The changing leaves of autumn
Lately I keep looking at the trees. It's that time of year when there are so many different vibrant colors, signaling the tides of change in life. I think about the before colors, the now colors, and of the leaves falling gently to the ground. The trees will soon be barren, the old leaves left behind and the strong branches making ready for the new leaves to sprout to kick off. I'm glad to be living where I am, as there exists so much of this subtle beauty right around me. This has been quite a year so far - one filled quite possibly with more changes and challenges than any year prior. I've grown, I've learned, had to make hard choices, given and taken so much. Before this year is out there will be a couple more really big challenges for me to step up to and rewards for me and those around me to come from them.
In other news, things have been positive enough that cutting out my bad habit of smoking has been significantly easier to do the past few days than has been any time in the past several months. I haven't had a cigarette in I think 3 days now, and that's huge considering I can say that's been the case while I've been at work. Work is, unfortunately, about to start royally pissing me off again - mandatory overtime is being requested again. I understand we've changed ticketing systems and we're in a rainy season, but it still urks me that my company can't just get more of the better Tier1 reps to step up as interns and play the part of level2 reps to get things more under control. Our total bullshit time off freeze is still going on to - we're not allowed to take hardly (if any) time off until probably a couple of weeks after Christmas. As expected, I'm rather pissed off regarding that situation.
Among other changes are seeing two of my closest friends happier than I've likely ever known them to be, and each of them with the outlook of things getting better as time passes by, we have our first ever African-American president (hopefully this in and of itself means the mindset of America is finally changing for the better), and there have been two deaths - one of the ex's of another close friend of mine (my heart goes out to you) and that of Michael Crichton (66yr old author of Jurassic Park and other popular books and movies for anyone who might not already know that). Odd that those last three things all happened within 24 hours of each other.
I'm also a wee bit tired, and as usual feel that I'd benefit from a couple (more) shots of espresso.
In other news, things have been positive enough that cutting out my bad habit of smoking has been significantly easier to do the past few days than has been any time in the past several months. I haven't had a cigarette in I think 3 days now, and that's huge considering I can say that's been the case while I've been at work. Work is, unfortunately, about to start royally pissing me off again - mandatory overtime is being requested again. I understand we've changed ticketing systems and we're in a rainy season, but it still urks me that my company can't just get more of the better Tier1 reps to step up as interns and play the part of level2 reps to get things more under control. Our total bullshit time off freeze is still going on to - we're not allowed to take hardly (if any) time off until probably a couple of weeks after Christmas. As expected, I'm rather pissed off regarding that situation.
Among other changes are seeing two of my closest friends happier than I've likely ever known them to be, and each of them with the outlook of things getting better as time passes by, we have our first ever African-American president (hopefully this in and of itself means the mindset of America is finally changing for the better), and there have been two deaths - one of the ex's of another close friend of mine (my heart goes out to you) and that of Michael Crichton (66yr old author of Jurassic Park and other popular books and movies for anyone who might not already know that). Odd that those last three things all happened within 24 hours of each other.
I'm also a wee bit tired, and as usual feel that I'd benefit from a couple (more) shots of espresso.