siiiiiiiighhhhhh......

oh my gosh. what a week! i don't even know where to start...it's been that crazy.

monday was the only day i was able to carpool to work. tuesday i had a meeting over lunch and it was SO fun! we had a bunch of reps come in and talk to us about their stuff and i won a tulip plant! it's very pretty by my desk. wednesday i had an evening meeting at mort's. that's a cigar bar in old town. yuck. smoke everywhere. sick. i hate smokers. we were productive, however and it only lasted until 7:30, which is better than i thought it would. last night i had ANOTHER evening meeting out in goddard. we were talking about the finishes for the new high school, so that was a pretty quick meeting. they went with a blue, teal and yellow color scheme that is pretty frickin' sweet for a high school if you ask me. so sophisticated! i'm excited! and then today was just chock full of meetings and i have to try to get finish boards dnoe for goddard and we were printing out all our construction documents for a government project i was helping my boss with and then we had to stop EVERYTHING to meet with this client on a retail project. which is totally awesome, because we never get to do retail, they are usually super fun to design. i did some graphics for the guy and i think he was pretty impressed. YAY! [for those ksu football fans out there...i'm working with joe and jamie rheem's dad on this project!]

wonderful weekends...

i really didn't think that being in a long distance relationship was going to be this hard. really, i didn't. kyle and i have been dating for about 6 years now, and for three of those we've lived at least an hour apart.

but even an hour apart isn't really that bad. i could still go and see him if i wanted to, but sometimes that meant driving home really late at night or getting up at the butt-crack of dawn to drive to work or school in the morning. now, we're down to weekends only. and it sucks, really.

now, we officially live 3 hours apart. and that's if i don't have to stop on the way up to his house. 3 hours?!? that's a lot of a weekend. i mean, that's SIX HOURS of driving for one of us. i'm really not sure how long i'm going to last here in wichita. being back up in onaga for the weekend just showed me exactly what i was missing out on. it's so beautiful up there, epecially when you see what wichita looks like. and then you add to the fact that i actually got to cook for two people, not just one (and a dog and a cat, but they don't really count, do they?) and do my laundry for free and live in a house that i wouldn't have to pay rent on. it's just kind of depressing to return to stinky old wichita and think about how much i'd rather be living up there.

this post is getting depressing...it was supposed to be about my wonderful weekend up north and it turned into a bash on wichita post! lol. oh well! i really do like living here, but i truly miss all my manhattan friends and of course, seeing kyle any time i wanted to. i'm sure everything will work out in the end, and since it's not worked out yet, it's not the end!

so, ANYWAY...i did have a wonderful weekend at kyle's house, although he doesn't have internet and i don't get my FB and blogger "fixes" in everyday...but that's okay, i did get to see him after all... :)

here's the line up of weekends to come...

sept. 13th - dustin and katie's wedding in emporia, ks.
sept. 20th - dalton and emily's wedding in some small town in nebraska...basically it's so far north we will almost be in south dakota.
sept. 27th - e.duerr comes to town on friday! and erin g's bachlorette party in KC on saturday, studying my butt off on sunday.
oct. 4th - my LEED test day...yikes! kyle is building a shed at his house this day as well.
oct. 11th - erin and kyle's wedding in axtell, ks.
oct. 16th - i'm on the graduate panel for the KSU Interior Design Symposium all day, kyle and i leave for vacation that night!
oct. 16th - 20th - on vacation to cachura valley, co!
oct. 25th - a FREE weekend finally...
nov. 1st - kyle and i's 6 year anniversary, my dad's birthday, and the KU/KSU game in lawrence! we're going with some friends of ours that have the same anniversary!

and i think that's all we have "booked" until thanksgiving...sheesh, we are a busy crew this fall!