Alpaca Up and Leave

Well hello, ebb and flow.

This week was painfully slow. I attribute this to several factors:

1. My mother and two sisters trekked (in a Camry) to Virginia to spend a week befriending bees, and holding hanfuls of very tiny goats. Some goats had beards. There was a goat that looked like a terrifying hybrid of cow and sheep, but I felt overly compelled to hug it. I am certain that had I made eye contact with one of the alpacas, I would not have come home. I actually started tearing up when I saw the pictures of the five day old nigerian dwarf goats. This is my life.

2. When the phone isn’t ringing, and your body isn’t moving, graphic images begin to creep into your mind as you recall how many “food days” take place every week paired with sedentary employment (oh, pardon…not sedentary, I move my forearm in guiding the computer mouse). You start thinking….

Derriere before call center:

(____ ____)

Derriere after call center:

(___________ _______)*

Thankfully, I work in one of the largest buildings in Northern Kentucky and when it is warm and I walk around it, I am not sitting.

3. Tuesday felt like Thursday, and my precious VTO never came. VTO is Voluntary Time Off…as in, there are too many people working, if your name is pulled out of the jar…PEACE. You can leave for the day. You will not get paid. You will not care. You leave…which requires standing up, and walking to the door…and out the door, and to your car…where you are sitting again, but eventually you will get out…EXERCISE, PEOPLE!

I guess those were the only reasons. Those aren’t very many.

The above picture is of my family in Virginia. From left to right we have Marci, Camille, and Carynn…standing on the farm and trying to remember if they knew anyone named Fran.

Below is a picture of me:

Yes, I am ready for Spring. I realize my skin is translucent. Thankfully I have been using some Dove Energy Glow lotion upon exiting the shower. This picture doesn’t do my radiance any justice.

 

*You’re correct. It is both wide and uneven.