What can I say? I am exhausted. The daily grind is crushing me. I work so hard for so little money. That's the long and short of it! I am grateful to have a job. And I am grateful to enjoy my job, most of the time. What I am not grateful for is that I have a job that is so physically and emotionally exhausting all of the time. I worked 7 out of 7 ( Read more... )

Today we moved into our new place. We painted last night, and it looks fantastic! We had a collection of family and friends helping us paint and move, for which we couldn't be more thankful. Adam's mom is a painting machine!! She did the whole living room/dining room by herself in the same time that it took us to do the bedroom and one of the ( Read more... )

Jeez, how long has it been since I updated this thing? I fail at life, or at least this part of it ( Read more... )

Life has been really busy lately. I know that's not unusual for me!! But, in case you haven't heard, Adam and I bought a new car this weekend, so that was exciting. It is a 2008 Mazda3, and I love it!! It's so fun to drive and gets so much better gas milage than the van (of course). All those adult financial resposibilities have really hit me like ( Read more... )

If you have to make up excuses/defend something or otherwise convince yourself that something is right for you, then it's probably not. I was just thinking this is something I wish I'd known earlier; it would have saved me a lot of hassle ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we had a tornado drill at work in honor of national weather awareness day or whatever the heck it was. This involved sheparding all 30+ participants into a single hallway and getting them to sit down while loud sirens abounded. Enough said. As I was doing this, I turned around to see two participants literally clawing eachother's eyes ( Read more... )

I just love Paul Simon; I forgot how much until I started listening to "Graceland" again, which is one of my top 5 desert island records for sure. It's been quite a few weeks, that's for sure. Friday Adam and I went up to Lafayette to see Ben Folds at Elliot Hall, which was a lot of fun, not withstanding the fact that we had the WORST seats in the ( Read more... )

Life has been pretty stressful of late. Planning a wedding is hard work! You never realize how hard until you do it. Imagine building a house with your bare hands and no contractors from the ground up, and everyone you know giving you unsolicited advice and criticism. That's sort of what it's like. Anyway, enough about that, no one wants to hear ( Read more... )

I just realized from reading some past entries that I make a lot of flippant comments about ridiculous stories that happen at work. This is excellent because I will reference this when I start to write my hilarious book of essays about my crazy job.

I feel like everyone is changing so rapidly, like maybe I missed something, or entered a parallel universe, and meanwhile, everyone morphed into their grown-up selves. Or maybe it was just that everything in MY life changed so rapidly and so dramatically that I expected everyone else's life to stay the same, and was suprised when they didn't. Maybe ( Read more... )