Bellini-induced Brain Freeze

So I had some time between work and when I had to pick up Butch from the airport so I decided to finally check out New Horizon mall. Now that it’s almost 50% (so they say) occupied. Or maybe they mean 50% spoken for, which isn’t really 50% functional. I feel really bad for the shops and services that are currently trying to run their business. I’m certain a lot of shops are “undiscovered” by the rare shoppers/adventurers — I know I didn’t do my usual methodical up-and-down-every-aisle. A young guy who was obviously told by his parents to go out and try to drum up business. “Hey have you checked out the perfume shop yet? I can show you where it is.” The food court is miserable w with only three food vendors two of which were closed today and two lonely bubble tea shops. After 45 minutes I’d had enough of the nothingness and went to spend the last half hour at cross iron mills.

I need to make time to blog from an actual computer because typing this out on a phone is time consuming and madness. Butch is away on his second overnight trip this month. This one was several nights. I can’t wait for him to come home; the poor guy works so hard and for so long. With my working 6 days and trying to accommodate my grandma, my mom and my siblings, and his time-consuming demands at work it feels like we barely have any together time. The weeknights seem so short because we need to sleep early enough to function the next day. There’s always something keeping us busy and when we do have time together we usually end up just sitting in the living room playing games on our phone with the tv on...like some kind of old couple :p (ooh, with emojis I don’t think anyone really types out emoticons anymore. I’m so geriatric, haha) But it’s not just him. I feel like I don’t have much time with him and at the same time I don’t have enough time spent with my family and this we...

It’s been a very long while since I last posted; but today is the start of a new Lenten season so I thought I’d try to make this 40 days of self-reflection and getting into the habit of writing thoughts down once again. Other ideas of what I’m going to try and do for the next month and change: 1. No buying Starbucks of any sort (exception of course on my birthday) 2. Reflecting on the Rosary daily 3. Clean something every day. Anyway, here’s my first blog of the season...but of course I should be sleeping. I have been at my new job for a little over two months now. There’s still that very real fear of doing something wrong but it’s also getting easier every day to complete a case more efficiently and smoothly. The commute isn’t as bad as I dreaded it would be but it’s also long enough that I still get choked up at least once each day. Some days it’s just a tear, some days the tears will flow down my cheeks...luckily it’s never a full out sob that would put me at risk on the road...