Blah.

    Working so so overrated.  May the next three hours speed by....

    Going to the Improv tonight with Veronica and Jennifer.  Bob is in town to do the show - Comedy from the Dork Side.  Nerdy boys make life a happier place .   

Happy New Year!

       It always seemed a bit silly to me what a huge deal people make out of the new year.  Sure, it's a damn good excuse for a party...  but I've always seen it come and go without too much acknowledgment. I think I can safely say it is because the majority of my life I was in school, so my mind sort of revolved around the school year and not the actual calendar year.  I think 2008 my be the first time I have ever really given the new year much of a thought...

I think in general I scoff at the idea of New Year's resolutions.  Perhaps its simply the fact that people make them too lightly. Granted it does generate great business for fitness centers this time of year...  But the point is that I hate it when people ask me if I made any resolutions for the year.  Hate it.  Because I have set some goals for this year, and sort of mapped out what I want to do and where I would like to end up, but damn it they are not resolutions! Although I recognize the word has many definitions, to me resolution always implies a fix to a problem. And things I've decided I want to do this year are hardly that. Call them goals, or changes, but resolutions never. I'm not trying to fix myself or my life.  I'm really quite happy where I am at the moment, but there are places I would like to go and things I would like to do. So I don't really know what to call them....

I'm really excited because on Monday I finally got around to buying a new computer! Yay!  A lovely iMac... oh the joys of Apple.  Which means I will finally have a computer again, and can finally start using Quicken again, lol. Now it's just a matter of getting internet in the apartment.

I'm also busy planning trips for this year, and trying to work it all around my available PTO at work. Blah. I wish I had a normal job and just got all my days off at once to use as I chose... this accrual nonsense is just frustrating. I want to go up to ND to see my baby nephew (but not until after it warms up a bit!), and Mandi and I are firmly set on being at Peter and Ally's wedding in June. Plus, Cathy will be living in Germany several months for her new job, and I can't think of a better reason to get on a plane! I am also terribly excited that Doug will be down in just over a month to visit (yay!). 

AJ Marshall's Birth

My new little nephew, Andrew James Marshall, was born this morning at 2:58 am!!! He is 7 lbs and 19 1/2 inches, with blue eyes and a little bit of blonde hair.  I will post pictures as soon as I get them!!!

I find it incredible that today is the Feast of St Andrew.... what a blessed coincidence!

I am an incorrigible thinker. 

Sometimes I cannot help but sit and wonder where life is going. I have friends who tell me that it does no good to do so, one cannot predict the future.  For them speculation is foolhardy, since inevitably any plans that you make outside of the immediate present will have to be changed due to unforeseen circumstances.  That just isn't how I am, however.  I accept the fact that the life is constantly changing, a capricious creature to be sure.  But I suppose I like to dream about what might be. I feel like if I don't explore the possibilites, I will miss the opportunities when they arrive.  Concrete plans are never the fruit of my speculation, for I don't think I am able to make committments that far in advance... life does change too much to count on anything.  

*happy*

Life is going by quickly.  I almost don't know where the last few months have gone.  I suppose that's what happens when you're busy, you don't seem to recognize time passing because you're so caught up living through it.  And in all honesty, I kind of prefer it that way. 

Everything feels like it is falling into place. Finally.  After being back in Texas for almost a year and a half, I'm beginning to feel like it's a life.  I moved into my apartment a little over a week ago, and it's an adorable, spacious abode. I'm really quite impressed at what we've turned it into!  I've also met some incredibly fun people over the last month, and it feels wonderful to be social again. There's something thrilling about the process of getting know someone new, that excitement of discovery.  It's nice to find "kindred spirits", to quote Anne Shirley.

It makes me giggle to think we never knew where to go for happy hour or out for drinks at night. Within a short month we've found more fun little bars and restaurants than I thought existed... mostly thanks to Debby, who can list off drink specials and their prospective locations for every night of the week.  Not that we go out all the time, but it's nice to have the option open when we do feel like it.

And honestly, better than everything, is living with one of my best friends. I don't think I realized how much I missed having someone I could really talk to all the time, someone to goof off with and be silly around.  Mandi is my hero, and I love having her around.