Yesterday was a very busy day for me and it started very early with a cold morning meeting at school for Beautification Day.  About 12 of us gathered at school to pot some large plants to place around the school, mainly one in each classroom, and a few other scattered around the office and auditorium.  It was nice to see staff, students, and families interacting and together we were able to get the job done rather quickly…and, yes, I helped.  Although the organizing teachers gave me some gloves to cover my “delicate hands” as they said.  If they only knew how rugged I really am!  Taking one look at me can remind anyone how someone can be both rugged and fabulous.  ‘Nuff said.

After that, I changed my clothes and met a new friend for lunch at a great place called The Commissary which took over a restaurant spot on P Street, across from the Whole Foods Market.  Since we are both fans of breakfast food he suggested that place and it was fantastic!  The price was right ($6.00 for a large serving of pancakes with bacon!!) and the enviornment is very casual…and busy!  We had to wait for a good 20-minutes which was well worth it!  Well, we talked…and talked….and talked…it was so nice to sit and talk with someone who didn’t sit passively, someone who was engaged and actually asking questions!  I never realized how much I value not having to always carry a conversation and how tiring is really is.  It was refreshing to sit and listen to someone else’s story and laugh along with him.

Well, almost four hours later I realized I needed to go and meet RAM at HAM’s new apartment in Bethesda.  Just a quick ten-minute drive from where I was, HAM’s place is convenienetly located within walking distance to lots of shops and restaurants, but you still need a car to get anywhere of distance.  I got there first and recognized the layout of their new place is almost like the old one but it felt so much more open and actually larger even though the square footage increase exists only in the bedroom closet area…sweet!

We gathered for a long evening of dinner, drinks, more food, and then dessert.  We did lots of laughing and lots of talking, and I got some great support and encouragement from them…my friends I would have otherwise never met or crossed paths with.  They have been a tremendous support system for me. Awwww…

But I was still not feeling well.  I have not been feeling well for over a week now, since before my trip last weekend to Boston.  I was getting tired and sweaty and needed to go home and rest.  I took some medicine I had in the jeep and drove home slowly as I got more and more nauseous.  When I got home I went right to bed and woke up this morning still not feeling well.  Enough already!

I am supposed to meet someone for lunch today at the National Portrait Gallery and I am hoping to rest up for this meeting so I won’t be too much of a pain and not eat much…how sad is that, going out for lunch and not being able to eat….almost as bad as going out to dinner and not being able to eat when there is good food in front of you.  I just might go to the doctor if I don’t feel any different by the end of this week.

Until then, there is Thanksgiving to plan – something that is still unclear from my perspective.  Cancel?  Do not cancel?  I am still awaiting word from T that I asked him to think about – although I hear through the grapevine that a decision was already made last week but I haven’t heard anything as of yet.  I don’t know what to do…yet another day for the memory books, I suppose.  It keeps getting better and better!

But I am patient.  Some say stupid, some say time wasted, but I say patient…maybe synonyms in this scenario?  Don’t know, can’t predict the future, but time will tell.

Until then, if you are in need of a home in Maryland, the house will be placed on the market after January 1, 2009.  The funny thing about that is when I told him I was going to put the house on the market he told me not to make a ‘rushed decision’ which was what he had just done with the relationship…easier to give that advice than take it, huh.  Soon after, profiles are up and I feel as if I have become a notch on the bed frame of hook-ups.

But, yet, I still wait.  There clearly needs to be an explanation for this.  Until then, I live in hope…and in bed!  I have a marathon and a half to run soon and I need the time out of bed and on the road…argh!