A case of the Tuesdays

So DH and I had a pretty nice long weekend. Friday night was fun because we went to listen to jazz and drink Sangria. I got off early and raced over there to try to get a seat not in the Sun. I was successful, but I had to sit there for an hour until DH could meet me so I tried to read my book. It got really crowded eventually. I get kind of weird in crowds sometimes.

I need my space and will get really annoyed with people who don't give to me. Like we were sitting on this large stone bench that goes around the fountain. There are people who sit in the grass behind the benches on picnic tables. Some people were hanging behind where we were breathing down our necks. It bugged me to no end. So I just casually stretched out my arms pretending to yawn innocently. Well, I must have gotten really close to hitting them because they moved. I guess I can be kind of biotchy sometimes.

The rest of the weekend was spent cleaning and prepping for our BBQ on Monday. We went to grocery store on Saturday and bought lots of good stuff for it. It ended up pretty good. We had plenty of food and drink. We had about 4 people over, three of whom I work with at my other office. My friend David was kind of curmodgeony, but that is the way he usually is. DH and I kicked a$$ at Trivial Pursuit.

Yesterday was a bummer to come to work. It was pouring when I was waiting for the bus and when I got off the Metro to walk the seven blocks to work. I was soaked and grumpy by the time I got there. I didn't want to talk to any of my coworkers or even do the simplest tasks. I just wanted to go home and crawl into bed. Unfortunately, that wasn't an option. I got through the morning ok.

I find out later in the day that DH had got rear-ended on the way to work. Poor guy. The day after Memorial Day is usually one of the busiest days of the year for him because he works with motocycle claims and DC has a Rolling Thunder event every year on the Mall. Tens of thousands of War veterans who come into town to drive their motocycles in the event. So a good number of them get into accidents and such. What a terrible way to start the day.

One good thing did happen yesterday. I found out that I passed the written part of the Foreign Service exam. Although I was excited about this, I have passed it twice before and failed the oral part twice. I think that I will really try to prepare for the oral part. The work that I've been doing recently will definitely help on the exam. But I need to work at it more than I have in the past.

After I got home from work, I had no thoughts of going to the gym. I had dinner and crawled into bed around 8ish with DH to watch TV. We both got a good nights sleep and woke up the next morning refreshed. I can't decide if I want to go to a work happy hour tonight. I should go to the gym and save my money, but I like to socialize with people from work so I'm torn.