Another week has come and gone and sadly this next one will be the last full one. Ugh I hate it. I was out to dinner with Liana and co on Friday and she started tearing up when people were asking what we were gonna do when I had to leave. I think its going to be another up and down kind of week, loads of fun events and Maria is here, but likely not much sleep and a lot of tears. Okay the last week I was a bit less of a loser….Liana kindly noted that I have become one after posting last week’s blog. I’m just trying to stay in shape, healthy and tan for my return and partying my a** off doesn’t fit in well with this plan.
Tuesday was a pretty frustrating day as my work laptop decided to stop working. I got the blue “screen of death” about 8 times before I realized it was doomed. I called IT and they essentially said they couldn’t fix it and to take it in to the office (my home office..right..how do you expect me to do that when I live in ABU DHABI?!) I figured they would fix it locally the next day so tried not to stress too much. Tuesday night I hit bootcamp for hell week arm day and it was so nice out (oddly enough, June has been cooler than May…or I’m just too used to the heat and the crazy work outs and neither both me much anymore!). I went home and was barely sweating, nice change though! I was able to sleep well again, score for 2 nights in a row!
Wednesday I dropped my laptop at office and then came to work. Got the fabulous news mid day that it was unfixable in the UAE. Awesome. Thankfully I’m going home soon but it has still made things a hell of a lot more challenging for me. I’m trying to sort out a move, where I want to live, etc etc etc and now have no laptop at home so am doing it all via blackberry. Very annoying. Also I have a ton of work stuff that I need to do before June 30th (our fiscal year end so a hard deadline for all this stuff) and if I get home on the 28th and have it fixed on the 29th that doesn’t give me much leeway. There are also a few things I need to do before the 30th so I emailed and HR and said HELP! They have yet to respond so I’m guessing they have no idea how to help me and I’m already getting hate emails about not doing what I need to be doing. I was feeling dead after work so skipped Circuit in favor of getting my nails done, eating candy and veggin out. After two crazy weeks of workouts, I figured I deserved it and I was able to get in bed pretty early and crash.
Surprisingly even after 3 decent nights of sleep I still felt like dying on Thursday. I think I’m just completely run down and stressed out and it sucks feeling that way. I didn’t bring my BC stuff so had to go home first and actually had 30 minutes to chill out before I went. I was laying in bed just wanting to sleep but dragged my a** up and to BC. It was a great workout and I’m really glad I went, it always makes me feel better. I was supposed to go get drinks with a girl from work but was just not in the mood so got in bed early and I’m glad as I knew the rest of the weekend would be long!
Friday I meant to get up and workout before brunch but decided against it after I woke up a million times in the morning from 4am onwards and resulted in not feeling that rested. I figured 3 workouts on hell week equates to 4 normal ones and while I’ve been trying to do 5…..I’ll take 4. Anyways….I got up and got ready and met Alice to head to brunch for her cousin’s birthday. I was sad to not be hitting the pool but I love Alice and she needed company plus we haven’t hung in awhile and she’s away this coming weekend so need to get in the time while I can. She had ordered a hotel car for 12:10..we went down about 12:14 and got in the car and OMG….it was like we walked into a sauna turned up as high as possible. We were both like holy sh*t!!! Turn the air on..whats wrong with you. His reasoning was that he was waiting for 40 minutes. 1. We booked the car for 12:10 and 2. Why are you sitting with no air on you lunatic! So then we get to Yas and Alice was so sure we were going to Crown Plaza so we go in and check the first brunch spot..no booking…so they are like there is another downstairs….this one had NO ONE in it..it was quite sad…I think the guy was very excited when we rolled up but then no booking there either. So then Alice is like, maybe I should check the email….yep, wrong hotel. Ha. So we walked to the right one and it was hot, but we survived. Brunch was excellent and I stuffed my face. I’ve been eating so good and healthy (ie: boring) so this was a nice break. Drank a load of sparkling wine as well.
Around 4 I left for Dubai, Alice couldn’t come with as she had to work..I wonder how many times I’ve written that in my blog. Alice, you should count..and then you should get a new job. Lol..jk…its just cuz you are so good at it. So got some crap news when I got in the cab (I’m not talking about it) which essentially had me bawling my eyes out the whole way to Dubai. My cabbie was very sweet and tried to console me, lol. So by the time I get to Dubai my head is killing me from drinking all afternoon and crying…Liana thought this could be fixed by drinking some more. Good lookin out girl! So we have a drink and then hit the mall near her place as I was in need of some new going out clothes. I hate shopping and the last time I forced myself to go try to find stuff, I found some great day stuff but no night stuff. Not this day! I walked into Bebe and 20 minutes later had 3 fab new dresses. I tried on a few others that looked nice but way too much color. I ended up with 2 black/whites and a grey…so typical Cristina! Because I love torture I looked them up online today and could have gotten them much cheaper in the states but I’m ignoring that and pretending I did well, ha. And now I have new stuff to wear for my last week..woohooo. Then we did a quick stop at the spa and walked back home. Liana has company visiting her…Bob…who we met back in March. He’s unfortunately kinda famous which made outings super annoying but Liana has been dealing with it for almost 2 weeks now so I really couldn’t complain about 2 days!!! We got ready and went to Ruth Chris for dinner and another of Liana’s friends and her 2 friends came too. They were mostly obnoxious about Bob being famous and I’m like can’t we just talk about normal stuff, leave the man alone! Dinner was phenomenal…I was in need of a good steak and you can’t go wrong with RC. Not too many ppl recognized him which was nice but the server made him sign a plate and I got a great pic of server, Bob, plate and Liana with her less than impressed face on (that’s even an understatement!). After dinner when I could barely move (note: I ate all afternoon at brunch..and then a massive dinner…I prob gained 10 lbs!) we went to the hip hop club in the same hotel. We had a nice VIP area which was good and I’m actually not sure anyone recognized him there so that was nice. We didn’t stay out too late….by 2am I was done and all agreed it had been enough. The music was good and had fun dancing but my head was throbbing at that point. When I went to bed it literally felt like I was laying on a brick instead of the pillow. I was thinking it must have just been a really sh*t pillow but then I realized there was nothing wrong with the pillow..it was my head! Bob hooked me up with some colorful pills the next morning…they def helped!
I woke up way too early on Saturday (this is usually Liana’s job!) and then couldn’t go back to sleep which was frustrating as h*ll. I knew I had a ton going on this next week and needed to be rested but my body is not doing a very good job of cooperating with me. Anyway..we hit JBR for breakfast and I was not even remotely hungry but felt like I should at least eat something so managed a half an omelet. Breakfast convo was…..interesting. Lol. Bob’s has lots of views on lots of things and often hard to follow. I adopted the just go with it mentality early on, I think that was a smart move. And then we decided to go have some good old childish fun at the waterpark!!! It’s been on my agenda for months but just didn’t ever get around to it. We didn’t get there til about 3 but it ended up being perfect as there weren’t many lines and the weather was perfect. Being at a waterpark with Bob was a riot. A ton of people recognized him and wanted photos..but even the ones that didn’t…he’s 6’4”, 350 pounds walking around in fairly small shorts. Liana and I were both like what is that?!?! Funny too..we went in to change and he did as well..we finished and come out and no Bob…so Liana gets the security guard to go in and rescue him from the mobs taking photos. The good thing about the waterpark was that for the most part when we were in the slide area, not too many people had waterproof cameras so couldn’t take pics!!! Bob was a big baby about all the slides.he was so scared, but he did them all with us and I think he had a great time. We also did this thing called the Rapids that is meant to be pretty tame..its essentially a lazy river with rapid like areas throwin in at regular intervals for a little fun. Well I failed rapids. Remind me NEVER to go white water rafting. I fell out of my tube twice, in the middle of the rapids, not fun. First time I half lost my bottoms, second time my top. I also have a nice scraped up hand from the bottom of the pool as I tried not to drown. It was pretty funny though cuz I’m pretty sure I’m the only one that couldn’t make it through the rapids in one piece. To be fair, it wasn’t my fault though. First time was Liana’s and second was some of Bob’s fans. After that I made sure that no one was in front or directly behind me when I went! After about 3 hours we had all had enough and Bob pulled a muscle in his leg goofing off in the lazy river so we called it a day. We got back to her place, said our goodbyes and I grabbed a cab back to Abu Dhabi.
Maria’s flight schedule got messed up due to strikes in France that affected a very small number of flights but hers was one. Instead of flying into AD at 10:30, she flew into Dubai at 11. I considered waiting for her so she wouldn’t have to cab solo but it was just going to be way too late. I got home, hit the coop for some essentials (ie: diet coke) and then organized, did laundry and passed out around 10. The sleep was a bit patchy until she arrived at 1:30 as there were lots of texts when she landed, when she got in cab, directions, etc. but at least I got some sleep. We stayed up til about 3:30 catching up and drinking wine…it was pretty surreal sitting on my balcony here talking to her in person!!! And then I got a few more hours of sleep before work. I don’t feel the best but don’t feel too bad either. I’m forcing her to come to boot camp with me tonight and then we’ll go out for dinner. I’ve informed the instructor to kick her b*tt for keeping me up!!!
Overall it was a good week, but I’m in such a weird place as the end is coming near and just not sure how I feel about it. A part of me is super excited to go home (although one of the big things is out of the equation so that sucks) but the other part is so sad to leave here. It’s like every day is a mixture of happy and sad and I hate feeling this way. I’m going to try to just make the most of the next 9 days and hopefully I will be at peace when I leave. Boston is stressing me out major too which is hard…trying to apartment hunt from afar, figure out movers, how much stuff I have..what I want to take, what I want to sell….when I’m going to find the time for any of it. I just want it all to magically fix itself….its possible right?!
We have loads of plans for week….Desert Tour tomorrow, Emirates Palace on Tuesday, Shooting on Wednesday, Farewell party in AD on Thursday, Farewell Brunch in Dubai on Friday, Fitness Challenge on Saturday, etc etc etc. Sucks I have to work but she will make good use of the days to see some stuff and chill out at the pool and then we’ll have the long weekend together so it will be fine. Next weeks blog should be jam packed and I might try to blog half way through to keep it readable. It will also mean my last blog will be #44 which is my favorite number so strategic as well. Ha.
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