Try, try again
Forgive me LJ friends for I have sinned. It has been 9 months since my last post. I know I lamented this same thing 9 months ago and then never posted again save for a Grove video. I am deeply shamed and will do the required penance.
I do want to get back into the posting habit. I miss LJ and the ability to talk at length about things rather than in 140 character bursts. I'm happy to see more of my friends coming back to LJ with the new year. I hope the habit sticks for us all. I still read my friends page daily and I'm always happy to see real content rather than just LOLCats and RSS feeds.
So I won't try and sum up everything from the last 9 months, but here are some highlights:
I've settled into my life up in the far NW suburbs. Still hoping to meet more people up this way. Greg and I plan to throw more parties.
I got a new (to me) car after Lola suffered a fuel pump failure.
The job is about what I expected. I don't love it. I need to start looking for something else but the market up here is slim pickings for things I think would be any better. And I still don't know what I really want to be doing anyway. I do miss working with people though. I don't get much human interaction in the office and it SUCKS.
The side benefit of not much of a social life up here is that I've managed to make a habit of going to the gym after work (it's also a great way to avoid rush hour). I've lost a fair bit of weight, which is great, but what I'm more pleased about is the gains in strength and endurance. I feel better. I'm running again. I have biceps!
An unexpected result of feeling better about myself has been a renewed interest in girly things like make-up and beauty products. Probably not super interesting in the long run, but it brings me small pleasures everyday to take time to pamper myself with something that smells nice or feels nice on my skin. My skin has cleared quite a bit since I am now in the habit of washing my face every night, something I used to be really bad at. Lush and Sephora have been my suppliers of late. I might even go so far as to write some reviews of stuff I'm particularly in love with. Hey, if it gets me in the habit of posting I'll take it.
So that is really all I'm up to these days. It's not terribly exciting, I know. Maybe this is why I haven't been journaling LOL.
I did go to a tarot Meet Up this afternoon and met some nice folks. That was fun. I want to start reengaging in some of my old hobbies. I just feel like I have less free time to do so. On days I go to the gym I don't get home until after 7:00. By the time I eat and poke the web, maybe watch a show on TV, it's getting late and I need to be in bed or near to it by 11:00 so I am not a zombie when the alarm goes off at 6:00 so I can start the whole process over. It's kind of lame. I should see to that.
It's not all lame. Greg and I manage to do some fun stuff. We go to Madison to go dancing at the Inferno. Later this month we're going up for the Fire Ball. And this Friday we will probably be heading to the goth night at Medusa's in Elgin. So clubby/dancy fun is being had. I just miss the low key social hanging out over beers spur of the moment kind of stuff. That type of thing is hard to manage when 99% of your social circle is an hour or more away.
Anyway, speaking of needing to be in bed, it's about that time. Hopefully my next post will be more interesting, and not 9 months in coming, heh.
I do want to get back into the posting habit. I miss LJ and the ability to talk at length about things rather than in 140 character bursts. I'm happy to see more of my friends coming back to LJ with the new year. I hope the habit sticks for us all. I still read my friends page daily and I'm always happy to see real content rather than just LOLCats and RSS feeds.
So I won't try and sum up everything from the last 9 months, but here are some highlights:
I've settled into my life up in the far NW suburbs. Still hoping to meet more people up this way. Greg and I plan to throw more parties.
I got a new (to me) car after Lola suffered a fuel pump failure.
The job is about what I expected. I don't love it. I need to start looking for something else but the market up here is slim pickings for things I think would be any better. And I still don't know what I really want to be doing anyway. I do miss working with people though. I don't get much human interaction in the office and it SUCKS.
The side benefit of not much of a social life up here is that I've managed to make a habit of going to the gym after work (it's also a great way to avoid rush hour). I've lost a fair bit of weight, which is great, but what I'm more pleased about is the gains in strength and endurance. I feel better. I'm running again. I have biceps!
An unexpected result of feeling better about myself has been a renewed interest in girly things like make-up and beauty products. Probably not super interesting in the long run, but it brings me small pleasures everyday to take time to pamper myself with something that smells nice or feels nice on my skin. My skin has cleared quite a bit since I am now in the habit of washing my face every night, something I used to be really bad at. Lush and Sephora have been my suppliers of late. I might even go so far as to write some reviews of stuff I'm particularly in love with. Hey, if it gets me in the habit of posting I'll take it.
So that is really all I'm up to these days. It's not terribly exciting, I know. Maybe this is why I haven't been journaling LOL.
I did go to a tarot Meet Up this afternoon and met some nice folks. That was fun. I want to start reengaging in some of my old hobbies. I just feel like I have less free time to do so. On days I go to the gym I don't get home until after 7:00. By the time I eat and poke the web, maybe watch a show on TV, it's getting late and I need to be in bed or near to it by 11:00 so I am not a zombie when the alarm goes off at 6:00 so I can start the whole process over. It's kind of lame. I should see to that.
It's not all lame. Greg and I manage to do some fun stuff. We go to Madison to go dancing at the Inferno. Later this month we're going up for the Fire Ball. And this Friday we will probably be heading to the goth night at Medusa's in Elgin. So clubby/dancy fun is being had. I just miss the low key social hanging out over beers spur of the moment kind of stuff. That type of thing is hard to manage when 99% of your social circle is an hour or more away.
Anyway, speaking of needing to be in bed, it's about that time. Hopefully my next post will be more interesting, and not 9 months in coming, heh.