sheesh part 2

busy busy. the past few weeks have been nutty and busy and good lord.
we took a trip to vernal utah to visit the kids's greatgrandma. it was a quick trip, leaving friday morning and geting back sunday afternon. when i woke seamus up at 445am on friday she turned to me and told me to leave her alone because she was sleeping. i then told her we were going to get on the airplane and she jumped right out of bed! both kids were really great on the plane. eric's mom came with us, too, so it was great to have an extra set of hands. originall they gave us seats all in the middle, one right infront of the other. while it was tempting to keep those we did change them so we were all in one row. after we landed in salt lake we had to ride a bus to go get our mini van. everyone loved the bus. and it turned out that everyone loved the mini van. me included. i had been looking into them recently anyway. eric is liking the volvo and doesn't want oto switch, even tho he was a minivan driver when i first met him. the drive to vernal is supposedly only 2.5 hours from salt lake, but it took us 5.5 from the time we got off the plane to when we got to vernal. we went right to vsit greatgrandma and then to our hotel. the whole trip was swo much fun. the kids spent more time outside and at parks then they usually get the chance to and that made everyone happy.
vernal does not believe in vegetables so we had none the whole time we were there. and we went to walmart everyday, sometimes more then once. good lord. but walmart in verbal is 48976123764 times better then walmart in renton.
the trip home was good but tiring. poor eric's mom had a 3 hour drive still but she made it home ok, too.
monday i went to work. tuesday i got up at 345am to catch a 6am flight to SF. i am having some issues when it comes to foot wear. i have gotten a few new pairs of shoes lately. i have tried them on at various times of day, during, before and after various activities and every pair feels fine at the store but then i get them home and they are all too small. what is totally even more lame is that in each instance i even tried on the bigger pair and each time there will be a gap at the back of my heel. so i took 3 pairs of shoes to go to sf. the pair i wore down had caused me issues the last time i had gone but they are now my best fitting, least high heeled pair, but i totally slipped and almost fell in the airport. so, i got to sf and to my hotel and thankfully they let me check in at 830am. i changed into some less dangerous shoes but man i felt frumpy. with this new hairdu and recent 43 pounds i did not want to feel frumpy when i might be running into former co-workers. so i went right to nordtrom. it doesn't open untl 930 so i had to sit there. finally it opened. there are tons of cute shoes in the world but my toenails are totaly fuct so i can't get any open toed anything. i really didn't want to buy yet another pair of plain back high heels but i did rationailze that the pair i do have don't fit and the heel is to high. so i got a pair. i opted to not get the jessica simpson brand and got the even cheaper ones. those felt fine. wore them right ouit of the store and all over sf and to the conference. until day 2. does it really matter any more about my shoes?
ok, so my favorite part of the conference was standing in line at riteaide getting some bandaides for my fuct toes ad there was an older guy al business like right infront of ne, with an 18 pack of budwiser cans. at 9am. that and somehow i managed to go to starbucks 3 times each day. i met some of my coworkers who i totally dig, and i went to dinner with allie and luan which was fun despite the foirgra. we had steak tarter. there is more to all of that story.