Petra Gregorová

It’s been another eventful year for me whether it came to my professional, but mostly personal life. I did some traveling, meeting new people or reconnecting with old ones. I also had to make some life altering decisions & probably for the first time in my life I put myself ahead of everyone else in order to be happy in a long run.

It’s been hard on me in more than one way, but am glad and thankful that I have found the strength to do so. I am so grateful for all the people that helped me through all this or even opened my eyes and gave me strength to follow through. During trying times like these, it always warms your heart to know that there are and always will be people in your life who will love you no matter what… who’ll love you unconditionally, and all that is priceless.

As we all know, we all live our lives the best way we can and have our own hurdles that we need to go through or pass. Unfortunately, my mom had to go through another one less than two weeks ago when she unexpectedly lost her husband. It saddened all of us and took us by surprise. Everyone who knew Jožko, will remember him for his great spirit and always smiling no matter what state of mind he might have been. We all miss him dearly.

I wish it was under different circumstances, but this event brought me to a decision to go home sooner than expected. It might have taken more than a week for my work to approve, but now it’s official that day after Thanksgiving, I will be flying out of Seattle to go home to spend Christmas Holidays with my family and friends in Bratislava.

I will be working during the week, but still will try to mingle with my friends and have some fun. I would love to travel some too but only time will show if any of that will work out.

Still can’t believe that I did in fact got to meet the Luke Perry that I used to watch during my teen years back in ’90s on Beverly Hills 90210!

How did that happen? Well, I came to work like any other day, bright and early before 6:30 A.M. As I was pulling around our office building, I noticed a whole bunch of trailers. Couldn’t tell whether they were unloading or packing after an event that might have taken place over the weekend.

So I just went in, and started to go about my day while here and there tried to figure out as coworkers started to come in, what might be happening. Then I hear that it was a film crew. However, it took almost till lunch time till I found out what it was. One coworker came up to my desk and told me that since I enjoy to stalk celebrities that Ii might care to know that there is Luke Perry outside of our building filming TNT TV Show “The Leverage“. Continue Reading »

It has been a while since I posted anything about what I’ve been up to. Last year went by fast, I don’t even know how but I am glad it did. It wasn’t the best or my favorite year. Well, maybe attending NKOTB concert in Tacoma, WA. That was FUN!!!!

However, other things didn’t seem to work out as they’ve been planned like having Paul’s mom over for Thanksgiving. She had to cancel last minute, then we got stuck in Portland over Christmas, instead of going to see everyone in California due to snow storms. Nevertheless, I ended up making my mind about coming to visit my family and friends in Bratislava, Slovakia after almost 1 and 1/2 year for an entire month. Continue Reading »

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I am back, after one week with more news and updates. I must say that I have had last few months, but mostly weeks pretty emotional and spiced up with various good or bad events that I was faced with.

…and one of those was concerning my job. After a lot of thinking and going back and forth, I’ve decided to resign at my current job and accept another offer from ISITE Design in downtown Portland. I’ve heard great things about them, which makes me anxious to get started and show what I can offer as well as have some fun along the way. At the same time, it is sad to leave Providence, since I’ve had made some great friends there.

Now I just need focus on what is ahead of me and look forward to it, which I am.

What a day, or last couples of days, I must say!

On Sunday, as I was reading up on my younger sister Martina’s Facebook wall, I first found out an exciting news that she got engaged, but right after that I found out that her grandma has passed away.

And then today, bright and early in the morning I found an instant message on my MSN messenger that my long time friend Christa, who I’ve met in Chamonix back in 1996-1997 has passed away this past Sunday at noon at the age of only 34. I was in shock and didn’t know whether this was joke, or just simply wanted for it to be one.

I knew that she’s been battling leukemia since 1997, when she first got it but had gone through chemo and received a bone marrow transplant years back, which seemed to help. Christa has been always athletic and so full of energy, that you just can’t seem to help it from not being upset about what she had to go through, as well as her friends and family.

The last I got to see her was back in 2005, when Paul and I were flying through Copenhagen to Slovakia for Christmas. We had less than a two hour layover there, but she came to the airport to see me and meet Paul. It was so nice to see her and talk to her in person after such a long time. She looked great, as always! I just simply can’t believe that I will never be able to see her big smile again.

I love Fridays, especially getting off from work, when you know that you have a whole weekend ahead of you. Well, who doesn’t, right?

Today I was in Beaverton office, but around lunch had to go to Tigard office to work on another project. They had a Hawaiian party just like we had in Beaverton a week ago, but theirs seemed much more fun. I’ve been on Ibuprofen all day, so I wouldn’t feel the pain from my stitches. After work, since I was in the area and Paul was out of town till tomorrow, I went to visit my friend Michaela and her family. I figured since her husband is a nurse, he will be able to remove the bandage, clean my stitches and put new bandage on. I ended up spending the evening there, went to Target together, where I bought myself more shoes

Work week is almost over where I have been pretty busy, which made everything go by fast. And I like that. I went back to Crossfit yesterday and felt pretty good about it. I did my best to keep up with everyone else, even with those “Under Bar” exercise that I was a little worried about. I managed though in the end

Today after work, I had a doctor’s appointment scheduled to look at one mole that I’ve had on my back for ages.I’ve always been worried that one day I will scratch it or something, so I decided to get it removed.

Originally, I was told that it won’t get done at my first visit. However, before I knew it, I was laying down on a table and the doctor had a scalpel in her hand. Thankfully I was numbed, so I barely felt anything. First time for everything, and today it was first time for stitches, and I got three of them!
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Well, finally I have my 30″ monitor in its glory and full 2560×1600 resolution! I received my graphics card that I ordered, and after a little scare whether it was compatible with my computer or not, I was able to install it and FINALLY enjoy it!

I love having all this real estate on my desktop, with wishful thinking that it will result in more productivity as well as efficiency.

After I installed and tested my new monitor, Paul and I realized that we had about 15 minutes to get ready and go to Crossfit Portland, where he haven’t been back to since late May. Since then, Crossfit has moved to North Portland, which made us happy since it is way closer to our house. It was very nice being back, and it will be even nicer when I get back into shape. Check me out working the sweat

It’s been pretty hectic at work lately, but then again days go by faster and before you know it there is a weekend. Today, we had a annual BBQ at work, which was my first one. This year’s theme was Hawaii. Ironically, Paul came back from Hawaii this morning after working there for the last two weeks.

Since he had some time off, he came by to see me at work for a bit, before he had to leave and go to the coast for another day. I had to go to a Apple store where I had a scheduled meeting to figure out why I couldn’t get the maximum resolution out of my new monitor. I had to bring both the monitor and my computer. After all the hassle, my prediction was correct. Yes, I need a new graphics card. At least the gentleman at the store told me which one to buy and where, which I did the second I got home.

However, when I got home I got even more stressed out when I saw the mess. There were things from Paul everywhere, all the lights were on, including TV. Once I entered our bedroom, I had to calm down after seeing all the presents for me spread all over on our bed.

As I was checking out and admiring my new goodies, I hear a garage door opening. That freaked me out , since I had no idea who that could have been! I ran to the kitchen and as the door opened, there was Paul with a bouquet of flowers!

I guess Paul’s trip to the coast got canceled, so he was home officially one day earlier.

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I just got of the “phone” – meaning Skype, with my mom and got a little caught up on what is going on back home. She sent me few pictures from her vacation in Turkey where she went with my older sister Patricia and her family, including my cutest nephews EVER! I am sure you will agree with me after seeing these…

If you like these, feel free to go and see more of my sister’s pictures from Turkey, and others, on my flickr account.