Kindness and Panic Attacks

First, can I just tell you how awesome the people are in Nebraska? It is the number one reason we moved back here.  Not just for our fabulous friends, but the people here in general are just good people.  Take for example my other day at work.

Normally I am only dealing with the students who make not-so-great decisions and it can get pretty negative having to be the rule enforcer.  But I must say that most of these kids take it like a champ.  They admit the error of their ways and accept the punishment in a humble and apologetic manner (most of them at least). Then I have days like the other day that just can't help but brighten my  mood!

As I was walking into the building for breakfast, a student was ahead of me quite a ways.  He had already entered the first set of doors and was going through the second set when he saw me walking up.  He kindly waited in the vestibule then came completely outside and held the door open for me even though I was at least five steps away still! What a sweetheart.  Then, it happened again at lunch!  A different student was holding the door open for his group of friends and saw me coming, still at least 10 steps away (which to me is that awkward time to wait). But he did it; he stood there with a smile on his face holding the door open for me.  Nebraskans are such good folks! (Ryan says I just looked really cute that day).

Ryan has even said when he comes to eat in our cafeteria how nice everyone is.  The staff and students all say please and thank you and "excuse me" when they are in your way (and even when you're in theirs). I love it.

Now onto the panic attack.

Holy moly, I just almost had a heart attack.  Ryan and I are going to St. George for Thanksgiving and flying in and out of Vegas. I was checking my email to put our flight times on our calendar.  I open it up and it lists the date as SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2.  WHAAAAAAAT??? I was in a big hurry booking our tickets and I had to do it through two separate accounts paying cash and using points and it was quite a mess. But I was pretty sure I got the date right at least. That's a huge thing to mess up.  The hot flash came on immediately and my heart was racing.  There was no way we could get a flight back to Omaha now on such short notice!! Thankfully it hit me fairly quickly (but not quick enough in my opinion) that Ryan was going BACK to Vegas in February for a conference. WHEW.  Not cool.

Women in Engineering

So although in the end, a career in Engineering wasn't for me, I highly highly encourage girls to get involved in Math and Science.  It always makes me sad to see the statistics that girls perform better than boys in these subjects from Elementary to High School yet they don't consider a career or higher education in any of these fields.  I saw this video this morning on Good Morning America and Upworthy.com and I loved it.  You go, girls! I will not be raising princesses in my home.

Pretty Impressive, huh?

I bet you've never seen anything like this before. I sure hadn't. 

Well helloooo!

I take full responsibility for being a failure at blogging lately.  When I am on the computer 40 hours a week at work, the last thing I want to do when I get home is sit on the computer at home.  So instead, I get home and sit on the couch with my husband.  It's pretty awesome.  We're pretty awesome (hence the title of the blog).  

In all reality though, one of us always has something on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays each week so that only leaves us with Thursdays and the weekends.  The past two weekends we went out of town so I was not ashamed when we may have spent the entire last weekend in front of the TV (I hate you, Netflix) getting addicted to a show called Arrow.  But it was all so Ryan could get over a cold; it was well needed, I promise.  I gotta do what the sick person asks!

Alright, Ryan is home and it's time to wrap this thing up.  So you're not going to get the total update. But you will get weekend getaway #1 - Kansas City for the half marathon.  As I mentioned I was a liiiiittle nervous for this thing.  Unfortunately, it went more poorly than I expected.  The 10k we did a month before gave me too much confidence in my pregnant body.  As the pictures will show, a few weeks makes all the difference.  This time around it was my hips.  That whole loosening of joints pregnancy thing was not working in my favor.  Only a few miles in my hips started hurting until about halfway through they were killing me and the walk/jog began.  Sadly without about 3 miles left there was very little jogging to be had unless it was downhill.  And it was freeeeezing. As you can see by our hands tucked in our sleeves even at the end of the race!

Ryan had fun telling people I was pregnant. 

 Melissa convinced us to run the race back in May and she at least rocked it. Go you!

We got to stay with an old resident and classmate of mine, Joanna, and her hubby she also met at the dorms.

We had to compare our bellies.  However, Ryan can suck his in and I can't hide mine anymore!

Maybe in future posts you'll get a few other pictures from recent events (because I've actually got energy again - YAY!)  For now though, be amazed as I am at what a difference 5 and 10 weeks make in a pregnancy!  And just so you know, I swear I do not look as big in real life as the 18 weeks picture makes me seem.  I wore a form fitting shirt today and I don't think most people would know that I'm pregnant.  What's that saying, the camera makes you gain 15 pounds? I'm sticking with that story.