Tracks in the Snow

Tomorrow is the last day of January and all I have to say is GOOD RIDDANCE! I do believe this is the first January that I haven't rollerbladed once and I am feeling it. Not to mention, I haven't gone on my regular lunch-walk since Pretend Winter ended and Real Winter started! Can you say slightly Stir Crazy?! On a positively, extremely, exciting note - I did manage to get my vacation time approved for the next few months, which not only greatly enhances my work attitude, but it also MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO VISIT CARLY IN APRIL!! I spent half of my lunch hour today looking at flights to San Fran and emailing Carly. I'm sure my co-workers are curious about the perma-grin I can't seem to wipe off my face all of the sudden.

THIS BADGER IS HEADING WEST!! I CAN'T WAIT LITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pre-party Eye: a little bloodshot

I've been meaning to post for forever, that last post has been half-finished for almost a week. Guess I've been busy - if busy is synonymous with lazy, that is. I can't definitively come up with a valid excuse. Although, I must admit: the longer I go without posting the more anxious I get about posting. I feel like the next one has to be really good, like I have to have a fascinating/sarcastic/well-written post for my 3-4 dedicated readers (you/I know who you are, and thanks!), or perhaps, just a splay of interesting pics for all of my reading impaired friends! Oh the pressure.

The Sun is Back! ..slowly, but surely

It is one of the coldest weeks we've had so far this winter, and it's not just your average kind of cold. It's the cold that seeps into your bones and takes hours to seriously melt out, the cold that makes your nose run and also go numb so that, potentially, you could be oblivious to your crusty boogers for half the day, the cold that takes your average half-naked sleeper and turns them into The Flannel Monster. So, you'd think I'd be miserable, and there are certainly moments of bitterness when I am, yet for the most part I couldn't be happier! Why? Because the days are getting longer!!! It wasn't very noticeable at first (even after I found this neato calendar that shows the times of sunrise and sunset everyday in Wisconsin), however, now I can see a difference - it is light when I leave and still light when I come home! Not just because my bus now mysteriously comes 20 minutes later in the morning OR because I'm making a concentrated effort to bolt out of work like my ass is on fire at the exact moment I complete 8 and a half hours of real world torture!

STOP AHEAD

Every obstacle is just a stop on your journey...

Ha, no forget that crap -- I was just attempting to be (however sarcastically) inspirational after my previous anxious post. I've learned some things in the short time since I last vomited all over this blog, we'll call it "perspective" for kicks, and I was going to make a list of such perspective for you all to see, although, one of my shows (I KNOW, I still have shows even without cable!) is starting very soon. So, all I have to say is that my current job is not ideal, but because of my experience there I'm finally acquiring a few lists in my head about ..breath ...WHAT IT IS I ACTUALLY WANT. That's all I've ever wished for, just some things I like and some things I don't, it's not a ton to ask.

What have I gotten into?

I stayed at work today for 10 hours VOLUNTARILY. I hate myself a little bit.

I had to do some employee training with a new system that I helped create (OK, that I created). It was a system to seriously cut back on the amount of paper we use involving online data forms and BLAH! I was ambivalent about it from the start because I thought we should get Tech Support involved, after all - it's their job, not mine OH WAIT, I am capable therefore it is my job! Well, I started to get excited about the whole process because I got the opportunity to play with a new computer program and I still think that what I came up with is pretty cool. However, there are all these other variables that make it so that I have serious doubts about how this is ever going to fully function. Fuck. Me.

The point is this, I understand that this is my first "Real Job" and I'm trying to keep that in perspective by not getting caught up in it so much that it effects my Real Life. I'm torn because half of the time I'm telling myself to suck it up and the other half I'm adding up the hours of daylight I miss in a week & thinking about how if they just had a soundproof room you could go into and scream in, I might not go insane.

2007!

If this is any indication of the year to come, I'd say it's going to be a wild one. I get this crazy urge every once in a while to "ruin" pictures -- I am bored with 1,000 photos of the same people making the same faces, as I'm sure they are bored of my smiley mug! Thus, "ruining" usually involves sticking my tongue out (not very original) and often crossing my eyes (not super original, but surprisingly grotesque). Well, no crossed eyes here (yet), nonetheless I'd say it's a pretty fun shot and I enjoy it thoroughly, just as I enjoyed these folks thoroughly.

HAPPY NEW YEAR KIDS!

(miss you Lita, kiss!)