When Jose gets a girl flowers for her 30th birthday, he really gets a girl flowers. 🙂
Overall, I have to say that my birthday was pretty awesome. Yes, there was the downer of having to go to class, but at least it was the 3D modelling class that I enjoy (even if the program sometimes makes me want to tear my hair out), and we got out a half hour early. In addition to the flowers above, Jose gave me a beautiful orchid because he’s noticed how I always stop and admire orchids and similar flowers — even fake ones — when we’re out and about. I have never bought one because I’m scared I’ll kill it, but I’m going to do my best to keep this one alive and well!
I also got to enjoy an awesome lunch at Tokyo Bowl with Jose, Becca, Debbie, Jason, Gavin and Jen that left me so happily full that I didn’t even eat anything else until I got back from class and had a snack and some ice cream. I didn’t eat too well yesterday but hello — birthday. Birthday trumps all.
Today it’s back to the same old, same old. I don’t have a lot going on at work right now. My cert sim for my backroom rendezvous position is next Wednesday, so I have something big on the schedule, but it’s not exactly something that I need days and days to prepare for. At this point, I either have the knowledge and skills to pass…or I don’t. I know that I do. So while I’ll do a little bit of reviewing past sim cases and the like before next Wednesday, it’s not like I have hours of cramming to do. I’m not sure what the next six months will bring. We’ve done two shuttle flights in the past two months, but now the next one isn’t until the end of May and the one after that probably won’t launch until September.
Life has calmed down a little for me after the craziness of late February and early March, and ironically I now find myself feeling restless. There’s been enough to keep me occupied though. The rodeo left town last weekend, but I did make it out to one show with Jose, Jason and Debbie. We saw Brad Paisley (who was ok; I’d heard of him but I don’t really listen to country music) and hit up the carnival for some food and rides. We went the afternoon after Jason, Debbie and I had all run the Seabrook Half Marathon, so none of us felt up to any crazy jerky carnival rides. Instead, we rode the ferris wheel, the sky chair ride, the swings, and went through one of the funhouses. We also each got an airbrush tattoo, highlighted mainly by Jason’s decision to get his done on the back of his freshly buzzed head.
Easter weekend was highlighted by a couple workouts in between lots of laziness. Well, actually, I spent a ton of time working on 3D modelling — the tutorial he gave us took FOR. EVER. I find that my patience for modelling in Maya is limited. I am happy doing it if I feel like I am making progress, but once I start having issues like not quite knowing how to make the program do exactly what I want (because I’m so new to it, and it’s so complicated), I lose patience very quickly.
The next three weekends will be filled with triathlons, Corpus Christi, and Karen’s wedding, so I should have plenty to write about. That about wraps it up!
We kept our orchid in the bathroom, the steam from the shower seemed to make it happy. I hear they like that and it lasted quite a while. LOVE the flowers, Jose did a good job! 🙂
Way to go, Jose! Those are beautiful.