I not be stressed? I’m not answering my mother’s phone calls again because she keeps bringing up the weight factor. She called while we were on our way to dinner Friday evening and fussed at me when I said I was getting food.

She said something about the fact that she’d just watched me eat at my Grandparent’s house, so why was I eating again if I didn’t want to be fat? OMG…at my Grandparent’s I ate ONE piece of cantelope to hold me over until Hubby got home from work. It was the one thing I’d eaten all day!

What’s next? Is she going to shove weight loss pill reviews in my mailbox? The woman seriously has some issues, and my mother or not, I’ve decided I’ve got to push that out of my life for right now. She needs to deal with her own issues, mental or otherwise, instead of hounding me about issues that don’t even exist.

Do I look like someone seriously overweight?

No! I think I look like a 26 year old healthy woman who is pissed off her mother won’t stop calling her fat! I guess it’s all my fault God gave me huge boobs, right? Trust me, I’d loooove to have a breast reduction!

Just when I thought I already had enough reasons to shun Burger King for the rest of my life…