Normal Monday at the office. After work today I came home for a bit and then drove out to Arlington to go out dancing for my regular Monday night lessons except that tonight the normal place where we get our lessons, the Studios at Las Colinas, were closed so instead we were dancing at Septembers at the Hilton in Arlington, so I had to drive way out there. Chris and I got there long before anyone else. It made for an interesting night since the venue did not realize that we were coming and they already had stuff going on. So we had to fit in around everyone else. Still, learned some new things and it was, by far, the largest audience that I have had while ballroom dancing. I did not like having to do the really long drive, though. I could do without that.
October 21, 2012: New Suits
More or less a quiet day around the Miller household. Early in the afternoon we drove out to Willowbrook Mall and did some shopping at Target. Then we hit Men’s Warehouse as I have no good clothes that fit me anymore. I really needed some stuff so we picked up two new suits, one of which is basically identical to my old olive suit that I only got to wear once or twice but doesn’t fit anymore since I lost the weight, and a charcoal one plus two sport coats, two new shirts and two new ties. It was the buy one, get one sale there so it worked out pretty well.
On the way back from ordering my new clothes we stopped off at the Roti Grill where we like to get Indian and got some take out to take back to the house. I stayed in the car with the girls who had fallen asleep while Dominica got our food.
We went back to the house and ate our food while watching Dr. Who. We have been working our way back through the entire show again. Liesl is now old enough to be able to follow along and she really loves it. She is starting to ask for it as what she wants to watch. We are so proud of her 🙂
October 20, 2012: Afternoon Subway
My call yesterday actually turned out to have gone really well and it looks like I am going to have to be in Chicago in a few weeks. I haven’t had to do travel for something like this in, well let’s just say a very, very long time. This is a change, for sure.
We were home today, not much going on. Trying to get stuff done around the house. I am getting backlogged with work which is not good. I just keep falling behind. It is really frustrating.
This afternoon I went to Subway and got us dinner. We really should not be eating Subway with all of that bread but we have both really been craving it lately.
October 19, 2012: Night Out in Lewisville
Today was a super busy day. This morning I worked from home for a while and then had a phone interview that went, surprisingly well. I only do about one real interview a year as I haven’t been on the job market in forever and really do not have very much interest in finding anything new but, everyone once in a while, something comes up that is at least worth discussing.
It was nearly lunchtime by the time that I was free so I went to Redneck and met Dan there for lunch then went into the office for the afternoon from there.
This evening had originally been “guy’s night” to go out for drinks with Watson and Andrew. Andrew bailed on us, though, and Kayla ended up being available to watch the girls so Dominica came out with us. Chris made it out too so we all went to Redneck and hung out for the evening. Chris and Dominica wanted to go out dancing later but I knew that if we tried to do that that we would end up spending the night driving between places and never making it anywhere in particular.
It was a fun evening. Nice that Kayla was free so that Dominica and I actually got to go out together for a change.
October 18, 2012: Out to Brickhouse
It’s Thursday, one week since I got home from SpiceWorld, Austin. I was in the office today. Nothing exciting. I am way behind on SGL again. I just can’t believe how busy I have been. I keep thinking that I am about to manage to catch up and then, suddenly, I am a month behind and don’t even realize it. I feel like I almost never get any time to spend with the girls, I am always trying to catch up on something.
Tonight was dancing at Brickhouse in Arlington. We try to do that whenever possible. It is really hard for us to get out there but we are doing well with the dancing. It is great exercise and a lot of fun. We are really making progress.