I love three day weekends. I guess that boils down to that I love working for the state - getting all the state holidays off is REALLY nice!!! I could totally get used to this. I'm so looking forward to my week starting on a Tuesday, then having training on Wednesday and Thursday morning, then only a day and a half in the office and BOOM! It's Saturday again!
This weekend has been a pretty quiet one though. We did a lot of the usual errands: grocery shopping, laundry, etc. Today we rearranged the living room a bit. It's not a whole lot different than the last set up, but we moved our TV into one of the corners and flopped it with a chair that was there. It kind of breaks the room up into two littler rooms, which is pretty nice, because it makes the part that has the couch and chairs and TV feel more cozy and it makes the center of focus not be John's desk anymore. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but it's usually pretty messy, and it'll be nice to not have people staring at it all the time.
Johns in the living room now, playing Final Fantasy X. That's all well and good - but I hate it because without realizing it, he makes me feel like an idiot when I play that game. I've been playing it since we got the PS2 and he's already just about as far along as I am, and he's been playing for less than 3 weeks. Not to mention, all of his characters are more "bulked up" than my party, and it's frustrating, because he talks to me like I should have known how to do that. I guess video games really aren't my thing. I guess I'll stick to playing The Sims. At least you can't suck lose at that game.
I've got to remember to sign up for line dancing this week. I promised Sarah L. that I would start going with her. I'm a little nervous about it, but it should be fun. It'll be good for me to get out and start meeting some new people and trying some new things. So far I've taken up scrapbooking, which has been a TON of fun. I've really enjoyed getting to be creative with photos and getting to host scrapbooking parties. It's nice having a friend that's a consultant for Creative Memories! I've also really got to remember to discontinue my membership to the gym, or at least, START GOING AGAIN! I'm leaning towards the latter, because starting March 1, my insurance company will pay for it, as long as I go 8 times a month. Well, I can handle that, I think. Besides, it would be VERY good for me to start doing that. Besides, all of the stuff they say about working out being good for the chemicals in your brain is totally true. So I've got to start going if for no other reason than that. I've had some of my old feelings starting to creep up on me, which I think happens when I feel like I'm in a rut. I am finally good at being able to identify my triggers... feelings... signs of when bad things are coming my way, and I'm getting better about doing something about them. So as soon as I finish up this entry, I'm going to do 2 things: 1) sign up for the line dancing and 2) change my membership to the PF in Concord.
I'm finally starting to make some friends at work, which is nice. Ann is my new buddy at work. She and I are the closest in age, as well as start date and being newbies together. She started 3 months before me and has gone through the core training already (the trainings I am going through now). So we hang out a lot at work, which is fun. It's nice when I actually look forward to going to work in the morning. It would be nicer if the commute was closer than an hour, but sometimes you gotta work with what you got. I keep trying to hint that I want to look for a house, but I think John is perfectly content right here. It's not that I have anything against the apartment (aside from when it's possible to hear the guy upstairs from us doing things in his bedroom that you really don't want to picture him doing, or when people are outside in the parking lot at 2 in the morning smoking right under the bedroom windows and yelling), it's just that I am tired of renting. I'm tired of living in someone elses place. I want to have my place. I want to have walls that can be painted whatever color we choose. I want to be closer to work, especially with all of the extra driving I have to do to get out and see clients. I want to feel like a grown up now. I keep hearing about people I know buying condos and houses... and I want to be one of those people so bad! But I don't feel like I can talk to John about it sometimes, because he's so content being right here. But I'm tired of knowing that if I'm at work until 5:30, I won't be home until 6:30. And it's hard for me, because my schedule can change daily. I've been fortunate enough in that it hasn't, for the most part, but wait until I start taking my own cases.... Ideally, I'd love to be in a house by the end of the summer. Unfortunately though, I don't picture that happening. We haven't even begun the process of looking.
Anyway, I'm done ranting about stuff now. This turned into a much longer entry than I had thought it would be. I guess I had more to talk about than I thought. I'm going to go find some other stuff to do now, like... update my webpage's new quote of the week. Oops.
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