Eating Alone

So it's taken me almost 25 years to finally get comfortable eating alone at a restaurant.
I never liked it, I felt like everyone was staring at me wondering why I didn't have friends who would go to lunch with me.
But then when I started working, and dealing with the demands of a fast paced job, I found that sometimes your only sanity lies in taking a break from everyone, for just one measley hour.
And that's how I discovered that at least once a week, it is good for me to go to a restaurant, by myself and eat.
I normally bring a book, or some papers I need to go over. It's nice to just relax and not to talk to anyone. Just chill and eat at my own leisure.
It's realy nice and I've actually come to enjoy it and even somewhat prefer it during lunch breaks. (Although nothing can take the place of Jon and I's last minute lunches to Bennigans).

So Lyric is still sick. Her fever has gone down and is intermitten, but she is still not up to par. Jon said she walked around the house all morning calling, "mama". Awww! She loves me!!! She slept ok last night. After a few times of waking up, she went down for the night around 1am. I just feel so sorry for her when she is like this... she's just so helpless and she needs her mommy.

Speaking of mommy, my mother-in-law's visit has been great! I wish I was able to spend more than just the evenings with her, but alas, it's not going to happen. However, I'm doing it so I can spend a lot of time with her in October... gotta save up that vacation time!

Jon on the other hand has been able to work his minimum hours which has left him a lot of time with his mom. He normally just has to be gone a few hours a day, which is SO nice! My MIL leaves on Saturday and she's been a lot of help. She's the laundry queen and I've only done one load of dishes in a week!
SUCH a big help! Especially since I've been so nauesaus and all I want to do is lay down and pray that the sick feeling in my stomach will pass!
I'm afraid she thinks I'm lazy and that I make Jon do everything... if only that was true and I could actually get away with it!
It will be sad to see her go, but I've really enjoyed having her here!

Well back to the grind. I'm waiting to be relieved up at the front so I can go back to work on an FAA project!
Fun, fun!