Ok Guys - Pick Yourselves Up Off Of The Floor
I am alive, and I am updating. Will wonders never cease. ;-)
Today was just a weird day. The last couple of days have just been strange.
I have a group of friends that are going through another set of changes, and frankly - the whole thing has me a little rattled. I don't like it. I would say that we are 90% internet - not because we don't like face time - it's just that we are spaced out all over the metro, and it's easier to communicate daily with each other through our online chats. We have a trip planned for a weekend in February where we will all get together again, and I am so looking forward to that. The trouble? Two of them just dropped off/out of the group today. Totally out of left field. I'm not sitting here thinking that it was something that I did, or didn't do - but I just wonder what would make someone just decide to up and bail on something that all along they said they loved being a part of. I'm also confused by some of the people who left prior to this. They told me to stay in touch, and I have tried, but I don't get much of a response. The classic, "Hey!!! How ARE you? I think about you all the time! E-mail me and we WILL get together!" So, I do. And well - not much happens. I'm not dumb, I guess I don't expect everyone to want to hang out with me, but criminy sakes. If you don't want to get together, don't ask me to call/email/stop over.
SIGH.
But - in other news, I have a job that I adore. A job share job. It's working out just fabulously and I don't see that changing any time soon. I am working steady enough to collect a nice check every two weeks, and yet I have enough time to work on the jewelry business I have at home. If I could get Jason to finish my website like he has been promising me, it would all be good. He has until the end of the month, and then I am going to approach a friend of mine who said that she knows someone who will trade me jewelry for programming... I'm sick and tired of waiting for him to complete it.
A guy at work had to put their dog down last week. Very sad. This guy and his whole family just loved this dog. They did the sweetest thing where each person (this guy, his wife, and each of his two kids) wrote down their favorite memories about Buddy. It was hilarious, sad, and really emotional to read. There were a couple that made me laugh out loud. The first was the son told about when buddy came running down the stairs with a pair of underwear on his head - with his head out one hole, and a leg out the other! And then the wife talked about when Buddy came running, got caught up in some christmas lights and he freaked out! The really emotional part came when the guy I worked with talked about how he would come home and he would greet his Buddy Boy and Buddy would get so excited. I just bawled. That was one lucky dog, and it's one great family.
I am so thankful that we FINALLY have some snow. Ugh. The timing was really bad on the first snow storm - it really put a crimp in to the New Years Eve party - but now I just want a few feet on the ground asap. We haven't had a decent winter in I don't know how long. Grr...
We finally got our wedding video back, and it just sucks. I was glad to see it, there were parts of the service that I had forgotten (since it was 18 freaking MONTHS since the ceremony), but it really stunk. There were three cameras in the church, and the jerk lost the footage from the camera at the front of the church, and oh - with ALL OF THE RECEPTION FOOTAGE on it. All the toasts. Our first (and probably only) dance, everything. I want to barf. Oh well. It was a wonderful day, too bad I don't have any decent reminders from it.
My mother has been diagnosed with "Mild Cognitive Impairment". Heh. It's interesting to think that it's "mild" when she can't remember what she did five minutes ago. Ah well. We are hoping that making lists, reminders, and the such will help her out. It's funny and scary all at the same time. Let's hope that this isn't another thing I will inherit from my mother huh... ;-)
Well - looks like it's getting late, and I should go to bed.
Hopefully it won't be as long before I update again. But I like to keep you all on your toes... :-)
Today was just a weird day. The last couple of days have just been strange.
I have a group of friends that are going through another set of changes, and frankly - the whole thing has me a little rattled. I don't like it. I would say that we are 90% internet - not because we don't like face time - it's just that we are spaced out all over the metro, and it's easier to communicate daily with each other through our online chats. We have a trip planned for a weekend in February where we will all get together again, and I am so looking forward to that. The trouble? Two of them just dropped off/out of the group today. Totally out of left field. I'm not sitting here thinking that it was something that I did, or didn't do - but I just wonder what would make someone just decide to up and bail on something that all along they said they loved being a part of. I'm also confused by some of the people who left prior to this. They told me to stay in touch, and I have tried, but I don't get much of a response. The classic, "Hey!!! How ARE you? I think about you all the time! E-mail me and we WILL get together!" So, I do. And well - not much happens. I'm not dumb, I guess I don't expect everyone to want to hang out with me, but criminy sakes. If you don't want to get together, don't ask me to call/email/stop over.
SIGH.
But - in other news, I have a job that I adore. A job share job. It's working out just fabulously and I don't see that changing any time soon. I am working steady enough to collect a nice check every two weeks, and yet I have enough time to work on the jewelry business I have at home. If I could get Jason to finish my website like he has been promising me, it would all be good. He has until the end of the month, and then I am going to approach a friend of mine who said that she knows someone who will trade me jewelry for programming... I'm sick and tired of waiting for him to complete it.
A guy at work had to put their dog down last week. Very sad. This guy and his whole family just loved this dog. They did the sweetest thing where each person (this guy, his wife, and each of his two kids) wrote down their favorite memories about Buddy. It was hilarious, sad, and really emotional to read. There were a couple that made me laugh out loud. The first was the son told about when buddy came running down the stairs with a pair of underwear on his head - with his head out one hole, and a leg out the other! And then the wife talked about when Buddy came running, got caught up in some christmas lights and he freaked out! The really emotional part came when the guy I worked with talked about how he would come home and he would greet his Buddy Boy and Buddy would get so excited. I just bawled. That was one lucky dog, and it's one great family.
I am so thankful that we FINALLY have some snow. Ugh. The timing was really bad on the first snow storm - it really put a crimp in to the New Years Eve party - but now I just want a few feet on the ground asap. We haven't had a decent winter in I don't know how long. Grr...
We finally got our wedding video back, and it just sucks. I was glad to see it, there were parts of the service that I had forgotten (since it was 18 freaking MONTHS since the ceremony), but it really stunk. There were three cameras in the church, and the jerk lost the footage from the camera at the front of the church, and oh - with ALL OF THE RECEPTION FOOTAGE on it. All the toasts. Our first (and probably only) dance, everything. I want to barf. Oh well. It was a wonderful day, too bad I don't have any decent reminders from it.
My mother has been diagnosed with "Mild Cognitive Impairment". Heh. It's interesting to think that it's "mild" when she can't remember what she did five minutes ago. Ah well. We are hoping that making lists, reminders, and the such will help her out. It's funny and scary all at the same time. Let's hope that this isn't another thing I will inherit from my mother huh... ;-)
Well - looks like it's getting late, and I should go to bed.
Hopefully it won't be as long before I update again. But I like to keep you all on your toes... :-)